WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.419 Our text for this morning's Bible study, as Daryl mentioned in his prayer, is Psalm 81. 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.460 So if you'll turn in your Bibles to Psalm 81. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:14.780 While you're getting there, let me talk to you just a little bit about our plans for our Sunday Bible study 00:00:14.780 --> 00:00:19.740 and then when we can meet back together, our Sunday sermons across this next year. 00:00:19.740 --> 00:00:25.199 Just in case you didn't see my little video that I posted on Slack this past week. 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:33.039 We are, just yesterday we started in the Bible reading plan that many of us are participating in 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:34.579 and some of us are not, and that's okay. 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.719 This is not an obligation. This is the way to read the Bible. 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.119 It's just a way, and it's a good way to read the Bible. 00:00:41.239 --> 00:00:46.140 But yesterday we started into the New Testament readings in the book of Matthew, 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:50.299 and then there's a reading from a psalm every day, and yesterday's psalm was Psalm 81. 00:00:50.899 --> 00:00:54.179 Today it's Psalm 82, and so forth. 00:00:54.179 --> 00:00:57.579 So if you're interested in doing that with us, we'd encourage you to do so. 00:00:58.060 --> 00:01:01.519 To do that, you can go to the Read Scripture app. 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:03.000 You can download that onto your device. 00:01:03.420 --> 00:01:08.159 Set the start date for August 27th, and this is really important, 2019. 00:01:09.060 --> 00:01:11.319 It's going to really be confusing if you set it for 2020. 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:19.240 So August 27th, 2019, and that'll show you where you ought to be each day in your Bible reading. 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:24.339 And beyond that, I'm going to post it every day to Slack, the Bible reading moving forward. 00:01:24.899 --> 00:01:30.519 And when we can meet again, it'll be on the screen and on your bulletin, etc. 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:36.699 And what we're going to do is we're going to teach from a text from that previous week's reading. 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:44.480 So we're going to be going all throughout the Scripture, teaching, working to tie it together for you, 00:01:44.579 --> 00:01:49.700 to kind of present a biblical theology, tracing the main theme of Scripture, 00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:54.379 which is God's redemptive work for His glory and the good of His people. 00:01:54.379 --> 00:01:57.920 So we're going to be picking selected texts across that time, 00:01:57.979 --> 00:02:01.159 which means we'll be working fairly progressively through the Bible. 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:05.679 But from time to time, we'll step off to a psalm from the daily reading, 00:02:05.739 --> 00:02:08.019 which is what we're going to be doing today. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.579 And then parents, I'm working on right now. 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.180 I'm not, it's taking me a lot of time, as you might imagine, 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:20.120 but selecting a couple of verses from each day's reading that you can read with your children. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.060 So I think I've done between two and four verses per day. 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.159 So if you're doing the Bible reading, and then you're sitting down with your children 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.360 and doing that briefer Bible reading, hopefully you'll be able to help them, 00:02:30.460 --> 00:02:35.480 give them some context, press them along in their understanding of the Bible as well. 00:02:35.980 --> 00:02:38.200 If I can get my act together, I'll get that to you this afternoon. 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.379 If not, by tomorrow, I'll have that to you, at least for the Gospels. 00:02:42.420 --> 00:02:43.460 That's where I'm at so far. 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:47.040 So you can start doing that with your children. 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.459 And then on Monday, so starting tomorrow morning at 6.30, 00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:58.120 I'm going to host a Zoom meeting before our Devotion Plus Prayer meeting, 6.30 a.m. 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:02.219 And I'm simply going to say a quick prayer, read the text for the day, 00:03:02.699 --> 00:03:07.159 say a closing prayer of kind of application, what's coming to my mind as I'm reading. 00:03:07.579 --> 00:03:10.459 So if you'd like to join us for that, just pay attention, keep tuned in. 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:14.180 I'll talk a little bit more about the details for that later on. 00:03:14.259 --> 00:03:15.139 So that's the hope. 00:03:15.139 --> 00:03:18.659 So we've spent a lot of time as a church drilling into books. 00:03:18.739 --> 00:03:20.759 So we've just finished the book of Hebrews. 00:03:21.339 --> 00:03:25.399 A lot of people who come and are part of our church come for just a number of years 00:03:25.399 --> 00:03:29.039 while they're in school or they're living in Dahlonega for a brief period of time. 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.179 And it's a wonderful thing that we get to really, 00:03:32.379 --> 00:03:34.239 really get into the depths of a book together. 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.839 But we thought it'd be nice to kind of step away, get a higher view, 00:03:38.099 --> 00:03:42.919 even as we come into particular texts as we walk through the Bible together. 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:44.519 So we'll still be doing expositions. 00:03:44.839 --> 00:03:48.459 We just won't be verse by versing it through a single book of the Bible. 00:03:48.799 --> 00:03:52.560 But so that said, today's text is Psalm 81. 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.159 And I'll begin reading in verse one. 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:00.560 Sing aloud to God our strength. 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:02.919 Shout for joy to the God of Jacob. 00:04:03.519 --> 00:04:04.539 Raise a song. 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.780 Sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 00:04:08.379 --> 00:04:12.979 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon on our feast day. 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.219 For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. 00:04:17.220 --> 00:04:21.340 He made a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. 00:04:21.520 --> 00:04:23.640 I hear a language I had not known. 00:04:24.300 --> 00:04:26.280 I relieved your shoulder of the burden. 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:28.540 Your hands were freed from the basket. 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:31.840 In distress you called and I delivered you. 00:04:32.340 --> 00:04:34.700 I answered you in the secret place of thunder. 00:04:35.020 --> 00:04:37.580 I tested you at the waters of Meribah. 00:04:38.840 --> 00:04:41.860 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you. 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:45.520 O Israel, if you would but listen to me. 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.279 There shall be no strange God among you. 00:04:48.459 --> 00:04:50.519 You shall not bow down to a foreign God. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.500 I am the Lord your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 00:04:55.039 --> 00:04:57.779 Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. 00:04:58.659 --> 00:05:01.139 But my people did not listen to my voice. 00:05:01.699 --> 00:05:03.459 Israel would not submit to me. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.899 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own counsels. 00:05:08.899 --> 00:05:11.299 O that my people would listen to me. 00:05:11.379 --> 00:05:13.719 That Israel would walk in my ways. 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:18.320 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:23.780 Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him and their fate would last forever. 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:29.860 But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat and with honey from the rock. 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:31.780 I would satisfy you. 00:05:31.779 --> 00:05:46.319 So in order to set our minds moving in the right direction as we study the psalm, I'd like to begin by reading you a bit from an article on Psalm 81 that I found on Ligonier's website by a man named W. Robert Godfrey. 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:50.360 And I just think this helps kind of set the stage for this particular psalm. 00:05:50.420 --> 00:05:53.180 So I try to listen carefully here as I give this a quick read. 00:05:54.180 --> 00:05:56.899 What does the church most need today? 00:05:57.579 --> 00:06:03.800 In answering this important but rather general question, Psalm 81 is uniquely important and helpful. 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:09.439 This psalm obviously contains beautiful promises and clear directions to help the people of God. 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:18.600 But careful study of this psalm will deepen our appreciation of it, increase its value for us, and show us how distinctive it is for helping the church. 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:26.180 As we study psalms, we soon learn that the central verse of a psalm is often significant as a key to its interpretation. 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:33.879 The central line of Psalm 81 is the heart of that psalm as the plaintive cry of God is heard, 00:06:34.220 --> 00:06:37.620 O Israel, if you would but listen to me. 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.460 And this is the last half of verse 8. 00:06:40.459 --> 00:06:46.199 Perhaps this line will resonate more profoundly with the readers of this article if we translate it, 00:06:46.299 --> 00:06:49.199 O Israel, if you would but hear me. 00:06:49.859 --> 00:06:56.399 The center of Psalm 81, indeed the whole psalm, is a reflection on the Shema. 00:06:56.899 --> 00:07:00.839 And the Shema is from Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 4 through 9. 00:07:00.939 --> 00:07:03.959 And so I'm just going to read that to you real quick before going back to the article. 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:04.939 And it says this, 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:08.879 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:13.219 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 00:07:13.659 --> 00:07:16.519 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 00:07:16.980 --> 00:07:20.860 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:25.040 and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:30.019 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:34.319 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.420 Again, Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verse 4. 00:07:37.420 --> 00:07:42.180 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:43.800 So back to the article. 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:49.240 The centrality of this line and its importance are underscored when we recognize that Psalm 81 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:53.300 is the central psalm of Book 3 of Psalter. 00:07:54.040 --> 00:08:01.379 Book 3, Psalms 73 through 89, principally concerns the crisis in Israel caused by the destruction of the temple 00:08:01.379 --> 00:08:06.519 and the apparent failure of God's promises that David's sons would forever sit on the throne. 00:08:07.259 --> 00:08:13.519 Something of the cause and character of this crisis is contained in this central line of the central psalm. 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:18.199 Since Book 3 is the central book of the five books of the Psalter, 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:24.779 Psalm 81 and verse 8 actually is the central line of the whole book of Psalms. 00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:28.579 It stands at the very heart of Israel's songbook. 00:08:29.119 --> 00:08:32.659 It calls Israel to deep reflection on her relationship to her God. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.199 This psalm also appears to be central to Israel's liturgical calendar. 00:08:38.059 --> 00:08:43.899 The praise at new moon and full moon can refer only to the seventh month of the year, 00:08:44.419 --> 00:08:49.639 the Feast of Trumpets in Leviticus 23-24, which happened every year. 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:54.220 We know this as Rosh Hashanah, it's the harvest festival of Israel, 00:08:55.059 --> 00:08:59.179 and the Feast of Tabernacles, which is every seven years. 00:08:59.899 --> 00:09:03.259 Between these two feasts occurred the Day of Atonement. 00:09:03.899 --> 00:09:08.840 As God called Israel to celebrate his great provisions as creator and deliverer, 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.879 so he called his people to hear him. 00:09:12.819 --> 00:09:14.879 As the Shema was crucial to the Torah, 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.919 so it is central to the Psalter and the Christian life. 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.399 God's people must hear his word, 00:09:21.899 --> 00:09:24.939 particularly to reject false gods and to walk in his ways. 00:09:25.460 --> 00:09:27.419 They must not follow their own wisdom. 00:09:28.319 --> 00:09:35.919 How sad to contemplate that God might give us what we think is good for us. 00:09:36.899 --> 00:09:40.939 So that sets the stage for what I want to point out today in the text, 00:09:40.940 --> 00:09:48.140 and that is that Psalm 81 contains within it three calls or summons. 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:52.940 First, in verses 1-5, there's a call to rejoice. 00:09:54.300 --> 00:09:59.000 Second, verses 6-10, a call to remember. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:05.180 And third, in verses 11-16, a call to repentance. 00:10:05.179 --> 00:10:11.439 Let's look first at a call to rejoice, excuse me, verses 1-5. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.219 So a call to rejoice, or quite literally, a call to worship. 00:10:16.939 --> 00:10:20.479 This opening of this psalm was a specific call to worship, 00:10:20.659 --> 00:10:25.339 and it was used for, we know, historically, for the Feast of Tabernacles. 00:10:25.340 --> 00:10:28.920 For this festival, the Israelites would make temporary shelters 00:10:28.920 --> 00:10:32.720 and would live in them for seven days as a reminder of their time in the wilderness 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:36.780 and God's faithful provision for them there. 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:39.879 This was to be a celebration of God's goodness, 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:44.019 and it was to be full of joy, right? 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:45.860 This is a call to rejoice. 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.340 Listen again to the first three verses. 00:10:48.340 --> 00:11:09.720 So Israel was called to worship their God with gladness of heart. 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:14.460 They were to shout for joy, raise a song, and play instruments, 00:11:14.560 --> 00:11:17.500 the tambourine, the lyre, the harp, and the trumpet. 00:11:17.500 --> 00:11:22.700 They were to worship their God with the wholeness of their being. 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.799 The psalmist is calling us to the very same thing, 00:11:27.100 --> 00:11:30.220 to not just work through the motions of our worship, 00:11:30.820 --> 00:11:34.840 but to worship God in our waking and in our going about 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.679 or in this strange time in our staying in 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:42.240 and to worship God in our lying down. 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:46.259 Every moment in all of our actions and all of our thoughts 00:11:46.259 --> 00:11:47.639 and all of our emotions, 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:52.100 we are to give ourselves to the worship of our God. 00:11:52.340 --> 00:11:58.919 Worship is not just narrowed down to special planned times, 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:02.000 although it is that, but it is so much more. 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:04.700 We're meant to live lives of worship for our God. 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:11.660 We are to worship with all that we have for all that he is. 00:12:12.520 --> 00:12:15.700 Listen to what our God said to the Israelites through the prophet Isaiah, 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:19.400 and this is Isaiah chapter 1, beginning in verse 11. 00:12:20.259 --> 00:12:24.440 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices, says the Lord? 00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:29.759 I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:34.159 I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or of goats. 00:12:34.779 --> 00:12:36.340 When you come to appear before me, 00:12:36.419 --> 00:12:39.019 who has required of you this trampling of my courts? 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.179 Bring no more vain offerings. 00:12:41.419 --> 00:12:43.220 Incense is an abomination to me. 00:12:43.700 --> 00:12:46.100 New moon, note the new moon there, 00:12:46.319 --> 00:12:48.720 and Sabbath and the calling of convocations, 00:12:48.819 --> 00:12:52.639 I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. 00:12:53.419 --> 00:12:56.519 Your new moons again and appointed feasts, 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:58.399 my soul hates. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.319 They have become a burden to me. 00:13:00.340 --> 00:13:02.079 I am weary of bearing them. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:04.100 When you spread out your hands, 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:05.620 I will hide my eyes from you. 00:13:05.899 --> 00:13:07.679 Even though you make many prayers, 00:13:07.779 --> 00:13:08.840 I will not listen. 00:13:09.299 --> 00:13:11.579 Your hands are full of blood. 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:16.059 The Israelites were worshiping God by his prescribed means. 00:13:16.059 --> 00:13:20.059 These were the things that God had commanded that they would do, 00:13:20.500 --> 00:13:24.199 but not with their whole selves. 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:26.279 They were going through the motions. 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.620 Verse 13 and then verse 15 shows us this. 00:13:30.860 --> 00:13:33.199 I cannot endure iniquity, 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.259 and your hands are full of blood. 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.759 They were going through the motions of worshiping God, 00:13:40.899 --> 00:13:43.500 but they were guilty of egregious sin, 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:47.860 and as such were not worshiping with their whole being. 00:13:48.500 --> 00:13:52.759 God continues in Isaiah 1 to be instructive, 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.000 and this should be helpful to us. 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:56.939 In verse 16 and 17, 00:13:56.939 --> 00:13:57.659 he says, 00:13:57.860 --> 00:13:59.439 wash yourselves, 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:01.340 make yourselves clean, 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.319 remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes, 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:05.879 cease to do evil, 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:07.220 learn to do good, 00:14:07.340 --> 00:14:08.159 seek justice, 00:14:08.319 --> 00:14:09.220 correct oppression, 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.480 bring justice to the fatherless, 00:14:12.179 --> 00:14:14.039 plead the widow's cause. 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:18.719 means for lives to be given to him in worship. 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:20.079 Beloved, 00:14:20.139 --> 00:14:22.939 it is altogether possible to worship the right God, 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.439 but to worship him wrongly, 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:28.659 in an unacceptable manner. 00:14:29.620 --> 00:14:30.439 J.I. Packer, 00:14:30.500 --> 00:14:32.079 in his most wonderful work, 00:14:32.139 --> 00:14:34.079 which I strongly commend to you this morning, 00:14:34.139 --> 00:14:36.939 some of you may have some time to do some reading right now, 00:14:36.940 --> 00:14:38.680 called Knowing God, 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.120 posits the following two points. 00:14:41.180 --> 00:14:42.080 Listen carefully. 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:45.260 One can know a great deal about God 00:14:45.260 --> 00:14:48.580 without much knowledge of him. 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.120 He makes this distinction between knowing about God 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.260 and actually knowing God, 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:56.320 being in relationship with God, 00:14:56.420 --> 00:15:00.660 understanding his heart and his concern for his people. 00:15:01.340 --> 00:15:01.980 And secondly, 00:15:02.260 --> 00:15:04.620 one can know a great deal about godliness 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:08.019 without much knowledge of God. 00:15:08.220 --> 00:15:10.519 So we can know the rules, 00:15:11.060 --> 00:15:13.379 we can go through the motions 00:15:13.379 --> 00:15:17.320 without much relationship with our Lord God. 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.539 I believe that we can all be guilty of this 00:15:20.539 --> 00:15:22.259 from time to time, right? 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.000 Having sound doctrine 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.860 that doesn't lead to sound practice. 00:15:28.299 --> 00:15:30.039 We can believe the right things, 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:31.519 but we can hold them wrongly 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.659 that doesn't lead to holy living. 00:15:33.659 --> 00:15:37.120 of merely reading the Bible or some good book, 00:15:37.259 --> 00:15:38.919 of listening to good teaching, 00:15:39.100 --> 00:15:40.799 of singing gospel songs, 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:45.100 of gathering all sorts of data about God 00:15:45.100 --> 00:15:47.620 without knowing him. 00:15:48.719 --> 00:15:49.839 Packer goes on in his work 00:15:49.839 --> 00:15:51.019 to give some helpful thoughts 00:15:51.019 --> 00:15:53.360 on evidences of knowing God, 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.919 wherein he employs the following four points. 00:15:55.939 --> 00:15:57.360 And I just want you to think about these things 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.000 for a moment as I read them. 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.279 How well could you say, 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:01.659 yes, 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:03.639 that is true of me, 00:16:03.899 --> 00:16:05.679 of someone who gives evidence 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:06.940 of knowing God, 00:16:07.059 --> 00:16:08.980 being in relationship with him? 00:16:09.580 --> 00:16:10.179 Number one, 00:16:10.259 --> 00:16:11.139 those who know God 00:16:11.139 --> 00:16:14.320 have a great energy for God. 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:15.960 Number two, 00:16:16.100 --> 00:16:17.120 those who know God 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.299 have great thoughts of God. 00:16:20.860 --> 00:16:21.759 Number three, 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.139 those who know God 00:16:23.139 --> 00:16:26.100 show great boldness for God. 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:27.920 And number four, 00:16:28.139 --> 00:16:29.060 those who know God 00:16:29.060 --> 00:16:32.300 have great contentment in God. 00:16:33.040 --> 00:16:34.500 So you can see what he is saying, 00:16:34.560 --> 00:16:34.680 right, 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.440 is it encapsulates all of us, 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:36.720 right, 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.080 all of us given to the worship 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:40.980 of our God. 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.240 Verses one through five of Psalm 81 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.960 are a call to rejoice 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.600 in the God of our salvation. 00:16:49.220 --> 00:16:50.259 And I just wonder, 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:51.080 on this day, 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:53.920 will you heed this call to rejoice? 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.360 Secondly, 00:16:55.699 --> 00:16:57.199 we see in verses six through ten, 00:16:58.199 --> 00:16:59.419 a call to remember. 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:00.479 First, 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:01.399 a call to remember 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.099 what God had done. 00:17:04.399 --> 00:17:06.339 Verses six and seven. 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:06.980 First, 00:17:07.059 --> 00:17:08.139 we see in verse six 00:17:08.139 --> 00:17:09.019 and the first part 00:17:09.019 --> 00:17:10.359 of verse seven, 00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:11.619 I relieved your shoulder 00:17:11.619 --> 00:17:12.220 of the burden. 00:17:12.339 --> 00:17:13.539 Your hands were freed 00:17:13.539 --> 00:17:14.359 from the basket. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:15.319 In distress, 00:17:15.500 --> 00:17:16.079 you called 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.159 and I delivered you. 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:19.659 They were to remember 00:17:19.659 --> 00:17:21.299 that God had delivered them 00:17:21.299 --> 00:17:22.659 from their bondage 00:17:22.659 --> 00:17:23.500 in Egypt. 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.240 We can read in Exodus chapter two, 00:17:26.340 --> 00:17:27.620 verse 23 and following. 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:29.240 During those many days, 00:17:29.360 --> 00:17:30.680 the king of Egypt died 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:31.759 and the people of Israel 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:33.440 groaned because of their slavery 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.220 and cried out for help. 00:17:35.700 --> 00:17:36.920 Their cry for rescue 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:38.960 from slavery came up to God 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:40.880 and God heard their groaning 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:42.560 and God remembered his covenant 00:17:42.560 --> 00:17:43.380 with Abraham, 00:17:43.800 --> 00:17:44.560 with Isaac, 00:17:44.820 --> 00:17:45.720 and with Jacob. 00:17:46.380 --> 00:17:48.779 God saw the people of Israel 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:50.660 and God knew. 00:17:50.660 --> 00:17:52.420 the Exodus 00:17:52.420 --> 00:17:53.519 from Egypt 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:54.980 was a foreshadowing 00:17:54.980 --> 00:17:56.019 of the deliverance 00:17:56.019 --> 00:17:57.279 of God's people 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:58.519 from sin 00:17:58.519 --> 00:17:59.460 and death. 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:00.980 We look back 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:01.580 to the Exodus 00:18:01.580 --> 00:18:02.800 and should remember 00:18:02.800 --> 00:18:04.500 the greater deliverance 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:05.779 that we have 00:18:05.779 --> 00:18:06.620 in Christ. 00:18:06.820 --> 00:18:07.700 We are meant 00:18:07.700 --> 00:18:08.380 to remember 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:09.480 the Exodus 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:10.600 and so Psalm 81 00:18:10.600 --> 00:18:12.400 speaks to us as well 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:13.880 although we understand it 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:15.320 more fully. 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:17.640 Paul wrote in Romans chapter six, 00:18:17.740 --> 00:18:18.600 verse six and seven, 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.419 we know that our old self 00:18:20.419 --> 00:18:21.839 was crucified with him 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:23.679 in order that the body of sin 00:18:23.679 --> 00:18:25.219 might be brought to nothing 00:18:25.219 --> 00:18:26.919 so that we would no longer 00:18:26.919 --> 00:18:29.599 be enslaved to sin 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:31.339 for one who has died 00:18:31.339 --> 00:18:34.240 has been set free from sin. 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:35.299 So we're meant 00:18:35.299 --> 00:18:37.299 to remember what God has done 00:18:37.299 --> 00:18:38.480 and the highest thing 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.299 of most important order 00:18:40.299 --> 00:18:42.240 is that God has set us free 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.139 from the bondage of sin. 00:18:44.939 --> 00:18:46.559 Second, we see in the rest 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:47.899 of verse seven 00:18:47.899 --> 00:18:49.240 that they were to remember 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:51.079 that God had relationship 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:52.339 with them. 00:18:53.220 --> 00:18:53.779 God says, 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:54.819 I answered you 00:18:54.819 --> 00:18:56.319 in the secret place 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:57.500 of thunder. 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:59.980 This phrase most likely refers 00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:01.339 to God meeting with Moses 00:19:01.339 --> 00:19:02.799 and therefore his people 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:04.559 on Mount Sinai. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:05.839 God listened 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:06.819 and he spoke 00:19:06.819 --> 00:19:08.139 and he spoke 00:19:08.139 --> 00:19:09.799 so that he would be known, 00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:10.960 trusted, 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:12.619 and obeyed. 00:19:12.619 --> 00:19:14.359 In the same way, 00:19:14.459 --> 00:19:15.939 God has spoken to us, 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:17.539 not only on a mountain 00:19:17.539 --> 00:19:18.439 in the secret place 00:19:18.439 --> 00:19:18.879 of thunder, 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:20.759 but in these last days 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:21.839 he has spoken to us 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.119 by his son, 00:19:23.259 --> 00:19:24.319 Hebrews chapter one 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:25.299 and verse two. 00:19:25.819 --> 00:19:26.539 And we can read 00:19:26.539 --> 00:19:27.939 of all God's working 00:19:27.939 --> 00:19:29.259 on behalf of his people 00:19:29.259 --> 00:19:30.339 by his son 00:19:30.339 --> 00:19:31.859 in the totality 00:19:31.859 --> 00:19:33.299 of the scripture. 00:19:34.979 --> 00:19:36.199 Last part of verse seven 00:19:36.199 --> 00:19:36.419 says, 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:37.519 I tested you 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:38.379 at the waters 00:19:38.379 --> 00:19:39.179 of Meribah. 00:19:39.180 --> 00:19:41.320 Here God is most definitely 00:19:41.320 --> 00:19:42.340 referring to the episode 00:19:42.340 --> 00:19:43.380 recorded at the beginning 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:44.500 of Exodus 17 00:19:44.500 --> 00:19:45.759 where the people 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:46.880 quarreled against Moses 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:48.340 and God showed himself 00:19:48.340 --> 00:19:49.000 faithful 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:50.759 by providing water 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:51.900 from a stone. 00:19:52.840 --> 00:19:53.600 And although God 00:19:53.600 --> 00:19:54.600 showed himself faithful 00:19:54.600 --> 00:19:55.320 at Meribah 00:19:55.320 --> 00:19:56.600 and many other times, 00:19:57.140 --> 00:19:58.160 many of the Israelites 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.180 did not trust him 00:19:59.180 --> 00:20:00.120 and were punished 00:20:00.120 --> 00:20:01.980 for their faithlessness. 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:03.960 In the same way, 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:04.940 God has shown himself 00:20:04.940 --> 00:20:06.000 faithful in provision 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:06.900 to us 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:08.160 and tests 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:09.580 our faithfulness. 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:10.759 We have 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:12.259 much of God's 00:20:12.259 --> 00:20:13.600 kindness toward us, 00:20:13.780 --> 00:20:14.920 much of God's 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:16.259 provision toward us. 00:20:16.360 --> 00:20:17.700 He has relationship 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:19.560 with us 00:20:19.560 --> 00:20:21.040 and because he has that, 00:20:21.180 --> 00:20:22.360 he asks of us 00:20:22.360 --> 00:20:23.320 faithfulness. 00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:24.720 This is why Paul 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:25.360 instructs us 00:20:25.360 --> 00:20:26.019 in first Corinthians 00:20:26.019 --> 00:20:26.860 chapter 10 00:20:26.860 --> 00:20:27.460 verse one 00:20:27.460 --> 00:20:28.140 and following. 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:29.800 For I do not want you 00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:30.220 to be unaware, 00:20:30.420 --> 00:20:30.660 brothers, 00:20:31.259 --> 00:20:32.080 that our fathers 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:33.400 were all under the cloud 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:34.560 and all passed 00:20:34.560 --> 00:20:35.320 through the sea 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:36.899 and all were baptized 00:20:36.899 --> 00:20:38.259 into Moses in the cloud 00:20:38.259 --> 00:20:38.960 and in the sea 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:40.419 and all ate the same 00:20:40.419 --> 00:20:41.279 spiritual food 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:42.419 and all drank the same 00:20:42.419 --> 00:20:43.399 spiritual drink 00:20:43.399 --> 00:20:44.599 for they drank 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:45.939 from the spiritual rock 00:20:45.939 --> 00:20:46.759 that followed them 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:47.679 and the rock 00:20:47.679 --> 00:20:48.799 was Christ. 00:20:49.159 --> 00:20:49.859 This is their 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:50.720 wilderness 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.019 traveling, 00:20:52.379 --> 00:20:52.559 right? 00:20:52.659 --> 00:20:53.679 And this was meant 00:20:53.679 --> 00:20:54.639 to teach us 00:20:54.639 --> 00:20:55.299 something. 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:56.200 Verse five, 00:20:56.700 --> 00:20:56.960 nevertheless, 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:58.059 with most of them, 00:20:58.159 --> 00:20:59.519 God was not pleased 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:01.159 for they were overthrown 00:21:01.159 --> 00:21:02.480 in the wilderness. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:05.099 Now these things 00:21:05.099 --> 00:21:06.259 took place 00:21:06.259 --> 00:21:07.360 as examples 00:21:07.360 --> 00:21:08.500 for us 00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:09.839 that we might 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:11.620 not desire evil 00:21:11.620 --> 00:21:13.099 as they did. 00:21:13.620 --> 00:21:15.240 So we are supposed 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:16.880 to remember 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:17.960 what God 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:19.120 has done 00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:20.380 and be found 00:21:20.380 --> 00:21:20.799 faithful. 00:21:21.579 --> 00:21:22.019 Secondly, 00:21:22.299 --> 00:21:22.920 we're called 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:23.640 to remember 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:24.960 who God 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:26.079 is. 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:27.940 And here we find 00:21:27.940 --> 00:21:29.019 verse eight. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:29.420 Hear, 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:30.299 O my people, 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:31.880 while I admonish you, 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:33.740 strongly warn you, 00:21:34.500 --> 00:21:35.480 O Israel, 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:36.620 if you would 00:21:36.620 --> 00:21:37.580 but listen 00:21:37.580 --> 00:21:38.840 to me. 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:39.580 And I hope 00:21:39.580 --> 00:21:40.780 here and before 00:21:40.780 --> 00:21:41.280 you've seen 00:21:41.280 --> 00:21:41.880 the connection 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:43.340 to the Shema 00:21:43.340 --> 00:21:44.480 found in Deuteronomy 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.080 chapter six. 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:47.800 Verse nine 00:21:47.800 --> 00:21:48.260 then says, 00:21:48.360 --> 00:21:48.660 there should be 00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:49.660 no strange God 00:21:49.660 --> 00:21:50.180 among you. 00:21:50.360 --> 00:21:51.380 You shall not bow down 00:21:51.380 --> 00:21:52.760 to a foreign God. 00:21:53.340 --> 00:21:54.160 I am the Lord 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:54.560 your God 00:21:54.560 --> 00:21:55.080 who brought you 00:21:55.080 --> 00:21:55.820 up out of the land 00:21:55.820 --> 00:21:56.280 of Egypt. 00:21:56.620 --> 00:21:57.560 Open your mouth 00:21:57.560 --> 00:21:58.160 wide 00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:59.840 and I will fill it. 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:01.879 the whole 00:22:01.879 --> 00:22:02.379 of the law 00:22:02.379 --> 00:22:02.759 of God 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:03.359 was read 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:04.019 at the Feast 00:22:04.019 --> 00:22:04.779 of Tabernacles 00:22:04.779 --> 00:22:06.019 every seven 00:22:06.019 --> 00:22:06.939 years. 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:08.059 So more 00:22:08.059 --> 00:22:08.459 than just 00:22:08.459 --> 00:22:09.059 the Decalogue, 00:22:09.139 --> 00:22:09.879 the Ten Commandments, 00:22:09.980 --> 00:22:10.799 the whole law 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:11.379 would have been 00:22:11.379 --> 00:22:11.959 read. 00:22:12.019 --> 00:22:12.559 But here in 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:13.599 verses nine 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:14.319 and ten, 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:15.419 we see the 00:22:15.419 --> 00:22:15.959 preface 00:22:15.959 --> 00:22:16.759 of the Ten 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:17.299 Commandments 00:22:17.299 --> 00:22:18.379 and the first 00:22:18.379 --> 00:22:19.319 two commandments 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:20.259 in summary. 00:22:21.019 --> 00:22:21.359 First, 00:22:21.459 --> 00:22:21.899 we see the 00:22:21.899 --> 00:22:22.439 first two 00:22:22.439 --> 00:22:22.959 commandments 00:22:22.959 --> 00:22:23.740 summarized 00:22:23.740 --> 00:22:24.939 in verse nine. 00:22:25.899 --> 00:22:26.379 Commandments 00:22:26.379 --> 00:22:27.139 for the proper 00:22:27.140 --> 00:22:28.000 worship 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:29.080 of the 00:22:29.080 --> 00:22:29.660 proper 00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:30.980 God. 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:31.520 These are 00:22:31.520 --> 00:22:32.259 found originally 00:22:32.259 --> 00:22:32.800 in Exodus 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:33.540 chapter 20 00:22:33.540 --> 00:22:33.900 verses 00:22:33.900 --> 00:22:35.160 three 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:36.240 through six. 00:22:36.820 --> 00:22:37.440 And there 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:38.220 is so much 00:22:38.220 --> 00:22:38.960 to unpack 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:39.640 out of these 00:22:39.640 --> 00:22:40.900 two verses. 00:22:41.120 --> 00:22:41.560 Now remember, 00:22:41.840 --> 00:22:42.259 this would have 00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:43.440 been a call 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:43.920 to worship. 00:22:44.120 --> 00:22:44.980 Psalm 81 00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:45.400 would have been 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:46.300 read at this 00:22:46.300 --> 00:22:47.140 particular feast, 00:22:47.300 --> 00:22:48.080 but also 00:22:48.080 --> 00:22:48.860 the rest 00:22:48.860 --> 00:22:49.580 of the law 00:22:49.580 --> 00:22:50.460 would have 00:22:50.460 --> 00:22:51.660 been read. 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:52.440 And so 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:53.160 when we think 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:53.960 of these 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:55.259 two commandments, 00:22:55.780 --> 00:22:56.800 we often think, 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.039 well, 00:22:57.099 --> 00:22:57.579 I have never 00:22:57.579 --> 00:22:58.680 carved a 00:22:58.680 --> 00:22:59.339 wooden idol 00:22:59.339 --> 00:22:59.960 and bowed 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:00.879 down to it, 00:23:01.059 --> 00:23:01.839 but it means 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:02.960 so very much 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:04.299 more than that. 00:23:04.819 --> 00:23:05.019 And the 00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:05.419 Westminster 00:23:05.419 --> 00:23:06.440 Larger Catechism 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:06.919 is helpful 00:23:06.919 --> 00:23:07.619 to us in this 00:23:07.619 --> 00:23:07.839 way. 00:23:07.940 --> 00:23:08.279 They did a 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:09.319 very careful 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:10.159 work to 00:23:10.159 --> 00:23:11.460 summarize all 00:23:11.460 --> 00:23:11.740 of the 00:23:11.740 --> 00:23:12.200 scripture's 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:13.359 teaching that 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:14.519 feeds into 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:15.440 and out of 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:16.819 these commandments. 00:23:17.700 --> 00:23:18.519 So I'm just 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:18.899 going to read 00:23:18.899 --> 00:23:19.319 some of it 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:19.779 to you until 00:23:19.779 --> 00:23:20.220 I feel like 00:23:20.220 --> 00:23:20.599 I've read 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:21.500 too much 00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:21.839 and then 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:22.980 I'll stop 00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:23.460 to give you 00:23:23.460 --> 00:23:24.079 some idea 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:24.619 of what the 00:23:24.619 --> 00:23:25.519 scripture says 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:27.039 about these 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:28.119 commandments. 00:23:28.859 --> 00:23:29.579 This particularly 00:23:29.579 --> 00:23:30.139 about the 00:23:30.139 --> 00:23:31.519 first commandment. 00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:32.839 Question 104, 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:33.599 what are the 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:34.559 duties required 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:35.460 in the first 00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:36.160 commandment? 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:36.859 And the 00:23:36.859 --> 00:23:37.240 answer, 00:23:37.900 --> 00:23:38.259 the duties 00:23:38.259 --> 00:23:38.960 required in 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:39.240 the first 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:39.660 commandment 00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:40.220 are the 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:40.960 knowing and 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:41.539 acknowledging 00:23:41.539 --> 00:23:42.099 of God 00:23:42.099 --> 00:23:42.519 to be the 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:43.099 only true 00:23:43.099 --> 00:23:43.859 God and 00:23:43.859 --> 00:23:44.819 our God 00:23:44.819 --> 00:23:45.700 and to 00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:46.339 worship and 00:23:46.339 --> 00:23:47.079 glorify him 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:47.579 accordingly 00:23:47.579 --> 00:23:48.420 by thinking, 00:23:49.099 --> 00:23:49.579 meditating, 00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:50.460 remembering, 00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:52.240 highly esteeming, 00:23:52.579 --> 00:23:52.920 honoring, 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:53.940 adoring, 00:23:54.380 --> 00:23:54.800 choosing, 00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:55.740 loving, 00:23:56.180 --> 00:23:56.800 desiring, 00:23:57.460 --> 00:23:58.100 fearing of 00:23:58.100 --> 00:23:58.360 him, 00:23:58.740 --> 00:23:59.660 believing him, 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:00.580 trusting, 00:24:01.320 --> 00:24:01.660 hoping, 00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.960 delighting, 00:24:03.340 --> 00:24:04.120 rejoicing in 00:24:04.120 --> 00:24:04.380 him, 00:24:04.840 --> 00:24:05.620 being zealous 00:24:05.620 --> 00:24:06.340 for him, 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:07.640 calling upon 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:07.980 him, 00:24:08.300 --> 00:24:09.000 giving all 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:10.039 praises and 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:10.480 thanks, 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:11.200 and yielding 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:12.060 all obedience 00:24:12.060 --> 00:24:12.680 and submission 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:13.519 to him with 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:14.759 the whole man, 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:15.880 being careful 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:16.600 in all things 00:24:16.600 --> 00:24:17.220 to please him 00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:18.060 and sorrowful 00:24:18.060 --> 00:24:18.759 when in 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:19.860 anything he 00:24:19.860 --> 00:24:20.460 is offended 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:21.640 and walking 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:22.220 humbly 00:24:22.220 --> 00:24:23.539 with him. 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:24.240 This is the 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:24.620 summary of 00:24:24.620 --> 00:24:24.900 what the 00:24:24.900 --> 00:24:25.160 scripture 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:26.460 teaches about 00:24:26.460 --> 00:24:26.960 what it 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:27.920 means to 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:28.519 obey, 00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:29.140 but then 00:24:29.140 --> 00:24:30.860 question 105, 00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:31.559 what are the 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:32.360 sins forbidden 00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:33.340 in the first 00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:34.500 commandment? 00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:35.319 Here's where I'll 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:35.880 stop short 00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:36.380 because it goes 00:24:36.380 --> 00:24:37.079 on and on. 00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:38.539 The answer, 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:39.380 the sins forbidden 00:24:39.380 --> 00:24:39.779 in the first 00:24:39.779 --> 00:24:40.480 commandment are 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:41.700 atheism, 00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:42.660 in denying or 00:24:42.660 --> 00:24:43.380 not having a 00:24:43.380 --> 00:24:43.660 God, 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:44.980 idolatry, 00:24:45.140 --> 00:24:45.680 in having or 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:46.380 worshiping more 00:24:46.380 --> 00:24:46.920 gods than 00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:47.299 one, 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:48.700 or any with 00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:49.420 or instead 00:24:49.420 --> 00:24:49.980 of the true 00:24:49.980 --> 00:24:50.319 God, 00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:51.440 the not 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:52.299 having and 00:24:52.299 --> 00:24:53.039 avouching him 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:53.740 for God 00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.440 and our 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:54.840 God, 00:24:55.380 --> 00:24:55.980 the omission 00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.680 or neglect 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:57.200 of anything 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:58.019 due to him 00:24:58.019 --> 00:24:59.180 required in 00:24:59.180 --> 00:24:59.880 this commandment, 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:00.460 ignorance, 00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:01.440 forgetfulness, 00:25:02.120 --> 00:25:03.120 misapprehensions, 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:04.420 false opinions, 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:06.000 unworthy and 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:06.640 wicked thoughts 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:07.000 of him, 00:25:07.500 --> 00:25:08.279 bold and 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:08.759 curious, 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:09.559 searching into 00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:10.160 his secrets, 00:25:10.900 --> 00:25:12.019 all profaneness, 00:25:12.299 --> 00:25:13.100 hatred of God, 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:14.500 self-love, 00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:16.000 self-seeking, 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:17.360 and all other 00:25:17.360 --> 00:25:18.340 inordinate and 00:25:18.340 --> 00:25:19.200 immoderate setting 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:19.940 our mind, 00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:20.500 will, 00:25:20.740 --> 00:25:21.580 affections upon 00:25:21.580 --> 00:25:22.460 other things 00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:23.559 and taking them 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:24.440 off from him 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:25.240 in whole or 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:25.700 in part, 00:25:26.360 --> 00:25:27.360 vain credulity, 00:25:27.860 --> 00:25:28.519 unbelief, 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:29.360 heresy, 00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:30.380 misbelief, 00:25:30.819 --> 00:25:31.380 distrust, 00:25:31.700 --> 00:25:32.299 despair, 00:25:32.779 --> 00:25:33.700 incorrigibleness, 00:25:33.700 --> 00:25:35.259 and insensibleness 00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:36.120 under judgment, 00:25:36.700 --> 00:25:37.580 hardness of heart, 00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:38.700 pride, 00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:39.759 presumption, 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:40.960 and it goes on 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:41.819 for about another 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:42.340 paragraph, 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:43.519 listing off 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:44.720 those things 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.240 forbidden 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:46.860 in that very 00:25:46.860 --> 00:25:48.340 first commandment. 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:50.100 The reason I read 00:25:50.100 --> 00:25:50.660 all of that, 00:25:50.860 --> 00:25:51.519 you think, 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:52.580 why in the world, 00:25:52.860 --> 00:25:53.080 right, 00:25:53.420 --> 00:25:54.160 is that I think 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:55.640 we find all of us 00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:56.600 breaking 00:25:56.600 --> 00:25:58.080 this command, 00:25:58.380 --> 00:25:59.080 just the very 00:25:59.080 --> 00:26:00.299 first one 00:26:00.299 --> 00:26:01.360 about how we 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:01.799 think, 00:26:02.459 --> 00:26:02.919 and therefore 00:26:02.919 --> 00:26:03.899 how we act 00:26:03.899 --> 00:26:05.119 toward our God. 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:07.119 Secondly, 00:26:07.299 --> 00:26:08.279 we see the 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:09.279 preface found 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:09.740 in Exodus 00:26:09.740 --> 00:26:10.579 chapter 20 00:26:10.579 --> 00:26:12.500 and verse 2 00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:13.539 with a small 00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:14.179 but very 00:26:14.179 --> 00:26:14.959 significant 00:26:14.959 --> 00:26:16.279 addition, 00:26:16.439 --> 00:26:17.039 and this is in 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:17.719 verse 10 00:26:17.719 --> 00:26:18.939 of Psalm 81. 00:26:19.719 --> 00:26:20.719 I am the Lord 00:26:20.719 --> 00:26:21.439 your God 00:26:21.439 --> 00:26:22.139 who brought you 00:26:22.139 --> 00:26:22.959 up out of the 00:26:22.959 --> 00:26:24.299 land of Egypt. 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:25.279 This is found 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:25.979 at the beginning 00:26:25.979 --> 00:26:26.500 of Exodus 00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:27.339 chapter 20 00:26:27.339 --> 00:26:28.559 and verse 2. 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:30.139 But then Psalm 81 00:26:30.139 --> 00:26:30.679 says, 00:26:31.259 --> 00:26:32.279 open your mouth 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:33.119 wide 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:34.460 and I 00:26:34.460 --> 00:26:36.000 will fill it. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.879 John Calvin 00:26:37.879 --> 00:26:38.559 speaks to this 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:39.240 in his commentary 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:40.679 on Psalm 81. 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:41.839 He writes, 00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:42.599 he not only 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:43.159 bids them 00:26:43.159 --> 00:26:44.019 open their mouth, 00:26:44.659 --> 00:26:45.859 but he magnifies 00:26:45.859 --> 00:26:46.879 the abundance 00:26:46.879 --> 00:26:47.980 of his grace 00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:49.259 still more 00:26:49.259 --> 00:26:49.819 highly 00:26:49.819 --> 00:26:51.599 by intimating 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.299 that however 00:26:52.299 --> 00:26:53.279 enlarged 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:53.859 our desires 00:26:53.859 --> 00:26:54.480 may be, 00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:55.700 there will be 00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:56.819 nothing wanting 00:26:56.819 --> 00:26:58.119 which is necessary 00:26:58.119 --> 00:26:59.539 to afford us 00:26:59.539 --> 00:27:00.379 full 00:27:00.379 --> 00:27:01.659 satisfaction. 00:27:02.639 --> 00:27:03.219 So, 00:27:03.639 --> 00:27:04.339 our God, 00:27:04.719 --> 00:27:05.739 this God 00:27:05.739 --> 00:27:06.339 that we are being 00:27:06.339 --> 00:27:07.399 called to listen 00:27:07.399 --> 00:27:08.439 to and to 00:27:08.439 --> 00:27:09.119 know, 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.639 says to us, 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:11.279 open your mouth 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:12.019 wide and I will 00:27:12.019 --> 00:27:13.059 give you 00:27:13.059 --> 00:27:13.699 full 00:27:13.699 --> 00:27:14.779 satisfaction. 00:27:15.659 --> 00:27:15.879 Now, 00:27:15.939 --> 00:27:16.559 if we have a good 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:17.259 and proper view 00:27:17.259 --> 00:27:17.759 of the scripture, 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:18.919 we'll understand 00:27:18.919 --> 00:27:19.439 that we'll have 00:27:19.439 --> 00:27:20.899 full satisfaction 00:27:20.899 --> 00:27:22.619 in him. 00:27:23.659 --> 00:27:24.139 So, 00:27:24.259 --> 00:27:24.659 I wonder 00:27:24.659 --> 00:27:25.339 on this day 00:27:25.339 --> 00:27:26.679 if you will heed 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:27.539 this call 00:27:27.539 --> 00:27:28.860 to remember 00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:30.620 and to be 00:27:30.620 --> 00:27:31.080 satisfied. 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:33.279 Lastly, 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:34.060 in verses 11 00:27:34.060 --> 00:27:34.680 through 16, 00:27:35.060 --> 00:27:36.299 we see a call 00:27:36.299 --> 00:27:37.440 to repentance. 00:27:39.320 --> 00:27:39.960 First, 00:27:40.100 --> 00:27:41.440 we see a description 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:42.940 of their sin 00:27:42.940 --> 00:27:44.220 in verse 11. 00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:45.740 But my people 00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:46.960 did not listen 00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:48.060 to my voice. 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:49.940 Israel would not 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:50.460 submit 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:51.840 to me. 00:27:52.539 --> 00:27:53.000 Beloved, 00:27:53.100 --> 00:27:53.560 we are 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:54.879 often guilty 00:27:54.879 --> 00:27:56.319 of the same. 00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:57.559 We have 00:27:57.559 --> 00:27:58.579 an abundance 00:27:58.579 --> 00:27:59.460 of access 00:27:59.460 --> 00:28:00.500 to our God 00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:01.480 by his holy word 00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.159 and yet we 00:28:02.159 --> 00:28:03.379 often do not 00:28:03.379 --> 00:28:04.399 even take it up 00:28:04.399 --> 00:28:05.679 and read it. 00:28:06.339 --> 00:28:07.579 And when we do, 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:08.700 we often 00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:09.740 do not heed 00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:10.299 its warnings 00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:11.839 or follow 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:13.200 its commands. 00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:14.519 We seem 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:15.599 so very 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:17.559 rolled to sleep 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.960 by the reality 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:21.700 we have 00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:22.319 a God 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:22.680 who has 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:23.620 spoken 00:28:23.620 --> 00:28:24.720 to us 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:25.559 and we 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:25.920 have it 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.299 everywhere 00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:26.720 and I 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:27.100 just think 00:28:27.100 --> 00:28:27.460 we take 00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:27.980 it for granted 00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:29.380 rather than 00:28:29.380 --> 00:28:29.940 recognizing 00:28:29.940 --> 00:28:30.740 this is a 00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:31.500 precious 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:32.480 word 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:33.180 from a 00:28:33.180 --> 00:28:33.500 God 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:34.160 who loves 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.539 us, 00:28:34.860 --> 00:28:35.400 who seeks 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:36.299 our good, 00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:37.120 who wants 00:28:37.120 --> 00:28:37.420 us to 00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:37.900 understand 00:28:37.900 --> 00:28:38.539 who he 00:28:38.539 --> 00:28:39.000 is 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:39.460 and how 00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:39.799 he's 00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:40.200 acted 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:41.120 toward us 00:28:41.120 --> 00:28:42.220 in Christ 00:28:42.220 --> 00:28:42.700 so that 00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:43.340 our lives 00:28:43.340 --> 00:28:43.779 would be 00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:44.559 changed 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:45.180 by that 00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:45.840 both for 00:28:45.840 --> 00:28:46.259 us, 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:46.819 for our 00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:47.259 good, 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:48.440 our deep 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:49.200 joy and 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:49.940 satisfaction, 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.759 our peace 00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:51.340 in him 00:28:51.340 --> 00:28:52.559 but also 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:53.480 for his 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:53.840 glory, 00:28:54.140 --> 00:28:54.840 that others 00:28:54.840 --> 00:28:55.519 would see 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:56.340 that we 00:28:56.340 --> 00:28:56.700 have a 00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.039 God 00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:57.880 worthy 00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:59.240 of worship 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:00.220 and I 00:29:00.220 --> 00:29:00.799 wonder if 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:01.120 part of 00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:01.600 the problem 00:29:01.600 --> 00:29:01.900 of our 00:29:01.900 --> 00:29:02.200 day, 00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:02.600 why we 00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:02.980 don't see 00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:03.740 more people 00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:04.220 coming to 00:29:04.220 --> 00:29:04.580 faith in 00:29:04.580 --> 00:29:04.960 Christ, 00:29:05.259 --> 00:29:05.580 is that 00:29:05.580 --> 00:29:05.880 they just 00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:06.319 don't see 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:06.779 any need 00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:07.200 for it 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:07.660 because they 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:08.019 don't see 00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:08.779 us having 00:29:08.779 --> 00:29:09.420 any hope 00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:10.319 that is 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:10.860 greater than 00:29:10.860 --> 00:29:11.259 theirs 00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:12.460 and beloved 00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:12.819 this should 00:29:12.819 --> 00:29:13.420 just not 00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:14.860 be so 00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:15.299 right, 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:15.740 we should 00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.259 be a 00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:16.920 people who 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:17.380 are never 00:29:17.380 --> 00:29:18.000 guilty of 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:18.360 this 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:19.240 but I 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:20.079 think very 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:21.979 often we 00:29:21.979 --> 00:29:22.299 are. 00:29:22.479 --> 00:29:22.759 Remember 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:23.479 verse 8, 00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:24.719 hear oh 00:29:24.719 --> 00:29:25.500 my people 00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:27.000 while I 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:27.959 admonish 00:29:27.959 --> 00:29:28.219 you, 00:29:28.399 --> 00:29:29.199 I strongly 00:29:29.199 --> 00:29:30.000 warn you, 00:29:30.399 --> 00:29:31.379 oh Israel, 00:29:31.639 --> 00:29:32.199 if you 00:29:32.199 --> 00:29:33.039 would but 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:34.799 listen to 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.159 me. 00:29:36.619 --> 00:29:36.979 And then 00:29:36.979 --> 00:29:37.559 we see 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:38.859 the verdict. 00:29:40.159 --> 00:29:40.439 Beloved, 00:29:40.479 --> 00:29:40.740 we should 00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:41.319 absolutely 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:42.500 shudder when 00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:42.879 we read 00:29:42.879 --> 00:29:43.699 these words 00:29:43.699 --> 00:29:44.339 and we 00:29:44.339 --> 00:29:44.939 should want 00:29:44.939 --> 00:29:46.539 with every 00:29:46.539 --> 00:29:46.960 bit of 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:47.559 our energy 00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:48.379 to avoid 00:29:48.379 --> 00:29:49.299 this 00:29:49.299 --> 00:29:49.839 consequence 00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:50.539 found in 00:29:50.539 --> 00:29:52.240 verse 12. 00:29:53.259 --> 00:29:53.579 So I 00:29:53.579 --> 00:29:54.460 gave them 00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:55.599 over to 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:56.259 their stubborn 00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:57.579 hearts to 00:29:57.579 --> 00:29:58.759 follow their 00:29:58.759 --> 00:29:59.460 own 00:29:59.460 --> 00:30:01.259 counsels. 00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:03.619 For God 00:30:03.619 --> 00:30:04.180 to say, 00:30:04.700 --> 00:30:05.599 find them, 00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:07.079 go your 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:08.139 own way, 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:09.299 is the 00:30:09.299 --> 00:30:10.039 most horrible 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:11.440 of punishments. 00:30:12.139 --> 00:30:12.960 If you 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:13.539 understand 00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:14.480 anything about 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:14.880 yourself, 00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:15.480 you'll know 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:16.079 that your 00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:16.720 way is 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:17.700 the worst 00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:18.660 way. 00:30:19.019 --> 00:30:19.799 My way 00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:20.299 is the 00:30:20.299 --> 00:30:21.360 worst 00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:22.220 way. 00:30:22.900 --> 00:30:23.759 Many of 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:24.220 us live 00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:24.579 as though 00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:25.079 this is 00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:25.599 not the 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:25.880 case. 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:27.059 We think 00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:27.519 our way 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:27.900 is the 00:30:27.900 --> 00:30:28.940 best way 00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:30.160 rather than 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:31.140 God's 00:30:31.140 --> 00:30:31.420 way. 00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:32.980 God, 00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:33.539 in his 00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:34.319 loving kindness 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:34.900 for you, 00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:35.640 will say, 00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:37.019 find them, 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:37.620 go your 00:30:37.620 --> 00:30:38.299 own way 00:30:38.299 --> 00:30:39.220 in order 00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:39.819 to teach 00:30:39.819 --> 00:30:40.500 you the 00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:41.700 error of 00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:42.160 your way. 00:30:42.339 --> 00:30:42.640 He'll say, 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:42.839 yeah, 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.579 follow that 00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:44.159 path and 00:30:44.159 --> 00:30:44.559 just see 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:44.960 where it 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:45.659 takes you. 00:30:47.179 --> 00:30:47.759 When you 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:48.279 find this 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:48.519 to be 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:48.919 true of 00:30:48.919 --> 00:30:49.119 you, 00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:50.379 the call 00:30:50.379 --> 00:30:50.819 of Psalm 00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:51.859 81 is 00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:52.599 to repent 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:54.119 because 00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:55.720 God is 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:57.339 eager to 00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:57.639 forgive. 00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:58.740 He's 00:30:58.740 --> 00:30:59.159 standing at 00:30:59.159 --> 00:30:59.399 the end 00:30:59.399 --> 00:30:59.679 of that 00:30:59.679 --> 00:31:00.159 road that 00:31:00.159 --> 00:31:00.500 you want 00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:00.779 to go 00:31:00.779 --> 00:31:01.019 down, 00:31:01.099 --> 00:31:01.359 that you 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:01.799 think is 00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:02.179 the right 00:31:02.179 --> 00:31:02.619 way, 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:03.259 and he 00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:03.740 is so 00:31:03.740 --> 00:31:04.299 very 00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:05.059 willing to 00:31:05.059 --> 00:31:05.579 forgive, 00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:06.179 to put 00:31:06.179 --> 00:31:06.819 you back 00:31:06.819 --> 00:31:07.439 on the 00:31:07.439 --> 00:31:08.359 proper 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:09.279 path. 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:10.759 Listen to 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:11.439 verse 13 00:31:11.439 --> 00:31:12.319 and 14, 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:26.379 God 00:31:26.379 --> 00:31:28.379 longs to 00:31:28.379 --> 00:31:29.679 forgive the 00:31:29.679 --> 00:31:30.259 repentant 00:31:30.259 --> 00:31:30.480 sinner. 00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.579 I am 00:31:32.579 --> 00:31:32.899 reminded 00:31:32.899 --> 00:31:34.240 here of 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:34.500 Jesus' 00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:35.419 words concerning 00:31:35.419 --> 00:31:36.240 Jerusalem in 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:36.859 Matthew chapter 00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:37.799 23 and 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:39.359 verse 37, 00:31:39.719 --> 00:31:40.000 where he 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:40.379 said, 00:31:40.379 --> 00:31:40.839 Oh, 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:41.699 Jerusalem, 00:31:41.939 --> 00:31:42.479 Jerusalem, 00:31:42.879 --> 00:31:43.699 the city that 00:31:43.699 --> 00:31:44.219 kills the 00:31:44.219 --> 00:31:44.859 prophets and 00:31:44.859 --> 00:31:45.639 stones those 00:31:45.639 --> 00:31:46.139 who are sent 00:31:46.139 --> 00:31:46.500 to it, 00:31:46.979 --> 00:31:48.039 how often 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:48.699 would I have 00:31:48.699 --> 00:31:49.559 gathered your 00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:50.479 children together 00:31:50.479 --> 00:31:51.139 as a hen 00:31:51.139 --> 00:31:51.859 gathers her 00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:53.259 brood under 00:31:53.259 --> 00:31:54.539 her wings, 00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:55.519 and you 00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:56.979 were not 00:31:56.979 --> 00:31:57.399 willing. 00:31:59.259 --> 00:32:00.059 Notice the 00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:00.579 heart of 00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:01.179 Jesus there. 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:02.199 He wants to 00:32:02.199 --> 00:32:02.799 gather them, 00:32:02.879 --> 00:32:03.299 but they're 00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:04.319 unwilling to 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:05.779 be gathered. 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:06.819 You may be 00:32:06.819 --> 00:32:07.759 thinking this 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:08.119 morning, 00:32:08.579 --> 00:32:09.859 if I repent, 00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:10.659 can I really 00:32:10.659 --> 00:32:11.419 expect God 00:32:11.419 --> 00:32:12.220 to forgive me? 00:32:12.659 --> 00:32:13.480 Even me, 00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:14.519 considering all 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:15.779 that I have 00:32:15.779 --> 00:32:16.200 done? 00:32:16.980 --> 00:32:17.579 And the 00:32:17.579 --> 00:32:18.299 answer is 00:32:18.299 --> 00:32:19.599 an unequivocable 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:20.859 yes. 00:32:21.419 --> 00:32:22.179 It's yes. 00:32:23.019 --> 00:32:23.500 God is 00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:24.779 abounding in 00:32:24.779 --> 00:32:25.419 mercy, 00:32:25.419 --> 00:32:25.879 and he's 00:32:25.879 --> 00:32:27.439 ready to 00:32:27.439 --> 00:32:27.980 grant it. 00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:28.720 We should 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:29.299 listen to his 00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:29.819 word and what 00:32:29.819 --> 00:32:30.439 his word has 00:32:30.439 --> 00:32:31.379 to say about 00:32:31.379 --> 00:32:32.059 repentance, 00:32:32.379 --> 00:32:32.599 right? 00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:33.759 Note the 00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.480 warnings of 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:34.879 God, 00:32:35.679 --> 00:32:37.019 but moreover, 00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:38.319 note his 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:40.019 great kindness 00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:41.059 towards those 00:32:41.059 --> 00:32:41.539 who will 00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:42.319 repent. 00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:44.539 Turn and 00:32:44.539 --> 00:32:44.959 repent. 00:32:45.459 --> 00:32:46.159 This is 00:32:46.159 --> 00:32:46.959 available to 00:32:46.959 --> 00:32:47.559 all of us 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:48.519 this morning, 00:32:48.939 --> 00:32:50.019 but we 00:32:50.019 --> 00:32:50.639 must 00:32:50.639 --> 00:32:51.899 repent. 00:32:52.899 --> 00:32:53.939 Verse 15 00:32:53.939 --> 00:32:55.059 shows us 00:32:55.059 --> 00:32:55.399 this, 00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:56.159 that those 00:32:56.159 --> 00:32:57.179 who hate 00:32:57.179 --> 00:32:57.919 the Lord 00:32:57.919 --> 00:32:59.399 would cringe 00:32:59.399 --> 00:33:00.159 toward him 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:00.940 and their 00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:01.580 fate 00:33:01.580 --> 00:33:03.300 would last 00:33:03.300 --> 00:33:04.620 forever. 00:33:05.620 --> 00:33:06.519 Don't be 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:07.460 those people. 00:33:08.140 --> 00:33:09.380 Be a person 00:33:09.380 --> 00:33:10.519 who recognizes 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:11.200 that you've 00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:12.019 not heeded 00:33:12.019 --> 00:33:12.460 the word of 00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:12.759 God. 00:33:13.560 --> 00:33:14.200 Repent of 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:14.540 that, 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:15.019 that he 00:33:15.019 --> 00:33:15.960 would forgive 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:16.300 you, 00:33:16.820 --> 00:33:17.300 draw you 00:33:17.300 --> 00:33:18.279 back into 00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:19.960 his way. 00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:20.600 This is the 00:33:20.600 --> 00:33:21.519 most wonderful 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:22.460 way in which 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:24.040 we can go. 00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:24.840 And so I 00:33:24.840 --> 00:33:26.300 wonder on 00:33:26.300 --> 00:33:27.060 this day 00:33:27.059 --> 00:33:27.859 if you 00:33:27.859 --> 00:33:28.240 will heed 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:28.839 this call 00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:30.419 to repent. 00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:30.919 We've been 00:33:30.919 --> 00:33:31.779 given three 00:33:31.779 --> 00:33:32.179 calls, 00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:32.639 a call to 00:33:32.639 --> 00:33:33.179 rejoice, 00:33:33.379 --> 00:33:34.579 a call to 00:33:34.579 --> 00:33:35.079 remember, 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:36.639 and a call 00:33:36.639 --> 00:33:38.059 to repent. 00:33:38.639 --> 00:33:39.079 And so I 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:39.859 want to close 00:33:39.859 --> 00:33:40.539 with verse 00:33:40.539 --> 00:33:41.480 16, 00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:42.019 and I just 00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:42.799 want you to 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:43.460 notice the 00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:44.179 abundance 00:33:44.179 --> 00:33:45.879 of the 00:33:45.879 --> 00:33:46.359 blessing, 00:33:46.779 --> 00:33:48.179 not just a 00:33:48.179 --> 00:33:48.579 blessing, 00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:49.079 but an 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:49.819 abundant 00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:50.619 blessing 00:33:50.619 --> 00:33:51.879 from an 00:33:51.879 --> 00:33:52.759 abundantly 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:53.480 loving, 00:33:53.899 --> 00:33:54.240 gracious, 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:56.200 merciful God. 00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:57.220 but he 00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:58.059 would feed 00:33:58.059 --> 00:33:58.819 you with 00:33:58.819 --> 00:33:59.480 the finest 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.259 of the 00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:00.559 wheat, 00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:01.559 and with 00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:02.880 honey from 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:03.480 the rock, 00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:04.740 I would 00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:05.559 satisfy you. 00:34:06.080 --> 00:34:06.759 Will you 00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:08.240 be satisfied 00:34:08.240 --> 00:34:09.599 in God 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:10.079 this morning?