WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:12.880 All I can tell you is turn with me in your Bibles to Psalms 16 and to let you know and to remember the best is yet to come. 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:21.679 Now, if you're here this morning and you do not, in fact, I need my outline myself, honey. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.000 Do you do is anyone here that does not have a worship guide? 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.519 Anyone? 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:28.239 All right. 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:28.800 Anybody? 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:29.760 All right, good. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:36.560 Because on the back we have the outline, and I know many of you will have this whole series. 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:42.719 And by the way, if you don't, all you have to do is go online, pull up the message. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:44.719 Every message is online. 00:00:45.439 --> 00:01:01.679 We also have the outline online so that you can be a part of not just the whole series, but everything else that we've preached over the last year, you'll be able to watch. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.439 So, with that said, Psalms 116. 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:09.920 And what a psalm it is. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.840 Psalms, Psalm 16. 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:28.799 And in Psalm 16, we're going to see the whole theme is basically making Jesus as your prize possession. 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.159 Making Jesus as your supreme good. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:37.200 Making Jesus as your supreme treasure. 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:43.599 That's really the whole proposition of Psalm 16. 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:53.200 And as I was studying this, I got to thinking, you know, God gets a bad rap from Satan. 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.280 You ever thought about that? 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.040 He gets a bad rap. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:57.599 Why? 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.640 The word devil means slanderer. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:11.120 And from day one in the Garden of Eden, Satan engaged in a very aggressive campaign to slander God. 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:12.560 Do you realize that? 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:13.439 And guess what? 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:23.280 From that very beginning to today, and until, hey, Jesus comes back, he will continue that aggressive plan to slander God. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:34.719 For example, his original temptation to Eve suggested that God was withholding something good from Adam and Eve. 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:36.319 Remember what he said? 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:38.639 Oh, has God said? 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.639 Oh, you mean he's not going to let you eat of the good of that good tree? 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:50.719 Oh, you know why he doesn't want you to eat of that good tree? 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:53.680 Because then you'll be like him. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.199 He's holding out on you. 00:02:57.759 --> 00:02:59.759 He's holding back from you. 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:14.159 And then we see the temptation suggested not only that God was holding back, but that the temptation suggested that sin is fun. 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:16.639 Sin is good. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:28.560 Because he turns and he says, Because if you eat of that tree, oh, it's going to be much better. 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:42.479 Because see, what he's holding back from you, if you eat of that tree, you'll have all the pleasure that you can stand, that you can have. 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:45.199 Oh, so guess what? 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:46.400 What did he do? 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.960 She ate of the tree. 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.319 But let me be honest with you. 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:58.719 The Bible and the truth of the Bible is that sin may be fun for a short term. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.680 It may be pleasurable for a short period. 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:03.280 We know that to be true. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:05.360 Hebrews 11, 25. 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:08.240 Sin is fun for what? 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.560 A short season. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:16.160 But let me remind you, church, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.319 And when sin is finished, it brings forth death. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.000 James 1.15. 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.759 So yes, sin is fun for a short season. 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.879 But let me remind you, church, you will pay. 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.079 You will pay the consequences. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:37.279 And we see that in Scripture as well. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:39.279 Submitting to God. 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:41.680 In fact, here's what I wrote to me. 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.160 Sin may be fun for a short period, but now watch this. 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:54.480 But it always brings long-term misery and pain. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.680 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:58.480 Amen. 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:06.879 Short-term pleasure, but brings long-term misery and pain. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:19.920 Where on the other side of the corn, being submitting to God and doing what God asks you to do in some situations and sometimes can bring a short-term difficulty. 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:21.040 We know that. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:22.560 We know that. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:29.360 But let me remind you, it always results in lasting joy and pleasure. 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.000 So what's the, hey, choice. 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:35.040 Of course. 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:41.040 There is no choice but as Christians to make Christ our supreme treasure. 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:46.480 And the core of the Christian life is to seek lasting joy and pleasure in God. 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.079 Jesus said, I've come to give you life and give it more abundantly. 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:51.279 John 10, 10. 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:57.920 Jesus said in John 15, 11, These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy, are you ready? 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.680 Watch this, might be full. 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.240 Hallelujah, church. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:03.839 Hallelujah. 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:05.600 Is that not true? 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.360 Absolutely. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:14.319 The familiar Westminster, Westminster shorter catechism begins. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:21.279 Somebody told me, I think it was Todd the other day, he said, You were reading from the catechism book. 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:26.000 I said, Yeah, I did my doctorate at the Reformed Theological Seminary. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.879 So I'm a pretty good Presbyterian. 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.199 The conservative Presbyterians. 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:33.120 I understand them. 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:33.439 R. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:33.680 C. 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:34.800 Spro and them. 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:38.959 But in the catechism, what I love this. 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:41.519 The catechism begins with this. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:42.560 It asks the question. 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:43.920 Listen to what it says. 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.959 What is the chief end of man? 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:48.720 That's a good question. 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:49.759 Why are we here? 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:51.759 What is our chief purpose? 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:58.639 And then the answer is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.639 Now, folks, it doesn't get any better than that. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:04.319 That's why we're here. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.439 Paul put it this way: whether we eat or drink and whatsoever we do, we do all to the glory of God. 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:11.600 1 Corinthians 10, 31. 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:16.079 And then we see God is most glorified. 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:17.199 Listen to what C.S. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:18.079 Lewis said. 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.120 Now, C.S. 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.439 Lewis is pretty deep, but you'll love him. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:22.319 You'll love him. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:23.600 Anything C.S. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:27.920 Lewis has written, you need to read. 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:29.279 Unbelievable. 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:30.399 But here's what C.S. 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:38.399 Lewis said God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied with him. 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.319 Ooh, think about that. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:43.759 That's deep. 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:55.120 God is more and most satisfied, hey and glorified with us when we're most satisfied with him. 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.199 That's the answer to 1 Corinthians 10 31. 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.600 Whether you eat or drink of whatsoever you do, you do all to the glory of God. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.279 That's why we're here. 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:07.199 That's why you get saved. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.319 To bring him glory, to exalt him. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.720 Jesus said in John 12, 32, if I be exalted, I'll draw men unto myself. 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.319 So what a powerful, unbelievable statement. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:20.000 In fact, C.S. 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:32.799 Lewis said, and I love what he said, he points out that contrary to what many think, the Bible consistently appeals to our desire for lasting pleasure. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:46.000 And he went on to say, but that pleasure is not found in the world, it's not found in drink, it's not found in drugs, it's not found in sex, it's not found in money, it's not found in power, it's found in Jesus. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:50.159 Only Jesus can satisfy. 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:54.799 But knowing and following Jesus. 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.080 Look at what he says in Psalms 34, verse 8. 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.799 Psalms 34, verse 8 invites us. 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:04.000 He says, Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:04.879 Ha ha. 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.679 Woo! Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:09.919 Blessed is the man that trusts in him. 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:15.200 Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is an invitation to enjoy God. 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:17.440 Is that not good? 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:21.279 He's inviting you and me to enjoy God. 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.519 Now that's that listen, I'm about to have a spell. 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:28.799 Some of you, you're not getting it. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.639 I don't see it on you, because once you get it, it's gonna be all over you. 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.000 But that's exactly what he's saying right here. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:40.159 Psalm 16 is about experiencing joy and pleasure in God. 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:41.919 Look at verse 11. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.679 Notice what he says in chapter 16, verse 11. 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:51.279 Thou shalt show me the path of life in thy presence is the fullness of joy. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:55.360 At the right hands, there's pleasures forevermore. 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:15.600 So we see in this Psalm a subtle calm and inward joy and joyous confidence that, hey, everything that we can desire for happiness, ultimate happiness, ultimate pleasure, ultimate content, ultimate comfort, ultimate security is found in Jesus. 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.360 You're not going to find it anywhere else. 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:26.000 Now, my wife's a second, a close second, but she's not my ultimate fulfillment. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.000 I said a close second. 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.759 But without Jesus, there's a void. 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.320 There's a void, folks. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.559 There's a major void. 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.240 In fact, the message of this psalm right here, here it is. 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:45.759 Hey, here it is. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:53.600 When we make the Lord our supreme treasure, you want to write that down, our supreme treasure. 00:10:55.039 --> 00:11:01.600 We will be satisfied with pleasures now and forever in Him. 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.120 You don't have to wait to go to heaven to enjoy Him. 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:06.000 Amen. 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.200 Can I get an Amen? 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.000 You can enjoy God now. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:12.320 Right now. 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.840 In fact, listen to what He says in Psalms 107, verse 9. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.360 For He satisfies those that are thirsty. 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:26.559 He satisfies those that are thirsty, and He fills the hungry with goodness. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:29.200 Are you hungry this morning, church? 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:31.840 Are you hungry? 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.240 Oh, blessed are Jesus put it this way, the man of Beatitude. 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:40.480 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after God, for they shall be filled. 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:42.399 Matthew 5, 6. 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:43.279 Wow. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:53.440 So today, I want us to look at three things in this passage that are powerful, exciting. 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:58.799 Number one, make the Lord our supreme treasure. 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:04.799 Verses 1 through 6 gives us five ways to make, are you ready? 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.600 To make God our supreme treasure. 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:12.639 If you didn't hear anything else, this is worth you being here or watching online right now. 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:14.799 Notice number one. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:20.080 Verse 1, he says, preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in you. 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.720 First of all, he says, make the Lord our refuge and Savior. 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:26.240 That's it. 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:27.519 What is he saying here? 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:32.159 David wrote this at a time when his life was in intimate danger. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.519 But the fact is, we all need a place of refuge and protection. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:38.879 Can I get an amen? 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.039 And we need it now, and we will need it for eternity. 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:49.519 Psalms 46, verse 1 says, God is my refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.919 Woo! Thank you, Jesus. 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.759 We instinctively try to protect ourselves from harm and danger. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:59.519 We wear seat belts. 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:05.279 We avoid risks that could possibly kill us, or at least some of us do. 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:08.480 Somebody invited me the other day to go skydiving. 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.960 I said, you mean go up in an airplane? 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.200 And jump out of that airplane. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:29.600 With a parachute on my back that's supposed to open. 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.000 I said, uh uh. 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.200 I said, God didn't give me wings. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.320 He said, Will you fly an airplane? 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:41.440 I said, I do. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.039 Cautiously. 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.080 He said, Don't you have faith? 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.399 Oh, said, I said, I have plenty of faith. 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.799 That's why I'm not getting in the airplane. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.440 See, I don't know who packed that parachute. 00:13:59.120 --> 00:13:59.759 Hello? 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:04.879 And even if I packed it, I still wouldn't get in it and put it on my back and jump out the airplane. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:06.480 Because I got more sense. 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:10.320 But but we all need refuge. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:11.360 We need a refuge. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:19.120 In fact, if we didn't have God to run to, and I like this verse, Proverbs 10, Proverbs 18.10 says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.679 The righteous run into it and are safe. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.639 I'm safe because I'm in the Lord. 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.480 And when I go to Colossians 1:17, I realize, listen to what he says. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:37.679 Paul says that in Christ, I am in Christ because Christ, the Lord, holds everything together. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.120 Amen. 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:46.559 Can you imagine if we weren't in Christ, we're headed to one place, and that's we're in trouble and we're going to disintegrate. 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.240 He holds everything together. 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.840 If we were to let go, we would literally disintegrate. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:59.279 We need the Lord's protection constantly. 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:09.120 But even more than temporal preservation, we need an eternal place of refuge for the frightening from the frightening wrath of God. 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.279 You know, I got to thinking as I was putting this message together, the best is yet to come. 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.039 And I started thinking about Old Testament. 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:15.919 I love the Old Testament. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:27.200 I'm a whole, I'm really a, I probably have preached in my 40 plus years of ministry as much or more, as much at least, or maybe a little more out of the Old Testament than I did in the New Testament. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:28.240 And there's a reason. 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:36.559 Romans 15, 4 says, whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.639 I know what's going to happen in the future from the Old Testament. 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:42.480 God tells me. 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:43.919 It's prophetic. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.000 Tells me what's going to happen. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.919 And it tells me what to do and what to not do. 00:15:51.440 --> 00:16:07.200 So with that said, I got to thinking about, remember in Numbers 35, chapters, I meant Numbers chapter 35, that whole chapter, verse 9 through 28, God ordained cities of refuge. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.320 Now let me tell you what a city of refuge was. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:17.919 It was where a person who accidentally kills someone could go and be safe. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:20.639 Isn't that amazing? 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:37.039 It was a city of refuge where that if they had made a mistake or done it accidentally, did not mean to kill that person, did not intentionally kill that person, they could go and they could not be arrested and actually killed or stoned. 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.320 I got to thinking, oh my soul. 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.879 For the Lord is my refuge and my strength. 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.600 A present help in time of trouble. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:17:01.360 Oh, when I'm in trouble, when I need help, when I don't know what to do, and I'm in a mess, I've got a place to run, I've got a refuge to run to, I've got a God to run to. 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:06.799 Where I'm safe in the arms of the Lord. 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:07.599 Amen. 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:11.039 What a picture. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:19.599 But not only we make the Lord our supreme treasure, but number two, we make the Lord our supreme good. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:20.960 Look at verse 2. 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:25.279 And I said to the Lord, You are my Lord, I have no good besides you. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:25.759 Ha ha. 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:27.119 Boy, that's good. 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:32.640 Now the King James translates it, My goodness extendeth to thee. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:38.640 The new King James renders it, my goodness is nothing apart from you. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:46.160 Now, when I studied some of the great theologians, Calvin and Spurgeon, here's what they said about that statement. 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:54.480 They said that they look at the application, and it meant that God does not need anything good that we may offer him. 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:55.759 That's true. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.759 There's nothing good about us. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.200 Can I get an amen? 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.599 All my righteousness is as filthy rags, Isaiah 64, 6. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:08.160 There's none righteous, know not one, there's none that understandeth, there's none that seeketh that to God. 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:10.960 Romans tells us. 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.160 So that is definitely true. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:20.400 I mean, there's no doubt, taking it to mean that God does not need anything good that we may offer him. 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:32.480 And because we cannot contribute anything good to him, then all that is good in us has to come from him. 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:33.920 Can I get an amen? 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:42.000 And that's exactly, I think, what David's saying, because when you go to Psalms 73, verse 25, here's what it says. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.960 Whom have I in heaven but you? 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.160 And besides you, I desire nothing on earth. 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.160 He says, Oh, Lord, without you, I desire nothing. 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:54.160 Without you, I mean nothing. 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:56.799 Hey, without you, I'm nothing. 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.519 And that's what he's saying, goes to verse 28. 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:07.039 In Psalm 73, he says this, but as for me, the nearness of God is my good. 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:08.240 Oh, did you hear that? 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:11.839 He says, For me, the nearness of God is my good. 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:17.440 It is God working through you in me that produces the good. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:24.079 It's that Holy Spirit working out the bad in us to put the good in us. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.559 That's what it is. 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.599 That's what it is. 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:29.599 And oh, what a beautiful picture. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:30.799 Here's what C.S. 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:31.920 Lewis said. 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:33.839 I hope I'll get you turned on to C. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:34.079 S. 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:34.799 Lewis. 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:35.680 Here's what C. 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:35.920 S. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:37.039 Lewis said. 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:44.880 Everything without good is pathetically inferior with God. 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:47.200 Let me repeat that. 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:51.759 Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God. 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:59.279 In fact, he went on to say, and you have to read this statement several times to let it sink in. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:10.640 He says, he who has God and everything else is no better than he who just has God. 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:14.720 Huh? 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:15.759 What did he say? 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.319 I know that's what I said when I read it, huh? 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:22.000 In other words, what was he saying? 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:23.920 God is enough. 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:26.960 You don't need anything but God. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:28.880 He's enough. 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:31.359 He's enough, church. 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:32.720 My soul. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:35.039 You got God, you got everything. 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:37.759 You got God, you don't need anything. 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:40.880 Because you got God. 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.119 That's what He's talking about. 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:45.039 That's what He means. 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:47.599 In fact, are you ready? 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:50.079 You want a little theology? 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:51.440 Watch this. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:53.920 Don't you love the book? 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.440 That's why one of our key core values here is the book. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.759 Notice what he says. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.920 Lord, I have no other good besides you. 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:13.519 The only way you can truly affirm that, hey, that God is first in our life. 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:14.480 Notice what he said. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:15.920 Look at verse 2. 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:19.279 He said, I said to the Lord, you are my Lord. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:20.799 Now watch. 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.160 In verse 1, David addressed God. 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:27.119 Now watch this. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:28.319 This is awesome. 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:32.640 In verse 1, David addresses God. 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:34.079 Are you ready? 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:35.680 As Elohim. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:41.279 The Hebrew title for the God of strength. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.079 The God of infinite strength. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:45.359 Now watch this. 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:52.079 Then in verse 2, the first Lord, there's two Lords here, one with all capitals, and all with just one capital A on. 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:52.880 Now watch this. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:56.799 The first Lord with all capitals is Yahweh. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.839 The personal covenant name. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:01.119 Of God. 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:02.240 Think about that. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:08.079 It is the name that God revealed to Moses at the burning bush when he said, I am who I am. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.759 The eternal, self-existing God has. 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:29.119 Can you imagine that same God that turned to Moses and said to Moses, I am that I am, is that self-existing, creative God that created the universe, that created everything. 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:35.599 Without him, nothing was made, is entered into a covenant relationship with you and me. 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:39.759 Think a minute. 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:42.559 If you think on that, you'll hit the floor. 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:52.799 My God, this self-existing, creative God, has made an intimate covenant relationship with me and you. 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.799 I meant he, his eye is on the sparrow. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:59.599 His eye is on Danny Lovett. 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:04.720 That concerns me sometimes. 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:05.839 Hello. 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:09.759 But think about it, folks. 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:10.720 Look at it. 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:17.279 And then you go to the other Lord, the second Lord, capital A with little letters. 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:19.440 And here's what he's saying. 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:28.480 You must personally bow before Jesus Christ as your Lord, the second Lord meaning sovereign Lord or master. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:37.680 And when the sovereign or master is our Lord, we begin to experience him as our only good. 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:46.640 So until we understand, here's what that means, until we submit to His Lordship. 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:54.319 We present our bodies as a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. 00:23:54.480 --> 00:24:02.720 We'll not be conformed to this world, but we'll be transformed by the renewing of our minds that we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:12.640 We won't experience that good of God in us. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:15.599 Because we'll be controlling us. 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:17.680 Hello. 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:20.880 We'll be walking in the flesh and not in the spirit. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:24.720 Paul. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:28.400 Well, first of all, Jesus explains this. 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:30.160 I want you to see this. 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.359 Matthew 13, verses 44 through 46. 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.559 Listen to what he says. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:36.400 Oh, man. 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:39.519 The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:40.160 Right? 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:40.799 Remember? 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:42.079 We want to make him what? 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:44.319 Our supreme treasure. 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:45.839 Where did that come from? 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:46.480 Right here. 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:53.200 The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the fill, which a man found and hid again, and watch. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:56.319 And from joy over it, he goes and sells all that he has. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:58.480 Underline the, well, put that in your mind. 00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:01.599 He sells all that he has and buys that fill. 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:06.240 And then again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls. 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:13.440 And upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:14.640 What are you saying? 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:22.319 Being a Christian, a follower of Jesus, means that the Spirit of God has opened our eyes until the greatest pearl ever. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:28.400 Oh, to see Jesus as the most valuable treasure in the world. 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:32.000 And it means we'll sell everything we've got. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:36.480 We'll get rid of, hey, whatever it takes to get Jesus, we'll do it. 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:40.960 Not many of us are there. 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:42.559 Hello. 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:44.400 Not many of us are there. 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:46.799 Say the law. 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:47.440 Get rid of it. 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:49.759 I don't want anything but Jesus. 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:55.680 I want Jesus constantly consuming me. 00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:59.920 I want to wake up thinking about Jesus. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:02.640 I want to in the mid morning think about Jesus. 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:04.319 At lunch, I want to think about Jesus. 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:06.319 In the afternoon, I want to think about Jesus. 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.960 Hey, at night I want to think about Jesus. 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:14.079 Everything. 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:18.079 Paul put it this way: listen to Paul in Philippians 3, 7 and 8. 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.880 But whatsoever things were gained to me, those things I've counted as lost. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.039 It's not about the worldly things. 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:29.039 It's not about, hey, who you are, what you are, what you got. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:32.000 It's about how much has Jesus got of you. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:38.319 How much has Jesus got of you? 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.759 Then he says, I count it lost for the sake of Christ more than that. 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:42.960 I count all things. 00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:53.200 There's again all things to be lost in view of surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish. 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:57.279 King James says, dung, so that I may gain Christ. 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:02.240