The Sermon "I Will Take Joy in Doing Your Will Lord" by David McGee
May 20, 2012
"I Will Take Joy in Doing Your Will Lord" (36:29)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 40:1-10; Daniel 3:16-19
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Psalm 40:1-10
1) I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
2) He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
3) He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
4) Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, And doesn‘t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5) Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can‘t be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6) Sacrifice and offering you didn‘t desire. My ears have you opened: Burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7) Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
8) I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
9) I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
10) I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Daniel 3:16-19
16) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
17) If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
18) But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
19) Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
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The Bible the Psalm forty Psalm forty and the title of my sermon today is the message that is a joy in doing your willow. I take joy in doing your Willow Lord and were reading from the message Bible and that Psalm forty. I waited and waited and waited for God at last he looked finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pull me from the deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God song and praise song to our God. More and more people are seeing this, they enter the ministry and they enter the minister they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God. Blessed are you who give yourself over to God turn their backs on the world sure thing the Lord, the world 's warships, the world 's huge stockpile of God wonders and got thoughts. Nothing and no one comes close to you. I started talking about you telling what I know I quickly run out of words. Neither numbers or words account for you getting something for you bringing something to you. That's not what you're after being religious. In fact, the highest best not what you're asking for. You've opened my eyes are opened my ears so I can listen so I answered, I'm coming I read in your letter. What you wrote about me, and I'm coming to the party. Your throne for me. That's when God 's word into my life became part of my very being. I preached you to the whole congregation. I've kept back nothing. God knows that I keep I didn't keep the news of your ways. The secret. I didn't keep it to myself. I told at all how dependable you are, how far all I didn't hold back pieces of loving truth for myself alone. I told it all. What the congregate congregation know the whole story and were looking at verse nine or verse eight. I take joy in doing your will was the message Bible says that's when God 's word entered my life became part of my very being. Now as we look at this Psalm a and hassle a lot to him. Say to us about our relationship with God, and how that there are difficulties and trials that that happen and whenever we see what is God 's will are following God 's will for our life can be very difficult. It can be difficult in making choices that compensate. While this is what God wants me to do at this very moment is that he is making a life decision to go to the military and then to follow-up with all of that with all the studies in and so on that you will need to do for becoming a chaplain. These days are very a very high calling in people 's lives, and it will mean a lot and for her future. But, you know, each of us enter into these very same things. We had her into areas of our lives in which we are making decisions and making choices in the psalmist here is telling us how he was in very great distress than trouble, and he which plunged into a horrible pit, now I want it. I just need the board up there for a little bit because sometimes we we don't have a concept of a horrible pit in the in Israel at this time you read this is that the land yellow flag Brandon Brown and what they would do is they would dig a hole or what we would consider a well, it can be about three feet four feet across and they were going down, maybe three to five feet and then they were, they would take this big hole out from underneath this got to be twenty feet across the now thirty feet across and and and it would be almost like a circle went about four feet underneath the ground. This was used for either for ground water, or as a granary. This is where they would store the rank. But whenever these were abandoned and it was a rainy season. What would be the bottom horrible pit, a miry clay, and there is no way out unless someone lowers your rope, so these wells are these granaries work throughout Israel and people, animals could fall into them because they didn't have signed that bill to help all here. You know the NAFTA backfill, so you have all of this is a little psalmist is saying that he has fallen into a pit, and he is entered into great distress and plunged me into a horrible pain in my replay, he was saying that not physically, but spiritually. He has entered this pet and if he is going to get out of this pit. It's going to have to be by the help of God, because he can get himself out to get a sense somehow work and not work out the scenario work out the things to get himself out of the matter how you climbed and I getting out so this is the kind of the pitbull in my recliner with my incident, he finds himself in, and for the psalmist, then this is seeing how that as a physical captivity. This would be, there is like the spiritual captivity. This gradual captivity that comes upon us old whenever we are away from God. One individual wrote this author with his name. His name is John one BLU BLU in the ER G and he wrote this, he says we had a hard time getting away from the shore. He was his friends were swimming in that sometimes type of a raft on their CNN appeared to be an enormous moment and keeping us grounded slowly got easier when we decided to relax. It was during our moments of pause. Then reality set in concerning our ever so gentle drift out to see. We immediately grasp her safety. One arm holding the graph and the other aggressively swimming. Twenty minutes later we made minimal progress, a lifeguard in a kayak kayak appeared, and he comforted us by his presence. We lightly commented about the distance from shore that he wasn't laughing boys markers had warned us not to go beyond them, but we ignored them and drifted five times further out than we should lifeguard didn't leave, but he didn't assist us forty five minutes later we walked ashore shaking from exhaustion. We can run away from our values. We drifted away. We drifted away and wake up in places we never meant to be seen as septal. It bores you into thinking you have it all together. Then one day you discover you're in over your head, and this is what happened to the psalmist is his thinking that is going along and then all of a sudden he finds his soul in great distress, and I was thinking of David. Whenever I go drifting out to see if he was in El Salvador and then because there's no lifeguards is no lifeguard so on holidays in El Salvador. The everybody goes to the beat goes of the shoreline and then the shore and El Salvador is all rocks. It's blacks and from volcanoes mixed with these big huge black rocks, and they cover the whole beach and in the in the water and so on. There's no there's no lifeguard so they don't know how many people hi holiday while David was out surfing one day and there comes up and bumped into the board is a body of someone who I drowned at some point in time. And of course they take it in the end you take the body person in and he and he is dead and it is just like where is how do we know how far we are how we know how far we drifted and drifting is one thing but being able to recognize where were at and how to bring stability to our life in a very difficult time and we are the salt list. This is kind of in this place is is learning not by what has happened to him physically by falling into this pit. And by what has happened to him spiritually, and he says in an immersive first one. I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked, and finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch and pulled me out of the deep mud. I waited and waited. I drifted and I drifted in and I drifted I wake at NEC. He cried to the Lord, and he lifted me from the deep. My replay, he stood them up on a solid rock to make sure that I wouldn't slip. So we find that in as a physical condition. Someone is saying that someone has come along lower the rope and brought them up and place them on the rock upon the self solid surface outside of the pit and heavy armor waited on someone and then not show up in a rather good experience. After waiting and then not show up the papers okay are are are are are are are are are are are in him God. I remember as and for and will and will and will will is in a in a you know is you is a you will is a is all a will or will and will pay him so far as I understand and I will I will will and will and in all and and you are you are him linger in and in I will is you and I will a you be in love and I are in and only one other guy will and you and I will will will and is in a way and in a for you are in an and in and a so you will all and I saw me now is all in a really helpless because he is the perspective that sometimes happened in our lives and this is very much we can relate to, but waiting on God, and waiting for him to come to our rescue. We sing the songs about that eighty nine God, and in finding a place where we are going to hear the voice of God. Sometimes we have to be as aware and are worth in order to look up and find that God is still there and he has been waiting on us to get our attention, and the psalmist here is saying that as as he would have been physically in this pit waiting and waiting and waiting, and finally God showed up and he lifted him out of the pit. How may times have we put ourselves in the pit and no got there and how, how do we make such a mess of this and God comes along and we pray and we pray an immigrant thing about this is that whatever we pray it isn't like God, I'm in the pit. He already knows burn what we pray as we ask God. Yes, that all things work together for good, so I'm believing that this is going to be an experience with your back to receive honor and glory in my life value promise that he would never leave me nor forsake me, so I'm not alone in this pit is doing so whenever we frame to frame the promises were praying things of God has spoken to our life is in his word, and it isn't that we are abandoning the pit is that God is with us wherever we are act on their and wherever were going. God is already there. Whatever were going to experience God has already been there to God. There is witnesses such as the great reality to God. There is no seeing into the future. Nor is there remembering the past. It's all knowledge that God so God knows arch allows and he knows exactly what's going to happen and yet he is going through our today, preparing us for our tomorrow and it is the spirit of God makes us aware of God 's presence in the spirit of God that gives these promises and brings these promises delight in our life. Women reading the book of Daniel and Daniel. Chapter three. This is about the three Hebrew children directly. Second, Bendigo and were all familiar with the story. Hopefully show directly shut off within the Delaware five the Babylonian Empire Nebuchadnezzar was a great king of Babylon, and Daniel was sometimes wasn't there at the time that this happened. Are you probably would. He would be standing there with the sunshine recognition and Bendigo, but never again resume displayed statue in this race actually told everybody had to bow down and worship the statue whenever the the trumpets sound. Then everything went off. Everybody was the bow down and worship the statue while Shadrach, make you know, and they were not done this when I wrote about how to use statute because that would befall that would not be according to our beliefs. The Commandments of God state have no other gods before me. So they were not born about down and the Scripture says in chapter three verse sixteen. That's directly shack in the medical reply to him, King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us he's able to deliver us from and he will deliver us from your Majesty 's hand. Now the one version says it already okay we will not bow down in Oregon as well able to deliver us, but if not, we're still going to be delivered because the fire, the fiery furnace, but if not, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think God is able to answer our prayer way that we want them, but it doesn't mean he's going to the God is going to be there. He is able to do it a different way and the three Hebrew children. They know that God is going to deliver them either by saving them in the fire or by death. They are going to be delivered to your not having mastery over us. We have mastery over this situation because we are following the promise of God and the word of God. This is where we find ourselves that whenever we are in the difficult places a budget enough, it may look back. But John is able to deliver us, but if he doesn't, that's okay. His will is going to be accomplished through us, because God will relieve me nor forsake me, God will make this happen one way or another and we will. God will have the I will say so that live the dream of children they don't know directly. Sacramento make up bonus. All thing and tell the King is what's going to happen while McCain was a little bit upset with the lack of Nebuchadnezzar was furious what verse nineteen says Nebuchadnezzar was furious. The Shadrach Meshach and Bendigo and his attitude toward the end changed the order of the first of the heated seven times hotter than usual. Now I'm sure that we were going about this in our study are our discussion on Wednesday night. You know, I have never been around the smelting furnace or a a furnace where the heat metal and installed. I remember we were out in the roar at Rachel 's Mechanicsburg somewhere out there, and one of these big furnaces and they had the door in the front and this is all brick, and it was lined inside with brick never big fire in there. It would melt steel and wood melts iron things, and they were making approximate cannon cannonballs and all that stuff out of the synthesis uses is probably tell seventy feet across and seventy feet high, while Nebuchadnezzar has a fiery furnace, and his name, the fiery furnaces furnace is probably a smelting furnace and is made of seven times hotter, so we figured out the temperature to be somewhere around what was a rousing remember Brown twelve thousand degrees seven times hotter so is around twelve thousand and raise for NMS. It is about because the fiery furnace has to be hot enough for now. Now again at what temperature does metal well, and family find that so it was not how we come up with the younger one like we drained that was our logic. So anyhow, this virus is sometimes harder than it needs to be. It is so hot that whenever the people approach it ever walked up, you'll find this a lot compelling. While I got a visit back again to read around fire, okay, but we find that it's seven times hotter. So what happens if the people who are carrying as they bounced directly. Zach Bendigo records and whatever Nate taken off the top. I guess somewhere to patrol man and a throttle in the furnace. In this process be large enough to let the entrance that you can see inside so when the people who throws directly Sacramento in the furnace. They die from the heat three eight five three he and what happened this all these men marry the Robbins trial to start is another close were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace, the king 's command was so urgent that the furnace so hot. The flames tell the soldiers now what happens next. The king Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet, an arrangement after that adversaries weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the furnace. They replied yes. King and he said, I see for Nike for state whenever we find ourselves in the pit, whether it's in a furnace or an append the place of the adversity place all problems problems when we weather we found are all however somebody else through a thin, God is always with us as we wait upon the Lord will find that God is there we waited we way can we wait, why are we waking only God knows. But God has a way of working in our life that he will bring us to this place of deliverance are a place of answering and he says in the song that we are adding talking about, not God is able to deliver us there is nothing that God cannot do, but God doesn't do everything we ask him imagine that if God did everything that we ask in England, BR topic and that we would be, we would be doing things after our schedule and building things after our eyes. And after our likeness to a recount. Just like King Nebuchadnezzar that would be so caught up in either that will be colliding with every other IV and mopping and nothing would work. But God has a plan for our life. God has a purpose for life and ever we find ourselves on our knees we find that there we are closest to God, and everything is no work out the way that we want to know your retail God. We should do now. Sometimes I I I was with would always had a hard time about that. I was at a hard time telling God, you know God. I have this problem you need to fix it. This is the problem. I got like were telling him something he doesn't know but that God knows everything. So what are we pray, we need to pray the promises God has planned for your life God has a purpose for you. This purpose now and in the future, God will take you places you never dreamed he will bless you in ways that you never thought possible. He will crown you with his righteous in his love in your life will be an expression of his getting things to you and to us. So everywhere she goes. She can pray the promise of God everywhere you go you can pray the promise of God, not informing anybody know where I'm at now case you lost track. I met such as a degreaser to such latitude facing such a such a difficulty in you, your point is verse five says Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God and turned their backs on the world. Sure, things like that. The world sure thing. Ignore what the world warships the world, a huge stockpile of God wanderers and I thought you were so many people that have had have an idea what God is and what God is not the child of God as opposed to working Gaudio and integrate all these crazy scenarios. This one talk show guy behind it. I just don't listen. I don't listen to him. I was flipping through the channels of the Madani said. By thought and I said why you know I don't I can believe in a God who has the work to today's rest on the seventh eye cancer gotten tired enough I is going off on God being tired and taking taking a break in the fight. It's totally out of in a hello, what are you talking about all the people are laughing behind his value because they believe him. The other one I know the truth. He has a perspective on his life and I'm not an easy mocking God with it. But guess what there's going to come today and he's going to need to God. I was tired and any who find out that he was not tired body was setting an example for people to enter into a spiritual rest for their soul. What God does, because as an example to show us when he has for us and then the psalmist week, another version of verse six says that, speaking of God, sacrifice and offering you did not desire to desire us to do burn sacrifices in and have all the things you what you desire, you desire to be in your heart that has to come from your heart and visualize an individual. The verse six. The second part with his, but my eyes you have open the verse seven here I am, I have come. It's written about me in the scroll, I come to this place in my life where I finally understand you wrote about me and book you wrote about my life in the Scriptures, you wrote about how that you would never leave me nor for sake, you wrote about how the general plan for the nation of Israel, but you also have a plan for me the message Bible says. I read your letter. What you wrote about me, and I'm coming to the party your throwing for me. I got identified a large and a pioneer strong four-man isn't it hasn't then I have to. I did and I do not begin in open, and I feel so sad whenever I'm with people and they say I hope I got enough to get in it. All their sick or ill. I hope I've done enough to balance out the scales like I've done bad things, but if I've done enough good things happen. Second out that I would like to get to heaven. No doesn't work like that. It's forgiveness disgrace. It's mercy I desire mercy, I desire to do your will, my God, your law is in my heart. It isn't something that were doing because were in it were an attempt. It is a something were doing because were in a fiery furnace, where joy because it's part of our character as part of our soul. It's part of our thinking. It's part of our expectation. It's if it's all only wrapped up in that, then I am going to spend an eternity with God, and the reason I know this God has come to spend his live my life with you. You come to me with majoring the expense of my life, no matter where I am. It's part of my character and part of my soul part of my thinking, in part, my expectation, loves me view God has blessed me will bless you and give me things for my life. He gives me things for my life to share with you and your things in your life to share with us than with others because were part of the body of Christ. God has a way of touching us by his Spirit in influencing our thinking, renewing a right right spirit within us, challenging us to change who we are to what he wants us to be. That's when God 's word entered my life became part of my very being the sum that I enjoy life and doing your will for your instructions are written in my heart. These things I do while I'm here in the idea when I'm on the rock one. Ideally look at ideal in Iraq, when I get outside the furnace. I do in the furnace. I serve God and let the thing is, I think we got so I answered, I'm coming, I'm ready to. I read in your letter. What you wrote about me, and I'm coming to the party. Your throne for me. That's when God 's word entered my life and became part of my being. I preached you to the whole congregation. I kept nothing back. You know what I don't keep the news of your ways a secret. I told it all for myself alone. I told it. But the congregation know the whole story and he goes back. This is, I sang a God song I sang a good song. I got the latest God song, a praise song to our God is something that comes from our being is something that comes from my character is something that comes from our heart 's not something we put on it, is someone we become. This is who I am in Jesus, and whenever I am in him, and I'm in the pit is there with me when I go along the surface. I fall into the pit of my reply I drift off course and I find myself lost. God is with me when I stand up for God, and I do the right things and people persecute me throw me into the furnace of their sarcasm in their unbelief, there is always someone else there with me because that's part of my soul part of my character 's part of who I am. I can't bear grudges. I can't keep them as that's not a part of who I am. I can't hate people. I can't go on not forgiving people, because it's not part of who Jesus is missing. I'm looking at what Jesus and is characterized and those are the rules that we have to live by because that's the character and that's what's written on our heart and we know her farm. We live. We don't amply falling fall away Yunnan drift off no worry get back on course. Look, I Wayne and I waited a godsend. Your lifelines in Christ in here price comes to me here people are persecuting me trying to know say to what I believe and what I do means nothing not alone here Jesus is with me no matter where we are at Christ walks with us. He walks with me any talks with me and what does he do, he tells me I am here and then must what promise that we need to pray what promises God made the place in our life. That's what we pray what promises God speaking to your heart will promise this, you speak you to see whether your you fall in the pit of promise. God knows exactly where my his grace and his mercy looked beyond my fault my main lime in the furnace of people are persevering her trials or whatever I'm safe in the arms of my father. You know when I laminate in a leave without it. Number people. We always have a number of people who die our program, but this seems lately. There's just been a number of people that I work with specifically and you go in and you want people to feel the presence of God, where they feel safe in the arms of their father. And it's okay, we'll see them again. That's the security we have to have as we walk with God every day whether we are walking in the last moments of time in our life or whether just preparing for the next weeks and months and years were well walk with God each step of the way and I want us. I I believe God wants us to feel safe in the arms of our father. Jesus, we thank you for your presence no matter where we erratically drifted, God, you, you come to help us if we been persecuted and is thrown into the fiery furnace. You're there. So no matter where we arrived in our lives. God you are there. You know exactly who we are where we are and how we got here and get Lord. It is by your grace and your mercy. You reach out to us in your love and you hold our hearts and we are safe in the arms of our father, we thank you for that security. As we step out the door as we go on from here grow on from here. God, we can never we knew we can never leave your process you are with us. So Lord, we pray your promise of blessing with prayer promise of forgiveness. We pray our promise of love, we pray your promise of security. Whatever it is largely designing. We pray to God. We believe this in Jesus name and everyone said amen,The Bible the Psalm forty Psalm forty and the title of my sermon today is the message that is a joy in doing your willow. I take joy in doing your Willow Lord and were reading from the message Bible and that Psalm forty. I waited and waited and waited for God at last he looked finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pull me from the deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God song and praise song to our God. More and more people are seeing this, they enter the ministry and they enter the minister they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God. Blessed are you who give yourself over to God turn their backs on the world sure thing the Lord, the world 's warships, the world 's huge stockpile of God wonders and got thoughts. Nothing and no one comes close to you. I started talking about you telling what I know I quickly run out of words. Neither numbers or words account for you getting something for you bringing something to you. That's not what you're after being religious. In fact, the highest best not what you're asking for. You've opened my eyes are opened my ears so I can listen so I answered, I'm coming I read in your letter. What you wrote about me, and I'm coming to the party. Your throne for me. That's when God 's word into my life became part of my very being. I preached you to the whole congregation. I've kept back nothing. God knows that I keep I didn't keep the news of your ways. The secret. I didn't keep it to myself. I told at all how dependable you are, how far all I didn't hold back pieces of loving truth for myself alone. I told it all. What the congregate congregation know the whole story and were looking at verse nine or verse eight. I take joy in doing your will was the message Bible says that's when God 's word entered my life became part of my very being. Now as we look at this Psalm a and hassle a lot to him. Say to us about our relationship with God, and how that there are difficulties and trials that that happen and whenever we see what is God 's will are following God 's will for our life can be very difficult. It can be difficult in making choices that compensate. While this is what God wants me to do at this very moment is that he is making a life decision to go to the military and then to follow-up with all of that with all the studies in and so on that you will need to do for becoming a chaplain. These days are very a very high calling in people 's lives, and it will mean a lot and for her future. But, you know, each of us enter into these very same things. We had her into areas of our lives in which we are making decisions and making choices in the psalmist here is telling us how he was in very great distress than trouble, and he which plunged into a horrible pit, now I want it. I just need the board up there for a little bit because sometimes we we don't have a concept of a horrible pit in the in Israel at this time you read this is that the land yellow flag Brandon Brown and what they would do is they would dig a hole or what we would consider a well, it can be about three feet four feet across and they were going down, maybe three to five feet and then they were, they would take this big hole out from underneath this got to be twenty feet across the now thirty feet across and and and it would be almost like a circle went about four feet underneath the ground. This was used for either for ground water, or as a granary. This is where they would store the rank. But whenever these were abandoned and it was a rainy season. What would be the bottom horrible pit, a miry clay, and there is no way out unless someone lowers your rope, so these wells are these granaries work throughout Israel and people, animals could fall into them because they didn't have signed that bill to help all here. You know the NAFTA backfill, so you have all of this is a little psalmist is saying that he has fallen into a pit, and he is entered into great distress and plunged me into a horrible pain in my replay, he was saying that not physically, but spiritually. He has entered this pet and if he is going to get out of this pit. It's going to have to be by the help of God, because he can get himself out to get a sense somehow work and not work out the scenario work out the things to get himself out of the matter how you climbed and I getting out so this is the kind of the pitbull in my recliner with my incident, he finds himself in, and for the psalmist, then this is seeing how that as a physical captivity. This would be, there is like the spiritual captivity. This gradual captivity that comes upon us old whenever we are away from God. One individual wrote this author with his name. His name is John one BLU BLU in the ER G and he wrote this, he says we had a hard time getting away from the shore. He was his friends were swimming in that sometimes type of a raft on their CNN appeared to be an enormous moment and keeping us grounded slowly got easier when we decided to relax. It was during our moments of pause. Then reality set in concerning our ever so gentle drift out to see. We immediately grasp her safety. One arm holding the graph and the other aggressively swimming. Twenty minutes later we made minimal progress, a lifeguard in a kayak kayak appeared, and he comforted us by his presence. We lightly commented about the distance from shore that he wasn't laughing boys markers had warned us not to go beyond them, but we ignored them and drifted five times further out than we should lifeguard didn't leave, but he didn't assist us forty five minutes later we walked ashore shaking from exhaustion. We can run away from our values. We drifted away. We drifted away and wake up in places we never meant to be seen as septal. It bores you into thinking you have it all together. Then one day you discover you're in over your head, and this is what happened to the psalmist is his thinking that is going along and then all of a sudden he finds his soul in great distress, and I was thinking of David. Whenever I go drifting out to see if he was in El Salvador and then because there's no lifeguards is no lifeguard so on holidays in El Salvador. The everybody goes to the beat goes of the shoreline and then the shore and El Salvador is all rocks. It's blacks and from volcanoes mixed with these big huge black rocks, and they cover the whole beach and in the in the water and so on. There's no there's no lifeguard so they don't know how many people hi holiday while David was out surfing one day and there comes up and bumped into the board is a body of someone who I drowned at some point in time. And of course they take it in the end you take the body person in and he and he is dead and it is just like where is how do we know how far we are how we know how far we drifted and drifting is one thing but being able to recognize where were at and how to bring stability to our life in a very difficult time and we are the salt list. This is kind of in this place is is learning not by what has happened to him physically by falling into this pit. And by what has happened to him spiritually, and he says in an immersive first one. I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked, and finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch and pulled me out of the deep mud. I waited and waited. I drifted and I drifted in and I drifted I wake at NEC. He cried to the Lord, and he lifted me from the deep. My replay, he stood them up on a solid rock to make sure that I wouldn't slip. So we find that in as a physical condition. Someone is saying that someone has come along lower the rope and brought them up and place them on the rock upon the self solid surface outside of the pit and heavy armor waited on someone and then not show up in a rather good experience. After waiting and then not show up the papers okay are are are are are are are are are are are in him God. I remember as and for and will and will and will will is in a in a you know is you is a you will is a is all a will or will and will pay him so far as I understand and I will I will will and will and in all and and you are you are him linger in and in I will is you and I will a you be in love and I are in and only one other guy will and you and I will will will and is in a way and in a for you are in an and in and a so you will all and I saw me now is all in a really helpless because he is the perspective that sometimes happened in our lives and this is very much we can relate to, but waiting on God, and waiting for him to come to our rescue. We sing the songs about that eighty nine God, and in finding a place where we are going to hear the voice of God. Sometimes we have to be as aware and are worth in order to look up and find that God is still there and he has been waiting on us to get our attention, and the psalmist here is saying that as as he would have been physically in this pit waiting and waiting and waiting, and finally God showed up and he lifted him out of the pit. How may times have we put ourselves in the pit and no got there and how, how do we make such a mess of this and God comes along and we pray and we pray an immigrant thing about this is that whatever we pray it isn't like God, I'm in the pit. He already knows burn what we pray as we ask God. Yes, that all things work together for good, so I'm believing that this is going to be an experience with your back to receive honor and glory in my life value promise that he would never leave me nor forsake me, so I'm not alone in this pit is doing so whenever we frame to frame the promises were praying things of God has spoken to our life is in his word, and it isn't that we are abandoning the pit is that God is with us wherever we are act on their and wherever were going. God is already there. Whatever were going to experience God has already been there to God. There is witnesses such as the great reality to God. There is no seeing into the future. Nor is there remembering the past. It's all knowledge that God so God knows arch allows and he knows exactly what's going to happen and yet he is going through our today, preparing us for our tomorrow and it is the spirit of God makes us aware of God 's presence in the spirit of God that gives these promises and brings these promises delight in our life. Women reading the book of Daniel and Daniel. Chapter three. This is about the three Hebrew children directly. Second, Bendigo and were all familiar with the story. Hopefully show directly shut off within the Delaware five the Babylonian Empire Nebuchadnezzar was a great king of Babylon, and Daniel was sometimes wasn't there at the time that this happened. Are you probably would. He would be standing there with the sunshine recognition and Bendigo, but never again resume displayed statue in this race actually told everybody had to bow down and worship the statue whenever the the trumpets sound. Then everything went off. Everybody was the bow down and worship the statue while Shadrach, make you know, and they were not done this when I wrote about how to use statute because that would befall that would not be according to our beliefs. The Commandments of God state have no other gods before me. So they were not born about down and the Scripture says in chapter three verse sixteen. That's directly shack in the medical reply to him, King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us he's able to deliver us from and he will deliver us from your Majesty 's hand. Now the one version says it already okay we will not bow down in Oregon as well able to deliver us, but if not, we're still going to be delivered because the fire, the fiery furnace, but if not, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think God is able to answer our prayer way that we want them, but it doesn't mean he's going to the God is going to be there. He is able to do it a different way and the three Hebrew children. They know that God is going to deliver them either by saving them in the fire or by death. They are going to be delivered to your not having mastery over us. We have mastery over this situation because we are following the promise of God and the word of God. This is where we find ourselves that whenever we are in the difficult places a budget enough, it may look back. But John is able to deliver us, but if he doesn't, that's okay. His will is going to be accomplished through us, because God will relieve me nor forsake me, God will make this happen one way or another and we will. God will have the I will say so that live the dream of children they don't know directly. Sacramento make up bonus. All thing and tell the King is what's going to happen while McCain was a little bit upset with the lack of Nebuchadnezzar was furious what verse nineteen says Nebuchadnezzar was furious. The Shadrach Meshach and Bendigo and his attitude toward the end changed the order of the first of the heated seven times hotter than usual. Now I'm sure that we were going about this in our study are our discussion on Wednesday night. You know, I have never been around the smelting furnace or a a furnace where the heat metal and installed. I remember we were out in the roar at Rachel 's Mechanicsburg somewhere out there, and one of these big furnaces and they had the door in the front and this is all brick, and it was lined inside with brick never big fire in there. It would melt steel and wood melts iron things, and they were making approximate cannon cannonballs and all that stuff out of the synthesis uses is probably tell seventy feet across and seventy feet high, while Nebuchadnezzar has a fiery furnace, and his name, the fiery furnaces furnace is probably a smelting furnace and is made of seven times hotter, so we figured out the temperature to be somewhere around what was a rousing remember Brown twelve thousand degrees seven times hotter so is around twelve thousand and raise for NMS. It is about because the fiery furnace has to be hot enough for now. Now again at what temperature does metal well, and family find that so it was not how we come up with the younger one like we drained that was our logic. So anyhow, this virus is sometimes harder than it needs to be. It is so hot that whenever the people approach it ever walked up, you'll find this a lot compelling. While I got a visit back again to read around fire, okay, but we find that it's seven times hotter. So what happens if the people who are carrying as they bounced directly. Zach Bendigo records and whatever Nate taken off the top. I guess somewhere to patrol man and a throttle in the furnace. In this process be large enough to let the entrance that you can see inside so when the people who throws directly Sacramento in the furnace. They die from the heat three eight five three he and what happened this all these men marry the Robbins trial to start is another close were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace, the king 's command was so urgent that the furnace so hot. The flames tell the soldiers now what happens next. The king Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet, an arrangement after that adversaries weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the furnace. They replied yes. King and he said, I see for Nike for state whenever we find ourselves in the pit, whether it's in a furnace or an append the place of the adversity place all problems problems when we weather we found are all however somebody else through a thin, God is always with us as we wait upon the Lord will find that God is there we waited we way can we wait, why are we waking only God knows. But God has a way of working in our life that he will bring us to this place of deliverance are a place of answering and he says in the song that we are adding talking about, not God is able to deliver us there is nothing that God cannot do, but God doesn't do everything we ask him imagine that if God did everything that we ask in England, BR topic and that we would be, we would be doing things after our schedule and building things after our eyes. And after our likeness to a recount. Just like King Nebuchadnezzar that would be so caught up in either that will be colliding with every other IV and mopping and nothing would work. But God has a plan for our life. God has a purpose for life and ever we find ourselves on our knees we find that there we are closest to God, and everything is no work out the way that we want to know your retail God. We should do now. Sometimes I I I was with would always had a hard time about that. I was at a hard time telling God, you know God. I have this problem you need to fix it. This is the problem. I got like were telling him something he doesn't know but that God knows everything. So what are we pray, we need to pray the promises God has planned for your life God has a purpose for you. This purpose now and in the future, God will take you places you never dreamed he will bless you in ways that you never thought possible. He will crown you with his righteous in his love in your life will be an expression of his getting things to you and to us. So everywhere she goes. She can pray the promise of God everywhere you go you can pray the promise of God, not informing anybody know where I'm at now case you lost track. I met such as a degreaser to such latitude facing such a such a difficulty in you, your point is verse five says Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God and turned their backs on the world. Sure, things like that. The world sure thing. Ignore what the world warships the world, a huge stockpile of God wanderers and I thought you were so many people that have had have an idea what God is and what God is not the child of God as opposed to working Gaudio and integrate all these crazy scenarios. This one talk show guy behind it. I just don't listen. I don't listen to him. I was flipping through the channels of the Madani said. By thought and I said why you know I don't I can believe in a God who has the work to today's rest on the seventh eye cancer gotten tired enough I is going off on God being tired and taking taking a break in the fight. It's totally out of in a hello, what are you talking about all the people are laughing behind his value because they believe him. The other one I know the truth. He has a perspective on his life and I'm not an easy mocking God with it. But guess what there's going to come today and he's going to need to God. I was tired and any who find out that he was not tired body was setting an example for people to enter into a spiritual rest for their soul. What God does, because as an example to show us when he has for us and then the psalmist week, another version of verse six says that, speaking of God, sacrifice and offering you did not desire to desire us to do burn sacrifices in and have all the things you what you desire, you desire to be in your heart that has to come from your heart and visualize an individual. The verse six. The second part with his, but my eyes you have open the verse seven here I am, I have come. It's written about me in the scroll, I come to this place in my life where I finally understand you wrote about me and book you wrote about my life in the Scriptures, you wrote about how that you would never leave me nor for sake, you wrote about how the general plan for the nation of Israel, but you also have a plan for me the message Bible says. I read your letter. What you wrote about me, and I'm coming to the party your throwing for me. I got identified a large and a pioneer strong four-man isn't it hasn't then I have to. I did and I do not begin in open, and I feel so sad whenever I'm with people and they say I hope I got enough to get in it. All their sick or ill. I hope I've done enough to balance out the scales like I've done bad things, but if I've done enough good things happen. Second out that I would like to get to heaven. No doesn't work like that. It's forgiveness disgrace. It's mercy I desire mercy, I desire to do your will, my God, your law is in my heart. It isn't something that were doing because were in it were an attempt. It is a something were doing because were in a fiery furnace, where joy because it's part of our character as part of our soul. It's part of our thinking. It's part of our expectation. It's if it's all only wrapped up in that, then I am going to spend an eternity with God, and the reason I know this God has come to spend his live my life with you. You come to me with majoring the expense of my life, no matter where I am. It's part of my character and part of my soul part of my thinking, in part, my expectation, loves me view God has blessed me will bless you and give me things for my life. He gives me things for my life to share with you and your things in your life to share with us than with others because were part of the body of Christ. God has a way of touching us by his Spirit in influencing our thinking, renewing a right right spirit within us, challenging us to change who we are to what he wants us to be. That's when God 's word entered my life became part of my very being the sum that I enjoy life and doing your will for your instructions are written in my heart. These things I do while I'm here in the idea when I'm on the rock one. Ideally look at ideal in Iraq, when I get outside the furnace. I do in the furnace. I serve God and let the thing is, I think we got so I answered, I'm coming, I'm ready to. I read in your letter. What you wrote about me, and I'm coming to the party. Your throne for me. That's when God 's word entered my life and became part of my being. I preached you to the whole congregation. I kept nothing back. You know what I don't keep the news of your ways a secret. I told it all for myself alone. I told it. But the congregation know the whole story and he goes back. This is, I sang a God song I sang a good song. I got the latest God song, a praise song to our God is something that comes from our being is something that comes from my character is something that comes from our heart 's not something we put on it, is someone we become. This is who I am in Jesus, and whenever I am in him, and I'm in the pit is there with me when I go along the surface. I fall into the pit of my reply I drift off course and I find myself lost. God is with me when I stand up for God, and I do the right things and people persecute me throw me into the furnace of their sarcasm in their unbelief, there is always someone else there with me because that's part of my soul part of my character 's part of who I am. I can't bear grudges. I can't keep them as that's not a part of who I am. I can't hate people. I can't go on not forgiving people, because it's not part of who Jesus is missing. I'm looking at what Jesus and is characterized and those are the rules that we have to live by because that's the character and that's what's written on our heart and we know her farm. We live. We don't amply falling fall away Yunnan drift off no worry get back on course. Look, I Wayne and I waited a godsend. Your lifelines in Christ in here price comes to me here people are persecuting me trying to know say to what I believe and what I do means nothing not alone here Jesus is with me no matter where we are at Christ walks with us. He walks with me any talks with me and what does he do, he tells me I am here and then must what promise that we need to pray what promises God made the place in our life. That's what we pray what promises God speaking to your heart will promise this, you speak you to see whether your you fall in the pit of promise. God knows exactly where my his grace and his mercy looked beyond my fault my main lime in the furnace of people are persevering her trials or whatever I'm safe in the arms of my father. You know when I laminate in a leave without it. Number people. We always have a number of people who die our program, but this seems lately. There's just been a number of people that I work with specifically and you go in and you want people to feel the presence of God, where they feel safe in the arms of their father. And it's okay, we'll see them again. That's the security we have to have as we walk with God every day whether we are walking in the last moments of time in our life or whether just preparing for the next weeks and months and years were well walk with God each step of the way and I want us. I I believe God wants us to feel safe in the arms of our father. Jesus, we thank you for your presence no matter where we erratically drifted, God, you, you come to help us if we been persecuted and is thrown into the fiery furnace. You're there. So no matter where we arrived in our lives. God you are there. You know exactly who we are where we are and how we got here and get Lord. It is by your grace and your mercy. You reach out to us in your love and you hold our hearts and we are safe in the arms of our father, we thank you for that security. As we step out the door as we go on from here grow on from here. God, we can never we knew we can never leave your process you are with us. So Lord, we pray your promise of blessing with prayer promise of forgiveness. We pray our promise of love, we pray your promise of security. Whatever it is largely designing. We pray to God. We believe this in Jesus name and everyone said amen,