WEBVTT 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:12.480 This podcast is brought to you by Grant Parkway Baptist Church, helping people to know, enjoy, and glorify God. 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:18.000 For more information about Grand Parkway, visit GrandProquay.org. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:19.280 Amen. 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:34.560 Jesus, you say to us that everyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them, that's the one whose life is like the one who built his house on the rock. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:40.960 And no matter what they faced, and they faced all the stuff, it didn't crash down. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.359 And so we we just say we would depend on you for that to be true. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:01:00.799 And this morning, Holy Spirit, just peel back a little layer of what you're what that building's like where we understand one more footer, one more anchor where we are safe and secure because of you. 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:08.959 We expect you, we humbly uh uh thank you in advance for it. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.040 Build of our faith. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:12.480 Show us how you built it. 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:13.359 Amen. 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.719 And uh this morning, uh, if you brought your Bible, turn to Psalm 77. 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:34.000 We're gonna be in this text, and I want to speak to you this morning about the essentials of a biblical fit. 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.719 Now, by biblical fit, I don't mean outfit. 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:44.000 I mean what you've probably first thought of just throwing a on just a big wailing, crying, throwing a fit. 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:52.239 But these are the essentials of a biblical fit, because there's two different kinds, and I don't mean biblical proportions like yell the loudest, cause the most damage. 00:01:52.400 --> 00:02:12.319 I mean biblical meaning we have God gives us a pattern in scripture of here's a way for you to come to me with your most intense and deepest emotions, and for you to come and and get that out of yourself and onto your mouth and out to me, and it actually becomes the way of freedom for you. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.680 So let me read the text and then we're gonna walk through this together. 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.840 Let me first say uh who this is for. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:43.680 Now it's for everyone in here, but if you've ever slammed a door or if you've ever um yelled at your fellow motorists, uh if you've ever uh just stomped off in anger, if you've ever given someone the silent treatment, if you've ever just closed the door and burst down crying, it's for you. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.800 Listen to these words. 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:48.400 Psalm 77. 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:53.520 I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.840 In the day of my trouble, I seek the Lord. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.000 In the night, my hand is stretched out without wearying. 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.560 My soul refuses to be comforted. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:05.520 When I remember God, I moan. 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.360 I meditate, and my spirit faints. 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:12.560 You hold my eyelids open. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.039 I'm so troubled that I cannot speak. 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:20.800 I consider the days of old, the years long ago, and I said, Let me remember my song in the night. 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:22.719 Let me meditate in my heart. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.000 And then my spirit made a diligent search. 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:31.840 Will the Lord spurn forever and never again be favorable? 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.879 Has his steadfast love forever ceased? 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.520 Are his promises at an end for all time? 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.680 Has God forgotten to be gracious? 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:43.039 Has he in his anger shut up his compassion? 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:48.879 Then I said, I'll appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High. 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.039 I'll remember the deeds of the Lord. 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.759 Yes, I'll remember your wonders of old. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.919 I'll ponder all your work and I'll meditate on your mighty deeds. 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.639 Your way, O God, is holy. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.599 For what God is great like our God? 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.680 You are the God who works wonders. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.240 You have made known your might among the peoples. 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.800 You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:17.279 So when the water saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and they were afraid. 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.519 Indeed, the deep water trembled. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:35.199 The clouds poured out water, the skies gave forth thunder, and your arrows flashed on every side, and the crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind, and your lightnings lit up, lighted up the squirrel, and earth trembled and shook, for your way is through the sea, and your path through the great waters. 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:38.000 Yet your footprints were unseen. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:43.600 You lead your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.560 So we're gonna make some observations of the text today. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:54.560 And I'll just say, look, if you're visiting, uh, we don't always pick a psalm or a text that is agony. 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.040 But we have one today. 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:58.639 So let me start with this. 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:06.720 Uh, point number one is the essentials of a biblical faith is you need to put your heart on your mouth. 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:08.240 Put your heart in your mouth. 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:09.439 What do I mean by that? 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:20.720 I mean what's in you has got to get on your lips and into words that you speak, or in this case, you cry out, you yell to God. 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.800 The essentials of a biblical fit is you don't keep things inside. 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.120 You don't keep them in your head, you don't keep them in your heart. 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.399 They're not unspoken, they're spoken to him. 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.639 Now, uh, three-year-olds are great at throwing a fit. 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.720 Uh, some of you may have a three-year-old, some of you remember what a three-year-old, maybe you've seen a three-year-old. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:39.920 I'll just paint a little picture. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.120 So imagine a three-year-old has a uh a popsicle. 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:47.759 It's popsicle season, and you know, they're not the quickest popsicle eaters. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.439 Their tongues aren't that big, uh, they're not that coordinated. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.360 And what happens is this thing melts and it begins to drip down their arm. 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:00.639 And then they start getting agitated, start getting upset, maybe start crying. 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.480 And and and it's kind of the little three-year-old crying, they can't get it out. 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:05.680 And what's wrong? 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:07.759 And I'm sticky, I'm sticky. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:08.399 Oh, okay. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:09.839 Let me let me let me get that from you. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.639 Give me your hand, we'll get rid of all the sticky. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:20.639 And then they look at you, and first their their mouth turns down, and then their eyes shut, and they just start bawling. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:22.480 Like, what is it now? 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:27.439 I mean, you're not sticky, and and they they they get out through their choke out. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:29.360 I I want I want the popsicle. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:33.600 And so you try, yes, take the popsicle, and they scream back, it's sticky. 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:35.600 And so they're in this dilemma. 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:39.439 I want to eat this, and I don't want to be sticky, and I don't like this. 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:46.879 And and so a three-year-old, from from their heart to their mouth, there's no filter. 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.279 There's no obstacle, it's just a direct line, heart to mouth. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:57.120 Now, we would consider someone who's 33, 73. 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.959 If you have a direct line, heart to mouth, you might be on the immaturity side. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:06.959 So we think we tend to think that uh you're mature, you're you're gonna uh you're gonna have some social filters there. 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:11.920 Uh, you're gonna regulate your words, um, you're not gonna let little things destroy you. 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:20.000 But once ends up happening is we translate this in, we may think that being spiritually mature is the same thing. 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:21.199 And it's not. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:28.560 See, those who are spiritually maturing, it means they have big emotions and they know what to do with them. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:35.040 They don't uh they don't pretend they don't have them, they don't turn the tap down tighter and say, nope, this goes nowhere. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.399 They have them and they know what to do with them. 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:47.040 See, a three-year-old doesn't necessarily know what to do with this, but those who are maturing, in fact, the psalmist is giving this example of what to do. 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:48.560 How does the psalmist feel? 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.240 Let me read verses uh two through five. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:54.720 In the day of my trouble, I seek the Lord. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.079 In the night, my hand is stretched out without wearying. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:02.480 It's like I feel my trouble all day long, and at night it gets worse. 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:07.839 At night there's hardly any distractions, and so my trouble that I feel intensifies. 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.480 I cannot speak. 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.000 Verse three. 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:18.720 I remember God, I moan and I meditate, and my spirit faints. 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:20.959 I I can't dull this pain. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.639 This is like an open wound, and it is making me weak. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:26.319 This isn't going away. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.600 I there's not I try to take nothing I can take, nothing that someone could say changed any of this. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.759 And then verse 4, you hold my eyelids open. 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.480 I'm so troubled I can't speak. 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:46.480 God, you're the only thing I can think of now that's making me not sleep. 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:54.159 You you're the one who's allowing this, you're the one who's ultimately in charge of this. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.240 I ever had where you I can't even describe what's wrong. 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:01.679 It's just so wrong. 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.399 This is what the psalmist is feeling. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:08.480 And so, what do you do with what you feel? 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:16.960 See, we we get a lot of energy from uh either things when our desire is fulfilled, that can energize us. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.039 When our desire is uh put on hold, there's some energy there. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.080 When our desire is denied, there's energy. 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:32.639 So when we have a desire that's fulfilled, uh we are content, we're relaxed, we're happy. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:39.279 When we have a desire that's gonna be fulfilled, not yet, we're excited, we're buoyant. 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.240 It's like there's presence under the tree when we can open the presence. 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:51.519 When you have a desire that is in danger, at risk, uh that's when we get angry. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:10:01.759 That's when we get uh our just we're we're we're thin and any little thing we we overfeel, overreact. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.720 It's like being on a little boat and and it's tippy. 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:12.480 And then when a desire is denied, that's when we have despair. 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:17.759 That's when we feel hopeless, that's when we give up. 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.080 That's when we think God loves everybody but me. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.200 What do you feel? 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:28.480 I'm gonna show you an image. 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:29.759 This thing is called the feeling wheel. 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:33.679 There's a couple different one of these on a podcast that's coming out in a couple weeks. 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:34.960 Neil talks about this. 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.440 But the feeling wheel, uh, there's nothing magical here. 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:45.360 It's just a way to have more words than just I feel great, I feel eh, okay, I feel terrible. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:46.960 It's a little more nuanced. 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:53.519 And so if you're gonna get words, if you're gonna have things you feel and think and put them on your mouth, this helps you get some more words. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.559 So, for example, uh, I'll go to the happy side. 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:58.399 Um, hey, I feel happy. 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.240 Well, what what do you mean exactly? 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.320 I I feel accepted, happy. 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:04.480 Okay, like what kind of accepted, happy? 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.080 Respected or valued? 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.759 Actually, I think I feel valued, happy. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.360 I I feel I have a value. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.200 That's a different, different kind of happy. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:24.799 And so this gives you uh the feelings will this gives you some more nuances, some more texture to be, this gives you words to say to God, other than just thumbs up, thumbs sideways, thumbs down. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.320 Now, the reason why I show you this is this is a tool. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.039 Now, let me show you one more thing in the text. 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:37.679 I skipped over this word, and so uh some Eubereans out there, hey hey, you didn't read the Selah part. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:39.600 Okay, good, you caught me. 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.519 Uh this it's it's after verse 3, after verse 9, and after verse 15. 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.960 And this means, this is kind of a direction. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:51.919 Okay, we're gonna pause, we're gonna, we're gonna meditate on this. 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.039 It's like uh, oh I got it here. 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.000 I I think it's like saltwater taffy. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.159 So I don't know, I don't know if there's any saltwater taffy lovers in the room. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.399 Oh, okay, yeah, you can you get one? 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.240 Oh, hey, that didn't get that far. 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:08.480 Sorry. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:09.440 Any other lovers? 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:11.360 Oh yeah, now we now we got some saltwater taffy. 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:12.159 Anybody over here? 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:12.720 Okay, yes. 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:13.279 Hey, listen. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.440 Now, uh the uh oh yeah out there, okay. 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.399 That's so yeah, I'm not gonna be hired by the Sixers anytime. 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:27.679 Uh and so listen, I want to let you know uh the uh our standard policy of our our coverage of your dental work ends the moment you open the wrapper. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.440 But those of you who got one, or maybe you fought your friend, go ahead and put that in your mouth. 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.759 Uh say law is like saltwater taffy. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.320 Now, there's two kinds of ways to eat saltwater taffy. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.759 One is you get it in there and you start working it around. 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.720 You actually start making some like some chomp noise. 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.919 You start working around, you brush it here, and you're trying to like, oh, okay, that's root beer. 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:46.720 You get that flavor. 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:53.120 I'm working through the flavor as fast as I kind of can so I can get to the next piece and get the next flavor. 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.240 Say law is the other way to eat taffy. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:57.759 This is the harder way. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:04.399 This is where you just put it in your mouth and you just let it sit between your tongue and your palate, and you just let it be there. 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.080 You just let it slowly reveal itself. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:12.879 You don't work it around, you just let it slowly mold. 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:16.799 You don't rush on to the next flavor. 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:24.720 Say it say a lot in this text saying you need to slow down and feel what your life feels like. 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:30.559 And part of the reason why we have destruction is because none of us really want to do that. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.720 I want to get on, especially if it doesn't feel great right now. 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.600 I want to get on to the maybe the next flavor is better. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.919 Maybe I got the the the one I don't like, maybe the next one would be the one I really like. 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.360 And so what do we do when we know what we feel? 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.120 What do we do with that? 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:56.799 What we do is we get those words on our mouth and we speak them. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:13:59.759 We speak them to an audience. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.200 In fact, we speak them to the right audience. 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:02.159 This is point two. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.039 Throw your fit to the right audience. 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.120 Now, the first uh audience uh you're gonna throw your fit to is you. 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.000 Because you're right there, you're like in your head. 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:25.519 You're and so you're always gonna throw your fit to you first, and you're always gonna win every argument, and you're always gonna agree with yourself, uh, but it doesn't change anything, it doesn't do anything. 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.200 And then uh sometimes we'll we'll move progress to throw a fit to another person. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:38.240 And so maybe it's a spouse, or maybe it's a friend, or maybe it's a parent, or or maybe it's just strangers online, just social media. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.759 This restaurant was terrible. 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:53.919 And you you know, you uh you throw your fit out there, and nothing changes because all those entities are not the Lord God of all flesh, they can't all be change. 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.639 So the audience that you need to throw your fit to is the Lord God. 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:00.799 You see this in verse one and two. 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.639 Let me read these again for us. 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:04.879 Psalm says, I cry aloud. 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:06.080 He's like, I'm shouting. 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:07.840 I'm like, ugh, come on. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.279 Aloud to God, and He'll hear me. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.679 In the day of my trouble, I seek the Lord. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.600 In the night my hand is stretched out without wearing, my soul will be comforted. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.440 When I remember God, I moan. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.799 And so God is the audience to whom we're to throw our fit. 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:28.559 Now, uh man, that's about a month ago now. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.279 I got a call from Jenny, my wife. 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:36.399 Yes, I'm at Kroger, and your car won't start. 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.559 Okay, okay, so we go through all the what, you know, did you put your foot on the brake? 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:43.759 Yes, yes, I did that. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:44.720 What happens? 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.720 Like the engine won't, I drove your car here. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:47.519 I know how to drive. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:48.240 Okay, okay. 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.399 Uh, the engine won't turn on, and there's a bunch of like weird messages. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.000 Like, what weird messages? 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.000 I don't know, like something about a brake and something else. 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:59.279 I'm like, well, and so I began to throw a fit. 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.039 And here's how I started my fit. 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.440 You tell me if it's the right audience or not. 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:04.960 My fit started this way. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:06.799 Well, why'd you drive my car? 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.000 Why'd you strand my car there? 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:13.840 Not why did my car strand you? 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:15.519 Why did you strand my car? 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.679 And then the fit didn't get any better. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:21.519 I I I I go to Kroger, and of course, it's already bought groceries. 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.080 It's of course it's ice cream and a bunch of other stuff. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:28.240 And um, and you know, so I get in it, and sure enough, yeah, this won't do anything. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.720 Uh, and so I call my son. 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.120 All right, listen, somehow we're both here with our jumper cables. 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:33.919 Can you bring a jumper? 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:43.679 So I bring jumper cables and she leaves with the ice cream, and he comes, and I'm throwing the fit to myself, and now I'm kind of throwing the fit to him, and with the jumper cables on, and I go to and it won't start. 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:45.440 And I can't really hear him. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:50.080 And so uh I've I had just enough juice to roll the window down. 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:57.039 And and like, hey, listen, feather the throttle to where it gets up to 2,000 RPMs and we'll wait, won't turn over at all. 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:58.399 And now I'm panicking. 00:16:58.559 --> 00:16:59.759 I've rolled this window down. 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:01.440 We gotta leave this thing at Kroger. 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:10.079 It's it's gonna be stolen, it's gonna be stolen, or it's gonna be someone's home in a, you know, by by 11 p.m., someone's living in this car because I I did this. 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:14.640 And then God in his kindness, I didn't throw this, I threw the fit to all the wrong people. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.920 God in his kindness sent some stranger who pulled up in a big SUV. 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:19.359 Hey, your car won't start. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.599 And then I go back to you uh myself. 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:26.240 Uh yeah, Copernicus, I don't know what you yes, it won't start, obviously. 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.559 You know, maybe you and your and so he comes over, he I got just a thing. 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:32.720 Okay, maybe his car is more powerful. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:34.319 And he comes and brings this little box. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:36.319 I'm like, what is this gonna do? 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.000 And so, oh, this will jump your car. 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:43.440 I'm like, okay, and so he he he puts it and he plugs into the battery, and it's not very big. 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.960 I mean, it's basically the size of two cell phones. 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:52.079 And I said, I know this is not gonna work, so I get in there and it starts right up. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:18:02.559 And I'm like, it's not quite the Hallelujah chorus, but it's you know, it's like the warm-ups backstage to that. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:06.160 And so uh I get thank you. 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:07.279 Uh, where'd you get this? 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:07.680 Amazon. 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:08.640 Let me take a picture of that. 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.319 I'm ordering one right now. 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:15.839 Uh and so God in his kindness, I didn't throw a fit, I didn't throw a biblical fit. 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:23.839 He in his kindness, he's not stubborn in the way he loves us, he still sent rescue to me. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.799 Now, why am I telling you all this? 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:38.640 Because when the audience matters, and if you become the audience of someone's fit, I just just let them let them get it out and then ask. 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:41.359 Uh has has gotten this out, has this helped? 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:43.519 Has this changed anything? 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:47.200 And if not, I I think you need to think you need to give this God. 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.519 Now, uh I don't want you to have already earmarked, oh, this is great. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:57.359 I now can weaponize this with uh somebody and say, oh, no, no, no, no. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.839 I think you're talking to the wrong audience here. 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:07.440 I think you need to take you and your problems and all your words and all this energy, and you need to give it to the Lord, not to me. 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:10.960 I'm not giving you license to do that. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:13.039 This the text isn't giving you license. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:18.319 This text is saying a biblical fit is one we throw to God. 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:23.039 Now, you now now not everything that goes wrong requires a biblical fit. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.000 Some stuff is just, some stuff's just a Tuesday. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:28.240 And so you gotta talk it out. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:33.839 So you're not getting off any kind of relationship, give and take requirements of one another. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:35.920 But that is not enough. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:45.839 It has to be that when life gets hard, we take that hardness and we put it into words and we speak them, we cry out to God with them. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:52.319 Now, the psalmist, we're gonna see it here, that he takes some of God's promises, he goes, Oh yeah, and he chucks them back in God's face. 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.880 And some of you, maybe most of you, wouldn't dare to speak to God that way. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:00.480 You you're like, I'm I might get struck by lightning. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.519 I read some of the Old Testament, people he killed people. 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.319 I mean, it wasn't messing around. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:12.640 The Psalms give us words to say to God, they invite us to relate to Him. 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:19.200 Faith doesn't always have to be quite submission, sometimes it shouts to God, and those shouts are heard in heaven. 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:26.559 And so uh we don't get free of ungodly belief until we fully expose it. 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.480 Here's our third point this morning that is burn the house down. 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:36.880 Now, again, if you're visiting, uh sometimes we have encouraging sermons and texts, but here's what I mean by burn the house down. 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:43.440 This is what the psalmist does that you take your fit and you through and you just work it out all the way till its end. 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:51.200 And what will happen is it will get more and more ridiculous because it depends on your wisdom and and your ability to think and see. 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.519 And it doesn't depend on God's promises. 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:56.000 Let me give you an example. 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.000 Uh well, let me read the text first and see. 00:20:58.160 --> 00:20:59.279 This is verse five through nine. 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:01.440 This is the psalmist burning the house down. 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:04.319 He says, I consider the days of old, the years long ago. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.079 Let me remember this song in the night. 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:11.680 Uh, then my spirit said, Uh, will the Lord spurn me forever and never again be favorable? 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:17.839 You know you're getting to the end of a fit if you're speaking in um absolutes. 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:19.920 Never again be favorable. 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:24.000 His steadfast love forever has ceased, his promises are at an end for all time. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:25.759 Has God forgotten to be gracious? 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:28.400 In his anger has he shut up his compassion. 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:31.599 Now, about a year ago, I'll give you an example. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.039 Uh, I threw a biblical fit. 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:34.559 I didn't know that's what I was doing. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.279 I I thought I was just suffering and God hated me. 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:38.960 But I was throwing a biblical fit. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:41.599 And so about a year ago, I broke my arm. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:48.319 The details of my humanity are not that important. 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:54.000 Just uh the the doctor, the x ray said, Hey, do you play hockey? 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:55.519 No, no, I don't play hockey. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.319 Oh, I pretty much only see these breaks in hockey players. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.759 You're telling me you just fell on the ground. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:01.920 Listen, it's not that important. 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:17.119 So I got this break, and um and uh Jenny's parents were in town, the two older boys were in town, and we're all gonna go see the younger brother, and we're gonna go and see him play, and then we're gonna go out to eat, and it's gonna be a great day. 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:29.039 And they all leave, and I've we've been through the x-ray, and I and I'm in a sling, and I'm on the couch, and my heart just begins to crumple. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:46.240 I'm not trying to throw a fit, it just comes on me, and it begins to crumple, and intense emotion and words begin to come out, and essentially it is this cry of uh, why did you you let this happen to me, God? 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:47.680 You let this happen. 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:49.759 You could have prevented this. 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:54.000 I've been walking for a long time and never did this. 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:56.480 And today you let this happen. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:02.400 And and I'm I'm mad and I'm hurt by it. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:09.839 And I begin, it's about a four-minute hard, angry, pathetic cry. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:20.799 The kind where, like, you can get a breast, like, you know, goes over a bunch of speed bumps in you, and and I am I'm working this out of all the things that have gone wrong. 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:34.000 That uh I don't get to go with the whole family of this game, and and after the game, they're they're gonna all go and eat at uh uh Tia Juanita's fish camp and it's crawfish season, and I'm not gonna get any of it. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:38.720 I'm just gonna be here with my dumb arm in the sling and my right arm. 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:40.480 I use this right arm for everything. 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:43.039 I like most of my job, I use my right arm. 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:44.480 I'm gonna be bad at my job. 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.279 I'm gonna be so bad at my job, I'm gonna get fired from my job. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:48.720 That's what's gonna happen. 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:54.160 And then uh I uh, you know, I'm I'm uh a side sleeper, and how am I ever gonna sleep again? 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.599 I'm about to become a back sleeper. 00:23:55.839 --> 00:24:01.279 I'm gonna be so I'm gonna be stuck with this sling in my arm, become a back sleeper, and I'm I'm probably gonna choke in my sleep. 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:03.039 I'm gonna choke and die in my sleep. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:10.640 Or if I don't choke and die, I'll have to get one of them machines that feels like you're choking and then shove air down my body for the rest of my life. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:11.759 That's what's gonna happen. 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.440 And then and then, or I'm probably gonna need surgery and they're not gonna be able to fix it. 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:22.720 I'll be like John McCain, only be able to lift my arm up a little bit, and then what's gonna happen is there'll be grandkids at some point, and I won't be able to lift them up in the air. 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:24.079 They're gonna think I'm no fun. 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:33.599 I won't be able to throw a ball to them, I'm gonna be no fun, they're not gonna want me around, and so my wife will go visit grandkids without me, and I'll be stuck on this couch forever. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:38.000 And so these are the kind of words and feelings that get out of me. 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:48.079 And so throwing this, burning the house down is is you throw the fit all the way to the end, to where you can now hear how ridiculous you sound. 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:57.279 You can now hear, oh, uh how how how how incredibly uh just foolish this filter I have on my on my eyes is. 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:02.880 If you don't burn it down, you'll think you're right and God's wrong. 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:09.680 You have to get the end of yourself and see that he is the one who's right. 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:12.319 He's the one who's holy, not you. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:16.960 And I'll just say, you can't burn this down with another person. 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:18.319 They won't let you. 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.880 If you say crazy stuff like, I'm I'm a side sleeper, I'm gonna choke and die. 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:24.480 No, you're not gonna choke and die. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:35.519 You're gonna be they won't let you have to be alone to do this because they'll stop you from burning it down, and and they'll stop you from seeing what's the deep muck in you. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:51.839 These kind of deep ruts of of kind of wavering belief in God where you're not sure you can trust him, and so you trust you, and that's really sad because you're not enough. 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:54.640 It's just a little cycle. 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:58.799 So you gotta burn the house down, you gotta throw it all the way to the end. 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.160 It that's what the psalmist does. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.279 He says verse seven Am I rejected? 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:08.079 Is there a list of people who get help, and I'm not on that list anymore? 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:10.960 Uh have I used up all your love? 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:12.559 Have I somehow squandered it? 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:15.519 I had a bank account of God's love, and somehow I spent it all. 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.400 Or are you now punishing me? 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:19.920 Are you too busy to help me? 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:23.759 See, these are the things that we really do feel and think. 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:30.480 The Psalms give us words to say, they help us say what's in us. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:43.519 When you get it all out, when you exhaust and get to the exaggeration uh view of your life, then something can happen. 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:46.880 Then hope is available to you. 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:52.960 If you burn it down, you get it all out, then you can borrow hope. 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:55.759 And you couldn't have done that before. 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:58.880 This is our last point we see in the text. 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:00.720 That is to borrow hope. 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:16.000 What I mean by that, what I mean what the text means, which is we remember what God has done, we remember who he has proved himself to be in the past, and we borrow that experience, those feelings, and we bring them to where we are right now. 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:20.799 Or we borrow hope from what he has promised will be in the future. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:35.839 And we borrow that, not having yet experienced it, but so sure where we borrow it and we feel it for right now, where both these things, hope from the past and hope of the future, it becomes manna by which you survive today. 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:39.359 Where do we see this in the text? 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:41.279 Verse 10. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:43.119 After one of the Selahs. 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:47.920 Then I said, I'll appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High. 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:49.839 I'll remember the deeds of the Lord. 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.160 Yes, I'll remember your wonders. 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.079 I'll ponder all your work and meditate on your mighty deeds. 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:02.880 Now, not that long ago, uh Wade, he walked us through Psalm 136. 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:08.000 And part of the charge was for you to write your Psalm 136. 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:13.279 It's this give thanks to the Lord whose steadfast love endures forever. 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:17.920 And Psalm 136 is this reaccounting of the grace of God to the people of Israel. 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:30.720 And so I'm gonna I'm gonna read you my Psalm 136 in the hopes this will encourage you, and if you haven't done this, that this will it will stab you and convict you. 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:33.119 Psalm 136 of Blake. 00:28:33.839 --> 00:29:03.440 So I give thanks to him who kept me alive in a car crash at five years old, to him who revealed himself and to me and made me believe him, to him who fathered me through my mom's four marriages, to him who provided a Christian family example in Dave and Doris, to him who exchanged my appetite for the world for a hunger for himself, to him who gave me a wife that I didn't deserve, that I adored, and I needed more than I could know. 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:10.079 To him who comforted me when my mom died, to him who protected me from being kicked out of seminary. 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:12.559 That's the way you want to hear. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:14.480