1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 I take I breathe in you. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Every step I take I take in you. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 You are my way, Jesus. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Every breath I take I breathe in you. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Waves of mercy, waves of praise. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Everywhere I look, I see your face. 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,000 You're the best I should be. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Oh my God, it's love. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 How happy. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Na na na na na. 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Every breath I take I breathe in you. 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 You make me look, Jesus. 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Every breath I take I breathe in you. 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Every step I take I take in you. 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 You are my way, Jesus. 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Every breath I take I breathe in you. 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Waves of mercy, waves of praise. 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Everywhere I look, I see your face. 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 You're the best I should be. 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Oh my God, it's love. 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 How happy. 22 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Na na na na na. 23 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Okay, we're kind of in this together today because I did not make an answer sheet. 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 So my page has all the same blanks that your page has. 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 So we're going to be trusting my memory, which I think is tucked away somewhere right behind my migraine. 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 So we'll see if we can find it or not. 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 But I think we can figure it most of it out together. 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Most of it follows the scripture. 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,000 And I did know that there were two words that were a little trickier than anything else. 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,000 And so, so as you can guess, we are in Psalms. 31 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 We're in the book of Psalms and it is a Psalm. 32 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And you can finish that artistically if you want. 33 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 And it is Psalm 1, 2, 3. 34 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 1, 2, 3. 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 You can put that on there. 36 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 And Psalm 1, 2, 3 has, you know how many verses? 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 How many verses? 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Four. 39 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Four, that's correct. 40 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 So it's Psalm 1, 2, 3, four verses. 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 That was pretty easy to remember. 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 So if you think about that, you'll probably never forget that Psalm 1, 23 has four verses because it's 1, 2, 3, 4. 43 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Pretty easy to remember. 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 1, 2, 3, 4. 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Okay. 46 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Now it's a certain kind of Psalm. 47 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And so if you go right under that, you'll see it says S-O-A. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 That does not stand for Sons of Anarchy. 49 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Thank goodness. 50 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 So what do you think it stands for? 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Song of? 52 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 A cent. 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Yes. 54 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 A song of a cent. 55 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 It has an S on the end of it. 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 A-S-C-E-N-T-S. 57 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Now, does anybody know what a song of a cent is? 58 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 I've taught them this, I think, one time in my 25 years. 59 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Does anybody know? 60 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Okay. 61 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 What does it mean? 62 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 What is an ascent? 63 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Go up. 64 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Just generically to go up, right? 65 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Ascent, your ascent, like a plane takes off. 66 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 That's its ascent. 67 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Right? 68 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 And so if people are singing this song while they're ascending, 69 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 and it comes, mind you, this is Old Testament, don't forget. 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 So where do you think they might be going? 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Heaven. 72 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 No, not heaven. 73 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 It's good guess, though. 74 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Jerusalem. 75 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Right? 76 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 So basically this was a song that people sung on the way up to Jerusalem to go to the temple. 77 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 That's the song of a cent. 78 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,000 If you look through the Book of Psalms, you can see that there are several others, right? 79 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Right over next to it on 121 is a song of a cent, and 120 is a song of a cent. 80 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 There are quite a few of them. 81 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,000 And basically as they were going up into the temple, now when they're going up into the temple, 82 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,000 what do they consider themselves to be doing? 83 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Like we go to church, do we go to church to worship? 84 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Kind of, yeah. 85 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Do we go to church to pray? 86 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Yeah. 87 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 So are those two things exactly the same thing? 88 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 No. 89 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Okay, so what are we doing when we're worshiping and praying? 90 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 If we're doing both. 91 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Who is the common denominator in those things? 92 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Us and God, right? 93 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 So they consider themselves going to be God. 94 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 So this is a song that you might sing, and therefore you might not sing it, 95 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 because there's no notes or anything, right? 96 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 So you might not sing it, but you might think about it, meditate on it. 97 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,000 You might pronounce all the words as you are going to meet with God, right? 98 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 That's what a song of a sense is, okay? 99 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,000 All right, so I'll read the first verse, and then we'll fill in some of this top step up here. 100 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 So we're going down, I think we're going down to the left first. 101 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:20,000 So it says to, and then there is a Y, and it's a big Y, okay? 102 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 And it says to thee, or your translation might say to you, 103 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,000 I lift up my eyes, thou who art enthroned in the heavens. 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 And so, can you fill in the line? 105 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,000 To you I lift up my eyes. 106 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Very good, Chris. No problem. 107 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 To you I lift up my eyes. 108 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Notice that's a guy with just eyes going up the stairs there. 109 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 It struck me as funny, so that's why I did it. 110 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 If it's not funny to you, that's okay. 111 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Okay, good, thank you, I appreciate that. 112 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 It struck me as funny, so. 113 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 All right, and then we follow that arrow over, and we also already have enough for this. 114 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 So, what do you got? 115 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 To you enthroned in the heavens. 116 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 That's correct. 117 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:21,000 So, as we are going to meet God, we lift up our eyes to God who is enthroned in heaven. 118 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Now, here's the interesting thing, right? 119 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 So God is in charge, he's enthroned in heaven, and he's in charge of what goes on down here, right? 120 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:36,000 But where exactly would you look to see God in charge of the earth? 121 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 You could look in the Bible, you could look in your heart, right? 122 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:46,000 But if you really want to direct your eyes toward God, you would look toward where he is enthroned in heaven. 123 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 That's where he's enthroned. 124 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 And we'll spend eternity there if we have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 125 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 So they're headed up to Jerusalem, where as a temple on the earth, right? 126 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,000 There was a temple then. 127 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,000 They're going up to the temple, but they're not looking up to the temple. 128 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 They don't lift their eyes up to the temple where they're headed to meet with God. 129 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,000 They're saying we lift our eyes up to where you are enthroned in the heavens. 130 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 See that? It's interesting. It's different. 131 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Because if I was a lost person in Toledo and I was looking for somewhere to learn about God, 132 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 I might look to New Heights or to some other church that I think is godly. 133 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:34,000 When I was not saved, and Sherry and I were in our mid-twenties, she was in her early twenties, I was in my mid-twenties, 134 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 we wanted to know more about God. 135 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:44,000 So we looked to the place where her grandmother went because she was the only person we knew who we thought acted like a Christian. 136 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Literally the only person. 137 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 We later found out that she had not been baptized, she had not joined the church, 138 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 she was not a member of that church or whatever, but she was faithful in serving and talking about Jesus. 139 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 So that's why we went there. 140 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 But that's not where God is. 141 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 I mean, not enthroned, right? 142 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 God is on the throne of heaven, ruling all creation, even to this day. 143 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 He also rules in hearts, but it's hard to look into the heart of another person. 144 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Okay, we're going to go a little further. 145 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Right now I cannot remember what that B is. 146 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Oh yes, I know what it is. Okay, so we're going to get it very quickly. 147 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 It says, yes, it is behold. 148 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:30,000 To thee I lift up my eyes, oh thou, or you who art enthroned in the heavens, behold. 149 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:41,000 The word is behold, B-E-H-O-L-D, behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master. 150 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Okay, so if you look over there, you're going to find that under the stairs. 151 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:59,000 So the B is behold, and then the arrows go to the left for as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master. 152 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,000 So it's eyes, the whole is eyes. 153 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 It got chopped by the whole. 154 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Of the servant look to hand of the master. 155 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Okay, so now let's think about that for a second before we go any further. 156 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,000 So you've got a servant, or you could say a slave, probably the same word most likely. 157 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:33,000 And the servant looks to the master for sustenance, for protection, for direction, right? 158 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 All the same things that we look to God for. 159 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,000 But notice that it, where does the servant look? 160 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,000 It doesn't say in his face. 161 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 It looks to his hand. Now that's different. 162 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So we look to God where he is enthroned in the heavens above as the servant looks to the hand of the master. 163 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 I want you to kind of think about that for a second. 164 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 We'll get back to it at the end, okay? 165 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 And then we go a little further. 166 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000 So we read, behold, as the eyes of the servant look to the hand of their master, 167 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,000 as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress. 168 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:18,000 So a female servant or slave or could be an actual maid like takes care of the house. 169 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:25,000 And she looks to the hand of her mistress. 170 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Okay. 171 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:34,000 And then I gave you across the middle, the dividing line, it says, so our eyes look to the Lord our God. 172 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 You see that? You can call her or whatever you want to do with it, but it's there. 173 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 So our eyes look to the Lord our God. 174 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 We're going to pause here for a thought. 175 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Okay. So we were we are singing going up to where we're going to meet God. 176 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:54,000 And we're saying we turn our eyes upward to where God is enthroned in the heavens. 177 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Okay. How do we turn our eyes upward to where God is enthroned in the heaven? 178 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,000 We do it as a servant looks to the hand of his master or a maid looks to the hand of her mistress. 179 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:14,000 So what does that mean? 180 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Okay. So power, his activity, what he's actually doing. 181 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Right. So that typically is true when it's when it's used as an analogy. 182 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 It's usually talking about your hand is what does things. 183 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 It's your hand is action, your hand is strength, your hand is effect. 184 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Right. 185 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:41,000 So we look to the servant looks to the hand of his master because the hand of his master is actually where he gets protection, provision, direction. 186 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Right. So if the master points, he goes. 187 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 If the master defends him, he's safe and so on. 188 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 So that makes sense. Same with the maid. 189 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:00,000 She looks to the hand of her mistress because that's where she actually gets her protection, her provision, her direction. 190 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Right. So two things. 191 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:16,000 The first one is if you were going to say that there is a right hand or a hand of God and you're going to give that hand a name, what name would you give it? 192 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Go ahead, Chris. That's right. 193 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Right. So they are as a as a servant looks to the hand of his master or as a maid looks to the hand of her mistress. 194 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 That would be as us looking to Jesus. 195 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Right. God sent Jesus to accomplish his will on the earth. 196 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:40,000 In fact, there is some some other we won't go there today, but there's some other reference where it talks about like that. 197 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:49,000 That he that Jesus will continue to do what he's doing until he places the entire world back under God's control. 198 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 And Jesus becomes the judge and all that kind of thing. 199 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:57,000 So that's the first thing is that I thought of symbolism is we would really look to Jesus. 200 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,000 But notice they're not talking about looking to the hand. 201 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:13,000 They're saying they look to him enthroned in the heavens as a servant or a mistress would look to their hand of their master or their maid. 202 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Right. So that we look to him enthroned in heaven as a servant would look to the hand. 203 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000 So we're not not looking to the hand. We're looking to him enthroned in heaven. 204 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Does anybody understand why the significance might that that might be if Jesus is the hand, but we don't look to Jesus. 205 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,000 The human. Where is Jesus? 206 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 He's on the throne in heaven. He is enthroned in heaven. 207 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Right. Now, technically, he's at the right hand of the father. 208 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000 And you could say he has his own throne or whatever. But it says he sat down when he completed his work. 209 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 So he is enthroned in heaven. 210 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:58,000 So it's interesting that they could say we we will not look to the hand of the master. 211 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 We will look to God where he's enthroned in heaven. 212 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:09,000 So when Jesus was the hand of the master and he was on the earth, they were claiming well, they weren't actually doing it in my opinion. 213 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Right. Again, we could say that another time. 214 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 They were claiming to be looking to God enthroned in heaven. 215 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,000 You follow. But the hand was right in front of them. 216 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Jesus was right there then doing what it was that God was having him to do. 217 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:34,000 It's very interesting in that even while they were going up to meet God, they were looking at God in heaven. 218 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Right. And then when Jesus is on earth, they continue to look to God in heaven. 219 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,000 In fact, you even could say they continue to look to God in heaven for what God would supply, even though God had already supplied it. 220 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 That make sense? 221 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 I submit to you, the Jewish people are doing that even to this day. 222 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 They are continuing to look to God in heaven to send the Messiah, even though he's already done that. 223 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I was having fun with the text on the screen. 224 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:04,000 OK, I could have made a slide, but I was hard pressed to even get the worksheet done. 225 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 So I'm feeling pretty good. I got that done. 226 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 All right. So here we go. 227 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 So back on the text to thee, I lift up my eyes is what we've read so far. 228 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 O thou who art enthroned in the heavens, behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, 229 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress. 230 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:27,000 So our eyes look to the Lord our God. 231 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 For we are. Oh, sorry, I'm sorry. 232 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Until he shall be gracious to us. 233 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Until he shall be gracious to us. 234 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 And so you probably figured out already that that's what that next one is. 235 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,000 The U is until he is is what I put gracious to us. 236 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:51,000 And gracious is spelled G.R.A.C.I.O.U.S. 237 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Not like the one on the right, because I misspelled that one spelled correctly, spelled incorrectly. 238 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 OK. What's that? Sorry. 239 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 I just left out the O on the one on the right. OK. 240 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,000 So what do you think goes on the next to the L? 241 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 It says, oh, Lord, that's their prayer. 242 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,000 So, OK, when they start praying and say, oh, Lord, that's a prayer. 243 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Be gracious to us. Be gracious. OK. 244 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000 So notice they're crying out for what? 245 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Grace. Right. They're crying out for grace. 246 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:37,000 And now we have this this kind of weird thing because God gives grace. 247 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 He sends his son. He comes in the flesh as Jesus. 248 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 They still look to heaven to send somebody. 249 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 But they've already said he's already sent Jesus. Right. 250 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 And so their situation is weird. 251 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 But if we look at it from our perspective, we look to the Lord. 252 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,000 He sent Jesus. Now we look to the Lord and we see Jesus. 253 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 We realize that Jesus is there with God. Right. OK. 254 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,000 And then we also see that they have a particular problem. 255 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,000 And I submit to you that if we are living for the Lord the way we're supposed to, we have the same problem. 256 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:16,000 OK. Verse three still. Be gracious to us, oh, Lord, be gracious to us. 257 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:22,000 For we are greatly filled with contempt. 258 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Well, but I'm going to explain it. 259 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:31,000 So if you read it simply through, it sounds like they were saying that they're full of contempt. 260 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 We hold contempt. We have lots of contempt. Right. 261 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,000 And contempt is basically disrespect or looking down on others. Right. 262 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:47,000 And but the actual word there where it says we are greatly filled, it actually sort of means filled like overflowing. 263 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:53,000 You've had enough. You're full of it. You're done with it. 264 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:00,000 If you ever like you're a parent in the room and the kid comes and asks you for the seventh time to have something that you've already pulled them five times, six times, they can't have. 265 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 At that point, you've had enough. Right. 266 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 And that's what it really means. I'm fulled up. I'm done. 267 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:12,000 And so the big capital E there is the beginning of the word enough. Enough. 268 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 And I can't tell you how many times I've said that to my kids. 269 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Back talking. They'll start. Cheryl tell one of the kids do something and they'll start back down and say, enough. Stop. 270 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Stop right there. We're crossing the line. OK. 271 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 You've been told. Now you do. 272 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 When I ask questions later, that's fine. Be careful. Right. 273 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Because I'm all full up of your shenanigans. 274 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Had enough. And that's what this literally means in the Hebrew for we are greatly filled with contempt. 275 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:53,000 But notice the poeticness of it because the Jewish people had great contempt toward the Gentiles and anybody who wasn't a Jew. 276 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 They held great contempt. 277 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:03,000 So much so, like, for example, the Samaritans who had a history of being their bloodline was polluted by other races, other cultures. 278 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 They wouldn't even travel through that land. 279 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 They would go through the desert around Samaria so as not to go through there. 280 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 That's how much contempt they had. 281 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,000 So it's interesting that they there is another definition of that word that means exactly that filled word. 282 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 That means exactly what we would normally say if we say we're filled with something. 283 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,000 We say, well, that means we have a lot of it enough enough to share. Right. 284 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 But that's not what it originally meant. What it actually means is. 285 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 It has been heaped on us so much we can't take any more. 286 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 That's what it actually means. 287 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 So we received so much contempt toward us that we're filled up with it. 288 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 We've had enough. OK. 289 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:48,000 So the word the next word next word, I imagine, you know, the big C word contempt. 290 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Yep. Contempt. C-O-N-T-E-M-P-T. 291 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Con-tempt. Contempt. 292 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,000 OK. And then I gave you a little arrow up around to the right. 293 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 That has a D. 294 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:09,000 And I want to take a stab at what word might go there. Goes along with contempt. 295 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Kind of a synonym. Disrespect is the word. 296 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,000 So contempt means disrespect. 297 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:21,000 And so do Christians get disrespected? 298 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,000 You tell your friends in school who claim to be atheist or tell your coworkers, 299 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,000 whatever, your follower, Jesus, have you ever run into somebody who disrespects that? 300 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 I have on many occasions. 301 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 I've been cussed at. I've been kicked off the property. 302 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 I've almost been arrested. Right. 303 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,000 The police had already been called by the security of the mall. 304 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 We were sharing Christ with somebody and they were on their way. 305 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000 And they were going to insist that I would be arrested because I was delaying so we could share Christ with the guy. 306 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 And then we went out and talked by his car and they said, no, no, you have to leave the property. 307 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 You can't do that here at all. 308 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 And the police were pulling in. 309 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,000 And so the point is, it's a reality. 310 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Sometimes if you stand up for Jesus the way you're supposed to, you will encounter disrespect. 311 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Frankly, I've had enough disrespect. 312 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,000 I've had enough disrespect from non-Christians and Christians alike. 313 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,000 I consider it to be disrespect sometimes the way Christians behave when God is speaking, 314 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 when God is doing something, when worship is going on, all those kinds of things. 315 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,000 You have to realize that is contempt. 316 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000 And you also have to realize that eventually the people around you get fed up with it. 317 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 They're not going to take anymore. 318 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 And that's what this Psalm is all about. 319 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,000 As they were going up, they're lifting up their eyes, they're begging God to be gracious toward them 320 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 because in the original writing what they were talking about was 321 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 they had had enough of people looking down on them. 322 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,000 They had had enough of the disrespect that was directed toward God's people and accordingly toward God. 323 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 That's what they were singing about. 324 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,000 When I go to meet and pray with God, sometimes I feel exactly like this. 325 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 God, I can't take anymore. 326 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 I've had enough. 327 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,000 I've had too many people saying too many nasty things, too many things breaking, too many things going wrong, 328 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 too many people have health issues. 329 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Why is it like this in the world? 330 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 And I can't take anymore. I feel like I can't. 331 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,000 And so I can definitely resonate with the idea of praying to God to be gracious toward us 332 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 because we've had enough. 333 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 But we're not done yet. 334 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 We're in verse four. 335 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Our soul is greatly filled with the scoffing or scornfulness or whatever of those who are at ease. 336 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Do scoffing? 337 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I did. Okay, scoffing. 338 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000 The other translation I think says scornfulness. 339 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 And I don't have the answers. 340 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Scoffing, S-C-O-F-F-I-N-G. 341 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Yes, and it is up there if you can read it. 342 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 It's kind of small. 343 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 He may not be able to read it because he doesn't have his glasses. 344 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:10,000 S-C-O-F-F-I-N-G with the scoffing of those who are at ease. 345 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,000 And what is scoffing? 346 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Say it again. 347 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Yes, the next one is proud. 348 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000 That is true. 349 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Those who are doing the scoffing are prideful. 350 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Yes, ridicule. 351 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000 So basically what are people doing to Christians, to God's people? 352 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 When someone's scoffing or ridiculing you, what are they doing? 353 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Could be bad mouthing. 354 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Yeah, that's a good example. 355 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Talking down on, laughing, belittling. 356 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 So they're getting away with it. 357 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Notice that there are two arrows. 358 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 So the contempt arrow points down to P. 359 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Let's just finish the line real quick. 360 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,000 It says our soul is greatly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease 361 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 and with the contempt of the proud. 362 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,000 So the contempt arrow points down to the P because who does the contempt? 363 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 The proud. 364 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:11,000 And the scoffing arrow points down to the E because who does the scoffing? 365 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Say it again. 366 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 People at ease. 367 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 So it's E-A-S-E. 368 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 So this is what happens. 369 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 I'm sorry it's a reality. 370 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 I wish it weren't so. 371 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 But if you're a young person in this room and you haven't already encountered it, 372 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 you will eventually. 373 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 When people think they got their stuff all together, 374 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 they pretty much want nothing to do with God. 375 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 They don't want anything to do with God. 376 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 They don't want to do anything with Christianity. 377 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000 They don't want to hear the gospel. 378 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 They don't want to know the truth. 379 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 And if you come bringing the truth and gospel and Jesus into a situation, 380 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 they're likely to scoff. 381 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,000 They're going to laugh. 382 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 They're going to say, I don't need that. 383 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 You say that's important. 384 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 You say it's true. 385 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 But I'm doing just fine. 386 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 I got money. 387 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 My bills are paid. 388 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 I got a roof over my head. 389 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 I get to eat. 390 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 I don't know that. 391 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 But I get to go out drinking every Friday night if I want to. 392 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,000 I get to do all the things that the world says is fun. 393 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 And I think they're fun. 394 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 And so I don't need your God. 395 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Right? 396 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 That's scoffing. 397 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 And it can come a lot of other ways. 398 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Now, if you run into somebody who's proud, meaning they think they're right. 399 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 So they might think they're right like what I just described. 400 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 But they also might think they're right like as in they know there is no God. 401 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Or they think Allah is the correct God. 402 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Or they think that you're just trying to get them to believe what you believe to influence them. 403 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 So that they'll do what you want them to do. 404 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Or they just think that you're weak-minded. 405 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 And they're smart and strong in the mind. 406 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,000 And so on. 407 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 So they're proud. 408 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Then they will treat you with contempt. 409 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Notice there is a crossover between the two. 410 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Those who are proud and at ease. 411 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Now, interesting thing about that. 412 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Because what does the Bible say about those who are proud, generally speaking? 413 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Just generically. 414 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Pride comes before a fall. 415 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Right? 416 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:08,000 So typically those who are proud in conflict with God, they eventually run into trouble. 417 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 And their ease is gone. 418 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000 But there is a period of time, right? 419 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,000 At which they could have both for a while. 420 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,000 And you might get both contempt and scoffing from the same person. 421 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 But there definitely is a difference. 422 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Scoffing is I just don't acknowledge you. 423 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I just don't care. 424 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000 I mean what you're saying is not important. 425 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000 They're laughing at your message. 426 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Whatever. 427 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Whereas contempt is they're looking down on you as a person because you believe what you believe. 428 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Okay. 429 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Alright. 430 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:42,000 If you look over in the cup on the left there next to the E, we didn't fill that out yet. 431 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,000 There is a cup. 432 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000 And it is overflowing. 433 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000 And there is a phrase inside it that is not in the verses. 434 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000 But you might guess it. 435 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000 What does it say? 436 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,000 What do you think? 437 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 We are full. 438 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 We are full. 439 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:02,000 So when we pray we cry out to God for his graciousness because we've had enough contempt. 440 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 We've had enough scoffing. 441 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000 So right? 442 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Because we are full. 443 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 It's overflowing in fact. 444 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 I think because we're full of it. 445 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Full of contempt. 446 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Full of scoffing. 447 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 We have to be careful not to treat people that way. 448 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 It's very easy. 449 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,000 When people look down on Christians for what we believe it's pretty easy for us to look down on atheists. 450 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Or Muslims or whatever for what they believe. 451 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Because they're wrong. 452 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 And so they're wrong and they won't hear it. 453 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000 They might even be scoffing. 454 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Or contemptful. 455 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Or contemptuous. 456 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 I think that's actually a word. 457 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 They might be like that. 458 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Right? 459 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,000 But we don't want to look down on them. 460 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 There's plenty of looking down on going on. 461 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Plenty of scoffing. 462 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Plenty of contemptful behavior. 463 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,000 So let's not do that. 464 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Let's not be like them. 465 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Let's be like Jesus was instead. 466 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,000 Okay? 467 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 So if you look in the box. 468 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,000 It says we know what we need. 469 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,000 God's grace. 470 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 That's what we need. 471 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Now if you've accepted Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior. 472 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Then you have a measure of God's grace that the world does not have. 473 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,000 You are saved. 474 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,000 You will go to heaven. 475 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000 God is your Lord and your Father. 476 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,000 That is settled. 477 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 However, we still know we need more grace daily because we screw up. 478 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Because things hurt. 479 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,000 We need his grace. 480 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 It is God's grace that he loves you. 481 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 That he is with you always once you're saved. 482 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000 And no matter what you go through. 483 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 As bad as it gets. 484 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 He is still with you. 485 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 His presence is the ultimate grace. 486 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 It may not pay the bills. 487 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 When the bills have an exact dollar amount on it. 488 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Right? 489 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 It may not heal your health. 490 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000 We will all die. 491 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Some of us from a heart attack. 492 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Some of us from a violent action of some kind. 493 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Right? 494 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,000 We will all die. 495 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000 And God is not going to keep your body from physically dying. 496 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,000 When the time comes. 497 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,000 When it's time for you to go home. 498 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 You're going to physically die. 499 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,000 And so it's not a measure of God's grace that your body doesn't die. 500 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,000 If anything. 501 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,000 If God keeps you here longer and doesn't send you to heaven after your due. 502 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000 That would be like a curse. 503 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000 That's the opposite of grace. 504 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Right? 505 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 So we stay here to be bearers of God's grace. 506 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 And we know that we need God's grace. 507 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000 And we also know who the only supplier is. 508 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 And that is? 509 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 God by logical extension. 510 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000 We feel like enough is enough. 511 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,000 But when is it actually enough? 512 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 It's on the paper. 513 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 When is it actually enough? 514 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000 When is the scornfulness? 515 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 When is the contemptuousness? 516 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000 When are the health issues? 517 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000 When are the finance? 518 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,000 When are the struggles? 519 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,000 When are the suffering? 520 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,000 When is it actually enough? 521 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000 When he says so. 522 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000 When God says so. 523 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,000 That's it. 524 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000 So we have to get our eyes back where they belong. 525 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Right? 526 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Because this is what happens. 527 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Peter got out of the boat. 528 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000 Alex, you know this story? 529 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Jesus comes out of the water. 530 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Peter got out of the boat. 531 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 And when Peter got out of the boat. 532 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 He said, if you really are the Lord. 533 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Let me come walking to you. 534 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,000 He got out of the boat. 535 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,000 What happened? 536 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,000 He started walking on the water. 537 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 He started walking on the water. 538 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,000 And then what happened? 539 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000 He took his eyes off the Lord. 540 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,000 He took his eyes off the Lord. 541 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Put it on the storm. 542 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,000 And then what happened? 543 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000 He started to drown. 544 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000 We sing the song of the saints. 545 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,000 The actual one. 546 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000 Not the one that became kind of like their thing. 547 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Where they're contemptuous toward all other people. 548 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Right? 549 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000 But we realize we, this, there are going to be days. 550 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,000 We're going to feel like this. 551 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000 I've had enough. 552 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 I've had enough of this life. 553 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 The things that I think were bringing me joy outside God. 554 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000 They're not bringing me joy anymore. 555 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 The things that I think I need, I can't have. 556 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 Things that I want to do, I can't do. 557 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 The things that I don't want to do, I do. 558 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,000 Romans 7 25. 559 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Right? 560 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 We think, man, I've had enough. 561 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 You've had enough when God says you've had enough. 562 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Get your eyes off the things that are in your life. 563 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Get your eyes off the problems you can't solve. 564 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 Get your eyes off the people that are bothering you. 565 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000 The people that are scoffing at you. 566 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000 The people that are laughing at you. 567 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000 The people that have their ease, their pride. 568 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Get your eyes off of all of that. 569 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 And get them back where they belong. 570 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000 On the God of heaven, where he is enthroned. 571 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 And when we get back to that, that's when we'll see, 572 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,000 hey, wait, one went before me. 573 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,000 You think Jesus ever felt, you think Jesus had enough suffering? 574 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000 He sure did, didn't he? 575 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 He had enough. 576 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Literally killed his body. 577 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 He died from it. 578 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Do you think that he saw enough? 579 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000 He wept. 580 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,000 John 11 35. 581 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Jesus wept. 582 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Right? 583 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Was that necessary? 584 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000 I mean, he knew this life's only temporary. 585 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000 He's going to go to heaven one day, whatever. 586 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000 But while he was here, he felt it. 587 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000 He saw what people were suffering through. 588 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000 It was a terrible suffering that he endured. 589 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000 We have to remember that Jesus saw heaven before he saw earth. 590 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Unlike you and I, we've never seen heaven. 591 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 But he was there before he was here. 592 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000 He left and gave all that up to come here. 593 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,000 And by the time he was done, 33, four, five years old, whatever, 594 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000 because we don't know if he was 33, 34, or 35 for sure when he was crucified. 595 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,000 But when he was crucified, he had seen enough. 596 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:22,000 And what is actually the Lord's prayer, when Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, 597 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000 he prayed for peace amongst believers, prayed for unity so we'd all be together. 598 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,000 He prayed that God would take the cup of wrath away from him so he wouldn't have to experience it. 599 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,000 And God did not grant the prayer to take the cup of wrath away from him. 600 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:42,000 And Jesus ended and said, but your will not my will be done. 601 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000 And then the next day he went to the cross. 602 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 He had had enough. 603 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,000 But he also understood that when he had actually had enough, 604 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000 God would say, you've had enough. 605 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 And so the next time you start thinking, I've had enough. 606 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000 I'm going to do something. I'm going to be mean. 607 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000 I'm going to be temptuous. I'm going to be loud. 608 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 I'm going to hurt somebody. I'm going to break something. 609 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Whatever, because I've had enough. 610 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Remember, your eyes are in the wrong place. 611 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Go back to put your eyes on God and realize you've had enough when God says you've had enough. 612 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000 And what you really need is grace. 613 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000 In fact, as soon as you put your eyes back on God, you'll say, 614 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,000 God, forgive me for taking my eyes off of you and putting them on the things of this world. 615 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000 Help me now put my eyes back. That's called repentance. 616 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,000 And every time you repent, God is gracious again. 617 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:41,000 Good stuff. You won't lose your salvation by being stupid or making mistakes, 618 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000 but you can lose your peace for sure. 619 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,000 And you can feel like you've had enough when God has not yet said you've had enough. 620 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:56,000 In Genesis 10 where he says, there is no temptation as that, which is common to man. 621 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,000 So, because let's back the truck up a little bit. 622 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000 People say that a lot, right? 623 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:09,000 But can you name somebody that lived, that was given something that they couldn't handle? 624 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000 For sure? 625 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Well, eleven of the twelve apostles were martyred. 626 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000 Now, they went to be with Jesus, but do you think they were martyred in their own strength? 627 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Do you think that they managed to, while they were having their skin flayed or they were burned alive or crucified, 628 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 to not renounce Christ in their own strength? 629 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 I'm telling you right now, if somebody takes my skin off piece by piece, 630 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,000 I'm going to say whatever they want me to say, unless God helps me not. 631 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Because I know my tolerance for pain, and that's well beyond it. 632 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:48,000 So, the point is, God does indeed give us often what we cannot handle. 633 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,000 That's the reality of it. 634 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000 That's the key. 635 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Yeah, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 636 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:05,000 But in that, you're really bringing home my point, because we need that grace. 637 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,000 The next time you're in the middle, I mean, you might get out of bed tomorrow. 638 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Let's say you face a problem, some simple problem, like you don't have any clean socks. 639 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000 And you're like, no big deal, I'll just wash some socks. 640 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Where did the socks come from? 641 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Where did the washer come from? 642 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000 Where did the detergent come from? 643 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Where does your knowledge that you need clean socks come from? 644 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000 It all came from God, right? At least Holly thinks so. 645 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Do we all agree? It all came from God. 646 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,000 And so, we think we can handle the little problems that come up without God, 647 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,000 but the reality is, what did Jesus say in John 15? 648 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 Apart from me, you can do nothing. 649 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000 His literal words, apart from me, you can do nothing. 650 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:57,000 And the end of the world is literally being held off by His grace. 651 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:03,000 Everybody that's in this room is only saved because last generation before we were born, 652 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,000 or a few generations back, God didn't end it all. 653 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000 That's the only reason we can be saved. 654 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,000 And so, if He ever brings it to an end, then it will truly be to an end. 655 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:23,000 And I'm being a little philosophical when I say, when God determines He's had enough, 656 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000 you'll know it, right? There will be a trumpet. 657 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:32,000 The angels that sing, Holy, Holy, Holy, it says, will retreat away from the throne, 658 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000 and God's wrath will pour out on the world like we have never seen it. 659 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000 And the good news is, we probably won't see it, because we'll be taken away by that. 660 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Father, I want to thank you for today. Thank you for the lesson. 661 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 God, I pray that we all learn that we all need grace. 662 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:55,000 We all need you to look down on us and keep us safe. 663 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Yes, God. 664 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Most of us need you to keep us in mind, to put us in check when we find ourselves 665 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:13,000 acting out in pride or arrogance, so that we can be a good light for you 666 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:20,000 and show people what it means to be a great human, not what it means to be mean or nasty. 667 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:28,000 God, I pray for our country, our world, that eventually either Jesus is going to come first 668 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:35,000 or there's going to be some things, but God, whatever happens, I guess happens. 669 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:41,000 Again, I just pray for everyone here that we remain faithful in Jesus' name, Amen. 670 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Thank you very much.