1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:05,440 Good morning. So we're going to be reading out 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,360 of Psalms chapter 111. I'll give you some time to get 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:14,240 there. Praise the Lord, I will give 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,520 thanks to the Lord with my whole heart and the company of the 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,840 upright and the congregation. Great are the works of the Lord, 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,800 study by all who delight in them. 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,240 Full of splendor and majesty is His work, and His righteousness 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,400 endures forever. He has caused us. 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,440 He has caused His wondrous works to be remembered. 10 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,160 The Lord is gracious and merciful. 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,360 He provides food for those who fear Him, fear Him. 12 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:42,320 He remembers His covenant forever. 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,880 He has shown His people the power of His works and giving 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,480 them inheritance of the nations. The works of His hands are 15 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:52,960 faithful and just. All His precepts are 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,160 trustworthy. They are established forever and 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,720 ever to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness. 18 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,920 He sent redemption to His people. 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,360 He has commanded His covenant forever, holy and awesome in His 20 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,560 name. The fear of the Lord is the 21 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,080 beginning of wisdom. All those who practice it have a 22 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,400 good understanding. His praise endures forever. 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,640 This is the word of the Lord. What's going on? 24 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,600 Port City family and friends, how are we doing? 25 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,240 Good, my name is Tanner, the lead pastor here is good to be 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,760 with you y'all. Every week at Port City. 27 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,200 We got three goals. Number one, we trying to empower 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,320 you. You can do this thing with God, 29 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:36,080 you can walk with God. We want to help. 30 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,800 You can do it, we can help #2 we want to challenge you. 31 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,760 We hope that something in today's service challenges you 32 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,920 in your walk with God that you would leave challenged and and 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:47,800 ready to walk with the Lord in the way he's calling you. 34 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,000 But more than anything, we want you to walk away thinking about 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,480 God. That's our goal. 36 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,640 We want you to walk away not insecure about yourself. 37 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,080 Convictions different, but conviction pushes us back to the 38 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,560 Lord, not looking at ourselves, but looking at Him. 39 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,120 We change when we look at him. So that's our prayer for you 40 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,840 today as we get started in our new series in the book of Psalms 41 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,160 for the summer in Psalm 111. So I'm going to pray that we 42 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,480 would set our minds on the Lord and our hearts on the Lord, and 43 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,320 then we will dive in. OK our Father, we do just pray 44 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,960 those three goals, God of empowerment, of challenge, and 45 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,560 most of all sight of you. Worship of you God. 46 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,280 Nothing matters if we don't see you. 47 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,080 Lord, help us. Help us not to play games here 48 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,600 today. Give us courage and honesty. 49 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,120 We pray in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen. 50 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,520 Y'all don't know the last time you tried to learn something 51 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,040 new. I have been on and off the last 52 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:48,720 couple years. The people who own the house 53 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,360 before us left a piano. So every once in a while I do 54 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,280 what people do and I YouTube how to learn the piano 5 minutes a 55 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,760 day, right? And I get on there and. 56 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:06,760 Do do do do do and I'm so hyped. And that's it. 57 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,760 Like it. It lasts like one day because 58 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,360 the reality is I don't know piano. 59 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,360 I know nothing now. Those videos that mindset are 60 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,520 just 5 minutes a day right? Maybe if you use Duolingo or 61 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,840 something like that, you've tried to learn Italian like 15 62 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,480 times, you get to level 10 and you realize you still don't know 63 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,200 nothing. OK, and here's the point. 64 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,720 We get hype, we hit a wall, we quit. 65 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,520 That's kind of how it goes. We get hype, we hit a wall, we 66 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,720 quit. Learning something new is really 67 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,800 hard. And what that process reveals is 68 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,520 really not getting in you. And it takes so much time for 69 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,080 that new rhythm, that new habit, to actually become who you are, 70 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,920 right? We all, as we get into the 71 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,440 Psalms this summer, something similar could happen. 72 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,760 Here's what's going to happen. You're going to like the Psalms, 73 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,720 OK? They're speaking to us. 74 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,760 And we aspire to love God the way the psalmist does. 75 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,440 Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, God is good. 76 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,760 Amen and Amen. We on YouTube. 5 minutes a day 77 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,440 and then we. Walk outside and life's hard. 78 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,480 Bosses lie about us, friends talk junk about us behind the 79 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,480 back. Life's just monotonous and 80 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,840 boring and it hits US in the face. 81 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:25,240 And then we're left with three options. 82 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,200 Number one is this Psalm stuff, this God stuff. 83 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,080 This Jesus stuff isn't real but I can fake it till I make it. 84 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,000 That's option one. Let's fake it till we make it. 85 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,640 Option 2 is I quit, I'm out, this is stupid. 86 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,480 Or option 3 is we press in until what the psalmist is doing isn't 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,520 just fake. Praise the Lord, Praise the 88 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,120 Lord. You know, like I'm not just, 89 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,920 that's not just a set of words, but it becomes true of your 90 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,080 heart. That rhythm is actually who you 91 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,040 are. So this is my goal for the whole 92 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,480 summer, for the next 8-8 weeks for us as a teaching team. 93 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,000 Here it is that the Psalms wouldn't just speak to you. 94 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,720 They will begin to speak for you. 95 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,960 That makes sense. They're going to speak to us as 96 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,640 we listen, but the goal is that they begin to speak for you and 97 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,120 that your soul, through the rhythm of soaking in this, this 98 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,320 becomes an expression of your soul, not just to your soul. 99 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,040 Does that make sense? But yes, it takes rhythm. 100 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,880 Yes, it takes time, but that's the goal. 101 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,280 That's my prayer. OK, So what we're going to do 102 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,280 today is we're just going to walk through the verses. 103 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,080 We're going to camp out in the text for a while. 104 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,560 And then I have 3 pairs of like implications and applications, 105 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,800 things that are true and things to do. 106 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,480 If you are ready to dive in, let me hear you say I'm ready. 107 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,120 OK? You may know this, but you may 108 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,480 not. If you don't know now, you know 109 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,160 there's 150 psalms. David wrote about half of them 110 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,200 in our series this summer. We're going to be camping out in 111 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,400 111 to 118. OK. 112 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,640 None of those were written by King David. 113 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,880 They do thematically go together. 114 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,480 They're all in what's known as book five of the psalms. 115 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,320 There are five books. You might think, oh, is it 30 116 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,680 per Psalm? Because 30 * 5 is 150 or 30 117 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,280 psalms in a book? No. 118 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:14,680 OK, book 1 is mainly about a king, like it's about this rise 119 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,080 of a king. Book 2 is mainly about the rise 120 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,960 of a king and a Kingdom. Book three, it all falls apart. 121 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,280 It's exile, lots of lament type Psalms. 122 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,880 Then book 4, Psalm 90 to 106 is, is this these, this hope in the 123 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,200 midst of ashes. And then book 5, where we are is 124 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,160 a lot of praise, a lot of celebration, a lot of God's king 125 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,080 and God's place. The book of Psalms isn't just a 126 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,800 random selection of songs that they threw together. 127 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,120 It's actually a story through the way it's compiled and the 128 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,280 last five are all just all of creation is screaming and 129 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:50,960 shouting God's goodness because of the full restoration of the 130 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,080 king in God's place over God's people has been culminated, 131 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,240 which we are closer to as Jesus followers than those who first 132 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,400 read and sang the Psalms. Isn't that pretty cool? 133 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,080 OK, that's what you need to know as backdrop as we jump into 134 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,600 Psalm 111. Let's start in verse. 135 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,960 One, OK, that's what it says, praise the Lord. 136 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,920 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart in the 137 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,400 company of the upright in the congregation. 138 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,920 Here in verse one, there are kind of three parts. 139 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,120 What the psalmist going to do, how they going to do it and 140 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,040 where they going to do it. OK, So what they going to do? 141 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,040 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. 142 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,600 Somebody say I will. Y'all, they're making a 143 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,080 decision. I will do it. 144 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,440 Y'all, when you love something it's pretty easy to do it right? 145 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,040 It's pretty easy. Like for me, I love hamburgers, 146 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,320 I love them. I love high end like 8020 burger 147 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,920 bar love it. But I even love like a Wendy's 148 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,120 burger. I love I I. 149 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,640 Just love it. I like burgers. 150 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,520 Nobody makes me eat hamburgers. You track it with me. 151 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,800 I just do it because I love it. It's important that we see that 152 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,000 that in a lot of this Psalm. This is a very spontaneous 153 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,960 reaction to somebody who loves something. 154 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,520 It's easy to do what you love. Nobody makes you do what you 155 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,320 love. You do what you love because you 156 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,320 love it. And he's saying I will do it. 157 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,880 Y'all track with me. I will give thanks to God in the 158 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,360 congregation. Isn't it interesting that even 159 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,800 for the psalmist who loves the Lord and it's as easy as eating 160 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,680 a Five Guys hamburger, which hello Five Guys, we love you. 161 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,159 Can you lower your prices? Amen somebody because you got to 162 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,480 have Cheesecake Factory money to go get a burger and a little fry 163 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,880 and burger means 2 patties. Little burger means one. 164 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,320 It don't even make no. Sense. 165 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,880 They're either geniuses are out of their mind. 166 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,360 I lean out of their mind. You got to have about $40 to go 167 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,160 there. But even for the person who 168 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,680 loves the Lord, they got to make a decision to express their 169 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:58,040 praise to the Lord. Are you tracked with me? 170 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,120 Somebody say I will y'all. Here's how I'd say it. 171 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,680 Praise should be effortless and must be practiced. 172 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:10,520 It should be effortless. It must be practice just because 173 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,400 it should be effortless if you. Never do what you don't feel 174 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,240 like doing. You never going to do even what 175 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,400 you think you should do. You know what I'm saying? 176 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:20,600 That made sense, but I'll say it one more time. 177 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,200 In the Lord, purchased by Christ, you love Him. 178 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,120 You are full of the Spirit. If you don't leverage your will 179 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,720 to tell yourself to do what you want to do, you won't do what 180 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,160 you want to do. Y'all know that makes sense? 181 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,520 If you don't tell yourself to do what you want to do, you won't 182 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,760 do what you want to do. You'll do what you don't want to 183 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,960 do, right? So even though praise should be 184 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,000 effortless, like eating burgers, sometimes we got to tell 185 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,600 ourselves to eat burgers with the Lord. 186 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,800 Does that make sense? Even for those of us who love 187 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,560 the Lord? So he says, I will give thanks 188 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,840 to the Lord. Now how will he give thanks to 189 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:00,520 the Lord? With my whole heart, all of me 190 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,560 undivided, The the Bible kind of paints this picture that 191 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,680 somebody who's been captured by the Lord is, is united. 192 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:13,360 They're not divided. Psalm 8611 says unite my heart 193 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,800 so that I might fear your name. This idea of like, I'm in a 194 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,800 million pieces. There's anxious me, there's 195 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,000 insecure me, there's this me, there's this me, there's that 196 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,280 me. And it's this idea of pull me 197 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:28,240 together, unite my heart so that I might fear your name. 198 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,280 We all know what it's like at 6:00 AM to be on our knees. 199 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:35,600 We love you, Jesus. And at 9:00 AM, we just tweak 200 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,520 the truth a little bit to impress a boss. 201 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,160 We tweak the truth a little bit to impress a friend. 202 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:46,960 We all can feel that pull to be different people sometimes at 203 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,560 different times of the day. Right? 204 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,240 But the psalmist is envisioning wholehearted Thanksgiving. 205 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,160 You know, our culture is really into holistic, that word, like 206 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,000 it's used all the time. And by it, we tend to mean you 207 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,800 got to be spiritually fit, economically fit, financially 208 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,160 fit. I'd just say economically and 209 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:03,400 financially, those are different. 210 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,160 Physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally and 211 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,200 that's true. But y'all you can be holistic 212 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,160 and not be wholehearted. Are you tracking with me? 213 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,840 You can do all. The stuff and still be divided 214 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,840 as a person. So I I would say like the goal 215 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,280 of being wholehearted is that the entirety of who you are 216 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:27,400 loves the Lord your God and is submitted to him, trusting him. 217 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,840 So the goal is to be holistic and wholehearted and the 218 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,880 holistic movement. Submitted to Christ should push 219 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:39,360 us towards being wholehearted but be careful that you equate 220 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,280 those two. Does that make sense because you 221 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,720 can be getting in the word working out and your heart be 222 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,680 far from the Lord. Are you tracking with me so just 223 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,840 I just want to push on that just a little bit So what are they 224 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,400 going to do they're going to give thanks to the Lord how they 225 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,840 going to do it with their whole heart. 226 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,000 Where are they going to do it. The text says I will give thanks 227 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,400 to the Lord with my whole heart in the company of the upright in 228 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,520 the congregation. That's this. 229 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,400 That's a gathering that's the Psalms are songs, right? 230 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:11,120 They're singing this together and you'll notice in this Psalm. 231 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,600 This is the only verse where the psalmist uses I if you just. 232 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,280 Scan your eyes through the rest of the way the Psalm is talking 233 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,280 about God. Verse 1 is like I will and the 234 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,360 rest is God is and he did and imagine a group of people 235 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,960 singing. This is why like in our in our 236 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,640 worship song, sometimes you'll notice it's like we're talking 237 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,360 to God. It'll be like you, God. 238 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,840 And sometimes it's talking about God. 239 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,240 That's because we're singing those songs to one another and 240 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,080 to God. So sometimes songs emphasize who 241 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,320 God is and we're speaking it over each other. 242 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,680 And sometimes we talk directly to the Lord. 243 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:47,080 Does that make sense? And our our team that helps 244 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,360 build each worship set and each week with our our sermons, we 245 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,520 are conscious of have we talked to God in the service we are 246 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,640 conscious of? Are we speaking to one another 247 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,280 because we're trying to build both the healthy? 248 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,880 Me and God dynamic and then a US and God dynamic and a US with us 249 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,040 dynamic. Does that make sense? 250 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:09,240 And I think that's healthy and faithful to what the Psalms do. 251 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,280 So y'all, let me just say this. I pray that we become a church 252 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,400 that is wholehearted and making the decision to give praise to 253 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,800 the Lord with one another and culturally speaking. 254 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:24,240 Praise the Lord the way you praise the Lord. 255 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,680 I pray we get weirder, Wilder run around the room. 256 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,680 I don't care. Express yourself the way you 257 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:33,000 need to express yourself to fulfill what verse one is 258 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,680 saying. Do you make the decision before 259 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:38,320 you show up to Port city? Are you saying I will give 260 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,040 thanks to the Lord with my whole heart in the congregation. 261 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:44,360 I know sometimes I have to have that conversation with myself 262 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:46,680 because I can become. I don't know if you do this very 263 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:49,000 calculated. I'm thinking about. 264 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,680 Others in the room, I'm thinking about dynamics, but this type 265 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:56,560 verse helps us know we're here to give thanks to the Lord with 266 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,760 our whole heart in the congregation and whatever 267 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,720 cultural expression you want to do with that, do it. 268 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,920 Does that make sense? That builds the body of Christ 269 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,880 up and helps it get healthier. Look at verse 2. 270 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,760 Great are the works of the Lord studied by. 271 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,720 All who delight in them and notice the process right like 272 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,760 they're his works are great. So you got works they're they're 273 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,560 studied who studies them those who delight in them. 274 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,560 So the the assumption of Psalm 111 is that this person loves 275 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,600 the Lord, which we'll return to but greater the works of the 276 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,200 Lord studied by all who delight in them and that word studied if 277 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,960 you want to put this there in your Bible, that word means 278 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,120 ponder somebody say ponder. Ponder is like. 279 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,600 Sitting down over the cup of coffee, it's like you're just, 280 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,680 you're just thinking, you're ruminating, you're mulling. 281 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,200 I don't know what your favorite drink is. 282 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:59,440 Mine is a straight up Coca-Cola Coke, not Coke 0, not Diet Coke, 283 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,480 not Cherry Coke, not Vanilla Coke, not Orange Coke. 284 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,320 And if I'm honest with you, I could tell the difference when 285 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,040 it's in a can or a bottle. I could tell the difference when 286 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,920 it's glass or it's McDonald's. I could tell the difference when 287 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,280 it's Jimmy John's, which has incredible Coke. 288 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:21,880 I like my Coke chilled, no ice. I want it cold but not able to 289 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:27,400 be watered down over time. And when I get a Coke that is 290 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,000 chilled, not watered down, I take my time. 291 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,360 When you love something, you ration it out through the meal. 292 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,920 You might save a little for after the meal, right? 293 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,760 You eat a fry, you take a drink, you take a bite. 294 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,880 That's what you do when you delight in something. 295 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,680 You take your time. That is the way the Psalms think 296 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,640 about how the person who loves the Lord interacts with what 297 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,240 he's done. Does that make sense? 298 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:59,280 It is as delightful to their soul to ponder the Lord's works 299 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,960 as it is for me to enjoy a Coke. I can almost taste it. 300 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,120 Now I need to swing by Jimmy John's on the way home. 301 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,920 So y'all, I just want to ask the question, is that the way you 302 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,680 relate to what God has done? It's like you just got your 303 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,400 drink and it's chilled and it's perfect and nobody, no kids 304 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,040 interrupting you, your phone ain't ringing. 305 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,040 You're just vibing, uninterrupted time, daydreaming, 306 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,680 ruminating, thinking about God and what he's done. 307 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,280 Right now I've just been thinking about John 1427. 308 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:36,120 Y'all it says this, Jesus says my peace I leave with you. 309 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,440 My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to 310 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,160 you. Let your hearts not be troubled, 311 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,640 neither let them be afraid. I'm just like. 312 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,960 What does that mean? And then there's like, I know 313 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,120 what it means, but then that's not pondering, you know what I 314 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:51,920 mean? Like it's a Coke, but you taste 315 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,680 Coke, you don't look at Coke. So y'all, I'm just asking the 316 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,440 question, are you pondering who God is and what he's done? 317 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,320 Just daydreaming, ruminating, sipping on it. 318 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:08,520 Look at verse 3. Full of splendor and majesty is 319 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:13,280 His work, and His righteousness endures forever. 320 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,280 Here's what I want us to begin to do OK, I want us to notice 321 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,839 from here on out I'm going to read the verses through verse 9. 322 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,079 There's a comment about something God has done, and then 323 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:26,880 there's a comment about who He is. 324 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,040 So pay attention to works versus character. 325 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,960 Y'all with me. So as we start to read these 326 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,280 verses, I'll try to do it a little slowly be looking for is 327 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,400 this something God did or is this a comment on who he is? 328 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,240 Did is y'all with me? So let's read through the 329 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,040 verses. Which one is it? 330 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,720 Be thinking about it. Here we go verse four. 331 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,160 He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered. 332 00:17:53,200 --> 00:18:00,640 Did The Lord is gracious and merciful is he provides food for 333 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,440 those who fear him did he remembers his covenant forever 334 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,880 and some days you like did is is did that's good. 335 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,120 He has shown his work to the power. 336 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,680 I'm sorry, shown his people the power of his works did and 337 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,480 giving them the inheritance of the nations did the works of his 338 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:24,200 hands are faithful and just. I would say that's a did is all 339 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,880 his precepts are trustworthy is they are established forever and 340 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,560 ever. It is, I don't know, to be 341 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,680 performed with faithfulness and uprightness. 342 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,480 He sent redemption to his people did He has commanded his 343 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:44,800 covenant forever did holy and awesome is his name is. 344 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,400 Hopefully y'all are tracking with that pattern there in verse 345 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,080 9 it says holy and awesome is his name. 346 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,040 You know, there's this funny expression we say sometimes I'll 347 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,800 put some respect on my name. Y'all heard that one? 348 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,680 I say that a lot jokingly to my kids don't get the image and I'm 349 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,320 like, respect me children. I'm more like. 350 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,120 Come on man, just bought you some Jimmy John's. 351 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:11,800 Put some respect on my name. Like it's this idea of like 352 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:17,000 evaluate the person correctly, like understand who they are, 353 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,320 like their name, that's who they are. 354 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,320 So when somebody is joking about that, they're meaning you're, 355 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,040 you're incorrectly identifying me, right? 356 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,240 Like you're not seeing me correctly. 357 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,000 His name is holy. It's awesome. 358 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,960 How do we know that? We know his name is awesome 359 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:41,240 because of the works he's done. That's the connection you got to 360 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,680 make. We know who he is because of 361 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,520 what he did, and what he did tells us who he is. 362 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,040 It's and you do this all the time. 363 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,400 You got a friend, friend named Phil. 364 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,880 You go to your friend named Fred. 365 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,640 You say Fred, you need to meet Phil. 366 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,240 He's awesome. They look at you like you crazy. 367 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,440 That don't mean nothing to them. Cool. 368 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:09,000 They trust you Immediately you feel the impulse to tell Fred 369 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,840 something Phil did. Phil gave me Knicks tickets. 370 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,240 I want to meet Fred. Or you're like, I want to meet 371 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,440 Phil. Does that make sense? 372 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,760 Like you explain to people who your friends are based on things 373 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,560 your friends do. That's that friend I was telling 374 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,360 you about that brought me food when I was sick. 375 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:25,800 That's that friend I was telling you about. 376 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,520 The reason Bible me. That's that friend that did this 377 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:28,880 when this happened. That's that friend that did 378 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,720 this. The way you know who people are 379 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,760 is based on what they do. Does that make sense? 380 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,200 We do that all the time. And if you're more skeptical 381 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,800 here, you're just kind of like, hey, Jesus stuff in general. 382 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,160 I don't know. Why should I take this 383 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,440 seriously? I don't know if I'm all the way 384 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:48,560 there. Here's what I'd say to you. 385 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:54,960 Nobody is asking you to blindly believe in some mystical thing 386 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,920 that can't be understood, that has no proof to it. 387 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,080 There's very credible evidence to trust the Lord. 388 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,720 But on top. Of that I just want to say. 389 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,240 Look. The proof is in the pudding, 390 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,480 like God has been in the business of rescuing people out 391 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:17,400 of their addiction out of just pain for years, thousands and 392 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,360 thousands of years. And it's all rooted in what 393 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,960 Jesus did on the cross. The evidence is right before you 394 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,160 just look at the works. One of the last things Jesus 395 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,080 said was like, look man, if you don't believe me, believe on 396 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,080 account of the Father. If you don't believe on me on 397 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,840 account of me or account of the Father, believe on account of 398 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,760 the works. Just kind of like the proofs in 399 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:40,240 the pudding, you know. So y'all, all through the 400 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,080 Psalms, what you'll notice is this blend of focus between what 401 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,360 God did and who God is. We know who he is because he 402 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:51,480 did. God is Somebody say God is. 403 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:57,040 That's this idea that God is a certain way and he can't help 404 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,680 but be him. God will be God. 405 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,200 So God provides because he's provider. 406 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,720 God created, He's creator. We know who he is because of 407 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,840 what he did. He does what he does 'cause he 408 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,880 is who he is. It's important you understand 409 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,360 that God is. God can't help but be God. 410 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:23,480 He's always going to be Himself. So like with other people, it 411 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,400 doesn't operate this way. You really don't know if they'll 412 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:31,160 be to you that way the next day because we are so finite, 413 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,880 fickle, not really trustworthy. Movie tickets change and price. 414 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,920 You don't. Things won't be that way next 415 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,480 time because they're always changing. 416 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,880 God doesn't change. God isn't just loving. 417 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,720 God is love. God doesn't just do loving 418 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,560 things. He is love. 419 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,200 And until you connect that God does because he is, he did 420 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,320 because he is, because he is, he will do. 421 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,840 That's the connection. But if we don't see that he is, 422 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,720 he's hard to trust because what you'll do is you say he did, but 423 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,080 he's not doing so he should, he isn't. 424 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,080 Does that make sense? So what you begin to do is you 425 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,640 flip it and you begin to do a prove it, prove it disposition 426 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,120 to God instead of he's proven he's done. 427 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:21,640 He is. We interpret our reality through 428 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,040 who God is. We don't interpret who God is 429 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,760 through our reality. And when it gets backwards, 430 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:34,680 you're so angry, so angry. And again, guys, if I could sit 431 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,600 with you and you told me your story, if you're angry, I'd 432 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,400 probably weep with you. I'd be angry on your behalf. 433 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,160 And the Psalms can handle that. They can handle that kind of 434 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,320 response to life just not going well. 435 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:56,360 Be all God is. He can't help but be him, so 436 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,440 we've got to consider what He did. 437 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,200 OK, so in the Psalm, what are the works the Psalm is focused 438 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,040 on? I would say in verse 9 you have 439 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,320 the best summary. Look at the 1st. 440 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:16,120 Line there in verse 9. He sent redemption to his 441 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:19,920 people. He has commanded his covenant 442 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,000 forever y'all. Here's the idea. 443 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:27,600 God isn't just randomly good. He's good in a direction. 444 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,280 His goodness does something. What does his goodness do? 445 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,960 It creates a people y'all. The world was in chaos. 446 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,000 Tower of Babel nobody give to RIP about the Lord was looking 447 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,440 for the Lord. We are all worshipping random 448 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,880 God superstition. Wicca boards. 449 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,840 It was wild. Think of that kind of 450 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,840 environment of just chaos, right? 451 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,080 And out of that, God calls a man named Abraham. 452 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,160 Abraham was not looking. For the Lord, the Lord. 453 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,440 Went and got Abraham, he called him and he says through you all 454 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,560 peoples on the earth will be blessed, which is crazy because 455 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,240 this dude was sinful. But God is saying, Believe me. 456 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,560 And he goes. I believe you. 457 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,920 And he believed God, not in God. He believed God and got credited 458 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,760 to him as righteousness. So he's following the Lord. 459 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,400 He has a promise on Isaac. From him comes this family. 460 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,440 It's a family rooted in the faith of Abraham, not just the 461 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,200 flesh of Abraham. Okay. 462 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,480 And from this family comes this story of the exodus and 463 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,000 deliverance from slavery to a place in a blood of a lamb was 464 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,680 broken and spilled. And it just kept pointing to 465 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,640 this person who would come in the lineage of Abraham, in the 466 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,120 lineage of King David, in the lineage of all these patterns 467 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,920 and symbols. And he would one day come, and 468 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,440 he would conquer all that is wrong with us. 469 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,400 Not by conquering it the way we think about conquering it, but 470 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,920 by being conquered, by being killed, by being crushed, by 471 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,160 dying alone. That is the story of the Bible, 472 00:25:54,160 --> 00:26:00,280 is that God is making a people. We are the people, the church. 473 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:05,280 Those who trust in this king, this Christ, are the people of 474 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,160 God. He has sent his redemption to 475 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,480 purchase a people. God is good in the direction of 476 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,040 taking dead people and making them alive. 477 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,760 God doesn't recruit those. Looking for him, that's not what 478 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,600 he does. He resurrects those who want 479 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,960 nothing to do with him. So God's goodness y'all if you 480 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,520 get this wrong, you just it's so important that we understand 481 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,840 this. Nobody was looking for the Lord 482 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,240 and as you interpret your own story, you did not come out the 483 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520 womb once in God. It's just not true. 484 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,040 No one is righteous. No, not one. 485 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,680 Nobody cares. We don't want him. 486 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,960 God is in the business. His righteousness endures 487 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,880 forever. The truest essence of who God is 488 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:00,200 is to take people turned against him and. 489 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:05,040 Woo them to himself and turn them back to himself by dying in 490 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,640 their place. That is who God is. 491 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,520 He makes a people out of people who had their backs turned on 492 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,880 him. That's who God is. 493 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,920 That's what he's done is while we were still sinners, Christ 494 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,160 died for us. That's the good news is that the 495 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,600 King has come and died in your place and you didn't want him. 496 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,240 God makes a people out of all people. 497 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,920 And we the church can sing this Psalm all the more greater than 498 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,640 the original singers of the song because his righteousness has 499 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,400 made us righteous. He has sent his redemption to 500 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,560 us. He has taken all the brokenness 501 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,160 in US, looked at it and said, I'm in. 502 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,520 I take it OK, verse 10. I want to read it. 503 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,080 I'm not really going to teach on this one a ton. 504 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,280 You're about to know why the fear of the. 505 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,600 Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All those who practice it have a 506 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,280 good understanding. His praise endures forever. 507 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,760 OK, next week Pastor on is going to teach on Psalm 112. 508 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,080 Y'all. Psalm 111 and Psalm 112 are a 509 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,840 pair. They're both acrostics in 510 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,320 Hebrew. You would notice this. 511 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,680 OK, so they match all of the character in Psalm 111 is about 512 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,200 God. All that character shows itself 513 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,360 in the blessed people of God in Psalm 112. 514 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,880 So it's kind of like a like father, like son. 515 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,240 Like as we behold God, we become like God. 516 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,400 So he will kind of help us connect. 517 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,400 How Psalm 112 is the overflow of Psalm 111 because the people of 518 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,080 God become like the God that they are united to. 519 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,640 OK all right, now that we've kind of camped out in the 520 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,320 texture allow we understand what's going on. 521 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,160 I got 3 pairs of implication application, a few things that 522 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,640 are true, something you should do Y'all ready? 523 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,440 OK, first thing that's true. God is the most important person 524 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,240 in the world. That's true. 525 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,840 God is the most important person in the world. 526 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,200 Verse 9 Holy and awesome is his name. 527 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,720 Yo God is amazing. God is righteous. 528 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:14,600 He sent his done son to die for us in our place, unites us to 529 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,200 himself. He is amazing. 530 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,360 And if that's true. We have to make the decision 531 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:28,360 right here and now that he is more important than anybody 532 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,920 else. Anything else. 533 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,280 And almost I want, I want you to go home tonight before you go to 534 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,480 bed and literally tell yourself like that. 535 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,720 Because part of what your body wants to believe through your 536 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,480 flesh and through our culture is that the God stuff is its own 537 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,400 category of like religious stuff. 538 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,960 But like, real important people are like my boss, like actual 539 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,680 important people is like that friend I want to like me or my 540 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,800 coach. Those are important people. 541 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,320 Like if you ever told yourself God is more important than 542 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,640 anybody, you know, it's more important than your spouse. 543 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,080 It's more important than your Mama, your daddy. 544 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,480 He's more important than your sister. 545 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,600 He is the most important person in the world. 546 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,840 Yo, we get to choose who. We are impressed by, you know, 547 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,240 you're all impressed by people, right? 548 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:15,920 You try to act like you ain't, but you are. 549 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,440 I remember the first time I acknowledged I'm impressed, and 550 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,200 I was willing to admit it. My friend Jack in high school, I 551 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,120 was walking around. I was, I was like a Hooper 552 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,320 dresser, you know, like I dressed like a sports player. 553 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,320 But Jack was the man. He was so smooth. 554 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,840 We always wear like a polo type thing, some Plaid shorts or 555 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,760 something, some khaki shorts and then the like flip flops that 556 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,880 you're that go between your big toe and the other toe and then 557 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,800 they flop behind you like like on your heel, like rainbows. 558 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,280 I was like, I got to have that. Mama. 559 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,760 And then you're the teenager demanding your Mama take you to 560 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,120 go buy that outfit. Please mom, please you even love 561 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:56,720 me and I just pressed her for weeks. 562 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,640 She finally buys me the outfit. I'm walking around school for 563 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,320 one day. Polo, Plaid shorts, rainbow 564 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,560 sandals. It was the worst day of my life. 565 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,520 These things are flopping all around. 566 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,800 Like he was so smooth with it. I felt like a dinosaur, just 567 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,720 like clonking. I was like how do people do 568 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,440 this? I was like taking the flops off, 569 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,080 walking up the steps and some of y'all have that swag where you 570 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,080 can do that. I could not. 571 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,840 I looked like an imposter. OK, but this is what I know. 572 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,400 I did that because of my friend Jack. 573 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,080 I was impressed by Jack, so I copied Jack. 574 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,880 We are all copycats, y'all. So the question isn't, are you 575 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,080 impressed with someone? The question is, who are you 576 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,280 impressed by today? Because if you're impressed, if 577 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,200 somebody's important, they impress you. 578 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,480 And when they're important, they impress you, but you become like 579 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,480 them. The question is, are we 580 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,960 impressed by God? Does God impress you? 581 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,760 The way he moves, he operates, he thinks. 582 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,640 Because if that's true, what we need to do is ponder His works. 583 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,200 What we need to do is ponder His works. 584 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:10,640 We need to watch His every move, study Him, be curious about the 585 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,600 Lord. The way we scroll our phones is 586 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,120 closer to pondering than many of us realize. 587 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,360 We're just letting it, just kind of we just hanging out with it. 588 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,640 Do we do that with the Lord and just watch Him? 589 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,760 Watch how He works. Watch how he thinks. 590 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,120 Just stop and pause, like a friend telling you something 591 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,760 crazy, like what'd you say? And then just interact with it. 592 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,840 Ruminate on the Lord's works. Think about who He is Just. 593 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:43,000 Hang out with him #2 true God's church is the most important 594 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,560 story being. Lived in the world. 595 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,440 And that was very intentional language. 596 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,040 God's church is the most important story being lived in 597 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,720 the world. Because if you read the Psalm 598 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,200 correctly, He has sent redemption to his people. 599 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,680 So remember, God is thus God. Did we know who He is because of 600 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,760 what He did. What God is, is that He did make 601 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,440 a people. So the people don't just have a 602 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:13,760 story, the people are the story. Y'all think about it in the Old 603 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,760 Testament, the fact that Israel existed as a nation, that they 604 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,480 were the ones who left Egypt. Egypt couldn't hold them. 605 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,120 They get their own place. They were given the the promised 606 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,320 land. Their existence was a testimony 607 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:32,000 to their God that they exist means he does, that they're 608 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,760 flourishing means he's awesome. There was a direct link. 609 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:42,160 Do you see that Y'all? All the more so, the church is 610 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,240 the bride of Christ. We are tied to Christ, so we 611 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,920 don't just have a story to tell, which we do. 612 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,800 We are the story. Isn't that crazy? 613 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,280 The church, everybody united to Christ by faith. 614 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,200 Everywhere that looks different ways, speaks different languages 615 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,360 is the church. And they don't just have a story 616 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,000 to share with their neighbors, They are a story to their 617 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,080 neighbors. Their very existence testifies 618 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,360 to the God who makes sinners righteous by faith. 619 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:18,600 So if that's true, what we tend to do is we downplay the church. 620 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,960 We are ashamed of it. But y'all, the church is, we are 621 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,000 the friend with the friend that others need to meet. 622 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,400 You need to meet my friend Phil. Here's what Phil did. 623 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,239 We have the friend. In some kind of way, we are the 624 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,239 friend. That's what the church is. 625 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,679 God's goodness leads to church. That's the truth of the Bible. 626 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,760 God's goodness purchases a people. 627 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:49,760 We are his masterpiece. And to be clear the people not 628 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,360 the brand right? Like we are his masterpiece. 629 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,480 So y'all just want to call us to commit to his church. 630 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:06,560 If you love God, love his church, and on some kind of way 631 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,080 with everything that just went down, even even with the Pope, 632 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,000 and like we're in different places theologically, we ain't 633 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,480 Catholic, but that was important and we sensed it worldwide. 634 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,320 Like everyone's watching because in some kind of way, something's 635 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,120 happening that we're tied to in some kind of way, right? 636 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,400 We're watching because their testimony impacts ours, right? 637 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:32,240 Commit to His church. Pray for His church globally. 638 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,160 Pray for brothers and sisters being killed right now under the 639 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,680 gun, under tons of pressure. Pray for the good of the church, 640 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,440 the health of the church, the multiplication of the church, 641 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,320 the forwarding of the church. And then, yes, a local church. 642 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,960 If you don't have one, we'll love for you to be a part of 643 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:56,680 Port City for God's glory, our joy, and Norfolk's good. 644 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,520 OK, third thing, that's true. God's presence is the most 645 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,920 important factor in my well-being. 646 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,480 He's the most important person. Our story is the most important 647 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,880 story, and God's presence is the most important factor in my 648 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,400 well-being. If you want to thrive, the path 649 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,840 to that is not podcast hacks, OK? 650 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,480 They can help us live more efficiently. 651 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,320 They can help us get better at life. 652 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,080 The, the way I think about like the way our culture thinks of 653 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,480 thriving is that you just need to get clear on your goals. 654 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,160 You need to get clearer, more efficient, right? 655 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,880 Hyper vision, hyper focus and then execute it. 656 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,600 So it's almost like, I imagine like our culture can help us 657 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,240 pull the arrow back, but not aim it. 658 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:45,320 Well, does that make sense? It can make us better at Target 659 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,480 practice, if you will, but that doesn't mean they're helping us 660 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,640 choose the right target. Does that make sense? 661 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,000 So like, there's a lot of hacks, there's a lot of leadership 662 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,680 advice, There's a lot of good stuff out there, but we can. 663 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,440 Begin to think practical stuff is what matters, right? 664 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,920 Helping me pull the arrow back is what I need. 665 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,080 God is the most practical person in the world. 666 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,040 Does that make sense? Because he's the most important. 667 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,920 Studying his works is more practical than even hacks. 668 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,320 Does that make sense? Because you can get it backwards 669 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,000 where the Lord is boring and not really applicable to life, but 670 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,280 this stuff helps me win. That makes sense. 671 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:23,200 And when we get that backwards, God is just something in the way 672 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,080 of what I really need to do to really become who I really want 673 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,800 to be. So what do we? 674 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,680 Do delight in the Lord. The big assumption of this song, 675 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:39,080 huge assumption, is that you love God. 676 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:45,280 Great are the works of the Lord studied by all who delight in 677 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,120 them. So I say delight. 678 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,800 Delight. Challenge you to use that word 679 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,680 this week, huh? A delight in this Coke. 680 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,240 Just it's a fun. Word, there's a word for you. 681 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,360 Word of the day. Delight y'all if you love. 682 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,280 Something you just do it. And for many people in many 683 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,960 church services all over the country, all over the world, the 684 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,320 last thing they actually think is that God wants them to want 685 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,800 him. Y'all more than anything, God 686 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,600 wants you to want him. Isn't that crazy? 687 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,680 I don't naturally tell myself that your impulses think, what 688 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,840 do I need to do? That's a good impulse. 689 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,600 What you need to do is delight in the Lord. 690 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,800 Yo, the way the Bible kind of thinks of it is that what you 691 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,160 want matters. Not just what you do, not just 692 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,880 what you think, but what you want matters. 693 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,320 And then you begin to think. So what I'll? 694 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:54,240 Want needs to change yes can I change what I want for the life 695 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:57,280 of me y'all all these Mexican spots put cilantro on a rice and 696 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,360 it just bothers me because I'm in that group of people where 697 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,480 cilantro is death like it just tastes like death in my bowl 698 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,160 like y'all got any rice without like they asked me you want 699 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,600 brown or white I want to be like you haven't got cilantro in it 700 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,200 like just just say cilantro. No cilantro because the people 701 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,640 who don't want it, they're just staring at that rice like which 702 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,800 one of those it really doesn't matter how you cook to these or 703 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,440 what they look like. Is there cilantro in there? 704 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,000 Did you hide it? Is it under that? 705 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,760 Here's the point you can't change your taste buds right. 706 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,520 You know the Bible presents that you are called to delight in the 707 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:39,200 Lord and part of you knows you can't you don't want to. 708 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:46,480 So what we do is we scramble. And we avoid that and we tell 709 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,880 ourselves we're just going to, we're going to, in our own 710 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,520 strength, force ourselves to tolerate God as much as 711 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:55,840 possible. He'll be honored by that. 712 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,640 The more I can tolerate him, the more he's honored. 713 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:03,200 I don't want him, but I'll not want him as much as possible. 714 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,600 Like I will tolerate him more than anybody. 715 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,880 And we all have our limits of the Lord can get up to this line 716 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,080 right here. But after that, I'm in charge. 717 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,600 And some of us, year over year over year, sermon over sermon 718 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,880 over sermon, you're expanding your control. 719 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,320 But really, what you're doing, you're giving the Lord a little, 720 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,840 you think you're giving him a little more slice, but you still 721 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,960 run the show and you don't want him. 722 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,760 You tolerate the world, the Christian stuff, you're willing 723 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,320 to cut some things out, but all the while you in control you at 724 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,320 the driver's seat and you don't want him. 725 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,800 Y'all delight is the goal and delight is the problem. 726 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,360 It's the goal and the problem, because we don't. 727 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:42,960 If I asked you what's the biggest? 728 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,120 Sin you've ever done? I wonder what will come to your 729 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:46,640 mind. I'm going to give about 10. 730 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,000 Cycles. The biggest sin you've ever 731 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,760 done? Preachers. 732 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,120 Trick question because the answer isn't something you've 733 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,920 done, it's that you don't want the Lord. 734 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,360 Before we do sins, we are sinful. 735 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:11,800 The nature of sin is to say I don't want God is to yawn at 736 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,160 him, is to turn our back on him, is to fight him. 737 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,520 But any way you slice it, I'm out. 738 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:23,520 I stay in control. So y'all, I just want to put 739 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,120 that over us. And what that sends you to is 740 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,920 like if that's really the goal is to want him and I can't, then 741 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:36,080 what do I do? Now I can answer that question, 742 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,240 but I want to ask you about your heart before I answer that 743 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,240 question. If you just want to escape from 744 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:45,720 feeling guilty in your conscience, you can self 745 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:47,800 righteously apply the answer I'm about to give. 746 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,640 You and deceive yourself, but the truth of the Bible is if you 747 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:57,080 want to be delivered, you're on the verge of wanting to be saved 748 00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,600 from yourself and from the fact that you can't conjure that. 749 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,160 You're ready to throw yourself on your knees and say, who will 750 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:04,600 deliver me from this body of death? 751 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,360 But thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given 752 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,280 us the victory. The idea is you. 753 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,960 Cannot throw yourself on your face and beg the Lord to give 754 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:23,400 you new taste buds. Throw yourself upon the mercy of 755 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,920 God. Some of us have so assumed God's 756 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,520 love for us. And we've been told that from 757 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,320 such a young age or whatever it is, or maybe you're new to the 758 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,920 Bible, but we so assume God's love for us, but our taste buds 759 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,520 have never changed. What can happen is you actually 760 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,120 never have a moment where the Spirit gives you a new heart, 761 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,200 which is what the New covenant is. 762 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,840 I will take out your heart of stone and give you a heart of 763 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,720 flesh. That's what He promised to do. 764 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:54,440 He will make us want Him. I will put the fear of me in 765 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,240 them that they may not turn away from me. 766 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,000 See y'all, I just want to put that over you because if you 767 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,240 think you have the wrong problem, you'll look for the 768 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,480 wrong solution. Our problem is that we don't 769 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,960 want him. And for some of you, you need to 770 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,640 be born again. You need the Spirit of God to 771 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,800 invade your life and take over. And for the rest of us who are 772 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:21,280 in Christ, when we hit the doll, when we hit the lull, and the 773 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,640 Spirit is indwelling us, it doesn't make us panic about our 774 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,600 salvation. But it does. 775 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,240 Send us in a similar process where mercy is the path forward, 776 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:35,320 it's grace, it's sitting ourself between before him, not because 777 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,000 we've been kicked out, but just because we want to be renewed. 778 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,520 Spirit of God, please wake me up, help me, help me. 779 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,240 Let this Psalm speak not just to me, but for me. 780 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,160 Y'all, I'm praying that for us, this series, that as we keep 781 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:59,000 going forward, the Psalms wouldn't just speak to us, they 782 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:00,840 would speak for us. Let's pray together. 783 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:07,400 Our Father, we love you so much. We're so grateful for the 784 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,000 Psalms. We're so grateful for the 785 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:15,360 articulation of what's possible by grace, by your Spirit, and a 786 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,240 broken world. Because life is so hard Lord So 787 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:22,240 I just pray God that we wouldn't respond to the Psalms with this 788 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:24,520 is too good to be true. This is ideal but it's not real 789 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,520 God would this be real? Would this be the the truth of 790 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,640 our hearts? Will we study your works because 791 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,760 we delight in them. God, give this church love for 792 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,480 you. Got to pray for any of my 793 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:39,120 friends right now who know maybe for the first time that they 794 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,880 think of you like cilantro. God, would you gift them? 795 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,880 Would they throw themselves upon the mercy of God? 796 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,640 Would you gift them new taste buds? 797 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,320 Would you gift them a new heart? Would you gift them a sight of 798 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,920 your son that changes everything It got from our family in Christ 799 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,600 who are maybe just weary, thirsty, hungry. 800 00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,160 God, give them newness. Refresh them once again. 801 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:01,760 God, would this Psalm speak for us? 802 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,760 We pray it in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.