SPEAKER_01: If you want to turn in your own Bibles to Psalm seventy-eight for today's reading.
SPEAKER_01: Maskil of Asaph.
SPEAKER_01: Give ear, O my people, to my teaching.
SPEAKER_01: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
SPEAKER_01: I will open my mouth in a parable.
SPEAKER_01: I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
SPEAKER_01: We will not hide them from our children, but tell them to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
SPEAKER_01: He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, and that they should not be like their fathers.
SPEAKER_01: A stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
SPEAKER_01: The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
SPEAKER_01: They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
SPEAKER_01: They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
SPEAKER_01: In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders.
SPEAKER_01: In the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoon, he divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
SPEAKER_01: In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
SPEAKER_01: He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
SPEAKER_01: He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
SPEAKER_01: Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the most high in the desert.
SPEAKER_01: They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
SPEAKER_01: They spoke against God, saying, Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
SPEAKER_01: He struck the waters so that the water gushed out and streams overflowed.
SPEAKER_01: Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?
SPEAKER_01: Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath.
SPEAKER_01: A fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger rose against Israel, because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
SPEAKER_01: Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, and he rained down on them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
SPEAKER_01: Man ate of the bread of the angels, he sent them food in abundance, he caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led them out to the south wind.
SPEAKER_01: He rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas, he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
SPEAKER_01: And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
SPEAKER_01: But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths, the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young man of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: And so it reads God's word.
SPEAKER_00: Good morning, everybody, by the way.
SPEAKER_00: My name's Mark.
SPEAKER_00: I'm one of the leaders here at City Church.
SPEAKER_00: You're very welcome, especially if you're new or visiting with us.
SPEAKER_00: This morning, uh, we in the summertime go through the Psalms.
SPEAKER_00: We've been doing this for years at this point.
SPEAKER_00: We started at Psalm 1, and as you will tell from our reading, we're now at Psalm 78.
SPEAKER_00: And uh this morning and next week, we're looking at this one rather long Psalm and doing them as all age talks.
SPEAKER_00: So kids are in with us as well, and you might be picking up some of the details from the Psalm and go, Oh, an all-age talk.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, the Lord killed the young men of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: Happy, happy Sunday, children.
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we're going to look at actually what this has to mean for us because really this first half of the psalm, or really the psalm as a as a whole, and we'll get into some of the detail next week, really has one point.
SPEAKER_00: Is one point, and that point is to remember what the Lord has done and to pass it on.
SPEAKER_00: The details of the psalm, so we're talking about what has happened in the past, is the psalmist reminding people what God has done and his past faithfulness, despite our sin.
SPEAKER_00: He has remained merciful and kind.
SPEAKER_00: And so he is helping us to remember what God has done in order that we might remember and pass it on.
SPEAKER_00: That's the big idea.
SPEAKER_00: Remember and pass it on.
SPEAKER_00: So let's play a game.
SPEAKER_00: Who's up for playing a game?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: They all said yes, but it's going to include all of you.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So if you're here for the first time, you're like, oh, we're never coming back.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
SPEAKER_00: Um, here's the game, right?
SPEAKER_00: What we're gonna do is we're gonna play a game of pass it on, right?
SPEAKER_00: So I need two volunteers.
SPEAKER_00: Uh let's so let's let's do boys.
SPEAKER_00: Let's let's do uh let's go here, let's do older boys because we need we need somebody who's gonna be fast.
SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, so Maxi, yeah, come on up, come on up, come on up.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give these young men a uh a short three-word message, right?
SPEAKER_00: And you're gonna run up this side right to the very back and see what is sitting up at the back there.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're gonna tell what I say to you to him, and then he's going to pass it on to the next person.
SPEAKER_00: And you've got to you've got a whisperer, say it.
SPEAKER_00: This is not Chinese whispers, it's not about, oh, you know, I'm just gonna make up something random.
SPEAKER_00: We want the message to make it down to the front.
SPEAKER_00: If you mangle the message, your side will not win.
SPEAKER_00: If your side wins, I have a basket here full of chocolate and sweets and jellies for everybody on your side.
SPEAKER_00: So you've got it, you're gonna get a three-word message and you've got to pass it on.
SPEAKER_00: And the winning, uh, the winning team is the person who, when it gets down to the front, they uh they run and tell tell me.
SPEAKER_00: So, Leon, maybe you'll be the the last person on this side to be and you could be the last person on that side.
SPEAKER_00: No, no, that's fine.
SPEAKER_00: And and so you gotta run and tell me what the message is, okay?
SPEAKER_00: So you guys come forward, I'm gonna tell you what the message is.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna turn my mic off because that would that would ruin the game.
SPEAKER_00: What is it?
SPEAKER_00: Hoping God.
SPEAKER_00: Hope my god! Yes! Well done.
SPEAKER_00: Was it still hoping God?
SPEAKER_00: What what what did you hear?
SPEAKER_00: Help from God! Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00: Commiserations, guys.
SPEAKER_00: Probably, probably best because there's more kids on this side anyway.
SPEAKER_00: So thank you for taking one for the team.
SPEAKER_00: So, what what you can do, I'll tell you what, tell you what I'll do, is actually I will leave, I will leave the basket, and there's an honor system.
SPEAKER_00: So, you guys, we're we're watching you guys, right?
SPEAKER_00: This side, as you leave this morning, you can pick up a packet of either Hammibow Starmix or little Milky Way uh fun size bars from uh from the uh from beside the communion table here as you go this morning.
SPEAKER_00: So that's your prize.
SPEAKER_00: Well done to this side.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give them a round of applause.
SPEAKER_00: So sit down, sit down, guys.
SPEAKER_00: So we're remembering, we're remembering and passing on a message, and the message was to hope in God, and that's exactly what the psalmist uh wants us to do.
SPEAKER_00: That's why he is helping us to remember and to pass on the message so that people, our children, generations yet to come, would hope in God.
SPEAKER_00: Let me remind you what the psalmist has said.
SPEAKER_00: He said in verse 6 that the next generation might know them, that the children yet unborn and arise and tell them to their children, so that they would set their hope in God.
SPEAKER_00: Now, hope is kind of a strange thing.
SPEAKER_00: Hope we might say, well, if you're Irish, you might say something like, I hope Spain beats England.
SPEAKER_00: Later.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: But obviously, we don't say that in my house because I'm married to an English person.
SPEAKER_00: So we we hope, rather, that England will win.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and that uh and that Alcaraz wins the man's singles finals as well.
SPEAKER_00: So Spain gets a little bit of something, but hope it's kind of a toss-up.
SPEAKER_00: It might or it might not happen, but that's not what hope's like in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: Hope is much more like this in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: Hope is like a rope.
SPEAKER_00: Did you know that?
SPEAKER_00: That hope is like a rope.
SPEAKER_00: And the thing with the with a rope is that it matters what you attach it to.
SPEAKER_00: If you're trying to climb up something or if you're trying to get something to hold your wit, you need to attach it to something that's really, really solid.
SPEAKER_00: Now, I've attached the rope currently to my wallet, right?
SPEAKER_00: Which represents all of my worldly wealth and income, right?
SPEAKER_00: And if I try to have it hold my wit, no, it doesn't work.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: And my microphone comes off.
SPEAKER_00: I must rather attach my hope to something that is far more solid.
SPEAKER_00: See, if we attach our hope, our sense of place in the world, our security in the world, in material things like our wealth, it will never hold us stable.
SPEAKER_00: But if we attach it to something that is firm, that is immovable, that cannot be shaken, then it can hold us through even the most strenuous and difficult times.
SPEAKER_00: It can hold our weight, right?
SPEAKER_00: That is why the psalmist wants us to hope in God, because when we attach our hope to God, we're attaching to something that is outside of circumstances that can never be shaken, that can never be taken away.
SPEAKER_00: And that is what the psalmist wants us to do.
SPEAKER_00: That's why he's saying, remember what God has done and pass it on.
SPEAKER_00: Now, the next question is, what does, I'm much more out of breath doing a kid's talk than I am normally.
SPEAKER_00: Time to go back to the gym, right?
SPEAKER_00: Question then is, what is it that God wants us to remember and pass on?
SPEAKER_00: What does Asaph, the man who wrote this Psalm, say that we should remember and pass on?
SPEAKER_00: And I think there's three things here in this Psalm.
SPEAKER_00: Let me give them to you real quickly and then we'll talk about what they mean.
SPEAKER_00: The first thing that Asaf wants us to remember and pass on in order that we might hope in God, that solid and firm thing, is we want to remember and pass on who God is.
SPEAKER_00: We want to remember and pass on who God is.
SPEAKER_00: This Psalm is full of descriptions of the character of God, his might, his power, his ability to save, his mercy, as well as his justice and commitment to good things and to holiness.
SPEAKER_00: We pass on, first of all, who God is.
SPEAKER_00: Parents, when we're teaching our children about our faith, we're not simply teaching a set of uh prepositions or a list of rules.
SPEAKER_00: We're passing on the character of a person.
SPEAKER_00: We're passing on to our children who God is.
SPEAKER_00: We want our children to be captivated by who he is, to fall in love with him and his greatness.
SPEAKER_00: That's the first thing.
SPEAKER_00: Now, the second thing that the psalmist spends most of his time talking about is that he wants us to remember and to pass on first who God is, but then what God has done.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 4 talks about the wondrous deeds that we would pass on to the next generation.
SPEAKER_00: And then he goes on to tell us about great battles or the plagues and the uh the escape through the Red Sea.
SPEAKER_00: Our faith has its roots in history.
SPEAKER_00: Our God acts in history, in the events of the past.
SPEAKER_00: He has revealed what his character is like.
SPEAKER_00: And so we recount these stories, we tell them to one another, we tell them to our children in order that we might remember what God has done.
SPEAKER_00: Because when we remember what he has done in the past, that helps us to trust him in the future.
SPEAKER_00: That's the second thing.
SPEAKER_00: The third thing, so remember what who God is, what God has done, and then thirdly, we remember what he has said.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 5 talks about how God established a testimony in Jacob.
SPEAKER_00: Don't worry too much about that.
SPEAKER_00: He appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach their children.
SPEAKER_00: God has spoken, he has said something.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 5 talks about God's law.
SPEAKER_00: God's law is much more than just do this and don't do that.
SPEAKER_00: It is instruction about how to live the best life.
SPEAKER_00: Because the best life is the gospel life.
SPEAKER_00: The best life is living God's way.
SPEAKER_00: And God very kindly speaks to us.
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that amazing?
SPEAKER_00: That the God of all creation, the God of the universe, would speak in a way that we can understand in order to help us to live a life that is good for us and brings him glory.
SPEAKER_00: So we pass on three things.
SPEAKER_00: Who can remember what they are?
SPEAKER_00: What are the three things?
SPEAKER_00: So that so the end result is that we would hope in God, but what are the three things?
SPEAKER_00: Olivia.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so we want to listen to what uh what God has said, yes?
SPEAKER_00: Who God is, remember and pass on what we're gonna remember and pass on, Isla.
SPEAKER_00: Who God is, what he said, and one more, the middle one.
SPEAKER_00: Who can remember the middle one?
SPEAKER_00: What God has done in the past.
SPEAKER_00: Well done.
SPEAKER_00: So we in order to set our hope in God, we remember and pass on those three things: who God is, what he has done in the past, and what he has said.
SPEAKER_00: That is what fuels and grows trust in each one of us, grown-ups and young people.
SPEAKER_00: That as we get to know who God is, as we see what he has done in the past, and as we listen to his voice, that is how our faith is strengthened.
SPEAKER_00: That is what helps us to hope in God.
SPEAKER_00: Now, let's just push into that a little bit more.
SPEAKER_00: What does it mean to set our hope in God?
SPEAKER_00: Well, it involves every part of us.
SPEAKER_00: It involves every part of us.
SPEAKER_00: Isla, would you help me for a second?
SPEAKER_00: Would you stand up here on the rug?
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be my helper for this.
SPEAKER_00: So it involves every part of us hoping in God.
SPEAKER_00: The first thing it involves is it involves our head.
SPEAKER_00: When we get to know who God is, that means that we learn things.
SPEAKER_00: That's why we've got the cry.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is for is for the head, okay, because we're learning things about God and his character, who he is.
SPEAKER_00: We learn them, we teach them to one another.
SPEAKER_00: We want to learn about how powerful God is.
SPEAKER_00: We want to learn about how loving God is, how merciful he is.
SPEAKER_00: We want our minds to be blown by the amazing majesty of our God.
SPEAKER_00: It's one of the things that we seek to do in uh in city kids is to have children leave screen six on a Sunday going, wow, isn't God amazing?
SPEAKER_00: Because when we know God better, this is what the Crown says, when we know God better, that helps us to trust God better.
SPEAKER_00: When we know God, we'll trust God.
SPEAKER_00: It's very hard to trust someone that we don't know, that we've just met for the first time, that we just encountered on the street.
SPEAKER_00: But as we get to know people, we begin to trust them more.
SPEAKER_00: And it's the same with our relationship with God that as we learn more about Him, it helps us to trust Him more.
SPEAKER_00: And so we teach one another, how do we do that?
SPEAKER_00: We do it here, we're doing it right now.
SPEAKER_00: We do it over in screen six.
SPEAKER_00: Screen six is not childcare.
SPEAKER_00: Did you know that?
SPEAKER_00: Screen six is just as important as what happens in here.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, there are some aspects in which it is more important because that is future-proofing ministry, that is future-proofing the church, helping children to trust in Jesus from a long from a young age that they might continue with him.
SPEAKER_00: We do it in our community groups, and we should do it in our homes, teaching our children, teaching one another who God is.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the second one.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just our head, it's not just head knowledge, but what is this?
SPEAKER_00: Our heart.
SPEAKER_00: And what does the heart say?
SPEAKER_00: Love God.
SPEAKER_00: Where does the heart go?
SPEAKER_00: Does it go here on the shoulder?
SPEAKER_00: No?
SPEAKER_00: Where does it go?
SPEAKER_00: It goes right over here, right?
SPEAKER_00: There we go.
SPEAKER_00: The psalmist wants to remind us about what God has done, and he does so by telling us a story, little mini stories, little snapshots from Israel's history.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't just give us God's CV, a list of things that God has done, he tells us a story.
SPEAKER_00: Why do you think God tells us?
SPEAKER_00: Why do you think the psalmist tells us a story about what God has done?
SPEAKER_00: Olivia, what do you think?
SPEAKER_00: Stor yeah, stories help, they they help us to listen, they eng, they engage us, they're more interesting.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Have you ever read a story, young people?
SPEAKER_00: Have you ever read a story that has had a scary part in it?
SPEAKER_00: And even though you know that it's just a book, that actually your heart starts to beat faster and faster.
SPEAKER_00: We've been having that, haven't we, in the Dreamkeeper saga, haven't we?
SPEAKER_00: There's been some scary bits, isn't there?
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh or have you ever watched something?
SPEAKER_00: So you've watched a movie and something sad has happened, and you know that it's just a movie, but you find that your eyes are getting messed up.
SPEAKER_00: That that may happen to me from time to time.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but you have you ever have you ever cried at a movie?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: We cry together, don't we?
SPEAKER_00: Or or what about have you ever watched a great battle or a great fight like in like in Star Wars or at the end of Lord of the Rings, or the end of Harry Potter, or something?
SPEAKER_00: Or a Narnia, right?
SPEAKER_00: A great battle, and the good, the good guys win the battle, and you almost want to jump up and punch the air and go, yes, they won.
SPEAKER_00: You ever or well, I mean, what is a what's a football match, but a 90-minute story?
SPEAKER_00: There will be a great story told this evening.
SPEAKER_00: Now, for the English, it might be a tragedy.
SPEAKER_00: Full of weeping and gnashing of teeth.
SPEAKER_00: But for the Spanish, it might be one where they jump up and they punch the air.
SPEAKER_00: Or, or, for balance, it could be the other way around.
SPEAKER_00: But a football match is a 90-minute story.
SPEAKER_00: Why does God tell us what he's done in the form of stories?
SPEAKER_00: Because he wants to move our hearts, he doesn't want to just tell us things about himself, he wants to stir our emotions, he wants to help us to feel right feelings, and so to think, how amazing.
SPEAKER_00: You ever thought about this?
SPEAKER_00: How amazing would it have been to be one of the Israelites walking on the bottom of the sea with those great walls of water and the wind ripping through, and you see the you see the fish silhouetted on the side of the ocean, and you're walking on dry land.
SPEAKER_00: Or imagine, imagine for a second, that you were one of the Israelite soldiers, and you're standing in your line with everybody else, and Goliath comes pounding out with his great spear, and you think, he's after me.
SPEAKER_00: And you're kind of you begin to kind of shake in your armor.
SPEAKER_00: And then and then what happens is this this little shepherd boy comes up and you think, well, how's he gonna help us?
SPEAKER_00: And you get even more scared.
SPEAKER_00: Then how much are you gonna be punching the air when you see Goliath fall?
SPEAKER_00: Or imagine what it would be like to stand with the women on Good Friday.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus dies on the cross, and how sad that that would feel, and how sad they must have felt.
SPEAKER_00: And then how much do you want to punch the air when you see Jesus three days later walk out of the grave, never to die again?
SPEAKER_00: See, God tells us what he's like in story because he's not just filling our head with bullet point truths about him.
SPEAKER_00: He's after our heart.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to move us to feel right feelings towards him.
SPEAKER_00: And then the third thing, so we remember who God is, what God has done, and then we listen to what God has said.
SPEAKER_00: So you can put your hand up inside there.
SPEAKER_00: There we go.
SPEAKER_00: You got a nice comedy hand.
SPEAKER_00: And what does the hand, what does the hand say, girls?
SPEAKER_00: You hold you hold it up.
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SPEAKER_00: Live for God.
SPEAKER_00: Because once we have learned about who God is, we trust him more, when we've had our heart stirred by what God has done in the past, then those things together will make us want to and help us to live for God, to obey what he has said, to set our hope in God is to listen to his voice, to listen to his word, the Bible, to follow what he says, knowing that he made us and that he knows what's best.
SPEAKER_00: Parents, let me remind you of something that the psalmist says right at the start here in verses 7 and 8.
SPEAKER_00: So the psalmist wants children to set their hope in God, verse 7, and forget not the works of God, but keep his commandments, and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
SPEAKER_00: We teach our children to set their hope in God in the prayerful hope that their faith might be stronger, more vibrant than ours.
SPEAKER_00: We might not count ourselves, God might not count us amongst the stiff-necked generation that rejected God, but every parent's hope is that our children would carry on that torch, that flame of faith, and that it would shine more brightly in them than it even did in us.
SPEAKER_00: Amen?
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: That faith and love for Jesus would not divide down the generations, but multiply.
SPEAKER_00: And how do we do that?
SPEAKER_00: Well, we remember and we pass on.
SPEAKER_00: What do we pass on?
SPEAKER_00: We pass on who God is, what God has done, and what God has said.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Ali.
SPEAKER_00: You can take those off and I'll hold them up here.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Donna.
SPEAKER_00: So as we finish, how do we do those things?
SPEAKER_00: How do we help one another to hope in God by remembering who He is, what He has done and what He has said, and passing it on.
SPEAKER_00: Let me give you four things as we close.
SPEAKER_00: First, you need to see it as your job.
SPEAKER_00: You need to see it as your job to pass on, to remember and to pass on who God is, what He has done and what He has said.
SPEAKER_00: That it's not just the job of the professional ministry class, it's not just my job or Ben's job or Peter's job to be the ones who teach and who pass on in order that people might hope in God.
SPEAKER_00: That it's something that the whole community together does.
SPEAKER_00: That just as everyone was involved earlier in the game, and this side will be much better.
SPEAKER_00: You guys have some work to do, right?
SPEAKER_00: It's all of our responsibility to be telling one another, reminding one another, because we're prone to forget what God has done.
SPEAKER_00: See, it is your job.
SPEAKER_00: That's the first one.
SPEAKER_00: Second one is remember the old stories and tell some new ones.
SPEAKER_00: Remember the old stories and tell some new ones.
SPEAKER_00: You want to remember all of the stories that the psalmist recounts here of God's people being saved through the Exodus, or of the salvation that is that is bought for us at the cross of the Lord Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And we also tell those stories of faithfulness in our lives day by day.
SPEAKER_00: That as we sit around our kitchen table, as we sit in community group, having dinner together, recalling and recounting.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, do you remember?
SPEAKER_00: Remember a couple of weeks ago I asked you guys to pray for uh for this thing?
SPEAKER_00: Well, actually, the Lord really came through for me in that.
SPEAKER_00: And I just want to update you guys.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to rejoice with me.
SPEAKER_00: Or do you remember that person that we were praying with?
SPEAKER_00: They've just accepted an invitation to come to church.
SPEAKER_00: Would you continue to pray for them?
SPEAKER_00: Pray that the Lord would move in their hearts as we uh as we meet together on Sunday to tell old stories and new ones of God's great, continued faithfulness and mercy.
SPEAKER_00: Third, this psalmist wants us to warn and to comfort one another.
SPEAKER_00: There's lots of warnings in this psalm of actually people hardening their hearts against God, of walking away from him, and God's anger at their sin and rebellion.
SPEAKER_00: So there's a warning not to fall away, there's a warning to keep on remembering, to keep on passing on, to keep your hope in God, in that firm, immovable thing.
SPEAKER_00: And there's also a comfort that even though our faith isn't very strong, you know, Jesus said that if I'm weak, that if I'm lost, he will come to me.
SPEAKER_00: We see God pursuing his people all the way through this, continuing to be merciful to them.
SPEAKER_00: And so forth and finally, the fourth thing that we do.
SPEAKER_00: So, what do we do?
SPEAKER_00: We see it as our job.
SPEAKER_00: We remember the old stories and tell new ones.
SPEAKER_00: We hear the warning and feel the comfort of God's pursuing his people, and then finally, we make much of our savior, we exalt our savior together.
SPEAKER_00: So much of this Sam points us in shadows to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you know the thing that your your kids have been learning in in City Kids over months now is we've been looking at the Old Testament and we've been seeing how the Old Testament relates to who?
SPEAKER_00: Relates to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: There are so many shadows of Jesus in the Old Testament, and the psalmist brings them out here.
SPEAKER_00: That Jesus is the one who on the cross was submerged under the waters of God's judgment, that we might walk free on dry land, that he was the rock that was split in two, that gives life-giving water to his people, that he's the bread that rained down from heaven, God's miraculous life-giving provision, that all who feed on him by faith would live.
SPEAKER_00: The next generation will set their hope in God.
SPEAKER_00: When we together rejoice and marvel in our Savior now, then they will know God's grace.
SPEAKER_00: That God's grace always triumphs over sin.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's not just the kids that need to hear that.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's not even a message for parents.
SPEAKER_00: But wherever you are, the call of this is to set your hope in God, to remember what he has done for you in the past, supremely in the cross of the Lord Jesus, in his death for you, and his resurrection to give you new life.
SPEAKER_00: He overcomes your sin by sending a savior to rescue you.
SPEAKER_00: So, whatever your hope is in, whatever you're attaching that rope to, set your hope in God.