WEBVTT 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:20.399 It's written in Psalms seventy. 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.199 Make haste, O God, to deliver me. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:25.839 O Lord, make haste to help me. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.600 Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:34.159 Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.560 Let them turn back because of their shame, who say, Aha, aha. 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.159 May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.240 May those who love your salvation say evermore, God is great. 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:48.079 But I am poor and needy. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:50.000 Hasten to me, O God. 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:52.320 You are my helper and my deliverer. 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.240 O Lord, do not delay. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:56.000 And so reads God's word. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.640 Today's preaching will be in Spanish. 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:06.079 Sorry, the nerves. 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:07.920 Good to see you all. 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:19.760 As you as you know, we normally uh and as Mark was saying, uh normally during the summer we study the book of Psalms, and today uh we'll be studying the Psalm 70. 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.920 Uh well it's good to be to be here. 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:23.680 It feels really weird. 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:29.439 Um the good thing is that I cannot see any of you, which is great. 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.200 Injustice is uh something very common. 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.040 It's a human experience, it's something that we see every day. 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:42.719 We can see injustices uh across all layers uh uh of society. 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:50.319 We can see injustices from international courts uh to our daily uh and to our daily life uh relationships. 00:01:50.480 --> 00:02:02.879 Uh we can find injustices uh committed every day, and we can see it in our uh in our relationships and in our in our everyday uh uh in everyday areas. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:15.120 For example, when we got when we go to work and we see that a coworker or a colleague takes credit for something that he or she didn't do just to get a promotion or some kind of reward. 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:25.680 And I remember a few years ago the case of a of a woman, mother of three children, that uh she was going through a very uh difficult time, uh with serious uh economic problems. 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:32.400 Uh she was arrested by the police uh by order of the court for not having her front uh garden. 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.199 She wasn't taking care of her garden. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:42.400 Uh she said that of course she didn't have the money to take care of her uh of her garden because she didn't have the money to fed her children. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:45.439 And uh that was uh that was the reason. 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:54.639 And she was detained for two nights until a landscaping uh company uh took period of her situation and fixed fixed her uh her garden. 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:01.680 Many people of uh after this, many people were outraged and they were very angry about the situation. 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.400 But this is not an isolated case. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.879 We can see these kind of cases every day. 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.479 We can see how people commit crimes and they are not punished. 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.800 We can see how the vulnerable uh are treated with contempt. 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:23.680 And clearly, uh these type of cases show us something about ourselves, uh, it shows something about our society. 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:32.960 Uh injustices are something constant in this world in which we live, and not only in the justice system, but in every area of our lives. 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:44.800 The worst thing is that uh when we see uh these things, when we see these type of cases, and we see how injustices are committed, we have this feeling that things are not getting better. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.000 We feel that things are even getting worse. 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:55.039 So we feel this frustration frustration, we we feel this anger inside of us that constantly floods us. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:04.400 And we we all have we all have uh stories about injustices, we all have suffered uh injustices at some point. 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.319 But I think you get my point. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.919 Injustice is a common thing, it's a human experience, it's an everyday experience. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:17.920 And this is so because we are sinners living in a corrupted world, corrupted by sin. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:29.519 And sometimes we may think that God does not hear our prayers, or he doesn't respond to the prayers, uh, or he doesn't do anything about injustice around us. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:49.519 However, in a disparate, in a desperate time, uh and with an urgent need for help, David showed us in this psalm three different reasons, or rather three different characteristics of God, God's character, that fills us with confidence to cry out to God in times of need, in times of despair, in times of justice. 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.199 So let's go to the Psalm. 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:57.120 Uh we can read in verse number one how David is starting showing uh his need. 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.279 Make haste to God to deliver me, oh Lord, make haste to help me. 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.800 So we see David's prayer with extreme desperation. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:09.360 Uh David cried out to God for help with a sense of urgency. 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:12.800 So we see David's prayer with extreme despair. 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:28.720 But David's confidence was not in his ability to get out of his problem, he was uh not trusting in his ability to defeat his enemies, he he wasn't trusting in uh in his fighting skills, but he was trusting that God will hear his prayer. 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:30.560 And how do we know this? 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:40.399 Because when we read scriptures, we can find different titles or different names that show us or describe the character of God. 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:48.800 We can find some uh some names that describe God's divinity, his holiness, his eternity, his power, his provision. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.120 So this is particularly relevant in this text because David is calling the name of God. 00:05:55.279 --> 00:06:00.319 He's appealing to the name with which God introduced himself to his people. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:08.720 And I don't think that David was just being uh spiritually optimistic about his situation, he was in danger, he was about to be to get murdered. 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:12.800 He was not just crossing fingers and hoping for the best. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:22.879 He was trusting that God, uh he was trusting uh and he was confident in the in the assurance that God uh will will be hearing his prayer. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.399 He's confident in the assurance that God is faithful. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:27.360 Why? 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.000 Because he has been faithful in the past. 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.639 So look how the focus changes in the name of God. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.800 So we've we see in verse 1 that David says, Make haste, O God, to deliver me. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.319 But in the second section, he uses the term Lord. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:59.360 So in the midst of the persecution, in the midst of the injustice that he's suffering, he trusted that God is a God who listens, a God who is near to his people, who listens to the prayer of his people, a God who is faithful in fulfilling his word and his promises. 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.839 So when he mentioned the name of God, David has in mind something. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.560 He's remembering the promises of God in the past. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:18.959 He's confident that in the same way that he kept his word to Abraham, and he was uh and that he kept his word to the children of Abraham, God will be faithful to him too. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.920 He has in mind God's faithfulness in freeing his people from slavery in Egypt. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:35.360 He has in mind how he was faithful in leading his people through the desert for years, providing warmth and shade, water and breath, dwelling with them. 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:42.720 He has in mind how God has been faithful in delivering the land that he promised to them. 00:07:43.199 --> 00:08:00.319 So there so David here is confident that uh the confidence of David, uh the confidence that David had didn't lie in the situation that he was living, in the situations around him, nor in his ability to go out of his problem. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:06.480 He wasn't trusting in his skills, but in the faithful character of the Lord. 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:08.800 He's trusting in God and his promises. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:19.439 So in the midst of the crisis, in the midst of the despair, he remembers that his trust is the God who keeps his word, in the Lord who is known by his fidelity to his people. 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.839 God's faithfulness means that he is unchangeable in his character. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:29.680 He's unchangeable in his nature, he is faithful to his word. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.519 He promised to save his people and he will keep his promises forever. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.600 He's eternally trustworthy. 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:50.080 No matter how improbable the situations or how improbable the promises might seem, nothing in heaven or in earth can stop God from fulfilling all that he promised to his people through Jesus Christ. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:58.480 And as at the same time, this prayer is leading us to a better David, to a better and greater King. 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.679 He's leading us to a prayer there in a garden. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:12.639 He's pointing us to a moment later in history, and he's leading us to a prayer of Jesus, a desperate prayer of Jesus, crying out to his father, his father for urgent help. 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:19.279 We see how the Lord in weakness and fear is asking God, his father, for for deliverance. 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.639 He's asking God, the Father, for help. 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:30.399 But the word of God assures us that there is nothing created in heaven or in earth. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:38.639 There is nothing created, neither in the physical world or in the spiritual world that can separate us from the love of God. 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:46.159 Because Christ suffered the abandoned abandonment of God so that you and I do not to be abandoned anymore. 00:09:46.639 --> 00:10:11.440 So when we go through uh injustices in our life, when we go through through the need of this life, when when fear invades our souls, and when we don't see our prayers answer when we need, when we don't see our prayers answered, seeking help or rescue from God, we can be sure that our prayers are still heard by the Father. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:24.000 You can be confident that in the midst of your situation, in the mid of the crisis, in the midst of the pain, when you feel that your faith is wavering, when you see that someone that you love is doubting God's faithfulness. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:30.960 And when you struggle to believe what God affirms in his word about himself and about his promises, you can look back. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.080 You can look back how God has been faithful to you in the past. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:46.399 You can look back and see the faithfulness of God in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, and you can look back and see the cross, how God keeps his promises, you can look back and see Jesus. 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:47.919 God is faithful. 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.320 Therefore we can trust that he listens to our prayers in times of need. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:59.919 But God is faithful, and that's why we can cry out to God in times of need. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.000 But there is another characteristic that we see in the text. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.919 Uh look how the verse says in the first part, verse uh verse, second verse. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:16.639 Uh let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life. 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:22.559 So we see how he prayed that his enemies will feel confused and ashamed of what they did. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:30.799 The prayer that we see in this passage is a prayer for it's a prayer in dark days, it's a prayer in despair. 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.240 And it's it's evident that David's enemies want him to die. 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:40.879 This is not a psalm of praise and joy until well we will see the praise and joy after. 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.399 But life is not good in this song. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.279 This reminds us that we live in a fallen world. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.639 That life is sometimes not good either. 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.600 Sometimes we see the suffering around us. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:58.399 It reminds us the fragility of our lives, and it encourages us in the midst of our weakness. 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:00.480 Life is not good in this song. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.200 It's be is instead is difficult. 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.759 Very difficult, very difficult. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:12.799 In fact, the Psalm is an incessantly desperate prayer for God's help. 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:24.000 David here is like a soldier entrenched in the middle of enemy fire, without escape, without resources, with sufficient resources and without the strength to continue fighting. 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:30.879 And as we saw in the verse one, in the the immediate request that uh was to cry out for help. 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:34.240 But in these verses that David is asking for something else. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.320 He's asking for justice. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.360 The second part of the verse 2 says, Let them be thrown back and brought to dishonor who delight in my heart. 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:47.120 Let them turn back because of their shame, who say, Aha, aha. 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:53.440 His enemies are not only wanted to hurt him, but they also wanted to mock at his pain. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:58.320 David's enemies are not only wishing for his death, that's not enough for them. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:04.879 They make fun of his agony, they make fun of his pain, they rejoice in his suffering, and they make fun of his despair. 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:11.279 It's not only it's not only a deliberate act of aggression and violence against him. 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:14.080 It's an enjoyment of his disgrace. 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:20.000 The despair that David suffered in this time is evident. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.360 He had no way to get rid of the danger of his enemies. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:29.440 He could not escape the anguish and the impotence upon hearing the mockery. 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:33.039 He could not escape the deep feeling of abandonment. 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:39.600 And the truth is that there will be times where we cannot understand what God is doing. 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.600 That we cannot understand the afflictions and the injustice around us. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.120 But we can rest that God is faithful. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:48.639 He has been in the past. 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:56.799 When we don't understand what God is doing, we can be confident and we can trust because we know what he has done. 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:01.840 And we can be confident that he has seen us in the middle of our pain. 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:03.840 He heard our please. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:05.360 He doesn't treat us. 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:08.240 The good thing is that God is not like us. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:18.559 He doesn't treat us like we are a file number that he needs to review later, as he throws our case into a pile of documents to be reviewed. 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:25.200 He's just and every tear has been diligently stored by his hands. 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:35.440 When moments of despair and injustice come into our lives, we can look at God's faithfulness in the past and we can look at the perfect justice of Jesus. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:46.879 So the faithfulness of God, we can look back and see the faithfulness of God, but also we can look at the future and see how God one day will bring justice, perfect justice to this world. 00:14:47.519 --> 00:15:03.600 Probably we have all experienced that inner burning when we see the weak being oppressed, the vulnerable being mistreated, how authority takes advantage of their position and oppress the weak. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.440 And people are being when people are deceived. 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:14.559 It's almost impossible not to feel that anger, that uh impotence. 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.080 It's almost impossible not to feel that anger when you suffer at the hands of others. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:28.159 But it also that feelings reflect, those feelings reflect the character of the just God. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.720 Reflects the character of your creator, a God of justice. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:39.039 When we go through situations like this, we can look at the hands of the Lamb. 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:52.720 We can look at the Lamb with pierced hands, and we can fix our eyes to Hims to His because He has paid the price of the injustice, and He one day will reign again with all truth and with all justice. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:02.879 And the truth is that it's sometimes it's easy to relate or to identify ourselves with the victims. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:09.600 It's easy to see the injustice around us, but many times we are not victims, but we are the perpetrators. 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:12.720 That's why we needed a righteous savior. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:25.759 Jesus felt the deep despair and loneliness of being betrayed by and abandoned by his friends, abandoned by their father, condemned to an unjust death, and suffering the shame and the ridicule of his enemies. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.960 This was the greatest injustice in all history. 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:42.159 And we cannot forget how Jesus being there in the cross, and as a man, he was crying out there, saying, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:49.600 The deepest injustice of men one day will be judged by the highest standard of justice, the holiness of God. 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:57.840 And at the same time, at the same and at the same way that David was praying for his enemies, saying, Let them turn back. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:07.599 Jesus was praying for his enemies, saying, Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing. 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.359 The good thing is that God is not indifferent to our pain. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.160 He's not indifferent to our suffering. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:20.559 He doesn't ignore the injustices that you have experienced, and we can face the life with this reality. 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:28.000 That the gospel reminds us that the good news is that the suffering and the injustice will not last forever. 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:34.559 In Jesus we hope for a new earth and a new heaven where justice will dwell with us. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:40.240 And the promise of salvation is not some is not something that is spiritually only. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.880 Salvation and eternal life implies a present reality as well. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:51.359 God's justice is present in our lives, even when the things are not, uh doesn't seem so. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:57.279 The justice of God implies that because God is just, we can pray for justice in times of injustice. 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.079 And because God is just, we can we can face every circumstance of this life with hope. 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:13.680 And in the face of any injustice that we suffer, even in our own life, because we know that one day the injustice and the suffering and the pain will have a limit and an end. 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.000 So we can look back and see how God has been faithful in the past. 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:20.319 And he will keep his promises forever. 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:26.799 But also we can look at the future and see how God one day will bring justice to this world. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:31.200 He'd give us the assurance that there might be hope for this world we live in. 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.640 And that hope is Christ and Christ alone. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:41.680 So you can cry out to God in times of need because he has been faithful and he is just. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.920 So now we see that David is praising God in the midst of the suffering. 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:19.920 His prayer in verse 4 is totally different to the to the verse uh to the verse uh one, to his first prayer. 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.400 Because something has changed in his heart. 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:34.079 This verse is the climax of the psalm because uh is the most important part of the psalm because this this text, verse 4, exists in a sea of suffering. 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:42.960 David doesn't say, once I get once I get rid of my enemies, then I'll start worrying about the joy of God's people and about the glory of God. 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:50.640 This is a trench prayer, so because in a troubling and uncomfortable circumstances, it's a proclamation of joy and glory. 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:59.039 This is a real world prayer, because the amazement of God is is as much for the dark days as for the bright ones. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:10.160 If God could move the David's heart in this extraordinary way, in the midst of his brokenness, he can do the same in the midst of our pain. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:18.480 God can put a renewed passion for the joy of his people and a passion for his glory in the midst of your brokenness. 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:23.119 God can use hopeless and desperate situations to lead us to him. 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.799 Verse 5 says, But I am poor and needy. 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:28.559 Hasten to me, O God. 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:30.799 You are my help and my deliverer. 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:32.799 O Lord, do not delay. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:38.400 The quality of God's salvific character is the reason why Jesus came. 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.000 Jesus didn't come to give us what we want. 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:47.119 He didn't come to give us a life without suffering, without pain. 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:52.960 But his mission to this world was to save sinners, to save his people. 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:59.839 And we must recognize how poor and how needy we are of God and his salvation. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:08.240 Because no matter how many religious activities we can participate in, our greatest need is reconciliation with God. 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:14.319 And the most wonderful thing is that God is a God who pleases to save sinners. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:16.000 He's a God who saves. 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.519 So we can we can see how God has been faithful in the past. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.240 He and he will keep his word until the end. 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:29.039 We can see how God will bring justice one day, and we see how God saves his people. 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:36.079 Probably in the mid in the midst of illness, you have cried out to God for health. 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:40.720 But in return you see more illness. 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:47.759 In the midst of unemployment, you have cried out for to God for provision, but instead you see more need. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:57.599 If in your prayer you have cried out to God to take you out of your crisis and take you to the land of rest, but instead you see more suffering. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.519 You find yourself in a desert. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.599 You can remember that God is faithful. 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.720 Even there. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:07.920 You can remember that God is there working. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:13.680 He and only He can bring life and salvation through suffering. 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:25.759 The Lord takes care of you and He will give you all that you need, even if it's not what you expect, even if it's not what you want. 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:31.200 But above all, in the midst of your affliction, He will transform your heart. 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:36.960 He will conform you more and more to the image of His Son, to the image of Jesus. 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:42.960 The Lord know how weak we are, how small we are, how needy we are. 00:22:50.720 --> 00:23:03.200 So that we know that He is not surprised by your doubts, He's not surprised by your suffering, He's not surprised by our confusion at His actions and about His apparent silence. 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:22.720 But at the same time, He reminds us that these doubts and these frustrations find an answer in Him and in a war and when we find ourselves in the middle of the injustice, we can firmly firmly hold, we can hold fast to the just character of Jesus. 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:30.079 David understood that He might not see an immediately way out of his problem. 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:38.559 He understood that He probably He did he wouldn't find the reason of his suffering. 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:50.960 But he trusted in the God who is faithful, faithful to keep His Word, faithful to keep His promises because He has been faithful in the past And He will be in the future. 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:57.119 A God whose faithfulness will bring justice one day, a God who is pleased to save His people. 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:01.279 This prayer of David evidently didn't change his situation. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.279 He didn't change the suffering. 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:07.039 But it changed his heart. 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:08.880 This is a hope for us. 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:13.920 A hope that transcends our expectations and our desires. 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:18.000 The hope that the Lord one day will bring justice. 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:26.000 I hope that the Lord is faithful to his word and that our work is fulfilled in the work of Jesus. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.880 And it gives us hope because the Lord will bring justice one day. 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:36.079 And maybe we we won't see it soon. 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:42.559 We won't see probably the way out of our problems and our suffering. 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:51.200 But the hope of eternity is that the Lord one day will return and that He will reign with perfect justice forever. 00:24:51.440 --> 00:25:03.920 And we can be confident that in the middle of our suffering, in the middle of the injustice that we have suffered, that we are experiencing, we can trust that God is faithful. 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:11.839 He is a God who is just and he is pleased to save his people and he will do it forever.