WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.640 Okay, Psalm 32 of David, Amaskill. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:08.720 Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 00:00:09.300 --> 00:00:13.480 ! Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them, 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:15.460 and whose spirit is no deceit. 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:21.300 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:23.760 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:26.580 My strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. 00:00:26.579 --> 00:00:31.419 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover up my iniquity. 00:00:31.659 --> 00:00:36.379 I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the guilt of my sin. 00:00:37.579 --> 00:00:40.519 Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found. 00:00:41.140 --> 00:00:43.759 Surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:45.840 You are my hiding place. 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.480 You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.299 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:55.619 I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. 00:00:55.619 --> 00:00:58.839 Do not be like the horse or the mule which have no understanding, 00:00:59.059 --> 00:01:02.159 but must be controlled by bit and bridle, or they will not come to you. 00:01:02.979 --> 00:01:07.359 Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord's unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him. 00:01:08.659 --> 00:01:10.519 Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous. 00:01:11.060 --> 00:01:13.700 Sing all you who are upright in heart. 00:01:14.099 --> 00:01:14.319 Amen. 00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:18.900 Amazing. Thank you, Mike. 00:01:20.379 --> 00:01:22.599 I know I put you on the spot for the impromptu reading. 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:23.759 I really appreciate it. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:25.440 Great. 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:27.440 Why don't I pray for us before we get into this. 00:01:28.340 --> 00:01:30.580 Lord, we thank you for bringing us here today. 00:01:31.260 --> 00:01:34.140 We thank you that it is important that we sit under your word. 00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:37.500 And Lord, we pray that you would help me. 00:01:37.580 --> 00:01:39.700 Would you fill me with your spirit that I may speak? 00:01:40.100 --> 00:01:42.080 And what do you want to say to your church? 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:44.640 What you want to communicate through this psalm? 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:47.840 Lord, we pray that you would be at work in our hearts. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.700 Change us, renew us, encourage us, and challenge us. 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:52.400 Lord, I pray. 00:01:52.859 --> 00:01:53.659 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:54.519 Amen. 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:56.180 Amen. 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:58.120 Great. 00:01:58.599 --> 00:01:59.299 We're in Psalm 32. 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:05.480 And this psalm has been, in some way, a part of my life for a long while. 00:02:08.099 --> 00:02:10.340 Psalm 32, David goes on to confess something. 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:12.219 So I'm going to confess something to you. 00:02:13.340 --> 00:02:17.680 My confession is that I was quite a bad and annoying teenager to raise. 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:19.240 At least for my parents. 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.039 My sisters would definitely attest to that. 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:22.340 My parents would as well. 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:25.219 I became a Christian when I was like 12. 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:29.800 As I grew up, I still wrestled, though, with the, how do I live this out? 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.060 And I'd argue back and forth with my parents. 00:02:33.340 --> 00:02:35.300 And I wasn't, like, wild outside of the house. 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:37.520 But in my house, I was quite rude to them, probably. 00:02:37.880 --> 00:02:38.980 I argued back and forth. 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:42.580 Challenged them on everything they believed about what I was meant to live my life as. 00:02:43.540 --> 00:02:46.800 My mum would quote verse 9 to me over and over. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:47.700 Which says, 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:55.120 Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, but must be controlled by bit and brittle, or they will not come to you. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.719 My mum quoted that to me, I think, when she was finally done with having that conversation with me. 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.580 And went, I just wish you'd seek God's wisdom. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:06.599 I wish you wouldn't try and just go at your own way. 00:03:06.860 --> 00:03:07.920 I wish you'd seek God's wisdom. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:09.240 Don't be like one with no understanding. 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:10.140 Read your Bible. 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:10.860 Get in your word. 00:03:11.259 --> 00:03:15.360 And it was a wise mother just going, I wish you would understand the glory of God's word. 00:03:15.980 --> 00:03:19.219 That is how this psalm has been a part of my life for a long while. 00:03:19.300 --> 00:03:24.560 But I think there's more to this psalm than just that verse and just what you can tell at your teenager. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:31.319 When they're struggling with wisdom and understanding what it looks like to live out the gospel. 00:03:32.379 --> 00:03:35.680 Here are my three points that I'm going to make today. 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.020 And three points that I'm going to draw out from Psalm 32. 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.719 Firstly is the cost of sin. 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:43.960 Second is the comfort of confession. 00:03:44.659 --> 00:03:47.020 And third is the commands of the Lord. 00:03:47.379 --> 00:03:50.439 The cost of sin, the comfort of confession, the commands of the Lord. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.719 Yes, they're all C's. 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.140 Yes, I did work on that. 00:03:53.139 --> 00:03:55.219 I hope that somebody can appreciate it. 00:03:56.539 --> 00:03:58.779 So first we'll start with the cost of sin. 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:06.659 If we look down at verses three and four, it is plain to see David is describing a broken man. 00:04:07.339 --> 00:04:10.500 He says, when I kept silent, my bones wasted away. 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:12.579 I groaned all day long. 00:04:12.899 --> 00:04:15.579 Day and night, he felt God's hand heavy on him. 00:04:15.859 --> 00:04:17.800 His strength was zapped in the summer. 00:04:17.979 --> 00:04:21.279 This is a broken man crumbling under the weight. 00:04:21.579 --> 00:04:22.300 And the weight of what? 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:25.079 Well, the next few verses tell us that it's the guilt of his sin. 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.060 The guilt of his sin is weighing heavy on him. 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.699 And it's not like a guilt that you get over once you sleep it off. 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.100 No, this verse four says, it's for day and night, your hand was heavy on me. 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:42.139 Day and night, when I went to sleep, when I woke up, it felt like this guilt of sin was heavy on me. 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:43.960 This guilt of sin was heavy on me. 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.180 Maybe you've had something of that experience. 00:04:46.259 --> 00:04:48.100 Maybe the guilt of sin has been heavy on you at times. 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:49.500 Maybe it's not the guilt of sin. 00:04:49.640 --> 00:04:50.740 Maybe it's other situations. 00:04:51.140 --> 00:04:58.280 Maybe you're deciding where university to go to, what your next job should be, where you should move, what you should do. 00:04:58.760 --> 00:05:03.740 Maybe those sorts of decisions weigh heavy on you or have weighed heavy on you at times. 00:05:03.740 --> 00:05:06.480 All you can think about is that decision day and night. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:13.460 The experience I've had of this is when me and Daisy first started getting to know each other. 00:05:14.100 --> 00:05:17.460 I texted her saying, why don't we meet at a coffee shop? 00:05:17.580 --> 00:05:19.920 And this is when I'm like, I'm going to ask her out. 00:05:20.379 --> 00:05:23.540 She said in the text back, are you going to ask me out? 00:05:24.540 --> 00:05:25.240 And I said, yes. 00:05:26.060 --> 00:05:28.240 She said, I don't think it's the right time. 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:29.819 I think we should go out. 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:31.740 And that was like the rejection. 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:34.060 And then we hung out in all the same spaces. 00:05:34.060 --> 00:05:36.319 We were in the same Christian union at university. 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:37.819 We were in the same friend groups. 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:38.740 We were in the same church. 00:05:39.060 --> 00:05:42.040 But for three months straight, she never talked to me at all. 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:45.199 She just rejected me and went, I don't want to have anything to do with it. 00:05:45.540 --> 00:05:47.660 And I promise you, this is what I felt. 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:52.160 Day and night, all I could think was, why did she reject me? 00:05:52.620 --> 00:05:53.519 What did I do wrong? 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:54.800 Did I dress the wrong way? 00:05:54.840 --> 00:05:55.759 Did I say something wrong? 00:05:55.959 --> 00:06:00.420 All of these things are like, I'm wasting away under the pressure of, why? 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:02.019 Why did it happen? 00:06:02.019 --> 00:06:04.799 And that's obviously relationships. 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.599 And there are other things that weigh heavy on us. 00:06:06.939 --> 00:06:09.319 For David here, that is the weighing of heavy. 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:14.079 This decision, this thought of sin, the fact that he has gone against God's will, 00:06:14.419 --> 00:06:16.699 the weight of that is weighing heavy on him. 00:06:17.159 --> 00:06:18.139 He is burdened. 00:06:18.599 --> 00:06:21.459 He is a broken man wasting away. 00:06:22.259 --> 00:06:23.560 His strength is zapped. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:26.719 Then we come to verse five. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:31.980 And he says, then I acknowledge my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. 00:06:32.460 --> 00:06:36.040 I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord. 00:06:36.380 --> 00:06:38.840 And you forgave the guilt of my sin. 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:46.180 Verses three to four are him crumbling under the pressure, falling under the weight of this sin. 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:50.300 Verse five reads like an amazing weight coming off his shoulders. 00:06:50.300 --> 00:06:51.800 The weight's been lifted. 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:53.100 The guilt is gone. 00:06:53.660 --> 00:06:55.540 Forgiven is David. 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.579 Transgressions that held that weight of sin are there no more. 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.939 David is the one who stands forgiven in front of God. 00:07:03.580 --> 00:07:06.639 Actually, verse one and two say that he is now a blessed one. 00:07:07.139 --> 00:07:10.600 Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 00:07:11.080 --> 00:07:13.819 Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them. 00:07:13.819 --> 00:07:16.159 David stands. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.319 All he offers is a confession of his sin and the guilt of it. 00:07:20.860 --> 00:07:23.639 And God instead gives him forgiveness. 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.240 Forgiving the guilt and forgiving his transgressions. 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:34.620 His great comfort in the fact that he has confessed his sin and been met with forgiveness. 00:07:35.459 --> 00:07:39.480 The weight of his sin has been lifted as his confession meets God's grace. 00:07:40.180 --> 00:07:43.339 As the cost of his sin meets the payment for that sin. 00:07:44.719 --> 00:07:49.620 As David knew, and what this passage screams, our God is a forgiving God. 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:58.060 And he, much like us, looked in faith to a Messiah that would come, a Savior that would come, accomplishing for him the forgiveness. 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.719 And we look back in faith in the same way to the same Jesus that accomplished that. 00:08:03.620 --> 00:08:05.259 God is not just a forgiving God in word. 00:08:05.339 --> 00:08:05.980 He doesn't just forgive. 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:12.360 He sent his own son to die on a cross for us, pay the penalty, and then rise again. 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.319 Then he is a forgiving God. 00:08:15.379 --> 00:08:20.360 David knew, we know it too, having seen that lived out and fulfilled in Jesus. 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.759 Jesus came down that we might be one of the blessed as well. 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:28.379 We might be the ones whose transgressions are forgiven. 00:08:28.740 --> 00:08:29.840 Whose sin is covered over. 00:08:31.259 --> 00:08:35.560 Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and whose spirit is no deceit. 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:38.579 Jesus accomplished that for us and for David too. 00:08:40.259 --> 00:08:42.059 And so we've seen these two aspects. 00:08:42.199 --> 00:08:48.379 We've seen the aspect of a sin that is weighed down, the cost of sin. 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.859 We've seen this aspect of the confession of sin and the comfort it brings and the forgiveness that that brings. 00:08:54.860 --> 00:09:00.460 And now we're going to look at what God calls us to in the rest of this passage. 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.800 Okay, so I believe he calls us to two different things. 00:09:06.779 --> 00:09:08.800 Let me just find my spot. 00:09:09.019 --> 00:09:09.120 Yeah. 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.879 He calls us to come to him while he may be found and to live under his commands. 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:15.680 Those are the two things he calls us to do. 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.960 To come to him while he may be found and live under his commands. 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.800 Look with me at verse 6. 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:25.759 Therefore, let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found. 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.559 Surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them. 00:09:30.459 --> 00:09:34.719 When you experience this forgiveness, he utters verse 6. 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:40.179 Just to bring some context into verse 6, you might be sitting there going, what do the mighty waters mean? 00:09:40.719 --> 00:09:42.240 I sat there saying the same thing. 00:09:43.719 --> 00:09:48.299 The mighty waters, see they hint to the idea of God's judgment. 00:09:48.299 --> 00:09:54.359 Okay, so some theologians would say even that David might have Noah in mind here as he says that. 00:09:54.979 --> 00:09:56.819 Surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them. 00:09:57.259 --> 00:10:05.519 Could be said as well as in Noah's time, Noah was protected, yet the mighty waters were a judgment against sinners of the time. 00:10:06.219 --> 00:10:08.979 In the same way, the mighty waters here are God's judgment. 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:15.060 So you could translate that as saying, surely the judgment of God will not reach them. 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.200 Yes, so therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found. 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.700 Surely the judgment of God will not reach them. 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:23.500 The mighty waters symbolize that judgment. 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.279 So what does that mean for us? 00:10:26.920 --> 00:10:29.500 Well, it means that we need to come to him while he may be found. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:35.920 For both Christian and non-Christian, this verse should sense some sense of urgency. 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.839 So therefore let the faithful pray to you while you may be found. 00:10:40.259 --> 00:10:43.500 The implication is there is a time coming where that time will run out. 00:10:43.740 --> 00:10:45.839 You won't be able to be found anymore. 00:10:46.259 --> 00:10:51.500 Whether that's by our own deaths, our mortality, or whether that is by Jesus coming back in judgment. 00:10:52.319 --> 00:10:54.699 Judgment is coming and time is short. 00:10:54.700 --> 00:11:02.020 If you're a non-Christian, either listening back to this, or online, or whatever, 00:11:02.580 --> 00:11:06.100 the cost of that is that we need to consider God's claims. 00:11:06.280 --> 00:11:07.800 We need to consider Jesus' claims. 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:09.360 There is a time limit. 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:10.259 Judgment is coming. 00:11:11.420 --> 00:11:12.820 And God offers us forgiveness. 00:11:13.020 --> 00:11:15.100 He offers us that forgiveness in this word. 00:11:15.180 --> 00:11:20.420 If we would just confess our sins, if we would just repent and accept Jesus' forgiveness, 00:11:20.419 --> 00:11:24.579 forgiveness, we need to consider that there is a time limit to this. 00:11:25.860 --> 00:11:30.579 And for us as Christians, we should also consider what this means for what we do in our urgency, 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:31.979 to tell people about this. 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:35.620 To tell people that there is a God that is longing to forgive them 00:11:35.620 --> 00:11:39.579 if they would come to repentance and believe in Jesus Christ. 00:11:39.580 --> 00:11:45.480 We want people to acknowledge their sin, to confess their transgressions, 00:11:45.540 --> 00:11:46.440 that God may forgive. 00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:47.620 He is a forgiving God. 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:53.639 And he has made a way that he needs people like us that might tell others about it, 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.139 that might ask people, say, this is who Jesus is. 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:58.660 He's come to save you. 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:01.080 Why don't you come to know who he is? 00:12:01.540 --> 00:12:06.500 So that the rising waters, the rising mighty waters of judgment will not happen to you. 00:12:06.500 --> 00:12:10.080 We all have friends and family that we dearly love. 00:12:11.299 --> 00:12:15.460 Many will have painful experiences of seeing them not come closer, 00:12:15.659 --> 00:12:17.580 or what feels like not come closer to Jesus. 00:12:18.100 --> 00:12:22.519 We need to continue to pray for them and urge them in moments that God provides 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:24.360 to come to know who he is. 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:25.480 The time is short. 00:12:26.460 --> 00:12:29.000 Therefore, let us come to him while he may be found. 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:34.259 And I think that also applies to us as Christians, 00:12:34.259 --> 00:12:36.360 that we should continue to come to him. 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.779 We often, I don't know if you do this, I'm definitely like this. 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:43.799 When I've just sinned and feel that sort of weight, the acknowledgement of my sin, 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.600 I often subconsciously think, God's this perfect God. 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:49.419 Surely I can't go back to him right now. 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.179 I need to fix something, make recompense for what I've done 00:12:53.179 --> 00:12:54.600 before I can kind of come back to him, 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:56.879 before I can start praying again and reading my Bible again. 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.259 And we often draw away as we sin. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.659 And actually God is saying, come to me. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.439 Don't believe the lie that the devil was trying to push, 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.360 which is that somehow you had everything to do with it 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.240 and you could earn your salvation or earn your right to be with me. 00:13:11.659 --> 00:13:13.240 Jesus purchased that for us. 00:13:13.779 --> 00:13:15.220 We have every right to come to him. 00:13:15.419 --> 00:13:17.600 All he asks us to say is simply come to me, 00:13:18.059 --> 00:13:20.279 confess your sin, accept the forgiveness, 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.179 and know the unfailing love of the Lord that surrounds you. 00:13:24.179 --> 00:13:26.719 That is a great promise of God. 00:13:28.500 --> 00:13:32.259 And the hymn, what a friend we have in Jesus, 00:13:32.339 --> 00:13:33.979 I think encapsulates this quite well. 00:13:35.179 --> 00:13:38.219 In lyrics it says, oh, what peace we often forfeit. 00:13:38.659 --> 00:13:40.059 Oh, what needless pain we bear, 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.099 all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. 00:13:44.819 --> 00:13:47.359 That seems David's revelation, doesn't it? 00:13:48.059 --> 00:13:49.519 We carry needless burdens. 00:13:49.659 --> 00:13:51.419 We carry the burden of the guilt of our sin, 00:13:51.419 --> 00:13:54.500 all because we don't come faithfully in prayer to our God. 00:13:54.959 --> 00:13:56.439 So if you're a Christian sitting here, 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.000 feel the weight of your sin. 00:13:58.599 --> 00:13:59.759 Come to him in prayer. 00:14:00.439 --> 00:14:01.479 He asks for it. 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:02.139 He longs for it. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:03.819 He longs to forgive you. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:05.699 And then lastly, 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.439 he longs for us to live under his command. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:12.219 He longs for us to live under his command. 00:14:12.939 --> 00:14:15.919 Why don't we look at verse eight with me. 00:14:16.479 --> 00:14:18.139 After David has said, you are my hiding place, 00:14:18.179 --> 00:14:19.279 you will protect me from trouble 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.379 and surround me with songs of deliverance. 00:14:22.139 --> 00:14:23.259 This is then God speaking. 00:14:23.419 --> 00:14:24.240 And God says this, 00:14:24.839 --> 00:14:27.679 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 00:14:28.459 --> 00:14:31.879 I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. 00:14:34.259 --> 00:14:35.379 Think of these two verses. 00:14:35.379 --> 00:14:39.939 You see the loving part of a father that cares for you deeply. 00:14:40.819 --> 00:14:41.620 It's evident. 00:14:42.460 --> 00:14:45.940 He longs to instruct you and teach you to live under his commands, 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:47.840 to counsel you as you go. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.720 A good God gives good instructions for your good. 00:14:53.940 --> 00:14:57.620 And he doesn't do this with like an eye on a judgmentalism. 00:14:58.240 --> 00:14:59.279 He's not looking down at you going, 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:01.080 oh, I'm just waiting for them to trip up 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.240 and then I'll tell them that they've done it wrong. 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:05.840 Or it's not with an ambivalence there 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.060 of a God that just sits back and watches as your life falls apart 00:15:09.060 --> 00:15:11.539 and instructs you where you've gone wrong. 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:12.879 And he says, 00:15:13.019 --> 00:15:14.700 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.060 I will counsel you with what? 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.100 With my loving eye on you. 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:23.139 God that longs to forgive us 00:15:23.139 --> 00:15:26.259 and longs to instruct us in the way that we should go. 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:30.299 Not with an eye that doesn't care. 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:32.279 That is not the God we serve. 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:33.899 We serve a God who instructs us, 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.480 teaches us and counsels us with his loving eye on us. 00:15:38.139 --> 00:15:41.860 His unfailing love surrounds everybody that trusts in him. 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:45.259 So what do we do? 00:15:45.539 --> 00:15:46.440 We've come to the end of this. 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.879 We've seen God's great providence 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:52.259 in God's great love for us, 00:15:52.340 --> 00:15:53.279 even as we're sinners. 00:15:53.659 --> 00:15:56.539 The comfort as we bring our confessions to him. 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.320 We've seen that he commands us to live in his ways 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:01.740 and does so as a loving father. 00:16:03.740 --> 00:16:04.580 And verse 11 says, 00:16:04.580 --> 00:16:05.060 what do we do? 00:16:05.139 --> 00:16:07.139 We rejoice in the Lord and be glad, 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:07.860 you righteous. 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.780 Sing all who are upright in heart. 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.040 We rejoice in a God who forgives us 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:16.400 as we bring our sins to him. 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.340 We rejoice in a God that makes us righteous 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:20.480 because of Christ. 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:21.980 It says, 00:16:22.100 --> 00:16:22.540 you righteous, 00:16:22.660 --> 00:16:23.680 that is not our own work. 00:16:23.920 --> 00:16:24.800 You who are upright in heart, 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:25.740 that is not our own work. 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.160 Jesus does that for us. 00:16:27.500 --> 00:16:28.800 And we rejoice in that work. 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:31.240 We simply accept the great gift of grace. 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.039 And we rejoice in a God that longs to instruct, 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.060 teach and counsel us in the way we should go. 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.320 All for his glory and our good. 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:41.299 Amen. 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:42.960 Amen. 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:44.460 Let me pray for us. 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.720 Lord, we thank you for the time 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:51.379 that you've given us to look at this psalm. 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:53.980 We thank you that you're a good God 00:16:53.980 --> 00:16:56.159 that longs to forgive us. 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.320 That longs that we would come to you, 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.800 that we would know you and love you. 00:17:02.260 --> 00:17:04.200 But we pray that you would give our hearts 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.840 an urgency when it comes to 00:17:06.840 --> 00:17:09.440 showing this good news to other people. 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.880 That they may see how loving you are 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:14.860 and how you've sent your son to die for them. 00:17:15.620 --> 00:17:16.539 And that they would see 00:17:16.539 --> 00:17:18.660 that the time is coming 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:20.980 where the mighty waters of judgment will come. 00:17:21.580 --> 00:17:22.820 And Lord, would you save them from that? 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.039 The friends and the family of the people in this room, 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:29.140 would you save them from those mighty waters? 00:17:29.919 --> 00:17:31.819 And Lord, we pray with a desire 00:17:31.819 --> 00:17:34.019 that we would live as you've instructed us to. 00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:36.480 As a loving Father has called us to live, 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.559 may we desire to live in your ways, 00:17:38.659 --> 00:17:41.299 for we know that it's for our good and your glory. 00:17:42.159 --> 00:17:44.000 We rejoice in your truth, Lord. 00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:45.099 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:17:45.679 --> 00:17:45.919 Amen. 00:17:45.919 --> 00:17:46.059 Amen. 00:17:46.059 --> 00:17:46.119 Amen. 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:46.619 Amen. 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:46.619 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:46.619 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:46.619 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:46.619 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:46.619