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Speaker 1: Lasting joy, Hallelujah. And this is a message that actually
Speaker 1: I was going to share on Wednesday night, and as
Speaker 1: I got it ready, I just really felt impressed with
Speaker 1: the Lord to share it today. So did some switching
Speaker 1: and just as I prayed about it, felt like Lloyd said, no,
Speaker 1: that's for Sunday. Now on Wednesday night, I want to
Speaker 1: continue this. I think it's going to be a series
Speaker 1: ensem one because there's all I can really do is
Speaker 1: introduce it this morning. This is such a powerful psalm.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite songs, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: passages in the Bible, and there's so much truth in here.
Speaker 1: We'll be able to kind of introduce it today and
Speaker 1: outline it, but we'll get more in depth to it
Speaker 1: and plumb the depths of it. And I think as
Speaker 1: you hear it'll become one of your favorite passages and
Speaker 1: one of your favorite psalms. So i'd encourage you to
Speaker 1: come on Wednesday night, or get the CDs or listen
Speaker 1: to it online, because there's just some tremendous revelation, knowledge
Speaker 1: and truth in here. I want to first start out
Speaker 1: by talking about or mentioning a word, cynicism. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the secret of lasting joy. The opposite of that
Speaker 1: could be termed citicism cynicism. Lloyd Ogilvie said it this way.
Speaker 1: We'll have the quote on the screen. He said, Cynicism
Speaker 1: is addictive. It begins with negativism, grows into a critical
Speaker 1: attitude and becomes a settled personality trait. We all suffer
Speaker 1: this debilitating, virulent poison to some degree. The opposite of
Speaker 1: joy is not glumness, it's cynicism. You know, in these
Speaker 1: times in which we live and all the things we're facing,
Speaker 1: do you ever feel that trying to creep on you? Negativism,
Speaker 1: a critical attitude, and God forbid it becoming a settled
Speaker 1: personality trait? He says. We all suffer from it in
Speaker 1: one degree or another. So we want to guard against that.
Speaker 1: What issm cynicism? It's almost epidemic these days, it seems
Speaker 1: it's current times we are in the definition of cynicism,
Speaker 1: is this skepticism, pessimism, sarcasm, disbelief, doubt, mistrust, a scornful
Speaker 1: or jaded negativity, a general distrust of others' motives. So
Speaker 1: if you find yourself identifying with any of those, which
Speaker 1: is easy to do in these times, I mean, I
Speaker 1: talk to people and you can pick up cynicism. But
Speaker 1: if you sense any that skepticism, pessimism, sarcasm, disbelief, doubt, mistrust, scornful,
Speaker 1: jaded negativity, a general distrust of others and their motives,
Speaker 1: then this message is for you today. We're going to
Speaker 1: look at the secret of lasting joy and just the
Speaker 1: cynicism seems rampant today almost everywhere you look. Along with it,
Speaker 1: there's another thing that you can pick up is depression
Speaker 1: and sadness and gloominess, hopelessness and misery, just the general
Speaker 1: state of unhappiness in some people. And those things can
Speaker 1: be deadly. The question is is there an antidote? Does
Speaker 1: God provide a remedy? Should it surprise us that he does.
Speaker 1: There is a remedy to cynicism, to depression, to these things,
Speaker 1: and it works. So we're going to discover the day
Speaker 1: the secret of lasting joy? Is there a three thousand
Speaker 1: year old key embedded in the ancient scriptures. That is
Speaker 1: the secret of lasting happiness, true blessing and continuing joy
Speaker 1: and prosperity. It's been there for three thousand years. Many
Speaker 1: have discovered it, many are unaware of it. A three
Speaker 1: thousand year old secret, if you would, embedded in the
Speaker 1: ancient scriptures, just waiting to be discovered. Henry Ward Beecher
Speaker 1: said this, the cynic is one who never sees a
Speaker 1: good quality in a man and never fails to see
Speaker 1: a bad one. That defines a cynic pretty well. I
Speaker 1: think I should put that quote up there. If you
Speaker 1: got that, it should be up there. The cynic is
Speaker 1: one who never sees a good quality in a man
Speaker 1: and never fails to see a bad one. And then
Speaker 1: Robert Lewis Stevenson said this, to lose joy is to
Speaker 1: lose everything. To lose joy is to lose everything. So
Speaker 1: let's look at the secret of lasting joy and blessedness.
Speaker 1: And this three thousand year old key is right here
Speaker 1: in Psalm one, familiar psalm to many. But you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we can be so familiar with things that we
Speaker 1: don't really grasp the fullness of them. He starts out
Speaker 1: by saying, blessed is the man or the woman. Blessed
Speaker 1: is the man or the woman, and then he goes
Speaker 1: on to describe the state of blessedness. He gives us
Speaker 1: three negatives, two positives, one result in four characteristics or
Speaker 1: lasting fruit. He says, the blessed person is one who
Speaker 1: does not do three things, does do two things, and
Speaker 1: he becomes something with someone with four amazing results. Let's
Speaker 1: first look at this word blessed, blessed is the man blessed.
Speaker 1: It's the Hebrew wordes share e s h e r,
Speaker 1: and it means blessed, happy and favored, blessed happy, in favored.
Speaker 1: I think everybody wants to be blessed, wants to be happy,
Speaker 1: wants to be favored. Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament
Speaker 1: Works word says this word a shaer connotes the state
Speaker 1: of prosperity or happiness that comes when it's superior. In
Speaker 1: this case, it be Yahweh bestows his favor his blessing
Speaker 1: on one, and that would be us. Blessed is the man.
Speaker 1: Blessed is the man a Hebrew reads more, Oh, the
Speaker 1: blessednesses or the happiness is It's a plural. Oh, the
Speaker 1: blessedness is the happiness is of the man of the
Speaker 1: woman who doesn't do these three things and does do
Speaker 1: these two things, and he becomes or she becomes an
Speaker 1: amazing testimony of what God can do in a person's life.
Speaker 1: A share blessed or happy. Remember in Genesis. I've just
Speaker 1: been reading in Genesis in my one year Bible. And Leah,
Speaker 1: the one of the wives of Jacob, gave birth to
Speaker 1: a child, and she said, I am happy for the
Speaker 1: daughters will call me blessed. So she called his name Asher,
Speaker 1: from the same word here escher Asher. She said, I'm happy,
Speaker 1: I'm blessed. So she called her son's name Asher because
Speaker 1: Asher means happy, it means blessed. It's interesting this word,
Speaker 1: Hebrew word when you look at the etymology of it
Speaker 1: and the words that it's the pictures that it comes from,
Speaker 1: because Hebrew words also have a numerical value and a
Speaker 1: pictorial value. If you would and this word share pictures.
Speaker 1: A cord pulled tightly, A chord pulled tightly, straight or firm,
Speaker 1: like a chord of a or a rope on a
Speaker 1: tent that's pulled tightly to secure that tent. Hence this
Speaker 1: from the Complete Word Study Dictionary. This will be on
Speaker 1: the screen. Also, it defineses share this way as one
Speaker 1: who is happy is one whose life is lived straightly
Speaker 1: and firmly, holds to the truth, pulled a chord, pulled,
Speaker 1: firm and straight, he says. The Sphere to God says,
Speaker 1: the secret to happiness, blessedness, favor, prosperity is to live
Speaker 1: our lives in a straight and firm way, holding to
Speaker 1: the truth. And you'll be a share, You'll be blessed,
Speaker 1: you'll be happy. It goes on to say blessed is
Speaker 1: frequently connected to wisdom. We can see that in proverbs,
Speaker 1: especially the more wisdom we get, the more blessed we
Speaker 1: will become, and is used to describe not only a
Speaker 1: person but a nation. A nation can be blessed. Blessed
Speaker 1: is the nation whose God is the Lord. So people can,
Speaker 1: individuals can be blessed, nations can be blessed. It's usual
Speaker 1: to describe a person or nation who enjoys a relationship
Speaker 1: with God. So in simplest form, to be blessed is
Speaker 1: to enjoy a relationship with God. And you're blessed. Whether
Speaker 1: we know it or not. We are blessed if we
Speaker 1: enjoy a relationship with God. Now there's a lot of
Speaker 1: aspects of blessing. Are A tory in his Topical textbook
Speaker 1: lists forty three characteristics of the blessed from scripture. This
Speaker 1: forty three different scripture passages that identify and define the blessed.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot involved in that. But what the
Speaker 1: writer of Psalms here says, which may theorize, was David.
Speaker 1: What this psalm lets us know really covers a lot
Speaker 1: of those forty three different things I looked at all,
Speaker 1: and we're not going to go over them today, but
Speaker 1: a lot of them are covered. And right here in
Speaker 1: what Psalm one says, the word also means or speaks
Speaker 1: of one who chooses to live a significant life. A
Speaker 1: blessed person is one who chooses to live a significant life.
Speaker 1: If we do that, we will be blessed. Now look
Speaker 1: at the amplified the amplified Bible. For Psalm one starts out,
Speaker 1: bess happy, fortunate, prosperous, and to be envied is the
Speaker 1: man is the woman blessed? How many of us would
Speaker 1: like to be blessed? Happy, fortunate, prosperous, and even envied
Speaker 1: in a good sense. Well, that's what he's about to
Speaker 1: tell us. In fact, that Hebrew reads blessed is that
Speaker 1: man that woman who does not do three things, does
Speaker 1: do two things. That's that embedded key in scripture. So
Speaker 1: we look at three negatives, two positives, one result, and
Speaker 1: four amazing outcomes. Now, why would God give us three negatives?
Speaker 1: Because there are blessing blockers, there are joy stealers, and
Speaker 1: we have to guard against those and fight against those.
Speaker 1: And then the positives, there are blessing enhancers and joy
Speaker 1: providers that we want to embrace. So let's look at him.
Speaker 1: Let's go here, let's go on here. He says, blessed
Speaker 1: is the man or that man who walks not in
Speaker 1: the council of the ungodly, nor stands in the path
Speaker 1: of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
Speaker 1: So he says, the blessed person does not do three things.
Speaker 1: He walks not, he stands not, and he sits not.
Speaker 1: He does not walk, he does not sit stand, and
Speaker 1: he does not sit. He does not walk in the
Speaker 1: council of the ungodly, he does not stand in the
Speaker 1: path of sinners, and he does not sit in the
Speaker 1: seat of the scornful, so that the council of the ungodly,
Speaker 1: the path of sinners, the seat of the scornful. That
Speaker 1: can take many forms. And we are inundated with that
Speaker 1: kind of information because of the proliferation of twenty four
Speaker 1: to seven news in the Internet and all kinds like
Speaker 1: the video we saw to start this. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of scorn and mocking and different things out there,
Speaker 1: especially against I heard on Christian radio yesterday they're talking
Speaker 1: about the modern day war on Christianity. They said, there's
Speaker 1: so many Christians being even killed around the world, they
Speaker 1: can't even number them. It's a battle. But just even
Speaker 1: in our own lives, we have to guard against walking
Speaker 1: in the council of the ungodly, standing in the path
Speaker 1: of sinners, or sitting in the seat of the scornful.
Speaker 1: And notice this person that if we don't guard against that,
Speaker 1: we start out walking, then all of a sudden you're standing,
Speaker 1: then you're sitting. Goes from action to passivity to even worse,
Speaker 1: go from walking to just standing to now just sitting.
Speaker 1: Now here's the good news. We don't have to walk
Speaker 1: in the council of the godly. We can walk in
Speaker 1: the council of the Almighty. Hallelujah. We can walk in
Speaker 1: the council of the Godly. We can go to the
Speaker 1: Word of God and get the counsel of the Almighty.
Speaker 1: We can be around Christians and believers and feed on
Speaker 1: good Christian material and get the counsel of the godly. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We don't have to stand in the way of sinners. Rather,
Speaker 1: we can stand in the way of the righteous. We're
Speaker 1: doing that today. That's why we need to be in church,
Speaker 1: to be in the company of the righteous. You know,
Speaker 1: somebody said, you can be a Christian without going to church,
Speaker 1: but you're not going to be a strong Christian, a
Speaker 1: successful Christian, a victorious Christian without going to church. We
Speaker 1: need the body. We need to not stand in the
Speaker 1: seat of the scornful or in the path of sinners.
Speaker 1: We need to stand in the path of the righteous.
Speaker 1: And then we don't have to sit in the seat
Speaker 1: of the scornful. We can sit in the seat of
Speaker 1: the respectful, the reverential, which is the opposite of scorn.
Speaker 1: Respect and reverence. We need that today, a respect and
Speaker 1: a reverence, and we as the people of God, that's
Speaker 1: what should mark us that we heed the counsel of
Speaker 1: the almighty, heed the counts of the godly. We walk
Speaker 1: in the way of the righteous, and we sit in
Speaker 1: the seat of the respectful and the reverential. We choose
Speaker 1: to live a significant life. That's how one paraphrase of
Speaker 1: this psalm is blessed is the one who chooses to
Speaker 1: live a significant life. We on purpose choose to live
Speaker 1: a significant life, not going to be content, to walk
Speaker 1: in the council of being godly, to stand in the
Speaker 1: path of sinners, to sit in the seat of the scornful.
Speaker 1: Now you might say, well, pastor tim, you're describing my workplace.
Speaker 1: I know it can be that. But we are to
Speaker 1: be salt, we are to be light, and just because
Speaker 1: others do doesn't mean we have to we that's our
Speaker 1: mission field. Oftentimes our workplace for most people is their
Speaker 1: mission field. So we need to stand out. We need
Speaker 1: to be salt and light. We need to choose to
Speaker 1: live a significant life. So the first thing the Psalmist
Speaker 1: tells us is if we're going to be blessed, we
Speaker 1: need to be separated from the world. Separated from the world.
Speaker 1: Then he tells us, if we're going to be blessed.
Speaker 1: We not only need to be separated from the world.
Speaker 1: We need to be saturated with the word. Saturated with
Speaker 1: the word Verse two. But his delight? Whose delight? The
Speaker 1: blessed man, the blessed woman? Their delight is in the
Speaker 1: law of the Lord, and in his law. He met
Speaker 1: tates or she meditates day and night, saturated with the word,
Speaker 1: and as a result they are blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,
Speaker 1: and to be envied. Separated from the world, saturated with
Speaker 1: the word produces blessing, happiness, prosperity, favor and blessing. It's
Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. It is written, and it
Speaker 1: can't be changed. So three things not to do. We
Speaker 1: need to look at who are our mentors, Who are
Speaker 1: we listening to? Who are we reading after? What kind
Speaker 1: of books, kind of articles? What kind of programming are
Speaker 1: we listening to? Who are our mentors? And we choose,
Speaker 1: We make a decision. This is young people especially, This
Speaker 1: is so important you choose good mentors. But it applies
Speaker 1: to all ages. I was thinking of Coulton, though I
Speaker 1: know he's not here today, but I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say he's blessed. You know, and he's in
Speaker 1: church regularly. He's not here today. I know what's going on,
Speaker 1: but anyway, he's okay. But I see on his Instagram
Speaker 1: posts he posts things he's dreamed by Francis Chan and
Speaker 1: following Tim Tebow and that he's following good mentors. And
Speaker 1: that's so important that we follow good mentors because that's
Speaker 1: what's going to produce fruit in our lives. That's what
Speaker 1: we're going to that's what's going to shape us, old us.
Speaker 1: So three things not to do because there are things
Speaker 1: that are joy stealers and blessing blockers and you got
Speaker 1: to fight against those. I mean, just sharing this message
Speaker 1: this week, I had a joy stealer. I had to
Speaker 1: fight against Well, how do you you know? Because the
Speaker 1: devil comes to steal the seed, So how do you
Speaker 1: fight against it by holding faster the truths or the
Speaker 1: word of God. Sickness can be a joy stealer. People
Speaker 1: can be joy stealers. Circumstances, situations, just looking at the news,
Speaker 1: things going on to those can all be joy stealers.
Speaker 1: And we got to guard ourselves and actually fight against them.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, there are joy enhancers and blessing
Speaker 1: providers and those are the things we need to go after,
Speaker 1: such as saturing ourselves with a word. But then also
Speaker 1: good mentors, choosing to listen to good music, read good articles,
Speaker 1: have good godly friends. I mean, you can get around
Speaker 1: some people that are just so negative and so pessimistic,
Speaker 1: and they'll start to rub off on you after a while.
Speaker 1: You can't not saying you can't be a friend to them,
Speaker 1: but they're not the best people to be in close
Speaker 1: relationship with and spend a lot of time with because
Speaker 1: that's going to rub off. So three things not to do,
Speaker 1: and then these two things to do. Number one, delight
Speaker 1: in the law of the Lord, the blessed man, and
Speaker 1: these are blessing bringers, if you would, these are joy providers.
Speaker 1: Number one, delight in the law of the Lord. The
Speaker 1: two positives. The blessed man, the blessed woman delights in
Speaker 1: the law of the Lord. Think of that word delight.
Speaker 1: We delight in a lot of things, but do we
Speaker 1: delight in the law of the Lord. The blessed person
Speaker 1: delights in the law of the Look. He or she
Speaker 1: finds pleasure in reading, studying, and obeying God's word. The
Speaker 1: blessed person finds pleasure in reading the word of God,
Speaker 1: studying the word of God, and obeying the word of
Speaker 1: I say obeying because in the Hebrew, the idea of
Speaker 1: study implies obedience. The Hebrew concept is you haven't studied
Speaker 1: if you haven't obeyed. People that just study and have
Speaker 1: head knowledge but don't do it, they haven't studied. It
Speaker 1: implies obedience. So the blessed person the person that has
Speaker 1: pleasure in reading, studying, and obeying the word of the Lord,
Speaker 1: God's word, and it can be such a joy, such
Speaker 1: a pleasure. They delight in the Torah t o r
Speaker 1: a H, the Torah of Yahweh. You've heard that word,
Speaker 1: the Torah. The Jews still use it. But that's not
Speaker 1: just speaking of the law as it's translated here. The
Speaker 1: idea of the Torah speaks of the precepts, instructions, and
Speaker 1: teachings of God. It's all of scripture, all of scripture.
Speaker 1: It's not just the law. It's like, boy, you know,
Speaker 1: if I just looked at the Law and Leviticus, I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to delight in that. It's talking about all of scripture.
Speaker 1: Delight in it, enjoy studying it, enjoy reading it, studying it,
Speaker 1: obeying it. Meditating on it, and you'll be blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,
Speaker 1: and envied. This has been around for thousands of years,
Speaker 1: and thousands and possibly millions of people have put it
Speaker 1: to practice, acted on it, and discovered it to be
Speaker 1: the discovered it to be, so I, for one, can testify.
Speaker 1: Many of you can testify. I have found this to
Speaker 1: be true, to lead to the blessed life. As I
Speaker 1: did not do these three things and did these two things,
Speaker 1: I've discovered the blessed life, blessed, happy. I'm a happy,
Speaker 1: happy man. Mellelujah, blessed, happy, fortunate, consider myself very fortunate,
Speaker 1: very favored, Glory to God, prosperous, hallelujah. And I'll leave
Speaker 1: the envy off because that sounds prideful there. But like
Speaker 1: Jamie and I, a lot of people envous for a
Speaker 1: good look. So but I'll leave it at that. Michelle
Speaker 1: said he does the same thing Dad does. He stands
Speaker 1: in the mirror and says he, I get better looking
Speaker 1: every day. Some of us got and we can't get
Speaker 1: rid of it, right, Jamie, you can't help ourselves. That's right.
Speaker 1: One person describes it this way. For delight in the
Speaker 1: law of the Lord, They said, his ultimate concern is
Speaker 1: the will of God. His ultimate concern is the will
Speaker 1: of God. What does it mean to delight in the
Speaker 1: law of the Lord. For our ultimate concern to be
Speaker 1: the will of God? That person is better if you
Speaker 1: and I are ultimate concern is what is the will
Speaker 1: of God in this? In my marriage and my family,
Speaker 1: and my finances, and my job and my decisions I make,
Speaker 1: and my spending and my viewing habits, all these things,
Speaker 1: what is the will of God? That's my ultimate concern.
Speaker 1: I'll be blessed, happy, fortunate, to be envy. Now blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,
Speaker 1: to be envied. What does that spell joy? Joy? Blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,
Speaker 1: and to be envy spells joy. That's why I say
Speaker 1: this is the secret to continual joy, delight in the
Speaker 1: Law of the Lord. In the second positive second thing,
Speaker 1: the blessed person does he or she meditates in it
Speaker 1: day and night. To meditate in the Word of God
Speaker 1: day and night. Now, to meditate in the Hebrew is
Speaker 1: not just like modern day meditation. But it means to ponder,
Speaker 1: to go over and over in your mind, to mutter,
Speaker 1: to speak, the word of God. Lay in your bed
Speaker 1: at night before you go to sleep, and meditate the
Speaker 1: Word of God. Think about it throughout the day when
Speaker 1: you face a decision, Think what would Jesus do? What
Speaker 1: does the scripture say? When somebody tells you something, run
Speaker 1: it through the filter. What saith the scriptures? Is that
Speaker 1: in the scriptures? Is that what the Bible says? Because
Speaker 1: a lot of people tell you things and may try
Speaker 1: and make it sound like it's in the Bible, they
Speaker 1: don't have a scripture for it. I mean I've asked
Speaker 1: people before it really, well, what scripture is that? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's in there somewhere. You can't go
Speaker 1: by that. A lot of people say things that sound
Speaker 1: scripture that aren't scripture. You know, there's a term and
Speaker 1: a New Testament in the Greek pseudo logos. Logos is
Speaker 1: the word of God. But there's a term about speaking
Speaker 1: of a word in the New Testament pseudo logosi. It
Speaker 1: looks like the word sounds like the word, it's not
Speaker 1: the word. That's why we need to delight in it
Speaker 1: and meditate in it so we know what the word
Speaker 1: says and we will be blessed, happy fortune, prosperous and envied.
Speaker 1: So we meditate in it day and night. Our ultimate
Speaker 1: concern is the will of God. One paraphrase says this,
Speaker 1: he makes his daily decisions in respect to the word
Speaker 1: of God. The blessed man or blessed woman makes their
Speaker 1: daily decisions in respect to the word of God. Does
Speaker 1: this line up with scripture? I mean sometimes you hear
Speaker 1: people say, well, I know what the Bible says, but no,
Speaker 1: we can't do that. I know what the Bible says,
Speaker 1: so that's what I need to do. Not well, the
Speaker 1: Bible says that, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Speaker 1: But I think this sometimes you talk to people, well,
Speaker 1: brother Tim, I know the Bible says that, but this
Speaker 1: is what I believe. What There is no second Bible.
Speaker 1: So we delight in the law of the Lord. We
Speaker 1: meditate in a day and night. We don't walk in
Speaker 1: the councilors. Then God, we don't stand away since we
Speaker 1: don't sit in the sea. It are scornful and we
Speaker 1: will be blessed, happy, fortunate, envied. Now these three negatives
Speaker 1: and two positives add up to one result. Says in
Speaker 1: verse three, he shall be like a tree. He shall
Speaker 1: be like a tree. She shall be like a tree.
Speaker 1: It said, our lives will be like a tree, solid, stable,
Speaker 1: fixed withstands the storms. And this is no ordinary tree,
Speaker 1: as we're about to see. This is a tree that
Speaker 1: has four amazing characteristics. But that is the result of
Speaker 1: the three negatives, the two positives, the result or what
Speaker 1: we become. Three things we don't do, two things we do.
Speaker 1: And this is what we become, like a tree. And
Speaker 1: here's the four amazing outcomes or fruit that results from
Speaker 1: doing what we just read. Number one, we are planted.
Speaker 1: Number two, we are fruit bearing, Number three we are
Speaker 1: never dry, and number four we prosper whatever whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the economy and yeah, this is going on word
Speaker 1: whatever we prosper. I'd sure like that. Somebody says we
Speaker 1: can have it. He just told us. How glory to God.
Speaker 1: Three plus two still equals five. These three and two
Speaker 1: equal these five results like a tree, planted, fruit bearing,
Speaker 1: never dry, and prospering. Whatever. Now let's just go back
Speaker 1: and look at those before we close. Four amazing outcomes
Speaker 1: or fruit that results. Look at verse three. He shall
Speaker 1: be like a tree. And now these four amazing outcomes
Speaker 1: planted by the rivers of water. This is no ordinary tree.
Speaker 1: This is a tree that's planted by the rivers of water.
Speaker 1: Did you catch the plural there? It's not just a
Speaker 1: river of water. You have a tree planted by a
Speaker 1: river of water, it flourishes. But this is a tree
Speaker 1: planted by rivers of water. It's feeding on all kinds
Speaker 1: of sources. It's never dry, always flourishing, always prospering. Why
Speaker 1: because it's planted by the rivers. Now, I believe primarily,
Speaker 1: and there's probably other things, but I believe these rivers
Speaker 1: would be symbolic for us of the Holy Spirit, because
Speaker 1: he's oftentimes termed a river or water into scriptures and
Speaker 1: the Word of God, the Word of God is like
Speaker 1: is oftentimes symbolized by water. But the Word of God
Speaker 1: in three aspects, the living Word, Jesus, intimacy, fellowship with him,
Speaker 1: the written word, the scriptures, and the spoken word, taking
Speaker 1: the word and speaking out of our mouths. Those are
Speaker 1: rivers of living water. And we will be blessed, happy fortuns,
Speaker 1: as envy as we feed on those things. And we
Speaker 1: know that'll just be the result we'll have that Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit will be planted by the rivers, the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: the Living Word, the written word the spoken word. So
Speaker 1: not only is this person separated from the world saturated
Speaker 1: with the word, he's situated by the waters. Hallelujah. That's
Speaker 1: to be us, separated from the world saturated with the word,
Speaker 1: situated by the waters. Drought can come, bad times can come.
Speaker 1: We just got rivers we're drawing on. You can't even
Speaker 1: see him. Our roots are underground and we're just pulling
Speaker 1: on those rivers. In hard times, bad times, rough times,
Speaker 1: tough times, people say, how do you keep your joy?
Speaker 1: How can you be happy? How can you still say
Speaker 1: you're blessed? How come you're not on tranquilizers or downers?
Speaker 1: How comes you're not all depressed and discouraged. I know
Speaker 1: some of the things you've had to face. How can
Speaker 1: you still keep your joy? Rivers? Rivers? I got rivers
Speaker 1: I'm feeding on. You can't main, not, babe to see them.
Speaker 1: My roots go down and I'm going into those rivers.
Speaker 1: How do you get those roots tapping into those rivers?
Speaker 1: Don't walk into council, then Godi. Don't stand in the
Speaker 1: way of sinners, don't sit in the sea of the scornful,
Speaker 1: Delight in the word of the Lord, Meditate in it.
Speaker 1: Day and night, and you will be like a tree
Speaker 1: planted by the rivers of water. Secondly, you'll be fruit bearing.
Speaker 1: Notice verse thy that brings forth his fruit in its season.
Speaker 1: You bring forth fruit. What do you think of when
Speaker 1: you think of fruit? Well, hopefully Galatians five. The fruit
Speaker 1: of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
Speaker 1: self control. You're bringing that forth all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be? Isn't that a blessed life? Isn't that
Speaker 1: the Christian life to always be manifesting not just one
Speaker 1: or two of the fruit, but all of the fruit
Speaker 1: in its season. When that fruit is needed, you bring
Speaker 1: it forth. Sometimes love is needed, sometimes joy is needed,
Speaker 1: sometimes health, control is needed, sometimes gentleness is needed. You
Speaker 1: bring forth fruit in its season because you're blessed. You're
Speaker 1: delighting in the law of the Lord. You're meditating in
Speaker 1: a day and night. You're not walking in the council
Speaker 1: of the galley, you're not sitting in the seat of
Speaker 1: the scornful, you're not standing in the way of sinners.
Speaker 1: And as a result, you're bringing forth fruit in its season. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
Speaker 1: self control, there's the fruits of righteousness. There's the fruit
Speaker 1: of lost souls being saved. There's the fruit of holiness.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different fruit referred to in the scriptures. Thirdly,
Speaker 1: the third amazing outcome of doing what we've talked about
Speaker 1: not only planted, not only productive, but plentiful. Notice it
Speaker 1: says your leef also shall not wither. Why do leaves wither?
Speaker 1: They become dry? You don't go through that dryness. Relief
Speaker 1: does not wither. You're tapping into the source at all times.
Speaker 1: You are. You have that fresh sap if you would,
Speaker 1: because you're not doing those three things. You're doing those
Speaker 1: two things, and you're blessed, happy, fortune to be envied.
Speaker 1: This is the secret of continual joy. So this person
Speaker 1: is planted, productive, and plentiful, never dry. Talk to some
Speaker 1: people who are always going through dry spells on this
Speaker 1: another dry season, just going through a dry time. They
Speaker 1: don't have to despite what's going on around us or
Speaker 1: to us. We can stay on the mountaintop, we can
Speaker 1: stay with God, we can stay by the rivers. And
Speaker 1: then the fourth amazing outcome is prosperous, planted, productive, give plentiful, prosperous. Notice,
Speaker 1: and whatever he does shall prosper. Whatever he does. It
Speaker 1: doesn't just say he'll prosper. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Speaker 1: How can that be? Because they're tapping into the wisdom
Speaker 1: of God, the delighting in the word of God. They're
Speaker 1: meditating in a day and night, and that wisdom is
Speaker 1: coming forth. And whatever you do prospers financially, mentally, emotionally, physically,
Speaker 1: health wise, family wise, relationship wise, just prospering. God's given
Speaker 1: us the secret the keys. Whatever we do prospers. One
Speaker 1: commentation read it this way. His life is productive and effective.
Speaker 1: His life is productive and effective. The passion translation reads,
Speaker 1: he brings things to a successful conclusion. He brings things
Speaker 1: to a successful conclusion. Prosperity, success, victory. Prosperity in the
Speaker 1: scriptures is not only finances, but it's prospering spirit, soul, body, finances,
Speaker 1: and socially. Whatever he does prospers. Well, most of us
Speaker 1: are thinking, yes, I want that that whatever I do prospers.
Speaker 1: How do I get that? Walk not in the council
Speaker 1: of in golly, don't stand in the way of sinners,
Speaker 1: don't sit in the seat of the scornful. And that
Speaker 1: could be people, It could be things you read, things
Speaker 1: you listen to, thanks you meditate on, people you surround
Speaker 1: yourself with. Don't do that. Instead, walk in the counsel
Speaker 1: of the almighty, standing the way of the righteous, sit
Speaker 1: in the seat of the respectful and the reverential, and
Speaker 1: then delight find pleasure in the Word of God. It's
Speaker 1: not a book just to be I gotta read my Bible.
Speaker 1: I guess I should read it. I guess I act
Speaker 1: to read. No delight in it. If that's not there,
Speaker 1: ask God to help you delight in it and persevere.
Speaker 1: And the more you stay with it, that delight will
Speaker 1: come and manifest stronger and stronger. The more you read
Speaker 1: it and the more you study it, the more delightful
Speaker 1: it becomes. And you may go through some dry times
Speaker 1: sometimes it's say I just don't feel like I'm getting
Speaker 1: anything out of this, or there's just not nothing's happening.
Speaker 1: Just hang in there, baby, because it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: It'll come. It will oh come. And especially if you
Speaker 1: just pray, say God, help me give me a hunger
Speaker 1: for your word, give me a greater desire for your word.
Speaker 1: Help me to delight in your word. In fact, let's
Speaker 1: pray that right now, close your eyes and say this
Speaker 1: with me. Father, I ask you to give me a
Speaker 1: greater hunger, a greater desire, and a delight in your
Speaker 1: word and for your word, and I receive it in
Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Amen. And then that other aspect. Meditate in
Speaker 1: it day and night. Train yourself to meditate in the
Speaker 1: word day and night. Let it be your ultimate concern,
Speaker 1: the will of God, and let it affect your daily decisions.
Speaker 1: And then meditate in it. Think about it, ponder it,
Speaker 1: hold on, think about it, ponder it, mutter it land
Speaker 1: your bed at night, and go over it when you
Speaker 1: face the decision. What would the scriptures say? What would
Speaker 1: Jesus do? Apply these things we've talked about, and you
Speaker 1: will be blessed, happy, fortunate, favored, and envied glory to God. Amen.
Speaker 1: We'll continue this Wednesday night and we'll dig into it
Speaker 1: even more. But there is so much good truth there. Now.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of hands. People were getting something.
Speaker 1: I think they want to share a pastor of ust
Speaker 1: I think did and the announce it. We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and open that. Go ahead. There's a proverb that says,
Speaker 1: having just the right word for the right occasion perfect,
Speaker 1: all right. And then.
Speaker 3: I've looked at the rivers Eel River and Wabash River,
Speaker 3: for example, and I see trees all along the banks.
Speaker 3: Those are happened so trees, and those trees get what
Speaker 3: water they can whenever the water is there, and sometimes
Speaker 3: they're over flooded. But I see here that this tree
Speaker 3: is planted. It has not happened so and we are
Speaker 3: not happen So in God's plan, we are planted. And
Speaker 3: those rivers of water are not simply a happen so
Speaker 3: river like the Wabash or the Eel River. But these
Speaker 3: are channels, irrigation channels. We have been purposely planted in
Speaker 3: a place of His favor. We have been watered by
Speaker 3: water that he brings to our place, by channels that
Speaker 3: He's prepared. Everything is prepared for us to prosper by
Speaker 3: his hand.
Speaker 1: For sharing time.
Speaker 2: Here, I just want to encourage anybody that's going through
Speaker 2: a dry spell that I've been there, and just even
Speaker 2: though you don't feel like it, just continue to enter
Speaker 2: into God's presence and to ask him to help you,
Speaker 2: like Pastor Tim was saying, and that time of refreshing
Speaker 2: and that water will come, and that dryness will eventually
Speaker 2: fade and pass away. So I just wanted to encourage
Speaker 2: anyone that was out there.
Speaker 1: Anybody else have something they wanted to share before they
Speaker 1: go okay, and they're not a fan. They got to
Speaker 1: get to a family gathering. So bless you guys, bring
Speaker 1: us some food back.
Speaker 4: Just as Pastor was sharing about what you know, thinking
Speaker 4: about where we walk, sit, and stand, I felt like
Speaker 4: the spirit said to me to the well, and this
Speaker 4: is what Pastor brought out in the sermon. But we
Speaker 4: can stand, we stand separate from the world, we sit
Speaker 4: studying the word, and then we're walking in the water. Amen.
Speaker 1: All right, anyone else Okay, Nikki gets to get up
Speaker 1: and try and top those strings.
Speaker 4: Come on, okay, then thank you for listening. We hope
Speaker 4: that you enjoy today's episode. Don't forget to share and
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