WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.240 Well, after I'm done reading Psalm 6, I'll say, this is the word of the Lord, and let's respond, thanks be to God. 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:14.500 Psalm 6, to the chief musician on Nigonoth, that's stringed instruments, upon Shimoneth. 00:00:14.859 --> 00:00:20.039 That's probably a musical melody or note, but we don't know much about that ancient Hebrew term, 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:24.719 but it actually confirms the antiquity, how ancient these psalms truly are. 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:27.080 It's a psalm of David. 00:00:27.080 --> 00:00:27.960 Verse 1. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.939 O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thine hot displeasure. 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:39.700 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:43.519 O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. 00:00:44.380 --> 00:00:49.200 My soul is also sore vexed, but thou, O Lord, how long? 00:00:50.659 --> 00:00:51.280 Verse 4. 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.420 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul. 00:00:55.420 --> 00:00:58.579 O save me for thy mercy's sake. 00:00:58.579 --> 00:01:03.219 For in death there is no remembrance of thee. 00:01:03.619 --> 00:01:06.799 In the grave who shall give thee thanks? 00:01:08.140 --> 00:01:10.700 I am weary with my groaning. 00:01:11.659 --> 00:01:15.280 All the night make I my bed to swim in. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.019 I water my couch with my tears. 00:01:20.140 --> 00:01:22.560 Mine eye is consumed because of grief. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.620 It waxeth old because of thine enemies. 00:01:27.579 --> 00:01:30.100 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:32.320 For the Lord hath heard the sound. 00:01:32.939 --> 00:01:35.719 The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:38.180 Verse 9. 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.579 The Lord hath heard my supplication. 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:42.340 The Lord will receive my prayer. 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.460 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed. 00:01:46.459 --> 00:01:50.159 Let them return and be ashamed suddenly. 00:01:51.539 --> 00:01:53.199 This is the word of the Lord. 00:01:54.699 --> 00:01:55.819 Thanks be to God. 00:01:55.899 --> 00:01:56.500 You may be seated. 00:01:58.059 --> 00:02:03.359 This is God's inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear, and sufficient word. 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:07.219 Isaiah tells us that the grass withers and the flower fades, 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.680 but the word of the Lord, it endures forever. 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.120 Would you pray with me? 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.680 Oh Lord, we ask that by the power of your Holy Spirit, 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:28.140 you will take these words that you breathed out, 00:02:28.900 --> 00:02:31.080 and that you will give us clarity, 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:34.000 help us to understand what you mean with Psalm 6. 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:36.939 And we pray that your Holy Spirit, 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:39.180 the same Spirit that breathed out the Scripture, 00:02:39.180 --> 00:02:43.180 will press the truth of the Gospel upon our hearts. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:45.280 We pray that you will, Lord, 00:02:45.379 --> 00:02:47.200 not let anyone here leave 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:51.819 without believing in Jesus Christ for your glory. 00:02:53.099 --> 00:02:55.520 We ask, Lord, that you will be glorified 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:57.740 through the word that's preached, 00:02:58.060 --> 00:03:00.500 and in our lives as we leave here. 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.300 We pray for the sake of Christ. 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:03.900 Amen. 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:09.300 Well, beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 00:03:10.099 --> 00:03:13.300 did you hear this glorious promise in verse 8? 00:03:13.740 --> 00:03:15.319 You can put your eyes on it again. 00:03:17.259 --> 00:03:17.879 David said, 00:03:18.580 --> 00:03:23.659 The Lord, He hears the voice of my weeping. 00:03:23.659 --> 00:03:28.359 That's the promise from Psalm 6 00:03:28.359 --> 00:03:30.120 that I want to try to press home to you. 00:03:30.979 --> 00:03:34.379 God hears the voice of your weeping. 00:03:37.019 --> 00:03:39.240 Psalm 6 is another Psalm of David. 00:03:40.780 --> 00:03:42.939 The warrior who crushed Goliath's forehead, 00:03:43.939 --> 00:03:44.780 here in Psalm 6, 00:03:44.859 --> 00:03:47.579 is paralyzed with sickness in his bones. 00:03:48.180 --> 00:03:49.620 Don't you love Hebrew poetry? 00:03:49.620 --> 00:03:53.120 The musician who brought comfort to others 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.460 trembles with an aching soul 00:03:55.460 --> 00:03:57.020 at the thought of death. 00:03:58.580 --> 00:04:02.280 That same king who danced for joy 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.140 before a whole nation, 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.280 he now weeps alone before God. 00:04:10.780 --> 00:04:14.439 Psalm 6 is the prayer of a man in affliction. 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:19.240 He feels buried under a tsunami of his own guilt. 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:20.480 He says, 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:21.439 My eyes fail. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.840 It's like his eyes are a dam 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:25.579 trying to hold back the waters 00:04:25.579 --> 00:04:27.459 and they break forward. 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:34.259 You know, we live here in Colorado 00:04:34.259 --> 00:04:35.500 and some say that 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:39.259 Colorado has a tendency to have hard hearts. 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:40.699 It's a certain type of people 00:04:40.699 --> 00:04:42.319 that migrated west, 00:04:43.259 --> 00:04:45.579 individualistic, self-sufficient people. 00:04:45.579 --> 00:04:48.539 And to cast the gospel seed here 00:04:48.539 --> 00:04:51.800 is like throwing wheat onto Rocky Mountain. 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:55.620 But even John Steinbeck, 00:04:55.719 --> 00:04:56.539 the American author, 00:04:56.620 --> 00:04:57.620 was honest about this. 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:58.060 He said, 00:04:58.199 --> 00:04:58.439 Quote, 00:04:58.719 --> 00:05:02.039 Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain 00:05:02.039 --> 00:05:03.539 shared with no one. 00:05:04.299 --> 00:05:04.779 End quote. 00:05:04.779 --> 00:05:10.199 So pause in light of Psalm 6 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.099 and try to be as honest 00:05:12.099 --> 00:05:13.559 at least as John Steinbeck. 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.439 What is the cause of your pain? 00:05:17.239 --> 00:05:20.619 What is most difficult about your life? 00:05:21.739 --> 00:05:25.099 What feelings lead you to weep, 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:26.239 if any at all? 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:31.879 The Bible says that there is only one hope 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.500 in life and in death. 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:36.699 And that is if, 00:05:37.379 --> 00:05:39.819 if you are not your own, 00:05:40.060 --> 00:05:41.519 but you belong body and soul 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.420 to our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:05:44.900 --> 00:05:47.100 The next question in our catechism asks, 00:05:47.259 --> 00:05:48.600 then what must you know 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:51.819 to live and die in the joy of this comfort? 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:53.460 And there are three answers, 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:55.100 which I chose this 00:05:55.100 --> 00:05:57.260 because it's really the progression of Psalm 6. 00:05:58.100 --> 00:05:59.439 You must know three things 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:00.900 to live and die with the joy 00:06:00.900 --> 00:06:03.240 and the assurance that you belong to Christ. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:03.800 Number one, 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:05.980 you must know your own guilt. 00:06:06.620 --> 00:06:07.160 You and I, 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:09.260 we must know how great our sin 00:06:09.260 --> 00:06:11.540 and misery are outside of Christ. 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:12.600 Number two, 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.400 we must know God's grace. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:16.879 We must know how we are set free 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:18.939 from all of our sins by God's mercy. 00:06:19.320 --> 00:06:20.100 And number three, 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.360 we must know gratitude. 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:27.199 How I am to thank God for such deliverance. 00:06:27.780 --> 00:06:29.699 So what you need to know is guilt first, 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:31.360 grace second, 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:33.199 and gratitude third. 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:34.340 Listen for that theme 00:06:34.340 --> 00:06:37.139 as we move through the verses of Psalm 6. 00:06:38.139 --> 00:06:41.819 I've tried to pull up five biblical truths in Psalm 6. 00:06:41.900 --> 00:06:42.920 The first one is this. 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.420 Before you can be healed, 00:06:46.420 --> 00:06:51.000 you must know how great your sin is before God. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:52.780 Look at verse one. 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:53.360 David says, 00:06:53.580 --> 00:06:54.080 Oh Lord, 00:06:54.580 --> 00:06:56.740 rebuke me not in your anger, 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:58.240 nor discipline me. 00:06:58.860 --> 00:06:59.960 Don't chasten me 00:06:59.960 --> 00:07:01.240 in your wrath 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.000 or in your hot displeasure. 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.319 See, 00:07:05.420 --> 00:07:06.579 David says that his suffering, 00:07:06.699 --> 00:07:08.060 it comes from the hands of men, 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:08.860 his enemies, 00:07:09.019 --> 00:07:09.500 his foes. 00:07:09.579 --> 00:07:11.120 That's how he's describing his affliction. 00:07:11.540 --> 00:07:12.540 But David's guilt, 00:07:12.779 --> 00:07:14.519 it tells him that behind the suffering 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:15.500 from the hands of man 00:07:15.500 --> 00:07:17.079 is the providence of God. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.480 It's the discipline of God on me, 00:07:19.779 --> 00:07:21.180 which I deserve. 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:24.199 So it's as if David is saying, 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:24.959 Oh Lord, 00:07:25.379 --> 00:07:26.660 I accept your correction, 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.459 but please restrain your wrath 00:07:29.459 --> 00:07:30.519 or else I'll die. 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.719 David's saying that, 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:33.139 God, 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:34.199 if you act toward me 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:35.279 like a man would act, 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:36.219 I'm dead. 00:07:40.219 --> 00:07:41.599 The beauty of the gospel, 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:43.759 it comes in the light of who God is. 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:45.439 You will never truly know 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.680 how great your sin is before God 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.620 until you know 00:07:49.620 --> 00:07:52.019 how truly great God is. 00:07:53.859 --> 00:07:55.039 And some within earshot, 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:55.719 you might be saying, 00:07:55.799 --> 00:07:57.779 I've rejected God a long time ago. 00:07:57.859 --> 00:07:59.259 I've rejected church and the Bible 00:07:59.259 --> 00:08:00.299 a long time ago. 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.199 You might have rejected a God 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.319 that is not the God of the Bible. 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:07.219 You might have rejected a church 00:08:07.219 --> 00:08:09.779 that's not a church of Jesus Christ. 00:08:10.939 --> 00:08:13.579 Because God is not like man. 00:08:13.719 --> 00:08:14.919 If that's the God you rejected, 00:08:15.019 --> 00:08:17.259 you rejected an idol made in your own mind. 00:08:19.479 --> 00:08:21.120 Man is created. 00:08:21.620 --> 00:08:22.819 God is creator. 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:24.979 Man is emotional, 00:08:25.359 --> 00:08:27.079 but God is all virtue. 00:08:27.740 --> 00:08:29.599 Man is vindictive. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:30.920 That's why David's shaking. 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.019 But God is unchanging. 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:36.180 Man acts rashly, 00:08:36.540 --> 00:08:39.860 but God radiates his essence consistently. 00:08:40.220 --> 00:08:41.240 Man reacts, 00:08:41.620 --> 00:08:43.860 but God is pure act. 00:08:43.860 --> 00:08:51.440 And if your guilt is plaguing you, 00:08:52.379 --> 00:08:54.220 this could be the Holy Spirit 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:55.980 beginning to soften 00:08:55.980 --> 00:08:58.659 that rock-hard soil of your heart. 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:00.279 So thank Him 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:01.960 if you feel guilt 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:03.539 before this holy God. 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:05.220 Romans 3 says, 00:09:05.220 --> 00:09:14.399 Isaiah 5 says, 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:14.420 Isaiah 5 says, 00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:17.200 The Lord will be exalted in judgment. 00:09:17.420 --> 00:09:20.019 He will show Himself holy in righteousness. 00:09:20.019 --> 00:09:22.919 So the first thing we need to do 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.919 is stop denying how broken we are. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.319 It's like a doctor trying to warn you, 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:29.159 you have diabetes. 00:09:29.579 --> 00:09:32.480 If you keep eating sugar and Twinkies, 00:09:32.659 --> 00:09:33.639 you will die sooner. 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.039 Stop denying that you have this disease 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:37.679 and listen. 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:39.419 Listen to the Holy Spirit, 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.500 even if it comes through that feeling of guilt. 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:45.879 Do you want to be healed? 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:48.820 Do you want to be healed? 00:09:50.940 --> 00:09:54.840 Then you must first know how great your sin is. 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:58.100 And when you feel the weight of your sin 00:09:58.100 --> 00:09:59.379 before this holy God, 00:10:00.019 --> 00:10:01.799 it will soften your heart. 00:10:02.580 --> 00:10:04.120 And if you weep for your sin, 00:10:04.179 --> 00:10:05.519 if you weep for your guilt, 00:10:06.419 --> 00:10:08.779 those are tears that will bring healing. 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:10.519 So let it flow. 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:15.559 The Lord heals by cutting open your guilt. 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:17.679 And He must cut it open 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.860 so that His medicine can get inside of you 00:10:20.860 --> 00:10:21.860 to heal you. 00:10:22.500 --> 00:10:23.879 So the first truth is that 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:25.139 before you can be healed, 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.439 you must know how great your sin is before God. 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:29.840 And the second truth is that 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.259 when God cuts you open 00:10:31.259 --> 00:10:33.919 with the guilt exposing you 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.600 before His holy moral law, 00:10:36.579 --> 00:10:39.439 He does that because He wants you to ask 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.320 for the healing balm of His grace. 00:10:42.400 --> 00:10:43.280 Look at verse 2. 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:45.020 David prays, 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:47.660 Be gracious to me, O Lord, 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:49.560 for I am languishing. 00:10:50.100 --> 00:10:52.380 O Lord, my bones are troubled. 00:10:53.860 --> 00:10:55.900 David uses this word languishing. 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:57.740 He says, I am weak. 00:10:58.280 --> 00:11:00.420 Three times David describes himself 00:11:00.420 --> 00:11:02.120 and the Hebrew word is Baha'u'll. 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.539 And it means faint, weak, troubled, terrified. 00:11:06.659 --> 00:11:08.039 You could take the original meaning 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:10.340 and translate verse 2 this way. 00:11:10.419 --> 00:11:10.779 He's saying, 00:11:10.779 --> 00:11:13.919 Lord, be gracious to me 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.460 because I'm like one who droops. 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.179 I droop before you like a withered plant. 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:21.899 Lord, be tender and gentle 00:11:21.899 --> 00:11:24.639 with this plucked flower of yours 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.899 because I am so easily crushed. 00:11:26.899 --> 00:11:29.559 When he says in verse 2 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:31.659 that my bones even are troubled, 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.659 he's saying the most solid part of me 00:11:33.659 --> 00:11:35.720 that should give me some stability, 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:37.980 even that is vexed. 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:39.480 My bones wobble. 00:11:42.539 --> 00:11:45.500 But David appeals to the grace of God. 00:11:45.620 --> 00:11:45.919 He says, 00:11:46.059 --> 00:11:47.679 Be gracious to me, O Lord. 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:50.539 And he's not just making something up 00:11:50.539 --> 00:11:52.019 about God from his own thoughts. 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:53.720 He's calling upon God 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:54.879 from God's own word. 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:56.860 It's from Exodus 34 00:11:56.860 --> 00:11:58.759 where the Lord told all of his people 00:11:58.759 --> 00:11:59.860 for all generations, 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:02.919 I am the Lord your God. 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:04.600 I am merciful. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:05.960 I am gracious. 00:12:06.740 --> 00:12:08.000 I am slow to anger 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.460 and abounding in steadfast love 00:12:10.460 --> 00:12:11.879 and faithfulness. 00:12:12.259 --> 00:12:14.200 That's what God says I am. 00:12:15.299 --> 00:12:17.299 David simply reminds God, 00:12:17.419 --> 00:12:19.539 you said you are gracious and merciful. 00:12:20.059 --> 00:12:21.740 So be gracious to me now, Lord. 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:22.559 Heal me. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.000 Be merciful to me. 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.959 David's confessing I am sick. 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.099 I have demerited any favor 00:12:30.099 --> 00:12:31.539 I could ever hope for. 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:35.500 I appeal to your kindness, David says, 00:12:35.619 --> 00:12:36.759 out of your grace. 00:12:37.199 --> 00:12:37.859 Cut me open. 00:12:38.219 --> 00:12:40.459 Remove the cancer from my sick bones 00:12:40.459 --> 00:12:41.799 so I can be healed. 00:12:43.819 --> 00:12:44.979 In verse 3, David says, 00:12:45.079 --> 00:12:48.019 My soul also is greatly, greatly troubled. 00:12:48.019 --> 00:12:50.279 So it's not just his outer man, 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:51.860 not just his bones and his flesh. 00:12:52.460 --> 00:12:53.399 It's his soul. 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:55.480 My soul is greatly troubled. 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:56.860 He says, 00:12:57.079 --> 00:12:59.460 But you, O Lord, how long? 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:02.899 It's like he interrupts himself in mid-sentence. 00:13:03.259 --> 00:13:04.740 But you, O Lord, how long? 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:08.659 How long, O Lord? 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:12.500 Isn't it true that when we suffer, 00:13:13.079 --> 00:13:15.019 minutes of suffering feel like hours? 00:13:15.019 --> 00:13:16.720 Hours feel like days. 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:17.840 Days feel like weeks. 00:13:18.199 --> 00:13:21.819 Some of you have been suffering for years, 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:23.740 and you're crying out to the Lord, 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.600 How much longer? 00:13:28.259 --> 00:13:29.519 How long, O Lord, 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.279 was a favorite prayer of John Calvin's, 00:13:32.939 --> 00:13:34.079 one of the great reformers. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.540 Sometimes it's reported that was all he could pray. 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:40.860 He faced physical ailments, 00:13:41.060 --> 00:13:41.879 tiresome burdens. 00:13:42.280 --> 00:13:43.780 He was frequently misunderstood. 00:13:44.400 --> 00:13:46.180 He endured constant opposition. 00:13:48.139 --> 00:13:50.360 Isn't that encouraging that we're not alone 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:52.000 when we suffer through affliction? 00:13:52.780 --> 00:13:53.360 Martin Luther, 00:13:53.900 --> 00:13:56.980 he was a man who was so troubled often in his soul, 00:13:57.060 --> 00:13:58.360 he questioned his own salvation. 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.460 And even in discovering the doctrines of grace, 00:14:01.899 --> 00:14:02.800 it didn't stop. 00:14:03.300 --> 00:14:04.259 To his very death, 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:05.080 Luther questioned, 00:14:05.539 --> 00:14:07.639 How could it be that God would save me 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:08.980 with such amazing grace? 00:14:09.180 --> 00:14:10.120 Am I really saved? 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.399 Martin Luther wrestled with that. 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:14.159 Charles Spurgeon in London, 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.000 he suffered with depression 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.259 throughout his entire ministry as a preacher, 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:20.560 preaching the gospel, 00:14:21.139 --> 00:14:21.779 going home, 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:23.600 and weeping in solitude, 00:14:23.779 --> 00:14:25.600 unable to even get out of bed sometimes. 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:30.200 When God disciplines Calvin, 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:30.779 Luther, 00:14:31.379 --> 00:14:31.879 Spurgeon, 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:32.680 you and me, 00:14:33.379 --> 00:14:34.659 when we go through affliction, 00:14:35.540 --> 00:14:37.560 God is seeking one thing from us. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.120 It's our submission to him. 00:14:42.860 --> 00:14:44.460 So the answer to the question, 00:14:44.580 --> 00:14:45.620 How long, O Lord? 00:14:45.800 --> 00:14:46.659 The answer is, 00:14:47.019 --> 00:14:48.440 Until you surrender to me. 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:49.680 And even then, 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.060 I might not remove this affliction from you, 00:14:52.580 --> 00:14:53.720 but you will be surrendered. 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:58.759 You will know sweet peace and joy in that affliction. 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:04.820 David felt in his body, 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.580 but he felt it even more in the aching of his soul, 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.920 the weight of his sin, 00:15:12.340 --> 00:15:14.259 and his need for God's grace. 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.980 He asked for God to be gracious to him and heal him, 00:15:17.980 --> 00:15:21.100 and he's asking for that gracious balm, 00:15:21.700 --> 00:15:25.320 that salve to be put on his wound that God's opened up. 00:15:26.460 --> 00:15:26.840 You know, 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.060 a person with a fryer burns themselves with hot oil. 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.259 You're going to need to put some ointment on that right away, 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:35.000 but it's not just a one time, 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:35.340 is it? 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:38.899 You're going to need to keep putting more and more and more healing balm, 00:15:39.060 --> 00:15:40.840 healing ointment on the burn 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.820 until God restores all those layers of skin. 00:15:43.820 --> 00:15:46.820 That's how his grace is with us when he cuts you open, 00:15:47.140 --> 00:15:50.180 and your heart finally receives the truth of the gospel, 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.760 and he softens the soil of your heart enough for that gospel seed to take root. 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.980 He continues pouring more and more grace on you, 00:15:58.240 --> 00:15:59.760 more and more healing ointment, 00:15:59.940 --> 00:16:02.260 and he keeps opening you up deeper and deeper and deeper, 00:16:02.540 --> 00:16:03.860 and putting more grace in 00:16:03.860 --> 00:16:07.400 until he heals you to the roots of your soul. 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.939 What a gracious Lord we serve. 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:11.879 That's the second truth, 00:16:11.959 --> 00:16:13.899 that when God cuts you open with guilt, 00:16:14.620 --> 00:16:16.399 it's so that he will heal you 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.419 with the balm of his grace 00:16:18.419 --> 00:16:20.379 over and over and over 00:16:20.379 --> 00:16:22.100 until your soul is ready for heaven. 00:16:22.980 --> 00:16:24.840 Praise the Lord for his amazing grace. 00:16:26.199 --> 00:16:28.360 The third truth from Psalm 6 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:32.179 is that David still is troubled, 00:16:32.179 --> 00:16:38.079 and he counts the cost of remaining in the guilt of his sin 00:16:38.079 --> 00:16:40.739 by rejecting or not receiving God's grace. 00:16:42.579 --> 00:16:47.120 Maybe you feel like God is beginning to soften your heart of stone. 00:16:48.479 --> 00:16:49.879 Do you want him now? 00:16:50.079 --> 00:16:51.500 Do you want him to cut you open? 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:53.939 And do you want his grace? 00:16:54.319 --> 00:16:56.699 Because if not, you need to do the same as David. 00:16:56.819 --> 00:16:58.139 You need to ponder the thought 00:16:58.139 --> 00:17:01.179 of life without God now and forevermore. 00:17:01.179 --> 00:17:04.859 You need to count the cost of not receiving his grace. 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:08.000 Look at what David prays in verses 4 through 7. 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:09.519 He says, 00:17:10.259 --> 00:17:11.039 Turn, O Lord. 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:13.879 The Hebrew word is return. 00:17:14.919 --> 00:17:16.500 I knew what it was to have your presence. 00:17:16.919 --> 00:17:18.659 Now it feels like your back is to me, 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.079 and I want you to turn back to me, Lord. 00:17:22.159 --> 00:17:24.059 Deliver my life, he says in verse 4. 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.879 Save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 00:17:29.059 --> 00:17:29.519 Verse 5, 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.359 For in death there is no remembrance of you. 00:17:32.700 --> 00:17:34.839 In Sheol, who will give you praise? 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:35.920 Verse 6, 00:17:36.019 --> 00:17:37.940 I am weary with my moaning. 00:17:38.339 --> 00:17:40.200 Every night I flood my bed with tears. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.200 I drench my couch with weeping. 00:17:43.019 --> 00:17:43.480 Verse 7, 00:17:43.579 --> 00:17:45.639 My eye wastes away because of grief. 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.819 It grows weak because of all my foes. 00:17:48.819 --> 00:17:53.439 David is full of the fear of death. 00:17:54.659 --> 00:17:56.099 He ponders the thought, 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:00.179 the terror of dying and being put in Sheol. 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:01.419 That's the realm of the dead. 00:18:02.419 --> 00:18:05.599 And that thought of his soul being away from God forever, 00:18:06.139 --> 00:18:08.859 that causes all of the fears to go up 00:18:08.859 --> 00:18:11.839 to the next level of horror in his mind. 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.119 And he says, 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:17.439 It's like I'm swimming in my own tears at the dread of that thought. 00:18:19.159 --> 00:18:22.859 He is pleading for spiritual mercy from the just God. 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:30.240 And we can infer that David is fainting at the thought of eternal death. 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.440 But in verse 4, 00:18:33.539 --> 00:18:36.200 David asks God to return to him. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.779 See, the sin in David's life and the weight of his own guilt, 00:18:40.900 --> 00:18:42.920 it made him feel so distant from God. 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:44.500 Isn't that true? 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.539 You're saved, but when you sin, 00:18:46.620 --> 00:18:48.420 your fellowship with God feels broken. 00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:50.620 You know God is unchanging, 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:52.279 but you still feel so distant. 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:53.980 And that guilt, 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:56.799 it's good for us when it stirs up 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.240 the thought of what life would be like 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:00.180 for eternity. 00:19:00.579 --> 00:19:01.539 Away from God. 00:19:03.339 --> 00:19:03.980 He says, 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:05.460 Lord, if you heal me now, 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:06.920 I will praise you. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:07.799 But if you don't heal me, 00:19:07.980 --> 00:19:09.920 how am I supposed to praise you from the grave? 00:19:11.099 --> 00:19:11.859 Spurgeon said, 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.519 Church graveyards are silent places. 00:19:15.099 --> 00:19:18.740 The tombstones cannot sing God's psalms to him. 00:19:19.339 --> 00:19:21.120 So if God is keeping you alive now, 00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:23.319 it's so you will sing his praise 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:25.240 while you have breath in your lungs. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:30.079 If God would spare David's life, 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.099 then David would live to praise God out of gratitude. 00:19:35.700 --> 00:19:39.359 David is appealing once again to that promise from Exodus 34. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:40.740 Who is this God? 00:19:41.380 --> 00:19:42.299 Yes, God said, 00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:42.960 I am gracious. 00:19:43.220 --> 00:19:44.039 I am merciful. 00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:45.720 I'm slow to anger. 00:19:46.380 --> 00:19:46.819 God says, 00:19:46.819 --> 00:19:49.659 I keep my steadfast love for thousands, 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:51.319 and I forgive the iniquity, 00:19:51.679 --> 00:19:52.639 and the transgressions, 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.039 and the sins of my people 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.480 when they turn back to me. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:01.039 If David could have that hope of God's mercy, 00:20:01.579 --> 00:20:03.880 looking way forward into the distant, 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:05.599 and into the king, 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:06.680 and priest, 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:07.200 and prophet, 00:20:07.299 --> 00:20:08.640 who would come from his line, 00:20:09.059 --> 00:20:10.519 the one and promised Messiah, 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.180 and by faith in that promised Messiah, 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:14.779 David could know God's grace. 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:16.860 How much more can we have hope? 00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:20.059 We can look back at the finished work of Christ. 00:20:20.740 --> 00:20:23.460 Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah 45. 00:20:24.059 --> 00:20:27.039 Whoever believes in him has eternal life, 00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:31.099 and whoever does not obey him will not see life, 00:20:31.639 --> 00:20:34.139 but the wrath of God remains on him. 00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:36.740 So Jesus warns you, 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:39.480 turn to me now and have eternal life, 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.419 but if you do not repent, 00:20:41.659 --> 00:20:42.919 you remain in your sin, 00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:45.159 and the wrath of God remains on you. 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.400 You need to ponder the thought of missing God's grace 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:50.560 by rejecting him, 00:20:50.620 --> 00:20:52.340 by keeping your heart hard. 00:20:54.360 --> 00:20:55.380 God said, 00:20:55.620 --> 00:20:56.420 I am God. 00:20:56.980 --> 00:20:59.040 There is none else. 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:01.820 All who turn to Christ will be saved. 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:06.960 Anyone who forsakes Christ has eternal death. 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:10.040 The message of Scripture is, 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.279 weep over our sin now, 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.639 and we will enjoy life with Christ forevermore. 00:21:16.579 --> 00:21:17.980 But if in our pride, 00:21:18.299 --> 00:21:19.599 we reject Christ now, 00:21:20.099 --> 00:21:24.079 we will spend eternity weeping in our sin. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.119 Count the cost of rejecting God in your pride. 00:21:31.180 --> 00:21:33.440 Your only hope to live 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:36.359 is if God will cut you open, 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:39.240 remove your infected nature, 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:42.240 and instead fill you with his love and grace 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:43.839 through Jesus Christ. 00:21:45.579 --> 00:21:46.720 The fourth truth is that 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:48.740 if you have eyes that can weep, 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:50.319 here's our glorious promise, 00:21:50.779 --> 00:21:54.200 God will hear the voice of your weeping, 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:56.359 and he will transform you 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:58.279 just like he transformed David. 00:21:58.819 --> 00:22:01.400 See, there's a transformation that happens in Psalm 6, 00:22:01.700 --> 00:22:04.099 and it takes place after verse 7. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:06.200 Put your eyes on verse 7 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.359 into verse 8. 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:10.459 This shift is so radical 00:22:10.459 --> 00:22:11.500 that some commentators 00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:13.179 don't even know how to explain it. 00:22:14.619 --> 00:22:16.399 Listen to what David prays next 00:22:16.399 --> 00:22:18.919 after talking about his fear 00:22:18.919 --> 00:22:20.039 and his room, 00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:22.059 his private room filled with his tears. 00:22:22.679 --> 00:22:23.479 In verse 8 he says, 00:22:23.619 --> 00:22:24.379 Depart from me, 00:22:24.659 --> 00:22:25.719 all you workers of evil, 00:22:25.819 --> 00:22:27.159 for the Lord has heard 00:22:27.159 --> 00:22:28.339 the sound of my weeping. 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:30.319 The Lord has heard my plea. 00:22:30.619 --> 00:22:32.099 The Lord accepts my prayer. 00:22:33.199 --> 00:22:34.359 And in verse 10 he says, 00:22:34.659 --> 00:22:35.579 Now it's not God 00:22:35.579 --> 00:22:36.799 who's got his back turned to me, 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:38.539 it's God who has returned to me, 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:39.619 and it's my enemies 00:22:39.619 --> 00:22:41.619 who've got their back turned away from God, 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:43.819 running from him and his coming judgment. 00:22:44.740 --> 00:22:45.359 All of a sudden, 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:46.599 there's no more fear in David. 00:22:47.159 --> 00:22:48.359 There's no more terror. 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:52.680 And it's not hard to explain this shift. 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:54.919 We should let God's word interpret it for us. 00:22:55.159 --> 00:22:56.519 Look at verse 8 one more time. 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:59.379 The shift comes because God 00:22:59.379 --> 00:23:01.399 has answered David's prayer. 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.480 Three times David recognizes, 00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:07.000 The Lord heard the sound of my weeping. 00:23:07.259 --> 00:23:08.759 The Lord heard my plea. 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:11.340 The Lord accepts my prayer. 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:13.320 And it changes everything. 00:23:15.420 --> 00:23:17.280 He has heard the sound, 00:23:17.820 --> 00:23:19.800 the voice of my weeping. 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:23.220 One Puritan broke this down this way. 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:25.220 No matter who we are, 00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:26.920 no matter who you are, 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:28.980 there is a language of weeping 00:23:28.980 --> 00:23:30.559 that God always hears 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:32.480 and God always understands. 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:35.420 Weeping is the eloquence of sorrow. 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.200 It needs no interpreter. 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:40.839 Our tears are understood 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:43.779 even when our words fail. 00:23:44.860 --> 00:23:46.660 Let us think of our weeping, 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:47.539 I love this, 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:49.640 as liquid prayers. 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:54.420 See, David's sad tears of guilt 00:23:54.420 --> 00:23:56.040 are transformed 00:23:56.040 --> 00:23:58.240 by God's grace 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.180 into joyful tears 00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:01.380 of gratitude. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.940 I need to tell you, 00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:07.880 if there is hope for David, 00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:10.460 everything we know about him 00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:11.020 from Scripture, 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:13.180 there is hope for you and me too. 00:24:15.040 --> 00:24:15.759 David felt 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:18.380 the healing of God 00:24:18.380 --> 00:24:19.600 in his soul 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:21.539 throughout his whole body. 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:23.319 And he enjoyed 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:25.079 the peace and joy 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:26.179 that come from the gospel 00:24:26.179 --> 00:24:27.500 of Jesus Christ. 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:31.439 I want to confess, 00:24:31.659 --> 00:24:32.599 early in my marriage 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:33.299 to Andrea, 00:24:33.659 --> 00:24:34.799 before we had children 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:35.819 or maybe our oldest 00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:36.599 was very little, 00:24:37.539 --> 00:24:38.719 Andrea had to confront me 00:24:38.719 --> 00:24:39.599 that I was not leading 00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:40.480 our little family 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.599 spiritually well at all. 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:45.240 I went maybe 10 years 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:47.799 as a young husband 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:48.399 and father, 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:49.340 10 years 00:24:49.340 --> 00:24:50.880 without shedding a tear 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:51.580 over anything 00:24:51.580 --> 00:24:53.880 and a very hard heart 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:54.960 though I was saved. 00:24:56.620 --> 00:24:58.440 In the last five years or so, 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:01.820 I can't really explain it 00:25:01.820 --> 00:25:03.280 except that many others 00:25:03.280 --> 00:25:03.860 have experienced 00:25:03.860 --> 00:25:04.680 something similar. 00:25:05.340 --> 00:25:06.040 The Lord just 00:25:06.040 --> 00:25:07.440 broke me down 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:08.140 gradually 00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:09.019 through his word. 00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:12.220 And the kingdom of heaven, 00:25:12.360 --> 00:25:13.800 as simple as the gospel is, 00:25:14.360 --> 00:25:15.040 it's true, 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:16.000 it's real, 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:17.220 and it changes everything. 00:25:19.339 --> 00:25:20.019 And as the Lord 00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:20.980 grew in me 00:25:20.980 --> 00:25:21.640 a desire 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:22.579 to aspire 00:25:22.579 --> 00:25:23.539 toward doing that work 00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:24.420 of an overseer 00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:25.319 and the thought 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:26.299 of my sin, 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:27.299 my unworthiness 00:25:27.299 --> 00:25:28.619 before him 00:25:28.619 --> 00:25:29.319 and his holiness 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:30.559 and entrusted 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:31.500 with the souls 00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:32.460 that he loves 00:25:32.460 --> 00:25:34.039 and shed his blood for, 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:36.319 the tears have just 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:37.819 come so quickly 00:25:37.819 --> 00:25:40.380 and it's tears of joy 00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:41.079 and I just want 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:41.880 to know him 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:42.680 more and more and more. 00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:45.400 And I share that 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:46.700 because if there's 00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:47.340 hope for David, 00:25:47.460 --> 00:25:48.480 if there's hope for Jason, 00:25:48.620 --> 00:25:49.519 there's hope for you, 00:25:49.860 --> 00:25:51.000 for every single one. 00:25:51.820 --> 00:25:52.920 And there's hope for me 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:53.620 for my future. 00:25:53.740 --> 00:25:54.600 I don't trust myself 00:25:54.600 --> 00:25:55.279 with my future, 00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:57.200 but God will keep us 00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:58.640 because David prays 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:00.759 for God's steadfast love 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:02.519 to hold us. 00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:04.500 And he does that 00:26:04.500 --> 00:26:05.560 by reminding us 00:26:05.560 --> 00:26:06.279 of his love 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:08.320 and it overflows 00:26:08.320 --> 00:26:10.519 from his grace on us 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:11.220 through tears. 00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:13.819 works its way out 00:26:13.819 --> 00:26:14.400 from the soul 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:15.220 through the body. 00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:16.740 Praise the Lord. 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:19.000 Another Puritan said, 00:26:19.539 --> 00:26:21.100 a penitent tear 00:26:21.100 --> 00:26:23.559 is a powerful ambassador. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.519 It never returns 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:26.900 from the throne of God 00:26:26.900 --> 00:26:27.680 disappointed. 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:31.019 God hears the voice 00:26:31.019 --> 00:26:32.299 of your weeping. 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:36.319 Yes, the wages of sin 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:36.740 is death, 00:26:36.900 --> 00:26:38.600 but the free gift of God 00:26:38.600 --> 00:26:40.220 is eternal life. 00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:40.920 Romans 6. 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:42.720 Because Jesus came 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:43.660 to seek 00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:44.700 and to save 00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:45.680 you and me 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:46.860 while we were lost. 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:48.519 Hebrews 4, 00:26:48.600 --> 00:26:49.059 we're told that 00:26:49.059 --> 00:26:49.860 Jesus Christ 00:26:49.860 --> 00:26:51.220 is the only mediator 00:26:51.220 --> 00:26:52.839 between God and man 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:54.200 and he is able 00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:55.259 to sympathize 00:26:55.259 --> 00:26:56.299 with our weakness, 00:26:56.500 --> 00:26:57.059 our trials, 00:26:57.400 --> 00:26:58.160 our afflictions, 00:26:58.360 --> 00:26:59.400 even our tears. 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:01.960 In every respect, 00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:03.819 Jesus was suffering 00:27:03.819 --> 00:27:04.380 and tempted 00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:05.200 yet as we are, 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:06.360 but he remained 00:27:06.360 --> 00:27:07.700 without sin 00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:09.900 because God's 00:27:09.900 --> 00:27:11.200 steadfast love 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:12.880 was full 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:14.039 in Jesus Christ 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:15.140 and through him 00:27:15.140 --> 00:27:16.019 it overflows 00:27:16.019 --> 00:27:17.180 unto his people. 00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:20.940 Well, we've made it 00:27:20.940 --> 00:27:21.580 through all the verses 00:27:21.580 --> 00:27:22.440 of Psalm 6. 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:23.740 Those were four truths 00:27:23.740 --> 00:27:24.799 and I said we have five. 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:27.920 The fifth truth is this, 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:29.039 that God's grace 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.360 soaks in 00:27:30.360 --> 00:27:32.100 and he heals you 00:27:32.100 --> 00:27:34.360 as you exercise 00:27:34.360 --> 00:27:35.420 gratitude 00:27:35.420 --> 00:27:37.420 for his grace. 00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:39.480 You need to exercise 00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:41.240 gratitude for his grace 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:42.440 to keep working 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:43.720 that healing balm 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:44.560 into your life. 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:46.240 I'm going to take us 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.700 back to verse 4. 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:49.920 We pointed out 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:50.920 how David says, 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:51.420 return, 00:27:51.620 --> 00:27:52.500 return, oh Lord, 00:27:52.840 --> 00:27:53.920 and deliver my life. 00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:55.380 Save me for the sake 00:27:55.380 --> 00:27:57.680 of your steadfast love. 00:27:57.740 --> 00:27:58.640 And then in verse 5, 00:27:58.740 --> 00:27:59.380 David says, 00:28:00.260 --> 00:28:01.060 how can we praise you 00:28:01.060 --> 00:28:01.840 from the grave? 00:28:02.580 --> 00:28:03.420 It's like David saying, 00:28:03.520 --> 00:28:04.740 Lord, if you heal me, 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:07.060 if you spare my life now, 00:28:07.360 --> 00:28:08.820 I will live 00:28:08.820 --> 00:28:10.400 to give you praise. 00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:12.040 So the lesson 00:28:12.040 --> 00:28:12.960 from Psalm 6 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:14.460 is that God hears 00:28:14.460 --> 00:28:15.000 the voice 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:16.020 of your weeping 00:28:16.020 --> 00:28:18.100 and when he heals you 00:28:18.100 --> 00:28:19.040 by his grace, 00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:21.740 the only appropriate response 00:28:21.740 --> 00:28:22.540 is to live 00:28:22.540 --> 00:28:23.500 in gratitude. 00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:27.620 God was still there 00:28:27.620 --> 00:28:28.860 all along with David. 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:30.500 It felt like he was distant, 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:32.040 but God was with David 00:28:32.040 --> 00:28:33.460 through his affliction. 00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:35.040 We have a mediator 00:28:35.040 --> 00:28:36.400 that is closer to us 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:37.020 than a brother. 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:38.660 He is with us 00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:39.800 through our suffering. 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:43.100 If you are going through 00:28:43.100 --> 00:28:44.680 anything in your life 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.160 that is bringing up 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:47.800 this weeping 00:28:47.800 --> 00:28:48.620 or this affliction 00:28:48.620 --> 00:28:49.700 that is causing you 00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:50.060 to cry out, 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:51.200 how long, oh Lord? 00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:52.740 Remember that 00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:54.020 in your anguish, 00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:55.680 through the dark night 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:56.559 of your soul, 00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:58.599 God is with you. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:28:59.220 Jesus says, 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:00.400 I will never leave you 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:01.859 nor forsake you. 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.180 And it's the blood 00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:04.059 of Jesus Christ 00:29:04.059 --> 00:29:05.039 that cleanses us 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:05.900 from all sin. 00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:07.420 1 John 1, 7. 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:08.839 See church, 00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:10.160 Christ loves you 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:11.220 so much 00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:12.220 that he saves you, 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:13.539 but he doesn't just leave you, 00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:14.559 he washes you 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:15.639 and grows you 00:29:15.639 --> 00:29:16.759 through gratitude. 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.839 We're told in Ephesians 5 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.759 that Christ loves the church 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:24.259 and gave himself up for her. 00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:25.099 Listen to this. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:28.200 That he might sanctify her, 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:30.119 having cleansed her 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:32.319 by the washing of water 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:33.819 with the word. 00:29:33.819 --> 00:29:36.140 So exercise your gratitude 00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:36.960 for Christ 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:38.839 by letting him wash over you 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:40.119 and sanctify you 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:41.319 by his word. 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:43.919 God hears 00:29:43.919 --> 00:29:45.039 the voice 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.240 of your weeping 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.700 because our Lord Jesus Christ, 00:29:49.139 --> 00:29:50.619 God who took on flesh, 00:29:51.179 --> 00:29:52.439 he bore your guilt 00:29:52.439 --> 00:29:54.299 to kill sin 00:29:54.299 --> 00:29:55.819 so that you 00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:56.759 can have 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:57.480 peace. 00:29:59.659 --> 00:30:01.559 Our Lord Jesus Christ, 00:30:02.439 --> 00:30:03.259 God 00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:04.839 became flesh 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:06.740 to show you 00:30:06.740 --> 00:30:08.179 that truly 00:30:08.179 --> 00:30:08.740 the Father 00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:09.559 hears the voice 00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:10.279 of your weeping. 00:30:11.259 --> 00:30:12.179 That's why he was 00:30:12.179 --> 00:30:13.419 the man of sorrows, 00:30:14.679 --> 00:30:15.759 crushed to death 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:17.139 to conquer Satan 00:30:17.139 --> 00:30:18.039 so that you 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:19.319 can now live in joy. 00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:21.440 God hears 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:21.980 the voice 00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:22.659 of your weeping 00:30:22.659 --> 00:30:24.599 because our Lord Jesus Christ 00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:25.700 who took on 00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:26.539 a body 00:30:26.539 --> 00:30:27.960 and was wounded 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:28.720 in that body 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.639 to die, 00:30:30.419 --> 00:30:31.480 to be buried, 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:32.519 and then to be 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.779 raised victoriously, 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:34.700 inaugurating 00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:35.539 the new creation. 00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:36.659 And he did this 00:30:36.659 --> 00:30:37.379 so that you 00:30:37.379 --> 00:30:38.960 may be healed. 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:40.539 And enjoy life 00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:41.419 everlasting 00:30:41.419 --> 00:30:42.539 with him. 00:30:44.879 --> 00:30:45.940 Know that God 00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:46.799 hears the voice 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.679 of your weeping. 00:30:48.619 --> 00:30:49.379 Put your trust 00:30:49.379 --> 00:30:49.859 in him. 00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:51.980 May his grace 00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:53.200 wash over you, 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:54.419 heal you, 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:55.259 so that you 00:30:55.259 --> 00:30:55.799 can live 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:56.779 in gratitude. 00:30:57.679 --> 00:30:58.399 Let's pray. 00:30:58.399 --> 00:30:58.480 Amen. 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:07.539 God bless you. 00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:07.620 Amen. 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:10.480 We read in 2 Corinthians 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:11.220 4.13 00:31:11.220 --> 00:31:12.500 that the Holy Spirit 00:31:12.500 --> 00:31:13.380 works in us 00:31:13.380 --> 00:31:15.819 far more exceeding 00:31:15.819 --> 00:31:16.980 an eternal weight 00:31:16.980 --> 00:31:17.480 of glory. 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.000 And Father, 00:31:19.099 --> 00:31:19.700 we ask that you 00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:20.279 will work that 00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:21.240 in your people today. 00:31:22.360 --> 00:31:23.339 Work in us 00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:23.880 the weight 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:24.779 of your glory 00:31:24.779 --> 00:31:26.500 by the grace 00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:27.099 of Jesus. 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:27.960 Fill us. 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:29.139 Fill us to 00:31:29.139 --> 00:31:29.960 overflowing, 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:30.279 Lord, 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:31.720 with gratitude 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:32.559 for your love. 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:34.319 We long 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:35.399 for that final day 00:31:35.399 --> 00:31:36.440 and we do cry out 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:37.299 as a church, 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:38.079 how long, 00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:38.440 oh Lord, 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:39.799 please come quickly, 00:31:39.940 --> 00:31:40.420 Lord Jesus. 00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:41.839 We long 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:42.920 for that final day 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:44.339 when your warfare 00:31:44.339 --> 00:31:45.500 is completed. 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:47.779 When all of your enemies 00:31:47.779 --> 00:31:48.759 have been vanquished 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:50.019 and they've departed 00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:51.579 from the new heavens 00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:52.299 and the new earth 00:31:52.299 --> 00:31:53.099 finally, 00:31:53.299 --> 00:31:53.700 constantly, 00:31:53.700 --> 00:31:54.200 forever. 00:31:56.259 --> 00:31:56.940 We long 00:31:56.940 --> 00:31:57.519 for that day, 00:31:57.640 --> 00:31:57.759 Lord, 00:31:57.819 --> 00:31:58.400 when sin 00:31:58.400 --> 00:31:59.059 and suffering, 00:31:59.840 --> 00:32:00.640 death and Satan 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:01.660 are no more. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:02.880 When there will be 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:03.819 no more weeping. 00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:05.840 We will only enjoy 00:32:05.840 --> 00:32:06.500 the peace 00:32:06.500 --> 00:32:07.460 of perfect, 00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:08.580 perfect oneness 00:32:08.580 --> 00:32:09.519 with you 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:10.940 in your new kingdom. 00:32:11.460 --> 00:32:12.200 Come quickly, 00:32:12.620 --> 00:32:13.080 oh Lord, 00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:14.440 and until then 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:15.140 prepare us, 00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:15.400 Father, 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:16.319 for your return. 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:17.420 For Christ's sake 00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:17.920 we ask. 00:32:18.299 --> 00:32:18.640 Amen.