WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.199 Church, how are we doing today? 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:03.520 Church, how are we today? 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:10.240 Somebody asked me if I was ready today. 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:12.720 And I said, is the devil ready today? 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:15.039 Because this is a word of God. 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:18.160 PJ told me it does not return void. 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:19.920 He reminds me of that when we were talking. 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:22.079 And this is absolute truth. 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:23.199 This is what we believe. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.600 And so it just amazes me that so many people are here. 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:30.239 It's filled. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:32.479 And we're here to behold his glory. 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:33.359 Amen. 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:36.240 And so I'm thankful. 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:37.359 Thank you for those words. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:37.920 Packed. 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.000 That's crazy that he said that. 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:41.920 Uh-oh, it's right there. 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:42.799 Thank you for that. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:48.880 Um yeah, I'm thankful that that I'm I'm able to be, you know, entrusted with this opportunity. 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.600 Um, it's a blessing, it's an honor. 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:53.200 CBC is my family. 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.240 I've been here for a few years now, and I look out and I see so many people. 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:57.840 You guys are my family. 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.399 If this is your first time here, welcome. 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:05.359 I'm sorry that I'm your first sermon, but you're here now, you're stuck here. 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:06.879 I'm gonna jump right in. 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.640 If you don't know me, my name is Brian. 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:12.959 You had that smooth little intro there, but a couple things about me. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.439 I love Manchester City. 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.159 Manchester's blue. 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.920 It's not red. 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:23.120 Man United hasn't won a Premier League since 2012. 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.200 If you look that up, some of you guys don't know what that means, but this is about me right now. 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:28.319 It's about me. 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.400 I love sports, even though I'm washed. 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:34.959 I'm getting up there. 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.640 I still think I'm the best at everything, but my body is just telling me no. 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:40.719 No, I'm not, I'm not. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:48.319 And my wife, who's a clinical social worker, has diagnosed me with severe ADD. 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:53.760 I think she corrected me, but that's why I'm walking back and forth right now. 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:55.920 You can tell I gotta keep moving. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:59.760 Not just regular ADD, severe ADD. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:01.519 It's pretty harsh. 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:02.879 I'm known as Brian. 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:04.879 I'm known as Brave's Dad. 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:14.800 If you were born after 2000, shout out, Brave! If you were born after 2005, I go by Unk. 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:16.960 You gotta get rid of that though. 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:18.479 Gotta get rid of that. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:19.680 But it's an honor. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:20.639 Truly, it's an honor. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.360 Church, you've been privileged to hear our pastors dive deep into what one pastor says is God's favorite playlist. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:37.120 Compiled of honest, raw, heartfelt prayers and songs from people who believed God could hear them. 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:43.360 And so, what I'll be doing today is continuing in our series of Summer in Psalms. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.680 Now, lastly, we've got a little break from that from Jake and Zach. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.520 Heard a great word from the boys. 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:51.360 Jake and Zach, you run that back. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:52.719 If you know, you know. 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:59.039 And today I think this will be an impactful word and encouraging to your spirit this morning. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:03.840 Church, can you open your Bibles and your phones to Psalm 63? 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:05.759 Psalm 63. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.479 And while you're there, let me paint a picture for you. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.639 Might help you understand what I'm trying to communicate today. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.120 Anyone watch reality TV? 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.360 Don't raise your hand, please. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.479 I was hoping I was hoping for one hand. 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.159 I'm glad we only got one. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.120 It's fake. 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:26.000 It makes no sense. 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:27.840 It's reality TV, but it's not real. 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:28.800 It's actually fake. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:29.439 Alright. 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.919 Well, there's a show called Survivor. 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:33.759 Anybody watch Survivor? 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:34.639 Okay. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:36.479 Past. 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:37.599 Survivor. 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.599 Now I've seen bits and pieces. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.879 We have a friend that's obsessed with it, and he's telling me, hey, you gotta watch this show, the Survivor show. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:45.360 It's crazy. 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:45.919 It's in the name. 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.960 And when you hear the name, it sounds crazy. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:58.639 And the premise of the show is this: you take normal people out of their normal lives and put them in an environment that removes them from everything they depended on. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.000 They have to survive in the wilderness. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:10.639 There's no fridge, no electricity, food is scarce, no showers. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:11.919 It's crazy. 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:14.000 Nothing. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:15.280 It's there's bugs. 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:16.800 The weather's wild. 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.000 It's rainy. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:19.920 It's not the ideal place. 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:27.839 But this one show I watched, poor Kathy Sleckman, God bless her soul, putting her full name out there. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:29.279 You can go look it up. 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.800 She exposed the real feelings of being on the show in the wilderness. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:40.560 She was sent away with others to Exile Island, where she was left to sleep in a cave. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.319 And it happened to her multiple times. 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.720 She's pretty she's not really good at the show. 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.480 She was sleeping with bats, rats, insects. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:49.519 It was cold. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:50.720 She was alone. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:05:00.399 And it got so bad that she decided to send energies to her family, thinking that her family would receive the energies out in the ether. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.800 And she would feel connected to them. 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.000 And when it was left to her power, she chose to leave. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.519 It was terrible. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:10.879 She was crying. 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:11.759 She was done. 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:13.600 She couldn't handle the wilderness. 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.560 She couldn't change the fact that she was in the wilderness. 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:18.079 She lost hope. 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:19.680 So she left. 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.519 I think you get where I'm going with this today. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:31.439 Just like the wilderness brought things out of her, I think the spiritual wilderness does the same for all of us here. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.519 Kathy was in a show. 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.639 But all of us here are living real life. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.879 And when it gets tough, it becomes apparent what matters most. 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:47.839 It makes us ask ourselves, who or what we depend on? 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:49.519 Where do you hide? 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:51.120 Where do you run to? 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.399 When trouble is knocking, who do you want to answer? 00:05:54.879 --> 00:06:02.480 When the unexpected happens, and you're left lost and confused, what do you do, church, whether you like it or not? 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.360 We all go through wilderness seasons. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.160 And maybe you've heard this metaphor. 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.759 It's a popular Christianese term if you've grew up in church, right? 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:18.959 I don't think if you go to your boss and ask them how they're feeling, you're not going to say, Oh, I'm in my wilderness season, you know, just going through it in the wilderness. 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:19.519 No. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:30.319 The term that we've created here to describe as a place where all these factors may have you lost, confused, betrayed, broken, uncertain, and desperate. 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:32.480 This isn't a place for the weak. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.759 It wouldn't be a place most of us asked for. 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.680 And it could be an unfortunate place to be in. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:47.120 So today we're going to look at a psalm in which David was in the wilderness wrestling with difficulty. 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.600 I think it's important for us to consider what became clear in the wilderness for him. 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:56.879 That might help us pursue God when we find ourselves in that very place. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.839 Let's pray together. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.720 Lord God, may we fix our eyes upon you. 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.480 It's not about me. 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:09.839 It's about who you are. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.639 Allow me to remove myself from what your word says. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.040 Let me not add, let me not take away. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.920 Let it be you, Lord, that are able to speak to the hearts in the room today. 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:21.600 There's a reason they're here. 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.680 There's a reason you gathered us. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:25.519 Maybe understand that. 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.240 May we become aware of your presence in this place. 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:32.079 Amen. 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:33.279 Amen. 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.439 Thank you, church, for praying with me. 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:43.600 So for some context, depending on your translation, you might see that it even says Psalm 63, David, when he was in the wilderness. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.120 This is a heart's cry. 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:53.759 And what one pastor simply puts, in David's greatest degree of trouble. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:55.759 Here's why. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.680 Let's set this scene. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:04.879 In Psalms Samuel, excuse me, 2 Samuel 14 and 15, we learn that David's son Absalom had returned. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.040 He's a bad boy. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:08.560 He returned. 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.720 And he's conspired to take over David's kingdom. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:16.879 Trick David. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:26.079 And he installs himself as king, betraying his own father, and puts David on the run. 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:33.840 And David and his family and his trusted men have to embarrassingly flee Jerusalem and go hide in the wilderness. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:35.279 It's a terrible moment. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.279 A terrible situation. 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:08.159 A sign of shame, sorrow, their grieving. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.519 He's saying, How could this happen? 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:13.120 How could this be? 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:14.639 How did we get here? 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:19.039 And so this is a state they find themselves in. 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.200 And that's what brings us here today. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:23.200 David's in the wilderness. 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.000 He thinks he's about to die. 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.279 He's afraid, betrayed, humiliated, and broken. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.279 David's in the unknown. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:43.679 And it's here that it's believed by biblical scholars in this state and these moments, waiting in the wilderness, Psalm 63, is birthed. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.120 And so I'll read it. 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.679 Oh God, you are my God. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:51.519 Earnestly I seek you. 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:58.320 My soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:03.919 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:08.320 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.720 So I will bless you as long as I live. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:18.480 In your name I will lift up my hands, my soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:25.120 When I remember you upon my bed and meditate you meditate on you in the watches of the night, for you have been my help. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.399 In the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:36.879 My soul clings to you, your right hand upholds me, but those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.080 They shall be given over to the power of the sword. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:46.799 There shall be portion for jackals, but the king shall rejoice in God. 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:51.759 All who swear by him shall exalt, for the mouths of the liars will be stopped. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:11:03.120 Today we get an inside look at David's state of desperation and desire, dependence and satisfaction, and contentment and gratitude. 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:10.320 And may that teach us what to do when we may find ourselves in the wilderness, how to survive in the wilderness. 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:16.159 And what really matters, how to remain, how to be. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:27.120 Because when life is great, we may not need to face some things, but when the unexpected happens and we can't shake the circumstance, there will be a time when we can't save ourselves from it. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:33.120 So we learned three things from David about finding God in the wilderness. 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.559 One, what you desire matters. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.120 Two, what you remember matters. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.559 Three, who you surrender control to matters. 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.240 Point one, everybody say one. 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.200 What you desire matters. 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.080 In verse one, he says, Oh God, you are my God. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:59.840 Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:06.879 David says, I seek you, I thirst for you, my flesh faints for you over everything else. 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.240 David is desperate for God himself. 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.080 He knows what his spirit desperately needs, and that is the creator of the universe. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:19.840 Because God and all that he is is life-giving. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.159 In fact, Paul says it's an acts. 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.759 He himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:26.799 We just sang it. 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:29.519 Great are you, Lord, you give life. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:31.600 To your breath in our lungs. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:37.039 David himself writes in Psalms 139, for you formed my inward parts, that's life. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.440 You knitted me together in my mother's womb. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:40.000 That's life. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:41.200 You gave me life. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:42.320 I need you. 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.919 You know, I get to see this beautiful picture now. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.240 As I mentioned, I have an eight-month-old. 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:51.679 His name is Brave. 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:53.519 Y'all love him more than me. 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:54.879 It's okay, though. 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.000 And he's doing this thing that maybe, you know, some parents in the room. 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.919 Hopefully, I'm not giving you guys PTSD, but he's doing his thing. 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:08.960 It's I don't I didn't think we'd experience it, but he's waking up in the middle of the night. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:11.039 Not once. 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:13.279 Not twice. 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.759 It's averaging like three times, like three, three, two, three. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:23.919 But bro wakes up in the middle of the night like he's in the wildest of wildernesses. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.320 It's a crazy word, wildernesses. 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:27.759 Me and Pac were talking about that word. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:28.960 It's a weird word to say. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:29.679 Fast. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.559 But he's waking up and he's in the wilderness. 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.879 He's crying, he's moving, he's grunting, but he does this thing. 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:38.480 And I love it. 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.559 He turns his head because he knows who's there. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:44.799 Yes, he's still in our room. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:45.840 We're working on that. 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:46.960 We're working on that. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:48.879 He's in the crib next to the bed. 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:51.039 He knows who's there. 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.039 That's the first thing he does. 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:54.000 Where is mom? 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:01.360 And Tara puts her hand through the crib, touches his face, and he stops. 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:03.440 Goes about to sleep. 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:09.759 And when she picks him up thinking he wants milk, but he ends up just wanting to sleep on her chest. 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:14.399 It's another scenario. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:22.320 And of course there's moments where he'll get fed, but it's the moments where he just wants to be with mom that speaks to me more clearly. 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:37.679 To me, this is a picture of being desperate for the one that brings comfort, stability, security, wanting to connect, wanting to be connected to the one who he once was connected to inside the womb. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:38.960 He wants mom. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.679 Why wouldn't he be desperate for her first? 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.240 Some of us need to get like brave. 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:57.679 And so back to Psalm 63, not only do we learn David was desperate for God, but we learn how he was desperate for God. 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.440 Let's bring it back and key in on the word earnestly. 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:07.440 Now, Hebrew scholars would translate this to the original Hebrew word shachar. 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:08.879 Everybody say shachar. 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.360 I don't know if that's the correct pronunciation, but I made all of you guys just say that. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:32.799 And in this context, they say it's to seek early, eagerly, to seek at dawn, showing that first things first, over seeking a way out, over seeking something that may work for a little bit. 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.240 He's saying, My priority is to attain you. 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:38.639 I want communion with you. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.279 Church, what a picture that is. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:48.399 Another key observation to make is a simile he uses when he's comparing the state he is in. 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:52.320 He says, in a dry and where we land, where there is no water. 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:55.759 David's in one socket, Rhodal. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.120 I knew that I knew that would work. 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:02.399 Told you, Tara. 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:11.759 He's saying he's saying where there is nothing to sustain me and satisfy me, let it be you. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:19.200 This is a picture of David having absolutely nothing, where he's at the very end of himself and what he can do. 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.919 A picture of desperation. 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:28.000 When he has nothing, one can argue he has absolutely everything because he has God himself. 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:35.440 You know, there's a temptation to think the common solution, or we think might work, is the answer. 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.279 When the answer is God. 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.919 Here he's not asking for water. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.240 So we think he would want. 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.039 He's asking for God. 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.360 The song As a Deer, another song that David wrote. 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:57.279 As the deer panteth for water, pants for water, so my soul longs for you, Lord. 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:59.120 It's my favorite song in the world. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:00.480 Number one song ever. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:09.680 And you know what's crazy is that a deer can go two to three days without water. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.359 They can last a little bit. 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:15.359 They're gonna need water. 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.200 Sometimes weeks. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:23.359 So if you see them drinking water, they desperately need it to keep on going. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.160 It's not just a regular drink of water. 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.880 No, they need it in that moment. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:34.720 And so he's equating the same desperate need for water to a need for God. 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.160 What are you thirsting for? 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.079 Yeah, you're good right now, but give it two, three days. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.920 What are you thirsting for? 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:51.200 Give it a week. 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.039 What are you thirsting for? 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.960 Months, years. 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.799 What you desire matters. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.319 And it's crazy because here in this room, let's be honest, we all desire something. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:09.359 You know what it is the right job, the right school, the right partner. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:11.759 The list goes on. 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.200 We want all this stuff the world has to offer. 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:22.880 And though some things, yeah, they're important and it makes sense, one would argue they are the lesser things. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:29.920 And we'll be so dependent on them that even in the wilderness we'll want them thinking that's what's gonna save us. 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:40.799 If I just had that, if I just had this, the perfect circumstance, scenario, the perfect pleasures, what we think we're entitled to. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:46.480 But in the wilderness, those things might as well be long gone. 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.240 Look at David. 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:50.559 He was king. 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:52.880 He had it all. 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:58.480 The status, the title, the kingdoms, the feasts, the lands. 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.920 But none of that mattered in the wilderness. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:07.200 May I encourage you this morning, church. 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.559 Stop looking for everything. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.440 God is in everything else. 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:17.200 As broken humans, we want the wrong thing at the wrong time. 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:34.559 Sometimes it's the person, relationships, it's the place, the substances, the experience, the thing without understanding that will not save us and will not silence those desires. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:36.799 C.S. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:47.440 Lewis says this if I find myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:51.759 Welcome to the Christian life. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:58.799 You were made for life, made for a life of eternal joy with God. 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:07.920 David shows that our greatest longings only find their satisfaction in God, and anything else anything less than that will not do. 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:11.039 The other world C.S. 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:20.400 Lewis is talking about is eternity, reserved for those that believe in their hearts, confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord, accept him as their Savior. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:31.279 And the good news we can be reminded of today is that Jesus died on the cross to give us access to the holy life we were meant to live. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:33.039 Communion with God. 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:34.720 May we desire that. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:35.519 Amen. 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:36.640 I love that. 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:38.799 I agree. 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:53.519 May we get back to nothing and thirst for God like we see David does here. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:55.599 David's thirsty. 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:57.599 He's desperate. 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:01.519 He desires and he does something interesting. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:03.920 And he starts to reminisce. 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:06.559 Church, are you following? 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:08.880 Are you getting it? 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:10.480 Point two. 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:12.240 Everybody say point two. 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:15.519 What you remember matters. 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:17.279 Verses two to eight. 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:20.480 We'll move around. 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:23.920 Want to capture these three themes. 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.559 David remembering, David being sustained and satisfied, and David praising. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:42.160 One could argue and maybe see clearly that his ability to recall and remember is exactly what fueled his desires. 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:46.160 He's basically saying, I'm longing for the God that I know. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.039 We just looked and saw in verse one. 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.319 He says, My God, personal God. 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:55.920 Anybody like football? 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.759 American football. 00:21:58.079 --> 00:21:59.279 Had to specify. 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.440 Like Peyton Manning is my GOAT. 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:04.400 Right? 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:05.920 Some of y'all sound ready. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:06.880 I'm sorry about that. 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:08.960 Peyton Manning is my GOAT. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.240 But that man does not know who the heck I am. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.119 I'm not in the back of any of his family photos. 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:23.519 I never had a conversation with him. 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:27.039 I've never even seen him live. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.160 But it's different with David and God. 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:34.160 David has history. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:36.000 David has stories. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:38.319 David has personal interactions. 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:45.680 It wasn't his mom's God, his dad's God, or his pastor's God, the preacher's God, the podcaster's God. 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:47.279 He says it's my God. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:51.839 So maybe those are some of the questions for us this morning, church. 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:53.440 Do we have history with God? 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:55.440 Have you experienced him before? 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:57.279 Do you know him? 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:59.200 Would you call him my God? 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.799 Because maybe that's the first step. 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.359 To accept him and be found in all that he is. 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:10.000 David has history. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:11.599 He's experienced him. 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:16.240 He remembers his power and glory that he has seen in the sanctuary. 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:26.720 So when he says that, he's referring to a time where he would worship and behold his glory in the tabernacle, where the physical manifestation of God was held in the Ark of the Covenant. 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:37.440 When David worshipped in the sanctuary, he became aware of God's active presence and his spiritual longing was satisfied. 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:41.359 He's encountered the reality of who God is. 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:43.119 He's seen it. 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:52.799 And now him recalling of this is a picture of him longing for the experience in his presence outside of the sanctuary. 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:54.799 He's not in the sanctuary anymore. 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:56.480 He's in the wilderness. 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:03.359 Outside of the four church walls, outside of a worship set. 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:06.720 Outside of hearing my favorite song. 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:08.880 As a deer. 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:24.559 And churchy also remembers that God has been his help. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:36.960 If you know the story of David, you know that he was on the run for several years in his early reign because the previous king Saul was after his life, trying to kill him. 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.240 David was on the run. 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.400 David was in the wilderness. 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:44.000 David survived. 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:50.880 And he's still troubled right now, but he's been here before. 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:55.440 God has helped him, and God has kept him. 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:14.160 And finally, when he lays his head at night and remembers God and who he's been, the history, the time he's shown up, it creates a satisfaction within him that transcends the circumstance and what may happen to him. 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:16.799 David will be content. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:23.599 He says, satisfied as with fat and rich food, he's content. 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:33.759 And he sings of his steadfast love, the steadfast love of God, and that alone is better than life itself. 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:36.319 But stay here a moment. 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:39.200 Hebrew scholars would say his said love. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:47.440 That would be synonymous with his unwavering love, his loyal love, the love we do not deserve but remains. 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:52.480 Because it's covenantal and it's committed. 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:57.039 David thinks there's a chance he could possibly die. 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:01.839 But it's the steadfast love of God that gives him life. 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:10.400 The life he's experienced as king does not compare to his experiencing the steadfast love of God. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:12.160 That's what he values. 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:15.920 That's what he sets his mind on in the wilderness, not when he was king. 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:26.240 Now my hope is that you can also find it encouraging that in his remembering, in his satisfaction, it then spurs his spirit to praise. 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:30.000 Let's look at that verse again. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:32.319 The last verse, he says. 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:56.559 Satisfaction. 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:09.680