WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.520 Well, we are studying our way through the book of 2 Samuel this morning. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.919 We're in chapters 6 and 7. 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:11.599 Now, back in the book of Exodus, God commanded Moses to build the Ark of the Covenant. 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.080 Here's a picture of what the Ark of the Covenant probably looked like. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:16.719 It was made of wood, it was plated with gold. 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:22.879 On the bottom of the Ark of the Covenant, there were four gold rings where they would slide the poles in. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:25.600 This is how they were told to carry the Ark. 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:30.719 Now, if you're my age and above, maybe you remember the Indiana Jones movies. 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.759 In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark came out. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.840 And Indiana finds the Ark of the Covenant in the movie. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:39.280 But so do the Nazis. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:52.000 And there's this scene toward the end where Indiana's tied up and the Nazis, not pure of heart, look on the Ark of the Covenant and everybody is zapped, they're burned up, their faces melt off. 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.240 And so why all the zapping? 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.079 Like why all the face melting? 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:58.159 Like why did why did that why did that happen? 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:04.719 Well, the Ark of the Covenant was the manifestation of God's physical presence on earth. 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.239 It was God's glory for man to see. 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:09.599 So let's get a definition. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:15.439 God's glory is the infinite beauty and worth of God made known. 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:19.120 God's glory is the infinite beauty and worth of God made known. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:25.920 So the impurity of the Nazis was burned up, zapped by God's purity. 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:36.560 At first, while the Israelites were in Sinai, those desert years after Egypt, the ark resided in a temporary structure called the tabernacle. 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:45.840 And when God spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in Numbers 7, 88, 9, God spoke to Moses from between the angels atop the ark. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.040 Now eventually the ark was moved into a room in the temple. 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:50.640 It was called the Holy of Holies. 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:55.120 It was accessible only one day of year by one person. 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:57.200 That's in Leviticus 16. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:04.480 On the Day of Atonement, the high priest could enter the Holy of Holies to ask for forgiveness for himself and for the people. 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:12.719 See, the ark is an object lesson for us to begin to understand God's glory. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:18.960 This is what perfect glory, perfect holiness is like without grace. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:23.039 So in 2 Samuel, David has taken Jerusalem. 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.400 He is now the king, and David decides it's time to bring the Ark of the Covenant back into Jerusalem. 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:33.199 So he gathers 30,000 men to go get this Ark of the Covenant. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.120 And they put it on a new cart. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.479 They don't carry it how God has asked them to carry it with the poles. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.520 They get a new cart, they put it on the cart, they begin their travel. 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.080 But that's not how God told them to do it. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:48.800 Point number one is this God's holiness is absolute, and his ways matter. 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.520 We see this in 2 Samuel 6, 5 through 7. 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:59.039 And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:06.719 And when they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah put his hand out to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:10.080 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah. 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:15.439 And God struck him down there because of his air, and he died there beside the ark of God. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.319 So the ox stumbles, Uzzah reaches out, and zap, he dies. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.360 He got too close. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.080 It's like us getting too close to the sun. 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:30.319 The nature of the character of the sun would overwhelm the nature of the character of us. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.919 Well, David's angry at first that this happened. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.280 And then he's afraid. 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:38.639 Like, ugh, I don't know if I want to be near this ark. 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.800 So he leaves the ark at a guy's house, this guy named Obed-Edom. 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.439 2 Samuel 6, 12 through 15. 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:53.840 And it was told to King David, The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:59.520 So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with rejoicing. 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:06.159 And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.439 And David danced before the Lord with all his might. 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.520 And David was wearing a linen ephod. 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:17.600 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, with the sound of the horn. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:22.319 Point number two is this God's glory fuels our worship. 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.399 But not just that, God's glory fuels your joy. 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.319 God's glory fuels our worship and our joy. 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.360 Pastor and author John Piper, he breaks it down like this. 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:39.920 He says, first thing is this God made the world and you for his glory. 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.000 It's why you were made. 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:43.519 It is why you are here. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.519 Isaiah 43, 6 and 7. 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.360 I will say to the north, give up, and to the south, do not withhold. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:54.079 Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth. 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:54.800 That's us. 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.199 Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:00.000 Why? 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.680 For my glory, whom I formed and made. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.199 Okay, so the first thing is God made you for his glory. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:13.439 The second is this God made you to long for and seek real joy. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:14.879 That's what we're all doing. 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.040 We're all doing it in all sorts of different ways. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:18.240 We're seeking joy. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.319 Isaiah 55, 1 through 3. 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:22.639 This is what God says to that pursuit. 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:25.920 Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.720 And he who has no money, come, buy and eat. 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.240 Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:39.600 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:46.000 Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:51.680 Incline your ear and come to me, hear that your soul may live. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:58.079 And I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast sure love for David. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:04.240 So the third thing, tying this together, is that these are not two pursuits. 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:06.480 It's the same pursuit. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.120 So God made you for his glory. 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.680 You were made to seek real joy. 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:18.639 And these are not two pursuits but one, meaning God's glory and your joy, same pursuit. 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:20.240 Same exact pursuit. 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:24.319 David dances as he aligns his ways to God's ways. 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:30.560 Piper explains it this way, summarizing this: God made our souls to find real joy in him. 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:38.639 Now I'm not just saying that God made us to long for satisfaction, but that he made us to find satisfaction in him. 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:46.879 God's appeal is not, you do you, find your own joy, but come to me, find real joy. 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.160 God himself is the feast. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:59.519 This feast which offers satisfaction that is full, free, and forever could only be God. 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.560 We see this in David, God's glory for our worship and our joy. 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:06.959 See in 2 Samuel 6, 14 and 15. 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:07.680 We read it. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:10.480 David, he's dancing before the Lord with all his might. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.439 Everybody's being such joy as this ark is coming out. 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.040 So God's glory and their joy, same pursuit. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:19.600 So David's at peace. 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:21.920 The war's over. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:24.639 The ark is in Jerusalem. 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.279 David built himself a really nice house. 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:28.879 But something's bothering him. 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:31.680 This ark is living in a tent. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.720 And David thinks to himself, I got a plan. 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:36.800 We're gonna build a temple. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.680 The ark needs to be in a temple. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:41.360 David said, I'll do that. 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:42.000 That'll be my plan. 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:42.879 That's gonna be my purpose. 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:43.680 I'm gonna build a temple. 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.000 2 Samuel 7, 12 through 15. 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.759 This is what God says to David's plan. 00:07:51.839 --> 00:08:01.360 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.160 He shall build a house for my name. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.279 And I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.720 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:16.560 When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with a rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:23.600 But my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:29.040 Point number three is this we love to have a plan, but the Lord directs our steps. 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.000 We love to have a plan, but the Lord directs our steps. 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:37.679 See, God reverses David's plan, but gives him covenant promises. 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:38.799 Right? 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:40.639 David says, I'm gonna build a temple. 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:41.360 Somebody have my purpose. 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:43.759 Imagine that man on my purpose, David would have waking up every day. 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:44.960 We're gonna build a temple. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:46.320 That's what needs to be done. 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.799 David has his plan, and God says, No, you're not gonna do that, but I shower you with promises, right? 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:57.039 This text is promise after promise of God's presence and love to David. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:04.240 And then another promise comes in verse 16, and your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.039 Your throne shall be established forever. 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:13.200 When I was 25 years old, I graduated seminary, and Christy and I got married. 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.080 I was convinced I had a plan. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:19.919 And I was going to be a religion professor. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.720 I'd seen these guys at the University of Georgia. 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:27.519 They taught in the morning, they were at the rec center by about 11.30 a.m. 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:34.240 They played basketball together in the lower gym every day from 11.30 to 1.30. 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.000 They showered up and they headed home. 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:37.759 And I thought to myself, that's amazing. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.559 I'm gonna go and I'm gonna get my PhD in religion. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:51.919 I'm gonna work really hard for 15 years, and I'm gonna publish, and then I'm gonna get tenure, and I'm gonna be teaching in the morning, I'm gonna play basketball, I'm gonna be home by the afternoon by two for a nap and hang out with the family. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:52.960 That's what I'm gonna do. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.480 So I studied really hard for a whole summer. 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.720 I bought all the GRE books, and I was gonna go sit for the GRE. 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:07.039 I was gonna apply to grad school, they were gonna give me a full scholarship because I was so brilliant, they were gonna pay for my PhD. 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:08.639 This is how my life was gonna play out. 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.159 And so I studied every day at the pool, all summer, with my GRE books. 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:14.960 I had note cards, studying, studying, studying. 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:21.519 I went and I took the GRE and I did unbelievably really, really bad. 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:22.639 I did really bad. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:23.919 It was bad. 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.159 Like, bad, like not gonna happen anywhere bad. 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:29.759 Like that's how bad it was. 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:31.919 So my plan was dead. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:33.279 You've been there. 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:34.320 David was there. 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.279 I'm gonna build a temple. 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:36.000 No, you're not. 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:36.879 Not gonna build it. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:38.879 I'm I'm gonna go to grad school, PhD. 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:40.720 I'm gonna be no, you're not. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:43.039 And you had a plan. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:53.679 Maybe you had a plan for a certain job or a family or to have children or you're gonna get a raise, you're gonna get into something, you're gonna have something happen, and then it just no, doesn't happen. 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:54.879 Didn't happen. 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:56.159 And then what? 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:57.279 What then? 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:01.519 Well, while we are concerned about plans, and I love plans. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.360 I mean, I can calendar on a date night. 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.519 I mean, that is, to me, that's romance. 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.559 It's like, can we calculate? 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.320 When Christie says, hey, can we sit down and calendar? 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:12.559 I'm like, absolutely, like that's love language, the six love languages, calendar. 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:20.559 While we are concerned about plans, the Lord directs our steps through his promises to us. 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:22.799 Listen to David's response to this. 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.519 So David's just told, Yeah, you're not gonna do that. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.200 But here are my promises to you. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.679 Like I love you and I'm for you and your family. 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.039 Here's his response, 2 Samuel 7, 18 through 22. 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:43.360 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that you have brought me thus far? 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:45.360 And we just pause there. 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.559 I mean, most of the time when my plans are disturbed, I'm just like a brat. 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.000 Like I'm thussy, I am bratty for a couple weeks. 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.480 I might eventually get to this verse 18. 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:57.519 It's not my initial, but it's where we need to get. 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:58.240 Right? 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.919 Just that humble gratitude, you have brought me thus far. 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.919 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:12.559 You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God. 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:14.559 And what more can David say to you? 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:23.440 For you know your servant, O Lord God, because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness to make your servant know it. 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:32.879 Therefore, you are great, O Lord God, for there's none like you, and there's no God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.440 Point number four is this our life is humble trust, and God's promise is known in Christ. 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:46.240 The writer of Hebrews in the New Testament ties in how do we know God's glory? 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:47.840 Well, we know it in Jesus. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.120 That's what the New Testament teaches. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:56.559 We don't have to worry about being zapped, because all of God's glory, all of his holiness is absorbed in the person of Jesus. 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.639 So what we receive is lavish acceptance, lavish love. 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:02.559 Hebrews 1, 1 through 3. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:07.679 In the past, God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways. 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:14.559 But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:24.080 The Son is the radiance of God's glory, the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:30.240 After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:36.320 So all of God's justice, all of God's glory, all of God's holiness is in Jesus, satisfied. 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.879 We don't get zapped, our faces don't melt off, we are accepted. 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:42.240 We're loved. 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.360 So what does it look like to let go of plans? 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:46.799 We form our plan, we have our plan. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:54.960 What does it look like to let go of them, or at least hold them with open hands, and live day to day in God's promises to us? 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.279 Well, let's work our way through five promises. 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:01.679 I pulled these from the Gospel and Life book by Tim Keller, amazing book. 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:03.600 I'm just gonna work my way through them. 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:04.720 They'll be on the slides. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.399 Promise number one: God is my true security. 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.559 That's in Hebrews 13, 5. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:12.639 I will never leave you or forsake you. 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:18.320 Here's the promise because of Christ, God's presence with me is not earned or lost. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:23.840 My security is anchored in Jesus' finished work, not my performance or circumstances. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:32.799 So my heart response to that is I can stop building my life on control, approval, or stability. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:43.919 So the trust application is when I feel anxious, I actively return to God as my only true security instead of trying to fix everything myself. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.440 Promise number two, God's grace is enough for my weakness. 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:50.799 2 Corinthians 12, 9, my grace is sufficient for you. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:56.080 The promise is that in Christ God's power is known in my weakness, not in my strength. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.200 So my heart's response is, oh, I released the need to prove myself to God. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.879 And the trust application is I can stop hiding my weakness. 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:08.559 Instead, begin to bring it honestly to God in prayer. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.639 Promise number three. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.759 God gives me peace that circumstances cannot take away. 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:23.200 This is the promise in John 14, 27 from Jesus, as Jesus said, He promises, My peace I give to you. 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:31.519 The gospel promises that because of Jesus, because he overcomes sin and death, my deepest problem is already solved. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:36.080 Even if my present problems remain. 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:41.120 So my heart response is I can resist fear-driven thinking. 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:48.399 And the trust application is that when anxiety rises, I return to prayer and trust over spiraling thoughts. 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:49.679 Anybody else spiral? 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:50.480 I spiral. 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:51.759 You're spiraling. 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.559 You're like, oh, let's slow down. 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.080 Let's trust. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:02.240 Let's remember some promises that anchor me in something outside of my circumstances and my problems. 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:05.919 Promise number four: God works all things for my good in Christ. 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:07.360 That's Romans 8.28. 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:08.720 All things work together for good. 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:15.759 The gospel promises that good is defined not as comfort, but being with and like Jesus. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:21.360 And the heart response is, I trust God's wisdom even when I don't understand his plan. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:31.840 Even when I don't know the six steps out, I can trust right now, today, and Lord help me take the next step. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:39.120 The trust application is I see disappointment through God's heart, not my feelings. 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:41.120 Last promise. 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.399 God has already given me everything I truly need. 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.240 That's Romans 8.32. 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:52.080 God promises that he who did not spare his own son will also graciously give us all things. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:58.960 The promise is that if God has already given me Jesus, I can trust him for everything else I truly need. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:06.960 And the heart's response is I can begin to loosen my grip on material and emotional must-haves. 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:13.599 And then I can trust and I can move forward in gratitude rather than scarcity thinking. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.079 Beloved, we may not know our life plan. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.759 Like we may think we're gonna build a temple. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.519 Here's the temple I'm gonna build. 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:21.279 It might not happen. 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:22.640 Maybe it does happen. 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:23.200 Praise God. 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:24.319 Might not happen. 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:27.920 And if it doesn't happen, what we have his promise. 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.240 God is for us and love us. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.039 Church, church, we can trust in his promises. 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:38.400 That's how we live day to day, while some plans work out and some plans don't. 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:40.640 Jesus is enough. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:44.559 If you have any questions about the sermon or like prayer, I'll be down front afterwards. 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.440 Love to pray with you. 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:46.960 Let's pray together. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:58.319 Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that our lives are not the perfection of our plans, but our lives are your perfect promises to us. 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:02.799 We have limited sight and yet we love our plans. 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.200 Forgive us for the ways that we pridefully hold them before you. 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.039 Would you begin to help us hold them before you with open hands? 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.799 Would we entrust our plans to you? 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.079 And will we live day to day in your promises to us? 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.079 Help us to be anchored in Jesus. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:27.279 Your sufficiency, forgiveness, righteousness, your care for us, your presence with us. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:30.000 We pray this in Jesus' name. 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:30.960 Amen.