1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Alright. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 So as you can see, there aren't a ton of blanks. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 So it's a kind of medium sized worksheet. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Also, as you can imagine, I did not draw this worksheet. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 You can tell that it's kind of neat looking. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 It's kind of a little bit different than what I normally make. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 And I like it. Pretty cool. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 So if you want to draw the worksheet for next week, or any upcoming week, 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 I can tell you what it is. 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 I know what the lesson is for next week. 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 So I can tell you what it is today, and you can draw it. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 But the rule is, it has to be to me by Friday. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Because that works good for me because then I can get it ready to go by Monday or Tuesday of next week. 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 No problem and all good. 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Alright. 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:52,000 So right down to the left of the box where it says danger, there's a scroll. 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And in the scroll, you're going to write Psalm 121. 18 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Psalm 121. And that's what we're going to be looking at today. 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Psalm 121. So Psalm is spelled P-S-A-L-M. 20 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 What is a Psalm? 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:16,000 That's one. One thing a Psalm can be is a song or a prayer. 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Song or a prayer. 23 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 And that is the vast majority of them. 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Probably all of them are sometimes song or prayer. 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Alright. So we're looking at Psalm 121. 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 I'm going to read Psalm 121. 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 It's eight verses. It's not particularly long. 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Or came forward. 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Or anything like that. 30 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And it's very simple. 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 There's not a ton of big words in it. 32 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 It's pretty well understandable as you read it. 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Right above where it says 1-2-1 in my Bible, it says a song of assents. 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 And the word assents is spelled A-S-C-E-N-T-S. 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 And I will come back later and we will talk about that before we are through. 36 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Alright. Here we go. It says Psalm 121. 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,000 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. 38 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 He will not allow your foot to slip. 40 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 He who keeps you will not slumber. 41 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 42 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 The Lord is your keeper. 43 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 The Lord is your sheep. Is your shade on your right hand. 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,000 The sun will not spike you by day nor the moon by night. 45 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 The Lord will protect you from all evil. 46 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 He will keep your soul. 47 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:42,000 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever. 48 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Okay. 49 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 And so the very first thing under the scroll above the castle in the center, 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 which could be the title but it's not but it could be, 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 is a question. 52 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Did you hear a question in the whole of what I just read? 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 It was one. Exactly one. 54 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Where does my help come from? 55 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,000 So the actual is, from where shall my help come? 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 From where or in the New American standards, from whence, 57 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 which is like where and when and when, sort of, 58 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 from whence or where shall my help come? 59 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 That's what goes in those blanks. 60 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 From where shall my help come? 61 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Okay. And then from there we're going to go either to God or to man. 62 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Which would you like to do first? 63 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Anybody have a preference? God? 64 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Did somebody say God? 65 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Okay. We're going to do God. 66 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 So we're going to go left, down to where you see the knight's helmet, 67 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 and right under the knight's helmet is a box, 68 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,000 and you're going to write God in the box. 69 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Okay. And so then what we just read about God, 70 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 think about God, two words, W-A. 71 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Anybody want to take a stab at it? 72 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 I can read the verses that particularly pertain to it again. 73 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 It says, 74 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 You will not allow your foot to slip. 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 He who keeps you will not slumber. 76 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 77 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 W-A, wide awake. 78 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 God is wide awake. 79 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,000 He has been wide awake, is wide awake, and always will be wide awake. 80 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 For a person who has fallen asleep at the wheel 81 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 and caused at least two car accidents over the years, 82 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:34,000 I can tell you that that is a blessing to know that God is wide awake. 83 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Okay. 84 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 The next one down is four words. 85 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 The first word starts with the W, you can see. 86 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 The last word starts with the K, and that's all you get. 87 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Anyone want to take a stab at it? 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 About God, from the verses that we read. 89 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 90 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:02,000 The Lord is your keeper. 91 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Say that again? 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 93 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Say it not as a question, though. 94 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 The Lord is our keeper. 95 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Okay, okay, that's not a question. 96 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Yes, you can do that. 97 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Who is our keeper? 98 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Or, Isaac will be our keeper. 99 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 You can put it however you want it. 100 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Will be our keeper. 101 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Who is our keeper? 102 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,000 God is our keeper is what we're going for there, but it starts with will. 103 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Okay. 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,000 And then, thinking along that same line, the next one is four words, 105 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:41,000 and it starts with a W on the first word and an S on the fourth word. 106 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Stab at it? 107 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Will be our sleep. 108 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Nope. 109 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Will be our shame. 110 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Nope. 111 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:59,000 That could fit, but nope. 112 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 What God will do? 113 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 He will not let us sleep. 114 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 That will fit there. 115 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Will keep? 116 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 The second word keep is correct? 117 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 What will he keep? 118 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Your soul. 119 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Say it again? 120 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Your soul. 121 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Soul is correct. 122 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 What was the middle word? 123 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Your or our, either one. 124 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Will keep your soul or our souls. 125 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 That's correct. 126 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Perfect. 127 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 And it's in verse seven. 128 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 It says the Lord will protect you from all evil. 129 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 He will keep your soul. 130 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 He will keep your soul. 131 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 What version do you mean? 132 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000 That was in verse seven. 133 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 What version? 134 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,000 A New American Standard. 135 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Because you asked, you had time to ask, why am I using the New American Standard? 136 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Is the New American Standard the best version? 137 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 No. 138 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 There is no best translation, right? 139 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 So, I use the New American Standard. 140 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I use the New American Standard, I like it because two reasons, one, it stays pretty close to the original language. 141 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,000 So that when I go look at it in the Greek, I don't find like a lot of difference. 142 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Like, you know, that I have to puzzle through. 143 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 So that's good for me. 144 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 And there are a couple of others that are like that too. 145 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000 And the other reason is because it's written at a sophomore and college reading level. 146 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 And that's about where I feel like my reading level is. 147 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 So, whether that's good or bad. 148 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Josh reads at a much higher level than I do, so. 149 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 But, RJ reads so low, low, low, low, like it's on the mission. 150 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 So, nope, nothing bad then about that. 151 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 So, find one that fits where you are. 152 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Okay? 153 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Alright, so about God, this much we know. 154 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 He is wide awake. 155 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 He will be our keeper. 156 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 And he will keep your soul. 157 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Okay? 158 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Real quick before we go any further, what is your soul? 159 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Huge philosophical question, right? 160 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Like, people have been debating this for ages. 161 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 But according to the Bible, what is your soul? 162 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 What's the difference between your soul and your mind? 163 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 For example. 164 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Say it again. 165 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Hey, let me just say this. 166 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 I would say who you are, what makes you you. 167 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 That's really good. 168 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I like that. 169 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Your identity or who you are, what makes you you internally. 170 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I would agree with that. 171 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:19,000 In fact, I would say that what people talk about is not to get off on a tangent about theology, right? 172 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 But if you die, your current body does not go to heaven. 173 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 What does? 174 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Your soul. 175 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Right? 176 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Your mind doesn't go. 177 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Your heart doesn't go. 178 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Your kidneys don't go. 179 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Right? 180 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Not yet, anyway. 181 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Right? 182 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,000 But then when you get your new body, you'll get a new set of all whatever that looks like exactly. 183 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Right? 184 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 New kidneys, new heart, new mind, new everything. 185 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 But your soul is like your identity. 186 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:51,000 It's the person we're so known that is inside you. 187 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 If that makes any sense. 188 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 It's what rides in your body. 189 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Okay? 190 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:02,000 And it is what will make when you're in your when you're truly in control, it is what will make your decisions. 191 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Your soul needs certain things and will make a decision based on what it needs. 192 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 And those will be good decisions. 193 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Unless, of course, your soul is under generated. 194 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Your soul is lost. 195 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Your soul is seeking for God. 196 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 You're refusing to allow your soul to have God. 197 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Then your soul is going to seek after something to replace God. 198 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 And that's never good. 199 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Right? 200 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:29,000 But if you're saved, then your soul, you want your soul to have as much control as possible. 201 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 If your soul is regenerated in God. 202 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Not only that, but God who is wide awake will be our keeper and will keep our soul. 203 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 So that's awesome. 204 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Right? 205 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Flip over to man. 206 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Right? 207 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,000 So what does the Bible tell us in Psalm 121 about? 208 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 For, mind you, this is a man who is following God or a man who is of God. 209 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Right? 210 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 What does it say about his foot? 211 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Two words. 212 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 No slip. 213 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Right? 214 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Now, we have a bit of a difficulty there, don't we? 215 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Because we know the Bible says that a rice man falls seven times, up seven times. 216 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 We know that we do make mistakes. 217 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:19,000 So what does it mean to say that God will make it so that your foot will not slip? 218 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 How can that be true based on the fact that we know we do make mistakes? 219 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 So what does that mean? 220 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,000 That's for sure true, yes. 221 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Go ahead. 222 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Is it lying about salvation? 223 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 It's not really talking about salvation, is it? 224 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,000 I should say it is there talking about salvation where it says a righteous man falls seven times, gets up seven times. 225 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 That's not talking about salvation. 226 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Right? 227 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 So you don't lose your salvation seven times and get your salvation back seven times. 228 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 You physically fall, you make a mistake, you make a bad decision, etc. 229 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 But you always come back up. 230 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 And because it's seven, but you actually rise eight times, you're up and stay up. 231 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Right? 232 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 So that is not... 233 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 We don't fall in our salvation. 234 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,000 And this is saying we will not fall in our salvation. 235 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Okay? 236 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:11,000 There is no slip of your foot when it comes to being saved and in the Lord. 237 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Bear in mind there is quite a bit of scripture that supports that God will guide your paths. 238 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Right? 239 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 If you lean not on your own understanding, you will be able to make the right decision. 240 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Right? 241 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 So people do make mistakes. 242 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 But when it comes to making a decision, you should not make a wrong decision. 243 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,000 You should not intentionally make a wrong decision because you want what the Lord wants. 244 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 You know these facts that we're studying and therefore if you want what the Lord wants, 245 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 then you're not going to intentionally do what God would not want you to do, 246 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 if you are a man of God. 247 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Right? 248 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 There's a difference between making an intentional decision of something wrong 249 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 and making an unintentional decision of something wrong. 250 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,000 We talked about that. 251 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 We talked about last week, we talked about how sin gets grip on you. 252 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,000 And how willfully making a bad decision is more like a trap that you're putting yourself in your stuff there. 253 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Right? 254 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Than it is attempting to do something bad and then you slip and do that. 255 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 That's different. 256 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Okay. 257 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 So foot, no slip. 258 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Okay? 259 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 The next one, I think I just gave you the P first. 260 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:26,000 It's four letters, four words I should say. 261 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 I'll read over it. 262 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I'll start real before it and I'll read over it. 263 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 The Lord... 264 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Protect you from evil. 265 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Say it again. 266 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Protect you from evil. 267 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Protect you from evil. 268 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 That's right. 269 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 What protects from all evil? 270 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 The all is important. 271 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Does anybody know why it's important? 272 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,000 There's no kind of evil. 273 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 What kinds of evil are there? 274 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,000 There are evil with an enemy and there are evil with man. 275 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Yeah. 276 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,000 There's essentially four divisions. 277 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Okay? 278 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 The world, evil spirits and demons. 279 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Right? 280 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Blasher, wicked desires and self. 281 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Right? 282 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:21,000 But how many evils are there really? 283 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 284 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. 285 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Right? 286 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Protect us from... 287 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Say it again. 288 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 The evil one. 289 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 The evil one. 290 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Okay. 291 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Does anybody know why it says the evil one in that translation? 292 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 It's all one evil. 293 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 It's actually all one evil. 294 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Right? 295 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 So like, because this is a mistake that you make. 296 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Here's a demon. 297 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Here's an evil spirit. 298 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 The evil spirit plays to your lust. 299 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 You already want whatever it is. 300 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 You're just saying, hey, you can have this. 301 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Go after this and you'll have it. 302 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Evil spirit. 303 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Demon comes in your life and screws with your head, takes over your body, controls you, makes 304 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 you do things you don't want to do. 305 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 That's bad. 306 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Right? 307 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,000 That looks really bad. 308 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 This doesn't look as bad. 309 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Is one worse than the other? 310 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 No, they're just evil. 311 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 It's just evil. 312 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 There is no difference in evil. 313 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Right? 314 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 The Bible even goes so far as to say that whosoever keeps the whole law and yet offends in one 315 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 point, he is guilty of all. 316 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000 There is just one evil. 317 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 It has divisions. 318 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Right? 319 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 And that evil spirit might be subject to that demon. 320 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 So if the two of them come after you at the same time, this guy might get precedence. 321 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,000 He's in charge. 322 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 You might say, oh, just let him go before then I got him. 323 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 And the other guy's got to do what he says. 324 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 It's kind of bad. 325 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 There is a hierarchy in evil. 326 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 But the bottom line is it's just one evil. 327 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:53,000 And actually in the Greek where it says protect us from the evil one, and you could read another 328 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 translation and say protect us from evil. 329 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Right? 330 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 And it's an evil, but it is a singular word. 331 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:07,000 So just as good as the evil one would be the one evil. 332 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Either one works. 333 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:13,000 And to say, for example, there that he's praying to protect him from Satan is actually not 334 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:18,000 accurate because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. 335 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 You don't actually have to pray to be protected from Satan. 336 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Satan is weaker than Jesus. 337 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Jesus is in you. 338 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000 So you're safe. 339 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Right? 340 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 But there is one evil. 341 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 And in that evil is the evil that I do. 342 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:36,000 And I need to be protected from that because I'm by doing that evil, I'm throwing down 343 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 my protections. 344 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Right? 345 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 So without my shield of faith, I whip off my helmet and I go and do something stupid 346 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:47,000 because I want it, because I need it, or I deserve it, because I've asserted myself 347 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 with self-justice or getting vengeance or whatever. 348 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:57,000 So the point is, protecting from all evil is important because in the original language 349 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 here, when it says evil, it's not two different words. 350 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 It's not all evil. 351 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 It's an evil that includes all evil. 352 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Right? 353 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,000 It's an evil of all kinds, evil of all types that come back. 354 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 And God protects us from that. 355 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Let's say for example, you did something evil and your result was you died and went to heaven. 356 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 See it? 357 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000 You do something evil, if you're not saved, you die and go to hell. 358 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 If you do something evil and you are saved, you die and go to heaven. 359 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Therefore, you are protected from the ramifications of the evil that you did. 360 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 See? 361 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 So that's what God is doing. 362 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,000 He will literally protect us from all evil, even the evil that we ourselves originally 363 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 had. 364 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,000 My conversation with somebody working on that is a square of a dollar that occurs how once 365 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 or something, there's no way it's happening. 366 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Yeah, you know what's going to happen? 367 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Is we're going to go to heaven someday. 368 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 We're going to find all kinds of crazy people in heaven that we would never think any possible 369 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 way we'd hear. 370 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 The story that always comes to mind every time I think about that is Jeffrey Dahmer. 371 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 You know Jeffrey Dahmer, right? 372 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Everybody kind of knows a little bit about him. 373 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 He's the guy who would eat people. 374 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 He was convinced that it was okay to eat people. 375 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 In the last week of his life on the earth, he'd eat for best price. 376 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,000 And people say that there was an amazing change in him. 377 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:28,000 That before he was just wicked and nasty and just being in the room as a lady, feel dirty 378 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 and like that, that he was remorseful, he was changed, he was contrite, he was respectful, 379 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:37,000 he was peaceful, he was all kind of completely a different person overnight. 380 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 So was he saved? 381 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Not my place to judge, right? 382 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Not our place at all. 383 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 But you're going to find people who go to work every day, pay their bills every day, 384 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 work very hard, try to be honest, try to be good, try to be gentle, try to be kind, try 385 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,000 to do all these things, and they're going to get to the throne of judgment. 386 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 And Jesus is going to say, get away from me, I never knew you. 387 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Oh, Jeffrey, come on in. 388 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 So game, it's very serious, right? 389 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 God is the protector of our souls. 390 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 And then that leads us to the final one, under man. 391 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:11,000 And soul equals, this is your easy weapon, kept, right? 392 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Or saved or whatever, whatever it was up there. 393 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 But God is the keeper of our soul. 394 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 The Lord will guard you. 395 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Okay? 396 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Now we're going to go down to the middle, right above the gate. 397 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,000 And I put it right above the gate because this is where we do this. 398 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:33,000 We got two words, one is G and one is C. 399 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 What do you think? 400 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Hard? 401 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Nope. 402 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 The next G, it goes, the next G is guarded. 403 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 So I'll give you that. 404 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Put one down below. 405 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 So the top is G or C. 406 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Oh, there's two. 407 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,000 Everybody at the gate is doing either this or this or hanging out. 408 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Going or coming. 409 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Going or coming or hanging out, right? 410 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 But the truth is in life, everyone is going or coming. 411 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Everyone. 412 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Even the guy that looks like he's just sitting there doing nothing. 413 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 We're all going or coming, right? 414 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:13,000 And then RJ already said the next one down, you go down, straight down in the middle is guarded. 415 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000 That is correct, forever, yeah. 416 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 And so this is what it says, the Lord will protect you from all evil. 417 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 He will keep your soul. 418 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:29,000 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever. 419 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,000 And so if you are a follower of the Lord, if you are a child of God, when you go out, God is with you. 420 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,000 When you come in, God comes in with you, right? 421 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:45,000 This was the psalmist's best understanding, best attempt to understand what it means to have the Holy Spirit indwell you. 422 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 It had happened. 423 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Nobody had had the Holy Spirit indwell them back in the day. 424 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:58,000 But here he's getting a hundreds of years prior picture of what it's going to be like to be walking in the Lord after Jesus comes, dies, 425 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 resurrects, goes back to heaven and sends the Holy Spirit. 426 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Jesus is with us always. 427 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 He's guarding our coming and going. 428 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Like the poem, Footsteps, where he looks back and he says, oh man, there were the hardest times of my life. 429 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 There's only one set of footsteps. 430 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 You deserted me at the hardest times of my life. 431 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000 The man says to Jesus, you deserted me at the hardest times of my life. 432 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Why would you do that? 433 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:25,000 And Jesus says, my son, oh no, it's not that I deserted you, but rather those are the times in which I carried you. 434 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 There's only one set of footsteps because those are my footsteps. 435 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:33,000 And the psalmist was getting that picture hundreds of years before the coming of the Holy Spirit. 436 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 He would understand that wherever we go, he's already there. 437 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000 David already had that. 438 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Wherever you can go, God would already be there. 439 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Wherever you come to, you find God there. 440 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,000 But now he's explaining, no, he's guarding our coming and going. 441 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 He's going to be with us always and forever. 442 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:57,000 So he was getting an understanding of the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is pretty cool that God did that. 443 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,000 But who is the he? 444 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Who sang this song? 445 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,000 So we're over on the right hand side of that last little section. 446 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:10,000 OK, I read it to you at the beginning, which is not part of the Bible, not part of the scripture. 447 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 It says a song of a sense. 448 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Does anybody know what a song of a sense is? 449 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Josh, tell us what the word assent means to go up. 450 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 So this is a song of going up. 451 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 That's what it is. 452 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 It's a song of going up. 453 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Going up where? 454 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Yeah, that's exactly right. 455 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 When they were marching up to Jerusalem. 456 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,000 So remember, they had these festivals in Jerusalem surrounding the temple. 457 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 They're in the temple and surrounding the temple. 458 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,000 And people would come from all over the land and they would go up. 459 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,000 And so the first blank that you have there, I'll just give it to you. 460 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,000 It's up to Mount, you can just abbreviate that. 461 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000 That's what I did. 462 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 MT period Moriah. 463 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 M-O-R-I-A-H. 464 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Side note, does anybody know what's on Mount Moriah right now? 465 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 It still exists. 466 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 So Jerusalem is still up there. 467 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:15,000 But at the very pinnacle on the Temple Mount is what? 468 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 The Dome of the Rock. 469 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Probably Gipshah. 470 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,000 The Dome of the Rock, which is the Muslim holy place. 471 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Long story short, here's how it goes. 472 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:35,000 The Quran was translated in a dream to a place, Mount Moriah, where he saw the tablets that contained the Quran. 473 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Later, the military conquests stole the whole area and built the Dome of the Rock on top of the Temple Mount, 474 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 which is where the temple previously had been, but then by that time it had been torn down. 475 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:52,000 So right now, the Muslims own the pinnacle of Mount Moriah, which is where the temple is. 476 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 And Mr. Tindy doesn't have this conversation with me another time. 477 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 He knows a lot more about it than I do. 478 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:04,000 But that being said, the songs were being sung, songs of ascent. 479 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 I think there's 20 of them. 480 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,000 I can't be sure, but there's 20 of them throughout the Psalms that are Psalms of ascent. 481 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:18,000 And they would be sung as the believers were going up Mount Moriah to go to the Temple and Jerusalem around the Temple. 482 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:24,000 So the next one just under that is up to Jerusalem. 483 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Very good, up to Jerusalem. So they were singing the song as they were going up to Mount Moriah. 484 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 So they were going up to Jerusalem. 485 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:35,000 And then they were going towards T.W. 486 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,000 They were going to worship. That's right. That's what they were doing. 487 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 They were going to worship. 488 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,000 So these feasts and festivals they were having were all about worshipping God. 489 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 What is worship? What does the word worship mean? 490 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Where does it come from? The Old English means what? 491 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,000 It means praise. It comes from worship. 492 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000 That's where it actually comes from. Worship. Show work. 493 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:08,000 So you can praise, you can speak, whatever, but you're declaring the word with someone. 494 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,000 So worship is declaring the word with something in its very components. 495 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:23,000 So they were going up to Mount Moriah, specifically to Jerusalem and around the Temple to declare the word of God. 496 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 So that was to worship. 497 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 And then it says I, H, and P. 498 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Now this one you got to kind of know this from Bible history a little bit. 499 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 You want to take a stab at it? 500 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Very good. Into His presence. 501 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Why do we say they were going to the Temple to go into God's presence? 502 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Why does that make any sense? 503 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,000 What historically was in the Temple? 504 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Originally, it's not there by the time mostly Psalms were written, but the Ark of the Covenant. 505 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,000 The Ark of the Covenant would have had the horrendous Ten Commandments in it, the tumors of the rats, 506 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 I think the Rod of Aaron, some things in there, relics of the faith. 507 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:12,000 But then there was the Ark of the Covenant and the Ark of the Covenant was supposed to be what? 508 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,000 It was in the Holy of Holies. 509 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 But what did it represent with regards to God? 510 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Say it again. 511 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000 That's perfect. 512 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000 That's exactly what they would say. 513 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 The Ark of the Covenant was the footstool of God. 514 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 And so it was in the Holy of Holies. 515 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000 And so they were going up into His presence. 516 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 You understand the symbolism we're getting at now? 517 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,000 So going up Mount Moriah, up Jerusalem, up into the presence of God. 518 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:45,000 So now we have a song of ascent, a song that arguably could be a song of worship. 519 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 God's totally declaring His word. 520 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 That's what this whole song is about, declaring His word to the man. 521 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:57,000 And we're singing that as we're going up into His presence, up Mount Moriah, up into Jerusalem. 522 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Alright, and so we've got just this last little bit left, starts with a W. 523 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 It's the word we've been using. 524 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Worship. 525 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Worship. 526 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Good. 527 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Why? 528 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 That's a why. 529 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Worship. 530 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Worship your? 531 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Worship. 532 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Nope. 533 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Okay, the last W is also worship. 534 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000 So it's worship your way to worship. 535 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Not that you worship the way you worship, right? 536 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 But you worship your way there. 537 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Alright, so you're walking. 538 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,000 How do I get there? 539 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,000 I walk. 540 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,000 How do you? 541 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 So the question is this. 542 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 How do you get to worshiping God? 543 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 How do you do it? 544 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000 How do you get from not worshiping God to worshiping God? 545 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Say it again. 546 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Okay, so you're going to church and this classic example, I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm 547 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,000 agreeing with you, but this classic example, you're going to church and you're getting ready 548 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,000 to go out of the house and the kids made you late and you spilled coffee on your shirt. 549 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:10,000 And all the way to church you're fuming, you're cleaning off the coffee or soda or whatever 550 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 it is, and you're trying to calm the kids down and then you walk in the door of the 551 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000 church and all of a sudden everything's got to be fine. 552 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Right? 553 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Because we can't walk in fuming at each other because we're going to worship. 554 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,000 So we can't be all mad at each other when we go, nobody can know what's going on at 555 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000 home, right? 556 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Nobody does this, right? 557 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 I hope not because that's not the way to get to worship. 558 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Right? 559 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Rather, if you want to get to worship, do it, say it again. 560 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Start worshiping. 561 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,000 That's the key. 562 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 How you get to worship, start worshiping. 563 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Now, let me go back on what Dolly said, okay? 564 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,000 So let's say for example, it's Friday, Saturday, right? 565 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 You're not really thinking about God at all. 566 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 You're busy. 567 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You're working, you're cooking, you're cleaning, you're playing. 568 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 You do all the things that you do, right? 569 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 And then Saturday night you go to bed about 11 o'clock at night, whatever, maybe midnight 570 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,000 maybe 4 a.m. 571 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 You go to bed and you think, oh, I've got to get up and go to church in the morning. 572 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 And then you get up and you've got a few last things you've got to do. 573 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 You've got to get dressed and you're rushing out the house and you're coming to church. 574 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 And then you get there and it doesn't feel very much like church. 575 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 You know why that is? 576 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 It's not because the other people aren't being in the church. 577 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 It's because you're not being in the church. 578 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 How do you get to be in the church? 579 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Be in the church, right? 580 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000 How do you get to serving Jesus? 581 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Serve Jesus, right? 582 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 So you're like, well, I want to serve Jesus more. 583 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Okay, well then serve Jesus in what you know to serve Jesus. 584 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 And then build on that, right? 585 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 And you'll get to do more and more and more. 586 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Growth works like that. 587 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 You don't get a tree, you don't get an oak tree from an olive seed, right? 588 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,000 You don't get a rose from a dandelion seed. 589 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,000 You get a rose from a rose seed and it grows up to be a rose plant 590 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 which then eventually blossoms and makes a rose. 591 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,000 And by the way, when it makes a rose, it makes more seeds so you can do it again later. 592 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Right? 593 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000 So what's to be learned from Psalm 121 fits God. 594 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:13,000 And that is that God is always wide awake and He will be our keeper and He will keep your soul. 595 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,000 To which I would say He deserves your worship. 596 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:22,000 And then it also says about man, our foot will not slip, will be protected from all evil, 597 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 of all kinds and that one evil that there is, right? 598 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Our soul will be kept. 599 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,000 Our going and our coming will be guarded forever. 600 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,000 But if you want to worship, you get there by worshiping. 601 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 That's how we do it. 602 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Is He worth your life? 603 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Is He worth your money? 604 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Is He worth your time? 605 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Is He worth your effort? 606 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Is He worth your relationships? 607 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,000 Is He worth your health? 608 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,000 Is He worth anything? 609 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000 He gave it all to us. 610 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:56,000 Therefore, He is worth all of it and more because He can take it all away and give it all back again 611 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000 seven more times if He wants to. 612 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Alright? 613 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 So He's worthy of all of that worship. 614 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:08,000 And the key to getting to worship is to worship, to arrive at worshiping. 615 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 Now there's a worldly saying that says, I'm going to make it. 616 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,000 And if I don't, I'm going to fake it until I make it. 617 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000 And that does not fit here. 618 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Your attitude of worship has to be real. 619 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000 And when you start worshiping God, you'll go, wait, I'm worshiping God. 620 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000 I feel like, you know, I knew He was that good. 621 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000 I knew He deserves the worship. 622 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000 I'll give you two illustrations and then I'll be through. 623 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 The first one is this. 624 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Many times over the last 20 years, I would say at least a half dozen or 10 times, 625 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 I got up on a Sunday morning. 626 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,000 I had a rough week. 627 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Maybe I wasn't feeling well. 628 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Things weren't quite right. 629 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000 And disagreement with my family members or something. 630 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 And I don't want to go to church. 631 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000 I don't want to worship. 632 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,000 I don't want to preach. 633 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,000 I had a couple of those times, most of them probably. 634 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000 I had a great sermon. 635 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 I was excited about preaching it, but I didn't want to go to church. 636 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 I don't want to deal with the people. 637 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 I don't want to deal with the relationships. 638 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000 I still want to be here. 639 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000 I don't want to be here and somewhere back on Main Street or wherever. 640 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 I still want to do it. 641 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 But I did it anyway. 642 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,000 In fact, usually I would turn music on in the car, meditate on God, 643 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000 maybe even sing to a song on my playlist or something about God or whatever. 644 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:33,000 And then I would get in here and by the first or second song, all of that goes away. 645 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,000 All of it. 646 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000 I'm so glad to be exactly where I'm supposed to be. 647 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 And typically when I'm worshiping, I tune everybody else out as much as I possibly can. 648 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000 I have a lot of responsibilities and stuff like that. 649 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000 I'll be like, oh, I've got to take care of this. 650 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Oh, a kid needs this or whatever. 651 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,000 But most I tune everybody out and I'm just focused on God. 652 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,000 That's worship. 653 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000 You can do that on the way to church. 654 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 And if you do it on the way to church, you'll be worshiping when you get to church. 655 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 You can do it before you get in the car. 656 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 And if you do, you'll be worshiping when you're in the car. 657 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000 You can do it before you get in the shower. 658 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000 And if you do, you'll be doing it when you're in the shower. 659 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000 And you'll probably sound better in there too, because that's how that usually works. 660 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Just start worshiping. 661 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000 He is worthy of it. 662 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000 And you'll find yourself worshiping. 663 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Second illustration is kind of scary. 664 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,000 There are angels that surround heaven, surround God in heaven right now. 665 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 And it's said that basically they're holding back the wrath of God. 666 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,000 You realize that God is not pleased with a lot of things that are happening on earth now. 667 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000 Some of them are things that we're doing. 668 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Or certainly that we're allowing. 669 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 So there are angels that circle God. 670 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000 And they sing all day, what? 671 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000 Holy, holy, holy. 672 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000 They have wings that they fly on. 673 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000 And then they have wings that cover their feet. 674 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000 If it means literally their feet. 675 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000 But it covers their lower body. 676 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000 They are in His presence. 677 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000 And something is protecting them. 678 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 And I submit to you that it is their worship. 679 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000 More than that, I submit to you, their worship is protecting us. 680 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Because it says later they stop. 681 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000 When do they stop? 682 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000 When the wrath of God is ready to be poured out. 683 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,000 When the book is brought. 684 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 When Jesus opens the seal sweater. 685 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000 When all sorts of things in the world is going away as we know it. 686 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000 That's when they stop singing, holy, holy, holy. 687 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,000 We are protected from God's wrath now by worshipers of God. 688 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Now our worship probably in and of itself without Christ would not be good enough to protect us or anyone from the wrath of God. 689 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000 But it is good enough to bring us into the presence of God. 690 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,000 It is good enough to remind us that we, that God is worthy. 691 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,000 That He guards our coming and going if you are a followed Lord, that's true. 692 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:55,000 And that He will do so forever wide awake and make sure your foot never slips and your soul is kept. 693 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000 We can't buy that for a dollar. 694 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000 But you can experience it first hand by worship. 695 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:09,000 We are going to close in prayer at this time. Does anybody have any questions before we do? 696 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Okay. I have candy. 697 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:18,000 There is not as much candy up here as there was I left it last Tuesday because people eat my candy in between. 698 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000 But I have lots of candy in my office so it's okay. 699 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000 Alright, well let's close in prayer. 700 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Brother Tim, thank you for being here. 701 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Would you close us in prayer? 702 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:32,000 What better than one of our primary worship servants to do that under this body. 703 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Thank you. 704 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000 I learn father and your office is great to me. 705 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Thank you.