WEBVTT 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.000 You know, I think about the significance of today and it fits well with where we've been as a church family. 00:00:05.020 --> 00:00:11.560 We've recently started a series together that you can go back and view online, talking about the reviving of our heart. 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:18.820 The series is called Revive and we've been looking through passages of scripture that encourages our spirit, especially during this time of year when 00:00:18.820 --> 00:00:25.450 we're getting out of the winter months, to focus on the Lord and what He wants to do and a renewing within us. 00:00:26.020 --> 00:00:27.720 His spirit, His strength. 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:33.830 And you know, when I think about times like today, this is certainly not a time to panic. 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:41.980 It's a time rather for us, in the midst of trials, in the midst of struggle to let the 00:00:41.980 --> 00:00:44.460 light of God shine forth through us. 00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:51.380 Because it's in the midst of the darkness the truth of God can shine more brightly through his people. 00:00:52.540 --> 00:00:59.760 And when I think about the Lord during these times, I realized scripture has all sorts of things to say about times of uncertainty, times of 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:00.960 trouble. 00:01:00.980 --> 00:01:06.740 And one of the places in the Bible that I especially love that I want to share with us together comes from Psalm 62. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:14.980 We're using this series called Revive to go through passages of scripture in the Psalms to explain to us different scenarios that 00:01:14.980 --> 00:01:15.840 we face together. 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:22.240 Because in life we can learn about the truth of who God is, but then we've got to answer how does that relate to where I live? 00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:29.720 How do we take the truth of God and the life that I live and see those things come together in a wonderful way of worship. 00:01:30.220 --> 00:01:37.420 And the book of Psalms is a beautiful place to find how to respond in faith to the circumstances around us, 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:38.780 no matter what we go through as people. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:47.280 In fact, what makes the book of Psalm so unique is that while all the other books of the Bible will tell us about who God is, Psalms 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:49.320 is man's response to the Lord. 00:01:50.660 --> 00:01:53.920 And we look at Psalm 62, this is David writing this psalm. 00:01:54.280 --> 00:02:00.460 And he's really answering for us the question, how do we respond when we don't have complete control? 00:02:01.940 --> 00:02:02.440 What do we do? 00:02:04.220 --> 00:02:06.740 How do we worship in uncertain times? 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:12.780 And I think for us this morning, the answer is more than buy hand sanitizer and toilet paper, right? 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:18.240 But what does David do in a moment for him when he's going through uncertain times? 00:02:18.420 --> 00:02:21.180 What does he do when he doesn't have complete control? 00:02:21.180 --> 00:02:28.040 Now certainly there is some control to the life that we lead and God wants us to respond and act based on our circumstances. 00:02:28.260 --> 00:02:30.310 But we can't control everything. 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:37.720 And I think it's important for us to know that despite circumstances, it never changes who God calls you to be. 00:02:38.820 --> 00:02:42.600 The fruit of the spirit is as true in good times as it is in struggles. 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:49.800 That God wants us to walk with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness. 00:02:51.320 --> 00:02:58.460 In Psalm 62, David shows to us in his own life through this worship expression that he writes 00:02:58.460 --> 00:03:04.640 here, how we respond in times where we don't have complete control and in times of uncertainty. 00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:10.560 In verse three and four is where he starts by recognizing for us the struggle that he's going through. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:17.020 His struggles a little bit different from us, but it's still similar in the sense that he doesn't have complete control. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:24.540 And the first thing David does, verse three and four is he recognizes before God that life is fragile, but 00:03:24.540 --> 00:03:26.460 really God is not. 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:33.740 Verse three it says this, how long will all of you attack a man to batter him like a leaning wall or a tottering fence? 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:37.830 They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. 00:03:38.180 --> 00:03:39.750 They take pleasure in falsehood. 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.420 They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. 00:03:44.420 --> 00:03:44.600 Selah. 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:49.020 What that word means is David's pausing and reflecting here in this moment. 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:53.620 But David recognizes his state of being that it's fragile in these moments. 00:03:53.620 --> 00:03:58.190 That he's like a leaning wall or a tottering fence because he doesn't have complete control. 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:01.440 Over these last few days we've learned a similar lesson. 00:04:02.920 --> 00:04:05.450 That a few nights ago, I'm watching a Jazz game. 00:04:05.540 --> 00:04:06.650 It's about to tip off. 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:11.340 And before I know it, the Jazz are in their locker room and the entire NBA season's cancelled. 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:18.560 And within the matter of hours, you see what can happen to your economy and what could happen even to the 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:19.620 health of people. 00:04:21.339 --> 00:04:22.740 What do you do when you're on shaky ground? 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:31.300 David acknowledges here as a man of faith, representing the image of God in him that God calls him to live by faith and 00:04:31.300 --> 00:04:32.240 not by fear. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:37.220 And he begins this Psalm by recognizing that life is fragile, but God is not. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:45.000 Adversity doesn't change the fact that you're in Christ and you're in his hands in hard times if you belong to the Lord. 00:04:46.520 --> 00:04:53.580 And while we don't want to go looking for difficult times, God can certainly redeem the trouble times. 00:04:53.620 --> 00:04:58.160 In fact, the Bible tells us he redeems all things, that God is sovereign. 00:04:58.180 --> 00:05:05.460 In Revelation 22:13, it says that he is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, the first and the last. 00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:08.360 And it's telling us that in that God controls all things. 00:05:08.820 --> 00:05:12.660 That He started it, he ends it, and he has everything in between. 00:05:12.980 --> 00:05:20.340 Colassians 1:15-17 reminds us of chapter one it says to us that he created all things both spiritual and physical, 00:05:20.460 --> 00:05:22.260 and he holds all things in his hands. 00:05:22.300 --> 00:05:26.460 And Romans 8:28 all things work together for good to those who love God. 00:05:27.500 --> 00:05:31.850 God uses sobering moments like this to help us consider what matters. 00:05:33.900 --> 00:05:34.420 Life matters. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:37.520 Human life matters. 00:05:39.640 --> 00:05:40.260 Eternal life matters. 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:43.340 And God cares about people. 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:51.620 And we honor and value the life that we have and the life that He gives by the way we choose to act now. 00:05:53.060 --> 00:06:01.320 God uses moments like this to grow our faith, to help us clarify and simplify what 00:06:01.320 --> 00:06:02.740 really is important. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.740 You know, when you read the Bible, we like to read miraculous stories, stories of great heroism, stories of great faith. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.520 The Bible is full of them. 00:06:11.520 --> 00:06:16.900 We're inspired by them, but when it comes to us, what we prefer is boring, safe, and predictable. 00:06:18.500 --> 00:06:21.780 God can use hard moments to show us something better. 00:06:22.840 --> 00:06:25.840 Life is fragile, but God is not. 00:06:27.140 --> 00:06:34.420 And you think about the stories in scripture that we find so inspiring that in every one of those instances, God could have taken the people or the individual 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:37.480 going through a circumstance and simply just plucked them, right out of it. 00:06:38.440 --> 00:06:43.880 He could have taken the children of Israel as slaves in Egypt and just simply removed them and put them in the promised land. 00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:49.300 But rather than do that, rather than take them out of the circumstance, God chose to walk with them through it. 00:06:50.460 --> 00:06:57.760 I think when we consider the Lord in those moments, I like to think that God is not so much interested 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:02.380 in the storm, but the heart of the individual that goes to the storm. 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.200 How do we worship and respond in uncertain times and times we can't control? 00:07:08.200 --> 00:07:15.380 By one, recognizing, open our eyes to the idea that life is fragile, but God is 00:07:15.380 --> 00:07:15.480 not. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:24.920 The second way you see with David in Psalm 62:1-2, this is the way he opens the Psalm.` He tells us to 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:26.400 wait on God's salvation. 00:07:26.440 --> 00:07:30.680 He says, for God alone, my soul waits in silence. 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:33.540 From Him comes my salvation. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.860 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. 00:07:37.140 --> 00:07:39.000 I shall not be greatly shaken. 00:07:40.400 --> 00:07:47.360 When you look at these expressions of David, the posture that he carries in the turmoil around him, verse three and four describes the turmoil. 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:48.980 Shows life as fragile. 00:07:49.060 --> 00:07:52.880 But verse one and two what he reflects on is to wait on God's salvation. 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:59.460 This word waiting is used in verse one it's used in verse five and then in verse seven he talks about resting. 00:08:00.780 --> 00:08:05.960 The word wait and the word rest are marks of the gospel in our lives. 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:12.700 The word wait really answers the question, do I really trust in the promises that God delivers to his people? 00:08:14.440 --> 00:08:16.060 Do I truly hold to them or not? 00:08:17.640 --> 00:08:19.720 Difficult times are the great tester. 00:08:20.940 --> 00:08:25.060 The idea of resting is also a mark of the gospel. 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:28.880 When God created in the beginning, on the seventh day, it tells us that He rests. 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:31.160 His peace made known in this world before man sins. 00:08:32.500 --> 00:08:35.240 And even Jesus when he comes in Matthew 11. 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:42.260 What he offers to the world in verse 28 he says to a religious people being oppressed, he says, come to me all 00:08:42.260 --> 00:08:47.620 you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. 00:08:49.460 --> 00:08:56.600 See a mark of God's people, is seen in how well their faith brings them to place of rest in the midst 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:57.260 of turmoil. 00:08:58.340 --> 00:09:01.900 Because while life is fragile, God is not. 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:08.080 As a pastor, if we don't understand the finished work of Christ, I have to say that I fail you. 00:09:10.040 --> 00:09:17.180 And in John 19:28 and on, Jesus on the cross, he says to us that it 00:09:17.180 --> 00:09:17.920 is finished. 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:24.960 The reason we are able to rest is because the work for our lives has been done by Jesus and Jesus alone. 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:26.460 It is finished. 00:09:26.460 --> 00:09:27.820 He's paid it in full. 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:35.600 Therefore in him, while life may have turmoil, you are secure. 00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:39.020 Salvation. 00:09:39.020 --> 00:09:41.620 That word says God is our rescue. 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:47.970 And this is where David's acknowledging for us in Psalm 62:1-2, where he is ultimately putting his hope. 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.820 So much so that in verse two he's showing us this one thought. 00:09:51.820 --> 00:09:54.720 He says, he alone is my rock and salvation. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:03.220 When you think about King David, you could say before this King of course, David, that you feel this rest and you feel this ability to 00:10:03.220 --> 00:10:03.640 wait. 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.520 That you're behind a fortress made of rock. 00:10:08.640 --> 00:10:14.420 And David is saying to us in verse two we would be foolish to assume that David finds his security in a building. 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:25.120 That yes, he may be behind a castle wall, or behind a fortress of the city, but 00:10:25.180 --> 00:10:26.840 that's not where his true hope is. 00:10:28.580 --> 00:10:31.750 That God alone is his rock and fortress. 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:42.240 David is acknowledging that while these other things may put on this facade, this appearance, that he might be impenetrable that 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.000 where he really rests is in God. 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:52.120 And here's the beauty of this thought, that while we may not all live in a castle, we all have 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:53.020 access to Christ. 00:10:54.980 --> 00:11:02.150 And He is our strength and He is our rock and He is our fortress. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.890 I think it's important, don't be foolish. 00:11:05.820 --> 00:11:06.300 Wash your hands. 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:08.420 Be wise. 00:11:08.420 --> 00:11:09.560 Work from home, if you can. 00:11:10.400 --> 00:11:15.660 Honor your government and what they request as long as it doesn't call you to walk in disobedience to God. 00:11:16.820 --> 00:11:17.960 Call your doctor if you're sick. 00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:26.700 But don't be so foolish as to assume for a moment that your true rescue doesn't ultimately lie 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:27.620 in Christ. 00:11:29.500 --> 00:11:33.340 While David acknowledges that life is fragile, that salvation alone comes from God. 00:11:33.660 --> 00:11:39.080 The third thing he does in verses five to seven is he reminds his soul to continue to rest in him. 00:11:39.180 --> 00:11:43.700 Listen to this, verse five my soul wait in silence for God only. 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:45.620 For my hope is from Him. 00:11:45.700 --> 00:11:48.020 It's like David is having a conversation with himself here. 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:53.280 My soul, wait please in silence for God, for my hope is in him. 00:11:53.780 --> 00:11:57.320 He alone and only is my rock and salvation, my stronghold. 00:11:57.340 --> 00:11:58.360 I shall not be shaken. 00:11:58.880 --> 00:12:05.460 Oh God, my salvation and my glory rest the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:13.450 David is continuing to remind himself, it is the clarity that comes to the trials that he's experiencing. 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:21.480 You know, when you read the book of Revelation 2 and 3, the book of Revelation opens up by telling us it's written to the seven churches. 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:25.220 And it clarifies those seven churches in chapter two and three. 00:12:25.280 --> 00:12:30.110 And what's interesting about the seven churches is out of the seven churches, only two of them get a positive report. 00:12:31.900 --> 00:12:37.780 And the two that God gives a positive reports of are the two that are going through persecution. 00:12:40.100 --> 00:12:46.440 Trials clarify the importance of what life should be about. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.900 Adversity is the refiner of true worship. 00:12:53.580 --> 00:12:59.720 We look to God, we see where our hope should be rooted in what ultimately sustains. 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:02.680 Where is your hope? 00:13:05.180 --> 00:13:08.980 Sometimes in life we get fooled by the moment and only live the moment. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:15.980 But it's times like now that cause us to pause and just consider, what's it all for? 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:24.760 And what David is saying in the Psalm and verse five to seven is not only does he give this declaration at the very beginning of where his hope lies, but 00:13:24.760 --> 00:13:30.040 he wants to continue to repeat this truth to his soul, lest he gets lost in the chaos of life. 00:13:31.900 --> 00:13:39.340 And then verse eight and 10 he reminds us of the fourth thing he says, invite others to faith 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:40.540 and not fear. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:49.680 So these opportunities that we go through together, sometimes God might be the last thing that we think about when we face 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:50.030 adversity. 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:54.260 And what David wants us to recognize in verses eight to 10, I'll read it in just a moment. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:14:00.720 What he's saying is don't allow your eyes to look past the opportunity and the hope that you have to point other people to that ultimate hope. 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.000 He says in verse eight, trust in him at all times, oh people. 00:14:05.020 --> 00:14:12.480 So you see in this these words that David has now turned his attention for more than just himself, but he's now looking beyond and he's declaring to the people trust 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:14.320 in Him at all times, oh people. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:15.820 Pour out your heart before him. 00:14:16.180 --> 00:14:18.080 God is a refuge for us. 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:18.560 Selah. 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:19.420 Again, he rests here. 00:14:21.420 --> 00:14:28.660 Sometimes we get so fixated on circumstances we miss the ultimate opportunity that we have to invite others 00:14:28.660 --> 00:14:31.220 to the hope that they can have in Christ. 00:14:32.540 --> 00:14:34.420 The common man lives for the moment. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:40.560 But hardship and adversity opens the door for us to look for more. 00:14:42.220 --> 00:14:47.000 Hardship is a means to invite to a greater hope and a more meaningful worship. 00:14:48.700 --> 00:14:51.800 You know, it's in hard times that we can change for better or worse. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.240 And you're going to see this in verse nine and 10. 00:14:54.420 --> 00:15:01.120 But what tends to happen in life when we have hope on ourselves as is all of a sudden when we don't feel in control, we stress out. 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:05.120 Or we even use anger as a defense to fight to get things our way. 00:15:05.560 --> 00:15:10.650 Or sometimes we don't feel like we can carry it all on our shoulders so we go into a place of despair. 00:15:12.920 --> 00:15:19.940 But what David is showing us, rather than us being in control, God has control 00:15:19.940 --> 00:15:20.420 of all things. 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:23.880 Consider this for a moment. 00:15:25.820 --> 00:15:26.420 God knows. 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:29.520 He knows right where you are. 00:15:30.300 --> 00:15:32.420 God is not surprised by anything in your life. 00:15:34.260 --> 00:15:35.160 He knows where you are. 00:15:36.280 --> 00:15:39.300 He cares about you and He cares about your circumstance. 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.360 God's interest in life is in your heart. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:46.100 God's interested in you. 00:15:46.340 --> 00:15:47.200 That's why Jesus came. 00:15:48.940 --> 00:15:54.640 I think of all the truths that people might propagate in this world or truth claims that they might have. 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:03.720 But where else could you find a God becoming flesh, extending such gracious love toward 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:03.980 you. 00:16:05.580 --> 00:16:07.200 Trust in him at all times, oh people. 00:16:08.760 --> 00:16:15.600 Because on the back end of that, what we tend to do in trusting in ourselves, is to act in stress or anger or despair. 00:16:15.920 --> 00:16:18.940 And you start to see this in verse nine and 10 where people put their hope. 00:16:18.940 --> 00:16:21.260 He says those of lowest state are but a breath. 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:25.760 And those of highest state are a delusion in the things that they're trusting. 00:16:25.940 --> 00:16:30.260 And he says in the balances, they go up, they are together, lighter than a breath. 00:16:30.820 --> 00:16:32.760 Put no trust in extortion. 00:16:33.900 --> 00:16:35.840 Set no vain hopes on robbery. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.920 If riches increase, set not your heart on them. 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.120 So he's saying crazy times, people act in crazy ways. 00:16:44.420 --> 00:16:46.830 And those that are of lowest state, but breath. 00:16:46.860 --> 00:16:49.570 And those in highest state a delusion, they go up in the balances. 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:51.940 And what David's picturing here is scales. 00:16:53.300 --> 00:16:56.810 And he's saying we weigh scales on certain things in life. 00:16:56.900 --> 00:17:02.440 But these things that David is describing in this verse, he's saying, look, they don't even register on the weight. 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:03.500 They just float away. 00:17:04.520 --> 00:17:06.760 In comparison to God, it's not even worth measuring. 00:17:06.940 --> 00:17:08.880 That this is where your hope should be. 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:15.900 And the fifth point that David does, in verse 11 and 12 how do we worship in times of uncertainty? 00:17:17.520 --> 00:17:18.619 In times where we don't have control? 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:24.460 He says this, he reminds us to know the Lord brings power and love to his people. 00:17:26.140 --> 00:17:28.420 The Lord brings power and love to his people. 00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:31.300 Verse 11 look, once God has spoken. 00:17:32.580 --> 00:17:33.530 Twice, have I heard this. 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:40.460 The power belongs to God and that to you, Oh Lord belongs steadfast love. 00:17:41.520 --> 00:17:44.680 For you will render to a man according to his work. 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:53.500 What the poem is saying here through David is God says this, it's been declared and this resonates with me over 00:17:53.500 --> 00:17:53.900 and over. 00:17:55.080 --> 00:18:00.060 That God's power and love He makes known and He will render to us according to our work. 00:18:01.900 --> 00:18:05.700 What David is reminding us the reason that we can be secure are those two words. 00:18:06.020 --> 00:18:06.700 Power and love. 00:18:08.040 --> 00:18:10.530 The power of God to fulfill his promises. 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.190 And the love of God for his people. 00:18:13.460 --> 00:18:14.930 God needs both of those things. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.500 His power, it gives them the opportunity to execute judgment. 00:18:19.760 --> 00:18:20.570 That God is righteous. 00:18:20.760 --> 00:18:21.460 God has just. 00:18:21.620 --> 00:18:23.270 God is sovereign over everything. 00:18:24.520 --> 00:18:25.800 But at the same time He's love. 00:18:27.100 --> 00:18:27.660 You need both. 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:30.940 And God is perfect because He has both. 00:18:31.280 --> 00:18:34.920 He is love and He is just. 00:18:36.280 --> 00:18:42.360 If you had the power of God without the love of God, just the power alone makes God a tyrant. 00:18:43.760 --> 00:18:49.280 But if you have the love of God, without the power of God, the love of God just becomes flattery with no ability to execute. 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:58.980 But the power in love, the power in love is what makes him so incredible because 00:18:58.980 --> 00:19:02.240 when you're with him, he fights for you. 00:19:04.320 --> 00:19:09.220 God has both in this verse, where David finds himself resting in these moments in worship. 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:11.700 In moments he can't control. 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:16.540 He steps out of the delusion of realizing he's never been in control. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.160 Yes, certain things he can do, but ultimately all things rest in God. 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:29.580 And in this God he looks toward there is both power and love. 00:19:31.520 --> 00:19:38.850 Just because we're temporarily not meeting as a church, it doesn't stop us from being the church. 00:19:39.840 --> 00:19:41.760 Because God's with us wherever we go. 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:50.820 And our Sunday gathering is a little more than an hour out of your week, but you get to be the church throughout the entire 00:19:50.820 --> 00:19:51.270 week. 00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:57.130 Look for opportunity to be wise, to live by faith. 00:19:58.300 --> 00:20:02.090 And kids may miss school and they may miss meals. 00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:03.840 There's opportunity. 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:12.560 Your neighbor may run out of toilet paper or may even need a little extra to pay the bills at the end of the month because they're 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:13.840 not in work right now. 00:20:14.940 --> 00:20:17.610 Maybe you can simply call and encourage each other. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:25.080 People are looking for life to mean more, to bring that life to them in Christ is our calling in Jesus. 00:20:25.080 --> 00:20:29.720 I think it's important for us to both wash our hands and point to Christ in these circumstance. 00:20:30.300 --> 00:20:35.660 Don't forget to preach the Lord's message of hope to yourselves as David did and to others. 00:20:35.820 --> 00:20:42.980 Castles and fortresses are a facade, but the Lord endorsed forever and power in love rest and 00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:45.860 wait in Him. 00:20:46.020 --> 00:20:47.880 And today a virus has reached our shores. 00:20:49.380 --> 00:20:56.580 We don't know how difficult it's going to be with our economy and our health, but we know God is calling us to continue forward 00:20:57.780 --> 00:20:58.540 and loving our neighbor. 00:20:59.780 --> 00:21:01.460 And striving for the glory of his kingdom. 00:21:02.820 --> 00:21:07.110 And if you have Jesus, you will not lose.