We Shall Not Be Shaken | Psalm 62

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Let's dive in. If you have your Bible handy,

I'm in Psalm 62 this morning. I'm going to deviate away from

Second Samuel for this special message we announced last week.

My transition leading out of Bridgetown in our Commission

into Tennessee at a church called Conduit and with Chris

and Pam taking the lead. And we've had various responses

to the announcement and we've had different degrees of this

that all of us are grieving and walking out this journey

together. It's OK for you to be sad.

It's OK for you to be. Angry.

It's OK. For you to have questions, it's

OK for you to doubt. That's all part of the grieving

process. But what we want to do is what

I've entitled this message this morning is we shall not be

shaken. We shall not be shaken if you

have. Someone sitting next to you.

Behind you on the left or the right of you, can you just look

at them and say, neighbor, my neighbor, you shall not be

shaken. You shall not be shaken.

If you have your Bible handy, I want to direct your.

Attention to the Book of Psalms and Psalm 62, beginning in.

Verse 5. The author.

Is a man that you well know of. That you've been.

Learning about his name is. David, he writes these words.

My soul waits silently for God alone, for my expectation is

from Him. He only is my rock.

And my salvation. He is my defense.

I shall not be moved in. God is my salvation and my.

Glory the rock. Of my strength and my refuge is

in God. Trust in Him at all times.

How many times at all times you people pour out your heart

before Him. God is a refuge for us.

Say law. As we've gathered together this

morning, David pins these words in this book that we have in our

hands called Psalms. The word Psalm simply means

songs. And there is something about

music and songs that take such a special place in each one of our

lives. Such a special place that

possibly even you right now you have your own playlist for your

home. It has such a special place for

you that you have your own playlist for the gym, you have

your own playlist when you're in your car.

That's how much of A place that songs and music take hold of in

our lives. But not only do songs have a

place in our lives, but songs often take a priority in our

lives. They say the average American

will listen to music 32 hours a week, 32 hours a week.

That is the. Priority that we often give to

our favorite band, or our favorite songs, or our playlist

that we love to hear. But not only are songs having a

place in our lives, not only do songs have a priority in our

lives, songs are powerful. Have you ever noticed that you

could have learned a song 30 years ago and you are walking

through the store and all of the sudden a song pops up in your

mind. Flintstones Meet the Flintstones

have a yabba Dabba Doo time Dabba Doo time Have a gay old

time A Back then, that word meant something radically

different than what it means right now, but songs are

powerful. I was actually walking through

the store the other day and a song popped up in my mind.

It's not from a very good band. It was a rap band listened to.

By a white boy called N.W.A. And I'm walking through the

store and all of a sudden as I'm pushing my cart, this song pops

up in my mind. Move quickly.

So I fleed. Out the back with a.

Fistful of jewelry? Oops, the wall.

Don't. Fall wipe my sweat because that

was a close call. Getting ganged by the E.

Is a lesson so. Are there any more questions?

I was in an argument. With my wife and another song

popped up in my mind. Is it too late now to say sorry?

Songs have a very special place in our lives and there is one

song I remember 15 years ago by a man by the name of Marty

Goetz. Marty Goetz came into our church

at Calvary Chapel of the High Desert and he had his keyboard

in front of him. Marty Goetz is a completed Jew.

He is born again, He is met the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

And as he began to sing, he, he began to play the keyboard and

he began to kick his feet 1 foot at a time and he began to sing

this song. He is my defense, I shall not be

move it. He is my defense, I shall not be

moved. And everyone got out their keys

and now he is my defense, I shall not be move it.

And then he would just begin to talk in Hebrew to us and and it

was just such a special moment. And he really is our defense.

There is something about music that moves us.

Chuck Swindoll writes these words that music is deeply

moving and powerful because it is more than mere excuse me, it

is for us. It serves for us as something

that is just not mere words. It is spiritual and it acts as a

conduit to the heart, calming the Spirit, and cements divine

truth in a way that mere words cannot.

When worship and music are woven into daily life, working or

resting, he writes, they can refresh the Spirit.

They can shift a person's perspective from a secular,

hurried view to a focus on eternity.

You see, songs are powerful not just BC before you met Jesus

Christ, but songs are very powerful in your life even after

you've become a Christian. This is what the Bible tells us

to do, sing a new song to the Lord.

The Bible commands us to sing a new song to the Lord.

If you want some biblical reference for that, if you would

write down Psalm 33 verse 3 where the author says sing a new

Psalms 33:3

song to the Lord. If you want to write down

another verse, Psalm 40 verse 3, the author writes sing a new

Psalms 40:3

song to the Lord. Again in Psalm 96 verses one

through 3, the author writes and commands us to sing a new song

to the Lord. Again the Bible says in Psalm 98

verse one that we would sing a new song to the Lord.

Again in Psalm 149 verse one, the Bible again tells us to sing

a new song to the Lord. The prophet Isaiah said in

Isaiah 42 verse 10 sing a new song to the Lord.

Isaiah 42:10

When John the Revelator saw in heaven in Revelation chapter 5

Revelation 5:9

verse 9, the Bible says that he said that they were singing a

new song to the Lamb of God. With a new heart you have a new

song, and because I have a new song, I will boldly proclaim

this to my Savior and my Lord Jesus Christ that He is worthy

of it all. And because He is worthy of it

all, I want to know what God do you want to sing?

What have you already written down in the Bible that we could

sing? Tucked in the middle of your

Bible is the book called Psalms. This is the national Israel

Israelites songbook. This is what the children of

Israel would go to when they wanted to remember the songs of

ascent. When they had their songs now

they would recite from this book the book of Psalms.

If you take note, the book of Psalms is broken up into five

separate books. This book is written in book one

versus a chapter, excuse me, of Psalms. 3 through 41 is book one

of the book of Psalms. Book two of the book of Psalms

is chapter. 42 through 72 Book three of the book of Psalms is

chapter chapter 73 through 89, book 4 is chapter 90 through one

O 6 and then book 5 is chapter one O 7 through chapter one.

4573 of the Psalms were written by one specific person.

His name is David. David writes and pins 73 songs.

He was the second king of Israel that we remember, pointing to

the forever King Jesus that we know.

And now in this moment, as he wrote 73 of these psalms, he was

the warrior and the poet. David was the man who was called

by God through the anointing of Samuel to be the king of the

nation of Israel. But not only that, he was the

one who fought Goliath, chopped his head off, went out out of

the valley of Elah victorious with the nation of Israel.

Then the hit song on K love about his life was Saul has

slain to his thousands, but David is 10s of thousands.

David was a mighty warrior, but he was a creative poet for Jesus

Christ. Do you know you could be strong

and creative at the same time? Do you know that being creative

is not being weak? Do you know you can fight for

the Lord and write for the Lord? This is David's life.

And this is where it comes down to a spot in David's life where

we see the background of this new song that David writes.

David, when he writes Psalm 62, is not kicking back in the

palace in Jerusalem. He's not sipping on his iced

tea, his tropical tea. He is not throwing up his

sandals and reclining in his lawn chair.

David is facing great hardship. One that was the closest to him

had betrayed him. The one that he raised, the one

that he had cared for, the one who he had fed, had turned his

back on his father, and he leads a political uprising and

rebellion against him. His name is Absalom.

Absalom, David's very own son, gathers a group of people in a

cohort together to fight against the father that loves him.

This is the background of Psalm 62.

David is in a cave. He's hiding.

It's dirty. It's messy.

David's grieving. David's wondering what is going

to happen about all of the future.

And David then declares to us that even and though he is

hurting, he is still hollering that God is good and in the

middle of your misery right now. I want you to ascribe this music

over your life. And I want you to see this

principle that pain should not silence your praise nor nor the

misery that you're in. Cancel the music that's in your

heart. You can have a true melody even

in the midst. Of your own adversity, the.

One thing that often snuffs the song out of our lives is

bitterness. The one thing often that will

snuff out what's recorded in God's Word that brought joy to

you at one time is resentment. And all of my past hurts come to

a surface that the song of God wants to sing over your life.

And he says to you today, you are not done yet.

Did you see what God is doing? How this can all happen in a

moment? It happens here in Psalm 62 when

David is facing such great adversity in his heart towards

Absalom and wondering where God are you in the midst of all of

this? And this is what he writes for

us in Psalm 62, verse 8. Let's read it out loud together.

Psalms 62:8

It is he says this. Trust in Him at all times.

Let's try that again. Trust in Him at all times.

You people now notice this. Pour out your heart before Him.

Pour out your heart before Him. I want to submit this sentence

to you today in this sermon. I want you to pour out your

heart before him. Can you just say that to your

neighbor? Pastor Casey wants us to pour

out out our heart before him. If you're new here, welcome.

We love to be a church that will engage.

And if it's sunny outside, we sure want it to be sunny in

here. This word poor is a verb in the

Hebrew that's used 115 times in the Old Testament.

It's stretching from Genesis to Malachi.

And here's the context in the range for this word poor.

This word poor is used and taken from ritual worship to

battlefield carnage, from the silent grief of lament to the

jubilant hope of the prophets woven through these diverse

settings as a unified witness. What is poured out belongs to

God. I'll say that again.

What is poured out belongs to God, falls under His judgement,

and is bestowed by His grace. This word poor, therefore stands

at the convergence of holiness, justice, mercy, and

eschatological promise. I want you to see this today in

your life. How you pour out will determine

how you stand in your own pain. Once again, how you pour out

will determine how you stand in your own pain.

And David tells us specifically what to do in the midst of

something that is grieving, hurtful, bitter resentment.

He tells us what to do and how to pour.

He gives us specific things that we should do.

Notice the first thing if you're taking note, and that is this.

He says pour with patience, poor with patience.

I want you to hear that word again because in our culture we

hate the word wait. I want you to pour with

patience. Notice what David declares.

He actually says this to his own soul in verse 5.

He says my soul, my inward being, my life on the inside of

me. That's what the word soul soul

means. He speaks to himself and he

reminds himself of what God has called him to do.

This is so important is that you become a person that reminds

yourself on what God has called you to do.

Church is not a car wash where you put it in neutral and you

hit on the track and you let the pastor wash your life.

Church is just the huddle where you get encouraged, where you

are strong enough as a follower of Jesus Christ to not only come

to church and hear from your pastor, but you learn how to

pastor yourself. You learn how to lead yourself.

And this is what David is doing exactly.

He says my soul. He doesn't say my Israelites.

He doesn't say my Hebrew people. David starts with himself

because whatever is happening on the inside of my life will

eventually make its way to the outside of my mouth.

And so David looks here and he says, my soul.

Now notice this. Wait silently for God alone, for

my expectation is from him. No, no, notice these two words

in verse five. Wait silently.

Oh, would you circle those words?

Would you highlight those words? Would you underline those words

in your life? Notice what David does not say.

David does not say wait anxiously my soul.

David does not say wait and worry, Oh my soul, David does

not say into this situation, wait with frustration, wait and

panic. No, this is what he says.

He says wait silently. What does the What does this 2

words mean in Hebrew? Literally, it means to be.

Still, but the last. Thing I want to do when I'm

scared is to be still. It is the same thing that God

told Moses when the children of Israel were being LED out.

Of Egypt and into the promised land.

It's what God told Moses. The Pharaoh and the Egyptian

leaders were coming on the backside.

The Red Sea was in front of Pharaoh and the children of

Israelites. They could not cross this area

and God said this to him. Moses be still, and see the

salvation. Of the Lord.

Can I encourage you? If the song is going to mean

anything, you're going to have to be still because sometimes

our our moves are made out of not being still.

But how do I be still? David tells us in verse 5, he

says for my expectation is from him my expectation.

So if you would. Circle the words, wait silently.

Then down in the verse. Circle the word.

Expectation. My expectation.

The the the word. There, expectation is where we

get the word hope. The word literally means

expectation literally means to bind something together.

Here's the picture. When I am facing something that

is a burden or something that's bothering me or something that's

big and breaking me down, I twist myself into the character

of God like a rope that's woven together.

I twist myself like that into the character of God.

You cannot hope in Him unless you are in Him.

Do you see? Stillness doesn't equal your

weakness. Listen to me, please.

Stillness doesn't equal your weakness, but this is what it

equals. Stillness always equals

steadiness. Stillness will always equal

soundness. Stillness will always equal

toughness in your life. But I believe in moments that I

stopped pouring with patience is because of this I.

Stopped believing that God is still good.

And because I've stopped believing that God is still

good, I stopped pouring out my life.

With patience. I began to insert my own estate

plan. I began to design my.

Own deliverance and live in this delusion that I could do this

better, I could actually do this faster and rather than relying

on the power of God and pre eminence of his character and I

find myself now proving to myself in my own mind.

That the record of the Bible. Is not true.

And that God is, is not good. Can I submit to you what that

old pastor once said? God is good all the time.

Oh, someone knows it. Someone grew up in the Baptist

Church. God is good all the time.

Come on, let's get it. A little bit more engagement in

this room. It goes like this.

God is good all the time. And you say all the time God is

good that that says I need to bring out the handkerchief right

now and start dabbing my head. You know, I want to, I want to,

I want you to know that God is good all the time and all the

time. God is good all the time, all

the time, all the. Time in every area of my life.

God is good and He's proven and he's promised.

Not only is He good. But that he will work it out for

good in your life. And in my life, that's what the

word of God says. I want you to.

Look at Moses. Moses experienced the

deliverance of God because of his patience at the Red Sea.

Look at Abraham, he had patience at the altar with Isaac.

Look at Joshua. Can you imagine?

They're about to beat Jericho and God says whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa. Wait a second here.

I want you to March around Jericho 6 times and on the 7th

day walk around it 7 times. Don't.

Get out your weapons yet blow the.

Trumpets. That doesn't make sense.

Joshua's a warrior. He's a fighter.

God told him to do something different that was normally not

done in battle. You don't walk around the walls

and. Set yourself up to be.

Shot down. Can you imagine on day three,

the children of Israel? God, what are you doing?

And this is just feels like this circle.

Over and over again that that's how you feel in your life.

The same job, the same freeway, the same school, the same

parents. You have to deal with the, the,

the the same problems and, and, and I can imagine on day 6:00,

the children of Israel are going, Lord Joshua, OK, it's

time. It's time for us to fight and no

gods to know. It's time for you to walk.

And then on the 7th day, Can you imagine now 7 times Lord do the

seven times. Can you imagine the?

Patience that it took. Not to pull out their swords,

but to praise God with their trumpets.

When they praised. God with the trumpets on the.

7th day, the seventh time around.

The walls came tumbling down. Did you see the patience of

Joshua? Look at throughout all of the

history. Listen, the patience of Ruth to

stay with Naomi, she could have left.

Listen to this the patience of Esther to stay in the palace.

Look at Job, the patience to stay in his own home when his

wife said curse God and die. Listen and maybe you find

yourself in that type of marriage.

Listen, stay the course. Look at the disciples impatient

with Jesus's words and they flee the garden.

The only way not to be moved is to only move when God tells you.

Why is this important? Because He's doing what is good.

Even though it doesn't feel good, it is still good.

Because without the death of our Savior, you and I would not

experience the power of the resurrection from our Lord Jesus

Christ. Listen, I want you to pour this

out with patients. We do not have to understand

everything to pour out something to the Lord.

We can wait silently because we look expectantly to him.

I, I, I think this is well portrayed as I took my, my

daughter to the, the doctors and as I took my daughter to the

doctors, we had to wait in the doctor's office.

If you've ever been in urgent care, we waited for 45 minutes,

45 minutes waiting in urgent care and this is what I heard.

What's going on on the other side of that door?

It's a doctor at lunch. Is the doctor even there?

But then I took the same daughter to Magic Mountain.

We didn't wait for 45 minutes in the line.

We waited for three hours in a line.

She was engaged. She was.

Smiling, she was laughing. She was having a gay old time.

She was. Having such a sweet moment and I

asked her after what was the. Difference in your attitude at

the doctor's office and your attitude at Magic Mountain.

And she said these. Words because Dad, I knew what

was coming was going to be good and I.

Submit that to you today. What is coming is going to be

good. What is?

Happening in your life is going to be good.

What God is doing might be different, but it's going to be.

Good. It might not be.

Easy, but it's going to be good. It not might not be what you

expected, but it's going to be. Good.

It is going to be something where God is good all the time

and all the time God is good. Come on, church, Listen, there's

something good that is coming to you.

And I know, I know you all believe in the holiness of God.

I know you all believe in the mercy of God and the forgiveness

of God and the omniscience of God.

I know that you all believe in the justice of God and the the

power of God. But have you lost sight today of

the? Goodness of God.

Have we lost sight of pouring it out with patience because we've

lost the sight of the goodness of God?

I love what Chris shared last week, that God is a good God and

he used the word Providence that God is into the details of your

life. He is so much into the details

that he tells you no for your protection and he says yes out

of his wisdom. He's so much into your life that

God is good. And here's what I want to just

tell you today. That God is good at your home,

that God is good in your workplace.

That God is good on the five, the 405, the 210, the 10, the

71. God is good.

God is good on the 605. God is good on the 105.

God is good in and on the freeway.

God is good at your school, with the teachers you.

And we could keep pouring our life out, in and to the One who

gave it all for us. I love what Vance Havner said.

He said that God is on the lookout today for a man or a

woman who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave

enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.

Keep pouring with patience. He is good, he is good.

We sing that song You are good, good Oh, you are good, good, oh,

you are good. I wonder if our mouths move to.

Songs we don't really believe in.

I wonder if there is a disconnect from our mouth to our

hearts. Because it's easy for me to come

in here and to put on a show and to tell you that this really

isn't hard or this really isn't difficult.

I really haven't battled my own grief and tears through this

whole thing. It's easy for me to put.

On a mask and act. Like in these moments that that

this, this is something that you look at me and you go, wow,

Pastor Casey's doing really well.

What if I'm not? Doing really well.

Does that mean I stopped singing and praising the Lord?

Listen, in your life, in my life, it's going to take us.

Pouring. Out with patience into the

obedience of God to the call of God that He has for His.

Can I encourage you to keep pouring with patience?

Can I encourage you also to do this in verse 6 through 7?

Keep pouring with perspective. Keep pouring with the right

perspective. Listen, the Bible says in verse

6 that he only is my rock, not talking about Dwayne.

Listen and my salvation. He is my defense.

I shall not be moved and God is my salvation.

He's my glory. He's the rock of my strength and

he is my refuge. Look at what David's outcome in

the midst of his time in this middle of the rebellion.

He doesn't just see that God is good.

He he doesn't view that God is distant.

His view of God is that God is intimate with him.

And I think the one thing that hinders worship is you stop

believing that God is good and you.

Stop believing that God is intimate in your ways.

And David pinpoints this in our lives, that God is almighty, but

he is near to humanity. No notice He uses the word my in

these two verses 7 times. Did you notice that He says this

is God is my rock, my salvation, my defense.

Then he says in verse 7 that God is my salvation.

Again, He's my glory, He is my strength, and He is my refuge.

No, notice the word my. Can I teach a little bit today?

The word my in our English grammar is the possession

determiner. It's the possession determiner.

So what does this mean? The word of my possession

determiner speaks of association and ownership.

When my wife's here and she's not really sick and bedridden, I

look at my wife to you and say this is.

My wife. Notice also when you're driving

your car, You say this is my car parents, when you're introducing

your kids that are obedient, you say these are my kids even when

they're rebellious. Listen, you say this to people

and they ask you what your job is.

They you say, this is my job. Notice David does not just

associate himself with his pain, He actually associates himself

with the person of God. He says he, he only is my rock.

He's referring back to Jehovah, that God is his salvation.

And he gives us a list of a perspective of God that I want

you to write down in your notepads.

And I, I'll slow down for you because for some of you, I'm

talking too fast for you to take notes today.

Listen, notice the letter A. If you take note, put this in

your notebook. The perspective of God.

He is my rock. He's my rock.

He is my rock. Literally, he is.

My immovable, steadfast source of strength.

He is my. Protection.

And he is my security, literally.

He is my immovable, steadfast source of strength.

He is my protection and He is my security.

Notice if you take letter B, if you're taking note, the second

characteristic of God is He is my salvation.

He's my salvation. God is not just my rock, He's

also my salvation. Notice the word salvation.

There is. He is my rescuer.

He is my safety. He is my deliverance from

spiritual and physical danger. He's my salvation.

Notice this if you're taking note.

He says he is my defense. Letter C He's my defense.

He is my defense. He's my protector and shield

from physical and spiritual adversity.

He is my defense. He's my protector.

He's my shield from physical and spiritual adversity.

Then he says again, if you're taking note, letter D, he

reiterates that He says He is my salvation again, which if you

need the definition for that, just go back up to letter B and

notice He says in letter E that he says He is my glory.

He is my glory. Now notice this.

He is my honor, my splendor and my achievement and.

My validation this is important. Because some of us need

validating. I hear you.

I see you. But there's one grader that

hears you and sees you and sees you.

That's not a word. Sees you and he knows you, and

He loves you. He is my glory.

He is the one who is my honor. He is my splendor.

He is my achievement and He is my validation.

Half of you believe that. Notice letter F.

He is my strength. He is my strength.

If you're taking note, the Lord God Himself is my strength.

He is my power for endurance. He is my courage and He is my

resilience. He is my strength.

He is my power for endurance. He's my courage and He is my

resilience. Letter G.

If you take note, He is my refuge.

He's my refuge. He is my refuge.

He is my absolute safety. He is my absolute shelter, and

he is my absolute strength in life's trials and emotional

chaos. He is my refuge.

I want us to have the right perspective because you are

owned by and you're associated with the one who rescues you.

The one who brings safety to you, the one who delivers you

from spiritual and physical danger.

You are associated and owned by the one who promises to protect

and shield you. The one who gives you the power

to endure, the courage to stand and the resilience to move

forward. You are owned and associated

with the one who brings absolute safety, shelter, and strength.

This is the one, the one who you are connected to, the one who's

committed to be wholly yours every season of life that you

walk through, the one who's promised to give you vision,

victory and validation over your life.

I am waiting for Jesus one day to say well.

Done. I'm waiting to walk into heaven

for him to say good and faithful servant of God.

My validation comes from him and tucked into the middle of all of

these characteristics of God, David writes these words.

I shall not be moved when I am sandwiched in the middle like an

Oreo cookie, the cream of it in the middle of the character of

God sandwiched in the middle. I will not be moved if I find

myself basing my life in the character of what and who God

says He is. His connection is worth is why I

will not waver. Because of His company.

I will not go off course. His sureness is why I don't have

to be shaken. But here's the danger that each

one of us has is we have a larger perspective of our

problems and a smaller perspective of our God.

And because of that, what we see is a larger perspective of the

problem. And thus we only view God all

the time through the lens of our own problems rather than the

lens of seeing God and then our problems.

I'm not saying that our problems are not hard.

I'm not saying that the things we don't face are difficult.

I'm not saying that we never will grieve or cry.

I'm not saying any of that. But what I am saying is this.

See God first. Charles Spurgeon once said that

if you turn to see the face of God, you could face any given

situation in your life. And that is true of each one of

our lives. And many times what happens is

our small perspective of the person of God leads us to an

inadequate view of Jesus the Christ.

And we no longer look at Jesus as the one true risen Savior.

We put worship ahead of Jesus. We beg people to come and serve

Jesus. We beg people to come and be at

a place where they would be generous with their offering to

the Lord. We, we, we have an inadequate

view of Jesus because we don't really want to surrender to

Jesus. We no longer see him as

beautiful and we've become bored in our Christianity.

Oh, that we would gain a clearview of Jesus.

We need to bring words back. Bring the word back that He is

Lord. He's not just a song we sing or

a sermon we hear. We've lost these words in the

American church. Reverence to God.

We don't want to say the word reverence.

Have reverence for God because that might offend someone.

But remember, I'd rather offend you into heaven than watch you

go to hell. We want to stand on biblical

orthodoxy. How about the word respect God?

Respect Jesus? How about the word homage?

Let's bring that one back. Let's have our worthy adoration.

How about this word fear? Let's start fearing God again.

How about this word stand in awe of who God is?

How about we we, we find ourselves so often bored and

relying on everything that we think that we need, but we have

everything that we need in the person of Jesus.

It's not Jesus plus my job that brings me satisfaction.

It's not Jesus plus my my marriage.

It's not Jesus plus my car. It's not Jesus plus my house.

It is Jesus alone that satisfies the souls of humanity.

It is in Jesus alone that you find safety, security, you find

forgiveness and you find the justice of God meeting at the

cross of Christ where sinful humanity was united with holy

divinity because of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Oh, that we would gain a view of Jesus.

I was just in a funeral memorial service and in that time I, I

was listening to Henry tell me a story of of what, what, what,

what his little baby boy said to him when he was at the memorial

service. He said Daddy, he said.

Who is that guy up? There, hanging on the cross.

It was Jesus. Hanging on the cross.

But Jesus did not just hang on a.

Cross for my sin. He rose again to life and power,

and the goodness of God is often experienced in the intimacy that

God desires to have with every single one of us.

Do you see? I want you to know that your

association and your ownership is with God.

I was walking through. Anaheim Stadium.

And they were taking me. Deep into the stadium.

Doors I'd never thought that Anaheim Stadium actually had.

And this is what the guy told me.

He said these words to me. He said if you stay.

Close to me, I will open all the doors for you to walk through.

If you stay close to me. You don't have to open any door

at all. I'll do this for you because I

have the right and the might or the authority to do so.

In like manner, Jesus opens doors that we cannot shut, and

He shuts doors that we cannot open.

Listen, if you are not close to Him, you will not have access.

Into any of this. And that brings me back to what

John Piper once said. He wrote these words in his book

If You don't Feel Strong desires for the manifestation.

Of the glory of God. It is not because you've drunk

deeply and are satisfied. It is because you've nibbled so

long at the table of the world that your soul is stuffed with

small things and there's no more room for the great.

Things of God. And that is where often times we

find ourselves. When we stop pouring with the

right perspective. And lastly, can I encourage you

to do this? Pour out with trust.

Pour out with trust, trust in the Lord.

No, no. Notice it if you would.

We, we used to sing this song. What an awesome God we serve.

What an awesome God we serve. If it had not been for Jesus, oh

where would I be? I'm so glad that the Lord saved

me. Do you remember those times?

I remember my dad. At home, Bible study would take

a cassette. Do.

You all remember cassettes. He would stick it in the stereo.

You all remember stereos and we were led into worship through a

cassette in our living room. There was no lead singer, no

assisting vocalist. There was no bass player and

music director. There was no drums.

It was just us in our house, so in love with Jesus.

We didn't even care if we were singing to a cassette because

Jesus was in the room. I think sometimes we lose.

That church. Becomes a place of LED walls and

flashing lights and haze, but we lose the reference that Jesus

our Lord is here with us even. Now and David says trust, he

says trust in him at all times. Let's listen.

That's a. Command in the Hebrew.

Trust that means I want you to bring all of your weight to me

or it means to be boldly confident in the Lord at all

times and then he says pour out your heart before him.

God is our refuge for. US say law.

What's say law mean? What I just did there.

That's what say law means. Does it feel a little awkward?

Like Pastor Casey? You're supposed to say something

right now. The silence, You know, someone

once said that silence is golden, but sometimes it's just

plain yellow. It's just feels weird.

But say law means I'm willing to pause and think about what God

says. What did he just say?

Trust. In him.

At all times, I think I like to put at sometimes in there when

the easy times have come, when it's not as difficult or hard,

when I fully understand what God is doing, then I'll trust Him.

No, no, no, no, trust in him at all times.

And he says, pour out your heart before the Lord.

Do it at all times. So how do I do this?

How do I trust in God at all times?

I'm glad you're asking that question right now in your seat

as you're sitting there. I want you to write this down.

I'm going to take him at His word.

I can trust in God at all times when I take him at His word.

Take God at His word. If God said it, He meant it.

We believe it and we obey it. Stop putting the question mark

where God places a period. Take Him at His word and then I

want you to do this with the letter RI want you to rest in

His presence. I want you to take God at His

word, and I want you to rest in His presence.

I want you to rest in His presence.

Will you write this down? Will you also, when you trust

God, understand that the outcome does not depend on you.

The outcome of things does not depend on you, it depends on the

person of Jesus Christ. Will you write this down also

next to the letter S just put sovereign.

Jesus is sovereign, He is Lord, He's Lord of all every area of

this globe and universe. Jesus is sovereign.

And then realize this, when you trust the Lord, you become a

testimony to other people about how God works.

Songs are significant, they have impact, but they're often

birthed out of very painful experiences.

And this song in particular, in the early 1900s, a pastor.

By the name of Horatio Spafford experienced unimaginable.

Back-to-back tragedies. He lost his.

Son to pneumonia. Then his fortune in the great

Chicago Fire, and finally his. 4 remaining.

Daughters perished when their ship sank, crossing the Atlantic

to a mission trip. Traveling to meet his grieving

wife, the captain told Spafford they were passing over the spot

where his daughters died. And instead of.

Falling into despair, Spafford took the counsel of Psalm 62,

Psalms 62:8

verse 8, and he went back to his cabin and he.

Poured out his heart on that boat.

He poured out his anger. He poured out his grief.

He poured out his confusion. Before God admitting he could

not. Bear the burden alone.

In that quiet moment of absolute surrender, he felt the the peace

of God. He felt the refuge of God wash

over him. He sat down and he wrote the

words to this. Hymn.

This is what he wrote. When peace.

Like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea.

Billows. Roll.

It is. Well, it is.

Well, with my soul. Spafford demonstrated that

pouring out the. Heart to God brings a profound

refuge and a beautiful song that the world I cannot understand.

I submit to you this morning He can hold everything you're

trying to handle. Would you commit?

It to Him, would you commit it to Him?

And the proof of that is in the person of Jesus Christ.

We could not handle our own salvation, only Jesus could.

He is the spotless Lamb of God. He's the offering.

So we're going to remember Jesus today.

We're going to sing to Jesus today.

We're going to worship the Lord. And if there was ever a time to

be loud and carry on this new song to the Lord, it's today.

It's today. Amen.

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