The Sermon Is God Too Small by David McGee
Jun 22, 2014
Is God Too Small (31:00)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 34:1; 1 Samuel 21:10-15; Psalm 34
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Psalm 34:1
1) I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
1 Samuel 21:10-15
10) David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11) The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn‘t this David the king of the land? Didn‘t they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?‘"
12) David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13) He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
14) Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?
15) Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Psalm 34
1) I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
2) My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
3) Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
4) I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.
5) They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
6) This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
7) The angel of Yahweh encamps round about those who fear him, And delivers them.
8) Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
9) Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, For there is no lack with those who fear him.
10) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, But those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
11) Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
12) Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
13) Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.
14) Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
15) The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
16) The face of Yahweh is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17) The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.
18) Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves those who have a crushed spirit.
19) Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
20) He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
21) Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
22) Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned. Psalm 35 By David.
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This morning. I'm thinking of the sermon I have today is thinking or thinking God is too small, or is God too small, and how do we see him, and were going to read Psalm thirty four beginning at verse one through verse ten, and I'm reading her from the King James version, because I will bless the list is a Psalm of David. I will bless the Lord all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth, my soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear the Robin be glad and verse three is the predominant verse for our message. They all magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me delivered me from all my fears. They looked onto him, and were likened and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of his troubles. All of his troubles began to Lord and cap with roundabout them that fear him, and delivered them all taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man. The trust is in him all fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Will this Psalm is quite an interesting song because David was forced King David Nolan King at the time he was able it was forced to a from his homeland because Saul the king was trying to Kevin and so on. David found himself fleeing to a nearby country, and the king. There was to indicate was a case shop and Acacia is what is he the king of visiting of gas, no one will remember that the case is the King of Gath, and whatever game in in the city prior to his leaving and playing. He comes across an individual who has the sword of Goliath. So David takes the sword of Goliath with him, and he flees to the king of a king of gasification and he hides out there in this camp, and while he's there in this camp. This enchantment, the city while he's there in the city they discover who he is now due. Sometimes we think the people of the Bible are really, really smart. Sometimes it just doesn't happen that way. You see anybody remember who was the first ha ha. Anything when everything is Damon, who do you think of David and Goliath. Where is Goliath from gas, following David goes to the city while the cabinet of the King of gas with a sword that anybody is not recognized because Goliath sword was bigger and heavier than any normal man sort and so here is a guy who killed Goliath, the likelihood enemy to flight and has been afforded the side of these people and hear David goes thinking they can go to this camp. I'll go hide out with my enemy. Nobody will recognize me. There hello any carries this huge sort on a hummingbird you hide a huge sword in a rapid rises to get over your back like Conan the barbarian and if you may do something like that but David has this sort is carrier with a mini golf committee does not does such a bright, David at the slipped and hit his head. But anyhow, let's read first Samuel twenty one ten to fifteen Merce dances, O said David there's no sword like that. Give me something that is going to this is on his way fleeing any comes across this these priests, and they have the sort that kept the sore right so David visits them. They they refresh him whatever he didn't be the biggest medium that they can feed like the horse. They start a David and there was on his way into that David shot out of there. This is the message Bible running for his life from solemnly went to Acacia King of death, and when assignments of acacia saw him, they said can kiss the David Geffen can this be good. Note that your God is a little guy with a slingshot. He took down our greatest. Our greatest champion. Can this be Damon, the famous David, this is the one they sing songs of the songs on it. There dances Saul killed by the thousands David by the ten thousand so they heard out David they've heard of the songs in Israel about David and verse twelve, when David realized that he had been recognized. He panicked fearing the worst from Acacia King of Gath. Now this is where we know that David is Connor gone off the deep end and on. This is where people have trouble some some commentaries have trouble saying the David didn't do the right thing. He belittled himself for a man of his clients. His stature is to be king of Israel is referred to later on as a man after God 's own heart. So right there while they were looking at hand. He pretended to go crazy. So that leaves all of us. Okay, you were all right, Bob& this opportunity is Eliana crazy, but so very while they were looking at Amy pretended to go crazy pounding his head on the city gate and foaming at the mouth. That's dripping from his beard occasional dells Army. This is King David. Nowadays, you know, I get one of Israel is not your fault trying to tell them any of this bright idea to go to the vacating of Goliath camp and high that you ever wonder why some people look at Christians and say the distinctive bright sometimes were not good. Anyhow, Acacia took one look at him and said to his servants. This is the king looked at Damon says to the service can't you see he's crazy. Why did you let him in here don't you think I have enough crazy people to put up with as it is without adding another game here. Some of the all here is King David and we're looking at him and he is acting like a crazy man while he would have to act like a crazy man had been smart enough not to go to camp. Well honey people been smart enough to avoid all the troubles in your life. You know we we made a few mistakes and sometimes we have to appear half crazy to get out of them. And some people pretend to be too good and some pretend to be too bad, but sometimes we pretend to be something were not in order to get out of, but the song that we read here solve the before I will bless the Lord of all time. My soul makes her both the Lord. I thought the Lord in the heard me. They looked on to him and he will than this poor man cry. This is what David wrote after he came out of the crate out a camera out of the king of gap after you come away from him. He said. Attendees words. So this whole idea. I'll be back before the Lord with me, and delivered me a season. I'll magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. David didn't think that this was a bad idea becoming nuts. So we act a little crazy and some is is that you not to do your will. God said I could be that way. The preacher said so. But anyhow, there are times when God 's promises, run contrary to the trials that we find ourselves in. Sometimes we know that God wants to do great things for us in David's gone ahead and write to him by the prophet Samuel to be king of Israel, okay and we find that David is hiding in the enemy 's camp. Now, if fast forward when David leaves gas and goes and hides in the cave. Four hundred people four hundred men find out the day was there and begins to mount his army and the people who are going to support him to eventually protect him and keep him and put him in power. When salt lives. So here we are on this road, and God has a promise we find ourselves in the place where we don't think that this is quite what God had in mind, because I would like it, indicating and here I am hiding in the end, my enemy 's camp and imagined that David whenever they found him. I mean this is imagination conjecture in a lot in the commenters are a biblical perspective, but I can imagine the David was, as he was fouled out. He's got to solve sword coming yet Goliath sword, and he's found out that is going to be the king of Israel, the guy who killed ten thousand and his enemy has a right in front of and it's at that moment, I think David Wood said& is a really crazy idea that I came in the first place. Did you ever find yourself in a place visit. This is really a crazy idea for me to think this. Anyone who go on that sold is a crazy idea that I find myself here parts. Maybe it's this crazy idea that helps us to see things a little more clearly that even in our crazy ideas. God can rescue us and take us to the place he wants us to be who God has a way of taking us. And whenever the trials of our life up here are not to be in sync with what we expect God to be doing in our life, we need to realize God is with us, and God is directing us no matter what we think no matter what we think God is with us. God is directing us. So here we are, David acted as if he were insane. He has far thing at the mouth babbling like an idiot and banging his head off the wall. Now tell me one person who hasn't said you know what the sophomore bang my head off the wall. Anybody ever said that I will bang my head on the wall if I can do business to discontinue well. David was so convincing they can really actually thought he was insane. Now there's a story of two missionaries and they were this a number of years ago and they were going to be executed. Why this village. They were in and the people can file them up in our hands and feet and had been on their hands and knees and going to cut their heads off in the one missionary turned the other naysayers can you imagine the picture our heads rolling, Hill, and they start to laugh. And they laughed so hard the people were going to execute them thought they were crazy and didn't kill them because it was against their their beliefs to crazily crazy person. True story. So sometimes we need to get a perspective of God that is just different than what we have so your I have a pair of binoculars here and sometimes whenever we think and we read the stories, no bike chassis. B God for me, okay and she's back there without my glasses to just this blue and that's it. So I will give reminded my goggles here and they don't work. I can't see what's wrong covers are often covers run to you ever tried to explain God to somebody new just can't seem. They just can't seem and is like, well, yeah, she's right there. God is right there. You can't you can't see well well I want to look for anything. Whenever we look back in the Bible and we look back in these experiences, we look back through these binoculars and we see hello Kathy and she is even without my glasses I can hear she's blind fury of all smile, a blue shirt on and computer in front of her and you know there's this little metal thing beside her with an antenna that picks up my mic while I could hear pretty good. I can see that now back, as if there so we can see how that God, as we look back through the Scriptures, we can see how God does all that. Stop casting you can amicably appear. Thank you so we can see how God can do all this stuff for David now look back there. There's there's there's a few more old roof nurse is I can see Ruth is like your romper room. I can see all that in the tunnel you discounting it. I even now you know what the proper room. Yeah, I was a nervous little kid show in the lady would bring up the sloping of the magic things can look through the television and see the work she would call your name and say happy birthday to you and him is like a little kid to sleep while she can see me seem intuitively be a Jew. Now there are some people who didn't really do believe that people on the other side can see them in there talking to them, their little crazy. They bang their head off the wall every day. So anyhow reluctant back there is somehow become the fact that God was back there, but you know what, in everyday life. God is right here comes right here that we saw God in history through David him through the line how God help and overcome Goliath in all the profits will look dramatically save the Scriptures, Emily, CNN, a distance, but what we have to do is make the transition that God did the same God who was setting back there is the same God is standing right here. Every time we find ourselves in the trial is not just a God that was with David it's the God whose with needs the same person same person I will get a little crazy back there and bang it had off the wall. God was with them, but you know what God is with me and God, who helped David and help me so I connect little crazy concentrator may have think and we don't need binoculars to see them, he's right here with us. Our best, closest friend event and thank you now got to go back to Saddam. This module my disk. I walk on air raid other than so. So David has just come from walking with God, and being crazy and seeing that you I think I made a mistake here going to the camp. The same dumb object where I killed their Vegas warrior thinking that no one will ever recognize me, and everybody knows me, God delivers them. And David writes, I will bless the Lord at all times. I will bless the Lord at all times because David found himself in an inescapable place and talk provided him a way of getting out of there one. The miraculous blinding everybody and he walked and as if the legacy and it wasn't that it wasn't that people didn't see him and recognize him and was that they recognized him, and at that moment, God provided a very human realistic way doesn't seem realistic. But Dana got out of there, seemingly on his own thought pattern I know what I'll be crazy to these people I know are superstitious and they won't have anyone execute a crazy person and David's is up less alone at all times. What was the matter. Where I find myself out where no matter where I find myself at Brunswick is not just a God of the past and probably back there who uses in the book of the church, God is with you to the house windows. God is with us in every situation. I will bus is his praise shall continually be my mouth yet a lot. I have reason to give thanks to God because he has brought me to this place. He's brought me from my desk, workplaces, and he's been able to see me better where I was at while I can even see through walls copies in the back of the either she can hear me; for her to hear me back then and only visible switch back to David giving every wave at me that she can any, you know what sometimes God like that day that January of what I must be here in thing now because were so preoccupied with life that we came in here to God speaking to our heart. But if we are focused on God, then I will praise him, then I will look to him that God will be with me. I will find out that God is with me, just as he is with David density with the other prophets, and I can write about those things and my soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear the Robin be glad. So even though even the worst of years. Those two are the poorest of places would hear what's going on. I alright if I the Lord with me. Magnify you see, whenever we come together to sing our songs worship the Lord. When we worship the Lord. Depending upon the attitude we take toward God, is whether we see God is too big. Please never debate whether we say God is big on whether we see them as little beatitude we have in worshiping, bringing ourselves into his presence is always there. We just have to open our hearts, so that's bringing ourselves into his presence. So when we bring ourselves into his presence. When we get to see how big God has budget always want out there that's one thousand words enough for the little rangefinders on what the files and large imagine people know I know I believe in God is about two thousand yards away. It is not really affecting my life. I can see him out there that people who have kept them at a distance. Those are the people who say while you know somewhere out there, God created everything, I believe that but he doesn't touch my life is too far away seek. It is the goddess too far away is just that I have to myself and distance, and David is saying magnify the Lord with me. Let us draw closer, Cassie doesn't change sizes because she moves them back there to hear she's the same size. She just got closer. God is the same God yesterday, today and forever the same God with Damon is a certain goblet may the same God. The rescue. David is that God rescues me the same God who comforts Damon and direction in his life is the same God who comforts and directs me and you say he doesn't weigh out there somewhere in the distant past that I can clock Internet. While this is a thousand yard loses fifteen hundred years ago, God was active in the five hundred years ago, God was active in our fifteen hundred got a snapshot of him fifteen hundred years ago, he's right here. Most of us see God is too small. Our God is too little and David is saying magnify the Lord with me. Let's look at David and this is the place he finds himself in, and how that God, in this stupid place of David finds himself in God is still his rescuer. I want us to come together and I want us all to magnify. He writes this Psalm as a song to be signed. Magnify the Lord with me. Let's magnify him, Lex. Let's get Ellis regulating here. I see how real and the magnifying here is magnified does not mean to God big thing signified is not mean to make God big you can't make God big, but you can see him be. You can imagine, they did as God, supreme Creator of heaven and earth. The Braves life and loss whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God, I'm safe in the arms of my father, no matter what trial or temptation or problem or difficulty in sustaining the same God who delivers those guys in the past is the same God who is with me now and I never lose sight of that. So therefore, I see God is magnificent creator sustainer, one who believes one who believes in me, because I want God to use me. That's why whenever we see how God was with David God help to sustain him and take him out of that place, and then God was preparing him to use him to lead the nation of Israel God has us in those places so that we can see how God is with us, and how that God will use in our everyday life and in my everyday life. David is saying all magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his pain. Together let us come together and praise God for all the wonderful things he has done for us. That's why were here insane path like you have a government that's why were here had a real find where John has brought us together for such a time as this in our life and no matter what we're doing with the relearning how to drive whether we are well adapted to go back to school where we have to go back to Oklahoma to help augmented by no what's going on in our life. God is with us. We're going out to work, you see the same God who is with us today. The same God is with us tomorrow and if the God who we warship today is not with us tomorrow then we haven't seen the Reich on because church, we can see them back there when he did all that stuff we don't recognize him as one with us everything that we see God doing in someone else's life is letting us know God can do that and much more in bars and so God is going to bless us. They met God is going to use us this week. God views all of you ninety five people up. We had more people to draw people often laughed with a child does people you God used you in his own way bring people in this week. Now some of those same people, God will use you to influence them to be here on Sunday morning. God use me for how am I going to do that will just act crazy beat your head against the wall. I still run down and clogging things up in the church I get out of church preacher said you probably learned to. It will be just like me) against the wall that runs no long as the wall in every crazy just like me, will join us while writing on the wife. He's lost the visit of a huge income you'd be lost that he get these off the deep end, but lobbying is that against the wall plot against doors. No guys lost it. But you see how it is, God is with us. Any of the most difficult places he can give you understanding this I think is the key. God gave David fewer, never thought of this on his own, whenever thoughts like those missionaries who just started laughing over their heads being caught off and rolling down the hill. They started laughing at that David saw this happening with salt and if they were disillusioned with it came there and God put in his heart. Wallace is active and crazy yet I can do that sometimes& if you know what this worked for David. I think of the crazy here in the God can direct us just where we are at in a way to help us get through our trial that God isn't just someone back there, God is here with me and he will use your intellect. Your abilities on your feet, your mouth. He will use that to further his kingdom. God would use you write for your event salsa. These binoculars are not a Father's Day present, so you can come up and ask for but I hope that we will remember them. We can see God more clearly with our own eyes of God is distant. We put them someplace where he doesn't belong and we had glimpses of God through the stories in the Bible and things like that, but that God that we saw in the distance is the same God who stands by you and father, thank you for your presence. Thank you Lord that nothing can ever separate us from you. Thank you for the blessing and the assurance that we have not only will your spirit and your power, rearrange circumstances, but your spirit and your power can help us to think of thoughts of doing things in ways that we ourselves were never thought of because you inspire hearts. Thank you, father, for touching our lives. Amen, amenThis morning. I'm thinking of the sermon I have today is thinking or thinking God is too small, or is God too small, and how do we see him, and were going to read Psalm thirty four beginning at verse one through verse ten, and I'm reading her from the King James version, because I will bless the list is a Psalm of David. I will bless the Lord all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth, my soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear the Robin be glad and verse three is the predominant verse for our message. They all magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me delivered me from all my fears. They looked onto him, and were likened and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of his troubles. All of his troubles began to Lord and cap with roundabout them that fear him, and delivered them all taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man. The trust is in him all fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Will this Psalm is quite an interesting song because David was forced King David Nolan King at the time he was able it was forced to a from his homeland because Saul the king was trying to Kevin and so on. David found himself fleeing to a nearby country, and the king. There was to indicate was a case shop and Acacia is what is he the king of visiting of gas, no one will remember that the case is the King of Gath, and whatever game in in the city prior to his leaving and playing. He comes across an individual who has the sword of Goliath. So David takes the sword of Goliath with him, and he flees to the king of a king of gasification and he hides out there in this camp, and while he's there in this camp. This enchantment, the city while he's there in the city they discover who he is now due. Sometimes we think the people of the Bible are really, really smart. Sometimes it just doesn't happen that way. You see anybody remember who was the first ha ha. Anything when everything is Damon, who do you think of David and Goliath. Where is Goliath from gas, following David goes to the city while the cabinet of the King of gas with a sword that anybody is not recognized because Goliath sword was bigger and heavier than any normal man sort and so here is a guy who killed Goliath, the likelihood enemy to flight and has been afforded the side of these people and hear David goes thinking they can go to this camp. I'll go hide out with my enemy. Nobody will recognize me. There hello any carries this huge sort on a hummingbird you hide a huge sword in a rapid rises to get over your back like Conan the barbarian and if you may do something like that but David has this sort is carrier with a mini golf committee does not does such a bright, David at the slipped and hit his head. But anyhow, let's read first Samuel twenty one ten to fifteen Merce dances, O said David there's no sword like that. Give me something that is going to this is on his way fleeing any comes across this these priests, and they have the sort that kept the sore right so David visits them. They they refresh him whatever he didn't be the biggest medium that they can feed like the horse. They start a David and there was on his way into that David shot out of there. This is the message Bible running for his life from solemnly went to Acacia King of death, and when assignments of acacia saw him, they said can kiss the David Geffen can this be good. Note that your God is a little guy with a slingshot. He took down our greatest. Our greatest champion. Can this be Damon, the famous David, this is the one they sing songs of the songs on it. There dances Saul killed by the thousands David by the ten thousand so they heard out David they've heard of the songs in Israel about David and verse twelve, when David realized that he had been recognized. He panicked fearing the worst from Acacia King of Gath. Now this is where we know that David is Connor gone off the deep end and on. This is where people have trouble some some commentaries have trouble saying the David didn't do the right thing. He belittled himself for a man of his clients. His stature is to be king of Israel is referred to later on as a man after God 's own heart. So right there while they were looking at hand. He pretended to go crazy. So that leaves all of us. Okay, you were all right, Bob& this opportunity is Eliana crazy, but so very while they were looking at Amy pretended to go crazy pounding his head on the city gate and foaming at the mouth. That's dripping from his beard occasional dells Army. This is King David. Nowadays, you know, I get one of Israel is not your fault trying to tell them any of this bright idea to go to the vacating of Goliath camp and high that you ever wonder why some people look at Christians and say the distinctive bright sometimes were not good. Anyhow, Acacia took one look at him and said to his servants. This is the king looked at Damon says to the service can't you see he's crazy. Why did you let him in here don't you think I have enough crazy people to put up with as it is without adding another game here. Some of the all here is King David and we're looking at him and he is acting like a crazy man while he would have to act like a crazy man had been smart enough not to go to camp. Well honey people been smart enough to avoid all the troubles in your life. You know we we made a few mistakes and sometimes we have to appear half crazy to get out of them. And some people pretend to be too good and some pretend to be too bad, but sometimes we pretend to be something were not in order to get out of, but the song that we read here solve the before I will bless the Lord of all time. My soul makes her both the Lord. I thought the Lord in the heard me. They looked on to him and he will than this poor man cry. This is what David wrote after he came out of the crate out a camera out of the king of gap after you come away from him. He said. Attendees words. So this whole idea. I'll be back before the Lord with me, and delivered me a season. I'll magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. David didn't think that this was a bad idea becoming nuts. So we act a little crazy and some is is that you not to do your will. God said I could be that way. The preacher said so. But anyhow, there are times when God 's promises, run contrary to the trials that we find ourselves in. Sometimes we know that God wants to do great things for us in David's gone ahead and write to him by the prophet Samuel to be king of Israel, okay and we find that David is hiding in the enemy 's camp. Now, if fast forward when David leaves gas and goes and hides in the cave. Four hundred people four hundred men find out the day was there and begins to mount his army and the people who are going to support him to eventually protect him and keep him and put him in power. When salt lives. So here we are on this road, and God has a promise we find ourselves in the place where we don't think that this is quite what God had in mind, because I would like it, indicating and here I am hiding in the end, my enemy 's camp and imagined that David whenever they found him. I mean this is imagination conjecture in a lot in the commenters are a biblical perspective, but I can imagine the David was, as he was fouled out. He's got to solve sword coming yet Goliath sword, and he's found out that is going to be the king of Israel, the guy who killed ten thousand and his enemy has a right in front of and it's at that moment, I think David Wood said& is a really crazy idea that I came in the first place. Did you ever find yourself in a place visit. This is really a crazy idea for me to think this. Anyone who go on that sold is a crazy idea that I find myself here parts. Maybe it's this crazy idea that helps us to see things a little more clearly that even in our crazy ideas. God can rescue us and take us to the place he wants us to be who God has a way of taking us. And whenever the trials of our life up here are not to be in sync with what we expect God to be doing in our life, we need to realize God is with us, and God is directing us no matter what we think no matter what we think God is with us. God is directing us. So here we are, David acted as if he were insane. He has far thing at the mouth babbling like an idiot and banging his head off the wall. Now tell me one person who hasn't said you know what the sophomore bang my head off the wall. Anybody ever said that I will bang my head on the wall if I can do business to discontinue well. David was so convincing they can really actually thought he was insane. Now there's a story of two missionaries and they were this a number of years ago and they were going to be executed. Why this village. They were in and the people can file them up in our hands and feet and had been on their hands and knees and going to cut their heads off in the one missionary turned the other naysayers can you imagine the picture our heads rolling, Hill, and they start to laugh. And they laughed so hard the people were going to execute them thought they were crazy and didn't kill them because it was against their their beliefs to crazily crazy person. True story. So sometimes we need to get a perspective of God that is just different than what we have so your I have a pair of binoculars here and sometimes whenever we think and we read the stories, no bike chassis. B God for me, okay and she's back there without my glasses to just this blue and that's it. So I will give reminded my goggles here and they don't work. I can't see what's wrong covers are often covers run to you ever tried to explain God to somebody new just can't seem. They just can't seem and is like, well, yeah, she's right there. God is right there. You can't you can't see well well I want to look for anything. Whenever we look back in the Bible and we look back in these experiences, we look back through these binoculars and we see hello Kathy and she is even without my glasses I can hear she's blind fury of all smile, a blue shirt on and computer in front of her and you know there's this little metal thing beside her with an antenna that picks up my mic while I could hear pretty good. I can see that now back, as if there so we can see how that God, as we look back through the Scriptures, we can see how God does all that. Stop casting you can amicably appear. Thank you so we can see how God can do all this stuff for David now look back there. There's there's there's a few more old roof nurse is I can see Ruth is like your romper room. I can see all that in the tunnel you discounting it. I even now you know what the proper room. Yeah, I was a nervous little kid show in the lady would bring up the sloping of the magic things can look through the television and see the work she would call your name and say happy birthday to you and him is like a little kid to sleep while she can see me seem intuitively be a Jew. Now there are some people who didn't really do believe that people on the other side can see them in there talking to them, their little crazy. They bang their head off the wall every day. So anyhow reluctant back there is somehow become the fact that God was back there, but you know what, in everyday life. God is right here comes right here that we saw God in history through David him through the line how God help and overcome Goliath in all the profits will look dramatically save the Scriptures, Emily, CNN, a distance, but what we have to do is make the transition that God did the same God who was setting back there is the same God is standing right here. Every time we find ourselves in the trial is not just a God that was with David it's the God whose with needs the same person same person I will get a little crazy back there and bang it had off the wall. God was with them, but you know what God is with me and God, who helped David and help me so I connect little crazy concentrator may have think and we don't need binoculars to see them, he's right here with us. Our best, closest friend event and thank you now got to go back to Saddam. This module my disk. I walk on air raid other than so. So David has just come from walking with God, and being crazy and seeing that you I think I made a mistake here going to the camp. The same dumb object where I killed their Vegas warrior thinking that no one will ever recognize me, and everybody knows me, God delivers them. And David writes, I will bless the Lord at all times. I will bless the Lord at all times because David found himself in an inescapable place and talk provided him a way of getting out of there one. The miraculous blinding everybody and he walked and as if the legacy and it wasn't that it wasn't that people didn't see him and recognize him and was that they recognized him, and at that moment, God provided a very human realistic way doesn't seem realistic. But Dana got out of there, seemingly on his own thought pattern I know what I'll be crazy to these people I know are superstitious and they won't have anyone execute a crazy person and David's is up less alone at all times. What was the matter. Where I find myself out where no matter where I find myself at Brunswick is not just a God of the past and probably back there who uses in the book of the church, God is with you to the house windows. God is with us in every situation. I will bus is his praise shall continually be my mouth yet a lot. I have reason to give thanks to God because he has brought me to this place. He's brought me from my desk, workplaces, and he's been able to see me better where I was at while I can even see through walls copies in the back of the either she can hear me; for her to hear me back then and only visible switch back to David giving every wave at me that she can any, you know what sometimes God like that day that January of what I must be here in thing now because were so preoccupied with life that we came in here to God speaking to our heart. But if we are focused on God, then I will praise him, then I will look to him that God will be with me. I will find out that God is with me, just as he is with David density with the other prophets, and I can write about those things and my soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear the Robin be glad. So even though even the worst of years. Those two are the poorest of places would hear what's going on. I alright if I the Lord with me. Magnify you see, whenever we come together to sing our songs worship the Lord. When we worship the Lord. Depending upon the attitude we take toward God, is whether we see God is too big. Please never debate whether we say God is big on whether we see them as little beatitude we have in worshiping, bringing ourselves into his presence is always there. We just have to open our hearts, so that's bringing ourselves into his presence. So when we bring ourselves into his presence. When we get to see how big God has budget always want out there that's one thousand words enough for the little rangefinders on what the files and large imagine people know I know I believe in God is about two thousand yards away. It is not really affecting my life. I can see him out there that people who have kept them at a distance. Those are the people who say while you know somewhere out there, God created everything, I believe that but he doesn't touch my life is too far away seek. It is the goddess too far away is just that I have to myself and distance, and David is saying magnify the Lord with me. Let us draw closer, Cassie doesn't change sizes because she moves them back there to hear she's the same size. She just got closer. God is the same God yesterday, today and forever the same God with Damon is a certain goblet may the same God. The rescue. David is that God rescues me the same God who comforts Damon and direction in his life is the same God who comforts and directs me and you say he doesn't weigh out there somewhere in the distant past that I can clock Internet. While this is a thousand yard loses fifteen hundred years ago, God was active in the five hundred years ago, God was active in our fifteen hundred got a snapshot of him fifteen hundred years ago, he's right here. Most of us see God is too small. Our God is too little and David is saying magnify the Lord with me. Let's look at David and this is the place he finds himself in, and how that God, in this stupid place of David finds himself in God is still his rescuer. I want us to come together and I want us all to magnify. He writes this Psalm as a song to be signed. Magnify the Lord with me. Let's magnify him, Lex. Let's get Ellis regulating here. I see how real and the magnifying here is magnified does not mean to God big thing signified is not mean to make God big you can't make God big, but you can see him be. You can imagine, they did as God, supreme Creator of heaven and earth. The Braves life and loss whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God, I'm safe in the arms of my father, no matter what trial or temptation or problem or difficulty in sustaining the same God who delivers those guys in the past is the same God who is with me now and I never lose sight of that. So therefore, I see God is magnificent creator sustainer, one who believes one who believes in me, because I want God to use me. That's why whenever we see how God was with David God help to sustain him and take him out of that place, and then God was preparing him to use him to lead the nation of Israel God has us in those places so that we can see how God is with us, and how that God will use in our everyday life and in my everyday life. David is saying all magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his pain. Together let us come together and praise God for all the wonderful things he has done for us. That's why were here insane path like you have a government that's why were here had a real find where John has brought us together for such a time as this in our life and no matter what we're doing with the relearning how to drive whether we are well adapted to go back to school where we have to go back to Oklahoma to help augmented by no what's going on in our life. God is with us. We're going out to work, you see the same God who is with us today. The same God is with us tomorrow and if the God who we warship today is not with us tomorrow then we haven't seen the Reich on because church, we can see them back there when he did all that stuff we don't recognize him as one with us everything that we see God doing in someone else's life is letting us know God can do that and much more in bars and so God is going to bless us. They met God is going to use us this week. God views all of you ninety five people up. We had more people to draw people often laughed with a child does people you God used you in his own way bring people in this week. Now some of those same people, God will use you to influence them to be here on Sunday morning. God use me for how am I going to do that will just act crazy beat your head against the wall. I still run down and clogging things up in the church I get out of church preacher said you probably learned to. It will be just like me) against the wall that runs no long as the wall in every crazy just like me, will join us while writing on the wife. He's lost the visit of a huge income you'd be lost that he get these off the deep end, but lobbying is that against the wall plot against doors. No guys lost it. But you see how it is, God is with us. Any of the most difficult places he can give you understanding this I think is the key. God gave David fewer, never thought of this on his own, whenever thoughts like those missionaries who just started laughing over their heads being caught off and rolling down the hill. They started laughing at that David saw this happening with salt and if they were disillusioned with it came there and God put in his heart. Wallace is active and crazy yet I can do that sometimes& if you know what this worked for David. I think of the crazy here in the God can direct us just where we are at in a way to help us get through our trial that God isn't just someone back there, God is here with me and he will use your intellect. Your abilities on your feet, your mouth. He will use that to further his kingdom. God would use you write for your event salsa. These binoculars are not a Father's Day present, so you can come up and ask for but I hope that we will remember them. We can see God more clearly with our own eyes of God is distant. We put them someplace where he doesn't belong and we had glimpses of God through the stories in the Bible and things like that, but that God that we saw in the distance is the same God who stands by you and father, thank you for your presence. Thank you Lord that nothing can ever separate us from you. Thank you for the blessing and the assurance that we have not only will your spirit and your power, rearrange circumstances, but your spirit and your power can help us to think of thoughts of doing things in ways that we ourselves were never thought of because you inspire hearts. Thank you, father, for touching our lives. Amen, amen