1 00:00:00,439 --> 00:00:01,158 Please be seated. 2 00:00:02,916 --> 00:00:03,875 Good morning, everybody. 3 00:00:05,233 --> 00:00:07,870 My name's Brian Wallace. I get to be 4 00:00:07,870 --> 00:00:09,721 1 of the bishop here in the D 5 00:00:09,721 --> 00:00:11,556 of churches for the sake of other, on 6 00:00:11,556 --> 00:00:14,667 the suffolk bishop serving our ordinary. His name 7 00:00:14,667 --> 00:00:15,385 is Todd Hunter. 8 00:00:16,433 --> 00:00:19,052 I became an an in this church. And 9 00:00:19,052 --> 00:00:21,354 today, we're gonna do being confirmations. I was 10 00:00:21,354 --> 00:00:23,814 confirmed in this church by Todd Hunter years 11 00:00:23,814 --> 00:00:25,969 ago. And now I get the privilege and 12 00:00:25,969 --> 00:00:28,188 the duty of doing that in other people's 13 00:00:28,188 --> 00:00:30,566 lives, and it's a great opportunity for me. 14 00:00:32,088 --> 00:00:34,233 Who are the people in the room who 15 00:00:34,233 --> 00:00:35,743 are going to be confirmed. Let us see 16 00:00:35,743 --> 00:00:37,173 your hands as high as you can. 17 00:00:38,047 --> 00:00:38,762 Thank you for that. 18 00:00:39,494 --> 00:00:40,690 We're really glad to have you. 19 00:00:44,758 --> 00:00:47,252 My sermon is in part for you today 20 00:00:47,470 --> 00:00:48,847 because I want to 21 00:00:49,319 --> 00:00:51,388 talk about what it is that you're doing, 22 00:00:52,024 --> 00:00:54,969 the commitment that you're making to follow Jesus 23 00:00:54,969 --> 00:00:57,117 to be a disciple of Christ for the 24 00:00:57,117 --> 00:00:57,833 rest of your days. 25 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:00,951 And it's for all of us and even 26 00:01:00,951 --> 00:01:03,257 for me because this work of disciples ship 27 00:01:03,257 --> 00:01:05,326 is an everything think day decision. Isn't it? 28 00:01:06,058 --> 00:01:07,814 We wake up each day no matter what 29 00:01:07,814 --> 00:01:09,730 a vocation no matter what our roles and 30 00:01:09,730 --> 00:01:10,948 have to rec commit 31 00:01:11,326 --> 00:01:13,321 to being in christ with Christ in for 32 00:01:13,481 --> 00:01:13,800 Christ. 33 00:01:14,853 --> 00:01:17,007 And so I want to take us to 34 00:01:17,007 --> 00:01:18,204 psalm 01:31 35 00:01:18,204 --> 00:01:20,598 this morning because I think in it, we 36 00:01:20,598 --> 00:01:21,816 have a great 37 00:01:22,209 --> 00:01:22,709 for 38 00:01:23,245 --> 00:01:26,296 exploration about what it means to follow Jesus 39 00:01:26,354 --> 00:01:27,391 on a regular basis. 40 00:01:28,108 --> 00:01:30,282 And I would love for us to 41 00:01:30,913 --> 00:01:32,901 see what God would have to speak to 42 00:01:32,901 --> 00:01:33,401 us 43 00:01:33,935 --> 00:01:35,048 out of this passage. 44 00:01:36,241 --> 00:01:39,047 My first memory of this particular psalm came 45 00:01:39,342 --> 00:01:41,821 about 30 years ago. I was a young 46 00:01:41,821 --> 00:01:44,919 up and coming leader with City Christian Fellowship. 47 00:01:45,157 --> 00:01:47,381 I was the youngest regional director in the 48 00:01:47,381 --> 00:01:49,208 company, and I thought I was kind of 49 00:01:49,208 --> 00:01:50,003 a big deal. 50 00:01:51,851 --> 00:01:53,686 David And Bill Taylor knew me then. He 51 00:01:53,686 --> 00:01:55,043 knew I wasn't a big deal. 52 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,037 He was 1 of my prayer partners. 53 00:01:58,328 --> 00:02:00,153 But I thought I was in an up 54 00:02:00,153 --> 00:02:02,612 and coming space. Things were moving. I was 55 00:02:02,612 --> 00:02:05,468 moving. I thought. And I wanted to go 56 00:02:05,468 --> 00:02:08,435 from good, to great. My boss was coming 57 00:02:08,435 --> 00:02:10,914 into town, guy named Doug Stewart who's part 58 00:02:10,914 --> 00:02:12,914 of 1 of our churches up in Illinois 59 00:02:12,914 --> 00:02:14,768 in church of the savior And he was 60 00:02:14,768 --> 00:02:16,682 gonna come and do what I thought was 61 00:02:16,682 --> 00:02:19,415 gonna give me leadership skill. Give me 62 00:02:19,952 --> 00:02:22,744 understanding and capacity to go from where I 63 00:02:22,744 --> 00:02:24,155 was to where I wanted 64 00:02:24,514 --> 00:02:25,074 to be. 65 00:02:26,115 --> 00:02:27,715 We're gonna spend a day at a lake 66 00:02:27,715 --> 00:02:27,955 house. 67 00:02:28,675 --> 00:02:31,289 I had set my sights pretty high 68 00:02:32,845 --> 00:02:35,637 I was looking ahead. I was looking up, 69 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:37,552 I wanted to go places. 70 00:02:38,762 --> 00:02:40,351 But when we got to the lake house, 71 00:02:40,589 --> 00:02:41,066 my friend, 72 00:02:41,781 --> 00:02:43,766 instead of giving me leadership training, sat me 73 00:02:43,766 --> 00:02:45,434 on the back porch in a chair with 74 00:02:45,434 --> 00:02:47,834 a single sheet of paper, were the words 75 00:02:47,834 --> 00:02:49,505 of Psalm 01:31 76 00:02:49,505 --> 00:02:51,336 on it. And he said read this for 77 00:02:51,336 --> 00:02:53,086 a while. I'm going to take a walk. 78 00:02:53,723 --> 00:02:56,111 I'll be back in a couple of hours. 79 00:02:58,035 --> 00:02:59,944 So I had 2 hours to read and 80 00:02:59,944 --> 00:03:02,251 reread the shortest psalm in the bible. 81 00:03:04,016 --> 00:03:05,766 And he came back. We discussed it over 82 00:03:05,766 --> 00:03:08,095 lunch, and then he repeated that pattern 83 00:03:08,709 --> 00:03:09,425 2 more times. 84 00:03:10,473 --> 00:03:13,746 So, ultimately, I had 6 full hours to 85 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,812 ponder these 3 versus. I confess. I didn't 86 00:03:16,812 --> 00:03:17,050 get it. 87 00:03:18,018 --> 00:03:20,171 Not 1 word, and I was getting frustrated. 88 00:03:20,331 --> 00:03:21,926 On the way back, I told Doug, look, 89 00:03:22,404 --> 00:03:25,514 why did we waste an entire day in 90 00:03:25,514 --> 00:03:26,790 3 bible verses. 91 00:03:27,364 --> 00:03:29,598 You can see where my heartless was. It 92 00:03:29,598 --> 00:03:31,753 wasn't in finding out what God wanted to 93 00:03:31,753 --> 00:03:32,950 say to me from this passage. 94 00:03:33,988 --> 00:03:35,026 See, I was mad. 95 00:03:35,679 --> 00:03:37,517 At where I wasn't going. I was hurt, 96 00:03:37,677 --> 00:03:39,355 and I was worried that I would miss 97 00:03:39,355 --> 00:03:42,311 my chance to learn how to be a 98 00:03:42,311 --> 00:03:42,950 great leader. 99 00:03:44,003 --> 00:03:45,279 My sights were set high. 100 00:03:46,236 --> 00:03:48,092 And I certainly wasn't still 101 00:03:48,789 --> 00:03:49,108 quiet. 102 00:03:50,463 --> 00:03:52,218 Now, Doug listened to me with patience in 103 00:03:52,218 --> 00:03:54,009 love. He wasn't defensive or argument, 104 00:03:55,101 --> 00:03:57,489 he actually just listened to my soul cry 105 00:03:57,489 --> 00:03:59,160 because that's what it was doing. And when 106 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,093 I quit venting and quit 107 00:04:01,628 --> 00:04:03,872 complaining, he simply said, per Brian, I'm not 108 00:04:03,872 --> 00:04:05,463 worried about your leadership. I think you're gonna 109 00:04:05,463 --> 00:04:07,533 know what to do when the time comes. 110 00:04:08,011 --> 00:04:09,842 And he was right about that over the 111 00:04:09,842 --> 00:04:11,036 last 30 years. 112 00:04:12,084 --> 00:04:13,831 But then he said this, but I am 113 00:04:13,831 --> 00:04:15,261 worried about your soul. 114 00:04:19,009 --> 00:04:21,704 Doug with expert love and tender used of 115 00:04:21,704 --> 00:04:24,081 his gifts of leadership to help me enter 116 00:04:24,081 --> 00:04:24,874 this psalm, 117 00:04:26,633 --> 00:04:28,615 to not just care for my soul but 118 00:04:28,615 --> 00:04:31,312 to reshape, well, hey, I thought about the 119 00:04:31,312 --> 00:04:32,977 world. The way I thought about leadership, the 120 00:04:32,977 --> 00:04:33,794 way I thought 121 00:04:34,182 --> 00:04:36,405 about following Jesus and what it was really 122 00:04:36,405 --> 00:04:38,151 all about. It was a re refrain that 123 00:04:38,310 --> 00:04:40,295 I need. It saved my life. It certainly 124 00:04:40,295 --> 00:04:41,485 saved my ministry, I think. 125 00:04:42,614 --> 00:04:43,592 Saved me from 126 00:04:44,524 --> 00:04:48,582 pursuing and growing and seeking and anxiety. It 127 00:04:48,582 --> 00:04:50,571 saved me from my constant wrestling. 128 00:04:51,304 --> 00:04:53,781 And my life being about me instead of 129 00:04:53,781 --> 00:04:54,740 being about Jesus. 130 00:04:56,418 --> 00:04:57,877 See the psalm ultimately 131 00:04:58,336 --> 00:05:00,108 invites us to take her place in the 132 00:05:00,108 --> 00:05:02,104 story of God, and we're gonna unpack that 133 00:05:02,104 --> 00:05:04,180 this morning. It invites us to take our 134 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:06,096 place in the rest of God, 135 00:05:06,894 --> 00:05:09,783 the rest and quiet of God. Place and 136 00:05:09,783 --> 00:05:11,321 invites us to put our hope 137 00:05:11,699 --> 00:05:13,295 in God. And so that's what I wanna 138 00:05:13,295 --> 00:05:14,992 talk to you this morning contra 139 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:17,899 is the way you enter the story 140 00:05:18,339 --> 00:05:20,196 the way you experience rest 141 00:05:20,574 --> 00:05:22,889 and the way you enter into hope. 142 00:05:24,006 --> 00:05:25,284 Now let me start with the first first 143 00:05:25,284 --> 00:05:26,880 it says, Lord my heart is not lifted 144 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:28,895 up, My eyes are not raised too high. 145 00:05:29,134 --> 00:05:31,615 I do not occupy myself with things too 146 00:05:31,615 --> 00:05:34,194 great or too marvelous for me. Now many 147 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:36,095 translations and the 1 we read earlier this 148 00:05:36,095 --> 00:05:38,499 morning, render the first line. My heart is 149 00:05:38,499 --> 00:05:39,295 not proud. 150 00:05:40,966 --> 00:05:42,796 You know what we say about people who 151 00:05:42,796 --> 00:05:43,910 say they're not proud. 152 00:05:45,125 --> 00:05:47,764 Right? No humble person would deny that they 153 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:50,404 have at least some pride in their life. 154 00:05:50,805 --> 00:05:53,239 By the way, that's the definition of humility 155 00:05:53,378 --> 00:05:55,215 is that you probably think you're proud. 156 00:05:56,653 --> 00:05:59,290 It doesn't make sense to pray this. So 157 00:05:59,290 --> 00:06:00,895 what going on, By the way, this was 158 00:06:00,895 --> 00:06:02,245 true of my son when he was a 159 00:06:02,245 --> 00:06:02,563 toddler, 160 00:06:03,358 --> 00:06:04,709 3 or 4 years old. He would be 161 00:06:04,709 --> 00:06:06,139 in the back seat strapped in his car 162 00:06:06,139 --> 00:06:08,884 seat. What's And immediately, he would almost always 163 00:06:09,022 --> 00:06:10,878 invariably ill. I'm not tired 164 00:06:11,654 --> 00:06:14,285 in 30 seconds, 40 seconds later dead asleep. 165 00:06:14,684 --> 00:06:15,800 It was a dead giveaway. 166 00:06:16,294 --> 00:06:18,449 So to to say I'm not proud in 167 00:06:18,449 --> 00:06:18,768 prayer, 168 00:06:19,486 --> 00:06:20,204 kinda of probably... 169 00:06:20,683 --> 00:06:21,880 If they really mean it, 170 00:06:22,678 --> 00:06:24,035 they are probably a little proud. 171 00:06:24,608 --> 00:06:26,520 So what's going on in this passage? It 172 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,273 doesn't make sense to pray. I'm not proud. 173 00:06:28,512 --> 00:06:29,309 So what's happening? 174 00:06:29,867 --> 00:06:31,938 I think it's the Psalm way not of 175 00:06:31,938 --> 00:06:34,032 declaring a state of being 176 00:06:34,425 --> 00:06:36,444 as way it is the decision to choose 177 00:06:36,664 --> 00:06:38,185 a way of being. 178 00:06:39,464 --> 00:06:41,144 Now if we pair the first first and 179 00:06:41,144 --> 00:06:43,439 the second, we begin to understand what's happening 180 00:06:43,559 --> 00:06:45,796 It says, I don't occupy myself with things 181 00:06:45,796 --> 00:06:48,513 that are too great or too marvelous for 182 00:06:48,513 --> 00:06:49,312 me. He says. 183 00:06:50,350 --> 00:06:52,443 See in this this way the Psalm is 184 00:06:52,443 --> 00:06:54,760 admitting that there are things that are beyond 185 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:54,999 him. 186 00:06:56,118 --> 00:06:58,275 Things that are above his pay grade so 187 00:06:58,275 --> 00:07:00,520 to speak. Again, it's a decision to a 188 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:01,872 certain way of life. 189 00:07:02,826 --> 00:07:04,735 It's a decision to choose to let God 190 00:07:04,735 --> 00:07:07,041 be God and to take our place in 191 00:07:07,041 --> 00:07:09,362 the world in keeping with the most Horton 192 00:07:09,362 --> 00:07:10,476 truths the universe. 193 00:07:11,670 --> 00:07:12,466 God's creator. 194 00:07:13,341 --> 00:07:14,217 I'm a creation. 195 00:07:15,411 --> 00:07:17,639 God is eternal. I'm temporal. 196 00:07:18,435 --> 00:07:21,742 Horton God is all powerful and I am 197 00:07:22,119 --> 00:07:22,619 limited. 198 00:07:23,715 --> 00:07:25,332 To pray the Psalm to d 199 00:07:25,883 --> 00:07:27,633 to declare to let God be God to 200 00:07:27,633 --> 00:07:29,065 let him run the universe, let him run 201 00:07:29,065 --> 00:07:30,736 my life. Let him run my church, let 202 00:07:30,736 --> 00:07:31,792 him run my neighborhood 203 00:07:32,406 --> 00:07:34,805 and provide for me day by day according 204 00:07:34,805 --> 00:07:38,221 to his wisdom and understanding not mine. 205 00:07:39,651 --> 00:07:41,649 It's a decision to follow is to be 206 00:07:41,649 --> 00:07:43,893 a disciple of a leader in creator 207 00:07:44,504 --> 00:07:46,407 in the our right place in the story. 208 00:07:46,645 --> 00:07:47,438 I'm not creator. 209 00:07:47,929 --> 00:07:48,807 I'm a creation. 210 00:07:49,605 --> 00:07:52,319 It's to enter the story and undertake our 211 00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:52,819 rightful 212 00:07:53,197 --> 00:07:53,915 place in it. 213 00:07:54,793 --> 00:07:56,564 It's a decision not to set my sights 214 00:07:56,564 --> 00:07:58,745 on things that are beyond my grass 215 00:07:59,125 --> 00:08:01,604 because God's the only 1 who can and 216 00:08:01,604 --> 00:08:02,724 should reach that far. 217 00:08:04,019 --> 00:08:06,019 Eugene Painters and rem renders the first person 218 00:08:06,019 --> 00:08:08,100 in a way that I think brings emphasis 219 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:10,180 to this decision. By the way, it's always 220 00:08:10,180 --> 00:08:10,740 a decision. 221 00:08:11,552 --> 00:08:13,386 He says, God, I'm not trying to rule 222 00:08:13,386 --> 00:08:13,944 the roost. 223 00:08:14,502 --> 00:08:16,256 I don't wanna be king of the mountain. 224 00:08:16,575 --> 00:08:18,568 I haven't med where I have no business 225 00:08:18,568 --> 00:08:19,387 or fantasize. 226 00:08:20,017 --> 00:08:20,517 Grand 227 00:08:20,890 --> 00:08:22,081 plans for myself. 228 00:08:23,589 --> 00:08:25,097 You see, you and I have no business 229 00:08:25,097 --> 00:08:26,764 trying to run the universe, a run our 230 00:08:26,764 --> 00:08:29,004 family, runner our neighborhood run our church, all 231 00:08:29,004 --> 00:08:30,363 of it is way too much for us, 232 00:08:30,682 --> 00:08:32,840 and that's not our place in the story. 233 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:34,758 That's God's place in the story. 234 00:08:35,397 --> 00:08:37,076 Our places in the story is to follow 235 00:08:37,076 --> 00:08:39,185 and to take our place, as a child 236 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,624 in the family with a really good father, 237 00:08:41,863 --> 00:08:43,213 and that's always our place. 238 00:08:44,087 --> 00:08:46,073 Where children with a loving father who knows 239 00:08:46,073 --> 00:08:47,526 us and who's all powerful. 240 00:08:49,187 --> 00:08:51,097 But it gets complicated when we understand that 241 00:08:51,097 --> 00:08:52,687 this psalm was written not just dave by 242 00:08:52,767 --> 00:08:54,597 David, but by king David. 243 00:08:55,724 --> 00:08:57,947 What's beyond the pay grade of a king? 244 00:08:59,138 --> 00:09:00,884 If he doesn't think you should think too 245 00:09:00,884 --> 00:09:02,948 highly leave himself or involve himself in weight 246 00:09:02,948 --> 00:09:05,532 matters, what business to any of us have 247 00:09:05,670 --> 00:09:06,728 involving ourselves 248 00:09:07,264 --> 00:09:08,084 in anything. 249 00:09:09,418 --> 00:09:11,273 Now the friends, the song is not an 250 00:09:11,491 --> 00:09:13,620 invitation to pass. The decision to take our 251 00:09:13,739 --> 00:09:15,962 place in the world under God is not 252 00:09:15,962 --> 00:09:18,343 to abandon our roles or calling in the 253 00:09:18,343 --> 00:09:18,581 world. 254 00:09:19,217 --> 00:09:21,757 We're called to be god's hands and feet 255 00:09:21,757 --> 00:09:24,076 in the world. Remember. That's never gonna change. 256 00:09:24,871 --> 00:09:26,700 Where to feed the poor, close the naked 257 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:28,925 visit the president, protect the widow and the 258 00:09:28,925 --> 00:09:31,549 orphan share of the gospel in word and 259 00:09:31,549 --> 00:09:31,787 deed. 260 00:09:32,439 --> 00:09:34,511 We're still called to put our hands to 261 00:09:34,511 --> 00:09:36,742 the duties tasks and engagements of our various 262 00:09:36,742 --> 00:09:37,141 calling. 263 00:09:39,213 --> 00:09:39,713 But 264 00:09:40,344 --> 00:09:41,700 we are not to run the universe. 265 00:09:42,657 --> 00:09:44,332 That's god's job and he's been doing it 266 00:09:44,332 --> 00:09:46,166 well before any of us were here and 267 00:09:46,166 --> 00:09:47,921 he'll will doing it just fine when we're 268 00:09:47,921 --> 00:09:49,835 all gone unless he comes first. 269 00:09:50,962 --> 00:09:53,104 We might not understand what God's doing. 270 00:09:53,897 --> 00:09:56,119 We may not even like what he seems 271 00:09:56,119 --> 00:09:57,864 to be happening around us. 272 00:09:59,312 --> 00:10:01,466 But our invitation is to stop ruling the 273 00:10:01,466 --> 00:10:01,705 roost. 274 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:04,975 I'm not going to concern myself with what 275 00:10:04,975 --> 00:10:07,208 only God can really do and what only 276 00:10:07,208 --> 00:10:08,107 he can comprehend 277 00:10:08,897 --> 00:10:11,363 It's too great. It's too marvelous for me. 278 00:10:12,716 --> 00:10:14,785 That's not my role in the story. 279 00:10:16,234 --> 00:10:17,592 But how do we go about living our 280 00:10:17,592 --> 00:10:20,229 lives being faithful practically to our calling in 281 00:10:20,229 --> 00:10:23,186 the world without overs stepping our bounds? That's 282 00:10:23,186 --> 00:10:24,065 hard work for me. 283 00:10:24,719 --> 00:10:26,475 I think it helps us understand how the 284 00:10:26,554 --> 00:10:29,747 Hebrew mind understands the nature of a day. 285 00:10:30,705 --> 00:10:32,620 You see, for thousands of years, the hebrew 286 00:10:32,620 --> 00:10:34,727 cult, are considered the day to begin when 287 00:10:35,421 --> 00:10:36,773 when the sun went down, 288 00:10:37,649 --> 00:10:39,581 not when the sun comes up. Our basic 289 00:10:39,718 --> 00:10:41,229 understanding is that the day begins when the 290 00:10:41,229 --> 00:10:43,476 sun comes up or or when my alarm 291 00:10:43,476 --> 00:10:45,951 goes off or my feet hit the ground 292 00:10:45,951 --> 00:10:47,786 when I'm ready to run the world. 293 00:10:48,984 --> 00:10:51,734 Think about our mindset shift, we if we 294 00:10:51,873 --> 00:10:53,711 understand the start of the day to begin 295 00:10:53,711 --> 00:10:54,430 at sunset. 296 00:10:55,309 --> 00:10:57,408 The date does not begin with my activity 297 00:10:57,627 --> 00:10:59,465 agency or energy in the world at all. 298 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:01,156 Know the day begins, 299 00:11:02,114 --> 00:11:02,912 and I go to bed. 300 00:11:04,987 --> 00:11:06,583 It's like saying I'm not the most important 301 00:11:06,583 --> 00:11:08,431 thing going on in the world. The day 302 00:11:08,431 --> 00:11:10,578 will begin with my inactivity, and the god 303 00:11:10,578 --> 00:11:12,884 who never sleeps will be at work running 304 00:11:12,884 --> 00:11:14,975 and ruling the world and starting the day 305 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:17,576 because he does not need me. 306 00:11:19,814 --> 00:11:21,719 That doesn't mean our work is unimportant. 307 00:11:22,274 --> 00:11:24,179 It doesn't mean that we're un unlocked or 308 00:11:24,179 --> 00:11:26,501 chosen in the story. And just means that 309 00:11:26,580 --> 00:11:27,878 I am not primary. 310 00:11:29,291 --> 00:11:30,190 God is primary. 311 00:11:31,124 --> 00:11:32,958 We are not... And our work is not 312 00:11:32,958 --> 00:11:35,129 primary in the world. Our God is the 313 00:11:35,129 --> 00:11:38,329 primary person of the story and where to 314 00:11:38,329 --> 00:11:39,850 take our place inside of it. 315 00:11:40,569 --> 00:11:42,250 Now the Hebrew concept of the day holds 316 00:11:42,250 --> 00:11:43,745 a lot of dignity and value for 317 00:11:44,579 --> 00:11:47,362 participation in the work. It's his unfolding of 318 00:11:47,362 --> 00:11:49,350 the rule and reign of his kingdom in 319 00:11:49,350 --> 00:11:51,497 the world. We wake up into a world 320 00:11:51,497 --> 00:11:53,460 in which God's already been at work our 321 00:11:53,658 --> 00:11:54,374 while we sleep, 322 00:11:54,931 --> 00:11:56,920 and we awake into an invitation. 323 00:11:58,352 --> 00:12:00,283 It's a loving, joyful, playful 324 00:12:00,594 --> 00:12:03,617 free invitation to enter into what he's been 325 00:12:03,617 --> 00:12:03,856 about. 326 00:12:04,652 --> 00:12:06,402 It comes with it so much dignity, so 327 00:12:06,402 --> 00:12:08,789 much value, so much honor to us. 328 00:12:10,155 --> 00:12:12,139 No, I admit that this is a counter 329 00:12:12,139 --> 00:12:14,759 cultural way of living. Isn't it? You won't 330 00:12:14,759 --> 00:12:16,584 hear this kind of invitation in any of 331 00:12:16,584 --> 00:12:19,458 the business journal, self help books. Or Instagram 332 00:12:19,458 --> 00:12:21,047 followers to whom you subscribe, 333 00:12:21,841 --> 00:12:22,795 not even Taylor Swift. 334 00:12:23,907 --> 00:12:26,370 The advice of the world is to seize 335 00:12:26,370 --> 00:12:27,029 the day 336 00:12:28,057 --> 00:12:30,928 exert your power, take charge of your life. 337 00:12:32,843 --> 00:12:34,916 Peterson says this about that. What is described 338 00:12:34,916 --> 00:12:36,932 in scripture as basic sin 339 00:12:37,404 --> 00:12:39,245 the sin of taking things into our own 340 00:12:39,245 --> 00:12:42,205 hands, being our own god, grabbing what's there 341 00:12:42,205 --> 00:12:44,524 while you can get it is now described 342 00:12:44,524 --> 00:12:45,424 by our culture 343 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:47,019 as basically mist. 344 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:52,059 Now, David, the author of the Song was 345 00:12:52,059 --> 00:12:54,059 king remember, he had to wake up each 346 00:12:54,059 --> 00:12:56,302 morning to make a that influenced the political, 347 00:12:56,461 --> 00:12:58,921 social, religious and family life of every person 348 00:12:58,921 --> 00:13:01,063 in the nation, and you can argue every 349 00:13:01,063 --> 00:13:02,253 person in the known world. 350 00:13:03,379 --> 00:13:06,356 But this psalm not an invitation to pass 351 00:13:06,655 --> 00:13:07,874 is just to choose 352 00:13:08,253 --> 00:13:10,970 to let let my work become primary. 353 00:13:11,782 --> 00:13:14,725 The song is David's reminder to himself that 354 00:13:14,804 --> 00:13:16,259 Well king he's not 355 00:13:16,713 --> 00:13:17,032 god. 356 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:20,240 To check on his ego. To check on 357 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,700 his ambition, it's runaway 358 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:23,440 dreams for himself. 359 00:13:25,615 --> 00:13:28,254 It's an invitation friends to humility. 360 00:13:29,375 --> 00:13:30,894 There's a way of going about our life 361 00:13:30,894 --> 00:13:34,014 under god and for god rather than ourselves. 362 00:13:34,350 --> 00:13:37,089 It's an invitation to the story of God 363 00:13:37,309 --> 00:13:38,909 that's given to us in the old new 364 00:13:38,909 --> 00:13:39,389 testament. 365 00:13:40,589 --> 00:13:42,269 To take our place dependent, 366 00:13:43,389 --> 00:13:43,889 children 367 00:13:44,363 --> 00:13:46,437 who are known and loved by a good 368 00:13:46,437 --> 00:13:49,229 father. Now this balance is hard, I think, 369 00:13:49,867 --> 00:13:52,020 maintaining proper relationship to my work and my 370 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:54,269 calling, well, not overs stepping my balance is 371 00:13:54,269 --> 00:13:56,342 for me 1 of my daily struggles. 372 00:13:56,821 --> 00:13:58,416 By the way, it gets easier the older 373 00:13:58,655 --> 00:14:00,570 I get and the more responsibility I have. 374 00:14:01,128 --> 00:14:02,962 Because the more responsibility I have, it becomes 375 00:14:02,962 --> 00:14:04,492 laughable that I'm asked to do it. 376 00:14:05,767 --> 00:14:08,236 Right? I take myself way less seriously now 377 00:14:08,236 --> 00:14:10,069 than I did in the past, but it's 378 00:14:10,069 --> 00:14:11,047 still a struggle 379 00:14:11,677 --> 00:14:13,191 In part because I care about the work 380 00:14:13,270 --> 00:14:14,704 I do, and I suspect you do too. 381 00:14:15,501 --> 00:14:18,210 Your work has consequence and there's issues going 382 00:14:18,210 --> 00:14:19,644 on in the world that really matter. 383 00:14:20,933 --> 00:14:23,550 Sometimes reminding myself that I'm not god's, not 384 00:14:23,550 --> 00:14:26,009 enough to curve my appetite for success or 385 00:14:26,009 --> 00:14:28,151 wanting things to go the way I think 386 00:14:28,151 --> 00:14:30,971 they should go. In Gaza or in China 387 00:14:31,266 --> 00:14:33,812 or in Africa or in South America. 388 00:14:36,293 --> 00:14:38,524 I crave that feel good sense of being 389 00:14:38,524 --> 00:14:40,676 notice praised and feel good. I'm at 3 390 00:14:40,676 --> 00:14:42,668 in the Instagram I'm addicted to success. 391 00:14:43,719 --> 00:14:45,317 So I want things to go well. I 392 00:14:45,317 --> 00:14:46,595 want them to go my way. 393 00:14:47,793 --> 00:14:49,391 I wanna be god of my little universe, 394 00:14:49,551 --> 00:14:50,430 whenever I can. 395 00:14:53,956 --> 00:14:56,371 So the next step for me in this 396 00:14:56,509 --> 00:14:59,559 invitation is to get still... And quiet. And 397 00:14:59,559 --> 00:15:01,480 that's true for the Psalm too. Remember, he 398 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,559 says the Lord. I'm not... Heart's not lifted 399 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:05,480 up. My eyes aren't lift too high. Do 400 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,320 not aka myself with things too great to 401 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:09,170 Marvelous for me but that's hard. 402 00:15:10,602 --> 00:15:13,467 So, I will comb and quiet my soul, 403 00:15:13,627 --> 00:15:15,696 like a weeds child with its mother, 404 00:15:16,428 --> 00:15:18,762 like a we child will be my soul 405 00:15:18,980 --> 00:15:19,618 within me. 406 00:15:20,814 --> 00:15:22,169 Now I don't know about You a common 407 00:15:22,169 --> 00:15:24,482 and quiet don't come naturally in my world. 408 00:15:25,774 --> 00:15:28,171 There's nothing naturally calm or quiet about my 409 00:15:28,171 --> 00:15:30,888 family, my job or my commute. My commute 410 00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:32,566 is always on an airplane. I get on 411 00:15:32,566 --> 00:15:32,965 a plane... 412 00:15:34,256 --> 00:15:35,847 I think 50 times this year. 413 00:15:36,721 --> 00:15:40,061 Right? It it seems to awaken my inner 414 00:15:40,061 --> 00:15:42,367 infant and every single time, especially in the 415 00:15:42,447 --> 00:15:43,322 Tsa pre line. 416 00:15:44,529 --> 00:15:46,597 Especially when there's rookie keys in the Tsa 417 00:15:46,597 --> 00:15:47,869 pre line in front of me. 418 00:15:48,664 --> 00:15:50,096 By the way, to to a guy who 419 00:15:50,096 --> 00:15:51,845 travels all the plane, don't take your shoes 420 00:15:51,845 --> 00:15:53,118 off in the Tsa pre line. 421 00:15:53,848 --> 00:15:54,903 That's why the Ts 422 00:15:55,275 --> 00:15:55,671 exists. 423 00:15:57,495 --> 00:15:58,922 You can tell, I just get it I 424 00:15:58,922 --> 00:16:00,824 get a little agitated. I get fuss. 425 00:16:01,713 --> 00:16:04,266 I get my... I get no old, noisy 426 00:16:04,266 --> 00:16:05,223 and unsettled, 427 00:16:06,020 --> 00:16:07,935 like I need my diaper changed or something. 428 00:16:08,892 --> 00:16:11,045 It takes work to get quiet. 429 00:16:12,179 --> 00:16:14,176 For most people, it's a deliberate choice that 430 00:16:14,176 --> 00:16:16,254 happens with planning with care. 431 00:16:17,133 --> 00:16:20,031 It's a decision. It's a dis spiritual discipline. 432 00:16:20,903 --> 00:16:22,201 To get quiet 433 00:16:22,658 --> 00:16:23,535 in our lives. 434 00:16:24,572 --> 00:16:26,965 Now in my doctor research, I it studied 435 00:16:26,965 --> 00:16:29,198 exe leaders, people who are engaged in ministry 436 00:16:29,198 --> 00:16:31,837 who are flourishing, emotionally spiritually and relational. 437 00:16:32,551 --> 00:16:34,532 What was fascinating about all these people of 438 00:16:34,532 --> 00:16:36,117 the all the people I studied, there was 439 00:16:36,117 --> 00:16:39,414 only 1 spiritual practice that they all did 440 00:16:40,195 --> 00:16:43,394 together or as individuals. The only 1 that 441 00:16:43,394 --> 00:16:45,475 they all did, and that was that they 442 00:16:45,475 --> 00:16:46,195 took retreats, 443 00:16:48,205 --> 00:16:50,120 Part of their habit as leaders, their discipline 444 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,514 in the world was to remove themselves from 445 00:16:52,514 --> 00:16:53,710 their daily activity. 446 00:16:54,363 --> 00:16:57,313 To literally put the world on mute so 447 00:16:57,313 --> 00:16:59,624 they could cultivate the ability to hear the 448 00:16:59,624 --> 00:17:00,342 voice of Jesus. 449 00:17:02,509 --> 00:17:04,109 My friends, it's hard to be quiet while 450 00:17:04,109 --> 00:17:06,349 holding a noisy phone that's constantly begging for 451 00:17:06,349 --> 00:17:08,430 your attention and sending you messages about your 452 00:17:08,430 --> 00:17:09,789 relative value in the world. 453 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:14,184 It's impossible with a constant barrage of Fox 454 00:17:14,263 --> 00:17:16,672 News or Cnn bla from your television 455 00:17:17,047 --> 00:17:18,240 telling you what to believe. 456 00:17:20,167 --> 00:17:22,003 We need to silence the world and its 457 00:17:22,003 --> 00:17:25,116 messages about our value and security all and 458 00:17:25,116 --> 00:17:27,671 better are ultimately all rooted in lies. 459 00:17:29,684 --> 00:17:32,164 Quiet and calm are not ignorant of real 460 00:17:32,164 --> 00:17:33,845 issues in the world. They simply do not 461 00:17:33,845 --> 00:17:36,404 let the world around them determine what's important. 462 00:17:36,819 --> 00:17:38,575 What's valuable and real. 463 00:17:40,012 --> 00:17:42,566 Christchurch do not let the world tell you 464 00:17:42,566 --> 00:17:45,201 what's important, what's valuable or what is true. 465 00:17:46,731 --> 00:17:48,165 That is the work of the old and 466 00:17:48,165 --> 00:17:48,904 new testament 467 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,910 as we work together to figure out how 468 00:17:51,910 --> 00:17:53,106 to live that in the world. 469 00:17:53,917 --> 00:17:55,746 Friends, I think this is the core challenge 470 00:17:55,746 --> 00:17:58,848 of disciples... Fundamental to our relationship with God. 471 00:17:59,564 --> 00:18:01,409 Earlier in the God readings we heard about 472 00:18:01,409 --> 00:18:03,161 the mustard seed faith, the seed of faith 473 00:18:03,161 --> 00:18:05,628 that enters our life that produces amazing fruit 474 00:18:05,628 --> 00:18:07,936 in our lives. But there's... We have to 475 00:18:07,936 --> 00:18:09,528 not only pay attention to the mustard seed, 476 00:18:09,607 --> 00:18:11,634 but what about this soil the seed falls 477 00:18:11,690 --> 00:18:11,929 into. 478 00:18:12,883 --> 00:18:14,871 Jesus talks about what's called the parable of 479 00:18:14,871 --> 00:18:15,507 the soils. 480 00:18:16,063 --> 00:18:18,131 There are 4 soils, the hard pan robe 481 00:18:18,131 --> 00:18:20,453 or the seed, the seed of faith, can't 482 00:18:20,453 --> 00:18:20,931 get in, 483 00:18:21,569 --> 00:18:24,279 can't penetrate, so it's stolen by birds, the 484 00:18:24,279 --> 00:18:24,678 evil 1. 485 00:18:25,395 --> 00:18:27,309 There's rocky soil with the seed sprouts up 486 00:18:27,309 --> 00:18:29,555 where there's little root, and the trials of 487 00:18:29,555 --> 00:18:32,343 life and the burdens of the existence just 488 00:18:32,343 --> 00:18:33,538 burn it up and it goes away. 489 00:18:34,335 --> 00:18:34,972 Faith dies. 490 00:18:36,503 --> 00:18:39,460 And then there's the good soil where the 491 00:18:39,460 --> 00:18:41,298 plant can flourish and it produces a crop 492 00:18:41,298 --> 00:18:44,735 30, 60 a hundred times what was produced. 493 00:18:46,268 --> 00:18:47,627 And you know, I've left 1 of the 494 00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:49,465 soils out. There is the other soil, the 495 00:18:49,465 --> 00:18:51,383 weed soil where the plant grows up among 496 00:18:51,383 --> 00:18:53,940 the weeds. It still lives still produces a 497 00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:54,180 crop. 498 00:18:54,754 --> 00:18:57,010 But the real fruit is choked out by 499 00:18:57,388 --> 00:18:58,426 competition with the weeds. 500 00:18:59,304 --> 00:19:01,002 I think friends this soil 501 00:19:01,460 --> 00:19:03,695 describes every person in this room. 502 00:19:05,140 --> 00:19:05,695 Including me. 503 00:19:08,787 --> 00:19:11,665 Jesus commentary and the weed soil is that 504 00:19:11,893 --> 00:19:14,272 The cares of this world, the d of 505 00:19:14,272 --> 00:19:16,888 wealth and the desire for other things choke 506 00:19:16,888 --> 00:19:19,108 out our lives and make them un fruit. 507 00:19:20,636 --> 00:19:23,529 Cares of this world, the d of wealth 508 00:19:23,587 --> 00:19:26,139 and the desire for other things, it's all 509 00:19:26,139 --> 00:19:27,894 endemic in American christianity. 510 00:19:30,779 --> 00:19:32,531 And they're all loud in my life. 511 00:19:33,168 --> 00:19:34,761 Like I was 30 years ago when I 512 00:19:34,761 --> 00:19:37,071 wanted more, more leaders, more skill, more notice, 513 00:19:37,231 --> 00:19:38,425 more place, more purpose, 514 00:19:38,999 --> 00:19:40,835 we all wrestle with this in some way. 515 00:19:41,154 --> 00:19:41,553 Don't we? 516 00:19:42,750 --> 00:19:44,906 I I want to pursue something that's in 517 00:19:44,906 --> 00:19:47,141 my grasp rather than this thing I can't 518 00:19:47,141 --> 00:19:48,770 see. Of the kingdom 519 00:19:49,301 --> 00:19:51,126 and that sometimes I can't see of the 520 00:19:51,126 --> 00:19:52,316 care of Jesus. 521 00:19:53,823 --> 00:19:55,586 Now friends, it doesn't take a careful reading 522 00:19:55,586 --> 00:19:57,100 of the scriptures to know that the author 523 00:19:57,100 --> 00:19:58,852 of the on David wrestled with it too. 524 00:19:59,409 --> 00:20:00,604 He struggled with his families, 525 00:20:01,162 --> 00:20:02,596 temptation the weight of all of his work 526 00:20:02,596 --> 00:20:05,237 and yet he chose a to cultivate life 527 00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:08,181 of quiet and stillness he wrote this song. 528 00:20:09,453 --> 00:20:10,590 It was a gift to him 529 00:20:11,220 --> 00:20:13,619 it was an invitation to the grown up 530 00:20:13,619 --> 00:20:14,119 confidence 531 00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:17,539 of a relationship with God, the father. 532 00:20:19,069 --> 00:20:21,001 It's a picture of a we child 533 00:20:21,456 --> 00:20:21,774 that is, 534 00:20:23,047 --> 00:20:24,638 you see this this picture of a we 535 00:20:24,638 --> 00:20:26,888 child is not that we stay small 536 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:28,818 dependent and infant. 537 00:20:29,916 --> 00:20:31,354 Rather it's a picture of a person you 538 00:20:31,354 --> 00:20:33,031 can now be at peace enough to enjoy 539 00:20:33,031 --> 00:20:35,757 a relationship with their parent confident the parent 540 00:20:35,757 --> 00:20:38,642 knows what is needed and is loving enough 541 00:20:38,858 --> 00:20:39,573 to provide it. 542 00:20:41,004 --> 00:20:42,356 He'll give us the food we need. The 543 00:20:42,356 --> 00:20:43,946 clothing we need, the meaning, the value, the 544 00:20:43,946 --> 00:20:45,078 place in the world, 545 00:20:45,877 --> 00:20:48,594 it's a word picture of seek first the 546 00:20:48,594 --> 00:20:48,994 kingdom, 547 00:20:50,352 --> 00:20:51,950 and I'll take care of the things you 548 00:20:51,950 --> 00:20:52,350 really need. 549 00:20:55,142 --> 00:20:57,601 The invitation is to a still in quiet 550 00:20:57,601 --> 00:20:59,108 heart that lets God be in charge of 551 00:20:59,108 --> 00:21:00,377 the very real concerns. 552 00:21:00,868 --> 00:21:02,933 Very real cares and troubles in the world 553 00:21:02,933 --> 00:21:03,568 that I live in, 554 00:21:04,838 --> 00:21:07,618 in a way that cultivate greater relationship in 555 00:21:07,618 --> 00:21:08,729 intimacy with God himself. 556 00:21:10,253 --> 00:21:11,684 We when we take our place in the 557 00:21:11,684 --> 00:21:14,148 story and enter into this rest, we are 558 00:21:14,148 --> 00:21:17,169 entering into our rest that is built on 559 00:21:17,169 --> 00:21:19,236 our relationship of intimacy with God. 560 00:21:19,889 --> 00:21:21,646 Himself. Arthur Wiser says it this way. 561 00:21:22,845 --> 00:21:25,162 Now no desire can now come between you 562 00:21:25,162 --> 00:21:25,801 and your God. 563 00:21:26,854 --> 00:21:28,851 For your sure that god knows what you 564 00:21:28,851 --> 00:21:30,449 need before you could even ask him. 565 00:21:31,567 --> 00:21:33,898 And just as the child gradually breaks off 566 00:21:33,898 --> 00:21:35,966 the habit of regarding the mother only as 567 00:21:35,966 --> 00:21:38,853 a means of satisfying his own desires 568 00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:41,614 and learns to love her for her own 569 00:21:41,614 --> 00:21:44,825 sake. It's So the worship learns to desire 570 00:21:44,904 --> 00:21:46,025 God for himself, 571 00:21:46,664 --> 00:21:48,845 and not as a means of fulfillment 572 00:21:49,224 --> 00:21:50,265 of his own wishes, 573 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,620 His life's center of gravity has shifted. He 574 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,600 now rests no longer in himself, 575 00:21:57,559 --> 00:21:58,279 but in God. 576 00:21:59,332 --> 00:22:00,949 You see, this is a picture 577 00:22:01,327 --> 00:22:02,922 of a child, a disciple, 578 00:22:03,481 --> 00:22:05,715 a grown adult at rest. 579 00:22:06,368 --> 00:22:06,927 In faith. 580 00:22:08,124 --> 00:22:09,879 A child can now say no to the 581 00:22:09,879 --> 00:22:11,715 cares of the world. I can get involved, 582 00:22:11,874 --> 00:22:13,390 but they're not mind to fix. 583 00:22:14,363 --> 00:22:16,278 I can say no to the d of. 584 00:22:16,518 --> 00:22:17,816 I won't be content 585 00:22:18,273 --> 00:22:19,630 with what I have. 586 00:22:20,747 --> 00:22:21,705 That's not easy. 587 00:22:22,756 --> 00:22:24,269 To take her place in the story and 588 00:22:24,269 --> 00:22:26,499 to find our rest in ing. It's not 589 00:22:26,499 --> 00:22:26,897 easy, 590 00:22:27,694 --> 00:22:29,446 but it's an invitation to all of us. 591 00:22:31,769 --> 00:22:33,519 I can order my desires so that are 592 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:36,304 no longer driven to achieve to attain or 593 00:22:36,304 --> 00:22:36,940 to control. 594 00:22:38,531 --> 00:22:40,851 That's our place. In the story, a place 595 00:22:40,851 --> 00:22:42,439 of rest, place of peace, 596 00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:44,186 place of God's kingdom. 597 00:22:45,774 --> 00:22:46,274 And 598 00:22:46,806 --> 00:22:49,085 I'm now free to place my hope in 599 00:22:49,762 --> 00:22:52,072 in something worthy of my entire life. 600 00:22:53,028 --> 00:22:53,666 God himself. 601 00:22:55,339 --> 00:22:57,343 On our translation, this This morning we read, 602 00:22:57,423 --> 00:22:59,488 oh, israel weight on the lord that another 603 00:22:59,488 --> 00:23:02,189 way to translated is Israel hope in the 604 00:23:02,189 --> 00:23:04,889 lord from this time forth and forever ever 605 00:23:04,889 --> 00:23:05,207 more. 606 00:23:07,373 --> 00:23:10,011 Friends, the psalm is not an invitation capacity. 607 00:23:10,171 --> 00:23:11,529 This is the third time I've said that, 608 00:23:11,769 --> 00:23:13,128 where we do not put our hand to 609 00:23:13,128 --> 00:23:15,205 the duties tasking and engagements of our various 610 00:23:15,205 --> 00:23:15,605 calling. 611 00:23:16,499 --> 00:23:18,731 The invitation, the promise that we can do 612 00:23:18,731 --> 00:23:21,362 it with rest, confidence and peace of 1 613 00:23:21,362 --> 00:23:23,595 whose hope is in the lord who loves 614 00:23:23,595 --> 00:23:25,841 us more that we can ask. Or even 615 00:23:25,841 --> 00:23:26,318 imagine. 616 00:23:28,465 --> 00:23:28,965 Peterson 617 00:23:29,340 --> 00:23:30,930 says it this way. And this is what 618 00:23:30,930 --> 00:23:34,769 psalm 01:31 nurture in us or a quality 619 00:23:34,769 --> 00:23:37,490 of calm confidence and quiet strength that knows 620 00:23:37,490 --> 00:23:38,230 the difference 621 00:23:39,089 --> 00:23:41,109 between unruly arrogance and faithful 622 00:23:41,410 --> 00:23:41,650 aspiration. 623 00:23:42,704 --> 00:23:44,964 Knows the difference that knows how to discriminate 624 00:23:45,105 --> 00:23:48,704 between infant dependency and child like trust. 625 00:23:49,758 --> 00:23:51,537 And it chooses to aspire 626 00:23:51,996 --> 00:23:52,555 to trust. 627 00:23:54,313 --> 00:23:55,432 So we can say in the midst of 628 00:23:55,432 --> 00:23:56,950 our lives with all of its cares and 629 00:23:56,950 --> 00:23:58,800 concerns, With all of its duties and burns, 630 00:23:59,199 --> 00:24:00,018 I've still 631 00:24:00,554 --> 00:24:02,867 inquired my soul. God's got this. 632 00:24:03,904 --> 00:24:04,781 God's got me. 633 00:24:05,658 --> 00:24:06,376 I will trust him. 634 00:24:07,906 --> 00:24:09,842 I will take my place in the story 635 00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:11,096 the way he's writing. 636 00:24:12,133 --> 00:24:14,206 I will choose to find rest, not in 637 00:24:14,206 --> 00:24:16,335 my achievements, not in my world, not in 638 00:24:16,613 --> 00:24:18,999 ama things that give me security, but in 639 00:24:18,999 --> 00:24:20,829 the truth of god and his power and 640 00:24:20,829 --> 00:24:22,897 his love in his goodness as a father 641 00:24:22,897 --> 00:24:23,215 over me. 642 00:24:24,905 --> 00:24:26,739 And about my future, I will hope in 643 00:24:26,739 --> 00:24:27,239 him 644 00:24:28,494 --> 00:24:29,951 now and forever. 645 00:24:33,692 --> 00:24:35,279 So why did David write the psalm? 646 00:24:37,025 --> 00:24:39,644 King David? I think it served for him 647 00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:40,755 as a mini retreat? 648 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:44,369 Only 3 verses, 1 he could remember quickly 649 00:24:44,369 --> 00:24:46,309 and easily, 1 that he could 650 00:24:46,930 --> 00:24:48,984 say as he rode into battle as he 651 00:24:49,104 --> 00:24:50,777 sat in a court and as he made 652 00:24:50,777 --> 00:24:52,929 decisions that seemed con confounded him. 653 00:24:54,762 --> 00:24:57,269 It was an opportunity for him to purposely 654 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:59,507 just have 3 little verses that he could 655 00:24:59,806 --> 00:25:00,045 repeat, 656 00:25:00,924 --> 00:25:03,321 cy to to dis dispel the cy call 657 00:25:03,321 --> 00:25:05,652 of wealth from the constant desire, for other 658 00:25:05,652 --> 00:25:07,244 things that would well up in his life. 659 00:25:09,792 --> 00:25:11,942 And friends, that's how this psalm has begun 660 00:25:11,942 --> 00:25:14,108 to work for me and my life, after 661 00:25:14,108 --> 00:25:16,899 30 years of having lived with it. I 662 00:25:16,899 --> 00:25:18,654 carry it with me everywhere. It's with me. 663 00:25:18,814 --> 00:25:21,286 It's in me. It's a little touchstone that 664 00:25:21,286 --> 00:25:24,093 connects me back to the very real love 665 00:25:24,093 --> 00:25:25,529 of the father for me. 666 00:25:26,726 --> 00:25:28,960 It's a reminder of who of who I 667 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,795 am and whose I am, 668 00:25:32,163 --> 00:25:34,469 That I belong in God story, not my 669 00:25:34,469 --> 00:25:35,026 own story. 670 00:25:35,901 --> 00:25:38,301 I get to rest in his character. Not 671 00:25:38,301 --> 00:25:39,174 a my own character. 672 00:25:40,047 --> 00:25:41,023 I get to hope 673 00:25:41,395 --> 00:25:42,268 in his kingdom, 674 00:25:42,823 --> 00:25:43,537 not a my. 675 00:25:45,299 --> 00:25:47,859 Contra. This is your invitation today to be 676 00:25:47,859 --> 00:25:49,619 a disciple in this way. 677 00:25:50,660 --> 00:25:51,859 Take your place in the story. 678 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:53,700 Find your rest in God. 679 00:25:54,271 --> 00:25:55,384 Find your hope in God. 680 00:25:56,814 --> 00:25:58,879 And as we close, I'm just gonna invite 681 00:25:58,879 --> 00:26:00,785 you to pray. I'm gonna pray over us 682 00:26:00,785 --> 00:26:02,945 today this psalm as a We're gonna take 683 00:26:02,945 --> 00:26:05,805 a 30 second mini retreat together in the 684 00:26:05,805 --> 00:26:06,759 midst of this service. 685 00:26:07,394 --> 00:26:09,063 Would you bow your heads and hearts with 686 00:26:09,063 --> 00:26:09,221 me. 687 00:26:10,355 --> 00:26:12,035 And would you ask God to speak to 688 00:26:12,035 --> 00:26:12,855 you where 689 00:26:13,315 --> 00:26:15,634 he would have you rest today? 690 00:26:20,835 --> 00:26:22,342 Lord our hearts are not lifted up. 691 00:26:24,246 --> 00:26:26,071 Our eyes are not raised too high and 692 00:26:26,071 --> 00:26:27,341 things that are way beyond us. 693 00:26:29,914 --> 00:26:32,075 We don't wanna occupy ourselves with things that 694 00:26:32,075 --> 00:26:32,575 are 695 00:26:33,434 --> 00:26:35,674 too great and too marvelous for us because 696 00:26:35,674 --> 00:26:37,035 only you should do those things. 697 00:26:39,994 --> 00:26:42,142 So we have and we choose to call 698 00:26:42,142 --> 00:26:43,573 ourselves to quiet ourselves. 699 00:26:45,262 --> 00:26:47,177 To let you define us who we are 700 00:26:47,177 --> 00:26:48,294 as your child. 701 00:26:49,171 --> 00:26:51,325 We wanna be like we children with their 702 00:26:51,325 --> 00:26:51,645 mother. 703 00:26:52,534 --> 00:26:53,909 Not fuss, not 704 00:26:54,284 --> 00:26:55,261 worried, not 705 00:26:56,669 --> 00:26:57,544 upset but content. 706 00:26:58,976 --> 00:27:01,043 We want our souls to be like we 707 00:27:01,043 --> 00:27:01,361 child, 708 00:27:02,092 --> 00:27:02,888 inside of ourselves. 709 00:27:06,390 --> 00:27:07,606 O Christchurch 710 00:27:09,664 --> 00:27:10,449 hope in the lord, 711 00:27:11,548 --> 00:27:12,411 hope and the lord, 712 00:27:13,530 --> 00:27:14,323 hope in the lord. 713 00:27:16,068 --> 00:27:18,131 From this time forth and forever more.