WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.120 Father and Jesus name. Lord God, I think you right 2 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:04.000 now that your holy spirit is just going to speak 3 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:06.240 through me. Lord God, I think you right now that 4 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.320 I have prepared the horse has been made ready for battle, 5 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:11.519 but the victory is yours. And God, I think you 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:13.679 right now that these people in this room right now 7 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.039 open up their hearts. They open up their hearts and 8 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.920 their minds and their souls. Lord God, they are open 9 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:23.280 books before you, Father, right on their hearts. Divide, use 10 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:25.760 the sword, cut out anything that needs to be cut out, 11 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.160 but Father God, that they might understand the heart beat 12 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:32.079 of you, which is love in Jesus's name. Amen, are 13 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:39.759 you ready? Buckle up, Buttercup, it's coming. I'm fun country too. 14 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:42.119 So if you leave church on Sunday morning and you 15 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:50.119 don't cry your eyeballs out and laugh, I have failed you. Okay. 16 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:52.039 So I teach parenting around here. How many of you 17 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.159 have been through my parenting class? Oh, Halla, Louijah, We've 18 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.840 been doing it for years. There is I like to 19 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:01.079 give parents hacks. You know what I mean by hacks 20 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.040 where there's like one line zingers that kind of fix 21 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.359 a lot of things, you know, because the kids come 22 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:07.799 to you and they're like that, and you're like, what 23 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.519 do I do with that? Right? And so one of 24 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.040 one of my hacks, one of my good liners is 25 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:17.000 and I've usually given it to the parents when they're 26 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.400 the kids are fighting back, you know, kind of whining 27 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.239 and fussing and wanting to debate. Any of your children 28 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:28.760 ever want to debate your word of truth, and they 29 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:32.640 want to debate. So the one liner hack, And if 30 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.439 you walk away with nothing else this morning, this is it. 31 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:37.560 You can look at them in the eye and you 32 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.959 can say, I love you too much to fight with you. Right. 33 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.640 So this line of I love you too much is 34 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:51.359 a wonderful thing that helps you bring together truth with love. 35 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.799 I love you too much to let you eat that 36 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.719 whole bag of candy. It sounds all lot better than 37 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.799 stop eating all that candy, right, I love you too 38 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.759 much to let you Okay fill in the blank. So parents, 39 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.840 you can take that home, use it, spouses can use it. 40 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:18.400 I love you too much to leave the toilet seat up. Okay, 41 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:22.520 never mind, I didn't try that first service, didn't go 42 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.319 over well second, so I think I'll take that off 43 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:29.840 my notes. Okay, So about two weeks ago they say 44 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:33.120 that the word that has cut the preacher becomes the 45 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.840 most powerful word. And I will tell you that the 46 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.919 next coming thirty minutes is a rundown of what this 47 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.639 little preacher has been going through for the last two weeks. 48 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:43.800 So my goal here is that I'm just gonna kind 49 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.840 of let you in the window of my world and if, 50 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:53.280 if by any chance, the word might partially possibly apply 51 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:58.280 to you, grab it and run. Okay, join me in 52 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:02.199 my pain. But there was a moment about two weeks 53 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.520 ago that I had a Holy Spirit moment where I 54 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:11.639 heard him say, Joel, I love you too much to 55 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:18.120 let you, and then he filled in the blank. And 56 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.439 when you hear that from Holy Spirit, you're kind of like, 57 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:24.919 there's a huge piece of me that wanted to say, yeah, right, 58 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.199 you love me. That is not even nice, that's mean. 59 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.840 And God, a God is a god of love, and 60 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:34.599 a God of love doesn't make me do that. No, Joel, 61 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:39.960 I love you too much to let you. And I 62 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.840 was kind of stunned. I had to work through my rebellion, 63 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:47.000 my frustration, my everything, and I had to start listening. 64 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.719 Maybe you can relate. Okay, So my story starts back 65 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:57.280 in twenty twenty in COVID. Remember COVID, who lived through COVID. 66 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:02.439 I think you're all old enough to have no COVID. Well, 67 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:06.879 COVID hit, and this little girl's response was to go 68 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.800 into deep intercession and warfare prayer. Anybody there with me 69 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:15.400 during COVID, you knew something was wrong and I, I mean, 70 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.920 I'd always been a little bit warfairy. I kind of 71 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:25.560 liked praying death upon evil and all sorts of things. 72 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.000 I kind of enjoyed doing that, but I got even 73 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:35.240 more and my war cry of uncover and cover, reveal, reveal, expose, 74 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.839 expose the evil in the world. It was me and 75 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.279 God against all the evil that was coming out. And 76 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.680 I knew he was my buddy and we were working together. Amen, 77 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.519 we were just like this. Now, let me describe to 78 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.000 the me part of this. Okay, So the me part 79 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:53.920 of miss of this is I am kind of a 80 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.079 little black and white. Even though I'm fun and nice 81 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.519 and warm and cozy and loving, I'm pretty black and 82 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:02.360 white right and wrong. Right, And the part of I 83 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:09.079 also really love the concept of God being the cleansing judge. Okay, 84 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:13.079 so that's my part of the duo. God's part of 85 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.000 the duo to be honest with you, he felt exactly 86 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:21.160 the same as I did, and I just knew it. 87 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:27.079 So now fast forward to twenty twenty five. Me and 88 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:32.000 God are continually like this. We're still praying, believing, warfare, 89 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.680 prayer and over everything. But at this moment I'm starting 90 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:39.079 to get a little perturbed because in reality, he ain't 91 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.399 doing his side of the job. He's the cleansing jaw, 92 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:43.519 you know, the cleansing judge, and I'm the one supposed 93 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.120 to be praying and believing, and he's not holding up 94 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:47.639 his end of the bargain. And I'm getting kind of 95 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.160 mad at him, and I'm getting more and more mad 96 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.759 at all the evil. Okay, so this is kind of 97 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.759 my brain set. This is my mind so the other week, 98 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.000 and please know that there were other issues that were 99 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:04.439 kind of playing into this as well, where I was 100 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:13.439 starting to misalign myself and I needed help. God loved 101 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:18.160 me too much to leave me where I was at, 102 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.680 and if I had continued, it wouldn't be good. It 103 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:23.279 wouldn't be good for me, it wouldn't be good for 104 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:26.199 my dear husband. Oh and it would not be good 105 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:33.480 for you. So I decided a couple months back to 106 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:35.560 do a deep dive into the psalms. And you know, 107 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.959 the psalms are kind of like a crackerjack box. You 108 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.759 open up the box and every box has a new 109 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.079 little surprise in it, and you never know what your 110 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.399 surprise is gonna be. So with every psalm, there's a 111 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.959 new surprise about right to spring upon you. Either David 112 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.920 is screaming and moaning and crying because everybody hates it, 113 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.759 and then the next one, God is so good, and 114 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:58.879 then the next one you knows, you know what I'm 115 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.560 talking about, right, So you never know. So every morning. 116 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.399 So this morning, this particular morning, I got me a 117 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:08.199 little mug of tea, my tea, and it's dark outside, 118 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.600 and I sat down next to the Christmas tree, and 119 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.759 I had my little blanket and my little foot heater, 120 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.319 and I got out my Bible and I was all 121 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.920 ready to go and just taste and see what that. 122 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.639 The Lord is good in Psalm fifty. So I landed 123 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:28.680 on Psalm fifty and I open up Psalm fifty and 124 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.600 here we go, right, so we're gonna read this one. 125 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:35.360 The first verse, the mighty one God, the Lord speaks 126 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.959 and summons the earth from the rising of the sun. 127 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.439 To the place where it sets, and all of a 128 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.720 sudden I knew we were in for a good one. 129 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.720 I love it. The three names of God. The mighty 130 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:50.240 one that is the word l that is that push him. 131 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.959 He's at the top of the god food chain. 132 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:58.399 He is the mightiest, most powerful, most holy, most incredible God. 133 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.560 And then the next word there God, just plain God. 134 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.360 That God word right there is Elohim. So he is 135 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:08.639 the highest of all of the spiritual things. He is 136 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:12.000 the top once again the food chain of the God 137 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.240 out there, and he is so mighty and so powerful. 138 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.199 This is how the psalmist starts. And then the next 139 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.240 word Lord. Do you notice that it's all capitalized. When 140 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.680 you see the word Lord all capitalized, he's referring to 141 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.120 the word Yahweh, which is not only the big God, 142 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:32.720 mighty God, powerful, almighty, holy God, but he's the covenant 143 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:36.679 God with his creation. So there's a different meaning in 144 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:40.480 LRD when they're capitalized. It's telling you about how much 145 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:42.799 he cares about us, that there is a love in 146 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:47.360 this God, a caring for his creation, a covenanting with 147 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:52.399 you and me, who are not God. I'm kind of 148 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.759 liking this psalm. I'm thinking this is gonna be a 149 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:57.639 grand one. It's gonna be a doozy. So I take 150 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:00.080 another sip of my tea and say, okay, God, let's go. 151 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:05.000 Let's go. You're summoning the earth, the whole earth, all 152 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.600 the peoples from Zion, perfect in beauty. God shines forth. 153 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.679 Our God comes and will not be silent. Hallelujah. You're 154 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:20.879 finally gonna do your thing. You're with me now. A 155 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:24.600 fire devours before him and around him, A tempest rages. 156 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.120 The word fire there is a word that brings about 157 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:34.919 active judgment. The word tempest means overwhelming power. Oh yeah, 158 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.480 this is a good one. This is a doozy. These 159 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:42.159 are the kind of psalms I love. So he gathers awe. 160 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:46.360 So he summons the heavens above and the earth. And 161 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.360 here's where it takes a turn that he may judge 162 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:56.200 his people, like wait, wait a second, judge your people. 163 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:58.960 There's a whole world out there to judge. We're all 164 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.000 here standing watching, listening to you roll in with fire 165 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:08.879 and thunder, and you're coming after your people. There's got 166 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:16.960 to be a typo. Gather to me, my consecrated ones 167 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.519 who made us covenant with me, by sacrifice, and the 168 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.720 heavens proclaim his righteousness. For God himself is judge here, 169 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:27.639 oh my people, and I will speak, oh Israel, and 170 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:32.480 I will testify against you. So now I'm in it 171 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:37.960 to win it, but I'm not liking it. And I 172 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.559 want to give you a little hint, people of God. 173 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.440 There are some things in the Old Testament that are 174 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.840 completed in the Old Testament and don't come over into 175 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:53.000 the New Testament. That would be ceremonial laws, the sacrificial system. 176 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:55.600 All of that does not make it through the Cross. 177 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.919 But there's a lot in the Old Testament that make 178 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:04.320 said all the way through the Cross and into today. 179 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:07.279 And this is something that we're gonna talk about here today. 180 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.679 Even though we're reading from the Old Testament, it comes 181 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:17.519 to us into the New Testament. But here's a truth 182 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:24.679 from the Lord. God loves you too much to let 183 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:34.120 you do anything that is against his word. He loves 184 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:45.000 you too much, and he will convict you privately. But 185 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:48.879 if the private conviction won't work, he has no bones 186 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:55.639 about taking you public. I'm like, God, are you kidding me? 187 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.159 In front of all the world. You're gonna judge your 188 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:05.279 people first, And I know Over the last couple of years, 189 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.639 there's been some judging of some of his consecrated ones 190 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:20.559 very publicly. I want to listen to him privately. So 191 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.159 I don't want my stuff. How many of you have, well, 192 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:31.000 don't raise your hand. Anybody got some stuff, raise your 193 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.840 hand on the inside. I don't want my stuff drug 194 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:40.840 out before the world. I want to be judged privately, 195 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.559 and that's what he prefers to do. So let's keep 196 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:52.240 moving on Verse eight. I do not rebuke you for 197 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.399 your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me. 198 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.919 I have no need of a bull from your stall, 199 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.679 or of goats your pens. For every animal in the 200 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:03.879 forest is mine, and the cattle on the Thousand Hills, 201 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:06.320 I know. Every bird in the mountain, and the creatures 202 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:08.879 of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I 203 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.200 would not tell you, for the world is the whole 204 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.360 world is mine, and all that is in it. Do 205 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.120 I eat the flesh of bulls or drank the blood 206 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.559 of goats? And what he's talking, he says it it's poetic, 207 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.759 so it's repetitive. But what he's saying is, I'm not 208 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:24.840 going to rebuke you for all of your obedience. You 209 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:30.240 have been following my instructions about sacrifice and about all 210 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.200 of that to a tee' I don't want. I'm not 211 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:40.240 here to rebuke you about that. But he's saying that 212 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:45.360 ain't all it's about. So now he's going to go 213 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.799 on here and he's going to start unveiling what it 214 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:52.720 is about sacrifice, Thank offings to God. Fulfill your vows 215 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.559 to the Holy One, and call upon me in the 216 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.559 day of trouble, and I will deliver you and you 217 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:01.440 will honor me. This these two verse here they shift 218 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:07.440 to the heart. I need you to be thankful. I 219 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.399 need you to to fulfill your your promises to me. 220 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.159 I need in the time of trouble, call upon me 221 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.679 and I will be don't don't turn to anything else. 222 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.039 So God is saying here, I'm not gonna rebeal you 223 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:26.399 got all the outside going on, you are being obedient. 224 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.080 I am wanting See. 225 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:34.759 God's love for you is a little ruthless. God's love 226 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.759 for you goes so deep. He's so jealous and ruthless. 227 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.120 He doesn't want just the outer stuff from you. 228 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.879 He wants to go down into your very depths of 229 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.480 your being. He wants to own your heart too. Oh, 230 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.879 and we give him his our heart. Everything comes into 231 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:57.240 alignment verse sixteen. But to the wicked God says, and 232 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.559 now I'm thinking to myself, Okay, now it's turning around. 233 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:07.240 We're gonna get back to business. But instead he says, 234 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:10.240 what right have you to recite my laws or take 235 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.240 my covenant on your lips? By talking about his law 236 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.519 and his covenant, it's very apparent he's not talking about 237 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.440 the world and the earth yet, He's still talking about 238 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.120 his people. But he's his word is a little harsh there. 239 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:30.320 It's a little harsh, wicked what you hate my instruction 240 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:35.440 and cast my word behind you. When you see a thief, 241 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.559 you join in with him. You throw in your lot 242 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:40.120 with the adulters. You use your mouthful evil and harness 243 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:43.639 your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your brother 244 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.960 and slander your own mother's son. Now he's getting a 245 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:53.799 little personal. You hate my instruction and cast my words 246 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.200 behind you. Pastor George, you're getting a little rough on 247 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.200 me right now. It's not me, it's Psal. I'm fifty. 248 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:04.480 Beat me up pretty good. The word picture in that 249 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:11.080 sentence is a very holy, consecrated saint walking with the scriptures, 250 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:17.799 reading it and going mmm, eh, oh that's good. That's good. Yeah, 251 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:26.840 not really for me, picking and choosing, casting the word 252 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.919 behind you. When you see a thief, you join, I 253 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.759 have stolen nothing. But I will tell you that sometimes 254 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:35.600 I kind of work things. You know, when you have 255 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:39.840 to share the piece of cake with your brother, and 256 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:41.360 you kind of cut the cake a little bigger on 257 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.480 one side and then the other, and then you take 258 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:50.879 the big sign just saying you throw your lot in 259 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:56.039 with adulters. Well, I've never had adulterree Jesus, But can 260 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.080 I remind you that Jesus is teachings said, if you 261 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:05.720 even look with lust in your heart, you've broken the law. 262 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.960 Oh see, God does God that he's a little ruthless, 263 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.480 isn't he a little ruthless, getting a little personal, a 264 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:21.319 little deep, a little harsh. He loves us too much 265 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:28.839 to let us. You use your mouth for evil, and 266 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.839 harness your tongue for deceit. You speak continually against your 267 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.039 brother and slender your own mother's son. And this is 268 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.359 one of the nights that kind of cut me, because 269 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:42.880 I had been experiencing some things by some people, and 270 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:44.640 I was kind of ticked off. It wasn't fair, it 271 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:53.960 wasn't nice, it wasn't right. I had every right to 272 00:17:54.039 --> 00:18:06.279 tell my story, did I now? Verse twenty one, these 273 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.279 things you have done and I kept silent. You thought 274 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:17.039 I was all together like you? Yeah? Wow? That first 275 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:18.880 half of that verse, these things you have done and 276 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:24.559 I have kept silent. The Passion translation says it like this, 277 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.480 and I love it. All this you have done, and 278 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.559 I've kept silent. So you thought I was just like 279 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:38.559 you sanctioning evil. Now remember that very first verse talks 280 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:45.279 about who God is, mighty, powerful, holy. That's not me. 281 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:51.200 I'm right here. But this verse in twenty one says 282 00:18:52.359 --> 00:19:01.759 you thought I was all together like you. The problem 283 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:07.279 with sin is that sometimes God keeps quiet about it. 284 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.039 Why does he do that? If you were to ask 285 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:14.480 the Lord, he would say, because I'm giving you time 286 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:20.519 to repent, time to turn. Honey. I've been working with you. 287 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:25.599 You know, you know my heart. Come on, conviction, come on, 288 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.480 it's better over Your life is better this way. He's 289 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.759 working with you. You hear a sermon, you hear a 290 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:37.160 little voice, and you have opportunity. Because he's keeping silent, 291 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:44.839 you have opportunity to turn but instead God's people interpret 292 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:58.720 his silence as accepting compromise. And when we accept compromise, 293 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:04.799 we start thinking in our head, well, maybe God, you know, 294 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:10.599 he understands, yeah, you know, a little bit here and there, 295 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.000 he understands. There's a lot of grace in the cross. 296 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:19.200 God is God is a good God. God is a 297 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:26.000 good God. And so we start remaking God to be 298 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:35.119 someone like me. I'm trying to be nice, but sometimes 299 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:40.799 the word just cuts it. Just like that. C. S. 300 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.880 Lewis speaks in Mere Christianity and he says, in God, 301 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.680 you come up against something which is in every respect 302 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:51.480 immeasurably superior to you. And unless you know that, you 303 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:54.960 know God is that, and therefore know yourself is nothing 304 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.680 in comparison, you do not know God at all. That 305 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:02.079 raises a terrible question, how is it that people who 306 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.680 are eaten up with pride can say that they believe 307 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:10.640 in God and appear to be ever so wonderful. I'm 308 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:14.519 afraid they are worshiping an imaginary God. They're theoretically admitting 309 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.920 they theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence 310 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.240 of this phantom God, but are really all the time 311 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.200 imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far 312 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:33.799 better than other people. For for you, my dear precious saints. 313 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:45.319 When we compromise and God's giving us time to come 314 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.839 to him and repent, we have a couple of options. 315 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.559 We can either repent and come back to Him, or 316 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:59.920 we can begin to think that God is altogether like us. 317 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:05.200 But I am here to say God is nothing like us. 318 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:12.680 We are to become all together like him and his 319 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:18.240 work in our hearts and he will never stop until 320 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.240 we die. Is to be coming to us saying honey, 321 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.440 I love you too much to let you do this. 322 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:29.720 Come with me and become more like me. Become all 323 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:35.440 together like me. Become all together like me. Stop making 324 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:41.200 me be like you. I want you to become like me. 325 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.599 Oh but God, if you want me to be like you, 326 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.559 I have to fit inside. I have to be like Christ. 327 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:53.480 Christ in me. I in Christ. I don't fit on 328 00:22:53.599 --> 00:23:01.559 the wrong shape. I carry anger, I have fear, bitterness, 329 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:10.599 I have unforgiveness. And God says, no, don't make me 330 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:14.279 be like you. Don't show my love through your lens. 331 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:23.799 You come. You come and become altogether like me. Break break, break, break. 332 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:28.240 Break off everything that you carry in your. 333 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:37.160 Heart and in your mind. That is contrary. It hurts. 334 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:45.319 I didn't like what he was bringing to me. But 335 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:52.960 in reality, when we modernize the Gospel, it always removes 336 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:57.000 his holiness, and we lose the holiness of God. We 337 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:02.480 tend to create a God of our own making. I 338 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:07.440 spent a few days walking around in a lot of humility, 339 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.079 and I'm not gonna lie. It went between what I 340 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:18.079 call conviction and condemnation. The Bible talks about both. Conviction 341 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:22.519 is straight from Holy Spirit. Condemnation is straight from hell. 342 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:27.559 Conviction is the Holy Spirit saying, come on, life's better 343 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:31.079 over here. Come on, come on, let it go. Just 344 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:33.319 let it go and love. I don't want to love. 345 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:36.240 They don't deserve it. Come on, let it go. 346 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:42.519 Life's better here, y'ah. But you don't know, Yes, I 347 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:43.240 do know. 348 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:48.680 Let it go. It's a song, right, How many of 349 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:56.359 you were thinking that I won't even try. My little 350 00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:59.599 Ellie can sing it real good? Okay, Come back to me. 351 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:04.240 Where was I let it go? So it took me 352 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.359 a couple days to put God back on the throne, 353 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:12.720 back into who he was and his holiness, and realign 354 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:19.039 myself underneath it of his child his creature, say by 355 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:24.599 grace covered in the blood setting aside condemnation. Condemnation is 356 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:28.359 when the judge's gavel hits and you are sentenced to death. 357 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:33.799 Conviction says honey, before you go, before the judge, come 358 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:38.119 on over here, let's make it right. That's what Holy 359 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.920 Spirit does. So it was time to move to the 360 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:46.599 next psalm, Psalm fifty one. I got brave enough see 361 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:48.599 what we got here. So before you put it up 362 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.200 on the screens, though, let me the very beginning of it. 363 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:53.920 It says for the director of music. You know, there's 364 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:56.640 always this little addendum at the beginning? Is I called 365 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:59.920 an addendum preface? I don't know. A psalm of day 366 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.720 when the prophet Nathan came to him after David had 367 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:08.000 committed adultery with Bathsheba. Now context, David, young boy anointed 368 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:12.759 as king, mighty man of faith. I watched the David movie. 369 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:15.759 Even how many of you watched the David What a movie. 370 00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:18.559 I want to be just like him, this kid singing 371 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.880 and going out against Goliath and the faith and the obedience. 372 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.359 He was amazing, and he worshiped, and he brought sacrifices 373 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:29.880 before the Lord and his heart is the same as God. 374 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:32.200 Him and God are just like this, and his heart 375 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:34.880 is close to God. And then one day he wakes 376 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.839 up and he looks over the balcony and he's consumed 377 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:45.559 with lust. He's consumed with jealousy. He's consumed with what 378 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:49.359 he sees. And then he commits adultery, and then he 379 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:53.559 commits murder, and then he lies about it. That's four 380 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:58.000 of the commandments, the ten commandments, at least four right there. 381 00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:02.160 He does all this stuff, and he goes to bed, 382 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:08.720 and he wakes up in the morning. No lightning bolts. 383 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.680 He puts back on his kingly robe, puts his crown in. 384 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:21.279 Everybody comes out, Oh, your Highness, yourhiness. Sunday rolls around 385 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:23.640 time to go to church, kind of walks into church, 386 00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:32.440 no lightning bolts, nothing. He starts thinking, well, hmm, maybe 387 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:36.039 God's holiness isn't what I thought it was. Maybe his 388 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:39.279 requirement of those ten commandments are quite what I thought 389 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:47.440 it was. And David begins to reconstruct God altogether like him. 390 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:52.839 For a year. This went on for a year. He 391 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:58.839 came into the tent, danced before the Lord, saying, worshiped, 392 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:07.839 brought sacrifices, did everything on the outside, but his heart 393 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:18.359 had moved away. He looked good, but his heart so 394 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.680 one day, I don't know, during that whole year, I'm 395 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.440 sure Holy Spirit, I don't know. Holy Spirit is Old Testament. 396 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.640 I don't know, but you know, I think I probably 397 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:33.559 shouldn't have done that conviction reading the word. Ooh yeah, well, 398 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:44.960 nothing happened. I'm doing pretty good until God ended his 399 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:51.640 silence and brought Nathan to publicly bring truth to him. 400 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:58.440 God loved David too much to let David be comfortable 401 00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:01.960