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0:39 Welcome, Waters Church. How did you do? Hello. My name is Jim Shackleton like the screen says. I'm the location pastor over in0:51 Woonsocket. I've been stationed there for 5 years. I love it, And I kinda already miss them a little bit. But I'm here, and I'm glad, and I'm honored. And I'm glad you're with us online. I'm glad you're with us in any 11:02 of our locations. I'm I'm glad you're here with us in this space this morning. So listen. Why don't we all just welcome everybody here? Welcome online.1:14 Welcome locations. So this is a big year for my wife and I. This year, in May, it marks 15 years we've been married.1:26 1 5. Yeah. It's good. And you know, I've been I've been thinking a lot about our wedding day. It was pretty much the best wedding ever. Sorry. Everyone that's married, yours is subpar to1:37 mine. Ours, I mean, ours, not my wedding. Okay? So married men, you understand. But I've been thinking about it, you know, thinking about1:49 the wedding day, thinking about weddings I've been to, you know, that I've I've attended. And, you know, the Lord's just kind of been showing me a little bit, like, through our own wedding and through weddings that I've1:59 attended. He's he's been showing me, you know, it's all about celebrating, celebrating the couple, you know, that's that's making a commitment, a covenant commitment if they're in Christ to each other to be married. You2:11 know? And there's a bunch of different ways that we celebrate that. There's a bunch of different ways that we prepare for it. You know? We, we buy a gift. Right? Maybe not the night before, but sometimes the night2:21 before. Yeah. We we get all pretty and dazzled up. Right? I mean, men, it's okay to wanna wear a bow tie and go shopping for 1. Okay? So, you know, we we support and we2:33 witness the union of what God has brought together. And that's how we celebrate those 2 at the front of the the ceremony. You know? And then there's the rice or the confetti or whatever they do, smoke bombs2:44 nowadays. I don't know what they do. You know, there's food. There's music. There's there's all the and, you know, what the Lord was showing to me was, you know, what it really means to2:56 celebrate those 2, those 2 being married. You know, and what it really means, you know, it's not about, you know, the dry chicken at the at dinner. You know? It's3:08 it's not about, you know, what I think about the ceremony. When I'm there, nothing else matters. When I'm really there to celebrate what God has brought together in marriage. It3:20 doesn't matter how hot it is outside, inside, if the rains are coming, if they're cloudy, if they're not cloudy. Doesn't matter to me what colors are in the wedding. Doesn't doesn't matter to me how uncomfortable I am in3:30 this chair. Why do I gotta stand so long? None of that matters because I'm just happy. Amen. I'm happy to be there to celebrate the 2 that are being3:42 married. You know, and God also said, what about when, you know, Jim, because I haven't always really been there to celebrate people because I'm a little stuffy sometimes. Right? I mean, let's be honest. You know, the3:52 chicken's too dry. The music isn't what I like. You know, I'm sweating too much. You know, oops, I'm wearing the wrong colors. You know, all these other things that distract you from really4:04 celebrating the 2 that are being united together. You know, and I see a lot of similarities between wedding and praising God. I see a lot of4:16 similarities into it. And I believe what the Lord's been teaching me. He's been teaching me what it means to really praise him. To really praise him. Just like really celebrate the wedding. You know,4:27 not just with music, not just with song. It's great, and I love it. And the band here and the band is in our locations, man, God has anointed these people. But to praise him outside of4:39 those times, to praise him with my life. You know, Psalm 1 0 3, that's what we're gonna be reading here in just a minute. This Psalm is all about praising4:51 the Lord. All about it. And Christian, I mean, maybe you know it, maybe you don't, but by the end of this today, hopefully, you'll know it. This scripture, if it doesn't stir a fire in the5:03 seat of your pants to praise the Lord, come up for prayer after service. Okay? You know, I mean, this Psalm is just like you read this and you're like, man, this5:14 is juicy stuff. It's all about praising God. You know, Psalm 1 0 3 was written by David, and this is really important. It's really important for a5:26 lot of different reasons, and it's really encouraging that the Bible has this scripture written by David. David was a wee little shepherd boy. Wee little shepherd boy with a bunch of older brothers. And someone5:38 came to his father's house 1 day and said, your son's gonna 1 of your son's gonna be a king. And so what's his dad do? Brings David front and center. No. He forgets and neglects David out in the shepherd field. Didn't5:47 even bring him in. And then he is brought in, and and he's he's appointed, named, and and anointed. You're the king of Israel. And then, you know, he wasn't, like, established in that yet, but he brought food to his5:57 brothers that were at war, an army with with the enemy. He brought food to them. And what's his brother do? Thanks, David. You're the best. No. He shames them. He says, you're here for all the wrong reasons. Get out of6:08 here, you selfish little guy. And at that battle, that's the same battle that David slew the giant that no 1 else was brave enough to go slay. This is the author of6:20 Psalm 1 0 3. The author of Psalm 1 0 3, David, he is the 1 that God said he would that God would establish as a great king over Israel.6:31 David, the author of this, is the 1 that was adulterer and then murdered the husband and tried to cover it all up. Good old organized crime. He6:43 was the kingpin. That's the author of Psalm 1 0 3. Psalm 1 0 3, he also had many victories and battles against his his enemies. That's 1 way that god established6:55 him as a great king over Israel. And David, man, David has the stamp that none of us have by God. God7:07 says about David, He's a man after my own heart. That's the author, Psalm 1 0 3. This is all important. It's all encouraging. Why is it encouraging? Because when we when we know7:19 who the author is, the lord shows that god can use anybody. Amen. Anybody. It doesn't matter your checkered past, Christian. God7:30 has rescued you from it. He's separated you from it. And it's time you separate yourself from it. God can use anyone. If he7:42 couldn't, then we wouldn't have Psalm 1 0 3 in a bunch of other Psalms. Because all he would do is reign over and hold over, put his thumb on on David and say, no, you adulterer. Oh, you murderer. Oh, you organized crime7:54 kingpin that covers things up. But the god of the bible doesn't do that. Non Christian, I'm glad you're8:05 here. I am glad you're here, aren't we? I'm glad you're at any of 1 of our locations or online. I'm you could have been anywhere, but you're here. You're logged in. You're at 1 of our locations to hear about Jesus. Thank8:16 you. And now I'm Christian. Let me tell you something. Checkered pass or not. God can rescue you. God can rescue you. See, there's this8:28 guy Paul. In the Bible, we know him as Paul, but before that, he was Saul. Saul was a nasty dude. A nasty dude. He was outside of Christ. That means he was part of another religion. And guess what?8:40 1 of those things that he was really good at. He was really good at persecuting Christians to the point of murder. That's who Saul was. But God can rescue anyone.8:52 And God did that just to Saul. He stopped him dead in his tracks, spoke to him, gave him a purpose and a call on his life, and now most of the the New Testament are letters written by Paul to the churches that he9:03 started. So let me tell you that's yet to believe. God can transform you. He can. He still does. Our God still9:15 rescues. Our God still delivers. Our God still forgives. The God of the Bible is alive. David, back to David, Psalm 103. This is also really cool when9:27 we read this scripture because David knew low lows and high highs in life and everything in between. That's the author of this scripture we're gonna read. Research9:39 shows that Psalm 1 0 3 was written in David's, later years of his life. That's also critical because now, according to Waters Church, I'm old because I'm part of the engage bracket.9:51 36 plus. Not waist size. I mean that too. But, you know, age. K? Yeah. 36 and o now we're old. So when I say old, I'm not talking10:03 at old, I'm talking with old. Amen? Yeah? Okay. Okay. Old generation wants to give to new generation. Give something. Yeah. Something. Wisdom,10:15 knowledge, money, success, you name it. Old, us old people. We like to give to the younger generation.10:27 And so that's important because if David is writing this as in his older years, it's like the 1 thing he wants to pass on to the younger generation is to praise the Lord.10:39 That's the message. That's his message in 1 0 3. There are plenty of reasons to praise God. So that's where I get this title from for this message is10:51 learn from history. Otherwise, we're doomed to repeat it. We've heard this before. Yes. Yes. Thank you online. I know you've hit the chat up more than I got here. So11:02 anyways, we're doomed. If we don't learn from history, we're doomed to repeat it. David's message is if you don't learn from David history on how to praise the Lord, you're doomed to repeat the ways you praise this11:14 world. That's this lesson here. Praising god is great. I love to worship with my brothers and sisters. I love to sing songs with them. I love to hear the work of the lord11:26 in my brother and sisters' lives. I love to hear their victories. I love to hear them because then when I see them praising the Lord in the midst of it, it encourages my soul.11:40 Praising the Lord is great. I think 1 of the things bad that corporate church America has done is categorize worship as a time of11:52 a service. This is the time to worship God now. This is the time to praise God at the praise service. This is the time right now to praise and worship God. What am I doing right12:04 now? Am I not praising and worship God when I bring the word? I am. So it starts before the music. The music's fun, and it continues after the music. You12:16 see, praising God takes many forms. Song and music, 1. Thank God that there's other people louder than me because I'm no musician. Amen? Get a little amen for my brothers and sisters that can't sing either.12:28 Thank you. K. So anytime we exalt Jesus, we glorify him with our life, we praise God. Anytime. We12:40 exalt and praise Jesus, we're praising God. The time here to corporately come together as a community of believers. We come together12:52 to say this Jesus is exalted high in all of our lives and we wanna sing and praise to him, you know, the joys of our hearts for everything he has already done and everything he will13:04 do already. Just for who he is, that's what this corporate praise and worship is to song and music. That's what we do. That's why we do it. Because he's unshakable.13:15 Because he's the consistency in our on our roller coaster life like this. That god has never left or forsaken his people, his church. And what better reason to praise him?13:28 What we don't do is focus on the dry chicken. Like at the wedding. We don't focus on, you know, the lights and13:40 the music. We don't focus on those things. Because when all that fades, guess who's still around? Jesus. Guess who still rescued you?13:52 Guess who continues to rescue you? Jesus. Jesus. You see, worshiping God is not done at a certain time. He's done with your life. He's done with your14:04 life. Romans, the guy Paul I just spoke about, the nasty murdering guy that was Saul. He's converted to Paul. He establishes all these churches, and this is a part of a letter in Romans that he14:15 writes to the church there. He says, I appeal to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.14:28 I'm gonna do a shameless plug here for Tim. I didn't he didn't ask me to, but there's a Tim Hatch live, season 5, episode 24, that has a very thorough breakdown of14:40 this very scripture. You need to go watch it. You need to. Because this is saying that that our true, our our appropriate worship is our body, our whole body, my14:52 life. Not just my mouth, not just my hands, my wallet, my hands, my feet, the words I speak, my family. All of it. All of15:03 it is appropriate worship to God. So let's stand together. Stand at all of our locations. We're gonna read Psalm 1 0 3. So if you got a paper bible,15:15 open it on up or scroll if it's electronic or I think they'll have the the verses up here, but we're gonna go to Psalm 1 0 3. It goes like this. Bless the lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me.15:27 Bless his holy name. Bless the lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives your iniquity, who heals your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with the steadfast love and mercy,15:39 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like eagles. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of15:51 Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. He does not always try nor, will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according16:03 to our sins nor repay us according to our iniquities. For he for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him. As far16:15 as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As far as a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he16:26 knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust. Verse 15 says, as for man, his his days are like grass. He flourishes like a flower of the field. For the wind passes16:38 over it, and it is gone, and its its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children's children,16:50 to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments. The lord has established his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rules over all. Bless the lord, all you his17:02 angels, you mighty ones who who do his word, obeying the voice of his word. Bless the lord, all you host ministers who do your will. Bless the lord, all his works in all17:14 places of his dominion. Bless the lord, oh my soul. Join me in prayer. Heavenly father, thank you for today. I submit everything prepared to17:26 you, and holy spirit, I ask that you lead and guide these next few moments. And Jesus, we just want to see you. So holy spirit, please reveal Jesus to us. To your precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Go ahead and have a17:37 seat. So reasons to praise God. I got 14 reasons. You ready? Saddle up. I'm kidding. There's but when we look at these that really do have 1417:49 reasons, but we read through the scripture reasons to praise God. Praise him for everything he gives us. Praise him for my job. Praise him for my paycheck. Praise him for my children. No. Let's read what18:01 what David is teaching us to praise God for. He forgives. He heals. He redeems me from the pit, from death. He crowns me with love and mercy. He18:12 satisfies. He fills me. He works righteousness and justice for the oppressed. He's he's merciful and gracious. He's slow to anger. He's abounding in steadfast love. He doesn't constantly accuse. He doesn't deal with us18:24 as we deserve. He removes our transgressions. He's compassionate. And 1 of my favorite, his throne is established in heaven. His throne is established18:36 in heaven. Real praise is what I wanna chat about. And it's not about real praise happens when you lift your hands. Real praise happens when you cry. Real praise happens when you get on your knees. Real praise happens18:47 when you memorize all the words of the song so you could do all freely, mindlessly. No. Real praise, what what David is telling us, goes far deeper than the outward, and it's all inward. That's where it begins.19:00 That's where it begins. Real praise begins when I approach god with humility. Real praise begins when I approach god with humility, and we see that in the first 5 psalms.19:11 David says David says, let all that I am praise the lord. My whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the lord. And I'm so glad that he says this next per part. May I19:23 never forget the good things he does for me. Oh, let's be real. Sometimes it's hard to praise god because we're so focused on all the bad things and we've forgotten or we've chosen to not focus19:35 on what God has done for us. I'm guilty of that, and that's part of what God's teaching me. So David, it's like the holy spirit knew19:47 that there'd be more than just me that struggles with that. And David just starts listing off things after that statement. May I never forget the good things he does to me?19:59 He forgives all my sins. He heals my diseases. He redeems me from death. He crowns me with love and tender mercy. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like eagles. Man, you ever find your place20:11 not knowing when or how to praise God? Read those those 3 verses because it's a reminder from David. When everything around you can't stir your spirit,20:23 God will. See, it's a call for praise. David's true desire is to really praise God. That's what he started for with, let all that I am praise the Lord. My whole heart, let all that I20:35 am praise the Lord. That's what he wants. And the next 3 is David stirring his own spirit to do that. To do that. You see, really praising20:47 God and being humble, you know, it starts with knowing your your place in worship. Knowing your place in worship. I'm not the shock caller. Just like at the20:59 wedding, I don't I'm not the shock caller of a wedding when I join and when I when I go there to support the 2 being wed. I'm a participant in what's going on, not the 1 that gets to call what's going on.21:13 And it's the same with the Lord. I'm not the shock caller. I'm not. This text shows us what we need and what he gives.21:25 It shows us what we bring. I have been and I need to be forgiven. I need healing. I'm the dead21:37 1 that needs to be rescued. I'm the 1 with no life that needs a breath of life. He, God, is the 1 that21:49 provides the crown of love, the crown of mercy. God is the 1 that fills me with good. Amen. I don't bring good praise to22:00 God. I bring a need to be rescued. Amen. I bring words as though that is sufficient to praise God for everything he22:12 has done for me. I have to prepare my heart and my spirit the same way David has. It's my responsibility to stir my spirit to worship God with my life.22:25 It's not pastor Tim's responsibility to stir your spirit. It's not the band's responsibility to stir your spirit. It's not your wife or your husband's job to stir your spirit to praise the Lord or your children's job to22:36 stir your spirit to praise the Lord. It's your responsibility. It's my responsibility. That's what David is showing. I want to praise the Lord with everything I've got. Amen. And he's not quoting someone22:48 screaming at him. He's quoting the Bible. He's quoting his desire that he has forgiven me. David is stirring his own spirit to praise the lord.23:01 In humility, he comes because he's he has a checkered past according to the world. According to God though, there is no checkered past because he removes it23:13 as far as the east is from the west. His grace is as far as the heavens are from the earth. Stop focusing on your checkered past, Christian. God has. Proverbs 3,23:24 the lord mocks the mockers but the grace but is gracious to the humble or to the to the humility. Proverbs 11, when pride comes, then then comes23:36 disgrace. But with humility comes wisdom. You wanna know you want you wanna know how to really praise god. That's why it starts with humility because this says, when you come to him23:48 in humility to praise him, then comes wisdom. Let the Lord deliver his wisdom to you about praising him, and let it begin with a24:00 humble spirit of humility. Number 2, real praise is freeing when I'm unrestrained in praising God, when I'm unrestrained in praising God. This24:11 author of 1 0 3 is David. David was the king of Israel. God made him a great king of Israel. David brought the ark of the covenant of God to his city. Okay? It was a24:23 big deal. Big deal. David knows how to throw down a party. He got 30000 men to come with him to get that Ark of the Covenant of God and bring it to his city.24:35 30000 men. 30000. And you think that they came to the city where David was and got an empty door open to them? No. It's probably a whole whole thing24:47 going on. And then doing 1 of David's men here, he he saw that the ark of the covenant of God, it was gonna fall off the way that they were carrying it. So out of his good gracious, out of his good intentions, he goes to24:57 touch the ark of the covenant of God so it wouldn't fall down. And God struck him dead right there because it was against the commands of how to handle the ark of the covenant of God. And David, from there, was afraid to25:09 bring the ark to his city. And he said, no. No. Put it over there. And so that's where it was for 3 months. Somebody comes and tells David all the good, all the blessing that has come to that city for 3 months25:21 where the Ark of the Covenant of God was. And David says, I'm a go get that. Let's go bring it here. And he does. But what does he do it in? Humility, humble heart.25:33 Humility and humble heart. And we know that it was a to do, an unrestrained celebration. Because after he celebrates, you know,25:45 by dancing and jumping and leaping around in the streets because the ark of the covenant of God is here, which let me put that in perspective. Let's look to our national king25:57 and imagine him dancing and leaping in the streets in celebration of something. That's how weird it was that David was doing it. And we know that it was weird because he goes home to bless his home after that and26:09 his wife is there. He's like, what are you doing? You should be ashamed of yourself. And he goes, no, woman. It wasn't for you. It was for my lord. I'll be more undignified than that in my praise. He's unrestrained. He26:21 doesn't care who's with him or what they judge or what his wife thinks about how he praises the lord. And so when we read this next part of Psalm 1 0 3,26:33 it's a call to corporate worship, corporate praise, to praise god together as a church. And I wanna I wanna give that preface before we read it. There's a lot of all, us, we,26:45 our. You'll hear it. Starts in verse 6 says, the Lord gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly. He reveals revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to26:57 the people of Israel. The lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us nor remain angry forever. He does not punish27:09 us for our sin. He does not deal harshly with us as we deserve. For his unfailing love towards those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens of the earth.27:21 He has removed our sin as far from us as the east is from the west. The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate. The27:32 Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him. For he knows how weak27:44 we are. He remembers we are just dust. Our days on earth are like grass, like wildflowers. We bloom and die, the wind blows, and we are gone as though we had never been here. But the lord but the love of the lord remains27:56 forever with those who fear him. His salvation extends to the children's children. Of those who are faithful to his covenant, of those who obey his commandments, the lord has made the heavens his throne.28:08 From there, he rules everything. And I was I was marinating on this in my preparation, and I started reading other Psalms, and there's a lot of of talk about in other28:20 Psalms about shouting to the lord or a joyful noise or joyful shout unto the lord. And it really caught my eye because that's something that the lord personally, lord's been bringing out in me in corporate times of28:30 worship is to just shout to the lord in praise. And I thought, well, where else has his people shouted? And what else has god done through those shouts? We looked to Jericho. What happened in Jericho?28:42 He took in a savage army that only knows how to do army things back then, tells them to walk around walls, and on the last day,28:55 charge with spears and fire. No. Shout to the Lord. And then what happened? Walls came tumbling down, and there was victory. For whom? For God's people.29:06 Then we look to Gideon, and Gideon had this massive army, but it wasn't big enough to go against his enemy army. And God dwindled it all down to 300. And what's he29:18 tell Gideon? Run for the hills. You're not big enough. No. He tells Gideon, bring your torches, bring your pottery to smash, and shout to the Lord.29:31 And what happens? They do it, and the Lord causes confusion on the enemy. And the enemy starts killing each other, and they get so fearful, and then they flee from29:43 whom? God's people. So when when David even says shout to the Lord, I wanna think he's thinking of these stories. And I wanna29:55 think shouting to the Lord some of us need to shout to the Lord in praise. All the time for all he has done. Because sometimes we30:06 hold back what we think is awkward, but what the Lord has is deliverance on the other side of it. What he has is freedom on the other side of it. What he has is victory that you cannot30:18 provide yourself or your situation. And how does that come through? By strapping on your boots and waiting in the water and going toe to toe with the enemy? No. It comes by30:30 shouting to the Lord in praise for everything he has done. It starts with humility knowing that I was the dead 1. I am the dead 1 outside of Christ.30:43 I know the pit I was in. I know who came to get me. And it wasn't my wife, and it wasn't my dad, and it wasn't my preacher, and it wasn't30:54 the worship singer, it wasn't my neighbor, it wasn't my coworker. It was Jesus that came to the pit that doesn't scare him and rescues me from that and gives me31:06 fullness of life. So how could I not shout and say, God, you're amazing. When everyone else left me, you didn't. When I31:17 had no hope, you were my hope. How is it that we can scream at a TV with football people on it as though we contribute to that,31:30 but we can't shout to the Lord in praise? How is it that we can shout for joy at our children's soccer games, but we can't shout to the Lord that gave us the children.31:42 How is it? I don't know. I'm working on it too. But what I'm here to tell you is that when you do it, your Jericho walls come down.31:55 When you do it, the enemy that all you saw was his nasty face in front of you, guess what you start seeing of him? You start seeing his back as he flees from you as you shout to the Lord.32:09 Psalm 95 written by David says, come, let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation. Psalm 98 says that some think it was written32:21 by David, some think it wasn't. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter because it says the same thing. Shout to the lord. Shout for joy to the lord. All the earth, burst into jubilant32:33 song and music. Make music to the lord with harp, with harp and the sound of singing. With trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn, shout for joy before the lord the king.32:47 That little sub point there is shout to the lord and praise. And I'm telling you, the best thing that the Lord is teaching me,33:00 again, not just in music time, but when I'm in the car, wrecked with what life has to me, shout to him because he's33:11 immovable, because he's unshakable, because he provides bread from heaven, literal, to his people in the ancient of days. How is it that he could be restrained now and not provide to me what I need?33:23 Some of you are like what I once was, more comfortable shouting in anger to God than in praise to God. And it's not the band's33:35 responsibility to stop that in you. It's my responsibility to look to the Lord and say, are worthy of so much more. So much more. Real33:47 praise, it continues. It continues when I acknowledge I need a savior to rescue me. I need it. Not just once, new Christian, when you raise your33:59 hand and confess your faith in Christ. All the time. Every day, we need to be rescued. Every single day, old34:10 Christian. I'm 1 of you now, so I can talk like that. Remember? When we've forgotten what the Lord has done, we've forgotten that we need to be rescued by our34:21 savior always. Always. This whole psalm is about a rescuer. About a rescuer. If there's no rescuer of this,34:33 what does this praise? Nothing. Nothing. This Psalm praises our rescuer. Without34:45 him, we really don't know how to praise God. We really don't. I need rescuing every day. Amen.34:57 Every day. Let me possibly rattle your brain and tell you that Jesus is not the last piece of your puzzle. He isn't. He's not35:09 the last missing hole and void in your life that you're aware of, and now you know you need Jesus to plug that hemorrhage. That's not Jesus.35:20 Jesus is the author and creator of the whole entire puzzle that we call life. He knows every single piece. He knows where it goes and when it goes there. He knows what the whole picture is before we35:32 ever even think we understand what the whole picture of our life is. You see, Jesus did not come to fill to be the icing on the the cake of your life.35:44 He came to rescue you from the pit of destruction and death called sin. And sin is anything that separates me from God.35:55 That's the Jesus of the scripture. And I love it. The scripture says he's slow to get36:07 angry with me, and he's abounding in steadfast love. I love it. We think we know patience here on earth.36:19 We don't. We don't. Humility. How do we get humility here in praising God to rescue us for the for the last time? Well, every, You36:31 know, we we continue praise continues when I acknowledge a need for a savior. So how do I humbly approach that? How do I how do I do that with humility? You know your place in the36:43 rescuing. You're the 1 going under. You're the 1 gasping for air. You're not the life preserver. You're not the whole you're holding on for dear life to36:55 that life preserver. You're not the strength behind the life preserver. You and I are the ones dead and gone outside of37:06 Christ. He is the 1 that doesn't just throw a life preserver to you and take you out of choppy waters. He's the strength and the sustenance behind all of it.37:18 And when he gets you aboard, so to say, or gets you on shore, he doesn't just kinda kick you and say, well, dummy, don't go out so far. You're in a rip current. Okay? Don't do that again. He brings you ashore and says,37:28 here is everything good I have for you. Now, bible says that we're saved by37:40 grace. Ephesians, again, written by Paul. Remember the murderer? If he can use Paul to write this, I think he can rescue you,37:52 you online, and whatever you're in. For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and it is not your own doing. It is a gift of God,38:04 not a result of works so that no 1 may boast. The book of John says this. This is Jesus talking in the book of John. Jesus says this, truly truly I say to you,38:16 whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment but passes from death to life. You38:30 see, your faith in Christ in saying, yes, Jesus. I believe that you took what I deserve on that cross. Our place in worship, our place38:43 in continuing to need a rescuer is knowing that I'm the 1 that deserves to be up on the cross, and Jesus is deserving of shaking his finger at me, rattling off everything I did to get myself38:55 there. But the good news of Jesus is that he doesn't do that. I forget where I have it in my39:06 notes, but I have a note in there that that yeah. Right here. Sin is the accusation of God. God's accusation to us, you're sinful. But he's not like a judge of39:18 this world. Where he says, you're bad and now this is what you deserve. You get it now. Jesus, God says, you're a sinner. His39:30 verdict here's Jesus. Here's Jesus. Freely accept the forgiveness that Jesus provides, and you will have eternal life. That's what he just said.39:44 John also says this, again, Jesus spoke to them saying, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Some of you, I believe, whether you're on a location or39:55 online or in this room, you have literally been feeling like you're walking in darkness, stumbling over your toes, dubbing your toes on every end table of life. YouShow more
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