WEBVTT 00:00:00.420 --> 00:00:05.220 Psalm 42 is where we're going to be this morning, and we're in a new series together called Soul Detox. 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:05.800 Let me tell you why. 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:08.800 because we're a bar turned into a church. 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:10.130 And so detox is good. 00:00:10.300 --> 00:00:11.300 That's good. 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:12.440 so. 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:14.320 So we're doing soul detox because it's the. 00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:15.360 It's a brand new year. 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:22.420 When you think a brand new Year's, you like to think of new things, something that you could do differently or improve on or stop doing or 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:23.520 whatever it is. 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:30.090 And so when we think about the new year and we tend to think about detoxing our lives, we think about doing that physically. 00:00:31.060 --> 00:00:36.260 But what God has created us as beings is not just a physical being, but also a spiritual being. 00:00:36.260 --> 00:00:43.620 Just as your physical body needs food, just as your physical body needs to be healthy, so does your spiritual 00:00:43.620 --> 00:00:44.000 body. 00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:49.470 And so to start this new year off right, we're beginning with Soul Detox. 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:55.540 And in order to do that, we're turning to an important place in the Bible and studying it together to see its significance and importance. 00:00:55.860 --> 00:00:57.550 And that place is in the poetic books. 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:05.480 When you read the old Testament, you'll see the first 17 books are historical as it relates to how God moved in history, and most 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.560 specifically in the nation of Israel. 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:15.600 When you get to the end of the Old Testament, the last 17 books, you see that it contains the prophetic 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:19.970 books, which is how God interacts and speaks to the people through his prophets. 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:24.540 Throughout the historical books that take place in the first 17 books of the Bible. 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:29.500 And in between tells us that in the middle you have your old hymn. 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.620 Are these books than, say, the poetic books he upholds? 00:01:33.100 --> 00:01:40.700 Poetic books are different than in their style than the rest of the Old Testament, because the 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.100 poetic books are written as man's response to God. 00:01:45.780 --> 00:01:50.780 So most of your Bible is more of God interacting towards man and revealing himself. 00:01:52.220 --> 00:01:53.690 And the poetic books are. 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:55.660 I'm going to do an opening up of it. 00:01:55.780 --> 00:02:02.040 That soul is Godis is to them and seeking she God who has created me and responding back to me in words. 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:06.920 The poetic books are very personal, raw. 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:08.780 They're very real to us. 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.880 They're they fit easily in the history of Israel because and 50 interacting for the first 17 book they 00:02:15.880 --> 00:02:23.140 describing how God intervenes in what we know this nation these our soul books are come in and like a show us what happens 00:02:23.140 --> 00:02:27.300 personally in the hearts of the individuals as and its attempt to seek after. 00:02:27.460 --> 00:02:33.500 Or they do seek after God and desiring to worship him throughout the nation of Israel in their history. 00:02:34.700 --> 00:02:37.960 In fact, one of the books that we're going to be primarily focusing on is the Book of Psalms. 00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:45.220 We'll look at some other other verses from the poetic books, but the Book of Psalms is what we're looking at together, and the Book of Psalms 00:02:45.220 --> 00:02:49.020 added to a period of history that almost lasts a thousand years. 00:02:50.320 --> 00:02:53.840 It starts with Moses, who was the 15th century BC. 00:02:54.980 --> 00:02:58.640 And it ends during the Babylonian captivity, which is sixth century BC. 00:03:00.620 --> 00:03:04.540 The source of the name records for us as their 170 of them. 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:07.380 The extinction of man as the God seek God in. 00:03:08.540 --> 00:03:13.800 And here's poetic about our soul, our soul and the journey with our soul is lines per roller coaster. 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:15.500 The individual is. 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:18.050 It's got its ups and God got its downs. 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:19.340 Our God. 00:03:19.340 --> 00:03:20.600 And when we're up, we're up. 00:03:21.660 --> 00:03:22.840 And when we're down, we're down. 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:22.840 When we're up or down, we're up. 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:24.140 No no no no no I don't know how that goes. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:34.080 A lot of the Psalms as it interacts with us, deal with individuals who from their experience, have found 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:41.300 a difficult circumstance and they desire to worship the Lord and seek his face in the midst 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:42.680 of their trials. 00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:51.400 We as people find ourselves easily relating to those types of Psalms, because we ourselves go through periods 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.520 of feeling devastated or heavy. 00:03:57.020 --> 00:03:58.540 We look for solutions. 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:06.580 The Bible reveals to those to us in the Lord in Psalm 42 writes on that backdrop. 00:04:09.260 --> 00:04:16.399 Do you know, statistically, they say that our generation of people, in dealing with the heaviness of a soul, our generation of 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:22.720 people has the highest percentage of any generation that deals with a low grade, constant depression. 00:04:24.700 --> 00:04:30.000 And most people who experience that can't quite put their finger on exactly what causes it. 00:04:32.140 --> 00:04:38.370 It's interesting, though, that when you look at our society today, we have so much to live for compared to other nations. 00:04:38.500 --> 00:04:39.760 We possess a lot of things we have. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:40.580 We have a lot. 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:41.640 Is it that live for your. 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.040 But can't really find a reason worth living. 00:04:47.880 --> 00:04:53.000 And so our live falls generation will sometimes feel out of things. 00:04:53.720 --> 00:05:01.160 Psalm 42 is written by a priest who is going through an experience that allows his soul 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.640 or takes his soul to a to a place of heaviness. 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:11.780 In fact, he says in Psalm 42 and verse five, why are you in despair, O my soul? 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:15.700 And why have you become disturbed within me? 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:19.360 This psalm is personal. 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:28.930 To the struggle of an individual who's experiencing a heaviness that doesn't settle well with him. 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:37.540 And he begins to reveal within Psalm 42 and verse five this despair that he is experiencing. 00:05:39.320 --> 00:05:41.180 We're to pause and just ask this morning. 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:44.210 I mean, what causes your soul to feel heavy? 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:47.660 What would you describe when you look in the Old Testament? 00:05:47.820 --> 00:05:51.900 You'll see that some in the prophets have gone through difficult circumstances. 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.800 Describe for us what experience caused their soul heavy. 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.480 In fact, the poetic books is the Book of Lamentations. 00:05:59.620 --> 00:06:01.330 I didn't tell you this, but it's job. 00:06:01.620 --> 00:06:07.280 Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and the Book of Lamentations are poetic books in the Bible. 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:10.920 And Jeremiah writes the Book of Lamentations. 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:18.460 And when he's writing the Book of Lamentations, he's describing the destruction that has taken place in Israel and is continuing to take 00:06:18.460 --> 00:06:19.660 place to this day in Israel. 00:06:19.700 --> 00:06:24.530 And so when he is thinking of his soul, he says this of 19 ru ah, my affliction and my covering. 00:06:25.760 --> 00:06:27.260 The wormwood and bitterness. 00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:31.850 Surely my soul remembers in his bowed down within me. 00:06:33.380 --> 00:06:35.100 And germ of the scribes. 00:06:35.100 --> 00:06:36.290 The review went for his afflictions. 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:41.580 Heaviness of soul heaved, for he's looking balance caught at the distance to fill in of Israel. 00:06:43.780 --> 00:06:43.780 One of the. 00:06:43.780 --> 00:06:48.660 He's relating to something that helps us feel distant from God or brings us distance to God. 00:06:48.660 --> 00:06:48.840 Something. 00:06:49.220 --> 00:06:52.740 Something that traps us from what God desires for our lives. 00:06:52.740 --> 00:06:54.060 And that's the past. 00:06:56.180 --> 00:06:57.290 Maybe that's York's thing. 00:07:00.710 --> 00:07:02.020 You're here and you're just about this heavy soul that you are, I wonder, caring. 00:07:02.020 --> 00:07:03.920 And it's because of something that's happened in your past. 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:08.500 Book of Man of JB in chapter four. 00:07:10.460 --> 00:07:10.460 Suffering. 00:07:10.460 --> 00:07:11.820 The more job goes through. 00:07:11.820 --> 00:07:12.900 Tremendous learning. 00:07:12.900 --> 00:07:18.180 The story of job is all about this individual who Satan comes into his life and brings soul suffering. 00:07:18.180 --> 00:07:20.720 And so it says at five, but now it is. 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:25.800 But now try and come to you and your thoughts, and it strikes you, and you are dismayed. 00:07:27.320 --> 00:07:34.740 What job says is something within his present circumstances is making him feel distanced from the Lord and creating this heaviness on 00:07:34.740 --> 00:07:35.800 his soul. 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:37.800 And so he's wrestling with that. 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:37.980 Maybe. 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:45.460 Maybe it could be you this morning where you had this wonderful plan for 2015 and or maybe for 00:07:45.460 --> 00:07:47.760 the next five years, and all of a sudden you got this news. 00:07:48.060 --> 00:07:51.430 And right now, in this moment, it has blown up in your face. 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:56.420 Your five year plan out the window. 00:07:57.980 --> 00:08:01.840 And so your eyes and ears heaviness in the last I would point out is Jesus. 00:08:02.780 --> 00:08:04.320 Mark chapter 15. 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.460 And Jesus about to go to the cross. 00:08:08.520 --> 00:08:12.260 He's looking to the cross that awaits him, and he's praying in the garden. 00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:17.020 And he says in Mark 1434, my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.300 Maybe there's a heaviness of soul because you know of something that awaits you. 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:33.059 Whatever the case, at some point in our lives, if not today, we all go through experiences that cause our soul a tremendous 00:08:33.059 --> 00:08:33.280 weight. 00:08:35.179 --> 00:08:35.780 What do you do? 00:08:38.020 --> 00:08:40.320 Well, Psalm 42 is that answer. 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:49.140 The detox of our lives to focus on what is important in those moments as our 00:08:49.140 --> 00:08:50.320 soul weighs heavy. 00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:52.760 The psalmist. 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:53.280 I'll read you. 00:08:53.300 --> 00:08:58.330 The verse in just a minute, opens up with this thought as he begins to express his Psalm. 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:04.460 Direct your feelings towards truth, because right thinking leads to healthy living. 00:09:06.060 --> 00:09:06.940 Truth is important. 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:10.620 So direct your soul to truth because right thinking leads to healthy living. 00:09:12.040 --> 00:09:14.820 When your soul feels heavy, your emotions are down. 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.140 And when your soul is rejoicing sometimes. 00:09:20.140 --> 00:09:20.870 And most of the time. 00:09:22.540 --> 00:09:23.920 Your emotions feel great. 00:09:25.940 --> 00:09:29.040 Feelings of heaviness are important for us to recognize. 00:09:29.060 --> 00:09:31.980 Feelings are important for us to recognize. 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.960 The Psalm is a book of Psalm songs, really. 00:09:35.980 --> 00:09:43.560 And in that you, as you read them, discover and find that these ones recording these passages of Scripture are interjecting 00:09:43.560 --> 00:09:48.840 a lot of emotional experience and what they discover with God as it relates to truth. 00:09:50.680 --> 00:09:54.480 Fillings help us enjoy and appreciate the things when they are good. 00:09:55.940 --> 00:10:01.440 In fact, it tells us in Psalm 42 if it will get there for me in verse one. 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:03.380 We click. 00:10:04.270 --> 00:10:05.220 42. 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.700 And verse one, it says this as the deer pants for the water. 00:10:08.760 --> 00:10:13.540 So my soul pants for you, O end of the verse four. 00:10:13.540 --> 00:10:15.400 He goes on, read good things. 00:10:15.400 --> 00:10:17.200 In the end he says these things I remember. 00:10:17.260 --> 00:10:19.000 And I will pour out my soul within me. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:25.000 For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God. 00:10:26.340 --> 00:10:29.120 This priest is remembering a time when he would gather in Jerusalem, and he would. 00:10:29.260 --> 00:10:36.320 He would worship us as are, reflecting back on how, when, how in and seeking truth and for God in those 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.080 moments his soul delighted. 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:43.100 Your feelings are important. 00:10:43.560 --> 00:10:44.200 They help us. 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:47.540 And he's distinguish when things go wrong and they help us distinguish that things are right. 00:10:49.400 --> 00:10:49.800 But fillings. 00:10:51.700 --> 00:10:52.420 Are not intended. 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:55.920 To guide our lives. 00:10:57.920 --> 00:10:59.480 Truth is. 00:11:01.060 --> 00:11:06.100 Fillings are intended to reveal results, but fillings are circumstantial. 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:09.910 Philip King's court and plead. 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:18.940 In fact, the Bible says in the book of Proverbs in chapter 14 and verse 12, there is a way which seems right to a man, but its end 00:11:18.940 --> 00:11:20.140 is the way of death. 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.070 The Bible is honest in. 00:11:26.520 --> 00:11:28.140 The way we are in our nature as human beings. 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.100 And their records in life that may the Lord you feel good. 00:11:34.540 --> 00:11:34.640 The things God. 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:36.240 But are completely dishonoring to the Lord. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:39.240 And in fact the Bible to God. 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:40.580 Sin is fun for that I. 00:11:42.460 --> 00:11:46.160 And there are plenty of sinful things in this world that feel good if you do them right. 00:11:48.500 --> 00:11:50.160 But what is just a season has passed. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.360 And in the end, the promises of that sin that may have fulfilled you in the moment leave you empty. 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:06.660 If you seek life as if you're going from one positive feeling to the next, and when you have a negative feeling, you want to find a positive 00:12:06.660 --> 00:12:07.400 feeling again. 00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:10.840 You could do so devoid of God and into a path of destruction. 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.450 And that's what Proverbs 1412 says. 00:12:14.900 --> 00:12:16.120 There's a way that seems right to a man. 00:12:17.880 --> 00:12:20.100 But its end is the way of death. 00:12:21.020 --> 00:12:23.620 Its destruction. 00:12:24.020 --> 00:12:31.260 Fillings may point to us when things in life aren't going well, when there's injustice seen on the news or television or in life around me, there's something 00:12:31.260 --> 00:12:33.860 within my soul that grieves it, that I don't. 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:35.760 I don't feel good about that. 00:12:35.880 --> 00:12:42.540 And sometimes my for a time agree with God here and other times my for agree with my sinful nature apart from God when. 00:12:45.280 --> 00:12:47.440 Like when you're in the moment of heaviness and sorrow. 00:12:49.780 --> 00:12:51.610 And God may feel distant to you. 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:53.680 But the truth is. 00:12:55.940 --> 00:12:57.970 There's never an aim in life where he's more feelings. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.440 The Bible tells us that God loves a broken spirit. 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:05.980 And he will not die from it. 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:12.360 And this passage of Psalm chapter 42. 00:13:12.380 --> 00:13:15.220 That's exactly what the author recognizes. 00:13:17.620 --> 00:13:18.460 The truth is important. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.140 And regardless of how he feels in the moment, those feelings are important. 00:13:24.140 --> 00:13:32.560 And regardless of how he feels, the truth endures when feelings are circumstantial. 00:13:32.560 --> 00:13:34.670 My great grandma used to always say, this too shall pass. 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.720 Kids would always come to her aggravated about something, complaining. 00:13:38.860 --> 00:13:42.380 Grandma would sit there and then she would just tell us and this too shall pass. 00:13:46.140 --> 00:13:46.890 Feelings are saying. 00:13:48.700 --> 00:13:50.900 But the truth endures. 00:13:52.160 --> 00:13:54.400 Let me give you a couple of embarrassing examples from my life here. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:00.420 last, last men's breakfast we had here at church. 00:14:01.260 --> 00:14:08.460 And I read a news article that morning on this, what I thought was reputable news source, and it was telling us about Netflix 00:14:08.460 --> 00:14:10.500 and how Netflix was going out of business. 00:14:10.780 --> 00:14:10.880 Right. 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:11.980 And so what do I do? 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:16.480 I come to men's group because I know there's a couple of guys that all they do is watch Netflix at their house. 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:17.000 They don't have cable. 00:14:17.180 --> 00:14:18.060 They trust in Netflix. 00:14:18.680 --> 00:14:19.290 And so what do I do? 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.620 I say, oh man, guys, did you hear your life's going to turn upside down? 00:14:23.620 --> 00:14:25.680 Your Netflix, your precious Netflix is going. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.560 And I'm thinking about myself too, because I've got a membership to Netflix. 00:14:28.560 --> 00:14:29.640 I'm like, what am I going to do? 00:14:29.640 --> 00:14:31.200 I don't know, I guess Hulu, who knows? 00:14:31.420 --> 00:14:32.780 Who knows where I'll go from here, right? 00:14:33.140 --> 00:14:37.480 But I'm all invested in this and everyone sitting around the table, just listen to me tell this story that I just read. 00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:38.360 It's true, it's true. 00:14:38.380 --> 00:14:39.600 I just I just saw it online. 00:14:39.680 --> 00:14:40.660 Everything online is true. 00:14:41.340 --> 00:14:41.620 Right? 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:43.710 And I had a friend who. 00:14:43.800 --> 00:14:43.940 Who. 00:14:43.980 --> 00:14:44.280 Thank you. 00:14:44.280 --> 00:14:45.240 Shalom, by the way. 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.540 Laughed after men's group, and he just texted me and said, hey, by the way, I looked this up. 00:14:49.900 --> 00:14:51.450 That article was false. 00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:59.560 The truth, I thought I had the truth, how important it would have been, and I got to text 00:14:59.560 --> 00:15:00.210 all the guys after. 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:01.590 I'd be like, okay, so I apologize. 00:15:03.640 --> 00:15:05.820 Just I'm just going to just teach the Bible for now. 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:06.890 And I know that's dependable. 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:08.930 Don't listen to me when I share news stories. 00:15:09.260 --> 00:15:09.960 I don't know how that's going to go. 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:13.620 That's just a small story, you know? 00:15:15.340 --> 00:15:17.000 Nothing significant happened there. 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:17.440 Warm. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.180 We thought Netflix was your war for a day. 00:15:19.880 --> 00:15:20.300 Being an hour. 00:15:22.820 --> 00:15:25.100 But giving in to those feelings, I got caught up in that moment. 00:15:26.920 --> 00:15:30.700 And I thought, ah, I the truth was you. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:31.710 You know, and, counseling. 00:15:32.920 --> 00:15:35.260 It took some secular counseling classes outside of Bible college. 00:15:35.300 --> 00:15:37.680 I didn't hear this in a Bible college setting, so just know this. 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:39.550 Just listen to the story. 00:15:39.820 --> 00:15:40.480 Counseling. 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:41.840 Counseling. 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:43.120 The teacher told us. 00:15:43.160 --> 00:15:44.620 You know, if you're ever counseling, here's one thing. 00:15:44.620 --> 00:15:50.330 You always need to assume that whoever comes to you with a problem is always lying to you at first. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:55.500 Because the ten of us as people with high paint ourselves material than the individual that we're. 00:15:55.880 --> 00:15:57.350 This is causing us problems borrowing. 00:15:59.700 --> 00:16:01.620 And so be aware of that. 00:16:04.140 --> 00:16:07.210 We look at this man 42 and verse and two and six. 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:10.000 What the psalmist is saying. 00:16:11.460 --> 00:16:12.780 Is that more important than the feelings? 00:16:12.980 --> 00:16:16.540 More important than how you feel about the scenario described is the truth. 00:16:18.700 --> 00:16:25.540 Because the truth is what sets you free and feelings are circumstantial, but the truth endures. 00:16:27.100 --> 00:16:32.820 Like me, when I go to an electronic section of any store, Best Buy Walmart, I don't care what it is. 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:33.920 Could be small RadioShack. 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.620 When I walk in everything I need, I need it all. 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:38.380 I feel like I need it all. 00:16:38.540 --> 00:16:39.720 I need the big screen. 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:40.810 I need the new tablet. 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:41.860 I need the new phone. 00:16:42.060 --> 00:16:42.960 I need it all. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:43.900 It feels so good. 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:45.920 I don't even know what I'm going to do with it, but I need it. 00:16:47.980 --> 00:16:50.080 But you know what stops me from that? 00:16:51.340 --> 00:16:52.960 My wallet. 00:16:54.390 --> 00:16:55.660 Because that's where the truth lies. 00:16:57.800 --> 00:17:03.200 You may feel like certain things are important and that you need them, but. 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.290 But the truth is where the story should lie. 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:10.530 That and my wife. 00:17:12.589 --> 00:17:15.540 Psalm 42, verse five and six. 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.230 The psalmist describes his circumstance. 00:17:19.540 --> 00:17:21.560 He recognizes the way he's feeling. 00:17:21.940 --> 00:17:24.430 He knows he wants to be at a place where he's rejoicing. 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:25.920 And so this is what he does. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:26.960 In five and six. 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:28.960 He just starts preaching truth to himself. 00:17:30.340 --> 00:17:30.940 Where are you? 00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:32.220 In despair, O my soul? 00:17:32.220 --> 00:17:33.500 Like what is going on here? 00:17:34.320 --> 00:17:36.320 And why have you become disturbed within me? 00:17:36.560 --> 00:17:40.280 Hope in God, for I shall again praise him for the help of his presence. 00:17:41.340 --> 00:17:44.700 Oh my God, my soul is in despair within me. 00:17:45.320 --> 00:17:49.860 Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, and from Mount Misery. 00:17:50.100 --> 00:17:53.960 He's saying this truth about the Lord in the midst of his circumstances. 00:17:54.620 --> 00:17:56.100 What's important to hold on to? 00:17:57.860 --> 00:18:06.340 That God loves and God does care, and God is there in the midst of his trial. 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:07.600 Lamentations. 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.420 verses 19 and 20 are already read. 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:12.700 But let me read verse 21. 00:18:12.700 --> 00:18:16.080 Jeremiah is describing in 19 and 20 the bitterness of his soul. 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:17.820 But look what he does in verse 21. 00:18:17.820 --> 00:18:18.920 And this I recall. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:20.910 To my mind. 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:23.440 And therefore it gives me hope. 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:28.380 The Lord's loving kindness indeed never cease, for his compassion never fails. 00:18:31.420 --> 00:18:38.440 In the midst of the way I feel in the heaviness of my soul, I have got to think beyond 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.480 the feelings to what I know is true. 00:18:44.100 --> 00:18:51.820 And Jeremiah says in this is hope, in this is security, because there is loving kindness indeed never ceases. 00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:55.500 His compassion towards you will never fail. 00:18:57.420 --> 00:19:00.410 Direct your feelings towards the truth. 00:19:01.120 --> 00:19:04.740 Because the right thinking leads to healthy living in Christ. 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:11.040 Second thing that the psalmist does, he begins to describe in verse eight. 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:12.660 He. 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:17.900 In verse eight he begins to do something significant about God. 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:25.520 Here he identifies something very important about the Lord that maybe sometimes we don't always get in the English, but would have come across very clearly in 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:26.120 the Hebrew. 00:19:26.120 --> 00:19:27.960 He says, let me read it in English and I'll explain it. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:35.300 The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and his song will be with me in the night. 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:38.060 A prayer to the God of my life. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:41.940 Throughout this entire Psalm. 00:19:43.100 --> 00:19:48.640 The priest or the psalmist refers to God with one word, Elohim. 00:19:50.800 --> 00:19:57.680 And he gets to verse eight when he's talking about something specific about God that's going to help him in the heaviness of his soul. 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:02.720 And rather than refer to him as Elohim, which says a prayer to the God, that word God is Elohim. 00:20:04.300 --> 00:20:06.120 He says in the very beginning, the Lord. 00:20:07.800 --> 00:20:11.600 And the expert he chooses to say in this verse, in any doorway or to. 00:20:14.620 --> 00:20:19.240 When someone is referring to God at any point in history. 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:25.400 In the Old Testament, the word Elohim is a generic term to refer to the god or a false god. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:31.140 It's an emotional word that is used for the beginning of this has to as a nation. 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:34.040 Un camp Exodus chapter eight, verses 14 at and the. 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:36.640 When God shows up. 00:20:38.840 --> 00:20:39.780 Got up. 00:20:39.780 --> 00:20:39.880 Dismissed. 00:20:41.300 --> 00:20:42.440 He would be the nation's deliverer. 00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:46.020 And God a year past he would look okay. 00:20:46.860 --> 00:20:48.300 There was people. 00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:52.390 And God promised he would care for them as he had blessed Abraham. 00:20:54.860 --> 00:20:55.580 And God. 00:20:55.580 --> 00:21:01.620 In Exodus chapter three, it reveals to us the story of Moses when Moses had left Egypt for 40 years. 00:21:02.120 --> 00:21:08.980 He's out in the desert, having run for his life because he had killed an Egyptian, and he knows Pharaoh is going to take him if he doesn't leave. 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:12.670 And so he goes into the wilderness, and after 40 years, he comes before a burning bush. 00:21:12.820 --> 00:21:20.780 God meets him in that moment and reveals himself to him as the I am the Yehovah, the Yahweh in Exodus 314 00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:21.120 and 15. 00:21:23.460 --> 00:21:30.700 And what the psalmist does in this moment is to go from this God that he feels distant from, reveals 00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:35.440 to himself the truth of who God is, and he makes God personal in his life. 00:21:38.910 --> 00:21:39.720 And for you. 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:46.940 Maybe it's important to stop and say if I am not going through a hard time right now. 00:21:48.040 --> 00:21:48.400 I will. 00:21:50.780 --> 00:21:55.570 And there are times in my life where I know God has shown up so clearly. 00:21:57.060 --> 00:21:59.900 Where I felt close and connected to him. 00:22:01.340 --> 00:22:04.480 When I knew the importance of who he was above any and all circumstances. 00:22:07.280 --> 00:22:14.340 And for the priest, it was this moment in his life where Yahweh became Yahweh instead of 00:22:14.340 --> 00:22:15.320 just Elohim. 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:21.300 From this distant God to this personal God who cares for his needs. 00:22:22.840 --> 00:22:23.780 And he just lets it rip. 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:30.660 He just opens himself up to this personal God who wants to hear his need. 00:22:30.660 --> 00:22:37.740 And in Romans chapter eight and verse 26, it tells us that the Spirit of God makes groanings for us, that when we can't 00:22:37.740 --> 00:22:38.720 express ourselves. 00:22:41.760 --> 00:22:42.120 Meaning there. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:49.440 There are times in your life where you go through circumstances that are so difficult on your soul that you don't even have words 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:51.000 to express it, but just grief. 00:22:54.420 --> 00:22:55.170 And in that case. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:59.740 Where Elohim becomes Yahweh. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:05.140 And you recall the personalis that you have with God. 00:23:07.340 --> 00:23:10.020 If you just open your soul to him. 00:23:11.940 --> 00:23:16.560 Even at times where there are not words to just say God cares for y'all. 00:23:21.300 --> 00:23:23.560 Not only do we need to remind ourselves of the truth. 00:23:25.280 --> 00:23:25.780 But we need God. 00:23:26.140 --> 00:23:28.360 Recognize that God, your soul, who is personal to. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:35.460 Psalm 51 and verse 17, you will not reject a broken, repentant heart, O God. 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:37.920 Psalm 34 and verse 18. 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:39.660 The Lord is close to the broken hearted. 00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:42.400 He rescues those whose spirits are crushed. 00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:46.280 Psalm 34 and verse 18 God loves a broken spirit. 00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:53.320 Maybe that's why God chooses the term father. 00:23:56.420 --> 00:23:59.400 And for our minds to be able to correlate to who he is. 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.000 He uses the word father and dads moms. 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:03.610 You know this too. 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:12.500 You know what it's like when you're in the other room and you hear your kid cry and not those annoying cries where you just want to yell shush 00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:17.480 back, but the one that you recognize is different from all the others because it's a cry of pain. 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:25.460 And he, as a parent goes to the alert, goes up, and also dive into that moment was to MIT is to provide that situation. 00:24:27.300 --> 00:24:28.630 Now as a as a dad sometimes. 00:24:29.520 --> 00:24:29.660 Hey! 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:30.390 Stop that. 00:24:30.840 --> 00:24:32.400 That's not where. 00:24:34.120 --> 00:24:35.180 But when there's deep grieving. 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:37.280 And deeper you. 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.040 I mean, you just want to draw that child in. 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:44.140 And be there in that moment. 00:24:45.940 --> 00:24:48.280 Comfort, whatever is bringing that struggle. 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:52.140 It's been said of God. 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.060 Sometimes God calms the storm. 00:24:55.560 --> 00:24:59.500 But other times he calms the child who's enduring the storm. 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:05.040 I know when, Levi's got a game where he now because he. 00:25:05.040 --> 00:25:09.000 And he is Superman on the other end asking lads usually because of him. 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.340 But sometimes he's known this man. 00:25:10.340 --> 00:25:12.460 And so he's learning beauty of really quick. 00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:15.640 The Lord lay not capable of knowing and eating right. 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.120 He hits the ground of hope and. 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:19.480 And pain exists. 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:22.070 And you know, what I can't do in that moment is I can't take away that pain. 00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:25.580 And I want it to be a life lesson, not to fall off something bigger. 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:29.950 But I want to be there to calm him, let him know I care. 00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:33.560 In the beauty of the Lord. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:40.880 Is that this world has physical suffering and physical pain. 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:49.060 But spiritually he can meet us in those moments to strengthen us for what he has called us to in this world. 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:54.960 When the psalmist says, the Lord. 00:25:56.760 --> 00:25:57.820 Instead of just God. 00:25:57.840 --> 00:25:57.940 Elohim. 00:25:59.760 --> 00:26:04.880 He's us mailing the same perm back to our passage, but he's using something specific about this God. 00:26:06.600 --> 00:26:07.460 He is a deliverer. 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:09.490 He is a sustainer. 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:13.600 He cares for what I am facing in this world. 00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:19.380 So much so that he comes into this world and gives his life to set me free from it. 00:26:21.730 --> 00:26:25.560 And his cause a declared that and he has all versions. 00:26:25.980 --> 00:26:27.660 Self persona. 00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:29.880 For us. 00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:37.480 The Summit Act gives us one final thought as he existences just dealing with the city of the Seoul phone data on the truth beyond and 00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:44.620 emotions that are circumstances and seeking this God who is personal, but he aligned this thought seeking its take it that for most mass seeking God 00:26:44.620 --> 00:26:46.000 for more than how it fits a season. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.860 I love the way that this Psalm ends, because in America, this is this is how I like to do my movies. 00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:58.520 I like to show up to a movie, and I like it to have a beginning, a middle, and a conclusion where I when I walk out, everything's buttoned up. 00:26:58.560 --> 00:27:00.280 When I watch that Lord of the rings stuff, it drives me crazy. 00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:01.740 I got to go back again. 00:27:02.260 --> 00:27:03.970 It's like, that was a that was a horrible ending. 00:27:04.020 --> 00:27:05.930 It's just all these non conclusions here. 00:27:06.460 --> 00:27:08.500 But this Psalm ends that way. 00:27:09.620 --> 00:27:12.760 He says I will say to God my rock, why have you forgotten me? 00:27:12.760 --> 00:27:13.810 Why do I go mourning? 00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:17.180 Because of the oppression of the enemy as a shattering of my bones. 00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:21.820 My adversaries revile me while they say to me all day long, where is your God? 00:27:22.580 --> 00:27:24.560 Why are you in despair, O my soul? 00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:26.360 And why have you become disturbed within me? 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.920 Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:39.280 It doesn't matter data that he necessarily made a resolution to within exact problem. 00:27:41.580 --> 00:27:41.580 Also noticing. 00:27:43.060 --> 00:27:44.350 But can I be honest in saying. 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:47.050 There is still a resolution. 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:52.100 When we talk about the sorrow of our soul. 00:27:53.360 --> 00:27:54.160 And the pain we go through. 00:27:54.180 --> 00:27:55.580 And I say something this morning like. 00:27:57.540 --> 00:27:58.900 Let's get rid of the sorrow of our soul. 00:27:58.900 --> 00:27:59.500 How do we do that? 00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:05.640 The danger that we run risk into as people. 00:28:07.140 --> 00:28:09.000 Is that we begin to use God as a tool. 00:28:11.420 --> 00:28:14.990 And what I mean is if all you're interested in is getting rid of your sorrow. 00:28:16.560 --> 00:28:21.980 At the moment you get rid of your sorrow in whatever circumstance you're facing is also the same moment you dump Jesus. 00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:27.380 Because the whole point of the sorrow wasn't about the Lord to begin with. 00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:28.240 It was about you. 00:28:30.260 --> 00:28:32.640 And God didn't create life to be about you. 00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:34.280 Now God cares about your sorrow. 00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:37.400 The point. 00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:42.800 The point is that in our sorrow, rather than just seek the end of sorrow, we need to do what the psalmist says. 00:28:43.100 --> 00:28:45.740 The solution may not meet the resolution right away. 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:53.480 But what the psalmist is really saying is the resolution isn't the sorrow that he's going through the resolution is really the Lord. 00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.570 In all circumstances. 00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:01.180 Meet the Lord. 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.110 So this is how it works for us in our lives. 00:29:04.360 --> 00:29:06.450 When we mask something that causes us great sorrow. 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:14.540 We can get very ungod focused in it in the sense that we were having a positive feeling and we lost that. 00:29:14.540 --> 00:29:16.260 And we want to have a good feeling again. 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:19.740 And so I'm going to attack everything that's out there until I have a good feeling. 00:29:20.420 --> 00:29:21.760 Right. 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:25.060 I'm going to start after he or made me mad. 00:29:25.060 --> 00:29:25.320 Or what? 00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:26.300 This made me mad. 00:29:26.300 --> 00:29:26.780 And then. 00:29:26.820 --> 00:29:28.040 And I'll come back to the not. 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:38.300 What the psalmist says in the situation is what God desires is beyond just the circumstance. 00:29:41.560 --> 00:29:45.160 God design it for you to learn to walk with him in everything you build life. 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:48.180 It's. 00:29:48.180 --> 00:29:49.020 It's not about me. 00:29:49.020 --> 00:29:49.700 It's about him. 00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:58.040 And so when something happens to me I don't like, I don't respond to the thing that I don't like by saying, what can I do to make it better for me? 00:29:58.060 --> 00:30:01.880 What do I what do I do as I respond to the Lord and say, God, God, meet me right here. 00:30:04.860 --> 00:30:06.310 Because, God, I know I'm created for your glory. 00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:08.320 But here's the benefit of knowing I'm created for your glory. 00:30:08.380 --> 00:30:12.720 That whatever you desire for your glory in this moment is better than what I'm going to do in my own strength anyway. 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:22.080 And rather than making my sorrow my God or me, my God and my sorrow, I make the Lord and his glory God. 00:30:24.320 --> 00:30:25.320 And in the circumstances. 00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:33.560 I seek his face and I desire what he desires for me so that I can meet this God who may calm 00:30:33.560 --> 00:30:36.580 the storm, but at least calms the child who's enduring the storm. 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.980 One of my favorite proverbs is Proverbs 14 and verse four. 00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:48.740 And this is the reason why it's important for us to seek God for more than just a season. 00:30:50.260 --> 00:30:53.890 I'll read this verse and I'll describe it to what he's saying here without oxen. 00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.880 A stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest. 00:31:00.360 --> 00:31:01.700 in life. 00:31:03.060 --> 00:31:03.880 We all go through seasons. 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:06.140 Ups and downs. 00:31:07.700 --> 00:31:09.420 Difficulties and successes. 00:31:10.320 --> 00:31:12.270 As a child, you grew up and you start to learn. 00:31:12.820 --> 00:31:14.250 You write, you get an education. 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.320 You figure out maybe what you want to do with your life as you are educated and. 00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:24.820 And then you get a career and maybe you're married and you have kids. 00:31:24.820 --> 00:31:27.810 Every one of these seasons are different for you. 00:31:29.140 --> 00:31:29.260 When? 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:36.620 When you get married, you know that whatever that marriage was like on day one is not how it's going to be like in year 00:31:36.620 --> 00:31:36.960 one. 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:39.080 Matter of fact, day two or next hour. 00:31:40.340 --> 00:31:42.280 As people, you're always changing when you have kids. 00:31:42.280 --> 00:31:44.860 What your kid did when he was two will not work when he's four. 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:49.640 Matter of fact, if he was an angel at two, he may be the devil. 00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:50.740 For you don't know. 00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:53.020 Kids change, circumstances change. 00:31:55.820 --> 00:31:56.690 But in all of it. 00:31:58.920 --> 00:31:59.340 All of it. 00:31:59.340 --> 00:31:59.760 You need the Lord. 00:32:02.580 --> 00:32:05.480 This proverb is saying to us as people. 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:14.560 When you think about an ox and you put it in a barn and you let it eat, naturally, the ox 00:32:14.620 --> 00:32:20.400 is going to do something and it's going to be gross, and you're going to need a shovel, right? 00:32:22.040 --> 00:32:28.800 In life, as a person, when you're living life, the older you get, the tendency is more responsibility comes with age. 00:32:28.800 --> 00:32:32.080 That's why we as parents love that toys R us song, right? 00:32:32.080 --> 00:32:32.960 I don't want to grow up. 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:34.440 I want to be a toys R us kid. 00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:36.840 When you think about, you think about growing up. 00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:38.920 That comes with responsibility. 00:32:39.260 --> 00:32:43.440 A responsibility in which God's glory needs to shine forth and should shine forth. 00:32:43.540 --> 00:32:45.090 That God has given you a life to enjoy. 00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:46.960 You can do it as a kid. 00:32:46.980 --> 00:32:47.920 Some of us already are right. 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:49.600 We could pitch enjoy that database. 00:32:50.520 --> 00:32:56.280 But what he's saying may be the more you accumulate a virtuous life, the more ox and incur in the stable and so bigger the shovel. 00:32:58.140 --> 00:33:00.660 You imagine if. 00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:07.690 And you start making a job, you get income, you got a house, you got a car, you've got insurances and responsibilities, you got illnesses, you got marriage, you got kids, you got grandkids, 00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:08.500 you got whatever. 00:33:09.060 --> 00:33:13.400 The longer you live life, the tendency is, the more responsibility comes out of that. 00:33:14.800 --> 00:33:16.410 And in all of it there are ups and downs. 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:21.660 And the point of the psalmist is to say. 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.600 It's more than just seeking God in the circumstance or the season. 00:33:28.360 --> 00:33:29.680 But to stick with him in everything. 00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:34.900 In Proverbs 16 nine it says this the mind of man plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps. 00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:39.860 When you make your plans in life. 00:33:42.300 --> 00:33:43.990 Plant them with an open hand before the Lord. 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:50.360 Meaning you can say to God, God, this is where I think you desire for me to go. 00:33:51.040 --> 00:33:52.460 And what you desire for me to do. 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:53.110 But, Lord, here. 00:33:54.940 --> 00:33:55.750 My five year plan. 00:33:56.060 --> 00:33:59.700 If it needs to change, it's yours. 00:34:01.540 --> 00:34:03.660 Because was to make circumstance on a scene. 00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:05.480 I'm seeking. 00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:12.170 If your goal in ending sorrow is just simply to end sorrow. 00:34:12.580 --> 00:34:13.500 My fear. 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.060 My fear is that we do it devoid of the one who created us to experience joy in him. 00:34:22.100 --> 00:34:25.600 And the psalmist writes the psalm, recognizing that we can do that as people. 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:34.280 We can make the solution to our problem about anything other than the Lord, because what we're after is just to feel better. 00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:41.920 But what we don't recognize in that moment, it's that it's the Lord who provides the strength. 00:34:43.620 --> 00:34:48.600 And so the psalmist in Psalm 42, by saying, he doesn't give us the resolution, he doesn't tell us the end. 00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:52.440 He doesn't even tell us everything got buttoned up, right, exactly how a movie should end. 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.800 But what he says, it's like the Lord of the rings shmygal could be anywhere. 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:00.700 But his trust on the one. 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:02.340 I'll give some strength. 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:06.780 Because he knows the Lord will provide. 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:14.220 I will rest in his truth even when I'm heavy, because his truth endures and truth lasts beyond 00:35:14.220 --> 00:35:17.920 feelings, and right believing leads to healthy living. 00:35:19.240 --> 00:35:23.560 We live life personal with God, drawing near to him, knowing that he sustains us. 00:35:23.560 --> 00:35:27.140 He is not just Elohim, he is Yahweh. 00:35:27.140 --> 00:35:27.910 He is Jehovah. 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:30.300 He is Redeemer and sustainer. 00:35:33.240 --> 00:35:35.420 We live knowing that our adversity is seasonal. 00:35:36.900 --> 00:35:37.790 But Jesus sustains. 00:35:40.120 --> 00:35:47.400 And rather than come to him simply through circumstances, we just look to trust in him in everything that 00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:48.540 we go through. 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:51.080 Because he is answer.