WEBVTT 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.379 It's a short psalm, Psalm 111. Let me read it out loud for us. 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:14.000 Praise the Lord. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.260 in the company of the upright in the congregation. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.019 Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.820 Full of splendor and majesty is His work, and His righteousness endures forever. 00:00:27.820 --> 00:00:31.240 He has caused His wondrous works to be remembered. 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:34.039 The Lord is gracious and merciful. 00:00:34.740 --> 00:00:36.939 He provides food for those who fear Him. 00:00:37.179 --> 00:00:38.939 He remembers His covenant forever. 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.159 He has shown His people the power of His works 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.939 in giving them the inheritance of the nations. 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:47.799 The works of His hands are faithful and just. 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:49.939 All His precepts are trustworthy. 00:00:50.939 --> 00:00:54.820 They are established forever and ever to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness. 00:00:54.820 --> 00:00:57.759 He sent redemption to His people. 00:00:58.039 --> 00:00:59.719 He has commanded His covenant forever. 00:01:00.299 --> 00:01:02.340 Holy and awesome is His name. 00:01:03.259 --> 00:01:06.060 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:09.260 All those who practice it have a good understanding. 00:01:09.859 --> 00:01:12.140 His praise endures forever. 00:01:12.140 --> 00:01:20.579 I've heard that a well-known pastor was once criticized by a member of his congregation, 00:01:21.099 --> 00:01:23.319 and that this member said to him, 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:25.700 your sermons always sound the same. 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.340 And he wittily replied, 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:31.240 well, they better sound the same, 00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:34.000 since I'm supposed to preach the same gospel every week. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.659 And the church members' criticism may have been warranted, 00:01:39.739 --> 00:01:42.560 but there's a lot of truth to what the preacher said, right? 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.060 Because like Paul writes in Philippians 3, verse 1, 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:51.319 to write the same thing to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:55.780 So he talks about how it's safe to remind the Philippian church 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:58.659 of the same truth that they had already heard and they already knew. 00:01:58.659 --> 00:02:02.159 And there's a similar quality to that in the book of Psalms. 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:04.799 There's recurring themes, you know, that emerge. 00:02:05.039 --> 00:02:08.359 It's like, and they're repeated exhortations to remember. 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:08.800 Yeah. 00:02:08.979 --> 00:02:13.800 So it's like a, and feel free to interact. 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:14.439 I like that. 00:02:17.019 --> 00:02:19.240 I'm listening to the Bible in one year. 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:19.699 Yeah. 00:02:20.019 --> 00:02:22.599 And every day they give you a song, a proverb. 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:26.159 And, you know, the part of the Bible that they're getting us through. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:31.659 And David is like saying the same things in like different ways. 00:02:31.699 --> 00:02:32.359 Yeah, exactly. 00:02:32.659 --> 00:02:33.180 The whole year. 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:35.280 And I'm like, yep, then we have enemies. 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:36.859 The Lord is going to protect us. 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.060 If we mess up, Lord, forgive us. 00:02:39.060 --> 00:02:39.340 Yeah. 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:40.079 Yeah. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.919 But I think, I think it's, it's taught. 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.460 At first I was so knowing I had to work. 00:02:46.579 --> 00:02:48.400 I'm like, all right, David, we get it. 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:53.340 But then I was realizing like, no, like David is illustrating his dependence on God. 00:02:53.340 --> 00:02:59.520 And how like his repeated repetition reminded me that like, that's where I need to be. 00:02:59.740 --> 00:02:59.920 Yeah. 00:02:59.939 --> 00:03:04.879 Like in terms of my dependence on God, like regardless of his power, we all know how powerful he was. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:05.140 Yeah. 00:03:05.140 --> 00:03:05.980 How blessed he was. 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:06.599 That's good. 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:07.659 He never forgot. 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:10.939 Like he needed to turn to God to protect him and to forgive him. 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:11.400 Yeah. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:14.219 And his way of constantly reminding himself. 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:14.780 Yeah. 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:15.439 Exactly. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:16.840 He's keeping himself in check. 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:17.159 Yeah. 00:03:17.580 --> 00:03:17.800 Yeah. 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:21.000 And I think that's really important, especially as somebody in a position of power in the world. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:22.639 You want to get like full of yourself. 00:03:22.699 --> 00:03:22.860 Yeah. 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.219 Thinking that like, you know, you got, you put yourself there. 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:26.719 Yeah. 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:27.400 Yeah. 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:28.060 Yeah. 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:29.240 It means more. 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.560 I'm on day like 84 right now. 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:32.120 That's great. 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:34.939 Yes. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.780 Psalm 111 is no, no exception to that. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.400 So it is really, the main point is to, that we are supposed to remember the saving works of God. 00:03:44.659 --> 00:03:47.159 So that we can walk uprightly in reverence of him. 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:52.659 Um, so it's like, you see kind of two parts to the Psalm verses one to seven is about remembering God's works. 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:56.259 And then the second half of seven to 10 is about revering God's word. 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:01.300 Uh, and you can see, uh, that the trajectory there as we look at it. 00:04:01.340 --> 00:04:03.979 So let's look at Psalm 111 together, starting in verse one. 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:09.359 It begins with the mention of God's praise and ends with the mention of God's praise in verse 10. 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.579 And then he gives us reasons why we ought to praise him and obey him. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.300 Verses one to seven, the saving works of God. 00:04:15.300 --> 00:04:20.960 Uh, you may have noticed the word work repeated four times, uh, in this Psalm. 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:24.259 In English, it's actually five times, but it's not the fifth occasion. 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:25.139 It's not the same word. 00:04:25.939 --> 00:04:30.060 Um, and the Psalmist uses various adjectives to describe these works. 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.540 You might have caught some of them. 00:04:32.660 --> 00:04:34.920 He says that God's works are great in verse two. 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:38.600 That God's works are full of splendor and majesty in verse three. 00:04:39.379 --> 00:04:42.360 He speaks the power of God's works in verse six. 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:46.520 And the works of God's hands are faithful and just in verse seven. 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.160 So, um, you wonder what kind of works these are. 00:04:50.280 --> 00:04:53.500 These are, these are kind of general praises for the works that God has done. 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:57.900 And he spells out exactly what kind of works he has in view in verses five to seven. 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.780 It says, he provides food for those who fear him. 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:02.600 He remembers his covenant forever. 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:07.360 He has shown his people the power of his works and giving them the inheritance of the nations. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:10.020 The works of his hands are faithful and just. 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:11.879 All his precepts are trustworthy. 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:16.040 So, you, please remind you guys of anything, these descriptions. 00:05:20.580 --> 00:05:21.620 Verses five to seven. 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:35.459 Provides food, covenant, power, inheritance of the nations, precepts, laws. 00:05:37.379 --> 00:05:40.780 Please repeat the promises they gave to others. 00:05:41.019 --> 00:05:42.280 Yeah, right? 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.000 So, these are, these are, these are Exodus allusions, right? 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:52.540 It's the, it's Israel came out of their slavery in Egypt through the wilderness and into the promised land, right? 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:56.540 And, uh, he provided food for them in the wilderness with the manna from heaven. 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:58.720 He gave them the inheritance of the nations. 00:05:58.899 --> 00:06:02.360 He gave them the land of Canaan, which belonged to the nations, the Gentiles. 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.019 And then he also gave them his law, the precepts, right? 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:06.939 Through Moses. 00:06:07.339 --> 00:06:11.620 And he revealed himself in Exodus 34 to them as a God who is, uh, gracious. 00:06:11.620 --> 00:06:17.720 Uh, and, uh, and, and that's, we see that gracious and merciful in verse four as well. 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:23.620 Um, and so this redemption that's in view, these are the great works that God has done. 00:06:23.699 --> 00:06:28.579 For Israel, Exodus is kind of the example, the perfect example of God's redemption. 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:34.639 Uh, and for us, the Exodus is a foreshadowing of the ultimate redemption that we have in Jesus. 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:40.079 Which is why in 1 Corinthians 10, Paul makes the explicit connection between the Exodus, 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:45.319 going through the water out of the Red Sea with the baptism, uh, Christian's baptism. 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.740 And he makes a connection between the food that the Israelites had in the wilderness 00:06:48.740 --> 00:06:55.199 with the food that we have in Christ, that he is our, uh, he is our food, the heavenly bread, uh, for us to eat. 00:06:55.740 --> 00:07:01.699 And so, so Jesus is, in short, the one who leads us out of our slavery to sin and death and redeems us. 00:07:02.219 --> 00:07:08.560 And, and it's so easy as we're talking about this, like, to lose our sense of wonder, uh, at what God has done. 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.060 Um, we take it for granted. 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:11.240 We've heard it so many times. 00:07:11.540 --> 00:07:17.920 And that's kind of why we need these reminders of how wonderful God's work is. 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:24.800 And, and the story of Exodus was just as familiar for these Israelites as the story of Easter is for us. 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:29.379 Uh, yet again and again in the Psalms, they rehearse the Exodus. 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:30.959 Comes out and again. 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:32.480 And it says in verse 2, 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:45.120 Those Old Testament saints who delighted in God's saving works, they made it their task to study the works of God. 00:07:45.780 --> 00:07:47.560 And that's a good exhortation for us. 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.500 I mean, do you take time to study what God has done to save you? 00:07:52.340 --> 00:07:56.360 Uh, yes, we know the gospel, but do we study what Christ has done? 00:07:56.960 --> 00:07:58.259 Do you investigate it? 00:07:58.259 --> 00:07:59.920 Do you search the scriptures for it? 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:07.840 Uh, in fact, Psalm 111, as Nico is talking about before too, is itself an example of the study that, that the psalmist himself is doing. 00:08:07.840 --> 00:08:14.720 He's recounting again the works of God to remind himself so that he might be marvel at it and wonder at it again. 00:08:15.640 --> 00:08:24.500 Uh, and, and so it's, it's, do we then, and a specific application of that might be since, because since scripture is the written record of God's revelation, 00:08:24.500 --> 00:08:31.720 and the written record of God's redemptive deeds, uh, do we diligently apply ourselves to reading scripture? 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:39.159 Um, do we, uh, diligently hear God's word in corporate worship, in the reading and preaching of God's word? 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:45.840 Um, in fact, the very structure of the psalm is intended to facilitate our study of the works of God. 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:51.100 Uh, in the original Hebrew, uh, the psalm 111 is an acrostic poem. 00:08:51.100 --> 00:09:02.240 Uh, so you can't see it really in the English translation, but basically each verse is divided into two or three kola, like these poetic lines. 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.340 Uh, and each of those lines begin with, uh, a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:11.440 And if you go through the entire psalm, you go through the entire Hebrew alphabet. 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.540 Uh, and, and, and of course, what's the point of that? 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:16.620 What's the point of an acrostic? 00:09:19.620 --> 00:09:23.980 It's, it's to aid memory, right? 00:09:24.280 --> 00:09:25.300 It's a mnemonic device. 00:09:26.060 --> 00:09:30.440 Uh, so even the very structure of the psalm tells us that this is something we need to study. 00:09:30.740 --> 00:09:33.900 This is something we should, uh, labor to commit to our memory. 00:09:33.899 --> 00:09:37.779 In the same way, we use, like, the acronym for PEMDAS. 00:09:37.980 --> 00:09:39.480 You guys all know PEMDAS, right? 00:09:40.319 --> 00:09:43.699 The, the, the, the, uh, the, uh, order of operations. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:45.079 You guys want to talk about it? 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:46.240 In Canada, do you use something else? 00:09:46.579 --> 00:09:48.379 I, I think I don't want you to say. 00:09:48.379 --> 00:09:48.679 Yeah, yeah. 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.639 Parentheses, exponents, like, multiplication, division. 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:54.039 Yeah. 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:55.000 Yeah? 00:09:55.379 --> 00:09:55.740 No? 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:56.639 No? 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.639 Yeah, well, so it's, it's the same thing. 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.779 So the, the point of it is that Psalm 111 was written to be memorized. 00:10:01.779 --> 00:10:06.620 It was supposed to be remembered even when you don't have your Bible in front of you so 00:10:06.620 --> 00:10:10.179 that you can rehearse it when you're writing the tea, when you're, you could rehearse it 00:10:10.179 --> 00:10:11.059 when you're taking a shower. 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:16.319 Uh, you could, so that you could, um, and I think we should also endeavor to memorize 00:10:16.319 --> 00:10:20.980 scripture as much as we can to remember God's works all the time. 00:10:21.699 --> 00:10:26.360 And, and nowadays I think the need for this kind of memorization is diminished due to the 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:31.300 availability of immediate fact retrieval through our phones and Google. 00:10:31.300 --> 00:10:33.180 Uh, but it's not the same, right? 00:10:33.259 --> 00:10:37.100 I mean, it's, I think when you memorize something, you take it down to a deeper level of understanding. 00:10:37.379 --> 00:10:38.700 Uh, it becomes a part of you. 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:44.740 Um, and when you're, I don't know, ministering to somebody or when you're reading something 00:10:44.740 --> 00:10:48.680 or you're taking on some kind of information from the outside world and assessing its truth, 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:53.299 uh, what's going to function in that moment is what you know. 00:10:53.379 --> 00:10:54.779 It's not going to be what Google knows, right? 00:10:55.479 --> 00:10:57.899 Um, yeah. 00:10:58.579 --> 00:11:03.139 And, and I think, uh, and something that, uh, I, someone that I think about often, like 00:11:03.139 --> 00:11:07.539 one of the most inspiring examples of kind of this discipline memorizing scripture that 00:11:07.539 --> 00:11:09.359 I've ever seen was my seminary professor. 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:10.899 His name was, uh, Gary Parrott. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:17.500 He's not well known, uh, but, uh, he had all, if not most of the New Testament memorized. 00:11:17.500 --> 00:11:22.879 He had, uh, large swaths of the Old Testament memorized, including, uh, most of the Psalms. 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:28.700 Uh, and, uh, and he, in his class lectures, he would cite from memory these really, really 00:11:28.700 --> 00:11:32.059 long passages and often in multiple versions, multiple translations. 00:11:32.659 --> 00:11:34.460 And, uh, and so it was amazing. 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:37.840 That's when I started actually doing scripture memory in earnest after his example. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:43.100 Uh, and, uh, and in 2010, he was traveling to offer some pastoral training to people in 00:11:43.100 --> 00:11:44.200 South Korea and Sri Lanka. 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:49.540 But then a bus that he was riding on drove off the elevated road, uh, and it, uh, it killed 00:11:49.540 --> 00:11:52.200 13 passengers and injured 11, including him. 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:55.560 He was in a coma for several days and he suffered brain damage. 00:11:55.820 --> 00:11:59.360 Uh, and when he woke up from his coma, he couldn't remember his wife's name. 00:12:00.100 --> 00:12:04.300 Uh, but even though he couldn't remember his wife's name, he remembered the Psalms that 00:12:04.300 --> 00:12:04.960 he had memorized. 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:08.960 And he was rehearsing those truths of God to himself on the hospital bed. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:11.180 Really inspiring example, right? 00:12:11.540 --> 00:12:13.759 I mean, that's how scripture is supposed to function. 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:18.720 We study the works of God in it and it fills us with wonder at his mercy. 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:23.800 Uh, and, and that's what's supposed to spur us into obedience and to reverence for him. 00:12:23.800 --> 00:12:28.519 Uh, and, and so we should strive to be a church that does the same, that studies the works 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.560 of God and commit his work to our memory. 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:36.119 And so that leads us to the second half, seven B really second half of verse seven to verse 00:12:36.119 --> 00:12:40.419 10, uh, we are to remember God's work so that we can revere God's word. 00:12:41.199 --> 00:12:47.019 Um, there, there's a turn to the, in that, uh, that kind of thematic turn at the second 00:12:47.019 --> 00:12:47.759 half of verse seven. 00:12:48.500 --> 00:12:52.459 Uh, so verse seven says the works of his hands are faithful and just. 00:12:52.939 --> 00:12:55.419 All his precepts are trustworthy. 00:12:55.659 --> 00:12:57.679 So these are related clauses, right? 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:03.659 So it's only those who recognize that God's works are faithful and just, who also recognize 00:13:03.659 --> 00:13:08.419 that God's precepts or his laws or his word are trustworthy. 00:13:09.419 --> 00:13:12.379 Uh, so only those who remember God's works revere God's word. 00:13:12.939 --> 00:13:14.799 Uh, and then verses seven to 10 continue. 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:16.379 All his precepts are trustworthy. 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.379 They are established forever and ever to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness. 00:13:20.719 --> 00:13:22.240 He sent redemption to his people. 00:13:22.299 --> 00:13:23.919 He has commanded his covenant forever. 00:13:24.079 --> 00:13:25.479 Holy and awesome is his name. 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.159 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 00:13:28.340 --> 00:13:31.560 All those who practice it have a good understanding. 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:34.300 We're to perform the precepts. 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:36.200 We're, uh, in faithfulness and uprightness. 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:40.519 We are to practice the fear of the Lord and obey the commands of his covenant. 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:44.960 So these are all action words, things that we ought to do, our obligation to God's gracious, 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:46.659 uh, initiation. 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:53.600 And, and twice in this passage, the word upright is used to describe our proper response to God. 00:13:53.939 --> 00:13:56.379 We are to perform, practice these things uprightly. 00:13:57.079 --> 00:14:00.000 Verse one says, the worshipers of God are the company of the upright. 00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:05.159 Uh, and the word upright means straight as opposed to crooked. 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:13.279 Um, we should be able to draw a direct straight line from God's precepts and our practices, the way we live. 00:14:13.740 --> 00:14:15.719 And can we do that if we examine our lives? 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:21.360 If someone else were to examine our life, in the way we live and what we say, every aspect of our lives, 00:14:21.500 --> 00:14:29.740 can we say that our life is a straight and upright way according to the ways of God and not bent or crooked according to the ways of this world? 00:14:29.740 --> 00:14:39.919 And, and we can't, uh, uh, and, and, and, but sometimes, right, people, and sometimes we have trouble, uh, accepting the teaching of God's word. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:49.039 Um, um, and because it demands something that seems to contradict our own desires and our own instincts. 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:53.940 And, but ultimately, that trouble comes down to lack of trust, right? 00:14:54.580 --> 00:14:58.820 Uh, only those who remember the faithful and just works of God trust his precepts. 00:14:58.820 --> 00:15:07.980 So the demands of God's word may not seem right or reasonable to us, but if we know, if we remember how gracious and merciful he has been toward us, 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:15.700 how just and faithful his works have been, then we can't trust him and we can submit to him in spite of our misgivings and uncertainties. 00:15:16.379 --> 00:15:17.879 Uh, and that's why verse 10 says, 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:19.700 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.220 All those who practice it have a good understanding. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:28.260 So true wisdom begins with the fear of God, uh, which does not mean being terrified of God. 00:15:28.820 --> 00:15:30.500 Uh, but to revere in God. 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:33.560 Uh, it's a reverence for God that constrains our obedience. 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:40.040 Um, that, a reverence that makes us submit to his word instead of presuming to know better. 00:15:40.740 --> 00:15:49.400 Uh, reverence, uh, for God that makes us order our lives according to his purposes and priorities instead of according to our own purposes and priorities. 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:55.120 And, uh, and, uh, and so then this is a good diagnostic for us. 00:15:55.340 --> 00:16:05.899 If we find that we don't revere God, um, enough, if we find that we're not obeying God, uh, then we should check to see if we have been remembering his works. 00:16:05.899 --> 00:16:11.240 Because when we remember the works of the Lord, we remember that he's a faithful God who can't lie. 00:16:11.959 --> 00:16:14.519 Uh, we remember that he's someone who always keeps his promises. 00:16:15.539 --> 00:16:23.559 And when we remember the works of the Lord, we remember that he's gracious and kind, uh, and that, uh, and so he's worthy of our trust for that reason. 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:30.979 And that functions when our life is full of suffering, we remember that he's good, he's sovereign, and so we trust him. 00:16:31.599 --> 00:16:38.859 And when the world around us lies about him, uh, and his word, we remember that he's truthful and reliable, and so we trust him. 00:16:39.579 --> 00:16:47.399 And so we have to remember his works so that we can walk in reverence, uh, of him and obedience to him. 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:48.039 Um. 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:48.360 Um. 00:16:51.959 --> 00:16:54.659 So let's, uh, sing another song and, uh, let's pray.