WEBVTT 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:09.439 This podcast is a ministry of Grand Parkway Baptist Church, helping people know, enjoy, and glorify God. 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:14.240 For more information about Grand Parkway, visit GrandProquay.org. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:15.599 Let's pray together. 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.760 Father, thanks for the privilege of doing what we were created to do, and that is to worship you. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:29.199 And so, Lord, we want to worship, we want to be the kind of worshipers the Bible tells us that you're seeking, and that is people that worship you in spirit and truth. 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.039 People that tell the truth about you. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.200 And so we've come to tell the truth about you. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.679 The Bible says that you uh you live in an atmosphere of glory. 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:41.359 And so we want to just come and kind of give you what is rightfully yours. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:43.520 And so, Lord, speak to us today from your word. 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:50.560 Uh say something today that has our name on it, uh, so that it can get in our lives and get fleshed out uh uh through our lives. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.320 And so, Lord, that's what we want today. 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.079 We didn't come to get a religious whipping. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.600 We didn't get cut we didn't get we didn't come to get condemned. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.280 We came to be set free. 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:05.840 And so use the truth today to wash off of us all that is unnecessary so that only what is necessary remains. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.519 We pray this in Jesus' name. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:14.640 Now, before I finish this prayer and say amen, I want you to just take about 20 seconds and just pray for yourself. 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:22.799 Whatever you got going on, however you came in today, I want you just to take some time and just whatever's the heaviest on you right now, I want you just to lift that up to God. 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:42.319 Father, you've heard every every burden in this room, every curiosity, every concern. 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:48.000 And you didn't lose your place at all while everyone was thinking and talking to you. 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.079 And so, Lord, we all that we lay at your feet. 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:53.680 We want to receive from you today. 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:54.560 So, Lord, speak. 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.319 Your servants are listening. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:58.480 We pray and we listen in Jesus' name. 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:00.319 And everyone said, Amen. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.920 Do me a favor, before you're seated, would you scoot in if there's room on your row? 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.120 We have some folks that are kind of standing in the back trying to find a place to sit. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:07.840 That's a good problem. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.560 So if you could just kind of scoot in, that would be glorious. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:11.759 Go ahead and have a seat. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.120 If you've got a Bible, I invite you to take it and open it up to the 30-second Psalm. 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.719 If you don't have a Bible, there's one on your row. 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:18.560 I'm on page 462. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:19.919 462. 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:26.080 We're in a series called Life Songs, where we're just kind of looking at different songs that come out of our heart involuntarily most often. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.120 And today I want to talk to you about this right here. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:32.479 Sometimes the the song coming out of your heart is God, I've messed up. 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.000 God, I've messed up. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.080 And so what do we do when we've messed up? 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:39.199 Well, I don't want to assume that you've ever messed up, so let me just start with a question. 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.080 How many in this room have ever put it in the ditch? 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.080 I mean, like in a huge way, and you're just like, man, I have screwed this up. 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:47.120 Could I see your hand? 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:48.560 Hold it up real high. 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:50.000 Look around you. 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:52.560 You're in good company, just a bunch of messed up people. 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.039 Uh uh, but here's what we do. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:58.000 Like in my house growing up, my dad was very strict. 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.479 He wasn't legalistic, but he was old school. 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.479 And if you messed up, you got a whipping. 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:03.840 We didn't get put in time out. 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:09.680 We didn't say, hey, think about what you did and write a little paragraph about what your character trait of the week is. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.080 No, no, that never came out of my dad. 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.360 As a matter of fact, my dad used to, me and my brothers called it sweating us. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:16.879 We'd say, Man, dad's sweating you. 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.759 If my dad knew, because we thought our dad knew everything, okay? 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:25.840 We would do something wrong, and we thought we got away with it, and then our dad would look at us and we'd walk in and him, my stepmom would be laughing. 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:27.280 I'd be like, Are they laughing about me? 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:28.000 Do they know? 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:28.560 Do they know? 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:29.520 And they're just kind of waiting. 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:30.639 So here's what my dad would do. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:37.199 We'd sit at the kitchen table, we'd eat supper, and when you'd get ready to get up when you got done, you had to ask to be excused from the table. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:38.479 That was another thing my dad did. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.560 You couldn't just eat and just bail, like, I gotta go to my room, watch Netflix. 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:43.199 No. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:44.159 No. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.719 My dad was like, you had to say, May I be excused. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.719 And my dad would not even make eye contact with you. 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.960 He'd just be eating, and he'd go, sit back down. 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.400 Whoo! We knew somebody getting a whipping. 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.840 And so we just sat there, and the next person, can I be excused? 00:03:58.000 --> 00:03:58.719 No, no. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:09.919 And so me and my brothers would be made to sit there at the table while my dad took his time and finished eating, and then he'd wipe his mouth with his napkin, push the plate back, and he would say, There's something you boys want to tell me. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:14.960 And I would just be like, Oh man, and my brothers under the table are kicking me. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:16.240 Don't say anything, don't say anything. 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:18.160 And my dad said, Now I'll make you a deal. 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.199 Whoever tells the truth first, I will go easy on you. 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.560 You're still gonna get a whipping, but I'll whip you lighter than I whip your brothers. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.920 I would shoot my hand up like I just won the lottery. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:28.959 Oh, oh, Mr. 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:29.920 Kotter, Mr. 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:30.399 Kotta. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.120 And my dad would go, you know something you want to tell me? 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.120 I couldn't get it out. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:43.120 The dam would just break and I'd be and my dad would say this, cry, oh you want boy, I'm still gonna wear you out. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:45.439 Okay, well, here's what happened, dad. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.879 And sure enough, as I was done crying, my dad would go, All right, get up. 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.279 And my dad would make my brother sit there and stare at the wall. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:54.639 He'd take me over there into the kitchen. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:55.839 We were in a little house. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:58.639 The table's right here in the kitchen's right here, and he'd just whip you. 00:04:58.879 --> 00:04:59.839 My brothers couldn't see it. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:00.879 They would hear me. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.079 And my dad said, Move that hand, move that hand. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.480 I'll whip your hands in every other part of your body. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:07.759 Yeah. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:08.240 Yeah. 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:10.000 They didn't have CPS back then. 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.079 I'd have had them on speed dial. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.160 I'd have hit the button number one. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:14.720 It's me. 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:15.519 He's doing it again. 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:16.639 Get out of here. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:17.279 No. 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:18.240 No. 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.399 He whipped me, whipped my brother, whipped my other brother, and then he made us set at the table. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:26.399 I want you to think about what you did and how wrong it was. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:28.720 And here's what I also want you to think about. 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:30.959 You thought you could get away with it. 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:36.160 We're going to read in a 30-second Psalm this morning about a man who thought he could get away with it. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:37.839 He's writing after the fact. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:39.759 He realized he didn't get away with it. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:41.519 He messed up really bad. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:52.000 God knew all along, God put his hand on him and just kind of let God, God let his hand feel heavier and heavier and heavier on the heart of this man, David, until David couldn't take it anymore. 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:57.519 Bible says it like this in Psalm 32, verse 1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven. 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.160 Now, David, by the way, is writing after the fact. 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:01.279 The secret's out. 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.639 The dam is broke, and he's like, Oh, I'm so glad this is over. 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.839 I have to be trying trying to fake it anymore. 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.759 He says, Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:16.160 Blessed is a man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and whose spirit there's no deceit. 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:21.439 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away, and through my groaning all day long. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.160 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.800 My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.839 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity. 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:34.800 I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:35.920 Selah. 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:36.720 There's that word. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:41.120 Selah means slow down and just kind of savor what you just read. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.600 Verse 6, therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found. 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.399 Surely in the rush of great waters they shall not reach him. 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:50.079 You're a hiding place for me. 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.519 You preserve me from trouble. 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.439 You surround me with shouts of deliverance. 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:54.240 Say lah. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.040 I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.759 I will counsel you with my eye upon you. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:06.319 Be not like a horse or mule without understanding, which must be curved with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.439 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:17.600 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart. 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:21.279 I read the whole psalm, but I just want to preach from the first five verses this morning. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:23.600 There's three things I want to extrapolate out of the text. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.199 And the first one, when we've messed up, here's three things we need to remember. 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.000 Number one, the Bible assumes our sinfulness. 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.240 The Bible assumes our sinfulness. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:33.439 That's verse one and two. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.079 David says, Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.959 Right off the get-go, God kind of says, let's don't kid each other. 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:46.800 The Bible says in Romans chapter 3 in the New Testament, he says, we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:58.560 So when I say the Bible assumes our sinfulness, this is not a statement of condemnation, but it's establishing this baseline reality because we live in a culture that kind of sells us the lie that man is inherently good. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.720 Now think just for a minute, beloved, okay? 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:06.959 We live in a culture that everything, the media, everything, kind of tries to convince you that man is inherently good. 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:20.800 This past week, big news story on Good Morning America, ABC, World News Tonight, 70 people, 65, 70 people in Panama City Beach, Florida, saw a family caught in an undertone and they made a human chain and they got out there, they rescued the family. 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:22.959 That is great, and that's what we should do. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:24.720 But the media cannot help themselves. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:30.000 They said, this is just another example of the inherent goodness of human nature. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.159 I would balk at that part of it. 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.159 And you say, I don't know what you mean. 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:42.000 See, here's the thing: if man is inherently good, then there's a lot of things that are unnecessary. 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:46.240 Uh, there's some questions you have to answer, like I just kind of put the questions up here. 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:47.600 You don't have to try to jot them down. 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.519 You can whip out your phone and take a picture if you want. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:53.440 But if man is inherently good, then you've got to ask yourself, why do you need God? 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.679 Is the existence of God even necessary? 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.600 How does the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus make any sense? 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:03.279 What is there to be redeemed for from or for? 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.080 If man is inherently good. 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.799 Uh fourthly, is there an objective moral standard by which all of life is evaluated? 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.240 Because if man is inherently good, then you're all free to live in light of your own goodness. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.480 Just what you defeat, what how you define good and how you evaluate good. 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.080 Another question is, is there such a thing as truth and who decides? 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.320 If I'm gooder than you, do I get to tell you what the truth is? 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.960 Another question you've got to ask is, does absolute truth even exist? 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:41.919 See, doing away with God, which which our culture likes to do, is just kind of make this kind of that's that's for superstitious people that cling to their guns and religion. 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:43.039 Sound familiar? 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.960 Uh doing away with God's like removing Sodom Hussein. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:49.840 You might want to think through the ramifications of who takes his place. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.639 Because it's somebody worse than ISIS. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:53.840 It's you. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.879 See, when you do away with God, then you get to be God. 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:58.879 You get to be the master of your own destiny. 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:11.200 And by the way, when I say the Bible assumes our sinfulness, if this isn't true, and by this I mean the doctrine of total depravity, uh, the inherent sinfulness of all humanity, if this isn't true, then there's a couple things you've got to explain. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.200 See, you don't just get a few questions. 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:14.879 There's a couple things you've got to explain. 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:16.960 Number one, the state of the world. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:18.159 The state of the world. 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.639 Does anybody just look around at the world today and just think, my gosh, what's happening? 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:27.200 I mean, people come to my office on a weekly basis and they're like, Pastor, I'm concerned. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:33.360 I mean, I look at the world and what's happening, and I'm deeply concerned, and I smile and go, yeah, it's pretty bad, isn't it? 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:35.759 And they're like, you're supposed to be helping me. 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:41.360 No, I'm not supposed to give you religious pep talks that insulate you from the reality of living in a fallen world. 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:57.759 See, that's one of the things, again, if man is inherently good, if you think man does not need God, he does not need redemption, he's not a sinner, he isn't he is just inherent by nature, he is a good person, she's a good woman, then you have to ask yourself this fundamental question of human existence. 00:10:57.919 --> 00:10:59.440 What went wrong? 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:00.879 What went wrong? 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:02.320 Why is the world like it is? 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.720 If God is good, then why does bad stuff happen? 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.159 If God is in control, why does so much life seem out of control? 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:10.399 See, because you can't have it both ways. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:18.399 You can't waste your life, you spend your whole life saying, well, man is good, religion is the opiate of the masses, or whatever phrase you ripped off of the internet. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:19.519 You can't do that. 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:31.600 And then when the culture, when the world begins to break under the weight of its depravity and sinfulness, you can't turn around in an act of utter hypocrisy and say, hey, how could a good God let this happen? 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:32.799 No, no, wait a minute. 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:40.000 Your goodness has made God unnecessary, so you can't now blame this God you spent your whole life denying even existed? 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:42.720 That's the greatest hypocrite in the world. 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:58.000 It's the agnostic or the atheist who says, I don't believe in anything, or I don't believe in this specific God, and then all of a sudden, when when man is good, because if man is good, how do you explain the two boys up in Ohio that shot four boys this past week and buried them 12 feet under the ground? 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.960 Because they lured them to the woods to buy weed. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:02.320 Man's good? 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:03.679 How do you explain that? 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:15.120 But see, we live in a culture that kind of it just kind of seeps into our culture, into our dialect, into our music, into our entertainment, that man is inherently good and man is the hope of the future. 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:21.679 And here's a quote I think that kind of kind of captures it and puts it in good perspective. 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:23.679 This is a quote from a guy named Tim Keller. 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.919 He says this we are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe. 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:33.919 Yet at the same time, we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope for. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:35.440 Hear that again. 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.519 We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe. 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.039 You've got to accept that. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:42.960 And here's what allows you to accept that. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:49.519 Because at the very same time, we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope for. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:13:01.039 So when I say the Bible assumes our sinfulness, that's why David begins this psalm just by saying, Hey, by the way, blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:06.320 Blessed is a man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:12.159 Because unless you embrace the sinfulness of humanity, you have to embrace being a deceitful person. 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.720 There's a lot of things that you have to deceive and cover up and try to explain away. 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:18.639 Here's another thing you got to explain away. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.000 Uh, not just the state of the world, but secondly, our sinful choices. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:23.360 Our sinful choices. 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:25.519 I mean, you're logical people, it would stand a reason. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:30.399 If man is inherently good, then he would inherently choose goodness over badness, right? 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:32.159 Hello? 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:33.759 You're smart people. 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:40.799 If man's inherently good and you have the power in yourself to take care of yourself, then why do you choose wrong? 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.720 It does you can't have it both ways. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.440 It contradicts the laws of logic. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.720 And yet, you ever know? 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:51.679 Let me just put it like this. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:56.240 You ever know the right thing to do, but you deliberately and purposely do the wrong thing? 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:57.519 Yeah. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:58.879 How do you explain that? 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:03.600 Again, if inherently we're good, then what how do we explain our sinful choices? 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.879 God named Paul in the New Testament book of Romans said this. 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:14.720 He's a believer, but he's reflecting back, he's thinking back because he was trying to be a self-made man and make himself right with God by keeping the rules. 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.879 And he he he reflects back and he writes about this in Romans chapter 7, verse 15. 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.279 He says, For I do not understand my own actions. 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:22.080 Hello. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:27.039 You ever woke up one morning, the first thing you wanted was some Advil and a red Gatorade? 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:33.519 Some of y'all are like, Yeah, I know what that means. 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:34.240 Yeah. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:34.879 Yeah. 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:35.360 Yeah. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.039 I do not understand my own actions. 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:40.159 Or you woke up and the first thought in your mind was, What was I thinking? 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.759 Some of you woke up before and thought, Whose apartment is this? 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.120 Yes, the Bible speaks to that. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.840 I do not understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.679 Now, if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.039 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:06.559 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh, for I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:12.320 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.360 Here's another thing you gotta explain. 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.000 If you if you believe that man's inherently good, you also gotta explain Jesus Christ. 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:25.120 If we're not sinful and there's not a penalty for sin, then why is Jesus Christ necessary? 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.480 See, the goal of a secular worldview is to convince you that he isn't. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:35.440 And if you follow this logic to its ultimate conclusion that man is good, then the only person to blame for the badness of the world is God. 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:41.759 God can't be trusted because if God were really God, then God would do something about this world and it wouldn't be the way it is. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.600 Yet the Bible teaches us the world is the way it is because of who we are. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.600 That we are sinful by nature and by choice. 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:51.919 That's what the Bible calls us to. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:57.039 But also, the Bible assumes our sinfulness, but it also announces on every page God's provision for this. 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.159 On every page, the Bible kind of says, Ali in free. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:01.519 Hello, don't miss this. 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:11.840 The Bible points out, and it doesn't come to condemn, it comes to say, hey, let's just start with a baseline definition of reality because this is the problem that God came to solve. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.320 This is the need that the Bible speaks to. 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:19.440 Second thing David tells us from this Psalm of Confession is that there's always a consequence for sin. 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:21.200 There's always a consequence for sin. 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:22.159 Look at verse 3. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.039 Now I know that the thought is, hey, I hear it all the time. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:26.240 We're not hurting anybody. 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.759 We're considering adults. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.960 I'm not hurting anybody. 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:29.919 It's my body. 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.159 You know, it's legal in Colorado, it's eventually going to be legal in Texas. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.919 I hear it all the time. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:40.799 Yes, you know, people, yes, people come make an appointment with me, they're pastor, who I love. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.919 And by the way, I'm not making fun of people when I talk about things like that. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.360 I'm not make, I mean, I just think, oh, oh, okay. 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:50.639 I get where you're going. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.440 I know what you're talking about. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:52.480 You know what I mean, Pastor? 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.840 Yes, I hear what you're saying, but I disagree with your logic. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.360 Uh, or how about this one? 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:06.400 Hey, man, uh uh a friend of mine used to work for the cable company and he knows how to hook it up out the box, and so I'm not really stealing, it's just free cable. 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:08.880 No, you're stealing. 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.640 You're just a biggest thief as somebody that puts on a mask and goes in a bank. 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.680 You're just stealing less value, but you're stealing. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.279 And here's the biggest hypocrite in the world today. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.240 You're the parent that tells your kid, don't steal. 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.640 And you watch a TV, you still challenge them all the time. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.559 It's kind of a hipster crime these days. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.000 I'm 53, I have friends that steal cable. 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.599 And they say to me, Why are you paying for cable, Neil? 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.640 And I'm just like, are do you hear the words coming out of your mouth? 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:42.240 What did you just say? 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.519 And they're like, Oh man, I mean, hey, hey, they're not gonna miss it. 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:48.720 The issue is not if they're gonna miss it. 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:52.559 The issue is are you prepared for the consequence that's gonna come on you? 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.000 And here's the thing you can choose your sin, but you can't choose your consequence. 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.680 And sometimes the consequence doesn't come on you, it comes on your kids. 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:02.480 And then what are you gonna say? 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.839 Hey, you shouldn't do that, despite the fact your dad's done it for years. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:11.920 When I say there's a consequence for sin, David says in verse 3, for when I kept silent, my bones wasted away. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:16.799 And through my groaning all day long, for day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.440 My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:21.119 There's just two phrases I want to point out. 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:23.200 The first one is when I kept silent. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:24.720 When I kept silent. 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:31.359 When I kept silent, in other words, I did this, I committed this horrible sin, and I tried to keep it on the down low because I'm just gonna work it out. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.039 I'm I'm I'm gonna cover my tracks. 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:34.240 No one's gonna ever find out. 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:35.359 No one ever has to know. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:36.880 This could just be our little thing. 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.599 When I kept silent, look at me, beloved, secrecy is the power of badness. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.759 And by that I mean the more you keep something a secret, the more power you give to it. 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:50.640 And it has the capacity to begin to affect you physically, emotionally, and spiritually. 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:54.799 And David says, When I kept silent, my bones waxed old. 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:04.240 Modern medical science is caught up with what the Bible's known all along, that sin, when you keep it to yourself, it begins to affect your body. 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:09.440 It became it begins to take an emotional and physical toll on your well-being. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:12.319 That's why David says, When I kept silent. 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:17.279 Second phrase I want you to see is that he says to God, Your hand was heavy upon me. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.000 Your hand was heavy upon me. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.440 Now, I told you before, uh, my dad wasn't a perfect man. 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:27.440 He's very flawed in a lot of areas, but my dad was a strict disciplinarian. 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:34.160 I remember being in public every once in a while, me and my brothers would be popping off, and all of a sudden, this little hand would come up on the back of our neck. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:35.920 I didn't have to turn around. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.960 My dad had hands so big he could palm a pumpkin, okay? 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.200 So he put his hand on my neck and it was like his fingers just wrapped around it. 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:47.119 And if we were really being disrespectful, he would squeeze it a little bit. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:52.640 And we'd be talking all of a sudden, I'd be like, I'm done now. 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:55.279 Y'all talk among yourselves. 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:00.559 And my dad would say, like he was giving you a treat, why don't you go sit in the truck? 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.480 Which meant I'm gonna beat you when I get you home. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.599 That's just the way it was in Redneck, East, Texas, okay? 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:08.559 So don't take offense. 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:10.880 Don't come up to me and go, I'm praying for you, brother. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.640 I think you experienced child abuse. 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:14.480 No, no, no. 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:17.119 Never got one I didn't deserve you. 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:17.839 How do you know? 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.079 Because my dad would give you a pop quiz. 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:25.599 It's like the movie Speed, pop quiz, hot shot. 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.599 My dad would say, What'd I tell you to do? 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:29.519 What'd you do? 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:31.279 Bend over. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:32.799 That's just the way it went. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:34.880 Every time, three-point sermon. 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:36.079 What did I tell you to do? 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:36.880 What'd you do? 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.880 You had to acknowledge your sinfulness, and then you received your punishment. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:43.759 And so my dad would just give us a little squeeze. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:45.359 David says, Hey, to God. 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.160 He says to his father, hey, your hand was heavy upon me. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:48.960 Hey, look at me. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:57.759 Some of you, just the law of averages dictates that this many people in a room, some of you have got some secret stuff going on right now, and because nobody knows, you think you're getting away with it. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:58.720 I'm not mad at you. 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.640 I'm not coming to rant and rave and say, I am to say this. 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:14.079 If you're a child of God, God's hand will get heavier and heavier and heavier on you until it begins to vex your soul, to turn you towards repentance, because sin will destroy you. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.599 And if you're a child of God, God loves you. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:19.680 He's not gonna let you destroy yourself. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.200 He's gonna put his hand on you because he loves you. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:24.960 It's not child abuse. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:25.519 Uh-uh. 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:30.880 It's a loving father saying, Hey, this is not what you're created for. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:34.079 God's hand upon you is not abuse, it's consequence. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:41.920 So two phrases under the banner of there's always a consequence for sin, because see, we've denied the, I mean, and we said man's inherently good. 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.160 And so because we're good, we cannot sin. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.559 No one sins anymore, which we'll get to in just a minute. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.319 But hey, we say there's a consequence for sin, it's like a consequence for what? 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:52.960 We've invented a consequenceless society. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.599 We got so many people that are addicted to opioids. 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.759 We came up with a remedy, so if you OD, they shoot you with this little shot and it reverses the effect. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.359 Of it, it's kind of like, and I think it's great by the way, but can we just stop using drugs? 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.599 You see, we just act like no, we we can't. 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.039 So we got to create a world in which there is no consequence. 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:17.599 You are hating your children if there's not a consequence for their sinful behavior. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.720 And I'll take it one step further since I'm already out here. 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:24.559 You should tell your kids when they disobey you, that's sin. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:27.759 You shouldn't say, Oh, that's wrong. 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:28.640 You shouldn't do that. 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:29.920 You should use the word sin. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:35.680 Now don't shame them, don't yell at them, just hey, hey, by the way, when you did that, that was sin. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:45.519 I remember the first time I was in public and I said to my older daughter, because her sister is five years younger than her, and she's like, Dad, I mean, she just gets on my last nerves. 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:47.279 That's because she's a sinner. 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:54.960 Some little 18-year-old hostess in a restaurant said, Oh, you shouldn't do that. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.240 That's gonna, that's gonna, that's gonna warp her inner child. 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:01.519 No, I'm gonna whip your grown child in just a minute, okay? 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:06.160 If you want to parent some kids, get a man to take you on, and you have some kids, you parent them. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.839 I'll parent mine, okay? 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:13.519 Because I want my kids to understand their behaviors in a bigger context than just themselves. 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:14.799 No, it's sin. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.960