WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.000 At the beginning of this psalm you find something which is actually a verse of scripture and that is to the choir master a mass kill of the sons of Korah. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:25.859 Interestingly you don't find any heading at the beginning of Psalm 43 and in some Hebrew Bibles those two are gathered together in one psalm. 00:00:26.500 --> 00:00:29.859 And as you can see just from Peter's reading it there's a lot of similarities. 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:40.439 There's a lot of ways in which the same theme is repeated and like a piece of music as it is there's a chorus that repeats itself three times through that. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.839 And there are phrases that are repeated and thoughts that are expanded. 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:49.000 It's full of imagery like a piece of poetry can be. 00:00:49.519 --> 00:00:53.579 It's something that speaks to our heart and draws us out. 00:00:54.219 --> 00:00:58.479 It says it's of the sons of Korah and that it's to the choir master. 00:00:59.099 --> 00:01:07.019 The sons of Korah were a group of a family group that was designated by David to sing praise to God in the temple. 00:01:07.019 --> 00:01:18.079 And so they composed songs and here is one that one of the sons of Korah who is unnamed writes it down and he puts a note on the top that says to the choir master. 00:01:18.539 --> 00:01:22.500 Send it to this man so that it can be prepared and sung in the temple. 00:01:24.099 --> 00:01:31.420 As you listen to this you realize that he's dealing with certain issues that believers face. 00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:36.519 It's called a maskel and that's a literary term that we don't often understand. 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:47.120 Just like you get out a piece of music if you're in a choral group or you're playing an instrument and you think well I understand these words but what's all this Italian looking stuff here? 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.820 It's obscure to us but musicians understand what it is. 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:56.079 And so the ordinary Israelite may not have known the musical terms. 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.980 But the best we can do is understand that a maskel might be a teaching psalm. 00:02:01.700 --> 00:02:12.379 Now in some ways that seems different to us because if we think of teaching we usually think of a lecture and somebody who has notes in a logical progression through things. 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:18.419 If we think of a psalm we think of something which is more a literary style or a form of poetry. 00:02:18.419 --> 00:02:26.739 But what this is is it's a psalm intended to deal with issues in people's lives and teach them how do you deal with those things. 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:30.799 What do you do in your relationship with God when you feel thirsty? 00:02:31.060 --> 00:02:32.959 When you feel distant from God? 00:02:33.179 --> 00:02:36.759 When you're attacked by various different questions and you don't have the answers? 00:02:37.179 --> 00:02:39.560 What do you do in that situation? 00:02:40.099 --> 00:02:42.539 And this psalm intends to teach about that. 00:02:42.539 --> 00:02:50.799 One thing, if you look at this you see that there are 11 verses in the first and five in the second. 00:02:51.659 --> 00:03:00.560 And in the middle of the first psalm, the 42nd psalm, is verse 6 which I think is kind of the thesis of it all. 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:08.639 We tend to put the thesis in the first paragraph and sum it up at the end of whatever we're writing or saying. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:15.279 But in the Jewish literary style sometimes it's right there at the heart of what they're saying. 00:03:15.699 --> 00:03:19.779 And so you have things leading up to the thesis or the main idea. 00:03:20.219 --> 00:03:23.859 And then you have things following after that and reinforcing it. 00:03:24.539 --> 00:03:27.500 And in many ways that's the way it works out here. 00:03:28.019 --> 00:03:29.119 Verse 6 says, 00:03:29.259 --> 00:03:31.679 My soul is cast down within me. 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.159 Therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon. 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:40.419 So the son of Korah is doing several things here. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:46.840 He's putting the situation in which he wrote this from the land of Jordan and from Hermon. 00:03:47.259 --> 00:03:48.079 From Mount Mizo. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:51.340 The Jordan ran along the side of Israel. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.400 It was off from Judah, a distance from the temple. 00:03:54.819 --> 00:03:57.939 And if you went all the way up to the headwaters of the Jordan, 00:03:58.359 --> 00:04:01.780 you would find yourself where the water comes off of Mount Hermon. 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.180 And so here's this man writing from this place. 00:04:05.180 --> 00:04:10.560 And I suspect that he's probably writing in a time when he feels very distant. 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:13.659 Here he is professionally, he should be at the temple. 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.540 He should be leading worship at the temple. 00:04:16.740 --> 00:04:22.620 But instead he's way off in the end of creation, it seems to him. 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:25.000 Instead of being where God is worshipped, 00:04:25.340 --> 00:04:31.460 he's up in the northern kingdom where for many years people have wandered away from God. 00:04:31.459 --> 00:04:35.279 So instead of being in Jerusalem where the temple is and God's worshipped, 00:04:35.599 --> 00:04:40.139 he's up there where people may be worshipping Baal and Ashtoreth and other gods. 00:04:40.379 --> 00:04:42.719 He feels very distant from God. 00:04:43.099 --> 00:04:46.539 And he's becoming dried out as he's up there. 00:04:47.659 --> 00:04:48.839 And he says of himself, 00:04:48.839 --> 00:05:04.899 He's telling us that in that situation, 00:05:04.899 --> 00:05:09.899 what he's trying to do is to remember God and keep that connection with God. 00:05:09.899 --> 00:05:12.039 And that's what this psalm is all about. 00:05:13.379 --> 00:05:17.339 If you think in terms of musical presentation, 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.439 not just the simplicity that's good for congregational singing, 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:23.859 but if you were the sons of Korah, 00:05:24.099 --> 00:05:28.120 you were working under the choir master and you were going to present this in the temple 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.479 so that people could really understand what you're trying to teach them. 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.100 You would look at this psalm and you could say, 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:41.020 OK, here's the chorus that's repeated in verse 5 and verse 11 and verse 5 of the next psalm. 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.200 So we need to have the chorus in there 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:48.360 and we need to bring out the progression of the thoughts of these things 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:52.980 and the way in which the first part and the second part and the third part relate together. 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:56.660 We can connect those things musically with the instruments we use 00:05:56.660 --> 00:05:58.460 and the key we set it in. 00:05:58.780 --> 00:06:01.120 There are certain verses that need to be at a minor key 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.780 and certain verses here that need to be in a light and arily key 00:06:05.780 --> 00:06:10.060 because of songs that go up to God and our prayers being heard. 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.180 There are things that we can do in this psalm. 00:06:13.259 --> 00:06:16.220 And as we present it, the first time we present that chorus, 00:06:16.579 --> 00:06:18.259 it's going to seem rather bleak, 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.100 but we're going to make it more triumphant in the middle. 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:24.079 And at the end, we're going to bring in the kettle drums 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.420 and some other instruments so that people understand 00:06:27.420 --> 00:06:30.860 that we can come before God and God answers our prayer. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:35.280 So I'm not going to perform this or anything like that, 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:39.560 but let's keep that in mind as we try to listen to this psalm 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:41.819 and what the psalmist is communicating to us. 00:06:43.259 --> 00:06:44.660 There's three different things here. 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:50.860 The first five verses, I think we could say, is longing for God's presence. 00:06:50.860 --> 00:06:57.939 And then the last five verses of 42 is practicing God's presence. 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.540 And then 43 is God's presence brings us home. 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:07.980 So it's all about God's presence and all about God satisfying that longing. 00:07:08.860 --> 00:07:14.360 If you look here in the first part, longing for God's presence in verses 1 to 5, 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:21.699 He presents this picture and begins the whole idea of things that flow. 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:26.360 He talks about the deer pants for the flowing streams. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.280 So pants my soul for you, O God. 00:07:29.740 --> 00:07:32.060 He's like a man who is out in the wilderness. 00:07:32.060 --> 00:07:37.300 And he comes down, as you would do if you were in a desert place. 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.939 You see a ribbon of green and you think, there's things growing there. 00:07:42.019 --> 00:07:43.100 There must be a stream. 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.840 And you come down to that stream and all you find is rocks and sand. 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:50.060 And so the deer goes on looking for another place. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.319 Where can he satisfy his thirst? 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.000 This man goes looking for God. 00:07:56.339 --> 00:07:57.740 He's thirsty for God. 00:07:57.860 --> 00:07:59.240 Where can he find that? 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.139 And so he finds himself living in a desert place. 00:08:03.740 --> 00:08:05.279 But he says in verse 2, 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.759 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:10.699 When shall I come and appear before God? 00:08:11.180 --> 00:08:15.000 I don't want these dead gods that these people up here in the north are worshipping. 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:17.620 Baal is not going to answer my prayers. 00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:20.420 The Asteroth is not going to give me what I need. 00:08:20.420 --> 00:08:22.100 They don't care about me. 00:08:22.540 --> 00:08:24.819 What I'm looking for is the living God. 00:08:24.939 --> 00:08:26.300 The God who gives life. 00:08:26.659 --> 00:08:29.379 The God who gives life in this dry place to me. 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:32.679 The God who gives life to my soul. 00:08:33.700 --> 00:08:38.480 And he asks, when shall I come and appear before God? 00:08:39.299 --> 00:08:42.200 That's one of the questions that comes through this psalm. 00:08:42.659 --> 00:08:44.419 It's been a long time, Lord. 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:47.039 It's been too long since I've been away from you. 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.679 It's been too long since I've heard your words. 00:08:49.899 --> 00:08:51.299 Since I've sung your praises. 00:08:51.299 --> 00:08:53.359 When is this going to end, Lord? 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:57.519 And so he is longing to stand before God. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:04.620 In verse 3, that whole idea that goes through here of flowing is reflected in his sorrow. 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:07.840 My tears have been my food day and night. 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:16.139 So instead of finding a stream that's flowing like the deer is looking for, I find the stream flowing from my eyes. 00:09:16.500 --> 00:09:20.580 It's my tears, Lord, that have become my food day and night. 00:09:20.580 --> 00:09:23.500 Not just from time to time. 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:28.759 But he says it is persistent and it's day and night that his tears are flowing. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.700 And why is it that he is weeping? 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:38.600 Because he says, while they say to me all the day long, where is your God? 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:44.060 So in this context with unbelievers all around him, that's the thing that he hears. 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:45.820 So here's another question. 00:09:46.259 --> 00:09:47.379 The first is when? 00:09:48.019 --> 00:09:49.440 And this question is where? 00:09:49.740 --> 00:09:50.960 Where is your God? 00:09:51.580 --> 00:09:54.040 It's the taunt of people who don't believe. 00:09:55.000 --> 00:10:02.620 You may find yourself in that kind of situation where you're trying to have a testimony, but you feel very alone. 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:06.960 You don't feel like there's other students in your school who believe in the Lord Jesus. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.000 You believe that people are making fun of you when you talk about him. 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:17.240 When you try to express in your place of work or your neighborhood or wherever it might be, 00:10:17.299 --> 00:10:20.460 when you try to express your faith in God, people are saying, 00:10:20.980 --> 00:10:23.919 well, when such and such happened, where was God? 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.419 When this tragedy happened, where was God? 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:30.860 When this earthquake happened, where was God? 00:10:30.860 --> 00:10:32.779 And that's people's questions. 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.419 Most of their life, they're just saying, God, stay away. 00:10:37.860 --> 00:10:39.500 I don't even believe that you're there. 00:10:39.779 --> 00:10:41.340 I don't want you in my life. 00:10:41.740 --> 00:10:46.580 But when something bad happens, they turn to us and they say, where is your God? 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:53.840 And the son of Korah, the psalmist, is reflecting that in his own heart. 00:10:55.180 --> 00:10:58.700 One of the things that he misses is the opportunity to worship God. 00:10:58.700 --> 00:11:05.620 There are other psalms in which the psalmist talks about seeing the wicked prosper and seeing the struggles of the righteous 00:11:05.620 --> 00:11:08.840 and saying, Lord, this doesn't seem right. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.420 And he's wrestling with this before God. 00:11:11.520 --> 00:11:14.120 And then he says, then I went into your sanctuary. 00:11:14.780 --> 00:11:19.780 Then I went where I heard your word, where I saw your people and they were worshiping you. 00:11:20.020 --> 00:11:22.520 I went to your sanctuary and then it made sense. 00:11:22.900 --> 00:11:24.720 And the Lord answered his question. 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.180 And that's what he does when he comes to verse 4. 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:37.360 These things I remember as I pour out my soul, how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, 00:11:37.920 --> 00:11:42.800 with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping fast of me. 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.399 This word remember is an important covenantal word. 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:51.220 God wants us to remember his covenant. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:12:01.879 And often in the scriptures it will go back and say, remember how God did this, remember how God did that, remember how God has done all of these things. 00:12:02.319 --> 00:12:03.659 Now look at your situation. 00:12:04.139 --> 00:12:05.340 Why are you so afraid? 00:12:05.439 --> 00:12:08.079 Because we have a God who has done these things. 00:12:08.579 --> 00:12:13.460 If God has led the children of Israel through the Red Sea and across the Jordan, 00:12:13.460 --> 00:12:17.120 can't he give the deer a drink in a dry, thirsty land? 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:22.480 If God has done all of these things, can't he provide for you in this situation? 00:12:23.400 --> 00:12:29.259 And so this man who used to lead in worship, he looks back and he remembers and he says, 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:31.000 yes, I remember. 00:12:31.540 --> 00:12:38.600 I remember as I pour out my soul that I used to be there in the throng and we were singing praise to God. 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:45.120 But what he's hungry for in the midst of people saying, where is your God, 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:49.240 is being with God's people who are singing, here is our God. 00:12:49.680 --> 00:12:51.220 That's what refreshes us. 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:53.899 And that's the reason we come to worship together. 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.740 In verse 5, he has this conversation with himself. 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:04.440 Now there are a lot of people who say if you're talking to yourself, it's a sign of insanity. 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:09.520 And people who do that ought to get their head checked out or something like that. 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:14.020 But actually, the psalmist says, talking to yourself is a way to be healthy. 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:18.080 He talks to his soul and he says in verse 5, 00:13:18.900 --> 00:13:21.500 Why are you cast down, O my soul? 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:24.620 His soul is the innermost part of him. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.420 He's not just dealing with the outer circumstances. 00:13:28.060 --> 00:13:32.880 He's not just saying, well, I just missed that great restaurant in Jerusalem. 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:38.000 I remember when I used to go with my friends and get coffee in this sidewalk cafe. 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:39.279 That's what I really miss. 00:13:39.740 --> 00:13:41.740 How I long for these things. 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:44.080 He doesn't even say, I miss my family. 00:13:44.700 --> 00:13:47.559 He says, how I long for God. 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.399 He speaks to the innermost part of his being. 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:53.100 Not the external things. 00:13:53.220 --> 00:13:55.879 Not his mouth and his senses and his memory. 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:57.840 He speaks to his soul. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.320 Why are you cast down, my soul? 00:14:00.820 --> 00:14:03.360 And why are you in turmoil within me? 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:08.420 Notice he doesn't paint it over to make it look good. 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:14.000 He doesn't use that green paint that I had in my bag and try to make things look good. 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:18.040 Instead, he comes before God as he speaks to his soul and he says, 00:14:18.379 --> 00:14:20.340 I'm really discouraged here. 00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:22.180 I'm cast down. 00:14:22.580 --> 00:14:23.840 I'm in turmoil. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.060 And he says to his soul, why are you that way? 00:14:28.180 --> 00:14:28.980 Another question. 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:30.920 Why are you that way? 00:14:31.259 --> 00:14:32.899 Put your hope in God. 00:14:33.560 --> 00:14:37.980 For I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:43.840 In the ESV it says, I shall again praise him. 00:14:43.899 --> 00:14:46.519 And the NIV says, I shall yet praise him. 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.720 And that word yet reminds me of something that we talk about. 00:14:49.819 --> 00:14:52.620 Sometimes we talk about the now but not yet. 00:14:53.000 --> 00:15:00.279 We talk about the fact that now we have the work of resurrection in giving us a new heart. 00:15:01.439 --> 00:15:04.759 But not yet do we have the resurrection of our body. 00:15:05.079 --> 00:15:07.939 Our bodies are still weak and get sick and are frail. 00:15:08.500 --> 00:15:11.679 Now we have fellowship with God. 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:18.719 But yet, we are waiting yet for the time when we will be in God's presence together. 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.379 Now we have the word to hear. 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:24.259 The written word. 00:15:24.819 --> 00:15:28.399 But in the future we will be in the presence of Jesus, the word of God. 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:32.259 So we have now a foretaste of the things that we will have. 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:33.879 And that's what he's saying. 00:15:34.479 --> 00:15:36.039 He's saying, hope in God. 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.799 For I shall again praise him, my salvation and God. 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:45.979 To remember, I said, is a covenantal word looking back to what God has done in the past. 00:15:46.479 --> 00:15:51.819 And hope is a covenantal word looking forward to what God has promised to do in the future. 00:15:52.379 --> 00:15:55.240 And that's what we do when we are discouraged and cast down. 00:15:55.599 --> 00:15:57.799 We take hold of the promises of God. 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.859 And we say, I don't have it in full now. 00:16:01.439 --> 00:16:02.699 But it is coming. 00:16:03.259 --> 00:16:05.079 And God is going to give that to me. 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:14.100 When he says, hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, he says, my salvation and my God. 00:16:14.780 --> 00:16:17.660 The NIV says, my Savior, with a capital S. 00:16:19.220 --> 00:16:23.660 If you look at the footnote in the ESV, it says, the salvation of my face. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.840 Now, we don't use that kind of terminology. 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:33.019 That sounds like, you know, somebody would say when they're putting on their makeup. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:40.920 You know, I look so bad this morning, but this stuff I'm putting on on the tube on the way to work is the salvation of my face. 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.700 Well, that's not what he's talking about at all. 00:16:44.060 --> 00:16:47.560 What he's talking about is my own person. 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:50.960 God is the one who is very personal to me. 00:16:50.960 --> 00:17:03.440 Baal and the other gods, or your money, or your bank account, or your education, or your connections, or all those things, he says, are a dead God, not the living God. 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:06.100 And also, they could care less about you. 00:17:06.860 --> 00:17:09.400 Those gods are not your God. 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:13.059 Your God is the salvation of your face. 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.100 God is right there face to face to us. 00:17:16.460 --> 00:17:18.380 He's the one who brightens our face. 00:17:18.380 --> 00:17:20.440 He's the one who works in our hearts. 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:26.539 He doesn't say, my salvation and the God. 00:17:26.819 --> 00:17:28.059 He says, my God. 00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:31.079 Because we have a God who calls us mine. 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:34.200 And a God that we can call my God. 00:17:35.500 --> 00:17:41.519 In the second section, we see practicing God's presence from verse 7 to 11. 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:43.779 And I'll read 6 along with it. 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.240 My soul is cast down within me. 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:50.819 Therefore, I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon from Mount Nizar. 00:17:51.500 --> 00:17:54.599 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls. 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.259 All your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 00:17:58.259 --> 00:18:01.839 So here he is, so far away from Jerusalem. 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:06.039 But he's at the headwaters of the same river that comes down that way. 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:08.940 And here he is at the headwaters of this river. 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:14.019 He's been calling out to God and saying, I just want a little stream with water in it. 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.359 Enough for a deer to satisfy his thirst. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:20.339 And God says, you want a stream? 00:18:20.639 --> 00:18:21.899 I'll give you a stream. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.319 And God, here's how he describes it. 00:18:25.439 --> 00:18:28.759 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls. 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:32.079 All your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.639 Kids, have you gone someplace and you find a stream? 00:18:37.259 --> 00:18:39.159 And you're like my children always were. 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:43.319 Whenever we were traveling someplace and we would be driving along a stream, 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:46.960 they wanted to find someplace we could stop, they could build a dam. 00:18:47.659 --> 00:18:53.000 They wanted to wade in the water and it was cool and refreshing after being in the car too long. 00:18:53.460 --> 00:18:59.500 They wanted to throw rocks in the water and get wet and accidentally fall into the water 00:18:59.500 --> 00:19:01.119 when their mom wasn't looking. 00:19:01.679 --> 00:19:03.399 It was so refreshing. 00:19:04.059 --> 00:19:05.759 And so they wanted to get into the water. 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.019 And so what have you done sometimes? 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.139 Have you waded out into the water and it seems so great? 00:19:11.140 --> 00:19:14.980 And so you want to go in a little deeper and you go in a little bit deeper. 00:19:15.540 --> 00:19:19.120 And then you go in and then you find the water is pretty fast. 00:19:19.520 --> 00:19:20.820 And the rocks are slippery. 00:19:21.259 --> 00:19:22.840 And next thing you know, you're splashing. 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:25.120 You've fallen down and you're splashing in the water. 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:28.220 And your dad has to come and grab you and rescue you. 00:19:29.060 --> 00:19:31.720 Well, that's exactly what happens to the psalmist here. 00:19:32.320 --> 00:19:35.400 He says, I wanted a little stream to refresh me. 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:37.060 And what did God do? 00:19:37.059 --> 00:19:43.500 He took me up to where the mountain water comes off of Mount Hermon and begins the Jordan River. 00:19:44.220 --> 00:19:49.659 And instead of a small stream, I have waterfalls and water crashing over the rocks. 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:54.019 I can't even hear my friend talking because of the roar of the water. 00:19:55.119 --> 00:20:01.679 I wade out in the air to wash my clothes off and the dust off of my body and to be refreshed. 00:20:01.879 --> 00:20:05.440 And I slip on the rocks and I fall and I think I'm going to drown. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:10.620 Because when God provides for us, he provides abundantly. 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.200 And sometimes God answers our prayer. 00:20:14.320 --> 00:20:16.160 We're asking for something small. 00:20:16.620 --> 00:20:19.779 And God says, I don't do just small things. 00:20:20.220 --> 00:20:23.279 Sometimes I'm going to overwhelm you with the answer to your prayer. 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:27.380 And you're going to realize how dependent upon me you are on me. 00:20:27.380 --> 00:20:35.740 How much you need your Father to put his arms around you, your Heavenly Father, to rescue you from the answer to your own prayers. 00:20:36.860 --> 00:20:41.240 The language which he uses here is very reminiscent language. 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:46.060 When he says deep calls to deep, it goes all the way back to Genesis 1.1. 00:20:46.059 --> 00:20:52.200 Where we're told that the creation of the world, the waters are called the deep. 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.960 And the Holy Spirit of God is hovering over the deep. 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:57.559 That's what the waters are. 00:20:57.779 --> 00:21:01.720 They are not just something flowing on the surface, but they go very deep. 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:05.879 Turn with me to Jonah chapter 2. 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.780 And you'll think that these two have borrowed from each other. 00:21:10.320 --> 00:21:16.100 On page 774, since Jonah is a little bit harder to find than some things. 00:21:17.760 --> 00:21:19.720 774, Jonah chapter 2. 00:21:20.740 --> 00:21:23.300 Jonah was a little bit different than the psalmist. 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.860 The psalmist feels like, I'm far away from God. 00:21:26.940 --> 00:21:28.660 I wish I could find God here. 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:31.680 I wish God would give me some water to drink. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:36.720 Jonah is saying, no, God wants me to go to Nineveh, and I don't want to go. 00:21:37.180 --> 00:21:38.960 So I'm going to go the other direction. 00:21:39.620 --> 00:21:43.480 And God says, okay, you want to go out onto the sea? 00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:44.539 I'll give you the deep. 00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:46.940 You want to run away from me? 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:48.360 We'll see how that works. 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:52.539 And Jonah, remember, gets thrown overboard. 00:21:53.220 --> 00:21:58.440 He goes down into the bottom of water, and he gets swallowed by a big fish. 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:01.400 Jonah says in verse 2, 00:22:01.500 --> 00:22:03.900 I called out to the Lord out of my distress, 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.019 and he answered me out of the belly of Sheol. 00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:10.600 I cried, and you heard my voice. 00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:14.840 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, 00:22:15.320 --> 00:22:17.019 and the floods surrounded me. 00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:20.480 All your waves and your billows passed over me. 00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:23.539 Then I said, I'm driven away from your sight, 00:22:24.019 --> 00:22:26.620 yet I shall again look upon your holy temple. 00:22:26.619 --> 00:22:30.199 The waters closed in over me to take my life. 00:22:30.339 --> 00:22:31.479 The deep surrounded me. 00:22:31.899 --> 00:22:33.859 Weeds were wrapped about my head. 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:35.899 At the roots of the mountains, 00:22:36.059 --> 00:22:40.099 I went down to the land whose bars closed over me forever. 00:22:41.379 --> 00:22:44.059 Yet you brought up my life from the pit. 00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:47.359 O Lord my God, when my life was fainting away, 00:22:47.879 --> 00:22:50.459 I remember the Lord, and my prayer came to you, 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:52.039 into your holy temple. 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:55.399 Those who pay regard to vain idols, 00:22:56.059 --> 00:22:58.779 forsake their hope of steadfast love. 00:22:59.619 --> 00:23:02.000 But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, 00:23:02.139 --> 00:23:03.440 will sacrifice to you. 00:23:03.879 --> 00:23:05.180 What I have vowed to you, 00:23:05.539 --> 00:23:06.139 I will pay. 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:08.920 Salvation belongs to the Lord. 00:23:10.379 --> 00:23:14.019 God took this psalmist like Jonah into the deep. 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:17.099 He showed him how strong his power was, 00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:19.319 and how well he could answer prayer. 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:21.839 And God brings him through. 00:23:25.539 --> 00:23:27.899 So God takes us through trials. 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:29.639 God takes us through them, 00:23:29.679 --> 00:23:30.659 and he protects us. 00:23:31.159 --> 00:23:33.240 And you notice the psalmist doesn't say, 00:23:34.099 --> 00:23:35.899 he doesn't say, 00:23:35.980 --> 00:23:37.799 the roar of the waterfalls, 00:23:38.439 --> 00:23:39.379 the breakers, 00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:41.419 the waves have gone over me. 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:42.039 He says, 00:23:42.439 --> 00:23:43.539 your waterfalls, 00:23:44.139 --> 00:23:45.439 all of your breakers, 00:23:45.679 --> 00:23:46.419 your waves, 00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:47.619 have gone over me. 00:23:47.619 --> 00:23:50.039 Lord, it's your hand on me, 00:23:50.639 --> 00:23:54.500 answering my prayer in a way which is greater than I ever anticipated. 00:23:54.500 --> 00:23:58.740 So how do we rest in God? 00:23:59.960 --> 00:24:03.019 We're practicing God's presence here in verse 8. 00:24:03.819 --> 00:24:07.339 And here's where the music goes from the kettle drums, 00:24:07.460 --> 00:24:09.279 and the thundering of the waterfalls, 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:10.460 and the breakers. 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:12.819 It goes to something much quieter. 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:14.519 Day by day, 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:15.279 in verse 8, 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.160 the Lord commands his steadfast love. 00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:20.740 And at night his song was with me. 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:21.759 Before, 00:24:21.899 --> 00:24:22.519 in verse 2, 00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:23.980 or 3, 00:24:24.099 --> 00:24:25.259 which compares to this, 00:24:25.819 --> 00:24:28.319 my tears have been my food day and night. 00:24:28.879 --> 00:24:31.579 Now God has powerfully washed away his tears, 00:24:32.099 --> 00:24:32.819 and by day, 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:33.940 and by night, 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:35.420 the Lord is with him. 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:38.059 The Lord commands his steadfast love. 00:24:38.059 --> 00:24:40.740 That's the Hebrew word chesed, 00:24:41.179 --> 00:24:42.720 which is hard for us to translate. 00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:45.139 If you read the Children's Storybook Bible, 00:24:45.419 --> 00:24:49.220 it uses a whole string of words to explain that. 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:50.859 It says something about 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:52.480 God's overwhelming, 00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:53.519 never-ending, 00:24:53.919 --> 00:24:56.059 unfailing love 00:24:56.059 --> 00:24:57.639 that never quits. 00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:58.659 Something like that. 00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:00.440 It just piles up the words. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.399 This is not, 00:25:01.819 --> 00:25:04.299 oh, I love that new shirt you have. 00:25:04.740 --> 00:25:05.619 This is not, 00:25:05.919 --> 00:25:08.240 my boyfriend and I love each other, 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:09.039 so therefore, 00:25:10.019 --> 00:25:12.139 this is a love which is committed. 00:25:12.379 --> 00:25:13.599 It's God's love for us, 00:25:13.659 --> 00:25:14.740 which never fails. 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:16.180 And that's the love, 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:16.720 he says, 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:17.720 he experiences. 00:25:18.419 --> 00:25:20.759 The Lord commands his steadfast love. 00:25:21.619 --> 00:25:22.480 And at night, 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:23.700 his song is with me, 00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:25.500 a prayer to the God of my life. 00:25:25.919 --> 00:25:27.359 Because the Lord answers him 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:29.240 in the midst of his struggles, 00:25:29.879 --> 00:25:31.000 he can sing, 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.019 he can pray. 00:25:32.019 --> 00:25:34.839 But it's not all over. 00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:37.720 God didn't eliminate all of his problems, 00:25:37.879 --> 00:25:39.420 but God met him in the middle of them. 00:25:39.940 --> 00:25:41.440 In verse 9, 00:25:42.299 --> 00:25:44.920 in verse 9 and 10, 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:46.339 I say to God, 00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:47.019 my rock, 00:25:47.139 --> 00:25:48.799 why have you forgotten me? 00:25:49.259 --> 00:25:50.480 Why do I go mourning? 00:25:50.879 --> 00:25:53.220 Because of the oppression of the enemy. 00:25:53.639 --> 00:25:55.700 As with a deadly wound in my bones, 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:57.579 my adversaries taunt me. 00:25:57.799 --> 00:25:59.940 While they say to me all day long, 00:26:00.059 --> 00:26:01.059 where is your God? 00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:02.900 God, 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:04.339 he calls his rock, 00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:05.839 not a rock, 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:06.879 but my rock. 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:08.720 But he also recognizes 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:11.079 that he feels forsaken by God, 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:13.559 and pours out his complaint to him. 00:26:14.700 --> 00:26:17.059 Some people feel that if you believe in God, 00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:18.700 then everything is going to be easy. 00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:21.160 And if you don't see everything as easy, 00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:23.460 then maybe it's because you don't believe in God. 00:26:24.019 --> 00:26:27.279 But here is a psalmist who calls God his rock. 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.599 And yet he can come to God and say these things. 00:26:30.940 --> 00:26:33.879 He can say them because his belief is not on the surface. 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:37.960 It's a deep enough belief that he can come to God and say, 00:26:38.059 --> 00:26:38.279 Lord, 00:26:38.619 --> 00:26:41.119 I don't understand what's going on. 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:46.920 It's like having the kind of relationship to your parent or your good friend, 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:50.759 so that you can come to them and not just talk about banter, 00:26:51.100 --> 00:26:52.940 not just talk about surface things, 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:56.779 but you can talk to them about the agony that you feel in your heart, 00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:58.820 because you know that they will listen, 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:00.800 and you know that they will answer. 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:04.000 They will respond even if they don't take it away. 00:27:04.819 --> 00:27:06.659 And so he comes to God and says, 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:08.720 I still feel this mourning. 00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:11.059 I still feel the oppression of the enemy. 00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:12.799 I still hear them saying, 00:27:12.980 --> 00:27:14.200 Where is your God? 00:27:14.619 --> 00:27:17.200 But I come to you as my rock. 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.839 And then the chorus again, 00:27:20.379 --> 00:27:22.279 Why are you cast down on my soul, 00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:24.259 and why are you in turmoil within me? 00:27:24.779 --> 00:27:25.639 Hope in God, 00:27:25.740 --> 00:27:27.319 for I shall again praise him, 00:27:27.379 --> 00:27:29.619 my salvation and my God. 00:27:29.619 --> 00:27:32.759 This turmoil that goes on in us 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:34.399 is something very real, 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:35.879 and something we can't deny. 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:37.959 It's something that comes from us. 00:27:38.339 --> 00:27:39.559 It's part of our nature. 00:27:40.199 --> 00:27:44.059 But also Calvin says that our heart is like this devil's workshop, 00:27:44.339 --> 00:27:47.839 and sometimes the devil stoves the fire in that workshop, 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:49.639 so that he can create doubts, 00:27:50.159 --> 00:27:50.719 and fears, 00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:52.359 and all these kinds of things. 00:27:52.979 --> 00:27:55.259 And so the psalmist speaks to his soul, 00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:57.299 and he comes in with a bucket of water 00:27:57.299 --> 00:27:58.639 to throw it on the fire, 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.420 that the devil is fanning 00:28:00.420 --> 00:28:03.540 to try to create these things in his workshop. 00:28:04.040 --> 00:28:06.580 He throws water on that fire to say, 00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:08.340 No, hope in God, 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:09.960 for I shall again praise him, 00:28:10.020 --> 00:28:12.259 my salvation and my God. 00:28:13.320 --> 00:28:14.680 And then in this last part, 00:28:15.540 --> 00:28:18.680 he comes with things which parallel the first parts. 00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:21.980 He comes this time not to say to God, 00:28:21.980 --> 00:28:24.039 Where are you? 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:25.440 I'm thirsty, 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.779 and I can't find water. 00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:28.779 But instead, 00:28:28.900 --> 00:28:30.360 he knows that God is there. 00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:34.140 And he doesn't ask God to eliminate all of his problems, 00:28:34.299 --> 00:28:35.299 but he says to God, 00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:36.599 Vindicate me, 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:37.140 O God, 00:28:37.539 --> 00:28:38.900 and defend my cause. 00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:40.380 He doesn't say, 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:41.980 Remember me, 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:42.839 or cleanse me, 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:43.299 or something, 00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:45.740 but show that I am cleansed. 00:28:46.139 --> 00:28:47.019 Vindicate me, 00:28:47.299 --> 00:28:48.579 and defend my cause, 00:28:48.639 --> 00:28:50.000 because I'm being attacked, Lord. 00:28:50.299 --> 00:28:52.460 And I can't mount my own defense 00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:54.399 against an ungodly people. 00:28:55.299 --> 00:28:57.019 For deceitful and unjust, 00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:59.159 from deceitful and unjust men, 00:28:59.220 --> 00:28:59.740 deliver me. 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.299 For people who are telling lies all the time, 00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:05.619 who are fanning the flames of the devil's fire 00:29:05.619 --> 00:29:07.859 to create doubts and fears in my heart, 00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:08.480 Lord, 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:09.339 defend me, 00:29:09.579 --> 00:29:10.740 protect me from them. 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:12.539 From those who are unjust, 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:13.799 who do what is wrong, 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:15.460 and I can't oppose that. 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:15.720 Lord, 00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:17.519 I can't make justice myself, 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:18.980 but vindicate me, 00:29:19.059 --> 00:29:20.079 and bring justice, 00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:21.059 because you give it. 00:29:21.859 --> 00:29:24.299 For you are the God in whom I take refuge. 00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:26.420 Why have you rejected me? 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.880 Why do I go about mourning? 00:29:28.299 --> 00:29:30.039 Because of the oppression of the enemy. 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:32.759 So we have something in verse 2, 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.420 which is almost identical to verse 9. 00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:36.720 9 says, 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:37.480 I say to God, 00:29:37.579 --> 00:29:38.200 my rock. 00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:40.279 Here in verse 2, 00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:40.680 he says, 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:43.299 For you are the God in whom I take refuge. 00:29:44.099 --> 00:29:45.519 In verse 9, 00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:46.180 he says, 00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:47.759 Why have you forgotten me? 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:49.079 Here he says, 00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:50.960 Why have you rejected me? 00:29:51.299 --> 00:29:53.019 And concludes with the same words, 00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:54.640 Why do I go about mourning? 00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.339 Because of the oppression of the enemy. 00:29:57.799 --> 00:29:59.000 Who is our rock? 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:01.120 Who is our fortress? 00:30:01.819 --> 00:30:02.920 Who do we turn to 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:05.319 when we feel oppressed by the enemy? 00:30:05.539 --> 00:30:08.940 When we feel that God is somehow distant to us. 00:30:08.940 --> 00:30:12.120 We turn to the one who was closer to us than a brother. 00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:14.580 We turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:30:15.580 --> 00:30:19.940 In 1 Corinthians chapter 10, 00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:23.000 Paul says that 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.240 that when the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:28.380 there was a rock that went with them. 00:30:29.380 --> 00:30:31.660 That rock was Jesus Christ. 00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:33.440 And it was from the rock, 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:34.339 that rock, 00:30:34.420 --> 00:30:37.119 that they drank water in different places in the desert. 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:38.019 Now, 00:30:38.159 --> 00:30:38.699 it wasn't, 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:42.659 what they needed was not that geological rock 00:30:42.659 --> 00:30:44.399 that stayed in one place, 00:30:44.479 --> 00:30:46.859 but what they needed was the rock of Jesus Christ 00:30:46.859 --> 00:30:48.739 who traveled with them in the desert. 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:51.899 And that's what the psalmist is turning to as his rock 00:30:51.899 --> 00:30:52.979 and his fortress. 00:30:53.579 --> 00:30:55.659 The New Testament also tells us that Jesus 00:30:55.659 --> 00:30:57.959 is the cornerstone of God's church. 00:30:58.419 --> 00:31:02.019 He's the rock that he has given to us 00:31:02.019 --> 00:31:04.440 for our salvation and for our defense. 00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:06.579 He's the one that we call out to 00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:07.920 and we pour out our heart. 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:08.920 And we say, 00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:10.500 why are we still mourning? 00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:13.500 Because he is the one who hears us. 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:16.759 He's the one who came to suffer in our place. 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.900 He's the one who came to be thirsty, 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:19.920 to be overwhelmed, 00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:22.799 to have people call out to him, 00:31:22.900 --> 00:31:24.819 where is your God when he's on the cross? 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:26.879 Why doesn't he come and save you? 00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:30.240 If the Lord delights in you, 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:31.579 let him deliver you. 00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:33.000 From this death. 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:35.400 He's the one who went to that cross 00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:36.460 and took it for us. 00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:39.119 The psalmist says, 00:31:39.259 --> 00:31:40.960 here is God leading us home. 00:31:41.460 --> 00:31:43.200 Because this last part is that 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.500 God's presence brings us home. 00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:48.359 The psalmist says, 00:31:48.639 --> 00:31:51.400 send your light and your truth 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:52.500 and let them lead me. 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:54.619 I'm in the dark here, Lord. 00:31:54.980 --> 00:31:57.339 I'm attacked by deceitful people. 00:31:57.799 --> 00:31:59.480 Send your light and your truth. 00:31:59.660 --> 00:32:00.799 Let them lead me. 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:02.500 Let them bring me to your holy hill 00:32:02.500 --> 00:32:04.119 and to your dwelling. 00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:06.740 Then I will go to the altar of God. 00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:08.819 To God my exceeding joy. 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:09.980 And I will praise you 00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:11.240 with the lyre. 00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:12.919 Oh God, my God. 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:14.839 At the beginning, 00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:16.139 he's longing to go back 00:32:16.139 --> 00:32:17.599 and to worship with God's people. 00:32:18.059 --> 00:32:19.700 He wants to be at the temple. 00:32:19.700 --> 00:32:22.759 And here he uses that same language. 00:32:23.180 --> 00:32:24.799 Now let your light and your truth 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:26.259 lead me to your holy hill 00:32:26.259 --> 00:32:27.140 and to your dwelling. 00:32:27.580 --> 00:32:29.400 I will go to the altar of God. 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:31.220 But it's not the altar. 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.740 It's not the temple. 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.059 It's not the hill he's looking for. 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:36.360 To God, 00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:38.120 my exceeding joy. 00:32:38.779 --> 00:32:40.140 And I will praise you 00:32:40.140 --> 00:32:41.480 with the lyre. 00:32:41.860 --> 00:32:42.660 Oh God, 00:32:43.100 --> 00:32:43.840 my God. 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.519 Jesus is the one 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:47.879 who leads us in this way. 00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:49.919 Turn with me to 00:32:49.919 --> 00:32:51.279 John chapter 4. 00:32:53.919 --> 00:32:55.579 We're over to 8. 00:32:56.740 --> 00:32:57.299 8. 00:32:57.379 --> 00:32:58.419 89 here. 00:32:59.399 --> 00:33:00.379 Come to John. 00:33:03.659 --> 00:33:04.899 John chapter 4. 00:33:04.959 --> 00:33:06.559 Jesus is talking to someone else 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:07.159 who's thirsty. 00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:09.599 He's talking to a woman 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.219 who is partway out 00:33:11.219 --> 00:33:12.119 toward Mount Hermon. 00:33:12.679 --> 00:33:14.359 Someone who is in a dry place. 00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:15.919 And Jesus says 00:33:15.919 --> 00:33:17.240 to this woman at the well, 00:33:17.980 --> 00:33:21.539 let me start with verse 10. 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:23.240 Jesus said to her, 00:33:25.099 --> 00:33:26.059 no, that's not 10. 00:33:28.959 --> 00:33:30.039 Jesus answered her, 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:31.639 if you knew the gift of God 00:33:31.639 --> 00:33:33.319 and who it is that is saying to you, 00:33:33.379 --> 00:33:34.119 give me a drink, 00:33:34.699 --> 00:33:35.779 you would have asked him 00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:37.000 and he would have given you 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:37.779 living water. 00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:39.579 The woman said to him, 00:33:39.679 --> 00:33:40.519 sir, you have nothing 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:41.219 to draw with 00:33:41.219 --> 00:33:42.119 and the well is deep. 00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:43.459 Where do you get 00:33:43.459 --> 00:33:44.379 this living water? 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:45.719 Are you greater 00:33:45.719 --> 00:33:46.740 than our father Jacob? 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:47.699 He gave us the well 00:33:47.699 --> 00:33:48.879 and drank from it himself 00:33:48.879 --> 00:33:50.119 as did his sons 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:50.859 and his livestock. 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:52.399 Jesus said to her, 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:53.399 everyone who drinks 00:33:53.399 --> 00:33:54.139 of this water 00:33:54.139 --> 00:33:55.339 will be thirsty again. 00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:56.980 But whoever drinks 00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:57.500 of the water 00:33:57.500 --> 00:33:58.240 that I give him 00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.459 will never thirst again. 00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:01.559 The water that I will give him 00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:02.639 will become to him 00:34:02.639 --> 00:34:03.639 a spring of water 00:34:03.639 --> 00:34:05.859 welling up to eternal life. 00:34:06.879 --> 00:34:07.879 The woman said to him, 00:34:07.879 --> 00:34:09.239 sir, give me this water. 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:11.159 So that I will not be thirsty 00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:12.159 or have to come here 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.639 to drink and draw water. 00:34:14.319 --> 00:34:15.279 A few chapters later 00:34:15.279 --> 00:34:16.699 in chapter 7, 00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:19.440 Jesus says to the people 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:20.400 coming to the temple 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:24.659 that if you come to me, 00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:26.019 I will give you living water 00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:27.980 and streams of living water 00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:29.079 will flow out from you. 00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:30.299 And John says, 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:30.940 he said this, 00:34:31.059 --> 00:34:32.360 speaking of the Holy Spirit 00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:33.960 who is to be poured out on them. 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:36.559 Later in this chapter, 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.320 Jesus speaks not just about 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:39.820 the thirst and the living water, 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:42.539 but from 19 to 26, 00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:48.900 the woman said to him, 00:34:48.980 --> 00:34:50.800 sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:52.460 Our fathers worshipped 00:34:52.460 --> 00:34:53.240 on this mountain, 00:34:53.380 --> 00:34:54.599 but you say that in Jerusalem 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:55.740 is the place where people 00:34:55.740 --> 00:34:56.400 ought to worship. 00:34:57.220 --> 00:34:58.220 Jesus said to her, 00:34:58.300 --> 00:34:59.099 woman, believe me, 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:00.139 the hour is coming 00:35:00.139 --> 00:35:01.900 when neither on this mountain 00:35:01.900 --> 00:35:02.679 nor in Jerusalem 00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:04.519 will you worship the Father. 00:35:05.059 --> 00:35:06.579 You worship what you do not know. 00:35:06.699 --> 00:35:07.759 We worship what we know 00:35:07.759 --> 00:35:09.940 for salvation is from the Jews. 00:35:10.299 --> 00:35:11.440 But the hour is coming 00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.440 and is now here 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:14.019 when the true worshippers 00:35:14.019 --> 00:35:15.179 will worship the Father 00:35:15.179 --> 00:35:17.179 in spirit and in truth. 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:18.940 For the Father is seeking 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:20.420 such people to worship him. 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:21.819 God is spirit 00:35:21.819 --> 00:35:22.920 and those who worship him 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:24.799 must worship in spirit and truth. 00:35:25.879 --> 00:35:27.019 The woman said to him, 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:28.359 I know the Messiah is coming. 00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:29.980 He who is called the Christ 00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:30.640 when he comes, 00:35:30.940 --> 00:35:32.280 he will tell us all things. 00:35:32.900 --> 00:35:33.960 Jesus said to her, 00:35:34.140 --> 00:35:36.400 I who speak to you am he. 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:38.720 The psalmist longs 00:35:38.720 --> 00:35:40.360 for a drink of water 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:42.599 and Jesus promises us living water. 00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:44.099 The psalmist says, 00:35:44.240 --> 00:35:46.120 where can I go and meet with God? 00:35:46.820 --> 00:35:47.920 And Jesus says, 00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:51.780 the spirit and the truth, 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:52.800 the light, 00:35:53.140 --> 00:35:54.599 they will lead you to God. 00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:55.820 They will lead you 00:35:55.820 --> 00:35:56.840 to his holy hill. 00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:58.880 It is great for us 00:35:58.880 --> 00:35:59.720 to go and worship 00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:00.760 with God's people. 00:36:01.340 --> 00:36:02.440 But this is the now. 00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:04.440 The not yet is worshipping 00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:06.900 with thousands upon thousands 00:36:06.900 --> 00:36:07.539 of angels 00:36:07.539 --> 00:36:09.019 gathered together 00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:09.620 and worshipping 00:36:09.620 --> 00:36:10.480 in God's presence. 00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:12.440 Right now we encourage 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.640 one another as we come 00:36:13.640 --> 00:36:15.320 and we sing to each other, 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:17.240 here is our God. 00:36:17.780 --> 00:36:18.880 And we are refreshed 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:20.140 when we come together. 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:21.440 But what we are doing 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:22.300 is anticipating 00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:23.820 what God is going to do. 00:36:23.820 --> 00:36:26.120 So the psalmist says, 00:36:26.580 --> 00:36:27.480 why are you 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:28.660 cast down my soul? 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:29.519 Why are you 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:31.080 troubled within me? 00:36:33.240 --> 00:36:34.360 Hope in God 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:36.539 for I shall again praise you. 00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:37.539 My salvation 00:36:38.100 --> 00:36:39.260 or my savior, 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:40.559 the Lord Jesus 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.780 and my God. 00:36:42.220 --> 00:36:42.840 Let's pray.