Now, who doesn't need that theology? What do you say to you in those times of trouble, be it grocery store atheism or when the disasters of life in a fallen world break into your door? What do you say to you? What kind of gospel do you preach to you? Or let me say it this way. When your sister in Christ calls you and she's shaken to her core and you're the first number that she thought of calling, what gospel do you preach to your sister? How do you grab her hand and where do you run her to? Now, I just think we could stop and just meditate on what we've talked about. SESSION 4 The disasters of life in a fallen world break into your door. What do you say to you? What kind of gospel do you preach to you? Or let me say it this way. When your sister in Christ calls you and she's shaken to her core and you're the first number that she thought of calling, what gospel do you preach to your sister? How do you grab her hand and where do you run her to? Now, I just think we could stop and just meditate on what we've talked about, but I won't, because this Psalm gets very, very radical. And the radical nature of this Psalm is the juxtaposition of Verses 2 and 3 with Verse 4. Look at your Bibles. I know everyone has a Bible here. If you didn't bring yours, it's probably because you memorized yours. I'm just going to think of it that way because that helps me. Now listen to this, "When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, though an army encamp against me, though war rise against me." Now, let's think for a minute. One thing I desire, if I have an army encamped against me to eat up my flesh, what one thing would I desire? How about weapons? That would work. How about just, "Get me out of this situation"? Now let your heart run there. Don't be afraid of running there. Because anything that will now be exposed by what I'm saying in your heart has already been covered by the precious blood of Jesus. So let your heart run there. When you're in those moments, what is it that you crave? What is your one desire? What kind of messiah do you long for in that moment? Listen to what David says, "When evildoers assail me to eat at my flesh, my adversaries and foes, though an army encamp against me, though war rise against me, one thing have I asked of the Lord that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and inquire in his temple." What? What? Now, this man is either delusional or ridiculously super spiritual and sort of otherworldly, or David is onto something. David is onto something precious and important and transforming. Let me read the words because the words here are very important, "One thing I have asked of the Lord and that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life," to do what? To gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. David is onto something, and here's what he's onto. Oh, get these words that there exists in the universe a greater beauty, a greater and more glorious beauty than any ugly thing that you will ever face in your life. There exists in God a grand and glorious, stunning beauty that is way more beautiful and way more glorious than any ugly thing that you could ever face between the already and the not yet. God is glorious in His wisdom. He's beautiful in His power. He's beautiful in His sovereignty. He's beautiful in His faithfulness. He's beautiful in His tenderness. He's beautiful in His mercy. He's beautiful in His love. He's beautiful in His grace. He's beautiful. He's beautiful. He's beautiful. He's beautiful. He's beautiful. Now, here's what David understands, you will never see and understand your trouble properly unless you look at your trouble through the window of the stunning beauty of your Savior. Did you hear what I said? You will never, ever understand all those hard and troubling details, you will never see them accurately, you will never understand them properly unless you look at them through the lens of the stunning beauty of the Lord. You see, this isn't a theological exercise for David. This is His only hope of ever dealing with life in a fallen world. This is it. Listen, you don't have this, the falleness of this world will get you. And your life will be this ebbing of faith, this weakening of faith. You'll lose the joy of your salvation. You'll become, and the church is filled with this, a scary, sterile, cynical Christian. If peace in times of trouble begins with sound theology, hear what I'm about to say, peace in times of trouble is rooted in the worship of God. The
Transcript: Session 4
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