1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,240 a series that got started, I believe last week, 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,360 brother Gentry started it, or maybe Damon, who was it? 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,520 Who spoke last week? 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,860 God spoke, oh you did. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,560 Yeah, okay, amen. 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,000 He is like that, I'm like, oh. 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,520 And it's on worship, and when we think about worship, 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:20,720 when we talk about worship in church, 9 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,880 people often automatically go to music, right? 10 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,120 Because music is a great way to worship God, 11 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,920 and we have so much opportunity in the forms of music, 12 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,320 we can have access to all kinds of music, 13 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,520 and listen to all kinds of music, and that's a good thing. 14 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,720 Tonight we're gonna talk about inspiration for worship. 15 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,800 How many of you guys have ever been watching 16 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,360 football game? 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,640 That's what I'm trying to think of, football game. 18 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,080 And you see these big, lumbering, gigantic guys 19 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,520 with muscles on muscles, and they're so fast, 20 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:57,800 they don't look like they should be fast, 21 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,200 but they're gigantic, and they're fast at the same time. 22 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,080 I can be gigantic and slow, but these guys are like big. 23 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,320 Anyway, and they tackle, they make a great play, 24 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:08,640 they do something, and they're celebrating, 25 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,960 and they're looking all macho, 26 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:11,840 and then finally one of them sees 27 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,280 that a camera's looking at them, 28 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,640 and they look in the camera, and they say, what do they say? 29 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,360 Hi mom. 30 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,440 Have you guys ever seen that happen before? 31 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,280 Like these huge masculine brocifs, I mean they're huge, 32 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,280 and they're like, they're shouting out, 33 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,920 they're giving a shout out to their mom. 34 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:30,760 Why mom? 35 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:31,600 Why not dad? 36 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,280 Why not anybody, hey coach, I don't know what you would say, 37 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,120 but why mom? 38 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,280 Why do you think mom, why do you think they, 39 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,120 you think they shout out to their mom? 40 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,880 This is an easy one, huh? 41 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:48,320 Cause mom's, who doesn't love their mom? 42 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,000 If you don't love your mom, don't admit it, 43 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,520 you're in church, man, that's not good. 44 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,000 Like we all love our mom, right? 45 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,320 Because mom is the, because mom, 46 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,680 it's crazy you said nurturing, 47 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,160 cause in my notes it literally says, 48 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,400 because moms are nurturers. 49 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,160 They care for us, some of the earliest memories any of us have 50 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,480 is probably of our moms, because moms are good 51 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:14,480 at taking care of, dads are like, walk it off, get up, 52 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,880 rub some dirt in it, right? 53 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:18,360 Anybody have dads like that? 54 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,640 That's how my dad was, toughen up son, you know. 55 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,320 Thanks dad, you're very caring. 56 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,960 My leg is broken, actually that actually happened. 57 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,040 I literally, I was on, have I told you the story? 58 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,240 I was on a deck in Springfield, Missouri, 59 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,600 sitting on the railing of the deck. 60 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,920 We were on a trip after my mom had passed away 61 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,600 and we were on this trip, going to see all the places 62 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,200 that were special to them and we're on Ray Adams' deck 63 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:47,120 and my brother, the big jerk, pushed me off of the ledge 64 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,120 of the deck and I landed on my wrist 65 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,840 and I told my dad for like two or three days, 66 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,520 dad, I got up crying, my wrist really hurts 67 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,800 and he's like, nah, you're fine, it'll stop. 68 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,160 Eventually he's like, we're on our way to Texas 69 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:01,440 and he called my grandma. 70 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,160 You might want to get him a doctor's appointment 71 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,440 and then when we got the doctor's appointment, 72 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,520 I had a broken wrist. 73 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,720 He got me ice cream because he felt so bad 74 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,120 because he's like telling me the whole time, 75 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:14,760 it's gonna be fine, you know. 76 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:19,760 But our moms take care of us, they love us, 77 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,760 they are nurturing, they make us feel cared for and love. 78 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,280 But tonight I want to tell you this, 79 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,360 that even our moms, this is a silly illustration, 80 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,760 but even our moms do not care for us like God cares for us. 81 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,760 God really does care for us, God really does love us. 82 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,880 And if there's anything that's an inspiration 83 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,520 to our hearts for worship, it's this truth 84 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,040 that God really does love us. 85 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,960 When we remember God's compassion and his faithfulness 86 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,600 that goes back to the beginning of time, 87 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,520 we want to let the world know about his love 88 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,600 and when everyone is looking at us, 89 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,720 like those guys looking at, hey mom, you know, 90 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,320 we ought to, when we are understanding God's love for us, 91 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,880 when we think about God's love for us, 92 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,080 we ought to want to tell everybody 93 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,160 about who he is and what he's done for us. 94 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,160 God's goodness and God's love lead us to worship him 95 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,320 when we really think about it. 96 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,960 And so today we're gonna look at Psalm 25, 97 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,760 we're gonna look at verses four to 15, 98 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,000 where it highlights three aspects of God's love 99 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,160 that inspire us to worship him, 100 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,720 that inspire us to worship him. 101 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,200 Let me ask you a question, when you were young, 102 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:45,720 this is an all play now for you to talk 103 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,000 to somebody near you, don't, you know, 104 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,720 we'll just do it that way, kind of fun. 105 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,400 Who is someone that inspired you to go after a goal 106 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,560 or a dream when you were young? 107 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,280 Maybe it was a coachmate, who was it that inspired you 108 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,280 to go after something, who motivated you to do something? 109 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:24,280 Ready, set, go, tell somebody next to you, go. 110 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:37,680 Okay, who wants to share theirs real quick, go. 111 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,680 Who motivated you? 112 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:40,680 Yes. 113 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:41,680 My grandma. 114 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,680 Grandma, okay, very good. 115 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:44,680 Brian. 116 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:45,680 Damon. 117 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:46,680 Sarns? 118 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,680 Damon Sarns motivated, that's awesome. 119 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:49,680 Who's grateful for Damon? 120 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,680 I'm glad Brian's here too, that's really cool. 121 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:52,680 I'm glad you're here. 122 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:53,680 I'm glad you're here. 123 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:54,680 I'm glad you're here. 124 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,680 I'm glad you're here. 125 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,680 I'm glad you're here. 126 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,680 I'm glad you're here. 127 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,680 I'm glad you're here. 128 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,680 Brian's here too, that's really cool. 129 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,680 That's what we ought to be in the church, right? 130 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,680 Helping people out, inspire them to do what they need to. 131 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,680 Who else? 132 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,680 Your dad, Justin said my dad. 133 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,680 Can you think of a goal he motivated you towards? 134 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,680 Athletics? 135 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,680 That's kind of like representative of life, right? 136 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,680 That's what can be valuable in life, is like, if you're not 137 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,680 going to work hard at something that's fun, you probably won't 138 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,680 work hard at something that's hard. 139 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,180 Miss Jan, your what? 140 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:30,920 Your swimming teacher. 141 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,720 You swam? 142 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:33,760 Were you fast? 143 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,080 You didn't even like swimming, 144 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:43,660 but you loved your swimming coach. 145 00:06:43,660 --> 00:06:44,500 That's cool. 146 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:47,560 You taught swimming. 147 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,340 She was good. 148 00:06:49,340 --> 00:06:51,440 You didn't like swimming and then you taught it. 149 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,320 I like that, that's cool. 150 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:54,160 It's amazing. 151 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,640 You can definitely inspire us. 152 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,680 And that's really what tonight's lesson is about. 153 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,520 What inspires you to want to worship God? 154 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,040 And what we're gonna find out tonight 155 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,760 for us to stop and think about it, 156 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,480 that God's goodness and his love 157 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,280 is what inspires us to worship him. 158 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,640 We can do it out of duty, 159 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,480 but it's good for us to stop and think about 160 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,560 what he's done for us and how he loves us. 161 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,000 And that ought to cause us to worship, right? 162 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,920 Amen? 163 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:25,760 That's what we ought to do. 164 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:26,600 So let's look. 165 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Number one, here's kind of one of the first aspects 166 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:36,280 of God's character that helped us to be worshipful of him. 167 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,920 Number one, God is full of compassion. 168 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,000 God is full of compassion. 169 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,720 Let's look at Psalm 25 and we'll start in verse four. 170 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:45,760 It says this. 171 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,840 Show me thy ways, O Lord, teach me thy paths. 172 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,600 Lead me in thy truth and teach me 173 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,320 for thou art the God of my salvation. 174 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,000 On thee do I wait all the day. 175 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,840 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies 176 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:04,920 and thy loving kindness, 177 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:09,080 for they have been ever of old. 178 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,720 Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions. 179 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,400 According to thy mercy, remember thou me 180 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,040 for thy goodness sake, O Lord. 181 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,600 Don't you love the Psalms? 182 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,160 They're just so beautiful, even translated into our language. 183 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,520 It's poetry in Hebrew that we're bringing into English. 184 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:28,680 What an incredible thing. 185 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:30,880 Okay, point to me. 186 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:35,880 The point that I'm making is God is full of compassion. 187 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:41,080 Point to phrases in, I'm gonna have you raise your hand. 188 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,160 Point to phrases in these verses 189 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,760 that speak towards God's compassion. 190 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,700 Who agrees? 191 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:50,360 God's full of compassion. 192 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,040 Okay, where in the verses am I getting that from? 193 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,040 Give me, raise your hand and tell me. 194 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,120 This is like making you kind of think about the verses. 195 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:57,960 Yeah. 196 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,040 Tender mercies. 197 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,480 What do you think tender, mercies and tender, 198 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,040 like put those two words together. 199 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,840 What makes it, what does tender do to that verse? 200 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,680 What do you think? 201 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:12,120 It's heartfelt. 202 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,720 It's gentle. 203 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,840 It's caring, right? 204 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,920 The tender mercies are, hey, 205 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,280 there's the compassion part. 206 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,360 The idea that like, what's mercy? 207 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,840 Mercy is not getting what I do deserve. 208 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,920 And if it's tender mercies, it's like, 209 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:30,600 God has, that's compassion. 210 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,720 That's a great kind of phrase for compassion. 211 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:33,620 What else? 212 00:09:33,620 --> 00:09:34,460 What else in the text? 213 00:09:34,460 --> 00:09:35,640 What do you think? 214 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,200 Who agrees salvation would be God's compassion on us, right? 215 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,680 Who deserves salvation? 216 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:43,600 None of us, right? 217 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,520 God loves us, for God so loved the world 218 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,680 that he gave his only begotten son that who's our believer 219 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:50,960 in him should not perish, but everlasting life. 220 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:51,800 What else? 221 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,640 That's great. 222 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:53,480 What else? 223 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,360 In the text, give it to me. 224 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,600 Miss Kathy. 225 00:09:58,480 --> 00:09:59,920 Loving kindness. 226 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,040 Who likes that word put together? 227 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,200 Loving kindness. 228 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,200 It's putting those two words together is almost speaking of, 229 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:14,280 you almost have the motivation and the action in one word. 230 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,040 His loving kindness. 231 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,760 He, because of his love, and it's an expression of love, 232 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,520 he is kind to us. 233 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,680 And it says about those two things 234 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:25,600 where they have ever been of old. 235 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:28,400 What else? 236 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:32,280 Okay, for sure. 237 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,760 Teach me, show me thy ways, oh Lord, teach me thy paths. 238 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,160 That is absolutely full of God's mercy. 239 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,000 Why? 240 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,920 Because he could just wipe us out for not doing what, 241 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,920 he not going down the path in the first place. 242 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,000 That's part of his mercy. 243 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,400 And he says in the end too, here's the last one. 244 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:55,080 According to thy mercy, remember thou me, why? 245 00:10:55,080 --> 00:11:00,080 For thy goodness sake, oh Lord, 246 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,480 because you are good, could you please act in your character 247 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,000 of goodness towards me, God? 248 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,400 Remember me, do that for me. 249 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,760 He's appealing to God's compassion and God's goodness 250 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,560 in this particular phrase. 251 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,000 Let's ask this question, and again, 252 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,400 I'm trying to get you to talk a lot. 253 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,200 Maybe that's not good, but oh well. 254 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,080 Where do you see evidence in the world today 255 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,440 of God's goodness? 256 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:30,880 Justin, he's so positive. 257 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,440 He said, you're still alive. 258 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,880 Yeah, I love that. 259 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,800 Mark, you're connecting that to the text. 260 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,640 Mark said, people are still getting saved. 261 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,080 Aren't you glad that people are still getting saved? 262 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,200 Isn't it cool to see the waters getting stirred? 263 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,680 We have another one that's gonna get baptized on Sunday. 264 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:54,440 We're so, I mean, Lord willing, the creek don't rise. 265 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:58,600 Then there's gonna be people coming to get baptized 266 00:11:58,600 --> 00:11:59,600 and people are getting saved. 267 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,040 That's an incredible thing. 268 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,840 I want God to come back. 269 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,520 I want Jesus to come back, but I'm glad that he, 270 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,920 maybe he's not coming back because there's people 271 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,880 that still need to get saved, right? 272 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,240 And I'm glad that he waited long enough for me 273 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:15,600 to get saved, amen. 274 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,560 Yeah, so people getting saved. 275 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:18,400 We're still alive. 276 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:19,240 What else? 277 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:36,280 Yeah. 278 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,680 There's a whole lot of calamity that could come our way. 279 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:42,760 She was talking about the fires 280 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,840 and knowing that people have the fires coming towards them 281 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,760 and then realizing that God has been good to us 282 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,680 by not having that happen to us. 283 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:50,640 That's a good thing. 284 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:51,480 Dave. 285 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:56,960 Amen. 286 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,240 So Dave said that God allows the children 287 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,760 that pass away to go to heaven before that age 288 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,600 of accountability. 289 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:06,760 I believe, I actually agree with that. 290 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:07,920 I believe that. 291 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,080 Anybody else? 292 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,920 Yeah, God's goodness. 293 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,920 No matter what sin. 294 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,360 There's no sin beyond God's forgiveness. 295 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,080 Are you glad for that? 296 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,880 That there's always a chance to repent. 297 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,120 God is full of compassion. 298 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,040 What's my point? 299 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,240 We all know that God's full of compassion, 300 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,320 but we should allow God's compassion to motivate us, 301 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:40,040 to inspire us, to worship Him, right? 302 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,120 God is so good. 303 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:45,120 Sing with me. 304 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,200 God is so good. 305 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,440 God is so good. 306 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,000 He's so good to me. 307 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,560 Man, I'm so glad that God is full of compassion. 308 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:03,000 Okay, here's the next one, verse eight. 309 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:03,920 Verse eight. 310 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:08,880 Number two, God is full of overflowing care. 311 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,480 God is full of overflowing care. 312 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:11,480 Look at verse eight. 313 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,880 Good and upright is the Lord. 314 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,720 Therefore will He teach sinners in the way. 315 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,000 The meek will He guide in judgment, 316 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,720 and the meek will He teach His way. 317 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,240 And the paths of the Lord are, 318 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,680 all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth 319 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,560 under such as keep His covenant and His testimonies. 320 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,920 For Thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity, 321 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,920 for it is, what is it? 322 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,080 It's great. 323 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:44,920 It's great. 324 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,800 It's overflowing. 325 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,720 It is more than is needed. 326 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,720 Here you have the Psalmist speaking to God's character. 327 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,000 And in verse eight, he says, 328 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,680 good and upright is the Lord. 329 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:00,840 This is who He is. 330 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,200 In fact, I would say that it's not wrong to say, 331 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,840 it's right to say that God is the definition 332 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,000 of goodness and rightness, right? 333 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,440 It's not some equality to which He attains 334 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:16,760 that's outside of Himself. 335 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,760 He Himself is the standard of goodness. 336 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,440 And then we're going to go back to verse eight. 337 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,440 He is the standard of goodness and right uprightness. 338 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:26,920 Does that make sense? 339 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,280 And in that sense, He says, good and upright is the Lord. 340 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,320 And I love the next word. 341 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:32,360 What's the next word? 342 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,240 Therefore, what is He saying? 343 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,640 Because of God's goodness and His uprightness, 344 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,120 because He is that, what is He gonna do? 345 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,300 He will teach sinners in the way. 346 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,080 The meek will He guide in judgment 347 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,480 and the meek will He teach His way. 348 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,840 I love basically all of those kind of go together. 349 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,840 He will teach sinners in the way. 350 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,920 Raise your hand if you're a sinner. 351 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,520 All right, almost all of us here are sinners. 352 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,720 That's good, right? 353 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,720 We're all sinners. 354 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,800 Is it, help me think through this. 355 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,440 Is it caring for God to teach us? 356 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,080 Are you glad? 357 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,800 There's kind of like two ways to learn. 358 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,760 You can, I tell this to my kids a lot. 359 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,260 You can listen and learn or you can live and learn, right? 360 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,600 Which one's easier? 361 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,200 Listen and learn, right? 362 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,240 Unless you got a bad teacher, then it's really, 363 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,040 then it's bad. 364 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,320 But it's way better for you to listen and learn 365 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,040 than the school of hard knocks, right? 366 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,840 And if you think about the Bible 367 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,680 and you think about God's revelation, 368 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,680 God chose this nation of Israel to give His law through, 369 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,280 to give His revelation through. 370 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,920 And if you think about God's law, 371 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,880 it was a huge advantage to the Jews. 372 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,600 It was a gigantic advantage to them 373 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,080 because the guy who created the world said, 374 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,640 hey, I designed the world this way. 375 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:18,640 So if you live this way, there's a lot less pain, right? 376 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:22,120 For instance, let's just take some of the 10 commandments. 377 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:24,120 Thou shalt not steal. 378 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:28,320 Who agrees that it's better for a culture to just not steal? 379 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,360 Aren't you glad that like we have laws 380 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,920 and there's police officers and there's a justice system 381 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,400 so that you could come here tonight 382 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,320 and the vast majority of us are not worried 383 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,840 about someone stealing our, I mean, you maybe, 384 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,920 is anybody here worried about it? 385 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,960 I mean, you may be worried a little bit, 386 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,080 but not like you would be if there was no police, 387 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:54,880 if there was no justice, right? 388 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,440 If there's no general understanding 389 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,040 that it's better not to steal. 390 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,440 My point is God gave them this law. 391 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,760 He wrote down His will and His word 392 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,720 and that is an incredible thing for us. 393 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,480 Your life is gonna be a whole lot better 394 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,520 if you follow what God's word says. 395 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,000 And so because God is good and right and He loves us, 396 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,520 He is kind to us, He's tenderhearted, 397 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,560 we've already learned that in the compassion, 398 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:27,560 He wants us to submit to what He wants us to do. 399 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,640 And in that sense, there is care in that. 400 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,520 It says because of His goodness, 401 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,000 He will teach sinners in the way, that's compassionate. 402 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,680 The meek will guide in judgment. 403 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:40,640 Let me ask you a question. 404 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:45,560 Are meek people, who is easier to teach? 405 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,240 Meek people or prideful people? 406 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,080 Meek. 407 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,240 And what he's essentially saying is 408 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:52,520 if people are willing to learn, 409 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,960 if you're willing to listen, he's willing to teach. 410 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,600 The meek will he guide in judgment. 411 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,120 What does that mean? 412 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:03,200 I had to guide my young son, 413 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:10,200 who Jeff just affectionately called Little Ben, tonight. 414 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,600 He didn't wanna eat mom's soup. 415 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,280 Yeah, you guys sound like you're down. 416 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:20,240 I motivated him to eat mom's soup. 417 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,480 And if he didn't, he would have had it for breakfast, right? 418 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,960 That's just how that works. 419 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:27,800 What am I doing? 420 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,280 I'm guiding him in judgment. 421 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,480 I'm trying to give him discernment 422 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,920 and there is some judgment that comes 423 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,640 when there's not proper judgment in the first place. 424 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,360 He says, and the meek will he teach his way. 425 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:43,280 It is way better to be teachable. 426 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,040 It is so much better to be teachable. 427 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,840 If you give the first part of your day 428 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:52,480 to opening up the Bible and then reading it and going, 429 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,120 hey, what does this mean? 430 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,800 And then if that's what it means, 431 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,520 where do I measure up with what it means? 432 00:19:58,520 --> 00:19:59,840 Am I living out what the Bible 433 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,720 is telling me to do or telling me to think? 434 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,200 How do I apply that to my life? 435 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,880 And then what am I gonna do today to submit myself? 436 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,640 And if you do that over a lifetime, 437 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,280 your life's gonna be so much better 438 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,960 than it would have been otherwise. 439 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,360 I'm telling you, God will do that. 440 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:18,240 Verse 10, all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth 441 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,880 unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 442 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,520 I love that idea of covenant. 443 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,480 For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity, 444 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,040 for it is great. 445 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,760 This idea here is that God is just giving care over care. 446 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:37,600 He loves us and he wants us to submit to him 447 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:38,800 as he teaches us. 448 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,480 What an incredible thing. 449 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,800 Does that cause you? 450 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,400 I hope that, once again, what's the point of the sermon? 451 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,080 The point of the sermon is I'm trying to inspire you 452 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,120 by pointing to God and his character 453 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:58,120 and how he deals with us to worship God for what he does. 454 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:02,160 God could have said, humans, I'm done with them. 455 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,760 They had their chance. 456 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,000 All they get from me is judgment, 457 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,480 but that's not what God does. 458 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,240 They could have done that with us. 459 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,840 I'm done with Doran. 460 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,000 I'm just done with them. 461 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,760 Is that what God did with Doran? 462 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,960 Aren't you glad you're saved, Doran? 463 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,760 I'm so glad you're saved. 464 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,920 I'm so glad God's working in your life 465 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,000 and that you're growing. 466 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,440 That's an amazing thing. 467 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,800 And God does that for every one of us. 468 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,880 There's nobody in here better than another. 469 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,000 God loves us, he redeemed us, he saved us, 470 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,080 and then he teaches us. 471 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,840 He wants us to stop messing up 472 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,920 and to stop having the pain of what happens 473 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,000 when we go against what he has designed 474 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,280 and what he wants us to do. 475 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:48,280 So why is having a teachable spirit 476 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,200 so important in our Christian walk? 477 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,040 Why is it? 478 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,440 What do you think? 479 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:55,280 Anybody? 480 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,280 So we can grow. 481 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,760 If you're not teachable, you're not gonna learn, 482 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,520 you're not gonna grow. 483 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:01,720 That's a good thing. 484 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,840 God has overflowing care. 485 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,760 Here's the third one, last one, ready? 486 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:08,240 Man, I'm going too fast, good night. 487 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,760 Number three, God faithfully keeps his covenant. 488 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,840 God faithfully keeps his promises. 489 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,880 God's full of compassion, God has overflowing care. 490 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,920 Number three, God keeps his covenant. 491 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,400 I love this, verse number 12. 492 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,520 What man is he that feareth the Lord? 493 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:34,800 What does that mean? 494 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,640 What happens to the kind of person 495 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,520 who has a fear of God? 496 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,600 Well, him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 497 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,160 Okay, let me read this 498 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,080 and I'll come back and ask you a question, ready? 499 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,320 Number 13, his soul shall dwell at ease 500 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,600 and his seed shall inherit the earth. 501 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,760 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him 502 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,040 and he will show them his covenant. 503 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:02,880 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord 504 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,520 for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 505 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,280 What is he saying? 506 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,600 What is the Psalmist saying about the person? 507 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,360 Give me, again, use the text. 508 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,640 What is he saying about the person that fears the Lord? 509 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:20,880 What happens to them? 510 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:23,800 I didn't hear it. 511 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,520 I don't know what he's saying. 512 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,440 They will obey for sure. 513 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,440 Yeah, so good job, both of you, I love it. 514 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,600 Justin says they'll be taught. 515 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,840 He got that from that phrase right there. 516 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,960 What man is he that feareth the Lord? 517 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,800 Him shall he, him, the man that fears the Lord 518 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,000 shall he, God, teach in the way that he shall choose. 519 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,480 Right? 520 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,400 The guy who fears the Lord is open to hearing from God. 521 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,560 He's teachable. 522 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,320 And then God will choose what that guy needs to learn. 523 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,800 Does that make sense? 524 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,040 That's the idea. 525 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,400 If you wanna learn and you have a fear of the Lord 526 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,160 and you're open to hear from him, God's gonna teach you. 527 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,440 And in that sense, there's direction. 528 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,280 What else? 529 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,000 What's the next thing he says happens? 530 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,960 Peace in your life. 531 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,400 His soul, I love that. 532 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,760 Miss Jan, you wanna teach? 533 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,040 I'll let you, here, I'll just give you the mic. 534 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,120 His soul shall dwell at ease. 535 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,960 Have you ever had anxiety 536 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,720 because you knew that you weren't doing the right thing? 537 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,160 I've had that. 538 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,800 I've had a lack of peace because, 539 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,480 man, I have not doing right. 540 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,720 But when I fear the Lord, here's the thing. 541 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,200 When you fear the Lord, 542 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,040 you don't have to fear other things as much, right? 543 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,160 That's the idea. 544 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,640 If I have a proper fear of the Lord, 545 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,000 then Justin isn't so scary, right? 546 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,120 That's just how that works. 547 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:02,640 His soul shall dwell at ease. 548 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,040 The next thing, his seed shall inherit the earth. 549 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,480 What does that mean? 550 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,520 Miss Jan is getting the Ben stars, like Ben bucks. 551 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,840 She's gonna, she says, yeah. 552 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,120 What Jan said was, you'll teach that to your kids. 553 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,320 I think there's two ways we teach our kids. 554 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,920 Sometimes we teach them by telling them, right? 555 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,240 You take your kids, you bring them alongside, 556 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,560 and you tell them, hey, this is how you ought to think, 557 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,400 this is how you ought to live. 558 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,360 Sometimes we do that through teaching time, 559 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,880 sometimes we do discipline. 560 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,880 Sometimes we teach our kids through our example, right? 561 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,720 There's this old saying that more is caught than taught, 562 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,040 right? 563 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,800 And I believe that our kids, 564 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,560 you can't fake them out for too long. 565 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,160 They know how we think, how we act. 566 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,720 They see us in easy times, they see us in hard times. 567 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,520 And when we fear the Lord, 568 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,480 and we have a life that consistently over time fears the Lord, 569 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,920 then hopefully our kids will catch that in what we say. 570 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,400 And in what they see, right? 571 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,400 And there is a level of blessing and success 572 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,760 that comes from people that live lives that fear the Lord. 573 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,160 That's just, that's true. 574 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,200 Verse 14, the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, 575 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,960 and he will show them his covenant. 576 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,960 What does he mean by the secret of the Lord? 577 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,160 I believe in some ways that's indicating 578 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,040 a close intimate communion with God. 579 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,880 God reveals not only his ways to those who honor him 580 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,040 in their lives, but he reveals his heart to them as well. 581 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,040 And God confides in them his most intimate thoughts. 582 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,520 They become friends of God. 583 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,000 It's a privileged relationship. 584 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,080 For other examples of the Lord revealing his secret castle, 585 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,760 you can see that in Genesis 18 or in Amos chapter three. 586 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,560 This idea is that God is close to, he's intimate with those 587 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,480 who fear them, and then it says, 588 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,280 and he will show them his covenant. 589 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,800 What does he mean he will show them his covenant? 590 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,360 What do you think, Donray? 591 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:22,200 I will never leave you nor forsake you. 592 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,040 Okay. 593 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,640 I believe that, I believe God will do that. 594 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,920 So that's great. 595 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:36,920 What does it mean he will show them his covenant? 596 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,800 Okay. 597 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,640 What's that? 598 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,160 Yeah, okay, yeah. 599 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,080 I like that. 600 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,920 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 601 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,920 The idea, so there is this idea in the scripture. 602 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,920 Have you ever heard read in scripture it says, 603 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,240 he that believeth in him shall not be ashamed. 604 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,080 Okay. 605 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,720 And there's one way of thinking about not be ashamed is, 606 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,840 I'm wearing the Jesus T-shirt and letting people know 607 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,280 I'm not ashamed of Jesus, right? 608 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,400 And there's that way of thinking, 609 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,080 that's one way in English we use that. 610 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,480 But that phrase also can mean 611 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,880 that if you depend on Jesus, if you depend on God, 612 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,600 God's not gonna let you down. 613 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,960 What she said was, and it's an illustration I use, 614 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,880 you ever see on TV the thing 615 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:42,960 or maybe you've experienced this 616 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,520 where you're supposed to go on a blind date 617 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,800 and the person's supposed to show up. 618 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,400 So there's the girl sitting at the, 619 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,200 at the, in the coffee shop holding the, 620 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,520 holding the, or the guy holding the rose 621 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,920 for the girl that's supposed to come. 622 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,640 And then she never shows up. 623 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,080 And there's an embarrassment, you guys with me, 624 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,960 because someone made an appointment 625 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,800 and this, you kind of let your heart out there 626 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:06,720 and then they didn't show up. 627 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,520 And then you're, God will never do that to you, right? 628 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,560 That he will, he will do, and this is where it connects. 629 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,080 And I think that's what you were trying to say. 630 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,400 God is going to do what he promises, 631 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,960 he's going to do, right? 632 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,000 Those that fear him, he will show, 633 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,000 you will experience the promise keeping God show up 634 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,640 and keep his covenant, right? 635 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,120 What an amazing thing. 636 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,800 And the Psalmist goes on and says, 637 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,480 my eyes are ever toward the Lord 638 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,080 for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 639 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,640 It doesn't mean you don't ever get in sticky situations. 640 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,880 It doesn't mean that if you love God 641 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,080 that there won't be at times more month than money, right? 642 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,200 It doesn't mean that your car doesn't break down. 643 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,160 It doesn't mean that people don't, 644 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,440 people still sin against us, don't they? 645 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,040 And sometimes we mess up even. 646 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,400 And that's why we need those tender mercies. 647 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,240 But God shows up and he cares and he provides 648 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,880 and he even shows up when we mess up and helps us out. 649 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,320 That's that idea of he keeps my feet out of the net. 650 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,880 He, we're not trapped by that. 651 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,440 What's the point of the sermon? 652 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,720 The point of the sermon is that we ought to worship God. 653 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,640 We ought to be inspired to worship God. 654 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,640 And we have a promise keeping God 655 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,120 whose character can be counted on to the degree 656 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,640 that we won't ever trust in him 657 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,640 and he doesn't keep his promises. 658 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,280 What an incredible, incredible thing. 659 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,200 So we ought to worship God. 660 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:54,680 Why? 661 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,680 What inspires us to worship God? 662 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,440 He's full of compassion. 663 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,240 Do you ever get God's goodness that you don't deserve? 664 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,600 I know I do. 665 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,320 I see that in my family. 666 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,640 I see that in this church. 667 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,000 I don't deserve to be here. 668 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:14,960 I really don't. 669 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,760 I don't deserve to be saved. 670 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,400 I don't deserve to be in the ministry. 671 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,760 I don't deserve, I don't deserve, 672 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,360 I said almost all. 673 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,320 I don't deserve anything I've got. 674 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,280 It's all God. 675 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,400 And that doesn't make me better than anybody else. 676 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,640 It's exactly the opposite. 677 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:35,960 God is good. 678 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,040 So he's full of compassion. 679 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,000 He is full of care. 680 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And sometimes he wants to teach us. 681 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,080 I mean, sometimes he doesn't want to teach us. 682 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,720 He wants us to learn how to live the way he wants us to live 683 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,920 because he doesn't want us to have the pain 684 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,920 of going against the pain of sin. 685 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,000 Sin, when it's finished, brings forth death. 686 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,200 He doesn't want that. 687 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,000 And God wants to show us, 688 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,680 he wants to faithfully keep his covenant. 689 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,960 So we ought to worship God. 690 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,600 I started and I even in the, 691 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,320 I started the sermon with what's your favorite, 692 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,840 him or spiritual song or worship song. 693 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,520 And that's fun to think about. 694 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,520 I was meeting with the Patterson's today. 695 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,120 Marilyn Patterson is a charter member of our church 696 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,280 who went home to be at the Lord this week. 697 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:45,280 And met with John and Connie and Holly and Jenny. 698 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,520 And they were talking about what songs we want to play 699 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,880 at the funeral. 700 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,600 They're inviting everybody to come, by the way. 701 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,320 I know it says private on the obituary, 702 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,240 but anybody that wants to come, they can. 703 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,680 But they were talking about different songs 704 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,560 that their mom loved that we're gonna sing. 705 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,680 And man, I love some of the songs. 706 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,640 The old rugged cross. 707 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,000 And when the role is called up yonder, I'll be there. 708 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,720 And those are songs that like make us remember 709 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,520 what we learned in church and the truths that haven't changed. 710 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,080 Those are good things. 711 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,800 And it's good to worship God with old songs. 712 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,320 I believe the Bible says that we ought to worship God 713 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,960 with new songs, sing it a Lord a new song. 714 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,840 That God isn't just a God that worked before, 715 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,440 he's a God that works today. 716 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,000 And I think that's a good thing. 717 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,200 And we worship God with new songs. 718 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,040 But I believe with all my heart 719 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,200 that so much of worship that needs to happen 720 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,740 isn't musical at all. 721 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,120 That worship isn't just music, right? 722 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,800 That worship is when we are trying to live a life 723 00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,440 as unto the Lord. 724 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,440 And it could be anything. 725 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,680 Whether that for eat or drink or whatsoever you do, 726 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,240 all to the glory of God. 727 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:11,000 What's over thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might. 728 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,720 Don't do things for eye services, men pleasers. 729 00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:16,120 Do things as unto the Lord. 730 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:17,200 He's your Father in heaven. 731 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,920 He sees everything you do. 732 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,440 And when we work and when we live and when we learn 733 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:27,440 and when we choose, we're choosing the way of worship. 734 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,320 We're either worship, the issue is 735 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,520 we're always worshiping something. 736 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:32,720 We're either worshiping the Lord 737 00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:33,920 or we're worshiping ourselves 738 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,320 or we're worshiping other people. 739 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,920 And life is just way better when we don't have idols 740 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,760 and when we worship God, right? 741 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,760 And so I'm trying to inspire you to worship tonight. 742 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,480 And not just to worship in song, although we can do that, 743 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,580 but to actually like, what if Thursday was a worship day? 744 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,880 What if tomorrow you got up thinking, 745 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,880 God, you have been so compassionate to me. 746 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,080 You have cared for me so well. 747 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,320 You wanna teach me how to live a life that honors you. 748 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,000 You always keep your promises. 749 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,000 And so God today, Thursday, January, 750 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,960 oh, I don't have a calendar on it. 751 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,960 But tomorrow, the 23rd, I am dedicating Thursday 752 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,360 as a day of worship to you. 753 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,720 And that may mean you go to a certain station 754 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,600 and turn up and sing real loud and that's part of it. 755 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,080 But it also may mean, 756 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,640 God, please forgive me, I messed up. 757 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,580 It also may mean, I'm not watching this. 758 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:51,160 I'm turning the channel, because I worship God, right? 759 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,160 It may mean, it may mean I need to go tell that guy 760 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,320 about what God has done for me. 761 00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,600 Does that make sense? 762 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,080 That's worship in a way that even just singing 763 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,520 with other believers is not. 764 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,000 So how are you to worship God? 765 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,640 You mean not on a Sunday? 766 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,320 Yeah, even on a Thursday. 767 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,080 There's a Sunday School class 768 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:22,040 in, at the church that I was at in Canton. 769 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,720 All the Sunday School classes have Christian t-shirt names, 770 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:25,560 right? 771 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,640 And this one was called, I love this, 772 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,480 but I love this name, it's called Something for Monday. 773 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,840 And the idea was, if you come to our class, 774 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,240 we're trying to give you, not something for Sunday, 775 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:38,080 that's good. 776 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,600 We're trying to give you something for Monday. 777 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,800 We're trying to give you something for everyday living. 778 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,320 So, my question for you tonight is this, 779 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,080 are you inspired to worship? 780 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:55,000 We're inspired to worship when we consider the love 781 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,600 and forgiveness God has shown us in Christ. 782 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,320 What are some of the ways God inspired you 783 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,240 to your worship this week? 784 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,400 Make a list and thank him for each one. 785 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,640 There's a good thing. 786 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,880 How has God blessed you? 787 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,480 How has he shown his love to you uniquely 788 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,720 in this last week? 789 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:17,160 Make a list and thank him for it. 790 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,400 That's a good starting place. 791 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,200 Here's a growing place. 792 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,720 We respond and worship to his leadership in our lives 793 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:26,560 as he lovingly guides and directs our paths. 794 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:27,400 Let me ask you a question. 795 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,800 How did God lead you this past week? 796 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,040 How did God, how did you respond to his leadership? 797 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,680 Maybe write down how has God directed you recently? 798 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,680 That would be a great way for you to think through 799 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,040 and to be inspired to worship him. 800 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,280 I had a New Year's resolution this year. 801 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:53,280 I have done the here journaling method for a few years 802 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,560 and which is going through verse by verse 803 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,640 and just journaling through the scripture. 804 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:06,040 That's actually how I, every Sunday morning sermon 805 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,360 is expanded journaling weeks after. 806 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,480 So that's just how, that's my method. 807 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:15,320 It's what I do. 808 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,160 I'm trying to apply it to me before I apply it to y'all. 809 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:22,360 And I have prayed a lot as a result. 810 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,000 When I, it's amazing when your prayer, 811 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,280 when your Bible life goes up, your prayer life goes up, 812 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,520 right, and vice versa. 813 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,240 But I haven't been as consistent in prayer 814 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,240 as I'd like to be. 815 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,560 And so this year I made a resolution with the Lord 816 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,520 and I'm telling you about it 817 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,480 so you can maybe hold me accountable, all of you. 818 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,480 Yeah, just keep asking me, it'll be fine. 819 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,360 But to do journaling. 820 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,840 And I had this really bad habit. 821 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,360 I keep going from like writing with pen and paper 822 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,480 to going to digital and back and forth. 823 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,880 And I promised, I'm promising my wife now 824 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:58,800 I'm not gonna keep switching. 825 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,480 I'm gonna stay one or the other and not annoy her. 826 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:07,480 Anyway, so I got about halfway through the month 827 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,440 of January trying to consistently every day, 828 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,600 just journal and actually instead of, 829 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,520 instead of just praying out louder in my head, 830 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,600 actually writing out prayers to the Lord, 831 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:24,600 just as a way of being more focused for further, 832 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,240 just to do better at prayer. 833 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,120 But then I was like, I'm gonna go digital. 834 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,080 So I'm getting on my computer and I'm gonna do it on, 835 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:33,920 you can type out prayers, it's fine. 836 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,200 So anyway, why am I telling you that? 837 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,000 I'm telling you that because a couple of days ago 838 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,800 I wrote out, I went back and re-typed my prayers 839 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,320 just so I had it all in one spot. 840 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,760 Cause I'm going from paper to, I know I'm a nerd, I'm sorry. 841 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,720 But it was amazing to me, cause a lot of times 842 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:53,640 when I've journaled before, especially prayer journaling, 843 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,200 I don't go really back and read it. 844 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,840 I just did it and I don't go back and read it. 845 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,520 And having to actually go back and re-type it, I'm like, 846 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,280 it's only been three weeks and God has answered 847 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,080 so many prayers. 848 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,460 There's like things that I prayed about 849 00:40:10,460 --> 00:40:12,200 that I was so stressed out about. 850 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,480 And I remember literally as I'm typing it, 851 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,760 feeling anxious about it. 852 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,720 And then I'm re-typing it, I'm like, why was I so scared? 853 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,600 God answered that prayer, it worked out. 854 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,360 Did God work out everything? 855 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,200 Not yet. 856 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,600 He hasn't worked out everything. 857 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,800 But I got answers prayer. 858 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,040 And it's like, why have I had a hard time 859 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,200 having this kind, I'm your pastor and I mess up. 860 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,800 I don't always do what I thought. 861 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,960 Why, it is something that's so enjoyable. 862 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,560 I wish you could do it. 863 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,080 Like, and you don't have to write it out like word for word, 864 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,240 but like bullet point, what you're, 865 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:50,880 what you want to pray to God for that day 866 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,040 and say it out loud while you're, 867 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,080 I don't know, however it works for you. 868 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:55,720 But having that record and going back, 869 00:40:55,720 --> 00:41:00,680 it's just like, God is so stinking good to me. 870 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,840 And I believe that as children of God, 871 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,560 if you know Christ as your savior, 872 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,280 he's good to you too. 873 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,720 And I just think we don't always take the time to notice it. 874 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:15,840 Let me say it this way. 875 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,040 I know I don't always take the time to notice it. 876 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,320 I ask God to do something and he does it. 877 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:26,080 And I just kind of assumed that he was gonna do it all along. 878 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:30,280 And our God is so good to us. 879 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,720 And you know what that ought to do for us 880 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,400 when we realize he's like that? 881 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,840 I think we ought to worship him. 882 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,880 Yes, in song, yes with what we say, 883 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,640 but also in how we live, we ought to worship him. 884 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,640 We know God's compassion draws us to worship. 885 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:50,680 Let me ask you this. 886 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,480 Do you know someone who's far away from God 887 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,520 that you could show some compassion to? 888 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,620 Do you know someone who is going through a difficulty 889 00:42:00,620 --> 00:42:03,960 that just needs some compassion, some love? 890 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,360 You know, sometimes people that need compassion and love 891 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,000 don't deserve compassion and love, 892 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,640 but we ought to give it to him anyway. 893 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,200 Ask God to bring people in the mind 894 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,160 who need to see his love and forgiveness 895 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,320 through your life and faithful worship. 896 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:25,680 Spend some time having, maybe even, this is crazy. 897 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,000 Spend some time having coffee with someone you've prayed for. 898 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,600 That would be a good thing. 899 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,280 God, I love you so much. 900 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,560 I thank you for your word 901 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,320 that points us to how much you love us 902 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:45,920 and how compassionate you are. 903 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:51,600 God, we are needy people in need of a lot. 904 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,160 Of mercy. 905 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,880 We are in need of much grace. 906 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,120 We don't always do it right. 907 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,800 God, I pray that even this message tonight 908 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,160 would not be something where we buy into a cheap grace 909 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,520 where we can say, oh, we just can keep living 910 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:10,960 however we wanna live 911 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,720 because you're just so good to us and gracious, 912 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:14,960 you'll just forgive us. 913 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,000 Should we continue in sin that grace may abound? 914 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,120 The Bible says, you said God forbid, 915 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,520 may it never be that way. 916 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,120 And God, I pray that that's not our heart's motivation 917 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,080 as we walk away from a message like this. 918 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,380 But God, that our heart's desire would be to worship you 919 00:43:33,380 --> 00:43:36,220 because you are so, so good to us. 920 00:43:36,220 --> 00:43:38,640 You are so gracious and kind to us. 921 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,280 You keep your promises 922 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,720 and you allow us to fear you in a way 923 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:49,640 that brings about guidance and love and teaching and growth. 924 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,640 I pray that you would help us to have that heart attitude. 925 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,680 And God, may we, yes, on Sunday, 926 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,960 incorporate worship through music and prayer 927 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,080 and teaching and preaching, 928 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:07,360 but also on Thursday in the office 929 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,800 at the place of work, at school, in our homes. 930 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,560 Help those places to be sanctuaries 931 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,500 where we're inspired to worship you and you alone. 932 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:22,080 We love you, thank you for all you do for us in Jesus' name. 933 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,940 All God's people said, amen, amen.