WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.660 --> 00:00:32.460 Thanks for listening. 00:00:45.620 --> 00:00:46.680 Well, good morning. 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:50.740 If you've got your Bibles, open them up to Psalm chapter 16. 00:00:51.340 --> 00:00:52.700 That's where we're going to be this morning. 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:58.660 I want to remind you guys next week of our time of missions and prayer that we're going 00:00:58.660 --> 00:01:02.520 to have next Sunday afternoon to evening time. 00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:05.340 We're going to start in here at 4 o'clock. 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.660 For the most part, it's going to be all of us, all right? 00:01:07.700 --> 00:01:12.820 We're going to have the nursery open for our babies and toddlers, but one of the things 00:01:12.820 --> 00:01:18.780 that we've held to as a core value is that missions need to be taught, experienced, and 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:21.100 lived out across the generations. 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:26.460 And so our children's ministry and our student ministry embody that and embrace that. 00:01:26.740 --> 00:01:31.620 Last Sunday night in student ministry, I had the campus pastor from USC, Jamie Rogers, come 00:01:31.620 --> 00:01:35.720 and share here with our students on Sunday night, talking about living life on mission. 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.420 And our children's ministry is doing a wonderful job as well with teaching about our different 00:01:40.420 --> 00:01:41.660 missionary partners. 00:01:41.660 --> 00:01:47.880 And so we want to make this a family experience as much as we can as we come to talk about 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:54.300 missions and pray for our missionaries and our mission partnerships that we have. 00:01:54.440 --> 00:02:00.020 As we talk about that, I want to remind everyone we will not be live streaming that service. 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.800 In fact, we're not really sharing a lot of the details because one of the missionaries we 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:10.660 will have here, many of you, if not most of you or all of you, except for myself and a few staff, 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:16.300 will be meeting this missionary and his wife, this missionary team, for the very first time as 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:17.780 the country they serve in. 00:02:17.860 --> 00:02:22.520 We can't say publicly, but he will be able to share with us the details of us that eat with us 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:23.400 that evening. 00:02:23.540 --> 00:02:24.880 And so you will want to be there. 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:31.120 It'll be from around four to five thirty ish, six ish during that time frame. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:37.520 And so please be here for a wonderful time with us as we talk about missions, as we hear 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:43.480 what God is doing and as we gather for a moment to pray for all that the Lord is doing, not 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:47.020 only in our partnerships, but all over the world. 00:02:47.540 --> 00:02:50.560 Well, speaking of missions, I want to kind of connect some of our pieces. 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:56.020 I got back this week from a wonderful time of being up at Black Mountain Children's Home 00:02:56.020 --> 00:02:58.720 with some of our men and doing missions work. 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:02.220 And so I wanted to share with you guys, give you guys a quick update of that trip. 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:08.740 I will say the challenge that this, that the Black Mountain leaders gave us to this group 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:09.920 of men was this. 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:16.920 Try to be as good as your middle schoolers, because they've said the level of serving that 00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:22.920 they hold everyone accountable to that comes there is based off of the Willow Ridge Church 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:27.140 middle school students who have been serving there faithfully for three summers now. 00:03:27.140 --> 00:03:29.320 And so that's big expectations. 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:29.940 I've been there. 00:03:30.140 --> 00:03:35.300 In fact, riding in our very first summer that we came up there, they were getting ready to 00:03:35.300 --> 00:03:42.060 open up a thrift store and a cafe so that they can teach to these kids that are at the children's 00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:42.420 home there. 00:03:42.500 --> 00:03:43.900 They can teach them retail skills. 00:03:44.140 --> 00:03:48.160 They can teach them restaurant skills so they can take these and build on these. 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.000 But they needed some landscaping done. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:55.860 And so I'm riding in there with a group of men and you see these beautifully green grass 00:03:55.860 --> 00:03:59.040 and very neat landscape that's done. 00:03:59.260 --> 00:04:05.180 And I said, I just want y'all to know all of this was done by our middle school boys and 00:04:05.180 --> 00:04:05.600 girls. 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:08.260 And we weren't out there with heavy machinery. 00:04:08.620 --> 00:04:13.280 They were out there getting this done with rakes and shovels and hoes and taking care of 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:13.680 all that. 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:16.000 And one guy in the backseat was like, wow, are you kidding me? 00:04:16.020 --> 00:04:16.540 I'm like, no, no, no. 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:19.180 This is the standard that you have to live up to this week. 00:04:19.220 --> 00:04:19.540 All right. 00:04:20.020 --> 00:04:22.120 Now, God doesn't compare us, but we do. 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:22.520 All right. 00:04:22.540 --> 00:04:24.560 And so we want to make sure that you can beat them. 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:26.920 And they didn't beat them, but they met the expectation. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:28.220 And so that was a wonderful thing. 00:04:28.520 --> 00:04:32.340 They hoped that we were going to be able to build a deck over the course of the week. 00:04:32.440 --> 00:04:35.560 And at the end of the first day, a deck had been completed. 00:04:35.980 --> 00:04:40.560 And so by the end of the week of these men faithfully serving there, a deck was built 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:47.780 onto one of the cabins that needed it, a building that needed to be finished in and kind of sealed 00:04:47.780 --> 00:04:49.820 in, weathered in, had been completed. 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:52.380 Both of those jobs, they thought it would take a full week to do. 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:55.620 And they were able to get them done in a day and a half a day. 00:04:55.820 --> 00:05:02.020 These men crawled underneath these cabins and fixed plumbing issues that they had. 00:05:02.460 --> 00:05:07.440 And I think, and I can get corrected later, but if not, I'm going to say this, they fully 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:13.260 plumbed two of the cabins that were there, as well as fully trimming out two of the cabins 00:05:13.260 --> 00:05:17.020 so that they will be ready for people to come up to Black Mountain this summer. 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.140 And so it was just a wonderful time, a wonderful experience. 00:05:20.520 --> 00:05:22.200 Our Bible study time was great. 00:05:22.420 --> 00:05:23.480 There was 10 of us that went. 00:05:23.900 --> 00:05:28.720 I believe if my math is correct, five of the men who went, this was their first time serving 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:29.720 on the mission field. 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:32.180 And so it was just a wonderful experience. 00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:35.840 And so I thank the men who went and their families who sent them. 00:05:36.200 --> 00:05:41.180 I reminded the guys that are there, you know, we were sitting around the campfire that night 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:45.640 and Mike Morgan was leading the Bible study and Mike Morgan was talking to us about what 00:05:45.640 --> 00:05:51.760 it means to embrace the Great Commission and to live a life that's sent out for God's mission 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:52.800 and what we were doing there. 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:57.460 And, you know, and we think about those that go, but we also have to remember those that 00:05:57.460 --> 00:05:58.960 are sending those that go. 00:05:59.340 --> 00:05:59.600 All right. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:05.740 And so I think all the families that sent us, you know, I get to live in that with my wife 00:06:05.740 --> 00:06:11.520 who, when I leave, there's two of us and she has to step up and continue to do above and 00:06:11.520 --> 00:06:13.300 beyond what she normally does in a week. 00:06:13.380 --> 00:06:16.080 And my kids had to step up and go beyond. 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:19.720 And so I know that's for all of the families that sent as well. 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:26.100 But also you guys, one of the cultural characteristics that we're continuing to try to build in our 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:30.540 church is that we are a sending church that looks to send people onto the mission field. 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:36.420 And I verified my numbers with Joel Van Ham as we get to the end of this giving calendar year. 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:43.140 And we talked about giving a couple of weeks ago, but we budgeted to give over $80,000 to missions. 00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:48.040 And for a church, for our size, for a church, for our budget, that's a substantial piece of 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:49.620 what we're doing to send people. 00:06:49.780 --> 00:06:53.940 And as you give, and as you give faithfully, and as you give to the mission and vision of 00:06:53.940 --> 00:06:58.760 the church, that's what we're given for, not only for partnerships, but for mobilization 00:06:58.760 --> 00:07:00.200 of others to be able to go. 00:07:00.660 --> 00:07:03.000 And then I checked with Joel as well. 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:09.320 And what we've been able to do as needs and as opportunities become available, we've already 00:07:09.320 --> 00:07:13.160 to this day not only fulfilled what we're going to give in the $80,000, but we've given 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:19.160 an additional $18,000 above and beyond that of unbudgeted, but seeing opportunities that 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:19.960 God would allow. 00:07:20.380 --> 00:07:24.740 And by the end of the year, we'll be well over $100,000 of what we've been able to give 00:07:24.740 --> 00:07:28.140 toward local, national, and foreign missions. 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:33.840 And so that's not us saying what we've done as a staff, that's us saying thank you for what 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:39.000 you do as you partner with us in ministry to make sure that the gospel is carried all 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:40.180 over this world, all right? 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:45.380 So thank you guys as a church so much for what you do, so much for allowing us to be a church 00:07:45.380 --> 00:07:47.980 that sends and continue to do that, right? 00:07:48.100 --> 00:07:53.860 So many places right now are looking inside and inside only, but we understand and know 00:07:53.860 --> 00:07:57.640 the truth of what Mike spoke about that first night that we were there, the truth of what 00:07:57.640 --> 00:08:01.060 we know about the Great Commission, that we are called to go, and that's what we want 00:08:01.060 --> 00:08:01.320 to do. 00:08:01.400 --> 00:08:03.840 So church, thank you, thank you so, so much. 00:08:04.280 --> 00:08:10.180 Well, as we look at Psalm chapter 16, I want to kind of give a little bit of background as 00:08:10.180 --> 00:08:11.840 I can to kind of give a setting. 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:14.420 We've tried to do that each week. 00:08:14.760 --> 00:08:19.940 Now, we know from the very beginning what we see added in here is that this is a psalm 00:08:19.940 --> 00:08:20.720 written by David. 00:08:20.880 --> 00:08:23.800 David has written a little bit over 50% of the psalms. 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:27.440 Some of them that we've looked at during this series have been psalms of David, some of 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:28.000 them have not. 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:29.300 This is a psalm of David. 00:08:29.300 --> 00:08:36.320 Now, what we do not know about this is we do not know when in the life of David that he 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:37.660 wrote this psalm. 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:43.480 But what we do know as we read through, and this is going to be a theme that you see, is 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:51.740 David is writing this psalm out of personal joy, out of the joy that he has experienced 00:08:51.740 --> 00:08:54.000 in his relationship with God. 00:08:54.100 --> 00:09:02.740 Now, I'm going to refer to it as personal joy in Christ, knowing that Christ hasn't come 00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:04.600 yet, but Christ is. 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:13.040 And so even as David looks forward, he knows the longing of his Messiah who will come, his 00:09:13.040 --> 00:09:14.320 Messiah who will save. 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:22.420 And in fact, in a wonderful first person possessive over and over, over 12 times in this psalm, 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:29.880 as David talks about the joy that's experienced in a relationship with God, he says, my, my. 00:09:30.580 --> 00:09:36.460 Now, this doesn't mean this isn't for all of us, but in the intimacy of the moment. 00:09:37.040 --> 00:09:45.800 What David knows in the dynamic of his relationship with God is that this is for him, and that this 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:47.640 is for those who were found in Christ. 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:53.680 And what he'll declare and what we'll get to is that everything good of what David's going 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:59.920 to talk about, everything good in his life, everything that you experience that's good, everything 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:05.420 that I experience that is good, all of this comes from God. 00:10:06.380 --> 00:10:07.900 All of it flows from him. 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:10.800 And so David is one who's received. 00:10:11.540 --> 00:10:19.160 David is one who was the youngest of the brothers, the shepherd, the least likely, but who God 00:10:19.160 --> 00:10:24.860 chose, who God called for himself to establish and to put on a throne as king. 00:10:25.180 --> 00:10:30.020 David knows that everything good that he's going to experience, everything good from his 00:10:30.020 --> 00:10:34.040 life is going to come from God. 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:39.340 And that's going to be the central drive of his joy of what we're going to find out. 00:10:39.340 --> 00:10:45.860 But also kind of a neat aspect within this, there's a group of psalms which are looked at 00:10:45.860 --> 00:10:52.000 and identified as a messianic psalm, meaning that this, when you look at this, there's a layer 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:59.420 of prophecy that we can find within this psalm as it points to, talks about the coming 00:10:59.420 --> 00:11:06.800 Christ who will come and who will save, who will die, who will raise to life again and call 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:07.940 for himself a people. 00:11:08.280 --> 00:11:14.160 In fact, in Acts chapter 2, Peter uses this psalm in his message. 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:15.320 I want to read it to you. 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:16.600 It'll be on the screen. 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:23.920 He says this, he says, men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested 00:11:23.920 --> 00:11:30.360 to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst. 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:37.400 As you yourselves know, this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge 00:11:37.400 --> 00:11:42.140 of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 00:11:42.300 --> 00:11:48.080 But God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death because it was not possible for him 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:49.140 to be held by it. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:52.380 And then verse 25, for David says concerning him. 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:58.660 So what Peter's doing here is Peter is affirming to them what he has just proclaimed by using 00:11:58.660 --> 00:11:59.200 scripture. 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:02.220 Now remember, there's not New Testament scripture to point back to. 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:06.680 So the scripture that he will reference is Old Testament scripture and he references Psalm 00:12:06.680 --> 00:12:07.140 16. 00:12:07.140 --> 00:12:13.360 He says, I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I might not 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:14.020 be shaken. 00:12:14.460 --> 00:12:17.600 Therefore, my heart was glad and my tongue rejoice. 00:12:17.920 --> 00:12:24.940 My flesh will also will dwell in hope for you will not abandon my soul in Hades or let 00:12:24.940 --> 00:12:27.160 your Holy One see corruption. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.620 You have made known to me the paths of life. 00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:35.180 You will make me full of gladness with your presence. 00:12:36.640 --> 00:12:38.940 Just as Isaac and Leslie led us in. 00:12:39.880 --> 00:12:41.380 In your presence, Lord. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.720 In your presence is where I want to be. 00:12:44.860 --> 00:12:47.460 In your presence is where I find goodness. 00:12:47.740 --> 00:12:49.500 His presence is where I find life. 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:59.100 So this Psalm written before Christ was born is written celebrating all that God has done 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:00.980 for David in his life. 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:08.160 But as we have the opportunity to look back on it and see through the person of Jesus Christ. 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:13.000 So let's read starting in verse 1 of Psalm 16. 00:13:14.180 --> 00:13:20.660 David writes, and he says, preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 00:13:21.300 --> 00:13:24.080 I say to the Lord, you are my Lord. 00:13:24.260 --> 00:13:26.260 I have no good apart from you. 00:13:26.780 --> 00:13:32.560 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. 00:13:32.800 --> 00:13:37.640 The sorrow of those who run after another God shall multiply. 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:43.520 Their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.280 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup. 00:13:47.860 --> 00:13:49.320 You hold my lot. 00:13:50.160 --> 00:14:19.540 So this morning what I want us to do is to look at three types of goodness that come from our relationship 00:14:19.540 --> 00:14:24.740 in Christ and my first one that I want us to look at is the goodness of Christ in life. 00:14:25.940 --> 00:14:27.940 David begins by saying, preserve me. 00:14:28.740 --> 00:14:35.860 And what David is declaring is that he needs to do God, he needs God to do something important in his life. 00:14:36.180 --> 00:14:41.240 What he needs God to do is to keep him, to preserve him, right? 00:14:41.280 --> 00:14:45.740 Like go back to your grandma's kitchen and her doing preserves and canning things, right? 00:14:45.740 --> 00:14:47.040 Why did she do those? 00:14:47.140 --> 00:14:50.940 So they wouldn't spoil, they wouldn't go to waste, they wouldn't be ruined, but instead 00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:52.200 that they will be kept. 00:14:52.300 --> 00:14:55.520 And it's the same imagery that we see with David. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:00.940 David says to the Lord, preserve me, keep me, keep me here. 00:15:01.060 --> 00:15:07.680 And he begins to describe a depth of relationship that he knows that he needs from the Lord. 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:13.200 Now, what I think is really interesting in this, as I think about my mind, as I think about so many times 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:19.900 the request that I make to God, David doesn't say, save me because he's in trouble. 00:15:20.540 --> 00:15:23.420 And there are plenty of times where David found himself in trouble. 00:15:24.380 --> 00:15:27.860 David doesn't say, reward me because of what he had done right. 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:32.080 And there are plenty of times that David had done what God called him to 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:35.220 and the difficult places that he had found himself in. 00:15:35.220 --> 00:15:45.360 He simply looks at God and in his expression of joy, he says, keep me, keep me. 00:15:46.340 --> 00:15:54.980 And then what we'll see is this declaration comes out of a depth of relationship of David knowing God. 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.520 I want to ask you a question. 00:15:59.160 --> 00:16:02.460 And I want you to think about these four words. 00:16:03.860 --> 00:16:06.860 Do you know God? 00:16:08.340 --> 00:16:09.660 Do you know God? 00:16:10.780 --> 00:16:12.760 Now, I didn't ask you, do you believe in God? 00:16:14.040 --> 00:16:16.000 I didn't ask you, do you trust God? 00:16:17.400 --> 00:16:20.420 I didn't ask, do you do things for God? 00:16:21.400 --> 00:16:25.320 The question that I want you to wrestle with in your mind, 00:16:26.140 --> 00:16:29.500 whether you're a person here who would open and say, 00:16:29.560 --> 00:16:31.080 no, I don't know, I'm just here. 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:37.260 Or a person in a journey of faith, of seeking to grow in your faith. 00:16:37.260 --> 00:16:39.140 Do you know God? 00:16:40.060 --> 00:16:41.700 Not even do you know about God. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.240 Not do you know things of God. 00:16:45.260 --> 00:16:50.960 But in the depth of who you are, do you know God? 00:16:51.400 --> 00:16:53.220 David says this, verse 1 and 2, he says, 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.240 preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in you. 00:16:58.260 --> 00:17:01.300 I say to the Lord, you are my Lord. 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:04.940 I have no good apart from you. 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:11.880 He says, keep me, and I want to be in your presence. 00:17:12.600 --> 00:17:17.780 And that is where the depth of knowing comes from, right? 00:17:18.420 --> 00:17:20.180 Being away on this mission trip, 00:17:20.260 --> 00:17:23.740 I love every mission trip that I've ever had the opportunity to be on. 00:17:24.580 --> 00:17:28.200 The group of men that we had, I knew all of them, 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:33.480 but had an opportunity to grow in a depth of relationship with each one of them. 00:17:34.580 --> 00:17:39.320 Every day we ate together, we laughed together, probably a little too much. 00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:42.700 We worked together, all of them more than me. 00:17:42.760 --> 00:17:43.600 I'll talk about that in a minute. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:48.560 We talked together, and in that, a depth of a relationship was formed. 00:17:49.860 --> 00:17:53.120 And I look at so many things for us with God. 00:17:54.100 --> 00:17:56.100 And I think what you and I are trying to do, 00:17:56.220 --> 00:17:57.640 if you can kind of picture it this way, 00:17:57.740 --> 00:18:01.140 is like skim the surface of the egg without breaking the shell 00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:03.380 when it comes to a relationship with him, right? 00:18:03.940 --> 00:18:04.960 Like, it's enough. 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:06.520 Like, we can say we're there. 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:08.380 We can say that we know him, 00:18:08.460 --> 00:18:12.420 but do we know him at a depth that digs down E? 00:18:12.500 --> 00:18:14.440 So the question that I ask for you, 00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:15.620 do you know God? 00:18:15.660 --> 00:18:16.960 If the answer is yes, 00:18:17.060 --> 00:18:18.640 then my question for you is this. 00:18:18.740 --> 00:18:20.100 Are you skimming the surface, 00:18:20.100 --> 00:18:21.320 or are you digging down? 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.460 Because David says, preserve me, O God, 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:27.680 for in you I take refuge. 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:29.440 We talked about it the other week 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.220 when we had the image of God being the tower 00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:36.540 that we find and we seek refuge in, right? 00:18:36.560 --> 00:18:39.160 We don't stand by the tower to take our refuge. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.780 We don't go on top of the tower to find our refuge. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:46.340 We don't know about the tower to find our refuge, 00:18:46.340 --> 00:18:48.720 but we go into the tower 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.280 in order to experience the refuge. 00:18:53.120 --> 00:18:55.320 And so where's our preserving gonna be found? 00:18:55.460 --> 00:18:57.280 Where does this depth come from? 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.360 It goes from us digging into him. 00:19:01.600 --> 00:19:02.340 And that's hard. 00:19:03.460 --> 00:19:06.120 And it's difficult, but it's rewarding. 00:19:06.260 --> 00:19:08.020 David says in these two verses, 00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:10.040 two truths that come from this, 00:19:10.260 --> 00:19:12.360 he says, as I've dug into my relationship, 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.680 as he preserves me, as I take refuge in him, 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.360 he gives these two statements of great and wonder 00:19:19.360 --> 00:19:22.080 and power and maturity of faith. 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.280 He says, you are my Lord, you alone. 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.040 A word that we throw out a lot. 00:19:30.080 --> 00:19:32.860 A word that we say, a word that we sing 00:19:32.860 --> 00:19:34.680 that Jesus is our Lord. 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:37.680 But do we understand what that word means? 00:19:38.280 --> 00:19:41.880 As David says, you are my master and you're my ruler. 00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:44.400 So I go where you tell me to go. 00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:46.340 I do what you tell me to do. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:50.980 I'm obedient in what you call me to obey in every single one of these moments. 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.520 That's what it means that Jesus is Lord. 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:55.160 Church, it's more than a bumper sticker. 00:19:56.760 --> 00:19:59.360 You call me to go, I go. 00:20:00.260 --> 00:20:03.080 You call me to obey, then I'm going to obey. 00:20:03.780 --> 00:20:04.820 I know it's hard. 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:06.000 I know it's difficult. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.380 But if I am willing to say that you are my Lord, 00:20:10.220 --> 00:20:11.880 then I'm saying that you are my master. 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:14.080 All right. 00:20:14.860 --> 00:20:17.980 The second thing that he says here, and I love this, 00:20:18.300 --> 00:20:20.860 he says, I have no good apart from you. 00:20:21.780 --> 00:20:23.320 I have no good apart from you. 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:28.380 King David, who could have stood out and looked over the kingdom. 00:20:30.120 --> 00:20:33.860 King David, who had mighty soldiers and warriors. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.280 King David, who had power and money and influence. 00:20:38.600 --> 00:20:43.500 And in all of the goodness of his life, of all of the decisions that he had made, 00:20:43.620 --> 00:20:45.960 of all of the battles that he had won, 00:20:46.060 --> 00:20:51.840 in all of these moments, that David looks at everything that is there in his failures as well 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:54.960 and says, I have no good that's apart from you. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.660 David writes in this and says, it's not a part about what I've grown through 00:20:58.660 --> 00:20:59.680 and this is what I've done. 00:20:59.820 --> 00:21:02.240 It's not about what I've learned and what I've achieved. 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.900 It's not what I've worked hard within myself to push forward to. 00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:12.580 He says, in this and in this alone, you are my Lord and I have no good apart from you. 00:21:12.780 --> 00:21:16.840 And that this is the first two lines of what it means for us to understand 00:21:16.840 --> 00:21:20.560 of what it looks like to live in the goodness of Christ in this life. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.560 That you're my Lord. 00:21:25.100 --> 00:21:26.500 And everything that's good. 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:28.900 Everything that's right. 00:21:29.520 --> 00:21:35.140 Everything that brings a smile to my face and brings joy to my heart is from you and you alone. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.120 That's the goodness in the life of Christ. 00:21:39.060 --> 00:21:40.260 But he continues on. 00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:42.140 Verse three and four. 00:21:42.940 --> 00:21:54.040 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. 00:21:54.040 --> 00:22:09.540 So the goodness in the Lord and knowing him as Lord and knowing him as what he's called to our life, 00:22:09.600 --> 00:22:11.180 but also in the relationship with others. 00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:16.980 And here in verses three and four, we get two snapshots as David describes them. 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:23.260 Verse three says, as for the saints in the land, the people of God, the family of God. 00:22:23.820 --> 00:22:27.760 I read this from an author this week and I wanted to share this with you. 00:22:28.540 --> 00:22:37.380 And this is not painting a picture of us boasting about who we are in ourselves, but it's about boasting in who God is and what he wants to do with us. 00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:45.560 This author wrote, he said, in spite of our faults and failures, believers are God's elite, his nobility on earth. 00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:47.060 That's who we are. 00:22:47.820 --> 00:22:53.220 Paul writes in Ephesians chapter two, that we are the poetry of God. 00:22:54.080 --> 00:23:09.200 That God in all of the ways and means of what he could do to reveal to the world his holiness, his goodness, his righteousness, and his salvation through Christ and Christ alone. 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:11.340 He chose us. 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:13.980 And that's who we are. 00:23:15.040 --> 00:23:16.780 We're saints with the story. 00:23:17.820 --> 00:23:29.020 We're saints with hope who have been bought and purchased and redeemed for the glory of God, to live for his name and to draw people to himself. 00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:34.200 And then secondly, in verse four, he describes the lost. 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:36.740 And I love David's words. 00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:44.120 He says, they chase things, but what they chase lead to them growing in their sorrows. 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.940 It's a beautifully sad way to look at lostness in this world. 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:55.880 What they're chasing, they think, will bring them life and bring them hope and bring them goodness. 00:23:55.980 --> 00:24:01.500 But all that they chase after, all they pursue, all it's going to continue is to bring them sorrow. 00:24:01.620 --> 00:24:03.720 Because in the end, it does not satisfy. 00:24:04.020 --> 00:24:05.940 In the end, it does not save. 00:24:06.120 --> 00:24:08.240 And it will burn up just like with all of this. 00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:11.180 And what they have is their sorrows. 00:24:12.320 --> 00:24:15.160 A question, and I really appreciate the guys on the mission trip. 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:16.080 They helped me write this. 00:24:16.860 --> 00:24:22.500 One of the questions that was asked one night is, does your life reflect the light of Christ? 00:24:23.540 --> 00:24:25.500 Is this who you are? 00:24:25.600 --> 00:24:26.420 Is this what you've done? 00:24:27.020 --> 00:24:32.060 One day, Brent Hawkins was riding with me to the hardware store. 00:24:32.600 --> 00:24:37.240 Brent's going to exactly know the story that I'm talking about now, that I'm saying that he's in the car with me and him alone. 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:39.720 And we are, I found, I love this when I go out of town. 00:24:39.860 --> 00:24:41.900 I found a pastor on the radio, all right? 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:43.080 I found me one. 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:47.520 And every time, and most days, our men would get to work and they'd get on jobs. 00:24:47.660 --> 00:24:50.780 And then we would realize we didn't have something that we needed. 00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:54.720 And so I was the guy with the truck and the credit card that would go and do this. 00:24:54.780 --> 00:24:57.500 And so I burned through about a tank of gas in about two and a half days. 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:02.420 And I know where every Lowe's, Home Depot, Ferguson, Tractor Supply. 00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:08.640 I know where all that is in the greater Asheville area because that was my job for several days was to get this. 00:25:08.760 --> 00:25:11.920 Well, I told Brent, I said, man, I found this preacher on the radio. 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:14.660 And so I want us to listen to him as we're riding back. 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:15.740 It's about a 30-minute drive. 00:25:15.820 --> 00:25:21.480 So we were there kind of in between Asheville and where we were staying. 00:25:21.540 --> 00:25:22.500 And we were at a red light. 00:25:22.620 --> 00:25:24.680 And we were listening to this preacher that was preaching. 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:26.420 And the light turned green. 00:25:27.300 --> 00:25:28.680 And all of a sudden, I heard, 00:25:29.060 --> 00:25:32.740 I'm going. 00:25:33.600 --> 00:25:34.320 So we're going. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:36.060 We're riding down the road. 00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:39.060 What? 00:25:40.060 --> 00:25:41.000 Riding down the road a little more. 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:42.360 Hr, hr, hr. 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:44.640 And now I'm starting to have a complex. 00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:46.420 Like, that's one of the things that terrifies me, right? 00:25:46.560 --> 00:25:49.760 Is that I'm going to be that guy that everybody's having to blow the horn at. 00:25:49.900 --> 00:25:54.140 So now I'm looking like, am I losing two by fours as we're riding down the road, you know? 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:56.520 And there's some good Samaritan falling behind me going, 00:25:56.600 --> 00:25:59.500 this poor guy, bless his heart, he's losing all of it. 00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:02.420 And as I'm riding down the road, I hear, hr, hr, hr, hr. 00:26:02.520 --> 00:26:03.280 And then it clicked. 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:05.060 It wasn't outside. 00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:06.560 It was on the radio. 00:26:07.320 --> 00:26:11.460 And the pastor that's preaching was during the middle of lockdown of COVID. 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:13.460 And they're out in a parking lot. 00:26:13.620 --> 00:26:16.400 And instead of saying amen because you're in your car, 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:18.160 everybody was blowing their horns. 00:26:18.300 --> 00:26:19.360 And I love that. 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:20.600 I love that. 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:22.860 So if we do sunrise service again this year, 00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:25.640 and we go that style, and you're blowing your horns, 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:26.620 just don't do it in here. 00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:29.040 Brent said he was going to download an app on his phone 00:26:29.040 --> 00:26:30.440 and do that during the message. 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:32.260 Don't do that. 00:26:32.300 --> 00:26:33.360 That would throw me off, all right? 00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:37.180 But here's what this pastor said one day. 00:26:37.320 --> 00:26:38.320 On one of my trips. 00:26:39.580 --> 00:26:42.480 He said, do we understand that the most monumental event 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:46.840 in the course of history is the resurrection of Jesus Christ? 00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:52.060 That that is the most important thing that has ever happened. 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.540 And he asked his church this question. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:01.600 Does your life reflect every day that Jesus is alive? 00:27:02.520 --> 00:27:08.200 Does every moment of your life reflect the fact that he is no longer in the tomb, 00:27:08.380 --> 00:27:10.060 that Jesus is alive? 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:16.200 Or does your life reflect death? 00:27:17.780 --> 00:27:22.100 That in our practical application of what we say we believe, 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:24.100 he's still in the tomb. 00:27:25.820 --> 00:27:26.860 And that struck me. 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:32.840 And that's part of when we see within the lostness of this world. 00:27:33.980 --> 00:27:36.480 Church, it's the challenge that I have for you when you go home today. 00:27:37.320 --> 00:27:41.020 It's the challenge that I have for you when you step into your office tomorrow. 00:27:42.020 --> 00:27:44.940 Students, when you walk onto your hallway at school, 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.940 when we're walking through and interacting with our neighbors in our neighborhood, 00:27:49.700 --> 00:27:53.460 does your life that you live reflect the truth, 00:27:53.580 --> 00:27:57.100 the most important truth that's ever been shared, 00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:59.340 that Jesus is alive, 00:28:00.340 --> 00:28:07.380 and that in him we find hope and transformation and power and joy in the midst of all of this? 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:11.480 Or do we live our life like he's still in the tomb? 00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:16.340 The difference between the saint and the lost. 00:28:17.780 --> 00:28:20.080 He continues on, David does in verse 5. 00:28:20.780 --> 00:28:21.060 He says, 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:37.800 So when Israel conquered and inherited and went into the promised land, 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:44.920 each tribe was given a special inheritance of land except for the tribe of Levi. 00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:48.640 So imagine you're a part of the tribe of Levi, 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:50.160 and you see all the other tribes, 00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:51.340 and this is going to be your land, 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:52.480 and this is going to be your land, 00:28:52.520 --> 00:28:53.400 and this is going to be your land. 00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:54.420 And Levi's like, 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:55.440 What about us, right? 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:57.180 Well, we're just kind of hanging out over here. 00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:58.300 We'd like to get somewhere too. 00:28:58.360 --> 00:28:59.800 It ain't got to be as much as everybody else's, 00:28:59.820 --> 00:29:01.380 but could we get something, you know? 00:29:01.500 --> 00:29:04.880 And you see in time and time again that they don't, 00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:05.540 but then they're told, 00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:07.080 But you're going to get something special. 00:29:08.540 --> 00:29:09.640 You're going to get something special. 00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:12.560 And what the Levites would get, 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:15.560 what their inheritance would be, 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:20.320 was their service in the temple of the Lord was their inheritance. 00:29:20.580 --> 00:29:21.760 And so what they gained, 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.660 what they gathered in this, 00:29:23.820 --> 00:29:24.160 was that, 00:29:24.320 --> 00:29:24.620 No, no, no. 00:29:24.740 --> 00:29:25.900 They get the land. 00:29:26.060 --> 00:29:27.400 They're going to get the mountains. 00:29:27.580 --> 00:29:28.720 They're going to get the rivers. 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:29.840 They're going to get all of this. 00:29:29.840 --> 00:29:31.780 But what you are going to get 00:29:31.780 --> 00:29:34.960 is you are going to get the Lord. 00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:39.460 And that's what David is weaving in through here, 00:29:39.860 --> 00:29:41.580 of understanding in the goodness of God. 00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:42.700 So was David from Levi? 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:44.560 No, David was not from Levi. 00:29:44.860 --> 00:29:46.620 And this is why it's pointing to Christ. 00:29:47.940 --> 00:29:48.780 Because he says, 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.040 You are my cup. 00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:53.760 You are my portion. 00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:55.480 And we're going to see this at the very end, 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.580 that you are what I get, 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:00.180 and you are what I obtain. 00:30:01.060 --> 00:30:02.180 And so if we have the Lord, 00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:04.320 then what else do we need? 00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:05.720 Nothing. 00:30:06.940 --> 00:30:07.420 Nothing. 00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:09.320 If we have the Lord, 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.660 what else do we need? 00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:12.960 But the counter of that, 00:30:13.320 --> 00:30:14.760 that brings great tragedy, 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:15.400 is this. 00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:18.200 If we have everything, 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.640 and do not have the Lord, 00:30:21.420 --> 00:30:22.280 then we have nothing. 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:24.180 Then we have nothing. 00:30:27.080 --> 00:30:28.760 That's what we begin to see and look at, 00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:30.360 of what it means to know God. 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:32.380 My health has left me, 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:33.280 but I have the Lord. 00:30:34.620 --> 00:30:35.840 My family is gone, 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:36.780 but I have the Lord. 00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:39.420 My money has left me, 00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:40.440 but I have the Lord. 00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:42.660 But in all of these things, 00:30:42.820 --> 00:30:45.180 the depth of what it means to know. 00:30:46.120 --> 00:30:47.340 And so these last two verses, 00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:48.180 he says, 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:50.400 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel. 00:30:51.360 --> 00:30:53.680 In the night also my heart instructs me, 00:30:53.740 --> 00:30:54.240 verse eight, 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:56.780 I have set the Lord always before me, 00:30:57.020 --> 00:30:58.540 because he is at my right hand. 00:30:58.780 --> 00:31:00.600 I shall not be shaken. 00:31:00.760 --> 00:31:03.200 So David here in these last two verses, 00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:04.100 seven and eight, 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:07.060 he describes what fellowship with God looks like, 00:31:07.740 --> 00:31:12.500 of what it means to sit down at the table with God. 00:31:13.800 --> 00:31:14.100 You know, 00:31:14.100 --> 00:31:16.260 that's when you really begin to have the interactions. 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:18.220 Not through email, 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:19.600 not through social media, 00:31:19.760 --> 00:31:21.180 not through text messages, 00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:23.140 but when you sit down together. 00:31:23.260 --> 00:31:25.540 While I was gone on the mission trip, 00:31:25.580 --> 00:31:27.020 a very short mission trip for me, 00:31:27.220 --> 00:31:28.200 you can ask my wife, 00:31:28.280 --> 00:31:29.700 like we talked every single day. 00:31:29.780 --> 00:31:30.460 We would text, 00:31:30.540 --> 00:31:31.360 we would talk at night, 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:32.000 we would have these. 00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:33.540 But when I got home, 00:31:33.660 --> 00:31:36.040 what we both realized really quickly 00:31:36.040 --> 00:31:39.000 is that we need to spend time with each other. 00:31:39.140 --> 00:31:41.380 We need to be in the presence with one another. 00:31:41.380 --> 00:31:43.020 And so what David is saying is, 00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:44.180 there's that part where, 00:31:44.340 --> 00:31:45.680 where if we're just going through 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:47.880 the religious things that we're supposed to do, 00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:48.900 we're missing it. 00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:51.480 And so here's what fellowship with God looks like, 00:31:51.560 --> 00:31:53.120 of a depth of knowing him. 00:31:53.320 --> 00:31:53.560 He says, 00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:55.680 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel, 00:31:56.760 --> 00:31:58.080 who instructs me, 00:31:58.940 --> 00:31:59.300 who says, 00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:02.020 this is your plot and path in life 00:32:02.020 --> 00:32:03.720 to take and to do. 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.560 And that lays out obedience. 00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:07.180 He says, 00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:10.560 I've set the Lord always before me 00:32:10.560 --> 00:32:13.340 because he is at my right hand. 00:32:14.340 --> 00:32:14.600 Well, 00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:16.080 during the day of David, 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:17.620 who would have known this as a king, 00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:20.060 the person who sat at the right hand of the king 00:32:20.060 --> 00:32:20.800 was his advocate. 00:32:21.540 --> 00:32:21.740 Now, 00:32:21.780 --> 00:32:25.060 David's not saying that David is the king over Jesus, 00:32:25.180 --> 00:32:27.160 but what David is saying that in here, 00:32:27.420 --> 00:32:30.260 what we have in Christ is an advocate 00:32:30.260 --> 00:32:33.020 who every single day of every moment 00:32:33.020 --> 00:32:35.000 is working for you, 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:36.380 who is working for me, 00:32:36.580 --> 00:32:40.020 who is lining out the plan of our life 00:32:40.020 --> 00:32:42.160 for us to trust and follow him. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:43.680 And David, 00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:45.680 as we're going to look at these last three verses 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.340 really quickly, 00:32:46.600 --> 00:32:48.520 David's going to point to the goodness of Christ 00:32:48.520 --> 00:32:50.040 in this life 00:32:50.040 --> 00:32:53.720 sets a trajectory for the next two areas of goodness 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.500 that we're going to see. 00:32:55.060 --> 00:32:56.960 It sets a trajectory for us 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:00.060 that you and I oftentimes are afraid of, 00:33:00.780 --> 00:33:02.360 that you and I oftentimes 00:33:02.360 --> 00:33:04.700 hit an area of sadness 00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:05.880 when it's thought about 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:06.780 or when it's discussed 00:33:06.780 --> 00:33:08.120 and not only within us, 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.360 but also within the world. 00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:11.820 And so we're going to see this. 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:12.920 Look at verse 9 and 10. 00:33:14.300 --> 00:33:14.560 He says, 00:33:14.800 --> 00:33:32.540 What we're going to look at and understand here 00:33:32.540 --> 00:33:34.620 is the goodness of Christ in death. 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:39.840 Theologians said, 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:41.100 To delight in the Lord 00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:42.740 and his goodness 00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:46.100 and then lose all these blessings at death 00:33:46.100 --> 00:33:47.620 would be a great tragedy. 00:33:48.900 --> 00:33:50.540 This is only possible, 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.340 the goodness of Christ in death 00:33:52.340 --> 00:33:53.420 because Christ is alive. 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:54.960 If Christ is dead, 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:55.860 then all this is pointless. 00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:57.920 Paul says in 1 Corinthians 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.920 that if Christ was not resurrected from the dead, 00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:02.520 then our faith is pointless 00:34:02.520 --> 00:34:03.720 and we ought to be pitied. 00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:04.560 Right? 00:34:04.600 --> 00:34:06.420 And so that's what is interesting 00:34:06.420 --> 00:34:07.320 about certain people 00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:09.160 who want to meld and mesh 00:34:09.160 --> 00:34:10.560 different faiths together. 00:34:10.560 --> 00:34:13.480 Like everything that Jesus says 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.140 points to his resurrection 00:34:15.140 --> 00:34:17.200 and is fulfilled in his resurrection. 00:34:17.420 --> 00:34:19.160 So if you don't believe in the resurrection, 00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:20.880 then you don't believe in Christ. 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:23.780 And David says, 00:34:24.240 --> 00:34:26.620 since Christ is not dead, 00:34:27.220 --> 00:34:29.380 that David can face death 00:34:29.380 --> 00:34:31.140 with a glad heart 00:34:31.140 --> 00:34:32.580 and a glad soul 00:34:32.580 --> 00:34:34.700 because death isn't the end. 00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:36.800 It's just a step. 00:34:38.200 --> 00:34:39.640 In our world, 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:41.700 I don't want to ignore 00:34:41.700 --> 00:34:43.100 the hurt and the pain 00:34:43.100 --> 00:34:43.920 and the suffering 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:45.160 and the finality 00:34:45.160 --> 00:34:46.740 that death brings. 00:34:47.780 --> 00:34:49.800 But it is limited to 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.660 and bound to this life 00:34:52.660 --> 00:34:55.260 for those of us 00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:57.940 who are in Christ Jesus. 00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:00.960 And that's what makes the difference. 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:04.440 We've experienced that. 00:35:05.220 --> 00:35:07.480 We've experienced that a lot this year. 00:35:08.580 --> 00:35:10.400 And what is remarkable for me 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:11.580 when we sit down 00:35:11.580 --> 00:35:12.800 and we go through 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:14.700 someone who's experiencing that 00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:15.600 in their family, 00:35:15.720 --> 00:35:17.520 you've got some family sitting here now 00:35:17.520 --> 00:35:20.080 that death is all too fresh to them. 00:35:21.200 --> 00:35:22.920 Where the hope comes out, 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.740 where the joy is found, 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:27.860 is in the realization 00:35:27.860 --> 00:35:29.560 that while death 00:35:29.560 --> 00:35:30.780 is the finality 00:35:30.780 --> 00:35:31.940 of this life, 00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:34.480 you're not going to see him again here. 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:37.120 You're not going to talk to him again. 00:35:38.600 --> 00:35:39.560 They're not going to be around 00:35:39.560 --> 00:35:40.660 for Christmas or birthdays. 00:35:42.020 --> 00:35:42.900 There's going to be pain. 00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:43.600 There's going to be suffering. 00:35:43.720 --> 00:35:44.560 There's going to be tears. 00:35:45.980 --> 00:35:46.920 There's going to be mourning 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.020 that goes with that. 00:35:51.100 --> 00:35:52.340 But it's not final 00:35:52.340 --> 00:35:54.440 for those of us 00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:55.260 who are in Christ. 00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:57.580 It's not the finality 00:35:57.580 --> 00:35:59.600 that everyone sees. 00:36:00.560 --> 00:36:01.480 In Christ, 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:03.400 there's a newness 00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:04.900 that death brings. 00:36:06.040 --> 00:36:07.300 In Christ, 00:36:07.640 --> 00:36:08.920 there's a birth 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:10.220 that can take place 00:36:10.220 --> 00:36:11.340 because of death. 00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:13.220 And it's the last one 00:36:13.220 --> 00:36:13.760 that we're going to see 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:14.960 in verse 11. 00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:18.500 You make known to me 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:20.160 the path of life. 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:22.120 In your presence, 00:36:22.580 --> 00:36:24.340 there is fullness of joy. 00:36:25.100 --> 00:36:26.420 At your right hand 00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:27.640 are pleasures 00:36:27.640 --> 00:36:29.840 and amen to this word 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:31.120 forevermore. 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:31.920 Right? 00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:33.700 And it's the goodness 00:36:33.700 --> 00:36:35.200 of Christ 00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:36.260 in eternity. 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:38.700 I want to ask you 00:36:38.700 --> 00:36:39.160 a question. 00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:40.660 We started off with one. 00:36:40.740 --> 00:36:41.500 We're going to end on one. 00:36:42.860 --> 00:36:44.140 When you come to eternity, 00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:46.240 what comes to mind? 00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:52.360 When you think of eternity, 00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:54.640 and you begin 00:36:54.640 --> 00:36:55.540 to paint that picture 00:36:55.540 --> 00:36:59.240 of what it's going to be like, 00:37:00.240 --> 00:37:01.340 what comes to mind? 00:37:03.540 --> 00:37:04.800 Some that come to my mind, 00:37:05.620 --> 00:37:08.680 people that have gone before us. 00:37:11.260 --> 00:37:12.160 As parents, 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:14.400 siblings, 00:37:16.060 --> 00:37:16.520 children, 00:37:18.040 --> 00:37:18.500 friends. 00:37:20.580 --> 00:37:21.700 You can go back 00:37:21.700 --> 00:37:22.320 in your mind 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:23.120 to the rawness 00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:23.640 of the moment 00:37:23.640 --> 00:37:24.540 where you found out 00:37:24.540 --> 00:37:25.500 that you would not see 00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:26.500 that person anymore, 00:37:26.740 --> 00:37:28.100 and then you can find yourself 00:37:28.100 --> 00:37:29.300 finding that goodness 00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:30.300 of thinking through 00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:31.060 eternity 00:37:31.060 --> 00:37:32.200 and what it will be 00:37:32.200 --> 00:37:33.900 and that being reunited. 00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:36.280 You can think of that. 00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:38.300 For some of us, 00:37:38.340 --> 00:37:39.260 when we think of eternity, 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:39.580 right, 00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:40.460 man, 00:37:40.520 --> 00:37:41.080 we jump straight 00:37:41.080 --> 00:37:41.600 to Revelation, 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:42.140 right? 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:43.600 We think of all those 00:37:43.600 --> 00:37:45.220 descriptions of the angels 00:37:45.220 --> 00:37:46.580 and the beings, 00:37:46.680 --> 00:37:47.420 the heavenly beings 00:37:47.420 --> 00:37:47.920 that are there 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:48.740 and trying to get 00:37:48.740 --> 00:37:49.340 the imagery 00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:50.340 of what John 00:37:50.340 --> 00:37:51.160 is talking about 00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:52.920 and trying to paint, 00:37:53.020 --> 00:37:53.440 and so we think 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:54.100 of those things. 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:55.220 We think of the 00:37:55.220 --> 00:37:56.160 ornate descriptions 00:37:56.160 --> 00:37:57.300 of what heaven 00:37:57.300 --> 00:37:58.020 will be like 00:37:58.020 --> 00:37:59.200 with the street 00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:00.600 and the gates 00:38:00.600 --> 00:38:01.460 and the houses 00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:02.260 and the structures 00:38:02.260 --> 00:38:03.640 and all of those. 00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:04.520 Some of us, 00:38:04.700 --> 00:38:05.560 and we were part 00:38:05.560 --> 00:38:06.680 of this conversation, 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:07.620 kind of came up, 00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:07.920 right? 00:38:08.020 --> 00:38:08.180 Like, 00:38:08.240 --> 00:38:08.800 we're waiting 00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:09.460 for some answered 00:38:09.460 --> 00:38:09.980 questions, 00:38:10.080 --> 00:38:10.300 right? 00:38:10.460 --> 00:38:10.660 Like, 00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:11.360 just that moment, 00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:11.620 like, 00:38:11.720 --> 00:38:12.780 maybe like all of us 00:38:12.780 --> 00:38:13.180 can just kind of 00:38:13.180 --> 00:38:14.040 have five minutes 00:38:14.040 --> 00:38:14.380 where we're like, 00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:14.700 all right, 00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:15.440 mosquitoes, 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:16.300 fire ants, 00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:16.580 right? 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:17.840 Humidity in the south, 00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:18.080 like, 00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:19.080 could you give them to me? 00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:19.700 I need to know 00:38:19.700 --> 00:38:20.300 what's the purpose 00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:20.820 of all this, 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:21.040 right? 00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:22.640 Nats in Lexington, 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:23.420 help me out 00:38:23.420 --> 00:38:23.740 with this, 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:23.980 Lord, 00:38:24.040 --> 00:38:24.180 right? 00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:25.420 We think of all 00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:26.200 of these things 00:38:26.200 --> 00:38:26.620 that are there, 00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:28.660 and all of these things 00:38:28.660 --> 00:38:29.400 we can label 00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:30.580 if they're gonna happen 00:38:30.580 --> 00:38:31.640 or not, 00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:32.620 but what David 00:38:32.620 --> 00:38:33.840 is pointing us to, 00:38:33.980 --> 00:38:35.080 the truth of all 00:38:35.080 --> 00:38:35.580 of Scripture, 00:38:35.940 --> 00:38:36.640 of what Revelation 00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:37.320 chapter 4 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:38.180 and chapter 5 00:38:38.180 --> 00:38:39.060 points us to, 00:38:39.220 --> 00:38:40.200 is that all 00:38:40.200 --> 00:38:40.980 of the center 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:41.940 of the joy 00:38:41.940 --> 00:38:42.480 that we're going 00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:43.440 to experience 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:44.340 in eternity 00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:46.520 is not found 00:38:46.520 --> 00:38:48.060 in any aspect 00:38:48.060 --> 00:38:48.880 of heaven. 00:38:50.740 --> 00:38:52.340 It's Jesus himself. 00:38:54.700 --> 00:38:55.840 That he's it. 00:38:57.960 --> 00:38:59.040 That there doesn't 00:38:59.040 --> 00:39:00.180 need to be a sun 00:39:00.180 --> 00:39:01.100 because the light 00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:02.180 radiates from him. 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:06.000 That all of the goodness 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:07.240 that's there, 00:39:08.100 --> 00:39:09.500 of all of the joy 00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:10.340 that is found, 00:39:11.140 --> 00:39:12.460 of all of the suffering 00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:13.540 that has been removed, 00:39:13.700 --> 00:39:14.820 of every tear 00:39:14.820 --> 00:39:16.420 that has been wiped away, 00:39:16.680 --> 00:39:17.700 that all of it 00:39:17.700 --> 00:39:19.040 focuses on him 00:39:19.040 --> 00:39:21.600 and who he is 00:39:21.600 --> 00:39:23.600 and in the goodness 00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:24.300 of life 00:39:24.300 --> 00:39:25.920 that's found 00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:26.240 in him 00:39:26.240 --> 00:39:26.780 and him alone. 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:30.280 And that's what 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:31.140 David points us to. 00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:34.020 You make known 00:39:34.020 --> 00:39:34.380 to me 00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:34.860 the path 00:39:34.860 --> 00:39:35.500 of your life 00:39:35.500 --> 00:39:37.460 and in your presence 00:39:37.460 --> 00:39:39.680 there's the fullness 00:39:39.680 --> 00:39:40.200 of joy. 00:39:41.600 --> 00:39:42.660 not the sampling 00:39:42.660 --> 00:39:43.220 of joy 00:39:43.220 --> 00:39:44.420 the fullness 00:39:44.420 --> 00:39:44.980 of joy 00:39:44.980 --> 00:39:46.860 and at your right 00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:47.320 hand 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:48.680 are your pleasures 00:39:48.680 --> 00:39:50.540 forevermore. 00:39:51.720 --> 00:39:52.620 It's Jesus. 00:39:54.300 --> 00:39:55.260 I want to ask you 00:39:55.260 --> 00:39:55.680 a question 00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:57.320 as we wrap up. 00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:00.080 Do you know God? 00:40:01.560 --> 00:40:02.700 Do you know God? 00:40:04.020 --> 00:40:05.080 And are you known 00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:05.500 by him? 00:40:06.520 --> 00:40:07.040 Let's pray. 00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:12.620 Lord, 00:40:12.660 --> 00:40:13.040 I come to you 00:40:13.040 --> 00:40:13.580 this morning 00:40:13.580 --> 00:40:16.300 thanking you 00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:17.120 and praising you 00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:17.340 Lord 00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:20.560 for the opportunities 00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:21.740 that we have 00:40:21.740 --> 00:40:23.620 to live 00:40:23.620 --> 00:40:24.540 in your presence 00:40:24.540 --> 00:40:25.560 here on this earth. 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:27.300 Lord, 00:40:27.380 --> 00:40:28.480 I pray for us 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:29.520 as echoing 00:40:29.520 --> 00:40:30.220 the words 00:40:30.220 --> 00:40:31.060 of King David. 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:32.740 Lord, 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:34.100 preserve us 00:40:34.100 --> 00:40:35.120 oh God 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:37.680 in you 00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:38.580 may we take 00:40:38.580 --> 00:40:39.700 refuge. 00:40:41.580 --> 00:40:42.140 Lord, 00:40:42.180 --> 00:40:43.160 you are our Lord 00:40:43.160 --> 00:40:43.820 and we have 00:40:43.820 --> 00:40:45.120 no good 00:40:45.120 --> 00:40:45.940 apart 00:40:45.940 --> 00:40:47.020 from you. 00:40:49.300 --> 00:40:49.680 Lord, 00:40:49.720 --> 00:40:50.560 I pray for each 00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:51.180 and every one 00:40:51.180 --> 00:40:51.520 of us 00:40:51.520 --> 00:40:51.920 here 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:54.080 that we would 00:40:54.080 --> 00:40:55.140 take a depth 00:40:55.140 --> 00:40:55.860 of step 00:40:55.860 --> 00:40:56.980 of knowing you 00:40:56.980 --> 00:40:58.860 getting more 00:40:58.860 --> 00:40:59.520 and more 00:40:59.520 --> 00:41:00.360 engaged 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:01.280 more and more 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:02.040 desiring 00:41:02.040 --> 00:41:02.960 more and more 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:03.700 obedient 00:41:03.700 --> 00:41:04.640 more and more 00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:05.220 longing 00:41:05.220 --> 00:41:06.300 for your presence 00:41:06.300 --> 00:41:07.440 in our life 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:08.700 so that we can grow 00:41:08.700 --> 00:41:09.580 and that we can mature 00:41:09.580 --> 00:41:10.680 and that we can see 00:41:10.680 --> 00:41:13.120 as you would have us 00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:13.500 to see. 00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:17.680 Lord, 00:41:17.720 --> 00:41:18.540 I pray for those 00:41:18.540 --> 00:41:18.940 of us 00:41:18.940 --> 00:41:19.660 in this room 00:41:19.660 --> 00:41:23.460 who this year 00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:24.380 have experienced 00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:24.840 death 00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:28.680 and Lord, 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:29.420 while they know 00:41:29.420 --> 00:41:30.460 the pain 00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:31.020 of death 00:41:31.020 --> 00:41:35.480 the brokenness 00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:36.000 that comes 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:36.620 with death 00:41:36.620 --> 00:41:39.760 Lord, 00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:40.260 could they be 00:41:40.260 --> 00:41:41.300 reminded this morning 00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:41.920 of the goodness 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:42.600 of Christ 00:41:42.600 --> 00:41:43.680 in everything 00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:46.860 including loss 00:41:46.860 --> 00:41:52.020 and Lord, 00:41:52.100 --> 00:41:53.040 just take our eyes 00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:55.480 in our hearts 00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:58.960 and set them 00:41:58.960 --> 00:41:59.580 and turn them 00:41:59.580 --> 00:42:00.320 toward eternity 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:04.640 and Lord, 00:42:04.740 --> 00:42:05.500 may we lose 00:42:05.500 --> 00:42:09.560 any secondary 00:42:09.560 --> 00:42:10.420 desire 00:42:10.420 --> 00:42:12.560 here on this 00:42:12.560 --> 00:42:12.940 earth 00:42:12.940 --> 00:42:14.840 and secondary 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:15.420 longing 00:42:15.420 --> 00:42:16.580 in eternity 00:42:16.580 --> 00:42:18.280 that is anything 00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:19.160 other than you 00:42:19.160 --> 00:42:21.780 because Jesus 00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:22.820 you are our cup 00:42:22.820 --> 00:42:23.420 and you are 00:42:23.420 --> 00:42:24.040 our portion 00:42:24.040 --> 00:42:26.540 in you 00:42:26.540 --> 00:42:27.420 and you alone 00:42:27.420 --> 00:42:28.320 is their life 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.040 in you 00:42:30.040 --> 00:42:30.840 and you alone 00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:32.080 is their faith 00:42:32.080 --> 00:42:33.000 is their joy 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:33.740 is their hope 00:42:33.740 --> 00:42:35.780 Lord, 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:36.420 you take broken 00:42:36.420 --> 00:42:37.040 things and you 00:42:37.040 --> 00:42:37.600 make them 00:42:37.600 --> 00:42:38.320 new 00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:40.320 you take dead 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:40.980 things and you 00:42:40.980 --> 00:42:41.900 give them life 00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:43.800 you take things 00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:44.360 that are dirty 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:44.860 and you make 00:42:44.860 --> 00:42:45.600 them clean 00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:48.600 Lord, 00:42:48.660 --> 00:42:49.500 you restore 00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:53.120 and so Lord, 00:42:53.160 --> 00:42:53.620 I thank you 00:42:53.620 --> 00:42:54.200 for what you've 00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:55.160 done in my life 00:42:55.160 --> 00:42:55.560 and what you 00:42:55.560 --> 00:42:56.360 are continuing 00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:57.040 to do 00:42:57.040 --> 00:42:59.060 as you take 00:42:59.060 --> 00:43:00.240 this broken 00:43:00.240 --> 00:43:01.520 busted up 00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:03.080 failure ridden 00:43:03.080 --> 00:43:04.040 sinful 00:43:04.040 --> 00:43:05.540 prideful 00:43:05.540 --> 00:43:06.820 lustful 00:43:06.820 --> 00:43:08.360 ego driven 00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:09.240 man 00:43:09.240 --> 00:43:10.260 and you mold 00:43:10.260 --> 00:43:11.080 him and shape 00:43:11.080 --> 00:43:11.600 him and you 00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:12.260 do not call 00:43:12.260 --> 00:43:12.880 me by any 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:13.300 of those 00:43:13.300 --> 00:43:13.800 but you 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:14.220 call me 00:43:14.220 --> 00:43:14.700 a saint 00:43:14.700 --> 00:43:15.460 and every 00:43:15.460 --> 00:43:16.040 day you 00:43:16.040 --> 00:43:16.520 take every 00:43:16.520 --> 00:43:17.180 moment of 00:43:17.180 --> 00:43:17.980 every aspect 00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:18.560 and shape 00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:19.180 me more 00:43:19.180 --> 00:43:19.660 and more 00:43:19.660 --> 00:43:20.220 into the 00:43:20.220 --> 00:43:20.700 image and 00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:21.200 likeness of 00:43:21.200 --> 00:43:21.540 Christ 00:43:21.540 --> 00:43:22.160 here on 00:43:22.160 --> 00:43:22.620 this earth 00:43:22.620 --> 00:43:22.980 so that we 00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:23.420 can go 00:43:23.420 --> 00:43:23.660 and we 00:43:23.660 --> 00:43:24.180 can take 00:43:24.180 --> 00:43:24.780 our story 00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:25.100 we can 00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:25.460 take what 00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:25.700 you've 00:43:25.700 --> 00:43:25.920 done 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:26.100 and we 00:43:26.100 --> 00:43:26.560 can declare 00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:26.980 it to 00:43:26.980 --> 00:43:27.680 the nations 00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:28.340 so that as 00:43:28.340 --> 00:43:28.800 they seek 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:29.400 the things 00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:29.860 that bring 00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.540 them sorrow 00:43:30.540 --> 00:43:30.900 God 00:43:30.900 --> 00:43:31.360 that they 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:31.820 can begin 00:43:31.820 --> 00:43:32.260 to look 00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:32.560 and see 00:43:32.560 --> 00:43:32.960 that you're 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:33.340 the one 00:43:33.340 --> 00:43:33.800 that brings 00:43:33.800 --> 00:43:34.200 life 00:43:34.200 --> 00:43:34.780 that all 00:43:34.780 --> 00:43:35.100 of those 00:43:35.100 --> 00:43:35.500 things are 00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:35.820 dead 00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:36.400 and it is 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:36.920 in Christ 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:37.400 in Christ 00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:37.980 alone 00:43:37.980 --> 00:43:38.900 where life 00:43:38.900 --> 00:43:39.360 is found 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:41.860 where joy 00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:42.340 is given 00:43:42.340 --> 00:43:45.840 and you 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:46.180 do that 00:43:46.180 --> 00:43:46.720 not only 00:43:46.720 --> 00:43:47.160 in my 00:43:47.160 --> 00:43:47.580 life 00:43:47.580 --> 00:43:49.900 but everyone 00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:50.400 who calls 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:50.740 upon the 00:43:50.740 --> 00:43:50.980 name of 00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:51.300 the Lord 00:43:51.300 --> 00:43:55.340 Jesus I 00:43:55.340 --> 00:43:55.640 thank you 00:43:55.640 --> 00:43:56.220 for loving 00:43:56.220 --> 00:43:56.460 us 00:43:56.460 --> 00:43:57.020 thank you 00:43:57.020 --> 00:43:58.000 for saving 00:43:58.000 --> 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