WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:18.199 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing work of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:29.100 For His sake, I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish in order that I might gain Christ. 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:35.399 I believe God is preparing us to meet Him. 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:45.500 We think of death as a hard thing, but death is actually the end of the race, and the goal is seeing Christ. 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:59.200 And I don't think we're ready for death until we can say, I count all things but loss, that everything in this world, whatever it may be, is nothing to me. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:06.700 I consider it as rubbish, things that I could throw away and not look back. 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:21.099 I could sell all that I have with joy, and not worry about losing my house, or my business, or even my friends, or my family, or my children. 00:01:21.099 --> 00:01:46.599 Now that's getting close to the things we love most, but I count all things lost in comparison of knowing, not just intellectually comprehending this man named Jesus, but actually knowing Him personally, experiencing His presence. 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:50.000 Everything is nothing to me. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.299 Now isn't that a great longing? 00:01:52.299 --> 00:02:00.000 And isn't that a wonderful passage to apply to our lives and to memorize? 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:11.199 So let me, before we go into our text in Psalm 46, let me pray for you, for this very thing. 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:21.599 Lord, my prayer today is for the saints set before me, for your sweet children that you love so dearly. 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:27.000 Lord, we know that you love us. 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:54.300 Now I pray, dear God, for the men and the women before me and the children before me, that you by your divine and supernatural grace will draw them away from this world, that you would help them love you and be filled with joy, filled with peace. 00:02:54.300 --> 00:03:03.599 Lord, to have that abundant life, I pray that you would give the best gifts to this church. 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:10.699 Lord, I pray that you would bless us with more of yourself. 00:03:10.699 --> 00:03:24.900 Lord, let this week, the week before us, be a week that all of us run from sin, run to Christ, and be filled with the fullness of Christ within us. 00:03:24.900 --> 00:03:27.300 This is my prayer for the people. 00:03:27.300 --> 00:03:32.099 In Your name we pray. Amen. 00:03:32.099 --> 00:03:37.099 All right, Psalm 46. 00:03:37.099 --> 00:03:48.199 As we think about this passage, this Psalm, I'm reminded there's a lot of scary things in the world. 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:54.300 If you keep up with news, it's easy to be frightened. 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:57.900 I know in 2020, it was surreal for me. 00:03:57.900 --> 00:04:09.699 I had a surreal moment after the election, and I saw people on social media being canceled, and I saw the news run with a narrative. 00:04:09.699 --> 00:04:14.300 I began to wonder who's telling the truth. 00:04:14.300 --> 00:04:15.900 Like, I don't know what to believe. 00:04:15.900 --> 00:04:20.500 There were so many conspiracies and lies. 00:04:20.500 --> 00:04:22.399 Some things were true, some things were false. 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:27.800 How was I to know how to evaluate all these things? 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:37.600 Remember 2020 COVID, and we're scared of that, scared of the government, scared of the news, scared of what's going on. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:39.899 It seems like free speech is being censored. 00:04:39.899 --> 00:04:46.699 In fact, maybe free speech is in danger. 00:04:46.699 --> 00:04:53.600 You got where you don't know if you trust the authorities anymore. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.100 It seemed like the world was just spinning out of control. 00:04:56.100 --> 00:05:00.800 The things we thought were stable are not all that stable. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.800 And sometimes we wonder about tomorrow. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:07.600 It's easy for us to be scared about tomorrow. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.699 We think about the food supply. 00:05:09.699 --> 00:05:14.199 Will that be stable in the years ahead of us? 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:19.100 Will there be a global blackout? 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:22.899 Will there be a digital passport based upon a social credit score? 00:05:22.899 --> 00:05:24.500 I don't know. 00:05:24.500 --> 00:05:27.600 I don't want there to be. 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.000 Will our economy crash? 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.699 Will there be fair elections? 00:05:32.699 --> 00:05:37.899 Will there be another pandemic? 00:05:37.899 --> 00:05:43.399 Now say, hey, I can work through that, but we worry about our children. 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:46.899 We worry about our grandchildren. 00:05:46.899 --> 00:05:48.399 And tomorrow is scary. 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:49.300 We think about it. 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:50.899 We think about the world. 00:05:50.899 --> 00:05:54.800 It somewhat seems to be crashing in on itself. 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.100 There's no way, there's no up, there's no down. 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:10.199 Think about the agenda of Hollywood and everything going behind the scenes, wars and threats of wars. 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:17.100 And if that, if you don't watch the news, maybe that's not on your mind. 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:19.699 Maybe you're not worried about that. 00:06:19.699 --> 00:06:22.100 But maybe you have something else you worry about. 00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:26.300 Maybe you worry about a relationship issue. 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:29.300 Maybe that's on the back of your mind. 00:06:29.300 --> 00:06:32.500 Or maybe you have health issues. 00:06:32.500 --> 00:06:41.800 Or maybe you have an appointment coming up and you don't know if it's going to be benign or something to be very fretful about. 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:54.699 The other day I met someone and someone says I want to introduce you into this, to this lady and before she came to the table, they said, now I want you to know she would just diagnose with terminal cancer. 00:06:54.699 --> 00:06:58.300 She doesn't have long to live. 00:06:58.300 --> 00:07:00.199 But she was smiling. 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.699 She was smiling and I'm like, I thought to myself because I was during this meeting. 00:07:05.699 --> 00:07:10.699 I had something, you know, that was weighing heavy on the back of my mind. 00:07:10.699 --> 00:07:14.399 And I said, well, what I'm worried about doesn't compare what she's worrying about. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.399 Why is she smiling? 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:22.800 And I thought to myself, she may be smiling and going through the motions, but inside she might be tore up. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:34.699 And I think that's true with a lot of people that even some of you here today, you're shaking hands and you're smiling and you can carry on a conversation with some part of your mind. 00:07:34.699 --> 00:07:42.100 But another part of your mind or me more of more like your heart is heavy and it's burden and you don't know how to communicate that to people. 00:07:42.100 --> 00:07:52.699 In fact, for most people you don't communicate that with and so you're living with this deep burden or anxiety. 00:07:52.699 --> 00:07:59.399 Maybe it's a form of depression and it's a blackness or darkness. 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:17.500 That it's just weighs on you and it's there the whole time and you kind of like man, I wish I was a kid again because kids can just live their lives and they don't have the stress or the anxiety or the fears that you and I might have. 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:28.199 And so as we think about troubles, Psalm 46 is our remedy. 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:35.899 This is a passage to go to us to go to when we're fearful, we're anxious, we're worried. 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:43.100 And in this Psalm that we're about to read, it has three stanzas, three main sections. 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:46.500 And in this it tells us. 00:08:46.500 --> 00:08:51.600 The main point it says it three times that God is our refuge. 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:56.100 Our God is our fortress read it with me. 00:08:56.100 --> 00:09:00.899 God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble. 00:09:00.899 --> 00:09:03.399 Therefore, we will not fear. 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:14.899 Though the earth gives way and though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling, Sheila. 00:09:14.899 --> 00:09:21.399 There is a river who streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.500 God is in the midst of her. 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:25.600 She shall not be moved. 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:32.500 God will help her when morning dawns, the nation's rage, the kingdom's patter. 00:09:32.500 --> 00:09:35.100 He utters his voice, the earth melts. 00:09:35.100 --> 00:09:37.500 The Lord of hosts is with us. 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:41.899 The God of Jacob is our fortress. 00:09:41.899 --> 00:09:49.299 Sheila, come behold the works of the Lord, how he has brought desolations on the earth. 00:09:49.299 --> 00:09:53.299 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:56.500 He breaks the bow and shadows the spear. 00:09:56.500 --> 00:09:59.899 He burns the chariots with fire. 00:09:59.899 --> 00:10:03.799 Be still and know that I'm God. 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.299 I will be exalted among the nations. 00:10:06.299 --> 00:10:08.799 I will be exalted in the earth. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.299 The Lord of hosts is with us. 00:10:11.299 --> 00:10:15.700 The God of Jacob is our fortress. 00:10:15.700 --> 00:10:28.200 Sheila, I want us to take these moments that we have right now and I don't want you to be thinking about other things. 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.100 I want you to think about this single thought. 00:10:31.100 --> 00:10:37.000 God is your refuge. 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.399 God is the place that you go to hide when you're scared. 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:54.399 When you are scared or when you are fearful or when you are nervous or when you are troubled, when you're worried about the present or the future, go to God. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.000 Look to God. 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.200 In the first stanzas we learn that God is our present fortress. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.600 He's our present help. 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:06.000 We see that in verse 1. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:10.899 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 00:11:10.899 --> 00:11:14.100 The idea is God is not far off. 00:11:14.100 --> 00:11:23.799 When we go to God, there's no time delay between God listening to us and coming and comforting us. 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:31.600 The fact is there's no time delay is because God never leaves us. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.399 He's never absent. 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.600 He's never too far off. 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.500 He's ever present. 00:11:37.500 --> 00:11:43.600 He's ever near to think that God is walking side by side with you. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.799 He is in front of you. 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:46.899 He's on the left. 00:11:46.899 --> 00:11:47.899 He's on the right. 00:11:47.899 --> 00:11:48.899 He's behind you. 00:11:48.899 --> 00:11:53.100 He's all around you and he's ever watching your steps. 00:11:53.100 --> 00:11:57.100 He's ever attentive to what's going on in your life. 00:11:57.100 --> 00:11:58.700 You're never alone. 00:11:58.700 --> 00:12:00.200 Now you feel alone. 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:01.500 You feel abandoned. 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:03.899 You feel like you're carrying the weight by yourself. 00:12:03.899 --> 00:12:08.700 You feel like the burden is within and no one understands and no one cares. 00:12:08.700 --> 00:12:15.399 You feel like your world is being turned upside down, but be assured. 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:17.399 God is next to you. 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.299 He is with you. 00:12:19.299 --> 00:12:21.899 We see we have nothing to fear. 00:12:21.899 --> 00:12:26.299 In verse 2 says, therefore we will not fear. 00:12:26.299 --> 00:12:28.200 We have nothing to be worried about. 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:32.500 Now we are worried, but there is nothing to be worried about. 00:12:32.500 --> 00:12:37.399 Our worry, our fear, our anxiety is misplaced. 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:45.899 It's not something that we have to have if we can recognize God is with us. 00:12:45.899 --> 00:12:49.500 We can face any battle. 00:12:49.500 --> 00:12:54.399 If we know if you and I know God is going to go with us. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:05.700 If God's going to represent us, if God's going to protect us, if God is on our side, then why be afraid of anything? 00:13:05.700 --> 00:13:10.100 The psalmist paints this picture of the worst case scenario. 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:14.500 He says, though the earth gives way. 00:13:14.500 --> 00:13:20.399 Have you ever seen these videos of a sinkhole where a car just kind of slides into the sinkhole? 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:21.700 I mean, that's amazing. 00:13:21.700 --> 00:13:28.500 I mean, how would you feel if you were in the vehicle and the earth just gave way and you just started sliding into the hole? 00:13:28.500 --> 00:13:32.600 I mean, that would be terrifying. 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.799 But what if the whole earth was caving in on itself? 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.100 What if the earth was just splitting apart? 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:43.899 The planet that we live on was just caving in on itself. 00:13:43.899 --> 00:13:48.200 And the whole world was sinking down. 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:49.399 There would be no place to hide. 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:50.600 There would be no place to rot. 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:52.700 There would be no place to go. 00:13:52.700 --> 00:13:55.500 There would be no safety in this world. 00:13:55.500 --> 00:13:59.600 How would that lead you to feel? 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:03.600 What dreadful feelings would come over our soul? 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.000 Seeing things crumble underneath our feet. 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:12.600 The King James Version says, though the earth be removed or dissolved. 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:18.299 This is a utter turning the world if you would upside down. 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:21.600 We think 2020 was awful to experience. 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:26.000 This is a poetic language. 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.600 This is language of the world coming to an end. 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.799 It says though the mounds be moved into the heart of the sea. 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:35.600 Verse 2. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:36.799 This is not a rock slide. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:43.600 You've seen videos of rock slides where half of a mountain falls into the ocean. 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:49.299 Because of all the rain mudslides that we've seen videos of that nature. 00:14:49.299 --> 00:15:03.700 This is Mount Everest in the middle of a continent being picked up off its foundation and not just sliding into the ocean being picked up and removed and thrown into the very middle of the ocean. 00:15:03.700 --> 00:15:06.399 What if you saw that happen? 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:11.299 I mean, this is not just a little difficulty. 00:15:11.299 --> 00:15:15.200 This is the whole world falling apart. 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:19.000 Though the waters roar and foam. 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:23.600 You see this is language. 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.000 Trying to paint the worst-case scenario. 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.700 This is an argument from the greater to the lesser. 00:15:29.700 --> 00:15:32.799 This is something more than we've ever experienced. 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:37.700 Yes, this could be pointing to the future on the last day. 00:15:37.700 --> 00:15:41.100 Maybe it is. 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:46.100 But it's definitely painting a picture that is greater than your problem. 00:15:46.100 --> 00:15:48.299 Greater than your issues. 00:15:48.299 --> 00:15:53.600 And if we have nothing to fear if the whole world falls apart. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:16:00.100 Then we have nothing to fear if our marriage falls apart. 00:16:00.100 --> 00:16:03.299 Or our family falls apart. 00:16:03.299 --> 00:16:06.000 Or our church falls apart. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:11.600 Or the things that we count dear falls apart. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.899 I know it would give you trouble. 00:16:14.899 --> 00:16:16.299 I've clung to this. 00:16:16.299 --> 00:16:19.299 All we got clung to this passage myself. 00:16:19.299 --> 00:16:22.799 Clung to it. 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:28.799 It says, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.399 Though things are bad. 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.100 And even if things get worse. 00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:38.700 Even to the point of losing our own life. 00:16:38.700 --> 00:16:42.600 Even if you're diagnosed with some terminal disease. 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:49.399 And you have one month, one week, a few days to live. 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.899 You have nothing to fear. 00:16:52.899 --> 00:16:56.100 You don't have anything to worry about. 00:16:56.100 --> 00:16:59.100 Do you believe that? 00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:01.000 Sometimes we don't feel it. 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.399 And I don't want us just to believe it intellectually. 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.400 I want us to feel it. 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:10.599 I want us to have that peace that surpasses understanding. 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:14.299 I want us to be able to have that peace that's in the heart. 00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:17.599 And though the world trembles around us. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:22.799 For us to be able to walk with confidence and joy. 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:27.200 Knowing that the Lord is with us. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.299 Therefore, verse two says, we will not fear though the earth gives way. 00:17:32.299 --> 00:17:33.700 You say I'm worried about my health. 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:35.000 I'm worried about my marriage. 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.200 I'm worried about my relationships. 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:38.599 I'm worried about my finances. 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.299 I'm worried about the direction of our country. 00:17:41.299 --> 00:17:47.000 I'm worried about just fill in the blank. 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.599 You have something to put in that blank. 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.000 Don't be fearful. 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:54.599 This is God's word to you. 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:58.099 God says don't be fearful. 00:17:58.099 --> 00:18:01.900 Imagine that you're inside a secure bunker during wartime. 00:18:01.900 --> 00:18:06.200 Maybe it's World War Two or a future war and there's this hole in the ground. 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:07.299 It's a shelter. 00:18:07.299 --> 00:18:18.599 It's a it's concrete in and you're a hundred feet down into the earth and all the bombs going off on the surface has no effect upon you. 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.400 You're you can sleep soundly. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.599 You can be down there and be secure. 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:24.000 You know, you're going to wake up in the morning. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.700 You know that nothing can get you in there. 00:18:26.700 --> 00:18:36.000 You're 100% safe, but your spouse is trembling and scared and your kids are frightful and you're fine. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:42.099 But those around you know what's going on above. 00:18:42.099 --> 00:18:45.200 Well, that's the imagery of this text. 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.299 Yes, there are real things going around your life. 00:18:48.299 --> 00:18:51.000 This is not God promising to remove the problems. 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:52.799 This is not God saying you're not going to die. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:55.299 This is not God saying the world's not going to come apart. 00:18:55.299 --> 00:18:58.400 This is not God saying America is going to live forever. 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:04.599 This is not God's promise that the earthly things that we would love to be secure are going to be secure. 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:09.099 It's a promise that you're going to be secure. 00:19:09.099 --> 00:19:11.599 That you're safe that there is a bunker. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:12.900 There is a fortress. 00:19:12.900 --> 00:19:16.900 There is a place of safety. 00:19:16.900 --> 00:19:20.700 There's a place of refuge. 00:19:20.700 --> 00:19:24.200 And you have nothing to fear. 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:29.599 Why we see in verse one because God is a refuge. 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:31.000 God is our bunker. 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.400 He's our hiding place. 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:35.500 You say, well, what are the economy collapses? 00:19:35.500 --> 00:19:42.200 What if there is a universal blackout or food supplies run dry? 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:47.500 Our government turns against us Christians. 00:19:47.500 --> 00:19:50.900 Where do we go to get off the grid? 00:19:50.900 --> 00:19:53.799 You know, we've had people flee here from Cuba. 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:55.400 We're thankful they're here. 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:59.299 We've had people flee from Canada. 00:19:59.299 --> 00:20:01.099 We're still wondering or for thankful. 00:20:01.099 --> 00:20:03.599 I'm just. 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:05.599 Figure it out around again. 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.400 We're thankful. 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.799 I mean, Arkansas is a great place to flee to. 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:15.599 But where do we go when it hits us here? 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:17.700 Where do we go? 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:24.200 When Marxism, if that is coming, comes to our state. 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:25.799 What do we run? 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.400 What do we hire? 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:31.599 How and then think of this. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:33.200 How can God be our shelter? 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:34.900 He's invisible. 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:36.400 You know, I need a physical shelter. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.000 I need a I need a place to go. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.299 I need a physical place to run to. 00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:44.000 And how can God be that place? 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.099 We can't see him. 00:20:47.099 --> 00:20:53.900 And though we can't see him and though we can't climb up to heaven and hide behind his throne. 00:20:53.900 --> 00:20:57.000 By faith, we can trust. 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.700 Him with complete confidence because. 00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:09.500 He is the one in charge of the earthquakes, the mountains, the sea, the cancer. 00:21:09.500 --> 00:21:13.799 Our country, our problems. 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:19.900 You see, God is a sure and steady anchor for our souls because he doesn't change our mood. 00:21:19.900 --> 00:21:24.200 Though we are frightful, God is not though we are shaken. 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:27.200 God is at peace. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:32.099 God has everything right where he wants it. 00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:35.799 Not just in the global economy in the global war world. 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:38.599 He has your marriage right where he wants it. 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:40.299 He has your children. 00:21:40.299 --> 00:21:41.900 Why where he wants them. 00:21:41.900 --> 00:21:43.599 He has your family. 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:44.599 He has your health. 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:46.000 He has your finances. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:46.900 He has your business. 00:21:46.900 --> 00:21:52.200 He has your life right where he wants it. 00:21:52.200 --> 00:22:01.500 You may feel like everything's off kilter as if everything is out of control. 00:22:01.500 --> 00:22:05.000 But God says I have everything. 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:06.900 Right where it needs to be. 00:22:06.900 --> 00:22:14.299 You may be thinking everything is falling out of place, but God is saying everything is falling into place. 00:22:14.299 --> 00:22:21.700 You see, if you understand who God is and who is by your side. 00:22:21.700 --> 00:22:23.900 Then you have nothing to fear. 00:22:23.900 --> 00:22:31.000 If you had a weak God that you could hold in your hand an idol made out of wood or stone, then you could be terrified. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:33.599 But you don't have a God of that nature. 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.700 You don't have a God that is a figment of your imagination. 00:22:36.700 --> 00:22:37.700 That doesn't exist. 00:22:37.700 --> 00:22:42.200 You have the living God as your God. 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:43.500 And he is your refuge. 00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:47.900 He is your as verse one says your strength. 00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:57.099 Though you may be facing imprisonment or you may be facing persecution and maybe one day we will first face persecution for what we believe. 00:22:57.099 --> 00:23:01.500 Maybe one day our children will be carried off in a place. 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:05.500 They do not want to go. 00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:08.599 We have nothing to fear. 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:11.299 We have nothing to fear. 00:23:11.299 --> 00:23:12.299 We can be strong. 00:23:12.299 --> 00:23:20.400 It is amazing you read the stories of the martyrs and they went to their execution with joy on their face. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:32.019 One account in the 17th century, husband and wife were both carried to their execution and the wife was telling the husband who was burned at the stake first. 00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:34.259 She says don't look back. 00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:35.740 God is with you. 00:23:35.740 --> 00:23:41.799 She encouraged him knowing that she would be next. 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:46.539 What gift gave him and her such courage? 00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:50.059 It's not that God promised to remove the persecution. 00:23:50.059 --> 00:24:00.140 It's because God walked with him and her with to their deaths and they felt the presence of Christ with them. 00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:04.700 And they were ushered into the presence of God. 00:24:04.700 --> 00:24:20.859 Seeing people face death and they were ready to meet the Lord and it was a dreadful experience but they were seeing a joy on their face full of excitement of being able to meet Christ. 00:24:20.859 --> 00:24:23.359 You see there's nothing to fear. 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:24.859 We've already given up our lives. 00:24:24.859 --> 00:24:26.299 We've already turned over everything. 00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:28.740 We have already said I count all things but loss. 00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:33.259 I've already sold all that I had for joy that I might win Christ. 00:24:33.259 --> 00:24:37.819 What can man take away from me that I've already haven't given to Christ? 00:24:37.819 --> 00:24:40.859 There's nothing man can do. 00:24:40.859 --> 00:24:44.740 Why fear those who can kill the body? 00:24:44.740 --> 00:24:46.859 That's all that they can do. 00:24:46.859 --> 00:24:49.500 All they can do is take your house, your cars. 00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:50.779 That's all that they can do. 00:24:50.779 --> 00:24:54.180 They cannot take Christ. 00:24:54.180 --> 00:24:56.900 They cannot remove him from you. 00:24:56.900 --> 00:25:01.380 You see God is our not just past help. 00:25:01.380 --> 00:25:09.180 The key word here is he's our present help in dimes of trouble. 00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:18.339 Psalm 23 even though I walked through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me for your rod and your staff. 00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:20.619 They comfort me. 00:25:20.619 --> 00:25:25.059 Is that how you feel right now? 00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:30.740 You feel like man, this couldn't be better with Christ next to me. 00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:34.099 Psalm 27 the Lord is my light and my salvation. 00:25:34.099 --> 00:25:35.460 Whom shall I fear? 00:25:35.460 --> 00:25:37.500 The Lord is the stronghold of my life. 00:25:37.500 --> 00:25:39.380 Whom shall I be afraid? 00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:46.660 When evil doers sell me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and fools, it is they who stumble and fall. 00:25:46.660 --> 00:25:50.859 Though an army and camp against me, my heart shall not fear. 00:25:50.859 --> 00:25:57.420 Will war arise against me, yet I will be comforted. 00:25:57.420 --> 00:26:00.339 See this is the first point, the first stanza. 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:03.019 God is our present help. 00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:06.619 He is our refuge, our fortress today. 00:26:06.619 --> 00:26:16.619 Now we can run to Christ right now and have safety, security, peace and rest. 00:26:16.619 --> 00:26:29.420 The second stanza says the same thing, but it looks to our future help, not simply our past help or our present help, but he's our future help. 00:26:29.420 --> 00:26:33.819 You see, we worry about tomorrow. 00:26:33.819 --> 00:26:38.500 It's tomorrow that fills us with anxiety. 00:26:38.500 --> 00:26:44.140 Depression is typically about the past and anxiety is typically about the future. 00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:47.900 Here is about what is coming, the unknown. 00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:50.019 I'm worried about the security of my job. 00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:52.180 I'm worried about my kids. 00:26:52.180 --> 00:26:54.900 I'm worried about this and that. 00:26:54.900 --> 00:27:00.460 Here we have this encouragement that God will be our future help. 00:27:00.460 --> 00:27:10.420 And he gives this striking image of a city that has this beautiful river. 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:11.420 Look at verse four. 00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:16.539 The river who streams make glad the city of God, whose holy habitation of the most high. 00:27:16.539 --> 00:27:23.019 And this is a striking imagery because it's in contrast to the world being undone. 00:27:23.019 --> 00:27:26.220 The mountains being thrown into the sea and the earth splitting apart. 00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:27.980 Everything's just a chaos. 00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:38.019 And in contrast to that, there is this city though our country falls apart, though Conway dissolves. 00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:39.859 There's another city. 00:27:39.859 --> 00:27:48.420 Now during war, especially if the city is under siege, the main concern would be your water supply without water supply. 00:27:48.420 --> 00:27:50.059 You're not going to make it. 00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:55.259 And so in that time they would siege a city and cut off the water supply. 00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:57.579 And in time they would just starve you out. 00:27:57.579 --> 00:28:00.140 You don't have to actually fight. 00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:04.059 You just starve them out. 00:28:04.059 --> 00:28:09.259 This is what happened in 70 AD to Jerusalem. 00:28:09.259 --> 00:28:11.380 And so the water supplies is key and instrumental. 00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:14.779 I mean, you can't live without water. 00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:19.019 And so the Psalmist is thinking of the whole world falling apart. 00:28:19.019 --> 00:28:23.500 Maybe even Jerusalem being undone. 00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:37.140 But he's thinking of another city who's got this water supply, this wonderful river that makes its citizens glad. 00:28:37.140 --> 00:28:41.180 You see, this is not just any city. 00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:43.180 This is the holy habitation of the most high. 00:28:43.180 --> 00:28:44.940 Look at verse four. 00:28:44.940 --> 00:28:48.819 This is the city I think is spoken of in Revelation 21. 00:28:48.819 --> 00:28:54.859 Then I saw a new heaven and newer for the first heaven and the first earth passed away and the sea was no more. 00:28:54.859 --> 00:29:02.259 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:08.099 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. 00:29:08.099 --> 00:29:14.140 He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God. 00:29:14.140 --> 00:29:20.460 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more. 00:29:20.460 --> 00:29:24.940 Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pet anymore. 00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:28.960 Former things have passed away, though this world falls apart. 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:31.660 This is not our home. 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:35.619 This has never been promised to be our abiding city. 00:29:35.619 --> 00:29:37.299 And we have nothing to fear. 00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:41.440 Jesus is fear not for I go away from you. 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.859 If it wasn't not so, I would have told you, but I go to prepare a place for you. 00:29:45.859 --> 00:29:53.299 And if I go, I will come again to bring you to myself. 00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:54.460 Why do we fear? 00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:57.140 Why do we worry? 00:29:57.140 --> 00:30:00.660 When we have heaven waiting on us. 00:30:00.660 --> 00:30:13.980 And even if this is not speaking of heaven in our eternal city, even if this is not what this text is saying, we have a body city that we can that we already dwell in by faith. 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:20.380 By faith, we have a city. 00:30:20.380 --> 00:30:24.579 We have a heavily citizenship that man cannot touch. 00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:30.019 We have a kingdom that is invisible in eternal for us. 00:30:30.019 --> 00:30:32.579 And that is where we live. 00:30:32.579 --> 00:30:33.579 That is our. 00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:35.019 That is our hope. 00:30:35.019 --> 00:30:36.900 That is our security. 00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:48.259 That is where we we place our confidence in this future city and in this place that God has promised to us. 00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:49.259 Look at verse five. 00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:50.980 God is in the midst of her. 00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.660 She shall not be moved out. 00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:54.859 We can look is know that God is on my president. 00:30:54.859 --> 00:30:55.859 He's everywhere. 00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:57.779 He's ever present and ever city. 00:30:57.779 --> 00:31:09.140 We can say we could go to Holly Witter, New Orleans or any other city in the world, Las Vegas and say God is there, but we know that in some sense, God is not there. 00:31:09.140 --> 00:31:11.619 God is not at Hollywood. 00:31:11.619 --> 00:31:21.819 This is not where God has set his eternal abode and residence in fact, these are places that are forsaken by God. 00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:25.180 But we're looking for a city where God dwells in. 00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:30.819 We're looking for a city that God lives within. 00:31:30.819 --> 00:31:32.700 That's where I want to live. 00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:36.019 I want to live in the presence of the Lord. 00:31:36.019 --> 00:31:38.420 Nations can come in nations goal. 00:31:38.420 --> 00:31:42.500 Kingdoms taught her and teen kingdoms fall. 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:45.259 The kingdom of God is eternal. 00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:50.700 And though there is no lasting city here below, we have a city that shall not be moved. 00:31:50.700 --> 00:31:55.019 You see, we see in verse five, God is on his way. 00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:56.019 Future tense. 00:31:56.019 --> 00:31:59.420 He's on his way to rescue us. 00:31:59.420 --> 00:32:04.940 God will help her when morning dawns. 00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:08.380 You may think to yourself, where's God? 00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:10.859 Does he not care about my problems? 00:32:10.859 --> 00:32:13.579 Does he not care about my sorrows? 00:32:13.579 --> 00:32:16.900 I mean, I've been praying for six months and nothing. 00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:22.059 I've been crying out to him and I don't see him coming to rescue me. 00:32:22.059 --> 00:32:24.019 I don't see help. 00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:26.380 Does he not know I'm hurting? 00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:32.819 We begin to doubt that God cares, begin to doubt that God is near us. 00:32:32.819 --> 00:32:37.099 Sometimes we wonder about all the injustice in the world, in the evil in the world. 00:32:37.099 --> 00:32:44.140 They think, you know, my mind has been brought to the attention of all the sex trafficking going on in this world. 00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:46.180 I'm like, how can that keep going on? 00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:47.180 Where is God? 00:32:47.180 --> 00:32:48.180 Why don't he stop it? 00:32:48.180 --> 00:32:52.380 Why don't he come in and just end the madness now? 00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:58.779 Every day he prolongs his coming, there's going to be more evil taking place on this world. 00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:01.740 And don't you and I long for that to end. 00:33:01.740 --> 00:33:04.900 Don't you want to see God come in and stop the madness? 00:33:04.900 --> 00:33:06.460 It's like, that's enough. 00:33:06.460 --> 00:33:12.339 No more, no more sin, no more evil, no more wickedness. 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.500 Don't you long for that day? 00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:18.180 He's like, where are you, God? 00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:25.539 Know this, God is coming. 00:33:25.539 --> 00:33:27.799 The eternal day is fast approaching. 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:31.099 We don't know when, but he is coming. 00:33:31.099 --> 00:33:38.660 When that morning dawns, he will rise with healings in his wings and justice in his hand. 00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:41.019 On that day, the nations shall be removed. 00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:46.380 Look at verse 6, the nations rage, the kingdoms tauter, he utters his voice, the earth melts. 00:33:46.380 --> 00:33:53.140 When he comes, the voice of the trumpet, the sound of the trumpet and the voice of the king will call the nations to melt. 00:33:53.140 --> 00:33:57.500 It will call all the wicked leaders to fear and tremble. 00:33:57.500 --> 00:34:01.099 They'll finally see who's king. 00:34:01.099 --> 00:34:11.179 They'll finally bow on that great day. 00:34:11.179 --> 00:34:14.019 Why are we surprised at the downfall of the United States? 00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:19.460 Why are we taken back by the nations raging against God's anointed? 00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:28.340 One day they will melt in fear when the Lord utters his voice as soon as morning dawns on that great day. 00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:33.260 It's coming, don't fear, it's coming. 00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:40.539 You see, the psalmist brings the end of this stanza to conclusion in verse 7. 00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:51.300 The Lord of Host is with us, he's not with them, he's not with the world, he's not with the nations, he's with us, his people. 00:34:51.300 --> 00:35:00.059 The God of Jacob is our fortress, he's our refuge, he's our shelter. 00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:06.539 Now the third stanza brings everything to a conclusion and brings some application to us. 00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:19.019 He recognizes everything he said in the first two stanza but gives us some application, some marching orders if you would. 00:35:19.019 --> 00:35:25.300 First of all we see God will make everything right. 00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:46.219 You know, he's going to fix everything, everything that's broken in your life, the hurts, the pains, the sorrows, the sadness, the tears, everything that's broken, everything you're worried about, the children that has it called and years. 00:35:46.219 --> 00:35:56.179 You know the heart of that? 00:35:56.179 --> 00:36:02.579 The feeling of loss, pain. 00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:09.340 Still not all the hard and difficult feelings are bad. 00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:11.900 I don't think it's good and healthy to be anxious. 00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:16.780 We have reason to be hopeful and full of peace. 00:36:16.780 --> 00:36:22.500 But God doesn't condemn sadness, hurt. 00:36:22.500 --> 00:36:30.139 In fact because you love God and love your friends and love your children, you can't help that hurt. 00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:39.260 You can't help to have those difficult feelings, the miserable feelings, the feelings that keep you awake at night, wake you up in the middle of night. 00:36:39.260 --> 00:36:49.940 Those things are not ungodly feelings to feel ashamed about, but they are difficult feelings to have. 00:36:49.940 --> 00:36:52.780 Those feelings will be made right. 00:36:52.780 --> 00:37:02.980 There is going to be a day of reckoning, a day of justice, and a day of fixing everything. 00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:11.460 Now we think about the application of this being in our nations and what's going on in the world around us. 00:37:11.460 --> 00:37:16.500 Look at verse 8, come behold the works of the Lord how He has brought desolation on the earth. 00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:23.619 I think the legacy Bible has this better translated is that He has determined desolation on the earth. 00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:25.739 In past tense He has already planned this. 00:37:25.739 --> 00:37:36.699 He has already ordained that all the evil in the world is going to be brought to an end and be destroyed. 00:37:36.699 --> 00:37:39.219 He will bring it into the madness once and for all. 00:37:39.219 --> 00:37:43.059 Look at verse 9, He makes war cease to the end of the earth. 00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:49.980 I mean that would be wonderful where there is no more war, there is no more fights, there is no more opposition, there is no more hostilities. 00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:52.820 He breaks the bowl and it shatters the spear. 00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:55.139 He burns the chariots with fire. 00:37:55.139 --> 00:37:59.300 All instruments that are needed to fight and feud will be taken away. 00:37:59.300 --> 00:38:00.699 Wouldn't it be wonderful? 00:38:00.699 --> 00:38:06.420 Wouldn't it be wonderful in the church, even in the church we no longer fight and feud with one another. 00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:15.380 We no longer have a sense of being grieved and upset with each other and hurt about this and hurt about that and viewing each other negatively. 00:38:15.380 --> 00:38:21.699 Wouldn't it be wonderful if it was nothing but pure fruits of the spirit forever. 00:38:21.699 --> 00:38:28.820 And we look at each other with the best love, with the perfect love for one another. 00:38:28.820 --> 00:38:30.460 No more fighting. 00:38:30.460 --> 00:38:47.460 Wouldn't it be wonderful for marriages not to fight and feud, for children to be perfectly at peace with their parents and their parents at perfect peace with their children, to live in a world where there is no more of that. 00:38:47.460 --> 00:38:52.300 Is that not your longing? 00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:54.659 God says it is going to happen. 00:38:54.659 --> 00:39:02.699 What a day of rejoicing that will be when all the enemies of God will be put down and Christ Jesus will be vindicated before the nations. 00:39:02.699 --> 00:39:10.179 In fact this is what this text tells us. 00:39:10.179 --> 00:39:13.059 Now there is three closing applications. 00:39:13.059 --> 00:39:18.059 This is where you take all this wonderful truth and you say, okay now how do I apply this? 00:39:18.059 --> 00:39:19.059 What do I do with this? 00:39:19.059 --> 00:39:21.980 Well here are three things to do with it. 00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:32.539 First of all, no matter what you are facing, stop and be still. 00:39:32.539 --> 00:39:39.179 And know that God is God. 00:39:39.179 --> 00:39:43.539 Look at verse 10, be still. 00:39:43.539 --> 00:39:45.420 I mean why can't be still? 00:39:45.420 --> 00:39:48.219 The mountains are being thrown into the oceans. 00:39:48.219 --> 00:39:49.619 The earth is crumbling. 00:39:49.619 --> 00:39:50.619 I got to run. 00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:51.619 What are you talking about? 00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:52.619 Be still. 00:39:52.619 --> 00:39:54.820 This is not the time to be still. 00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:55.980 This is the time to flee. 00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:56.980 This is the time to be anxious. 00:39:56.980 --> 00:39:58.739 This is the time to move. 00:39:58.739 --> 00:40:05.699 And when the world is crashing apart around you, here is your word. 00:40:05.699 --> 00:40:10.139 Be still. 00:40:10.139 --> 00:40:13.539 Stop. 00:40:13.539 --> 00:40:20.460 Get your eyes off the flying mountains. 00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:27.739 Take your eyes off the sea that's roaring. 00:40:27.739 --> 00:40:30.139 And be still. 00:40:30.139 --> 00:40:41.420 Know Jesus says I am God. 00:40:41.420 --> 00:40:44.219 That's your comfort. 00:40:44.219 --> 00:40:46.940 That will settle your heart. 00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:52.099 That will bring peace. 00:40:52.099 --> 00:40:55.099 Psalm 100 verse 3, know that the Lord is God. 00:40:55.099 --> 00:40:58.500 It is He who made us and we are His. 00:40:58.500 --> 00:41:04.940 We are His people and the sheep of His pastor. 00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:08.420 That's the first thing to do. 00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:18.260 Second thing is to be reminded and to remember and keep in mind that God will be vindicated. 00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:19.940 Now look at verse 10. 00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:21.940 It says I will be exalted among the nations. 00:41:21.940 --> 00:41:24.019 I'll be exalted in the earth. 00:41:24.019 --> 00:41:28.860 I remember something Bruce Wares told us the other day and I thought it was wonderful. 00:41:28.860 --> 00:41:34.300 So wonderful. 00:41:34.300 --> 00:41:38.500 You may be falsely accused of something. 00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:39.980 People may be upset with you. 00:41:39.980 --> 00:41:48.099 Maybe they have a green of truth in their criticism, but it's exaggerated or misapplied. 00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:52.300 And you know that you're being unfairly critiqued. 00:41:52.300 --> 00:41:53.940 You're being criticized. 00:41:53.940 --> 00:42:03.659 There's nothing worse feeling to think people don't like you and think less of you. 00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:04.659 There's hurtful. 00:42:04.659 --> 00:42:08.460 Sometimes we want to be vindicated. 00:42:08.460 --> 00:42:10.659 Where's my vindication? 00:42:10.659 --> 00:42:12.940 But I think you were right. 00:42:12.940 --> 00:42:15.099 Dr. Ware. 00:42:15.099 --> 00:42:24.340 The heart of every Christian, the greatest desire we have is not our own vindication. 00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:28.599 What we want is holiness, righteousness, truth. 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:37.820 We want Christ to be vindicated and wherever we're wrong, we want to be correct. 00:42:37.820 --> 00:42:40.199 For holiness sake, we want to be corrected. 00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:43.380 For truth sake, we want to be corrected. 00:42:43.380 --> 00:42:47.099 What we want for is his kingdom to come, his will to be done. 00:42:47.099 --> 00:42:48.500 We want that. 00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:50.480 That's our longing. 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:57.860 So whatever corrections that might need to take place on the day of judgment for me, I want it. 00:42:57.860 --> 00:43:00.780 Want it. 00:43:00.780 --> 00:43:09.940 You see the longing that we have, the great desire that we have and what causes us as true believers so much anxiety is to know that Jesus is being shamed. 00:43:09.940 --> 00:43:14.739 This kingdom is being despite. 00:43:14.739 --> 00:43:15.739 Know this. 00:43:15.739 --> 00:43:26.579 If this is your whole, if this is your longing for the vindication of the man, Jesus Christ, you will see that day. 00:43:26.579 --> 00:43:29.340 We will be there. 00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:31.099 We will be there. 00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:34.179 But Christ is vindicated. 00:43:34.179 --> 00:43:38.059 And he's going to say, you were on my side. 00:43:38.059 --> 00:43:39.699 You were with me. 00:43:39.699 --> 00:43:41.860 You were my. 00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:53.780 And because Christ called us out of this world and put his grace in us this in this time, we will be on the side of Christ on that great day. 00:43:53.780 --> 00:44:01.579 And that'll be one of the glorious days when Christ is exalted above the nations of this world. 00:44:01.579 --> 00:44:07.300 Come, Jesus, even so calm, right? 00:44:07.300 --> 00:44:16.420 Godly and this is kind of the summary and the main, I think, for us to this whole psalm is found in verse 11. 00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:21.460 The Lord of Holsters with us, the God of Jacob is our fortress. 00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:31.940 She loved the one who wins the one who will be vindicated, the one who will put down all opposition, the one who will. 00:44:31.940 --> 00:44:50.900 Like death, sickness and every other trial difficulty, he's the one God Almighty who is with you now. 00:44:50.900 --> 00:44:55.539 Be careful about critiquing a fellow brother and sister. 00:44:55.539 --> 00:44:57.460 They have God on their side. 00:44:57.460 --> 00:45:01.860 Does it mean we shouldn't correct people? 00:45:01.860 --> 00:45:05.260 Be careful. 00:45:05.260 --> 00:45:12.059 Be careful how we treat one another. 00:45:12.059 --> 00:45:17.940 God is with the saints. 00:45:17.940 --> 00:45:23.059 God is the one who justifies who's the one to condemn. 00:45:23.059 --> 00:45:28.539 God is with you, brother and sister. 00:45:28.539 --> 00:45:32.019 What have you to fear? 00:45:32.019 --> 00:45:36.260 He is our fortress. 00:45:36.260 --> 00:45:47.500 I love what Moses told Joshua right before he died and he said be strong and courageous, do not fear or be in dread of them. 00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:55.300 For as the Lord your God who goes with you, he will not leave you or forsake you. 00:45:55.300 --> 00:45:59.420 The author of Hebrews takes that and says have you not heard? 00:45:59.420 --> 00:46:03.739 I will never leave you nor forsake you. 00:46:03.739 --> 00:46:09.619 So we can confidently say the Lord is my helper. 00:46:09.619 --> 00:46:11.780 I will not fear. 00:46:11.780 --> 00:46:14.539 What can man do to me? 00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:33.940 Right now my final word is this, God is with you.