1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 Psalm chapter number three, well I get a drink of water. 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,260 We started a series last week in Psalms, 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,160 and we started in the last Psalm, Psalm number 150. 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,880 And what was the theme of the Psalm? 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,160 Does anybody remember? 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,240 Praise the Lord, say it with me. 7 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,200 Praise the Lord, yeah that's what we learned, 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,700 and that really is the theme of this study 9 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:31,400 that we're doing in the book of Psalms. 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,720 We can praise the Lord for who he is. 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,440 We can praise the Lord for what he's done 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,200 as God does nothing in you and for you, has he? 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,800 As God worthy of praise because of what he's done 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,200 in your life, that's awesome, half of you, that's great. 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,040 An amazing thing. 16 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,320 And we ought to praise him for that, 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,800 we ought to praise him with music, Psalms, and hymns, 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,800 and spiritual songs, and we've done that this morning. 19 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,560 There are certainly Psalms like 150 that compel us 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,360 to praise the Lord. 21 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,800 Sometimes though, who agrees with me? 22 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,440 Sometimes life is a fight. 23 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,960 Somebody over here really believes that. 24 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,400 Sometimes life is hard. 25 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,700 Sometimes life is difficult. 26 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:23,760 We struggle, anybody here ever struggle? 27 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,720 You hurt? Anybody here ever been betrayed? 28 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,840 Someone been disloyal to you? 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,600 This might be hard for you to believe. 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,640 Have you ever had someone dislike you? 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,240 Yeah, that's happened to me too. 32 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:41,240 Doesn't happen very often. 33 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,560 I can't understand why anybody wouldn't like me. 34 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,800 I'm a good guy, right? 35 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,560 But sometimes that happens, sometimes, 36 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,160 have you ever done this like we studied this morning 37 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,000 in this morning, we're in Genesis in our Sunday school 38 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,080 time and we're learning, we learned about Joseph 39 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,400 and Joseph went into Potiphar's house 40 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,680 and his Potiphar's wife wanted Joseph to sleep with her. 41 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,360 And when she says, come lie with me and she grabs his coat, 42 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,040 he runs out of his coat, he gets out of there. 43 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,600 And then she uses his coat as evidence against him 44 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,120 for something he did not do. 45 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,800 Has that ever happened to you? 46 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,080 Where maybe not that exact thing, hopefully. 47 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,000 Maybe not that, okay. 48 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,560 But where you're falsely accused, 49 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,560 something that people say happened, 50 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,080 maybe they misunderstood something you said, 51 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,320 maybe they read into your motives, 52 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,880 something that were their motives 53 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,520 and so then they falsely accused you for something, 54 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,080 that can happen and it cost you. 55 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,440 You be falsely accused or have your motives questioned. 56 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,920 So these things happen, sometimes we suffer 57 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,240 because we do dumb things. 58 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,280 Anybody ever have that happen? 59 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,480 Sometimes we don't get it right 60 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,400 and we say something or do something 61 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,080 and we have to pay the piper because we do something wrong. 62 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,080 And sometimes we struggle because of what we have been done 63 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,000 to us but sometimes we struggle 64 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,880 because of something we've done. 65 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,160 Sometimes we struggle because of what's, 66 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,120 like we said, what's been done to us. 67 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,720 Matthew 5.10 says, 68 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,720 blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, 69 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,920 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, 70 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,120 blessed are you when men shall revile you 71 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,320 and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil 72 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,080 against you for my name's sake. 73 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,760 Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great 74 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,760 is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets, 75 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,280 which were before you. 76 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,280 Paul told Timothy, this is interesting, 77 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:48,520 Paul told Timothy this, 78 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,520 for thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, 79 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,920 purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience, 80 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,600 persecutions, afflictions, 81 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:06,440 which came to me in Antioch and Econium and Derby and Listra. 82 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,040 And what persecutions I endured 83 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,520 but out of them all, here it is, 84 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,600 the Lord delivered me. 85 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,240 Yea, in all that will live godly, here it is, 86 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,280 all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer 87 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:29,000 persecution. 88 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,400 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, 89 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,640 deceiving and being deceived. 90 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,400 Paul, who has a pretty good track record 91 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,920 of doing the right thing, 92 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,480 also has a track record of being persecuted 93 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,320 for doing the right thing. 94 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,400 But I think Paul's doing pretty good today, don't you? 95 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,720 And so we know that life isn't easy 96 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,840 and we can get really afraid, we can be discouraged. 97 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:58,400 And in fact, I found in my life that there's a connection 98 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,280 with fear and worry and anxiety. 99 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,080 Have you ever had that? 100 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,680 And then depression and discouragement. 101 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,280 That fear and anxiety and worry can lead to discouragement 102 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:13,040 and even depression. 103 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,360 Have you ever felt that? 104 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,680 Sometimes at church we have a temptation 105 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,400 to put on a happy face. 106 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,080 And when you say how are you, 107 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,520 when people say to you how are you, you say fine, 108 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,400 because you understand that that's a greeting, 109 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,440 not a real question, right? 110 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:35,440 Have you ever asked me, how are you doing? 111 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:36,680 I am horrible. 112 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,440 I'll go get some coffee, you know, 113 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,560 there's things in the back, right? 114 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,320 But the truth is not everybody here 115 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,160 that says they're doing fine is doing fine. 116 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,200 Sometimes life is just difficult because of our making 117 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,800 or because of the making of others in our life. 118 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:03,280 Today we're in Psalm three and I hope you notice the theme. 119 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,600 If you're in that kind of situation today, 120 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,120 you're either in that situation 121 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,000 or you're gonna be in that situation eventually 122 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,560 because life is up and down, isn't it? 123 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,560 And I hope that you notice the theme of our music today. 124 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,840 It's the theme of Psalm three that we're gonna study. 125 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,880 We sing about God being our defender and deliverer. 126 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,920 Call upon the name of the Lord. 127 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,920 He's our defender, our deliverer. 128 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,280 We talked about how the battle belongs to the Lord. 129 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:35,200 And when I fight, I'm gonna fight on my knees 130 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,040 with my hand lifted high 131 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,840 because the battle belongs to you God, right? 132 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,000 And then we came to this passage in Psalm three 133 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,280 which our choir saying, Miss Laurie did a great job reading. 134 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:50,440 Thou, O Lord, are a shield for me, 135 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,500 my glory and the lifter of my head. 136 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:55,880 So this is what I've entitled today's message, 137 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,840 my shield and the lifter of my head. 138 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,640 If you're dealing with difficulty, anxiety, 139 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,600 discouragement or fear, I believe the truth 140 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,400 of today's text will help you and be a blessing to you 141 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,120 because the Psalm is a Psalm of David 142 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,600 and you'll find this in chapter three. 143 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,680 You guys have your Bibles open? 144 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,560 Do you see a heading? 145 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,440 In my Bible it says Psalm three, 146 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,440 a Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom, his son. 147 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:29,720 A few years ago I went to a concert 148 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,440 that was part of a tour called the Stories and Songs Tour, 149 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,120 one of my favorite artists is a guy named Andrew Peterson 150 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,240 and he's a guy that writes a lot of really, 151 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,080 I like his songs. 152 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,440 And a lot of his songs have a story 153 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,240 that go along with them or a background. 154 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,080 He sang with a guy named Stephen Curtis Chapman, 155 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,040 they did that and they did this tour 156 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,400 where they tell stories about what they were experiencing 157 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,240 when they wrote the song, right? 158 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,600 And it was really cool to hear the background of the song. 159 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,040 If you heard Stephen Curtis Chapman's story, 160 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,280 he lost a daughter who got ran over 161 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,720 and then he wrote the song called Cinderella 162 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,400 and there's not like a dry eye in the place 163 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,840 when you tell that story of God's grace 164 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,000 in the midst of that difficulty. 165 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,440 In Psalm three we have a similar situation. 166 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,680 There's a heading here that says that David's a Psalmist 167 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,440 and that he wrote this very personal Psalm 168 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,080 in a time of great distress. 169 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,720 And you can find out the background of the Psalm 170 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:28,880 in 2 Samuel. 171 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,080 So today let's study this text 172 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,480 and let's do it by seeing the background 173 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,600 against where which David wrote this beautiful Psalm. 174 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:38,880 I believe that when we do, 175 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,800 we'll be able to see how we can counsel ourselves. 176 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,200 We can counsel ourselves and counsel each other 177 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,500 through our fear, our anxiety and our discouragement. 178 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,840 And so we can deal with internal struggles 179 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,080 when going through difficulty by recognizing 180 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,680 and following the changes of attitude 181 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:00,360 that we see exhibited by David in Psalm three. 182 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,440 Look at attitude number one 183 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,680 that we're gonna see in these first two verses. 184 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:06,240 It's an attitude of fear. 185 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,920 Read it with me, it says this. 186 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,920 "'Lord, how are they increased that trouble me? 187 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,000 "'Many are they that rise up against me? 188 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,400 "'Many there be which say of my soul, 189 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,320 "'There is no help for him and God.'" 190 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,760 Say, La. 191 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,600 When David was king, 192 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:29,680 he committed adultery with a lady named Bathsheba. 193 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:34,680 And to cover up his crime, she got pregnant. 194 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,120 And to cover up the pregnancy, 195 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:43,120 he calls Bathsheba's husband back from war. 196 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,800 A war that he should have been at but was not at. 197 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,560 And he brings him back and asks for a report on the war 198 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,760 and then says, I want you to go back home to your wife. 199 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,360 And then tomorrow I'll let you know when you can go. 200 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:01,000 Uriah does not go and do that. 201 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,760 He does not go to home because he feels like 202 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,800 if my men are out to battle, 203 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,360 I'm not gonna go enjoy the comforts of home, 204 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:09,480 whatever they may be. 205 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,360 David does a few things eventually 206 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,680 because he tries to get Uriah drunk. 207 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:17,840 Does this sound like Jerry Springer? 208 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:18,680 A little bit. 209 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,320 He tries to get Uriah drunk. 210 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,120 And even a drunk Uriah has more integrity 211 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:26,960 than David does sober. 212 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,800 And he doesn't go in to his wife. 213 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,400 So David writes a letter. 214 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,080 And in this letter it says, take this to the general, 215 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:36,920 it's a sealed letter. 216 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,720 The letter says, put Uriah in the toughest part of the battle 217 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,200 and when it's in the most difficulty, 218 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,960 tell everybody to retreat but Uriah. 219 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,680 And so it's murder by warfare. 220 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:54,360 A convenient cover up for David. 221 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,080 That's exactly what happens. 222 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,640 He gets word of Uriah's death. 223 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,960 At getting word of Uriah's death, 224 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,280 he then calls for Bathsheba, makes him his wife 225 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,960 and now her having a baby gets covered up. 226 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:14,560 Eventually, Nathan, this prophet comes to David 227 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,880 and tells him a story and the story is about 228 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,200 a guy who had one sheep and a neighbor who had a bunch of sheep. 229 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,280 And the neighbor who had a bunch of sheep came to the guy 230 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,640 who had one sheep and said, hey, give me your sheep. 231 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,600 The guy says, no, eventually he does take this sheep 232 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,520 and he kills it. 233 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,000 David, the shepherd king, gets really mad. 234 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,440 How dare this guy who has a lot take from the guy 235 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,760 who has a little, I'm gonna kill that guy. 236 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,480 And Nathan looks at David and I imagine him pointing 237 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,160 a long finger in David's face and says, you're the guy. 238 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,160 You're the man. 239 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,920 And David goes, oh, we're not talking about sheep. 240 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,480 Do you get it? 241 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,480 And then this is what Nathan says. 242 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,400 This is what God says. 243 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,400 The sword won't leave your family. 244 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,160 The sword will not leave your family. 245 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,760 And the baby, it's gonna die. 246 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,600 David writes Psalm 51 in that time 247 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,200 where he cries out to God for forgiveness. 248 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,680 Eventually the baby dies. This is a comfort to some. 249 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:22,080 After the baby dies, David gets up 250 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,920 and he is in mourning and depression 251 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,520 and sackclothed ashes and the baby dies 252 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,480 and David cleans himself up and comes in and eats. 253 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,120 And the servants say, well, what are you doing? 254 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:33,480 Why are you eating now that he's dead? 255 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,480 And he goes, well, should I mourn? 256 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,640 He can't come to me, but I can go to him. 257 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,840 I put that as a sign in there. 258 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,320 David repented, yet still had to face 259 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,080 the consequences then of those actions. 260 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,960 First the baby that he father died next 261 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,800 got told in the sword would not leave his family. 262 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,320 David got right with the Lord, 263 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,240 but conflict plagued his house after this. 264 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,920 A series of things happened because of his sins. 265 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:01,920 He had a son named Amnon. 266 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:03,640 Amnon raised his son. 267 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,640 And he died in the war. 268 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:07,640 And he died in the war. 269 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:12,200 Amnon, Amnon raped his sister, Tamar. 270 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,520 As a result, another brother, Absalom, kills Amnon. 271 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:24,960 Absalom, their brother and David's son, 272 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:26,720 bides his time and then kills Amnon. 273 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,840 Because of this murder, Absalom flees 274 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,480 to a place called Geshe and stays there for some time. 275 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Eventually, a guy named Joab pleads for Absalom 276 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,320 to be able to return to Jerusalem. 277 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,160 David is the king in Jerusalem. 278 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,040 Absalom's in this place called Geshe. 279 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,000 David is upset because Absalom killed his other son, 280 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,400 but they're not talking. 281 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,680 Eventually, Joab goes to David and says, 282 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:54,040 David, would you let Absalom come to Jerusalem? 283 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,640 Will you not throw him in jail or hurt him or kill him? 284 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,360 And so in 2 Samuel 14, 24, it says this, 285 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,760 and the king said, let him, talking about Absalom, 286 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,760 return to his own house and let him not see my face. 287 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,160 So Absalom returned to his own house 288 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:15,640 and saw not the king's face. 289 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,960 This is a dad saying, fine, I'll live in the same city as him, 290 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,320 but I don't wanna see him. 291 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:23,720 Are you with me? 292 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:26,640 This went on for two years, 293 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,840 according to 2 Samuel 14, 28. 294 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,840 He even had a daughter that he named after his sister. 295 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:33,840 This Absalom named his daughter 296 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,200 after the sister that was raped. 297 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,920 Absalom pleaded with Joab to get audience with King David. 298 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,360 So Joab is saying, hey, at least let Absalom come see you. 299 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,200 And he eventually was able to have that meeting. 300 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,000 There was a reconciliation that seemed to happen 301 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:49,840 at that meeting. 302 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,840 You can see that in 2 Samuel 14, 33. 303 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,680 Yet though there was a show of reconciliation, 304 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,760 Absalom was deceitful and used the peace between them 305 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,480 to undermine David. 306 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,320 He questioned David's leadership and decisions for years 307 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,260 with key people in the kingdom. 308 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,040 Absalom, even though he was right with his dad, 309 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,200 would still kinda question David's leadership 310 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:19,620 to people in the city. 311 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,080 The effect of his treachery, 312 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,680 the effect of this disloyalty to the king, 313 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,340 what is it called? 314 00:15:26,340 --> 00:15:29,660 I should know the answer to a question before I ask it. 315 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:34,500 What is it called when you undermine those in charge? 316 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:38,540 Treason, treason. 317 00:15:38,540 --> 00:15:40,660 So he's doing treasonous acts. 318 00:15:40,660 --> 00:15:43,260 And the effect of that treachery is summed up 319 00:15:43,260 --> 00:15:46,580 in the last phrase in 2 Samuel 15, 6. 320 00:15:46,580 --> 00:15:49,260 And on this manner, verse 6, 321 00:15:49,260 --> 00:15:51,540 and on this matter or in this way, 322 00:15:51,540 --> 00:15:54,580 by questioning people about David, 323 00:15:54,580 --> 00:15:57,020 did Absalom to all Israel 324 00:15:57,020 --> 00:15:58,540 that came to the king for judgment. 325 00:15:58,540 --> 00:16:03,540 So, so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 326 00:16:07,540 --> 00:16:08,900 All of this came to a head. 327 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:11,980 Basically what he would do is he would sit at the gate 328 00:16:11,980 --> 00:16:13,860 and all these people that would come in and he'd say, 329 00:16:13,860 --> 00:16:15,220 hey, how's it going with you? 330 00:16:15,220 --> 00:16:17,860 Yeah, well, if I was in charge, that wouldn't happen. 331 00:16:19,620 --> 00:16:23,660 If I was the one making the rulings, 332 00:16:23,660 --> 00:16:25,300 if I was the one making the decisions, 333 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,300 you wouldn't deal with that. 334 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,420 And so he was undermining his dad, 335 00:16:29,420 --> 00:16:31,700 undermining his dad, undermining his dad. 336 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,260 And the Bible says that he stole the hearts 337 00:16:34,260 --> 00:16:36,820 of the key men of Israel. 338 00:16:38,820 --> 00:16:40,740 Verse 10. 339 00:16:40,740 --> 00:16:43,820 So all came to a head when Absalom took a bunch of 340 00:16:43,820 --> 00:16:46,900 David's men and set up a new place to rule 341 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:48,180 in a place called Hebron. 342 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:51,540 And it says in 2 Samuel 15, 10, 343 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:53,860 but Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes 344 00:16:53,860 --> 00:16:56,420 of Israel saying, as soon as you hear the sound 345 00:16:56,420 --> 00:17:01,380 of the trumpet, then you shall say Absalom reigneth 346 00:17:01,380 --> 00:17:02,980 in Hebron. 347 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:05,420 You know what that means? 348 00:17:05,420 --> 00:17:07,980 He's saying, now it's time to choose sides. 349 00:17:07,980 --> 00:17:12,780 Now it's time to go against David and to go for Absalom. 350 00:17:14,620 --> 00:17:15,860 The plan worked. 351 00:17:15,860 --> 00:17:17,340 If you get under verse 12, it says, 352 00:17:17,340 --> 00:17:22,340 and the conspiracy was strong for the people increased 353 00:17:22,380 --> 00:17:24,980 continually with Absalom. 354 00:17:24,980 --> 00:17:27,380 It was very likely that this time when David had been 355 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:32,300 so betrayed by not only Absalom, but by many of his people, 356 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:35,540 that he wrote the words of today's Psalm. 357 00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:39,020 It was in that moment where he's in Jerusalem 358 00:17:39,020 --> 00:17:44,020 and treason has been declared, his son has betrayed him. 359 00:17:44,020 --> 00:17:49,020 I can't imagine like 20 years from now, Ezekiel, my son, 360 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,220 getting in the congregation and saying, 361 00:17:53,220 --> 00:17:54,380 my dad's a bad preacher. 362 00:17:54,380 --> 00:17:56,620 You should go take, we should go across town 363 00:17:56,620 --> 00:17:57,860 and start a new church. 364 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:01,380 Then he gets all the mail and sends it out to, 365 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:02,300 are you with me? 366 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:03,340 It's kind of the same thing. 367 00:18:03,340 --> 00:18:04,180 You get it? 368 00:18:05,220 --> 00:18:08,340 How good would my relationship with Ezekiel be? 369 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:10,140 Right? 370 00:18:10,140 --> 00:18:15,340 Not the way to start churches. 371 00:18:17,820 --> 00:18:18,980 Just say that out loud. 372 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:47,460 Am I not on? 373 00:18:47,460 --> 00:18:52,460 So it's at that time in this kind of situation, 374 00:18:53,140 --> 00:18:55,340 who agrees this would be a tough time for David? 375 00:18:56,940 --> 00:19:00,380 Because think about all the complication here. 376 00:19:00,380 --> 00:19:03,020 Some of the complication, what is David feeling? 377 00:19:05,140 --> 00:19:10,140 Betrayed for sure who feels maybe he's guilty a little bit 378 00:19:13,780 --> 00:19:15,380 because of how he's handled things. 379 00:19:15,380 --> 00:19:19,100 He's upset with his son, he's dealing with all of that. 380 00:19:20,540 --> 00:19:25,100 And it's against this backdrop that he writes this verse. 381 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:28,620 Lord, how they increased that trouble me? 382 00:19:29,820 --> 00:19:33,140 Literally at that point, more and more people keep being 383 00:19:33,140 --> 00:19:36,100 allegiance to Absalom instead of to David. 384 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:37,860 People he thought were on his side 385 00:19:37,860 --> 00:19:39,820 are now going to Absalom side. 386 00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:42,340 Many are they that increase that trouble me. 387 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:46,780 Many are they that rise up against thee. 388 00:19:46,780 --> 00:19:50,980 Many there be which say of my soul, 389 00:19:50,980 --> 00:19:53,860 there is no help for him in God. 390 00:19:57,180 --> 00:19:59,900 As we study this verse, it's starting in the background. 391 00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:02,900 I just want to point out a couple of observations. 392 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,940 One, David's assessment of his situation was accurate. 393 00:20:08,260 --> 00:20:09,100 It was accurate. 394 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:12,140 There were people that were, he was not merely being dramatic 395 00:20:12,140 --> 00:20:14,940 in writing this as a creative and a songwriter. 396 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:16,900 There may be a tendency for the more engineer 397 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:21,140 and scientific mind to think he was being overly emotional. 398 00:20:21,140 --> 00:20:22,300 This is not the case. 399 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:26,500 His son had betrayed him and taken people with him. 400 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:28,420 The kingdom was put into jeopardy 401 00:20:28,420 --> 00:20:29,940 and the threat was increasing. 402 00:20:29,940 --> 00:20:32,940 It's like David was reading 2nd Samuel 1512 403 00:20:32,940 --> 00:20:34,660 and putting that into a Psalm. 404 00:20:35,540 --> 00:20:37,020 They are increasing that trouble me. 405 00:20:37,020 --> 00:20:39,740 They think that there's no hope for me and you God 406 00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:42,420 that I have no hope. 407 00:20:43,740 --> 00:20:46,260 David's sin in circumstances 408 00:20:46,260 --> 00:20:49,260 were at least partially self-induced. 409 00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:51,260 He had introduced sexual sin into his house 410 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:53,540 through his adulterous affair with Bathsheba. 411 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:55,460 He had gone against God's desire 412 00:20:55,460 --> 00:20:57,180 and having multiple wives, 413 00:20:57,180 --> 00:20:59,500 which complicated family life to the point 414 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:00,860 that you had brothers and sisters 415 00:21:00,860 --> 00:21:04,020 from different mothers dealing with jealousy, rape, 416 00:21:04,020 --> 00:21:07,200 and yes, even eventually murder. 417 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,860 There's resentment and bitterness 418 00:21:08,860 --> 00:21:11,740 that leads to conspiracy and revenge. 419 00:21:11,740 --> 00:21:14,780 And David didn't take care of his house as he should. 420 00:21:14,780 --> 00:21:19,060 And the resulting chaos created problems. 421 00:21:19,060 --> 00:21:20,540 Who agrees with me? 422 00:21:20,540 --> 00:21:21,620 That's what happened. 423 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,180 But the third thing I noticed is that 424 00:21:25,180 --> 00:21:27,740 in this Psalm, David does something 425 00:21:27,740 --> 00:21:29,420 that when we're dealing with difficulty, 426 00:21:29,420 --> 00:21:30,860 we ought to do. 427 00:21:30,860 --> 00:21:32,260 He goes to God in prayer. 428 00:21:33,220 --> 00:21:35,200 He goes to God. 429 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,780 Notice the first word of the Psalm. 430 00:21:37,780 --> 00:21:42,780 Lord, how are they increased? 431 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:44,400 That trouble me. 432 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,160 You know, when you shouldn't just go to God 433 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,040 when things are difficult, who agrees with me? 434 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,880 You shouldn't just go to God when things are tough, 435 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,560 but when things are tough, you should go to God. 436 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,240 It ain't wrong. 437 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:00,640 It's the right thing to go to God 438 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,200 when you're dealing with difficulty. 439 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,280 So David's experiencing this thing. 440 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,280 In fact, we find out that he's run out of Jerusalem. 441 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,440 And while that's happening, he goes to God in prayer. 442 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,080 He went to God with his mess. 443 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,660 I don't believe that David's called to God in his distress 444 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:20,240 was the claim that he was completely innocent. 445 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,440 He merely told God about the reality of his circumstance. 446 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,200 God, this is what I'm dealing with. 447 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,120 And this is what people are saying. 448 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,960 In that moment, what they were saying may have felt true. 449 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,320 They were saying there's no help for him in God. 450 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,980 Who knows, maybe David was even tempted to believe it. 451 00:22:36,980 --> 00:22:38,680 You ever prayed and thought that your prayers 452 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,180 were just hitting the ceiling? 453 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,280 Maybe David was tempted to believe that too. 454 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,280 At least at the beginning of the Psalm. 455 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,600 Maybe he thought, man, I have messed up royally 456 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,480 and now I'm dealing with the end of all my sins. 457 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:01,320 Maybe the sins of my past are coming back to haunt me. 458 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:06,320 David could have thought that he couldn't take this 459 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,040 to the Lord because he was at least partially to blame 460 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,720 for some of his circumstance. 461 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,400 But he doesn't avoid God. 462 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,640 What he does in this moment is he cries out to God. 463 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,680 What a good plan for us. 464 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,120 Hey, this isn't just a history lesson. 465 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,280 This isn't just a story. 466 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,440 If you're going through difficulty, 467 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,980 you need to pray. 468 00:23:31,980 --> 00:23:34,880 Your hope isn't in your bank account. 469 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,040 Your hope isn't in some great strategy 470 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,680 you can come up with yourself. 471 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,960 Your hope is in God. 472 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,320 There's a time to call out to the Lord. 473 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,400 What a good plan for us to rightly assess our situation. 474 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,680 To own our sin. 475 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,600 To own our own sin. 476 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,680 Where have I messed up? 477 00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,960 I want to get it out right. 478 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,760 To face it and then to go to God in prayer for our struggles. 479 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,840 Now what's interesting about this Psalm, 480 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,680 Psalm chapter number three, it's eight verses. 481 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,440 And it was kind of reflected in the song. 482 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,480 Did the choir do a good job on the song, by the way? 483 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,760 I thought it was so good. 484 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,340 The first couple verses, many are they increase, 485 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:21,880 I'm not going to sing it. 486 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,880 Which trouble me, many are they that rise up against me. 487 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,200 Many are they would say of my soul, 488 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,600 there is no help for him in God. 489 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,600 What was the mood of the music in that first part? 490 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,560 Was it in a major key or a minor key? 491 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,120 It was in a minor, who agrees it was in a minor key. 492 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:40,040 Did you guys remember that? 493 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,600 But then he goes to this next verse 494 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,080 and in the song it does the same thing. 495 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:49,080 But thou, oh Lord, are a shield for me. 496 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:55,040 My glory and the lifter of my head, right? 497 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,200 It goes from minor to major. 498 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,120 In the song and in the Psalm. 499 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,240 When I was writing about this Psalm, 500 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,800 there was a young lady in our church 501 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,160 who was facing a lot. 502 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,980 And she kept talking about these moments 503 00:25:26,980 --> 00:25:30,020 that were but God moments. 504 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:35,540 Where every time you face something difficult, 505 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:37,840 then God shows up and does something else. 506 00:25:38,980 --> 00:25:41,540 That's kind of what's going on here. 507 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:46,540 David is experiencing this difficulty. 508 00:25:47,140 --> 00:25:49,220 He's focused on all these people 509 00:25:49,220 --> 00:25:51,600 that rise up against him and my relationship 510 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,700 with my son is trashed and my family is against me 511 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:57,340 and my nation's starting to be against thee. 512 00:25:57,340 --> 00:26:02,340 But thou, oh Lord, are a shield for me. 513 00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:06,420 My glory and the lifter. 514 00:26:08,660 --> 00:26:09,900 That's what's happening. 515 00:26:12,380 --> 00:26:16,020 David describes God here in three ways. 516 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:18,540 First, God is described as David's shield. 517 00:26:18,540 --> 00:26:22,100 We all understand the concept of a shield. 518 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,060 It's something that protects from harm. 519 00:26:24,060 --> 00:26:27,140 It's something that puts danger at bay. 520 00:26:27,140 --> 00:26:29,820 David says that God is his protector. 521 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:32,620 He also calls God his glory. 522 00:26:33,940 --> 00:26:36,140 When something is described as my glory, 523 00:26:36,140 --> 00:26:38,500 the idea is that this is what brings them honor 524 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,060 and notability and the like. 525 00:26:40,060 --> 00:26:42,020 It's what is good about them. 526 00:26:42,020 --> 00:26:43,740 It's what they take pride in. 527 00:26:43,740 --> 00:26:46,180 It's how David would want to be identified. 528 00:26:46,180 --> 00:26:51,180 His identity was wrapped up in his relationship with God. 529 00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:56,540 David was called a man after God's own heart, right? 530 00:26:57,060 --> 00:26:57,900 Why? 531 00:26:57,900 --> 00:26:59,820 Was it because he's perfect? 532 00:26:59,820 --> 00:27:00,660 No. 533 00:27:02,660 --> 00:27:04,300 What made David a man after God's own heart 534 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:06,780 is that David repented. 535 00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:09,100 David acknowledged his sin and understood 536 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:12,180 that God was his protector, that God was his helper. 537 00:27:12,180 --> 00:27:14,980 He trusted in God. 538 00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:17,100 So he's described as a shield, his glory. 539 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:20,980 And then third, he's described as the lifter up of my head. 540 00:27:20,980 --> 00:27:22,700 You guys heard that phrase today? 541 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:24,060 What does that mean? 542 00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:25,820 You're the lifter of my head. 543 00:27:26,780 --> 00:27:29,180 One way this phrase is used in a similar fashion 544 00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:31,460 is found in Genesis 40, 13, 545 00:27:31,460 --> 00:27:36,460 in reference to the butler getting restored from prison 546 00:27:36,460 --> 00:27:38,620 to his former position. 547 00:27:38,620 --> 00:27:41,500 You remember when Joseph was put into prison 548 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:43,860 and there were two guys, the baker and the butler, 549 00:27:43,860 --> 00:27:47,140 that had dreams and Joseph's interpretations 550 00:27:47,140 --> 00:27:50,500 of the dreams were this, you are gonna die. 551 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:53,820 You're not gonna go back to your job, 552 00:27:53,820 --> 00:27:57,020 but you are gonna go back to your job. 553 00:27:57,020 --> 00:27:58,700 Your head is going to be lifted up, 554 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:00,700 meaning you're gonna be restored 555 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:03,740 to the position you previously had. 556 00:28:03,740 --> 00:28:06,460 So what David was saying is in this situation, 557 00:28:06,460 --> 00:28:08,580 God, if you want me to be king, 558 00:28:08,580 --> 00:28:10,300 you're gonna make me king again. 559 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:13,700 God, you made promises to me and I'm trusting 560 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:17,020 that you're gonna do what you promised. 561 00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:18,620 You know what that's called? 562 00:28:18,620 --> 00:28:21,940 Faith, faith. 563 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:26,100 In this situation, David was fleeing Jerusalem 564 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:28,580 because of a threat of his son Absalom. 565 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:31,020 David was claiming that if he was to be restored, 566 00:28:31,020 --> 00:28:33,820 it would be God that would do it. 567 00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:37,020 God would lift his head back to his former stature 568 00:28:37,020 --> 00:28:37,860 and authority. 569 00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:41,860 And so there's some clear application here. 570 00:28:41,860 --> 00:28:46,140 We must know that our ultimate protection is Christ. 571 00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:52,860 Wear the seatbelt, buy the gun, put the security system in. 572 00:28:55,420 --> 00:28:58,500 Those things can help, don't be stupid. 573 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:00,660 But ultimately your protection is in God. 574 00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:07,780 Ultimately Christ is our shield, he's our protection. 575 00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:12,420 We don't have to live in fear, we can trust in Christ. 576 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:16,540 We must know ultimately too that our identity is in Christ. 577 00:29:16,540 --> 00:29:18,660 Sure you're a husband, sure you're a wife, 578 00:29:18,660 --> 00:29:19,980 sure you're a dad or mom, 579 00:29:19,980 --> 00:29:23,420 sure you're a brother, sister, boss, employee, manager, 580 00:29:23,420 --> 00:29:26,100 writer, musician, athlete. 581 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:29,940 But our first identity should be that we are in Christ. 582 00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:31,260 He is our glory. 583 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:33,660 He is our protection. 584 00:29:33,660 --> 00:29:35,580 He is our identity. 585 00:29:35,580 --> 00:29:38,140 What should be most notable about us 586 00:29:38,140 --> 00:29:42,500 ought to be our relationship with Jesus Christ. 587 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:44,140 Jeremiah says it this way, 588 00:29:44,140 --> 00:29:45,740 thus say it, this is a great verse. 589 00:29:45,740 --> 00:29:47,220 If you haven't memorized this verse, 590 00:29:47,220 --> 00:29:49,020 you should memorize this verse. 591 00:29:49,020 --> 00:29:50,580 Thus say it to the Lord, 592 00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:53,060 let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. 593 00:29:54,260 --> 00:29:57,220 Neither let the mighty man glory in his might. 594 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:02,340 Let not the rich man glory in his riches. 595 00:30:02,340 --> 00:30:03,180 You know why? 596 00:30:03,180 --> 00:30:05,380 Smart people can get dumb. 597 00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:09,340 Rich people become poor, it happens all the time. 598 00:30:13,060 --> 00:30:15,340 Strong men become weak. 599 00:30:15,340 --> 00:30:18,580 But let him that glory, glorious in this, 600 00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:20,780 that he understand and knoweth me, 601 00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:23,900 that I am the Lord which exercise of loving kindness, 602 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:26,580 judgment, righteousness in the earth. 603 00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:30,380 For in these things I delight, sayeth the Lord, 604 00:30:30,380 --> 00:30:34,580 sayeth the Lord, we must trust in God. 605 00:30:34,580 --> 00:30:37,060 David's trust for his future was in God himself 606 00:30:37,060 --> 00:30:38,540 and this trust was well placed. 607 00:30:38,540 --> 00:30:41,540 God was the one who could affect his restoration. 608 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:42,620 The same is true for us. 609 00:30:42,620 --> 00:30:45,340 Our trust and hope for our future 610 00:30:45,340 --> 00:30:49,980 should be in Christ first and foremost. 611 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:52,100 Here's a third attitude. 612 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:53,140 We'll go through this quickly. 613 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:54,980 Attitude number three, hope. 614 00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:56,140 Hope. 615 00:30:56,140 --> 00:30:59,580 He went from free, from fear to the realization, 616 00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:03,820 hey, wait a minute, I do have protection. 617 00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:08,020 God is my glory, God is my restoration. 618 00:31:08,020 --> 00:31:09,820 And so now I've got hope. 619 00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:10,900 Look at verse four. 620 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:14,060 I cried unto the Lord with my voice 621 00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:17,860 and he heard me out of his holy hill. 622 00:31:17,860 --> 00:31:19,340 I laid me down and slept. 623 00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:22,940 I awake for the Lord sustained me. 624 00:31:22,940 --> 00:31:24,900 David was certainly dealing with circumstances 625 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:28,060 that could cause high levels of fear and anxiety. 626 00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:29,660 Anybody here ever deal with that? 627 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:34,460 I mean, yeah, fear, anxiety. 628 00:31:34,460 --> 00:31:36,460 Certainly people in lesser circumstances 629 00:31:36,460 --> 00:31:40,180 have lost sleep when dealing with worry and with anger. 630 00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:41,660 But you see three steps in this passage. 631 00:31:41,660 --> 00:31:43,620 You see, David, what does he do? 632 00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:45,100 He cries to the Lord. 633 00:31:46,580 --> 00:31:49,780 He cries into the name of the Lord as God. 634 00:31:49,780 --> 00:31:52,460 He prays passionately and trusts that God hears him. 635 00:31:52,460 --> 00:31:53,780 And then he's able to do something 636 00:31:53,780 --> 00:31:55,820 that a lot of people that have anxiety can't do. 637 00:31:55,820 --> 00:32:00,540 He sleeps. He sleeps. 638 00:32:03,180 --> 00:32:07,380 Here is a great application for you this afternoon. 639 00:32:07,380 --> 00:32:08,860 Take a nap. 640 00:32:12,740 --> 00:32:14,460 Take a nap. 641 00:32:14,460 --> 00:32:15,860 Who's gonna, like that's the only thing 642 00:32:15,860 --> 00:32:17,220 you'll ever apply from the sermon 643 00:32:17,220 --> 00:32:18,820 is you're gonna go take a nap. 644 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:24,380 Why would it be hard for David to take a nap right now? 645 00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:26,580 Why would it be hard for him to lay down? 646 00:32:28,660 --> 00:32:32,180 His son and his armies are taking over the nation. 647 00:32:33,980 --> 00:32:34,980 Do you get it? 648 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:36,980 Is he worried? 649 00:32:38,060 --> 00:32:40,900 Is he worried for his life? 650 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:43,860 He is, but you know what? 651 00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:44,700 I'm gonna do something. 652 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:47,460 I'm gonna pray and give everything I can to God 653 00:32:47,460 --> 00:32:49,780 and then I'm gonna go sleep 654 00:32:49,780 --> 00:32:53,660 because it's not my trust is in God. 655 00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:54,820 That's what he's saying. 656 00:32:56,380 --> 00:32:57,900 Verse five tells us that after he prayed, 657 00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:58,740 he went to sleep. 658 00:32:58,740 --> 00:33:00,020 The implication is that through prayer, 659 00:33:00,020 --> 00:33:01,420 he placed his trust in God. 660 00:33:01,420 --> 00:33:03,540 He did not lose sleep over his situation. 661 00:33:03,540 --> 00:33:04,900 He laid down and slept. 662 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,060 And then step number three, what happened? 663 00:33:07,060 --> 00:33:07,900 He awoke. 664 00:33:09,740 --> 00:33:10,580 He woke up. 665 00:33:10,580 --> 00:33:11,420 Everything was fine. 666 00:33:11,420 --> 00:33:14,020 What he had made it through the vulnerability 667 00:33:14,020 --> 00:33:15,020 of the night and sleep. 668 00:33:15,020 --> 00:33:16,100 How did it happen? 669 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,020 He attributes it to the Lord saying, 670 00:33:18,020 --> 00:33:21,140 for the Lord sustained me. 671 00:33:21,140 --> 00:33:23,540 You know, God's mercies are new every morning. 672 00:33:24,620 --> 00:33:27,500 God didn't have to make it so that you would wake up today. 673 00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:31,100 Who here is thankful you woke up today? 674 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:33,180 God did that for you. 675 00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:36,140 What a practical example for us. 676 00:33:36,140 --> 00:33:38,140 When we deal with anxieties and pressures, 677 00:33:38,140 --> 00:33:39,500 we deal with worries. 678 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,900 If you don't have any worries, 679 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:42,580 you must not be watching the news. 680 00:33:43,540 --> 00:33:45,340 There are certainly events and information 681 00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:47,620 that can inflate our fears. 682 00:33:47,620 --> 00:33:50,340 David's example reflects what Paul 683 00:33:50,340 --> 00:33:52,660 through the Holy Spirit commands us to do 684 00:33:52,660 --> 00:33:54,460 in Philippians four, six, and seven. 685 00:33:54,460 --> 00:33:56,220 Be careful for nothing. 686 00:33:57,900 --> 00:33:59,140 Be anxious for nothing, 687 00:33:59,140 --> 00:34:01,220 but in everything through prayer and supplication 688 00:34:01,220 --> 00:34:02,340 with thanksgiving, 689 00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:04,500 let your requests be made known to God. 690 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,780 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, 691 00:34:07,780 --> 00:34:12,780 shall keep or guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 692 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:18,260 When the Lord keeps our hearts and our minds, 693 00:34:18,260 --> 00:34:20,780 as a result of the peace of God coming through prayer 694 00:34:20,780 --> 00:34:23,100 and trust, then we're able to place, 695 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:25,580 get to the place where we can sleep again. 696 00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:28,020 Trusting God and receiving His peace 697 00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:32,180 is so much better than worry and fear. 698 00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:36,260 There are some of you that I've even counseled and said, 699 00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:38,980 listen, you need to stop thinking about your problem 700 00:34:38,980 --> 00:34:41,180 and start thinking about the solution. 701 00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:44,940 When you focus on the problem and the fear, 702 00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:47,220 your fear gets bigger and your God gets smaller. 703 00:34:47,220 --> 00:34:51,220 But when you focus on the Lord, when He is your shield, 704 00:34:51,220 --> 00:34:54,480 when He is your, the lifter up of your head, 705 00:34:56,620 --> 00:34:58,180 you can have peace. 706 00:34:58,180 --> 00:35:00,900 That leads to this last two attitudes, 707 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:03,060 attitude number four is confidence. 708 00:35:03,060 --> 00:35:05,660 Look what he says, verse six, 709 00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:10,580 I will not be afraid of 10,000 of people 710 00:35:10,580 --> 00:35:13,140 that have set themselves against me roundabout. 711 00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:15,580 David says that even though there are many people 712 00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:18,300 that are against him, he will not be afraid 713 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:19,140 of all those people. 714 00:35:19,140 --> 00:35:21,900 He has just said that because of his trust in Lord, 715 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:23,340 he can sleep knowing that God's the one 716 00:35:23,340 --> 00:35:24,860 who protects and sustains him. 717 00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:27,700 In this text, he has a security about his status, 718 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:29,780 even though circumstantially it looks like 719 00:35:29,780 --> 00:35:31,940 there's a lot of people that are against him. 720 00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:34,780 He will not fear even though there are a large quantity 721 00:35:34,780 --> 00:35:37,220 of people who seem to be against him. 722 00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:38,940 And here's how this applies to us. 723 00:35:38,940 --> 00:35:42,300 Fear of man can come as a fear of an individual person 724 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:46,260 and it can come as a fear of a group of people. 725 00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:49,900 Here are a few ways we can fear people. 726 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:51,620 One is fear of individuals. 727 00:35:51,620 --> 00:35:55,140 We can find it in questions we ask ourselves. 728 00:35:55,140 --> 00:35:57,860 You ever ask yourself, man, what will she think of me? 729 00:35:57,860 --> 00:35:59,740 What does he think of me? 730 00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:02,140 Anybody ever been worried what other people think? 731 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,520 I have to do X because of what he will think. 732 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,940 I have to buy this kind of car 733 00:36:09,940 --> 00:36:12,340 because I want to be accepted by those people. 734 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:16,020 Anybody ever see that on social media? 735 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:21,860 People, you're trying to keep up with these people online. 736 00:36:23,820 --> 00:36:26,060 What happens is it can be sinful 737 00:36:26,060 --> 00:36:28,300 when it causes us to idolize others, 738 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:30,780 disobey God and live in sinful fear. 739 00:36:30,780 --> 00:36:33,720 Sometimes it's not a fear of a particular person. 740 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,220 Sometimes it's a fear of an invisible they. 741 00:36:37,340 --> 00:36:39,700 Sometimes fear can get generalized and vague. 742 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:41,060 What if they don't like that? 743 00:36:41,060 --> 00:36:43,380 What if they don't accept me? 744 00:36:43,380 --> 00:36:45,860 Sometimes I'm worried about what people think 745 00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:46,820 and if we're not careful, 746 00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:49,100 this invisible group of people 747 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:52,460 will impact our behavior in sinful ways. 748 00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,900 Sometimes it's a visible they. 749 00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:56,700 This is the one Dave is talking about here. 750 00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:58,700 There are people that have set themselves 751 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:02,300 against me round about, he says, in the Psalm. 752 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:04,180 This might be the category 753 00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:05,540 that could produce the most fear, 754 00:37:05,540 --> 00:37:07,700 both legitimate and illegitimate. 755 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:10,260 When facing all of these fears, 756 00:37:10,260 --> 00:37:15,060 our trust in him must be the antidote for the fear of man. 757 00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:18,780 This Lord, the Bible says the fear of man brings a snare, 758 00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:21,060 a trap, it's not good. 759 00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:24,740 The Lord is the one who will sustain this. 760 00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:26,700 The only way to stay faithful to God in the midst 761 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:29,460 of this kind of fear is to have a proper fear and trust 762 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:32,260 in him and to get that confidence in him. 763 00:37:32,260 --> 00:37:34,380 That leads us to this last one. 764 00:37:34,380 --> 00:37:37,100 This last attitude is an attitude of trust. 765 00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:39,340 Here's the last part of the Psalm. 766 00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:42,420 Arise, O Lord, save me. 767 00:37:43,740 --> 00:37:44,620 Oh my God. 768 00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:48,820 Arise, O Lord, save me, oh my God. 769 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,100 For that has smitten all my enemies upon the cheekbone 770 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:55,540 that was broken the teeth of the ungodly. 771 00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:59,980 Salvation, be long as unto the Lord, 772 00:37:59,980 --> 00:38:02,740 thy blessing is upon thy people. 773 00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:05,540 By the end of the Psalm, you see David counseling himself 774 00:38:05,540 --> 00:38:07,780 and declaring his trust in the Lord. 775 00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:10,140 He calls on the Lord for his salvation. 776 00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:12,820 This isn't a salvation from sin for eternal life. 777 00:38:12,820 --> 00:38:14,700 This is a salvation out of the circumstance. 778 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:16,220 And guess what? 779 00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:18,820 Sometimes we need saved out of our circumstances. 780 00:38:19,740 --> 00:38:21,660 We need God's help. 781 00:38:21,660 --> 00:38:22,620 So what do we do? 782 00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:26,780 Call upon the name of the Lord. 783 00:38:26,780 --> 00:38:31,780 He's our defender, our deliverer, right? 784 00:38:31,780 --> 00:38:32,620 Right? 785 00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:39,340 Too often, I've tried to face the difficulty on my own 786 00:38:39,340 --> 00:38:41,740 to pull myself up by my bootstraps. 787 00:38:43,180 --> 00:38:46,220 When there's a problem, I open up a spreadsheet, 788 00:38:46,220 --> 00:38:50,580 I open up a Word document, I go to my to-do list, 789 00:38:50,580 --> 00:38:52,900 and I try to figure it out myself. 790 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:55,780 And when you look for human solutions, 791 00:38:55,780 --> 00:38:57,360 that's exactly what you get. 792 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:02,360 Sometimes God wants to destroy your to-do list 793 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,320 in your spreadsheet, and he wants to come in 794 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,520 and do what only he could do, 795 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,120 so that at the end of it, you don't get the glory. 796 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,680 He gets the glory. 797 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:18,600 It's not about you. 798 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,080 It's not about me. 799 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,720 It's all about him. 800 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:29,560 Salvation belongeth to the Lord. 801 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,240 God has made promises to David, to the children of Israel, 802 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:37,880 and he's a promise keeping God that could be trusted, 803 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,400 and the same is true for us. 804 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,740 Is anybody in here dealing with any anxiety, 805 00:39:42,740 --> 00:39:45,880 any trouble, any worry, any difficulty? 806 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,640 Call on the name of the Lord. 807 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,640 Now, you gotta trust him enough to let him do 808 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,560 what he wants to do. 809 00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,280 Right? 810 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,440 Don't call him the name of the Lord, 811 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,120 and then God, you gotta do exactly what I want. 812 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,180 That's a bad plan. 813 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,520 God, I want what you want. 814 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,960 That's a good plan. 815 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,800 Are you with me? 816 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,620 Are you going through something difficult? 817 00:40:17,620 --> 00:40:20,440 Is fear, worry, and anxiety, and difficulty, 818 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,880 and discouragement plaguing you? 819 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,400 There needs to be a time of prayer. 820 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,400 That prayer could be a prayer of repentance. 821 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:30,800 It could be a prayer where you go, 822 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,040 you know what, God, I've messed up. 823 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,880 And at least in part, that is why I'm in this situation. 824 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,860 So I wanna ask you to forgive me, and I need your help. 825 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,920 I need your help from this difficulty, 826 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,360 or I need your help through this difficulty, 827 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,000 but either way, I need your help. 828 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,840 I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 829 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,180 That's what he says. 830 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:57,680 For those of us who know Christ, 831 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:02,680 he's gonna be with us, even until the end of the age. 832 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,120 So there may need to be that prayer of repentance. 833 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,120 There may be a prayer of deliverance. 834 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:10,960 What did David do? 835 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,640 He admitted his fear. 836 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,040 He came to the realization 837 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,560 that where his deliverance would be found, 838 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,080 and he put his hope in God, 839 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,520 and as he put his hope in God, 840 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,480 his confidence in God grew, and so did his trust. 841 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,320 And then he was able to sleep and awake. 842 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,160 Why? 843 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,920 Because God sustained him. 844 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,560 And that what we need? 845 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,120 That's what we need. 846 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:36,960 God is his deliverer, and God will be our deliverer too. 847 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,520 Now while I said that this salvation he's talking about 848 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:46,360 is not just a salvation from our sins to eternal life, 849 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,880 I want you to know that our God is that kind of deliverer. 850 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,440 Our God is a deliverer who has made provision 851 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,320 for you and I to not go to hell, but to go to heaven. 852 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,960 Maybe the reason you're going through something difficult 853 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,320 is God wants to get you into a posture 854 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,480 where you actually consider him at all. 855 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,320 And the ultimate thing he wants for you 856 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,520 is to know that you're a sinner, 857 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,160 but God loves his enemies, those who sin, 858 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,840 and he sent his son down to this earth 859 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:24,000 to live a perfect life and to never do anything wrong. 860 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,480 And to always do what's right. 861 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,640 Jesus always did what was right, 862 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,560 and this Jesus lived this perfect life, 863 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,880 but then died on a cross. 864 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,080 And dying on that cross wasn't just bad 865 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,920 because when you get nails in you, it's not fun. 866 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,680 It's not fun. 867 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,080 And when you've been whipped and scourged and mocked, 868 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,760 and when you had that crown of thorns put on you, 869 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,240 that's not a good thing. 870 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:53,040 It wasn't just the physical pain that he dealt with. 871 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,320 He also dealt with the separation from God that happened 872 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,240 when God poured out his wrath for your sin and mine on him. 873 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:03,000 He took on him the sin of the world. 874 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,440 He became sin who knew no sin 875 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,240 that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 876 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:12,160 And what he wants, why did he do it? 877 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,320 So that we, like that thief on the cross, 878 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,880 could look to Jesus and say, 879 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,880 Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. 880 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,160 I'm guilty, he's innocent, 881 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,320 he can get me where I can't get myself. 882 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:34,200 He's my deliverer, the lifter up of my head. 883 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,560 And so if you're here today, 884 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,160 there's never been a time where you've believed 885 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,240 in the name of the Lord, 886 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,520 where you've called on the name of the Lord, 887 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,400 appealed to him for salvation, 888 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,800 not just from your circumstance, but for your sin, 889 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,960 that is the ultimate thing you need to do, 890 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,280 to recognize your sin, 891 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,200 to recognize his provision, 892 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:02,200 and to put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. 893 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,760 If you do that, the Bible says this, 894 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,800 he who comes to me, I will in no wise cast out. 895 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,240 Today is the day of salvation. 896 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:13,920 If you're here today and you know Jesus as your savior, 897 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,240 you know for sure if you were to die, you'd go to heaven, 898 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:18,440 that's awesome, are you going through something difficult? 899 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,840 Are you trying to do it on your own? 900 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,080 Don't do that. 901 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,400 Cast all your care upon him, 902 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,120 for he cares for you. 903 00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:33,800 Put your trust in Jesus, not just for your salvation, 904 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,080 but for your life. 905 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,080 Go to him in prayer, 906 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,240 and seek, what does his word say about what you're dealing with? 907 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:43,840 Is there some place to obey? 908 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,600 Don't try to be disobedient and get him to deliver you anyway. 909 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,840 He's got a plan, are you with me? 910 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,760 If you've got a problem in your life, 911 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,160 call on the name of the Lord, 912 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,440 he's our defender, he's our deliverer, 913 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,000 the battle belongs to him. 914 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,480 Would you stand with me? 915 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,000 Who has this victory over me? 916 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,600 Friends of God... 917 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:21,480 Great