WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome Just hind Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.679 of inspiring, heartfelt tagalog. 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.519 Sermons from different pastors and speakers all over the Philippines. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.320 We hope that this podcast finds you in good shape. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:24.760 And now here's your message. 6 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:30.039 Lasting joy, Hallelujah. And this is a message that actually 7 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.679 I was going to share on Wednesday night, and as 8 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.679 I got it ready, I just really felt impressed with 9 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:42.119 the Lord to share it today. So did some switching 10 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.640 and just as I prayed about it, felt like Lloyd said, no, 11 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.000 that's for Sunday. Now on Wednesday night, I want to 12 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:50.920 continue this. I think it's going to be a series 13 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.520 ensem one because there's all I can really do is 14 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.960 introduce it this morning. This is such a powerful psalm. 15 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.079 It's one of my favorite songs, one of my favorite 16 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:04.599 passages in the Bible, and there's so much truth in here. 17 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:08.400 We'll be able to kind of introduce it today and 18 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.840 outline it, but we'll get more in depth to it 19 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:14.680 and plumb the depths of it. And I think as 20 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.920 you hear it'll become one of your favorite passages and 21 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:18.920 one of your favorite psalms. So i'd encourage you to 22 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.280 come on Wednesday night, or get the CDs or listen 23 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:27.840 to it online, because there's just some tremendous revelation, knowledge 24 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:33.079 and truth in here. I want to first start out 25 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:40.799 by talking about or mentioning a word, cynicism. We're talking 26 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:46.840 about the secret of lasting joy. The opposite of that 27 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.359 could be termed citicism cynicism. Lloyd Ogilvie said it this way. 28 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.079 We'll have the quote on the screen. He said, Cynicism 29 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:05.000 is addictive. It begins with negativism, grows into a critical 30 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:12.639 attitude and becomes a settled personality trait. We all suffer 31 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:20.199 this debilitating, virulent poison to some degree. The opposite of 32 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:28.759 joy is not glumness, it's cynicism. You know, in these 33 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:32.960 times in which we live and all the things we're facing, 34 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.919 do you ever feel that trying to creep on you? Negativism, 35 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:42.479 a critical attitude, and God forbid it becoming a settled 36 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.639 personality trait? He says. We all suffer from it in 37 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.520 one degree or another. So we want to guard against that. 38 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:57.919 What issm cynicism? It's almost epidemic these days, it seems 39 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:02.759 it's current times we are in the definition of cynicism, 40 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:17.520 is this skepticism, pessimism, sarcasm, disbelief, doubt, mistrust, a scornful 41 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:25.319 or jaded negativity, a general distrust of others' motives. So 42 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.560 if you find yourself identifying with any of those, which 43 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.919 is easy to do in these times, I mean, I 44 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.479 talk to people and you can pick up cynicism. But 45 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:46.319 if you sense any that skepticism, pessimism, sarcasm, disbelief, doubt, mistrust, scornful, 46 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.439 jaded negativity, a general distrust of others and their motives, 47 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:55.520 then this message is for you today. We're going to 48 00:03:55.560 --> 00:04:01.319 look at the secret of lasting joy and just the 49 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:06.280 cynicism seems rampant today almost everywhere you look. Along with it, 50 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.800 there's another thing that you can pick up is depression 51 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:17.639 and sadness and gloominess, hopelessness and misery, just the general 52 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.079 state of unhappiness in some people. And those things can 53 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:27.600 be deadly. The question is is there an antidote? Does 54 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:35.240 God provide a remedy? Should it surprise us that he does. 55 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.639 There is a remedy to cynicism, to depression, to these things, 56 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:47.839 and it works. So we're going to discover the day 57 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:53.439 the secret of lasting joy? Is there a three thousand 58 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.959 year old key embedded in the ancient scriptures. That is 59 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:06.959 the secret of lasting happiness, true blessing and continuing joy 60 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:13.759 and prosperity. It's been there for three thousand years. Many 61 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:18.680 have discovered it, many are unaware of it. A three 62 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.399 thousand year old secret, if you would, embedded in the 63 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:32.120 ancient scriptures, just waiting to be discovered. Henry Ward Beecher 64 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.399 said this, the cynic is one who never sees a 65 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:38.639 good quality in a man and never fails to see 66 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:46.839 a bad one. That defines a cynic pretty well. I 67 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.240 think I should put that quote up there. If you 68 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.279 got that, it should be up there. The cynic is 69 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:54.920 one who never sees a good quality in a man 70 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:00.120 and never fails to see a bad one. And then 71 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.600 Robert Lewis Stevenson said this, to lose joy is to 72 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:14.360 lose everything. To lose joy is to lose everything. So 73 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:20.120 let's look at the secret of lasting joy and blessedness. 74 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.560 And this three thousand year old key is right here 75 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:30.279 in Psalm one, familiar psalm to many. But you know, 76 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:32.720 sometimes we can be so familiar with things that we 77 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:37.480 don't really grasp the fullness of them. He starts out 78 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:44.680 by saying, blessed is the man or the woman. Blessed 79 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.600 is the man or the woman, and then he goes 80 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:54.040 on to describe the state of blessedness. He gives us 81 00:06:54.079 --> 00:07:03.920 three negatives, two positives, one result in four characteristics or 82 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:10.560 lasting fruit. He says, the blessed person is one who 83 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:17.680 does not do three things, does do two things, and 84 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:26.439 he becomes something with someone with four amazing results. Let's 85 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:32.920 first look at this word blessed, blessed is the man blessed. 86 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.240 It's the Hebrew wordes share e s h e r, 87 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:49.360 and it means blessed, happy and favored, blessed happy, in favored. 88 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.079 I think everybody wants to be blessed, wants to be happy, 89 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:59.759 wants to be favored. Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament 90 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:04.160 Works word says this word a shaer connotes the state 91 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:09.839 of prosperity or happiness that comes when it's superior. In 92 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:14.199 this case, it be Yahweh bestows his favor his blessing 93 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:20.160 on one, and that would be us. Blessed is the man. 94 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.959 Blessed is the man a Hebrew reads more, Oh, the 95 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:31.319 blessednesses or the happiness is It's a plural. Oh, the 96 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.639 blessedness is the happiness is of the man of the 97 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:40.120 woman who doesn't do these three things and does do 98 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:45.559 these two things, and he becomes or she becomes an 99 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:51.519 amazing testimony of what God can do in a person's life. 100 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:56.840 A share blessed or happy. Remember in Genesis. I've just 101 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:02.000 been reading in Genesis in my one year Bible. And Leah, 102 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:08.120 the one of the wives of Jacob, gave birth to 103 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:12.240 a child, and she said, I am happy for the 104 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:18.679 daughters will call me blessed. So she called his name Asher, 105 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:25.039 from the same word here escher Asher. She said, I'm happy, 106 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:31.840 I'm blessed. So she called her son's name Asher because 107 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:41.159 Asher means happy, it means blessed. It's interesting this word, 108 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.440 Hebrew word when you look at the etymology of it 109 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.080 and the words that it's the pictures that it comes from, 110 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:55.559 because Hebrew words also have a numerical value and a 111 00:09:55.639 --> 00:10:02.720 pictorial value. If you would and this word share pictures. 112 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:09.240 A cord pulled tightly, A chord pulled tightly, straight or firm, 113 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.360 like a chord of a or a rope on a 114 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:18.120 tent that's pulled tightly to secure that tent. Hence this 115 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.480 from the Complete Word Study Dictionary. This will be on 116 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:28.159 the screen. Also, it defineses share this way as one 117 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:32.879 who is happy is one whose life is lived straightly 118 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:38.440 and firmly, holds to the truth, pulled a chord, pulled, 119 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.720 firm and straight, he says. The Sphere to God says, 120 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:51.559 the secret to happiness, blessedness, favor, prosperity is to live 121 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:57.480 our lives in a straight and firm way, holding to 122 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:02.480 the truth. And you'll be a share, You'll be blessed, 123 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.879 you'll be happy. It goes on to say blessed is 124 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.919 frequently connected to wisdom. We can see that in proverbs, 125 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.759 especially the more wisdom we get, the more blessed we 126 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.240 will become, and is used to describe not only a 127 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:23.240 person but a nation. A nation can be blessed. Blessed 128 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:27.480 is the nation whose God is the Lord. So people can, 129 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:31.960 individuals can be blessed, nations can be blessed. It's usual 130 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:36.120 to describe a person or nation who enjoys a relationship 131 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.720 with God. So in simplest form, to be blessed is 132 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:45.799 to enjoy a relationship with God. And you're blessed. Whether 133 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.279 we know it or not. We are blessed if we 134 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:51.600 enjoy a relationship with God. Now there's a lot of 135 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:57.320 aspects of blessing. Are A tory in his Topical textbook 136 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:03.440 lists forty three characteristics of the blessed from scripture. This 137 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.840 forty three different scripture passages that identify and define the blessed. 138 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:13.759 So there's a lot involved in that. But what the 139 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:19.559 writer of Psalms here says, which may theorize, was David. 140 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:25.200 What this psalm lets us know really covers a lot 141 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.559 of those forty three different things I looked at all, 142 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.840 and we're not going to go over them today, but 143 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:31.759 a lot of them are covered. And right here in 144 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:40.039 what Psalm one says, the word also means or speaks 145 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:44.720 of one who chooses to live a significant life. A 146 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:51.039 blessed person is one who chooses to live a significant life. 147 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.639 If we do that, we will be blessed. Now look 148 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:59.399 at the amplified the amplified Bible. For Psalm one starts out, 149 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:06.879 bess happy, fortunate, prosperous, and to be envied is the 150 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:12.840 man is the woman blessed? How many of us would 151 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:18.080 like to be blessed? Happy, fortunate, prosperous, and even envied 152 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:23.759 in a good sense. Well, that's what he's about to 153 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.679 tell us. In fact, that Hebrew reads blessed is that 154 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:34.360 man that woman who does not do three things, does 155 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:42.000 do two things. That's that embedded key in scripture. So 156 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:46.120 we look at three negatives, two positives, one result, and 157 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:52.799 four amazing outcomes. Now, why would God give us three negatives? 158 00:13:54.159 --> 00:14:00.519 Because there are blessing blockers, there are joy stealers, and 159 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.360 we have to guard against those and fight against those. 160 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:08.600 And then the positives, there are blessing enhancers and joy 161 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:14.120 providers that we want to embrace. So let's look at him. 162 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:17.080 Let's go here, let's go on here. He says, blessed 163 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.159 is the man or that man who walks not in 164 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.559 the council of the ungodly, nor stands in the path 165 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.720 of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. 166 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:32.960 So he says, the blessed person does not do three things. 167 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.399 He walks not, he stands not, and he sits not. 168 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:44.279 He does not walk, he does not sit stand, and 169 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:50.000 he does not sit. He does not walk in the 170 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.399 council of the ungodly, he does not stand in the 171 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:58.120 path of sinners, and he does not sit in the 172 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:05.039 seat of the scornful, so that the council of the ungodly, 173 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.799 the path of sinners, the seat of the scornful. That 174 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.399 can take many forms. And we are inundated with that 175 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:18.559 kind of information because of the proliferation of twenty four 176 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.320 to seven news in the Internet and all kinds like 177 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.279 the video we saw to start this. I mean, there's 178 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:29.399 a lot of scorn and mocking and different things out there, 179 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.159 especially against I heard on Christian radio yesterday they're talking 180 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:38.039 about the modern day war on Christianity. They said, there's 181 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.559 so many Christians being even killed around the world, they 182 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:48.960 can't even number them. It's a battle. But just even 183 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.799 in our own lives, we have to guard against walking 184 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:57.399 in the council of the ungodly, standing in the path 185 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.960 of sinners, or sitting in the seat of the scornful. 186 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:07.799 And notice this person that if we don't guard against that, 187 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.480 we start out walking, then all of a sudden you're standing, 188 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:19.399 then you're sitting. Goes from action to passivity to even worse, 189 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:23.559 go from walking to just standing to now just sitting. 190 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.879 Now here's the good news. We don't have to walk 191 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:33.480 in the council of the godly. We can walk in 192 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:38.200 the council of the Almighty. Hallelujah. We can walk in 193 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.639 the council of the Godly. We can go to the 194 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.440 Word of God and get the counsel of the Almighty. 195 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.279 We can be around Christians and believers and feed on 196 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:56.240 good Christian material and get the counsel of the godly. Hallelujah. 197 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:02.559 We don't have to stand in the way of sinners. Rather, 198 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.160 we can stand in the way of the righteous. We're 199 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:08.079 doing that today. That's why we need to be in church, 200 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.480 to be in the company of the righteous. You know, 201 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.039 somebody said, you can be a Christian without going to church, 202 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.799 but you're not going to be a strong Christian, a 203 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:22.400 successful Christian, a victorious Christian without going to church. We 204 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:28.519 need the body. We need to not stand in the 205 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:31.880 seat of the scornful or in the path of sinners. 206 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.279 We need to stand in the path of the righteous. 207 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.039 And then we don't have to sit in the seat 208 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.640 of the scornful. We can sit in the seat of 209 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:48.279 the respectful, the reverential, which is the opposite of scorn. 210 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:53.359 Respect and reverence. We need that today, a respect and 211 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.279 a reverence, and we as the people of God, that's 212 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:01.559 what should mark us that we heed the counsel of 213 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:05.880 the almighty, heed the counts of the godly. We walk 214 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:08.880 in the way of the righteous, and we sit in 215 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:14.519 the seat of the respectful and the reverential. We choose 216 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:20.799 to live a significant life. That's how one paraphrase of 217 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.880 this psalm is blessed is the one who chooses to 218 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:30.839 live a significant life. We on purpose choose to live 219 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:37.440 a significant life, not going to be content, to walk 220 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.200 in the council of being godly, to stand in the 221 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.680 path of sinners, to sit in the seat of the scornful. 222 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:47.599 Now you might say, well, pastor tim, you're describing my workplace. 223 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.880 I know it can be that. But we are to 224 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:57.079 be salt, we are to be light, and just because 225 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:01.720 others do doesn't mean we have to we that's our 226 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:06.640 mission field. Oftentimes our workplace for most people is their 227 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:11.200 mission field. So we need to stand out. We need 228 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.119 to be salt and light. We need to choose to 229 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:20.519 live a significant life. So the first thing the Psalmist 230 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:24.079 tells us is if we're going to be blessed, we 231 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:31.480 need to be separated from the world. Separated from the world. 232 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.319 Then he tells us, if we're going to be blessed. 233 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:38.039 We not only need to be separated from the world. 234 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:44.759 We need to be saturated with the word. Saturated with 235 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:51.000 the word Verse two. But his delight? Whose delight? The 236 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:55.400 blessed man, the blessed woman? Their delight is in the 237 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.839 law of the Lord, and in his law. He met 238 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:06.759 tates or she meditates day and night, saturated with the word, 239 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:13.160 and as a result they are blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, 240 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:19.880 and to be envied. Separated from the world, saturated with 241 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:31.440 the word produces blessing, happiness, prosperity, favor and blessing. It's 242 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:36.079 the word of the Lord. It is written, and it 243 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:46.920 can't be changed. So three things not to do. We 244 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.039 need to look at who are our mentors, Who are 245 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:57.400 we listening to? Who are we reading after? What kind 246 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:03.079 of books, kind of articles? What kind of programming are 247 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:10.200 we listening to? Who are our mentors? And we choose, 248 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.480 We make a decision. This is young people especially, This 249 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:21.119 is so important you choose good mentors. But it applies 250 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:26.160 to all ages. I was thinking of Coulton, though I 251 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.440 know he's not here today, but I was thinking, you know, 252 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:32.359 I would say he's blessed. You know, and he's in 253 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:34.920 church regularly. He's not here today. I know what's going on, 254 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:41.000 but anyway, he's okay. But I see on his Instagram 255 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:43.640 posts he posts things he's dreamed by Francis Chan and 256 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:48.519 following Tim Tebow and that he's following good mentors. And 257 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:53.960 that's so important that we follow good mentors because that's 258 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:56.839 what's going to produce fruit in our lives. That's what 259 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.559 we're going to that's what's going to shape us, old us. 260 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:06.480 So three things not to do because there are things 261 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:12.079 that are joy stealers and blessing blockers and you got 262 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:16.279 to fight against those. I mean, just sharing this message 263 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:18.839 this week, I had a joy stealer. I had to 264 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.279 fight against Well, how do you you know? Because the 265 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:25.599 devil comes to steal the seed, So how do you 266 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.240 fight against it by holding faster the truths or the 267 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:34.119 word of God. Sickness can be a joy stealer. People 268 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:41.799 can be joy stealers. Circumstances, situations, just looking at the news, 269 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.920 things going on to those can all be joy stealers. 270 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:51.160 And we got to guard ourselves and actually fight against them. 271 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:58.720 On the other hand, there are joy enhancers and blessing 272 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.880 providers and those are the things we need to go after, 273 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:06.160 such as saturing ourselves with a word. But then also 274 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:11.319 good mentors, choosing to listen to good music, read good articles, 275 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.359 have good godly friends. I mean, you can get around 276 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:19.240 some people that are just so negative and so pessimistic, 277 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:21.839 and they'll start to rub off on you after a while. 278 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.599 You can't not saying you can't be a friend to them, 279 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.039 but they're not the best people to be in close 280 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:33.200 relationship with and spend a lot of time with because 281 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:41.000 that's going to rub off. So three things not to do, 282 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:45.519 and then these two things to do. Number one, delight 283 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:50.000 in the law of the Lord, the blessed man, and 284 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:54.640 these are blessing bringers, if you would, these are joy providers. 285 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.359 Number one, delight in the law of the Lord. The 286 00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:03.000 two positives. The blessed man, the blessed woman delights in 287 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.319 the law of the Lord. Think of that word delight. 288 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:11.519 We delight in a lot of things, but do we 289 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:17.519 delight in the law of the Lord. The blessed person 290 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:20.160 delights in the law of the Look. He or she 291 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:33.359 finds pleasure in reading, studying, and obeying God's word. The 292 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.440 blessed person finds pleasure in reading the word of God, 293 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:41.440 studying the word of God, and obeying the word of 294 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:44.519 I say obeying because in the Hebrew, the idea of 295 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:51.119 study implies obedience. The Hebrew concept is you haven't studied 296 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:53.920 if you haven't obeyed. People that just study and have 297 00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:57.519 head knowledge but don't do it, they haven't studied. It 298 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:02.480 implies obedience. So the blessed person the person that has 299 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.400 pleasure in reading, studying, and obeying the word of the Lord, 300 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:12.599 God's word, and it can be such a joy, such 301 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:20.119 a pleasure. They delight in the Torah t o r 302 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:24.079 a H, the Torah of Yahweh. You've heard that word, 303 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:27.480 the Torah. The Jews still use it. But that's not 304 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:31.839 just speaking of the law as it's translated here. The 305 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:37.079 idea of the Torah speaks of the precepts, instructions, and 306 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:41.599 teachings of God. It's all of scripture, all of scripture. 307 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.359 It's not just the law. It's like, boy, you know, 308 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:46.400 if I just looked at the Law and Leviticus, I'm 309 00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:49.359 supposed to delight in that. It's talking about all of scripture. 310 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:56.640 Delight in it, enjoy studying it, enjoy reading it, studying it, 311 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:03.839 obeying it. Meditating on it, and you'll be blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, 312 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:09.160 and envied. This has been around for thousands of years, 313 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:12.599 and thousands and possibly millions of people have put it 314 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:15.319 to practice, acted on it, and discovered it to be 315 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:21.079 the discovered it to be, so I, for one, can testify. 316 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.839 Many of you can testify. I have found this to 317 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:27.559 be true, to lead to the blessed life. As I 318 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.839 did not do these three things and did these two things, 319 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:36.319 I've discovered the blessed life, blessed, happy. I'm a happy, 320 00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:42.960 happy man. Mellelujah, blessed, happy, fortunate, consider myself very fortunate, 321 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:50.519 very favored, Glory to God, prosperous, hallelujah. And I'll leave 322 00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:57.119 the envy off because that sounds prideful there. But like 323 00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:59.039 Jamie and I, a lot of people envous for a 324 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:06.599 good look. So but I'll leave it at that. Michelle 325 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:09.079 said he does the same thing Dad does. He stands 326 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:10.920 in the mirror and says he, I get better looking 327 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.720 every day. Some of us got and we can't get 328 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:21.160 rid of it, right, Jamie, you can't help ourselves. That's right. 329 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:29.440 One person describes it this way. For delight in the 330 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:33.839 law of the Lord, They said, his ultimate concern is 331 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.839 the will of God. His ultimate concern is the will 332 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.400 of God. What does it mean to delight in the 333 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.680 law of the Lord. For our ultimate concern to be 334 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:49.160 the will of God? That person is better if you 335 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:51.759 and I are ultimate concern is what is the will 336 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:55.160 of God in this? In my marriage and my family, 337 00:27:55.240 --> 00:28:01.039 and my finances, and my job and my decisions I make, 338 00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:04.000 and my spending and my viewing habits, all these things, 339 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.559 what is the will of God? That's my ultimate concern. 340 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:16.079 I'll be blessed, happy, fortunate, to be envy. Now blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, 341 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:26.880 to be envied. What does that spell joy? Joy? Blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, 342 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:29.920 and to be envy spells joy. That's why I say 343 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:35.480 this is the secret to continual joy, delight in the 344 00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:38.440 Law of the Lord. In the second positive second thing, 345 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:42.440 the blessed person does he or she meditates in it 346 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:48.880 day and night. To meditate in the Word of God 347 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:53.160 day and night. Now, to meditate in the Hebrew is 348 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:56.960 not just like modern day meditation. But it means to ponder, 349 00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:01.079 to go over and over in your mind, to mutter, 350 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:07.640 to speak, the word of God. Lay in your bed 351 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:10.000 at night before you go to sleep, and meditate the 352 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:15.559 Word of God. Think about it throughout the day when 353 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.960 you face a decision, Think what would Jesus do? What 354 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.039 does the scripture say? When somebody tells you something, run 355 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.799 it through the filter. What saith the scriptures? Is that 356 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.440 in the scriptures? Is that what the Bible says? Because 357 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:32.680 a lot of people tell you things and may try 358 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:34.799 and make it sound like it's in the Bible, they 359 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:37.279 don't have a scripture for it. I mean I've asked 360 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.799 people before it really, well, what scripture is that? Well, 361 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:43.920 I don't know. It's in there somewhere. You can't go 362 00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:47.480 by that. A lot of people say things that sound 363 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.079 scripture that aren't scripture. You know, there's a term and 364 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:57.920 a New Testament in the Greek pseudo logos. Logos is 365 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:00.680 the word of God. But there's a term about speaking 366 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.279 of a word in the New Testament pseudo logosi. It 367 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:05.400 looks like the word sounds like the word, it's not 368 00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:09.880 the word. That's why we need to delight in it 369 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:13.000 and meditate in it so we know what the word 370 00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:18.640 says and we will be blessed, happy fortune, prosperous and envied. 371 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:23.200 So we meditate in it day and night. Our ultimate 372 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:28.720 concern is the will of God. One paraphrase says this, 373 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:32.400 he makes his daily decisions in respect to the word 374 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:36.200 of God. The blessed man or blessed woman makes their 375 00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:40.480 daily decisions in respect to the word of God. Does 376 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:44.720 this line up with scripture? I mean sometimes you hear 377 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.440 people say, well, I know what the Bible says, but no, 378 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.960 we can't do that. I know what the Bible says, 379 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.920 so that's what I need to do. Not well, the 380 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.039 Bible says that, but I'm going to do it anyway. 381 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:03.079 But I think this sometimes you talk to people, well, 382 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:05.240 brother Tim, I know the Bible says that, but this 383 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:12.200 is what I believe. What There is no second Bible. 384 00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:16.720 So we delight in the law of the Lord. We 385 00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:20.119 meditate in a day and night. We don't walk in 386 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:22.480 the councilors. Then God, we don't stand away since we 387 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.480 don't sit in the sea. It are scornful and we 388 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:33.519 will be blessed, happy, fortunate, envied. Now these three negatives 389 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:40.440 and two positives add up to one result. Says in 390 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:45.200 verse three, he shall be like a tree. He shall 391 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:47.640 be like a tree. She shall be like a tree. 392 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:54.519 It said, our lives will be like a tree, solid, stable, 393 00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:02.160 fixed withstands the storms. And this is no ordinary tree, 394 00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:06.279 as we're about to see. This is a tree that 395 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:11.640 has four amazing characteristics. But that is the result of 396 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:15.519 the three negatives, the two positives, the result or what 397 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:20.240 we become. Three things we don't do, two things we do. 398 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:23.759 And this is what we become, like a tree. And 399 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:31.279 here's the four amazing outcomes or fruit that results from 400 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.200 doing what we just read. Number one, we are planted. 401 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.480