WEBVTT 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.839 In spite of all this, they still sinned. 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:25.280 Despite his wonder, they didn't believe. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:30.399 So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their ears in terror. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.479 When he killed them, they sought him. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.600 They repented and sought God earnestly. 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:41.280 They remembered that God was their rock, the most high God, the Redeemer. 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:45.759 But they flattered with him with their mouth. 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.159 They lied to him with their tongues. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:52.719 The heart wasn't stealthful toward him. 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.000 They weren't faithful to his covenant. 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:02.479 Yet he being compassionate, atoned for the iniquity and didn't destroy them. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:08.079 He restrained his anger often and didn't stir up all his wrath. 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.280 He remembered that they were but flesh. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.799 A wind that passes and comes not again. 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:21.359 How often they rebel against him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert. 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:26.400 They test God again and again and provoke the Holy One of Israel. 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:34.799 They didn't remember his power on the day when he redeemed them from the foe. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:41.120 He performed his signs in Egypt, and his marvels in the fields of soon. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:47.200 He turned their rivers to blood so that they couldn't drink of their streams. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:54.079 He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, and frogs which destroyed them. 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:59.599 He gave their crops to the destroying locusts, and the fruit of the labor to the locust. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:05.200 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:11.120 He gave over the cattle to the hail and their flocks to the two thunderbolts. 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.960 He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress. 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:20.400 A company of destroying angels. 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.560 He made a path for his anger. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.479 He didn't spare them from death, but gave their lives over the plaque. 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:36.879 He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength in the sense of Ham. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:43.439 Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.759 He led them in safety so that they weren't afraid. 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:57.280 But they overhelmed their enemies and he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had worn. 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.439 He drove or nations before them. 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:06.400 He apportioned them for a position and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:16.319 Yet they test and rebel against the most God the most high God and didn't keep his testimonies. 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:23.360 But turn away and act tritrously like their fathers. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:30.159 They twist like a discipl, for they provoke him to anger with their high places. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.000 They move him to jealousy with their idols. 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:40.159 When God heard he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel. 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:52.080 He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind, and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hands of the foe. 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:57.280 He gave his people over to the sword, and bent his wrath on his heritage. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:02.879 Fire devoured their young men, and their young woman had no marriage song. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:08.240 Their priest fell by the swords, and their widows made no lamentations. 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:14.080 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine. 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.560 And he put his adversaries to rout, he put them to everlasting shame. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:20.720 He rejected the tent of Joseph. 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:29.279 He didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim, but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves. 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:37.199 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.720 He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheep fort. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:49.040 From following the nursery, the nursing use he brought him to shepherd Shacob, his people. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:50.720 He is rail his servant. 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:58.399 With upright heart, he shepherd them and guide them with his skillful hand. 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:00.959 So read Godwards. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:15.360 This is the uh the second of two weeks in a row where uh we are all together as a as a family. 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.279 Kids are in, and uh we have been looking at at Psalm 78, that's Sam that Marielle read for us. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:22.560 That was a long reading. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.360 Marielle, thank you so much for doing that for us. 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:36.240 Um uh grown-ups, you can have that in front of you either if you have a uh a paper bible here or you can just Google search uh Psalm 78 ESV. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:38.480 Kids are gonna stay in today. 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.839 Um, and so if you want to come down the front, you can uh come and be with us. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:51.759 Last week in Psalm 78, can anybody uh remember what it is that we were that we were thinking about? 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.759 This is gonna be fun, particularly for the Linens, but Daniel staying in the whole time. 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:02.399 Hey Daniel, uh who can remember what we were looking at last week in Psalm 78? 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.480 What was the what was the big idea? 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.199 What was the game that we were playing? 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.399 Does anybody remember what we were talking about? 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:12.720 Yes, Isla, go for it. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:13.759 Remember and pass on. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.680 Remember and pass on. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.279 That's what Psalm 78 is about. 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:25.839 You might have kind of uh gotten lost in all of the stories that ASAP, the writer of Psalm 78, is is retelling. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:44.480 He's reminding the people of his day what God has done in the past in order that we might remember God's past faithfulness and pass it on to the next generation, to our children, so that they might hope in God. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:50.079 And we we looked at three things that uh that the Psalmist wanted to pass on. 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:55.120 Can they remember what one of those three things was that was here last week? 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.319 So we had the we had the crown, first of all. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:01.759 Any grown-ups help? 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:11.920 Now let me remind you, it was who God is, and then we were remembering what God has said and what God has done. 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.319 Those are the three things that we were passing on. 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.920 Who God is, what he said, and what he's done. 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:31.759 Now, as we continue on in this Psalm, one of the things that becomes apparent, one of the reasons why they need to be reminded is because we're forgetful as human beings. 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.639 I don't know if you've ever uh ever noticed that. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.000 You know, your your mom might say to you, have you brushed your teeth? 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:42.079 Or go upstairs and brush your teeth, and then as you're going out the door, say, Have you brushed your teeth? 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:42.959 Oh, I forgot. 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.439 Oh, hurry up, let's go, run upstairs. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.879 That never happens in our house, just every day. 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.240 Or you might get a text from somebody saying, on your way home, could you pick up some milk? 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:53.439 Could you pick up some bread? 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.160 And you walk in through the door, and the person in your house says, You did you get the milk? 00:07:58.240 --> 00:07:58.800 Do you get the bread? 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:05.279 Oh again, never happens in our house. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.680 We are so prone to forget. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.720 So let's warm up our brains this morning. 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:19.360 There was uh this side was very uh was very upset that they lost the game that we were playing last week. 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:26.079 And I have uh let me show you, I have replenished my basket of goodies for for today. 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.000 There's even more, in fact, because I don't think that everybody got last week. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.200 So we uh we have Kinders and Starmix and Lollies. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.600 So we're gonna play another game against again, side against side. 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:42.720 So if we can have the next uh the next slide, hopefully a game slide will appear. 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:44.080 No, that's not it. 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.759 Um oh, I think we're changing programs, that's what's going on. 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.799 So we're gonna warm up our brains with a with a memory game. 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:52.799 It will be very uh very familiar. 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.519 It's a memory game of pairs. 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:56.399 Yeah. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.480 We can just go on to the next one and I'll explain the game. 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:01.279 There it is. 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:01.919 Great. 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:05.679 So side against side, we're gonna try and find the pairs. 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:12.799 If you don't get the pairs, we'll click on the uh on the on the red circle and the picture will disappear. 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:18.559 Since this side lost, uh, we're gonna go with them uh first this week. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.639 So two numbers to try and find a pair. 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.600 Whoever gets the most pairs wins the game today. 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.960 Okay, so give me give me two numbers this side. 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.759 Ten and ten and eight. 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:33.120 Let's try ten and eight. 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:37.919 And what's eight? 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.240 No! That's eleven. 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:46.480 Eight. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.679 Fantastic. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:51.840 Okay, so that's not a match. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.399 This is gonna go brilliantly. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.960 Okay, so we're gonna cover those over. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:01.120 So you got a little uh you got a little guess at what eleven was. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.840 So we get ten and eight, we're gonna cover those back over. 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.159 Excellent, excellent, okay. 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:16.720 This side, give me two numbers twelve and twelve twelve and nine? 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:17.679 That was the first one I heard. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.600 So twelve and oh. 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:20.879 Okay. 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:22.799 All right. 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:25.440 This side, what number would you like to? 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.639 What number do you want to pick on? 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:28.879 Ten and nine. 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.320 Ten and nine is that the general can say ten and nine. 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:33.840 Let's try ten and nine. 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:37.759 All right, so we gotta gotta point for this side, right? 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:39.600 So we go, we go back over. 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:41.360 Give me a number. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:43.440 So we got three. 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:49.519 And okay, so we're gonna we're gonna try three and eleven. 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.320 Okay, cover them back. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.399 We're back over this side again. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:00.639 Let's go right up the back this time. 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.000 Somebody give me a number. 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:07.919 Okay, seven and twelve. 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:09.360 All right, let's try seven. 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:10.879 Oh, okay. 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.480 Seven and twelve. 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.879 This side, what numbers would you like to pick? 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:16.240 Three and seven. 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:18.000 Three and seven. 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.080 Okay, let's try three and seven. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:22.559 Excellent. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.159 That's one each. 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:24.960 All right. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.679 Back over, back over to this side. 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:29.039 Uh yes. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.399 Eight and one. 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:34.240 Let's try eight and one. 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:39.440 Oh cats cats and dogs. 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.320 Eight and give me another number. 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.240 Eight and oh eight and eleven? 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.639 No, it eight and two? 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:50.240 Okay, all right, okay. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:50.799 Whoa. 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:55.360 Are we just eight and two? 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:56.080 Right. 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:57.360 Eight and two. 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:06.720 Okay. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:08.559 Sorry? 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:11.039 Two and eleven. 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.600 Okay, two and eleven. 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:16.720 Yes. 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.960 Two points to this side. 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.360 So you guys won last week, so it's fine. 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.840 Uh all right, let's try again. 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:25.200 Let's see if you can even it up. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.080 So we're saying eight and four. 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:31.519 Right, eight and four? 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:34.879 Yeah. 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:37.360 Okay. 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.320 You got you got one, you got one shot, right side. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:44.080 Okay. 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:45.360 Oh, and what do you want to pick? 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:46.159 Give me one number. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:47.279 Just give me one number. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.240 Twelve and six. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:51.440 Twelve and six. 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.200 Let's try twelve and six. 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:56.799 Yes. 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:03.679 And so obviously, this side are gonna pick one and five. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.320 Let's see, one and five, just to finish off the game. 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:07.279 Great. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.879 So, what we're gonna do, turns out it was a draw, hang you. 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.440 Um well done, everybody. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:21.120 So, as you're leaving, if you would like to take a nice lollipop or some sort of treat, they're gonna be on the basket here as you exit. 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:23.759 Well done, everybody, for playing the game. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.559 Uh, give yourself all a round of applause. 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:31.759 I I know it was so fun, wasn't it? 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:35.519 Do you say you saw the dog and the monkey? 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:36.799 I know, right? 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.879 In the game, what would happen if you forgot? 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:51.200 Well, if you forgot the squares went blank again and you couldn't see them anymore, and you ended up well, what would have happened is you would have you would have lost the game. 00:13:51.600 --> 00:14:04.240 The psalm is all about what happens when we forget what God has done, when we forget what he has said in the past, and when we forget who he is. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:15.200 And so the the psalmist gives us three ideas, three pictures of what it's like to forget God. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:23.039 And the first thing is that when we forget what God has done, when we forget what God has said, we begin to grumble against God. 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:28.080 We begin to complain, and that's exactly what happened in the Psalm. 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:39.759 So if we remind you of one of the verses that we read last week, so picking it up in verse 17, says, Yet they sinned all the more against him, rebelling against the most high in the desert. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:45.279 They tested God in their hand in their heart, demanding food that they craved. 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:50.480 They spoke against God, saying, Can God spread a table in the wilderness? 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:55.759 He struck the rock so that water gushed out, streams overflowed. 00:14:55.919 --> 00:15:00.080 But they said, Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people? 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:01.679 Do you see the grumbling? 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:02.559 Could God do this? 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:04.399 Could God feed us in the wilderness? 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.200 Uh, and so they began to grumble against God. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:08.320 Let's next picture. 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:09.519 Let's put up this cartoon. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.759 Some parents are going to resonate with uh with the cartoon that comes up right now. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.120 But this is really how we respond to God a lot of the time. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.600 Is we we grumble against him. 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:26.799 We think, okay, well, he was he was good for us in the past, but we say to God, well, what have you done for me lately? 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:34.240 I don't know if any any mothers uh think that this is particularly relevant uh to them. 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:43.679 You have all that that is provided, and yet there's a sense in which when we grumble, we say, Well, what have you done for me lately? 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:49.840 One of the things that we forget is we forget how good God has been to us. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:58.320 And so we say to him, Well, that's great, but you didn't come through for me here, you didn't provide for me here. 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.879 What have you done for me lately? 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:13.200 Imagine, imagine for a second, imagine you were in the middle of a busy road, in danger of all of the traffic whizzling past you. 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:22.240 And imagine somebody ran out a great risk to themselves and they scooped you up and they brought you safely to the other side. 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:24.240 What do you think you might say? 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:25.919 You might say thank you. 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:32.080 You might say thank you, you might think, oh, I really appreciate you taking that risk to get me safe. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:45.759 How weird, it's alright, I weird would it be if they scooped you up and brought you over to the other side and you turn around to them and you didn't say thank you, but you said what did you bring me? 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.440 Like, what'd you what did you bring me to eat? 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.600 Like I'm like, I'm hungry. 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:52.080 That would be weird, wouldn't it? 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.080 But that's kind of what has happened with the people of God in the Old Testament. 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.200 That's exactly what Asaph is saying happened. 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:11.279 That God rescued his people from slavery in Egypt, brought them from certain death through the Red Sea, brought them out to the other side, brought them into relationship with himself. 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:12.640 And what did they say? 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.519 They say, I'm hungry. 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.119 What am I what am I gonna eat? 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.960 You brought us out into the desert to starve. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:32.960 See, when we forget about God, when we forget God's good rescue, we begin to grumble against him, we begin to say, Well, what have you done for me lately? 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:43.200 Just speaking to the grown-ups for a second, maybe actually that's how you interact with your own spirituality. 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.720 You you you think, yes, like, yeah, I'm a follower of Jesus. 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:53.200 Jesus died for me, he's taken my sin away, but but God didn't help me here. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.920 What's he done for me lately? 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:01.359 Has caused you in your heart to forget his goodness, it's caused you to grumble against him. 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:08.000 You've become a little bit like the children of God in the wilderness, saying, Well, I'm actually quite hungry. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.160 What have you done for me lately? 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:18.720 You know you're a child of God and you know that you've had your sin forgiven, but there's something else that you want as well. 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:25.359 You still want the success, you still want more money, more comfort, you still want that relationship. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:34.240 And while God doesn't give you the thing that you really want, you grumble, you say, Well, you haven't really done anything for me lately. 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:35.759 That's the first thing that we do. 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:37.519 We grumble against God. 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:47.519 The second thing that happens is that once we've started grumbling against God, we start to get bored of God's way. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.079 Question What's your favorite food? 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:53.839 What's your favorite food, Ayla? 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:55.359 I can probably answer this question, but go ahead. 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:56.000 Pasta. 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:56.799 Pasta. 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.599 Yeah, pasta and pizza. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:01.759 Pasta and pizza together. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.920 Pasta on the pizza. 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:04.559 Yeah. 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.160 In our house, I don't know if you've noticed, but we've never met a carb that we didn't like. 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:10.240 Um, yeah, pasta, pizza. 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:11.599 Who else has a favorite food? 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:12.480 Yes. 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:14.079 Pizza as well. 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.880 Is it is pizza like any others? 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:18.720 Any other Owen? 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.480 Old McDonald's, what we call McDonald's in our house. 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.200 Uh yeah, we don't get happy meals anymore. 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.480 We get the 20 Nug share box, and they basically have 10 each. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.240 Uh now, imagine. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:32.079 Anyone else want to offer a favorite food? 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.279 Anybody, uh, anybody's favorite food, something healthy? 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:36.720 Ha ha. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.279 See, salad. 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:40.640 Yeah, whatever. 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:48.400 Now, we all have a favorite food, whether it's chicken nuggets from McDonald's or whether it's pizza. 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:54.799 Now, imagine for a second that um that that was the only thing that you were able to eat. 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.880 For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it was pizza. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:05.680 For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it was chicken nuggets, or it was pasta all day, every day. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.880 Now, these guys, I can see by their faces sitting down the front here, they're like, problem. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:20.799 But those of us who are maybe grown-ups kind of stretch that out and think, well, a few days of that, that'd be good fun, actually. 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:22.319 I quite enjoy that. 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:28.319 After about a week, he might be like, oh, I'm starting to feel a bit, hmm, not quite sure about that. 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:33.519 Stretches out to a month, stretches out to six months, stretches out to a year. 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:39.440 And somebody sets down that that that 400th pizza in front of you. 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:45.519 I don't think that this is what I want. 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:49.200 We begin to get bored. 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:59.440 What ASAF is recalling here is a story back in the Bible book called Numbers. 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:10.880 Numbers chapter 11, where the people of Israel they began to get bored with what God was providing them. 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:12.400 God provided them. 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:17.359 Can anybody remember what it is that God sent down from heaven? 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:19.519 It was called ma. 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:22.240 Yeah, that's right. 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:27.200 So they're these little flakes that they baked into bread, and they ate that for a long time. 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:30.720 But then what they began to say is, oh, I'm a bit bored of the bread. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:33.200 Gotta go out and collect it every day. 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:35.839 Can we get some meat too? 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.680 And so God sent quail, these tiny little birds. 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:42.000 But God also warned them back in numbers. 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:43.920 It's like, you're gonna get sick of that too. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.319 Yes, you're like, I want some meat. 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:48.799 But they grew to hit it. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:59.759 And this is what happens, this is what happens to the human heart is that God is miraculously they're in a desert, there's nothing there, there's nothing growing, and God. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:08.720 God is performing a miracle every day of sending bread from heaven and sending these quail into the camp of Israel. 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:10.960 And they're getting bored of it. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.799 They're getting bored of God's miraculous provision. 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:24.960 You see, when when God's way becomes boring to us, it's really easy to forget God and go a different way. 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.200 But no other way gives us life. 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:35.119 No other way gives us the the joy and the satisfaction that we and the happiness that we want. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:38.160 And I'm gonna speak to the grown-ups. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:46.000 God's way will at some point or another become boring to you. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.960 Maybe it's boring already. 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:53.839 Maybe you actually hear and you're like, I don't know why I'd be interested at all in the first place. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:23:00.960 Well, let me say this everything that you chase has a tolerance effect in your life. 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:02.640 Do you know what I mean by that? 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:10.400 That when you chase after something, you get that initial buzz when you get it, but then you need more of it. 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:14.799 Whether it's it's money or intimacy or success. 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:21.200 Everything that you chase in this world, apart from God, will have a tolerance effect in your life. 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:22.559 Have you noticed that? 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:34.079 That you're running after these things, and you're like, oh, this isn't giving me the same satisfaction, the same high emotionally that it did when I first went after it. 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.400 Because you developed this resistance. 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:41.279 Everything that we will chase after will have this tolerance effect. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:50.640 Only God, the infinite, the all-loving, the all-powerful, the all-soul-satisfying, can give us what our soul craves. 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:54.960 Be very careful about becoming bored with God's way. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:07.920 And then thirdly, in the in this section and more quickly, once we've grumbled against God and gotten bored of his way, it becomes very easy, thirdly, to follow other gods. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.480 And that's exactly what Asaph says happened. 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:17.119 So in verses 56 to 58, he says, yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High. 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.119 They did not keep his testimonies. 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:24.720 They turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers, like a twisted and deceitful bow. 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:32.880 They provoked them to anger, provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their idols. 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.400 So idols and high places. 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:40.559 If you want in the ancient world, you want to worship a follow God, a false God, you set up a high place. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:52.640 When our hearts forget God, we turn to other things to satisfy that craving that whole that turning from God leaves in us. 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:57.759 Those are the three things that happen. 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:07.359 When we forget God, we grumble against Him, we get bored of His way, and then we turn to other things in order to satisfy us. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.599 Now, how does God respond to all of that? 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:13.599 How does God respond? 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.720 Three ways as we finish. 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:20.240 Now kids, young people, we're gonna play a game. 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:21.200 Okay? 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:27.279 If you want to play the game, you need to come up and stand in a line in front of me. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:31.680 And I am going to I'm gonna need I'm gonna need my phone because I need a timer. 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:32.240 Okay. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:46.559 Okay, so stand stand in a line, all facing the uh uh the congregation. 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:47.359 Fantastic. 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:49.119 Now here's the game, guys. 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:57.920 Okay, you're all gonna stand in a line and you're going to count in your head 20 seconds. 00:25:58.079 --> 00:25:59.920 Can you all can you count to 20? 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.839 Yeah, you need to be able to count to 20 to play this game, okay? 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.640 And count in whatever language you prefer, right? 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:12.079 But you gotta count out 20 seconds in your head, silently, not out loud. 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:16.880 And then when you think the 20 seconds has passed, you put your hand up. 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:22.319 I'm not gonna put my hand up because I've got sweaty armpits, uh, but you put your hand up nice and high so we can see, okay. 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:32.319 And the person who is closest to uh to 20 seconds, or the people who are closest to 20 seconds, get to be the first people to choose something from the bucket, okay? 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.799 All right, so if you were on the losing side, you get a chance to well, you were it was a draw. 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:40.160 Anyway, uh you get to be the first to choose, okay? 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:41.680 So I'm gonna set a timer. 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:43.279 You all clear what to do? 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.920 So you're counting 20 in your head, and you guys can help me. 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:55.039 Um maybe get some other you can get some other timers going, and we get uh if we need a steward's inquiry. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:55.839 All right. 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:57.039 We ready? 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:02.720 Okay, we're gonna start in three, two, one, go. 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.440 Okay, stop. 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:26.480 All right. 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:28.319 I think that David is our winner, actually. 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.400 So David David was like at 19 and something. 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:31.759 Yeah, give him a big hand. 00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:32.799 Well done, David. 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:33.839 Good job, guys. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:34.480 Don't worry. 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:37.039 So he gets to pick first, you'll all get to pick after the service. 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:39.839 You pick something, David, and then you guys can sit back down. 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:43.839 David, you were almost on the money, I think. 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:46.240 Uh that was that was a really good job. 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.720 What were we illustrating there? 00:27:48.960 --> 00:28:04.640 Well, one of the things that we were illustrating there was the need for just a little bit of patience, uh, the ability to count for sure, um, but patience, waiting, putting your hand up at just the right time, as David did. 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:22.640 One of the amazing things that ASAF tells us in this Psalm is that we forget God, we get bored of God, we follow other gods, and one of the first ways that God responds is that he's patient with us. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:28.319 That reminds you what what ASAF says in verses 38 and 39. 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:34.799 He says, Yet he, that's God, being compassionate, it's another way for talking about his love. 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:38.480 He atoned for their sin and did not destroy them. 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:42.640 He restrained his anger and did not stir up his wrath. 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:49.359 He remembered that they are but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again. 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.400 That we did wrong. 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.440 We forgot God, we didn't listen to his ways. 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.920 And God was patient with us. 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:00.880 He was kind to us. 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:13.599 So when we forget him and when we realize that we've been living our own way, we can run back to him and say, Thank you, God, for being patient with me. 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.119 Have you experienced the patience of God in your life? 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:27.200 That actually maybe whole seasons you've been doing your own thing and forgetting all about God, and something has happened that has brought you back to him. 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:32.160 And one of the things you run back and say, Thank you, that you are a father who always welcomes me back. 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:35.839 One of the ways that God responds is that he's patient with us. 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:49.839 The second way that God responds is excuse me, is that God does judge sin, but in judging sin, he rescues sinners. 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:59.359