June 1, 2025 • 31 mins
In this message on Psalm 37, RUF Campus Minister at UCF Hardy Reynolds encourages listeners to take the long view of life and faith. Preaching to a world where evil often appears to prosper, Hardy unpacks David’s wisdom for living with patience, trust, and hope. Rather than reacting with envy or fear, believers are called to “trust in the Lord and do good,” knowing that God will ultimately uphold the righteous and bring justice in His time.
Through vibrant illustrations and pastoral clarity, Hardy explores the Psalm’s repeated contrasts between the wicked and the righteous—not to stoke pride, but to deepen our confidence in God's promises. This sermon is a call to live faithfully and quietly before the Lord, delighting in Him, waiting patiently, and refusing the anxiety that comes from trying to control the world.
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Rev. Dr. Damein Schitter (00:07):
Hello everyone.
This is Pastor Damian.
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Thanks for listening.
Sr. Pastor Benjamin Kandt (00:35):
Pray together with me this prayer of
illumination.
Thanks for listening and giveus life in your ways, through
Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.
Now this morning's scripturereading is the entirety of Psalm
37.
It's 40 verses, so if you canstand for that marathon, I'd
invite you to do so.
We won't do this to you everyweek, but the first week we want
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to give you a flyover, and thenwe'll zero in on the future
weeks.
Hear now the word of God fromPsalm 37.
It's a Psalm of David.
Fret not yourself because ofevildoers.
Be not envious of wrongdoers,for they will soon fade like the
grass and wither like the greenherb.
Trust in the Lord and do good.
Dwell in the land and befriendfaithfulness.
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Delight yourself in the Lord,and he will give you the desires
of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in him and he will giveyou the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in him and he will act.
He will bring forth yourrighteousness as the light and
your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the Lord andwait patiently for him.
Fret not yourself over the onewho prospers in his way, over
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the man who carries out evildevices.
Refrain from anger and forsakewrath.
Fret not yourself.
It tends only to evil, for theevildoers shall be cut off.
But those who wait for the Lordshall inherit the land.
In just a little while thewicked will be no more.
Though you look carefully athis place, he will not be there.
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But the meek shall inherit theearth and delight themselves in
abundant peace.
Meek shall inherit the earthand delight themselves in
abundant peace.
The wicked plots against therighteous and gnashes his teeth
at him, but the Lord laughs atthe wicked, for he sees that his
day is coming.
The wicked draw the sword andbend their bows to bring down
the poor and needy, to slaythose whose way is upright.
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Their sword shall enter theirown heart and their bows shall
be broken.
Better is the little that therighteous has than the abundance
of many wicked, for the arms ofthe wicked shall be broken, but
the Lord upholds the righteous.
The Lord knows the days of theblameless and their heritage
will remain forever.
They are not put to shame inevil times.
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In the days of famine they haveabundance, but the wicked will
perish.
The enemies of the Lord arelike the glory of the pastures
they vanish Like smoke, theyvanish away.
The wicked borrows but does notpay back.
But the righteous is generousand gives, for those blessed by
the Lord shall inherit the land,but those cursed by him shall
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be cut off.
The steps of a man areestablished by the Lord when he
delights in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not becast headlong, for the Lord
upholds his hand.
I have been young and now I'mold, yet I have not seen the
righteous forsaken or hischildren begging for bread.
He is ever lending generouslyand his children become a
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blessing.
Turn away from evil and do good, so shall you dwell forever, he
says.
The mouth of the righteousutters wisdom and his tongue
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speaks justice.
The law of his God is in hisheart.
His steps do not slip.
The wicked watches for therighteous and seeks to put him
to death.
The Lord will not abandon himto his power or let him be
condemned when he is brought totrial.
Wait for the Lord and keep hisway, and he will exalt you to
inherit the land.
You will look on when thewicked are cut off.
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I have seen a wicked, ruthlessman spreading himself like a
green laurel tree, but he passedaway and behold, he was no more
.
Though I sought him, he couldnot be found.
Mark the blameless and beholdthe upright, for there is a
future for the man of peace, buttransgressors shall be
altogether destroyed.
The future of the wicked shallbe cut off.
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The salvation of the righteousis from the Lord.
He is their stronghold in thetime of trouble.
The Lord helps them anddelivers them.
He delivers them from thewicked and saves them because
they take refuge in him.
This is God's word.
Hardy Reynolds (04:46):
Thanks be to God .
Sr. Pastor Benjamin Kandt (04:47):
You may be seated.
Hardy Reynolds (04:48):
Well, good morning New City Really is a
privilege to start off ourSummer in the Psalms series and
I promise we're not going tocover all the verses of Psalm 37
, but I will be focusing on thefirst 13 or so.
In preparing for this sermon, Iwas reminded of an experience I
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had about a month or so ago,where I was flying out of MCO,
and I'm wondering if y'all havehad this experience where your
flight is filled with childrenwho have just had a fun but
exhausting trip to Disney, andthe only difference about this
trip, though, is it's, I think,the latest I've flown out of MCO
.
The flight was scheduled for 10pm, it was delayed till 11.45,
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and that meant that we didn'tland until 2 am, and our flight
was full of children, and theywere understandably overtired
and exhausted.
There was a family just acrossthe aisle from me that were
traveling with probably a fourand a six-year-old, and, because
it was so late we had landed,we were waiting to pull into the
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gate.
They had been crying forprobably the last hour just
absolutely overwhelmed withexhaustion hour just absolutely
overwhelmed with exhaustion andthe younger one probably four in
that just exhaustion cried outto his parents and said I hate
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my family and the plane did justwhat y'all did.
They laughed, and part of thatlaughter was because this boy,
in his own way and ability, wasgiving voice to the misery we
were all experiencing.
He didn't know what else to say.
Now it is a family Sunday, solet me address the kiddos in the
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room real quick.
Y'all know it's not cool to saythat to your parents, right,
you shouldn't do it.
But what stuck out to me aboutthis instance was the response
of the parent.
The parent, in receiving thatcry, just chuckled and said oh,
buddy, we'll be home soon.
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And the Psalms give numerousexamples of where we can cry out
cry out in our fears, cry outin our anxieties, cry out in our
guilt, cry out in ourloneliness, in our shame and
even our hatred.
But what Psalm 37 does here isDavid, in a sense, takes up the
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voice or the perspective of themother and holds out a future
promise to say oh, buddy, peopleof God, we'll be home soon.
He's addressing man rather thanGod in this psalm to give not a
prayer for us to pray, but aperspective for us to hang on to
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, a hope, a future.
And the way that the psalm putsit is as we've titled it there
is a future for the man or womanof peace, and so, in light of
that promise, we're gonna lookat how having this secure future
affects our lives over the nextcoming weeks.
But this morning we're justgoing to zero on in the first
few verses of Psalm 37.
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What we're going to see is that, because we have a future, we
are not to fret but to delightourselves in the Lord.
David knows his own heart, heknows his own propensity to look
to other sources of security orother sources of a sure future,
and he knows his listeners'tendency to do the same.
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And, rather than leaving ourlisteners to themselves, he
actually holds out a perspectiveand says you have a future.
And because of that future,first thing we see is we are not
to fret ourselves.
We see this in a couple ofverses, in the opening passages
of Psalm 37.
It shows up in verse 1, inverse 7, and verse 8, this
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refrain not to fret ourselves.
It's a term that often conveysthis idea of burning or becoming
heated with anger or with worry, and in this form it's
suggesting that this issomething actually that we do to
ourselves internally.
It's allowing ourselves tobecome worked up, to become
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anxious or to be consumed by ouremotions.
And so, in a sense, what verseone is getting at is we have a
tendency to emotional heartburn,to dwell on our emotions, to
fume, to become consumed by them, whether that be with jealousy
or anger.
And the reason verse one givesthat this can happen is we have
in focus the evildoers, or thewrongdoers and their prosperity.
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What's happening with them?
Or the wrongdoers and theirprosperity, what's happening
with them Now?
In the context of this Psalm,given its themes like possession
of the land, the wicked here orthe evildoers could be those
who threaten the allotments orthe family's allocation of the
promised land, what the peopleof God have been promised and
they feel like should be oursnow, in the moment.
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And so what David is getting atis essentially, picture
yourself in this way, lookingout at whatever you view as the
unrighteous or the wicked, andpicture yourself, say like at a
Florida hot summer day, at aCimarron bus stop, concrete and
asphalt for miles, and you seewho you view to be the
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unrighteous or the wickedcruising by in their fully
self-automated car, sipping aniced coffee, and you start to
dwell on them and you start tothink they're probably heading
to your dream neighborhood onZillow, to your dream home that
is just out of reach.
And what David is saying is,when you focus on the prosperity
of the wicked, what the wickedhave, it actually causes you to
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become consumed, to becomeenvious, to have emotional
heartburn as you focus on theprosperity of the wicked and
David knows our propensity to dothat to envy, to look out at
others and what they have, andso what he does is he shifts the
perspective, he changes it, andit's in this wisdom that he's
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likely gained through, maybe,bitter experience in his life,
or even maybe more nobly, asPsalm 1 puts it, delighting
himself, trusting in the word ofGod, meditating on the promises
that the Lord holds out, and sowhat he discerns is actually
sees their prosperity throughthe eyes of faith, and he gives
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this picture that what we viewas thriving is in fact actually
dying.
That's the picture that we get.
The wicked are actually on thispath towards destruction,
unless they do a U-turn, and sothey're not to be envied,
they're not to be looked at withenvy, but to be seen in light
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of faith, because they will, asDavid puts it, soon fade like
the grass and wither like thegreen herb.
We've all seen this picture.
Probably the wicked are likethose of us who mow our lawns
and don't bag our grass, and sothe next day, what was once
thriving, green and lush is nowlaid bare, brown and rows of
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just of deadness for all to see.
And David is saying that'sactually the end or the outcome
of those that you are envyingand being consumed by.
So we are not to look at themin that way, and so, in a sense,
david is just continuing toencourage his listeners don't
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get agitated over these folks,don't get envious of their
success, don't consume yourselfwith the evil that they're
carrying out verse 7.
Or don't fret yourself overwhat you think God's timing
ought to be verse 8.
In other words, what David isessentially doing here is he's
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calling his listeners and us toself-control.
It's a call to self-controlthat he's highlighting it is our
personal responsibility for usto manage our emotions, to
resist the tendency to letexternal circumstances to
dictate our inner turmoil.
He essentially says don't letyourself get worked up.
Calm your own heart, quiet yoursoul.
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And you may be thinking like mewhen I was reading this Psalm
of David.
You have prayed a lot ofprayers up until Psalm 37.
And there've been 36 Psalmsbefore this, with many examples
of David actually praying andcrying out, with explosive
emotions, complaints, questionsthat he has about his life
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circumstances.
And so David's call here toself-control and for us to have
control over our emotions.
It's learned.
It's learned from seeing thetrue end of the wicked, but also
learned in trusting the timingof God.
We see this in verse seven andeight.
David puts it this way Be stillbefore the Lord and wait
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patiently for him.
Fret not yourself over the onewho prospers in his way, over
the man who carries out evildevices.
Refrain from anger and forsakewrath.
Fret not yourself, it tendsonly to evil.
In other words, you and I needto view our emotions and
circumstances through the lensof God's timing, not following
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every direction and impulse thatour emotions may lead us.
In Eugene Peterson, in taking upthe example that our text gives
in eight, when it says refrainfrom anger and forsake wrath, he
says your anger is not a workagenda for you to plan a
vengeance that will fix thewrong.
What is wrong with the world isGod's business.
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What he's getting at istherefore, we must be still
before the Lord, to refrain fromanger, from wrath, from getting
heated through frettingourselves.
We actually must learn to quietour hearts by trusting the Lord
.
Verse 3 says actually mustlearn to quiet our hearts by
trusting the Lord.
Verse 3 says and to trust God'stiming is to trust God for who
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he is.
As the author of your story, ofthe circumstances you find
yourself in right now, and he'ssaying when we do that we're
called to quote wait patientlyfor him.
Time is nothing to God andtherefore we can actually grow
in our trust that it shouldn'tbe so important to us for God to
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meet our timelines.
God and his timing is worthwaiting for.
In a book or a movie or anystory, really good listeners or
watchers wait till the end forthe plot to be cleared up.
I'm not so subtly judging youif you read the last page of
your books before you finish theend.
What's being held out here isthat God, actually his timing,
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is good and trustworthy and thatwe can wait for him, trusting
that the closing scene, he's notgoing to leave plot holes or
questions, but he knows the end.
David's saying that there'sactually no good but much evil
in worrying your heart about thepresent success of others,
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about the timing of God, and itnot only heats us up, gives us
emotional heartburn, but it alsodishonors God.
And it not only heats us up,gives us emotional heartburn,
but it also dishonors God and itexhausts ourselves.
We become worn out.
So David's saying make adetermination now, today, to
trust the Lord, regardless ofthe success of others,
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regardless of your circumstances, and do good.
He says right now, where Godhas you trusting in his timing.
You may have guessed, like ifI'm watching a movie with
somebody, I refuse to answertheir questions Because likely
the writers have thought abouthow the movie is going to end.
Or if you just wait 10 seconds,they're going to answer the
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question.
Or if you just wait 10 seconds,they're going to answer the
question.
What's the point in saying that?
Well, while God is much moregracious than I am and he gives
this example in countless Psalms, where he invites actually
invites his people to pour outtheir questions and the cries of
their heart as they're livingthrough and wrestling with his
timing, and the cries of theirheart as they're living through
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and wrestling with his timingDavid in Psalm 37, he's giving a
lesson that he has learned overa lifetime of walking with God
that God is worth waiting for.
He's not left plot holes, he isnever before his time, he is
never too late, he is going toact precisely when he means to.
And if that's true, and we'renot to fret ourselves because we
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have a sure future and we cantrust in God's timing, then the
question is what can we do?
Well, david holds out for us.
If we're not to fret ourselves,we are to delight ourselves in
God.
So that's the second thing wesee here.
It's the alternative.
It's the alternative tofretting.
This psalm repeatedly contraststhe fretting and the trusting in
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the Lord.
Doing good, waiting patiently,delighting yourself in the Lord
it's what David is saying is thespiritual antidote to, instead
of fretting, activelycultivating trust, contentment
and faith in God's justice andhis provision.
The way verse four puts it heredelight yourself in the Lord.
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That's the spiritual medicineto fretting ourselves.
Working ourselves up isactually pursuing contentment in
God.
In both cases, in fretting anddelighting, it is something we
do, and so, while fretting isobviously framed here as
negative, something to be devoid, delighting is a positive that
we are to throw our life into anintentional movement towards
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God.
This is the call.
It's an invitation to shift, toturn our focus and affection
from the wicked and theirsuccess to our affections and
focus to be set upon God, makinghim the source of our joy,
making him the source of ourfulfillment and hope.
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And the way this is statedagain is it's something that
we're being called to, notsimply to passively sit and
receive, but something to giveour lives to, to delight
ourselves in the Lord.
And this is done throughoutthis psalm, but throughout
scripture, through themeditating, the taking in of
God's word, who it tells us thatGod is, who his character is,
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who he says he is in hisgoodness, in his promises and in
his works.
Meditating on this anddelighting in that and the
freedom that this invitationoffers if we delight ourselves,
is that our joy and our delightin this life is no longer
dependent on our circumstances,it's no longer dependent on our
emotions, and this is reallygood news.
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And it's good news because it'ssaying wherever you are, then
we can direct our heart and findour joy and contentment in God,
regardless of our circumstances.
When we do this, our passagepromises the result will be and
he will give you the desires ofyour heart.
When we delight in the Lord,our desires align with his will
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and he fulfills them in hisperfect way and time.
This is saying what we see isthe way God sets us free from
our fretting.
Getting emotionally worked up isby changing our desires.
When we delight in him, whenhe's promising that if you
delight yourself in me and Iwill give you the desires of
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your heart, he's not promisingthat he will now give you that
full self-driving car or thatdream home in that Zillow
neighborhood you've been lookingat.
No, he's saying God sets usfree from fretting by changing
what we want, changing ourdesires.
Our desires and our loves arereordered when we delight
ourselves in him.
So the promise is as youdelight yourself in the Lord,
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what you want changes and whathe gives you is himself.
You become delighted in God forwho he is and what he promises.
That's the good news here.
So, in summary, to delightyourself in the Lord, it's a
calling for an intentionalself-direction toward joy in God
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.
He gives the warning over andover fret not yourself.
Don't go down that path, butrun the path.
Give yourself to the path ofdelighting in God.
David goes on to say that thisis a full life endeavor.
This is not a one-time thing.
This is something that is acalling for our whole life.
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Verse 5 and 6 says it this waycommit your way to the Lord,
trust in Him and he will act.
He will bring forth yourrighteousness as the light and
your justice as the noon daywhen I, in an effort to escape
the Florida heat and being arunner, I'll try and wake up
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really early and also so I canmake it back in time before kids
get up.
But that means that usually Istart my run in the dark and
then I end my run just atsunrise and there's a street
just a block away from our housethat is called Sunrise.
So often I'm ending my run atsunrise, on sunrise Isn't that
kind of cool.
But as I run down Sun sunriseit's situated east to west, so
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I'm literally the last quarterof my mile of my run.
I'm running directly into thesun and I've been sweating.
I can barely see.
It's so bright.
And what the picture that Davidis saying is?
That no matter how dark yourcircumstances, no matter how
dark your road that you arewalking right now, for those who
commit their way to the Lord,he will make your righteousness
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like the noonday sun, yourjustice as the noonday.
It's this promise that God willbring forth your righteousness,
your goodness, your justice, asbright as a Florida noonday sun
.
And it's important here for usto understand what it means to
commit.
This word literally means toroll, as if getting rid of a
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heavy burden.
The picture this gives is toliterally roll the full weight
of your life onto the Lord andtrust him fully, without hedges,
without any plan B or C foryour future.
Give him the full weight ofyour life.
And so often this undiversifiedcommitment is seen as foolish in
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other areas of life.
Think about your retirementplans or your investments, your
savings securities.
It would be foolish to roll thefull weight of your future onto
one investment, onto onecompany, because the confidence
in any one company or investmentis in question.
It might not pan out, not sowith the Lord.
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What he's saying is he isworthy of your full trust.
The full weight of your life,your security is in his hands,
fully secure and safe, if youwill.
But roll the full weight ofyour life onto him.
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This is an amazing promise andyet it can stir up, probably,
questions, if not theologically,practically, how do I live this
out?
Can he really be trusted withthe full weight of my life?
I'm good with trusting him with80%, but this 20% is so hard to
really roll over onto him tosee if he will deliver, see if
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he will come through.
So how can we know that he'sworthy of the full weight of our
life?
What's amazing, I think, iswhat David had in promise we can
actually see in fulfillment.
And what I mean by that is weknow the way of the Lord isn't
simply God giving directions,but giving his son, who would
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come and say things like I amthe way, I am the truth, I am
the life.
No one comes to the Fatherexcept through me.
And what was this way that Jesustook?
He said it multiple times tohis disciples See, we are going
up to Jerusalem and the Son ofman will be delivered over to
the chief priests.
You see, jesus was faithfulevery moment of his life, to the
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way and to the will of theFather.
And even when it was the mostdifficult to entrust the weight
of his life to the Father's will, what did he say?
Not my will, but your will bedone.
So what we see is, becauseJesus was faithful to the way of
the Father, he has made a wayfor all of us who have been
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unfaithful.
He is the way for all of us whohave hedged our bets and
diversified our trust.
He is the way for all of us whohave run after other sources of
security and therefore we trulycan entrust the full weight of
our lives to him, delightingourselves in him, trusting that
he has made our way secure andthat he provides a sure and
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certain future.
I want to close with this.
Our passage even provides asound of this future security,
and before we look at it, Iwould just invite you to think
what does security sound like toyou?
It's kind of a weird question,but what does security sound
like?
It could be anything from assimple as the door code on your
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Memorial Day or your summerrental, just giving you some
escape, some reprieve from thechaos of life.
It could be the sound of rainon a roof in Florida, just as
you escape a summer storm.
It could be something maybe alittle bit more meaningful, like
the voice of a loved one whenthey welcome you home, when they
read you a story.
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It could be a number of things.
What does security sound liketo you?
When I was reflecting on thispassage, I thought of a sound
that I get to hear about onceevery other year.
Once every other year my familygathers for Thanksgiving with my
dad's side of the family.
He's oldest of six and we allgather on the beaches of the
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Panhandle and it's grown because, as he's oldest of six, it's
all of their kids, all of mycousins.
Now they've started havingfamily.
So once it's all said and doneand we gather there's probably
40 to 50 people in that livingroom home on Thanksgiving day
and there's a lot of noises inthat room.
But there's one noise thatevery other year I get to hear
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and it's whenever my dad and hisbrothers get together and
inevitably they start tellingstories and when they do they
laugh.
And when they laugh I don'tknow if this is genetic, but
they have the exact same laughit starts at the same time, it
rises in volume at the same timeand it immediately ends all at
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the same time and when thathappens this can become kind of
an inside joke for myself andthe cousins.
We hear it, we scan the room,we lock eyes with the other
cousins as if to say it happened, all is well, things are good,
and to be clear in that room of40 to 60 people as we look
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across.
That's not to say that there'snot struggles, that there's not
brokenness that's represented inthat room.
There's chronic illnesses,there's cancer diagnoses,
there's addictions that gounspoken about, there's gossip
that gets relished rather thanrepented of.
But when we hear the laughter,when we catch eyes and we get to
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see each other, experience itand say all is well, things are
good, there's a sense ofsecurity, and what our passage
holds out as a sound of securityis actually the laughter of God
.
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Verse 12 and 13 says the wickedplots against the righteous and
gnashes his teeth at him.
But the Lord laughs at thewicked for he sees that his day
is coming.
This is far from being alaughter of cynicism or callous
indifference.
This is a laughter ofconfidence, confidence that the
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Lord knows how the story ends.
The wicked will be no more, forhowever loud the enemies of God
are now, they will one day besilenced.
For however intimidating insize and stature your
circumstances with the enemiesof God, look now there's a day
coming where, even if you golooking carefully for them, you
will not be able to see them.
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The Lord laughs at the wicked,for he sees that his day is
coming.
David, by faith.
Here.
He sees this day coming and heholds out this secure future for
the people of God.
So for all of us, we have thissecure future, even those of us
who have failed to delightourselves in the Lord and have
rather fretted ourselves overenemies that he's already
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defanged, rather frettedourselves over enemies that he's
already defanged, he's alreadydefeated.
The hope that our passage holdsout is that, when we commit our
way to the Lord, he has given usa sure future, and the good
news of the gospel is Jesus isthat way.
He is the truth, he is the life.
And so, for all of those thatthe Father is calling home, when
you roll the full weight ofyour life on to Jesus, this
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promise is yours, it is oursthat there is a future for the
man and woman of peace.
Let's pray, father.
We thank you that you have notsimply given us instructions or
directions to follow, but youhave given us the way your son
Jesus, that we can trust thefull weight of our lives to him
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and, even when we don't, thatthere is an abundance of
forgiveness and invitations tocome back, to find our security
and trust in you as we look atthe implications for our lives
today, because we have a surefuture.
Would you find us faithful tothe ways in which you are
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calling us to see your kingdomadvance where there is evil,
where there's darkness, wherethere are places where the
wicked have not yet been doneaway with, knowing that we can
pursue those things because ourfuture is not in danger, but you
have secured it in the love ofyour son.
Knowing that we can pursuethose things because our future
is not in danger, but you havesecured it in the love of your
son?
Find us faithful to those tasks.
We pray in his name, amen.
Hello everyone.
This is Pastor Damian.
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Thanks for listening.
Sr. Pastor Benjamin Kandt (00:35):
Pray together with me this prayer of
illumination.
Thanks for listening and giveus life in your ways, through
Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.
Now this morning's scripturereading is the entirety of Psalm
37.
It's 40 verses, so if you canstand for that marathon, I'd
invite you to do so.
We won't do this to you everyweek, but the first week we want
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to give you a flyover, and thenwe'll zero in on the future
weeks.
Hear now the word of God fromPsalm 37.
It's a Psalm of David.
Fret not yourself because ofevildoers.
Be not envious of wrongdoers,for they will soon fade like the
grass and wither like the greenherb.
Trust in the Lord and do good.
Dwell in the land and befriendfaithfulness.
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Delight yourself in the Lord,and he will give you the desires
of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in him and he will giveyou the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in him and he will act.
He will bring forth yourrighteousness as the light and
your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the Lord andwait patiently for him.
Fret not yourself over the onewho prospers in his way, over
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the man who carries out evildevices.
Refrain from anger and forsakewrath.
Fret not yourself.
It tends only to evil, for theevildoers shall be cut off.
But those who wait for the Lordshall inherit the land.
In just a little while thewicked will be no more.
Though you look carefully athis place, he will not be there.
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But the meek shall inherit theearth and delight themselves in
abundant peace.
Meek shall inherit the earthand delight themselves in
abundant peace.
The wicked plots against therighteous and gnashes his teeth
at him, but the Lord laughs atthe wicked, for he sees that his
day is coming.
The wicked draw the sword andbend their bows to bring down
the poor and needy, to slaythose whose way is upright.
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Their sword shall enter theirown heart and their bows shall
be broken.
Better is the little that therighteous has than the abundance
of many wicked, for the arms ofthe wicked shall be broken, but
the Lord upholds the righteous.
The Lord knows the days of theblameless and their heritage
will remain forever.
They are not put to shame inevil times.
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In the days of famine they haveabundance, but the wicked will
perish.
The enemies of the Lord arelike the glory of the pastures
they vanish Like smoke, theyvanish away.
The wicked borrows but does notpay back.
But the righteous is generousand gives, for those blessed by
the Lord shall inherit the land,but those cursed by him shall
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be cut off.
The steps of a man areestablished by the Lord when he
delights in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not becast headlong, for the Lord
upholds his hand.
I have been young and now I'mold, yet I have not seen the
righteous forsaken or hischildren begging for bread.
He is ever lending generouslyand his children become a
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blessing.
Turn away from evil and do good, so shall you dwell forever, he
says.
The mouth of the righteousutters wisdom and his tongue
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speaks justice.
The law of his God is in hisheart.
His steps do not slip.
The wicked watches for therighteous and seeks to put him
to death.
The Lord will not abandon himto his power or let him be
condemned when he is brought totrial.
Wait for the Lord and keep hisway, and he will exalt you to
inherit the land.
You will look on when thewicked are cut off.
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I have seen a wicked, ruthlessman spreading himself like a
green laurel tree, but he passedaway and behold, he was no more
.
Though I sought him, he couldnot be found.
Mark the blameless and beholdthe upright, for there is a
future for the man of peace, buttransgressors shall be
altogether destroyed.
The future of the wicked shallbe cut off.
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The salvation of the righteousis from the Lord.
He is their stronghold in thetime of trouble.
The Lord helps them anddelivers them.
He delivers them from thewicked and saves them because
they take refuge in him.
This is God's word.
Hardy Reynolds (04:46):
Thanks be to God .
Sr. Pastor Benjamin Kandt (04:47):
You may be seated.
Hardy Reynolds (04:48):
Well, good morning New City Really is a
privilege to start off ourSummer in the Psalms series and
I promise we're not going tocover all the verses of Psalm 37
, but I will be focusing on thefirst 13 or so.
In preparing for this sermon, Iwas reminded of an experience I
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had about a month or so ago,where I was flying out of MCO,
and I'm wondering if y'all havehad this experience where your
flight is filled with childrenwho have just had a fun but
exhausting trip to Disney, andthe only difference about this
trip, though, is it's, I think,the latest I've flown out of MCO
.
The flight was scheduled for 10pm, it was delayed till 11.45,
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and that meant that we didn'tland until 2 am, and our flight
was full of children, and theywere understandably overtired
and exhausted.
There was a family just acrossthe aisle from me that were
traveling with probably a fourand a six-year-old, and, because
it was so late we had landed,we were waiting to pull into the
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gate.
They had been crying forprobably the last hour just
absolutely overwhelmed withexhaustion hour just absolutely
overwhelmed with exhaustion andthe younger one probably four in
that just exhaustion cried outto his parents and said I hate
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my family and the plane did justwhat y'all did.
They laughed, and part of thatlaughter was because this boy,
in his own way and ability, wasgiving voice to the misery we
were all experiencing.
He didn't know what else to say.
Now it is a family Sunday, solet me address the kiddos in the
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room real quick.
Y'all know it's not cool to saythat to your parents, right,
you shouldn't do it.
But what stuck out to me aboutthis instance was the response
of the parent.
The parent, in receiving thatcry, just chuckled and said oh,
buddy, we'll be home soon.
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And the Psalms give numerousexamples of where we can cry out
cry out in our fears, cry outin our anxieties, cry out in our
guilt, cry out in ourloneliness, in our shame and
even our hatred.
But what Psalm 37 does here isDavid, in a sense, takes up the
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voice or the perspective of themother and holds out a future
promise to say oh, buddy, peopleof God, we'll be home soon.
He's addressing man rather thanGod in this psalm to give not a
prayer for us to pray, but aperspective for us to hang on to
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, a hope, a future.
And the way that the psalm putsit is as we've titled it there
is a future for the man or womanof peace, and so, in light of
that promise, we're gonna lookat how having this secure future
affects our lives over the nextcoming weeks.
But this morning we're justgoing to zero on in the first
few verses of Psalm 37.
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What we're going to see is that, because we have a future, we
are not to fret but to delightourselves in the Lord.
David knows his own heart, heknows his own propensity to look
to other sources of security orother sources of a sure future,
and he knows his listeners'tendency to do the same.
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And, rather than leaving ourlisteners to themselves, he
actually holds out a perspectiveand says you have a future.
And because of that future,first thing we see is we are not
to fret ourselves.
We see this in a couple ofverses, in the opening passages
of Psalm 37.
It shows up in verse 1, inverse 7, and verse 8, this
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refrain not to fret ourselves.
It's a term that often conveysthis idea of burning or becoming
heated with anger or with worry, and in this form it's
suggesting that this issomething actually that we do to
ourselves internally.
It's allowing ourselves tobecome worked up, to become
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anxious or to be consumed by ouremotions.
And so, in a sense, what verseone is getting at is we have a
tendency to emotional heartburn,to dwell on our emotions, to
fume, to become consumed by them, whether that be with jealousy
or anger.
And the reason verse one givesthat this can happen is we have
in focus the evildoers, or thewrongdoers and their prosperity.
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What's happening with them?
Or the wrongdoers and theirprosperity, what's happening
with them Now?
In the context of this Psalm,given its themes like possession
of the land, the wicked here orthe evildoers could be those
who threaten the allotments orthe family's allocation of the
promised land, what the peopleof God have been promised and
they feel like should be oursnow, in the moment.
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And so what David is getting atis essentially, picture
yourself in this way, lookingout at whatever you view as the
unrighteous or the wicked, andpicture yourself, say like at a
Florida hot summer day, at aCimarron bus stop, concrete and
asphalt for miles, and you seewho you view to be the
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unrighteous or the wickedcruising by in their fully
self-automated car, sipping aniced coffee, and you start to
dwell on them and you start tothink they're probably heading
to your dream neighborhood onZillow, to your dream home that
is just out of reach.
And what David is saying is,when you focus on the prosperity
of the wicked, what the wickedhave, it actually causes you to
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become consumed, to becomeenvious, to have emotional
heartburn as you focus on theprosperity of the wicked and
David knows our propensity to dothat to envy, to look out at
others and what they have, andso what he does is he shifts the
perspective, he changes it, andit's in this wisdom that he's
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likely gained through, maybe,bitter experience in his life,
or even maybe more nobly, asPsalm 1 puts it, delighting
himself, trusting in the word ofGod, meditating on the promises
that the Lord holds out, and sowhat he discerns is actually
sees their prosperity throughthe eyes of faith, and he gives
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this picture that what we viewas thriving is in fact actually
dying.
That's the picture that we get.
The wicked are actually on thispath towards destruction,
unless they do a U-turn, and sothey're not to be envied,
they're not to be looked at withenvy, but to be seen in light
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of faith, because they will, asDavid puts it, soon fade like
the grass and wither like thegreen herb.
We've all seen this picture.
Probably the wicked are likethose of us who mow our lawns
and don't bag our grass, and sothe next day, what was once
thriving, green and lush is nowlaid bare, brown and rows of
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just of deadness for all to see.
And David is saying that'sactually the end or the outcome
of those that you are envyingand being consumed by.
So we are not to look at themin that way, and so, in a sense,
david is just continuing toencourage his listeners don't
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get agitated over these folks,don't get envious of their
success, don't consume yourselfwith the evil that they're
carrying out verse 7.
Or don't fret yourself overwhat you think God's timing
ought to be verse 8.
In other words, what David isessentially doing here is he's
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calling his listeners and us toself-control.
It's a call to self-controlthat he's highlighting it is our
personal responsibility for usto manage our emotions, to
resist the tendency to letexternal circumstances to
dictate our inner turmoil.
He essentially says don't letyourself get worked up.
Calm your own heart, quiet yoursoul.
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And you may be thinking like mewhen I was reading this Psalm
of David.
You have prayed a lot ofprayers up until Psalm 37.
And there've been 36 Psalmsbefore this, with many examples
of David actually praying andcrying out, with explosive
emotions, complaints, questionsthat he has about his life
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circumstances.
And so David's call here toself-control and for us to have
control over our emotions.
It's learned.
It's learned from seeing thetrue end of the wicked, but also
learned in trusting the timingof God.
We see this in verse seven andeight.
David puts it this way Be stillbefore the Lord and wait
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patiently for him.
Fret not yourself over the onewho prospers in his way, over
the man who carries out evildevices.
Refrain from anger and forsakewrath.
Fret not yourself, it tendsonly to evil.
In other words, you and I needto view our emotions and
circumstances through the lensof God's timing, not following
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every direction and impulse thatour emotions may lead us.
In Eugene Peterson, in taking upthe example that our text gives
in eight, when it says refrainfrom anger and forsake wrath, he
says your anger is not a workagenda for you to plan a
vengeance that will fix thewrong.
What is wrong with the world isGod's business.
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What he's getting at istherefore, we must be still
before the Lord, to refrain fromanger, from wrath, from getting
heated through frettingourselves.
We actually must learn to quietour hearts by trusting the Lord
.
Verse 3 says actually mustlearn to quiet our hearts by
trusting the Lord.
Verse 3 says and to trust God'stiming is to trust God for who
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he is.
As the author of your story, ofthe circumstances you find
yourself in right now, and he'ssaying when we do that we're
called to quote wait patientlyfor him.
Time is nothing to God andtherefore we can actually grow
in our trust that it shouldn'tbe so important to us for God to
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meet our timelines.
God and his timing is worthwaiting for.
In a book or a movie or anystory, really good listeners or
watchers wait till the end forthe plot to be cleared up.
I'm not so subtly judging youif you read the last page of
your books before you finish theend.
What's being held out here isthat God, actually his timing,
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is good and trustworthy and thatwe can wait for him, trusting
that the closing scene, he's notgoing to leave plot holes or
questions, but he knows the end.
David's saying that there'sactually no good but much evil
in worrying your heart about thepresent success of others,
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about the timing of God, and itnot only heats us up, gives us
emotional heartburn, but it alsodishonors God.
And it not only heats us up,gives us emotional heartburn,
but it also dishonors God and itexhausts ourselves.
We become worn out.
So David's saying make adetermination now, today, to
trust the Lord, regardless ofthe success of others,
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regardless of your circumstances, and do good.
He says right now, where Godhas you trusting in his timing.
You may have guessed, like ifI'm watching a movie with
somebody, I refuse to answertheir questions Because likely
the writers have thought abouthow the movie is going to end.
Or if you just wait 10 seconds,they're going to answer the
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question.
Or if you just wait 10 seconds,they're going to answer the
question.
What's the point in saying that?
Well, while God is much moregracious than I am and he gives
this example in countless Psalms, where he invites actually
invites his people to pour outtheir questions and the cries of
their heart as they're livingthrough and wrestling with his
timing, and the cries of theirheart as they're living through
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and wrestling with his timingDavid in Psalm 37, he's giving a
lesson that he has learned overa lifetime of walking with God
that God is worth waiting for.
He's not left plot holes, he isnever before his time, he is
never too late, he is going toact precisely when he means to.
And if that's true, and we'renot to fret ourselves because we
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have a sure future and we cantrust in God's timing, then the
question is what can we do?
Well, david holds out for us.
If we're not to fret ourselves,we are to delight ourselves in
God.
So that's the second thing wesee here.
It's the alternative.
It's the alternative tofretting.
This psalm repeatedly contraststhe fretting and the trusting in
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the Lord.
Doing good, waiting patiently,delighting yourself in the Lord
it's what David is saying is thespiritual antidote to, instead
of fretting, activelycultivating trust, contentment
and faith in God's justice andhis provision.
The way verse four puts it heredelight yourself in the Lord.
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That's the spiritual medicineto fretting ourselves.
Working ourselves up isactually pursuing contentment in
God.
In both cases, in fretting anddelighting, it is something we
do, and so, while fretting isobviously framed here as
negative, something to be devoid, delighting is a positive that
we are to throw our life into anintentional movement towards
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God.
This is the call.
It's an invitation to shift, toturn our focus and affection
from the wicked and theirsuccess to our affections and
focus to be set upon God, makinghim the source of our joy,
making him the source of ourfulfillment and hope.
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And the way this is statedagain is it's something that
we're being called to, notsimply to passively sit and
receive, but something to giveour lives to, to delight
ourselves in the Lord.
And this is done throughoutthis psalm, but throughout
scripture, through themeditating, the taking in of
God's word, who it tells us thatGod is, who his character is,
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who he says he is in hisgoodness, in his promises and in
his works.
Meditating on this anddelighting in that and the
freedom that this invitationoffers if we delight ourselves,
is that our joy and our delightin this life is no longer
dependent on our circumstances,it's no longer dependent on our
emotions, and this is reallygood news.
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And it's good news because it'ssaying wherever you are, then
we can direct our heart and findour joy and contentment in God,
regardless of our circumstances.
When we do this, our passagepromises the result will be and
he will give you the desires ofyour heart.
When we delight in the Lord,our desires align with his will
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and he fulfills them in hisperfect way and time.
This is saying what we see isthe way God sets us free from
our fretting.
Getting emotionally worked up isby changing our desires.
When we delight in him, whenhe's promising that if you
delight yourself in me and Iwill give you the desires of
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your heart, he's not promisingthat he will now give you that
full self-driving car or thatdream home in that Zillow
neighborhood you've been lookingat.
No, he's saying God sets usfree from fretting by changing
what we want, changing ourdesires.
Our desires and our loves arereordered when we delight
ourselves in him.
So the promise is as youdelight yourself in the Lord,
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what you want changes and whathe gives you is himself.
You become delighted in God forwho he is and what he promises.
That's the good news here.
So, in summary, to delightyourself in the Lord, it's a
calling for an intentionalself-direction toward joy in God
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.
He gives the warning over andover fret not yourself.
Don't go down that path, butrun the path.
Give yourself to the path ofdelighting in God.
David goes on to say that thisis a full life endeavor.
This is not a one-time thing.
This is something that is acalling for our whole life.
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Verse 5 and 6 says it this waycommit your way to the Lord,
trust in Him and he will act.
He will bring forth yourrighteousness as the light and
your justice as the noon daywhen I, in an effort to escape
the Florida heat and being arunner, I'll try and wake up
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really early and also so I canmake it back in time before kids
get up.
But that means that usually Istart my run in the dark and
then I end my run just atsunrise and there's a street
just a block away from our housethat is called Sunrise.
So often I'm ending my run atsunrise, on sunrise Isn't that
kind of cool.
But as I run down Sun sunriseit's situated east to west, so
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I'm literally the last quarterof my mile of my run.
I'm running directly into thesun and I've been sweating.
I can barely see.
It's so bright.
And what the picture that Davidis saying is?
That no matter how dark yourcircumstances, no matter how
dark your road that you arewalking right now, for those who
commit their way to the Lord,he will make your righteousness
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like the noonday sun, yourjustice as the noonday.
It's this promise that God willbring forth your righteousness,
your goodness, your justice, asbright as a Florida noonday sun
.
And it's important here for usto understand what it means to
commit.
This word literally means toroll, as if getting rid of a
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heavy burden.
The picture this gives is toliterally roll the full weight
of your life onto the Lord andtrust him fully, without hedges,
without any plan B or C foryour future.
Give him the full weight ofyour life.
And so often this undiversifiedcommitment is seen as foolish in
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other areas of life.
Think about your retirementplans or your investments, your
savings securities.
It would be foolish to roll thefull weight of your future onto
one investment, onto onecompany, because the confidence
in any one company or investmentis in question.
It might not pan out, not sowith the Lord.
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What he's saying is he isworthy of your full trust.
The full weight of your life,your security is in his hands,
fully secure and safe, if youwill.
But roll the full weight ofyour life onto him.
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This is an amazing promise andyet it can stir up, probably,
questions, if not theologically,practically, how do I live this
out?
Can he really be trusted withthe full weight of my life?
I'm good with trusting him with80%, but this 20% is so hard to
really roll over onto him tosee if he will deliver, see if
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he will come through.
So how can we know that he'sworthy of the full weight of our
life?
What's amazing, I think, iswhat David had in promise we can
actually see in fulfillment.
And what I mean by that is weknow the way of the Lord isn't
simply God giving directions,but giving his son, who would
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come and say things like I amthe way, I am the truth, I am
the life.
No one comes to the Fatherexcept through me.
And what was this way that Jesustook?
He said it multiple times tohis disciples See, we are going
up to Jerusalem and the Son ofman will be delivered over to
the chief priests.
You see, jesus was faithfulevery moment of his life, to the
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way and to the will of theFather.
And even when it was the mostdifficult to entrust the weight
of his life to the Father's will, what did he say?
Not my will, but your will bedone.
So what we see is, becauseJesus was faithful to the way of
the Father, he has made a wayfor all of us who have been
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unfaithful.
He is the way for all of us whohave hedged our bets and
diversified our trust.
He is the way for all of us whohave run after other sources of
security and therefore we trulycan entrust the full weight of
our lives to him, delightingourselves in him, trusting that
he has made our way secure andthat he provides a sure and
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certain future.
I want to close with this.
Our passage even provides asound of this future security,
and before we look at it, Iwould just invite you to think
what does security sound like toyou?
It's kind of a weird question,but what does security sound
like?
It could be anything from assimple as the door code on your
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Memorial Day or your summerrental, just giving you some
escape, some reprieve from thechaos of life.
It could be the sound of rainon a roof in Florida, just as
you escape a summer storm.
It could be something maybe alittle bit more meaningful, like
the voice of a loved one whenthey welcome you home, when they
read you a story.
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It could be a number of things.
What does security sound liketo you?
When I was reflecting on thispassage, I thought of a sound
that I get to hear about onceevery other year.
Once every other year my familygathers for Thanksgiving with my
dad's side of the family.
He's oldest of six and we allgather on the beaches of the
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Panhandle and it's grown because, as he's oldest of six, it's
all of their kids, all of mycousins.
Now they've started havingfamily.
So once it's all said and doneand we gather there's probably
40 to 50 people in that livingroom home on Thanksgiving day
and there's a lot of noises inthat room.
But there's one noise thatevery other year I get to hear
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and it's whenever my dad and hisbrothers get together and
inevitably they start tellingstories and when they do they
laugh.
And when they laugh I don'tknow if this is genetic, but
they have the exact same laughit starts at the same time, it
rises in volume at the same timeand it immediately ends all at
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the same time and when thathappens this can become kind of
an inside joke for myself andthe cousins.
We hear it, we scan the room,we lock eyes with the other
cousins as if to say it happened, all is well, things are good,
and to be clear in that room of40 to 60 people as we look
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across.
That's not to say that there'snot struggles, that there's not
brokenness that's represented inthat room.
There's chronic illnesses,there's cancer diagnoses,
there's addictions that gounspoken about, there's gossip
that gets relished rather thanrepented of.
But when we hear the laughter,when we catch eyes and we get to
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see each other, experience itand say all is well, things are
good, there's a sense ofsecurity, and what our passage
holds out as a sound of securityis actually the laughter of God
.
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Verse 12 and 13 says the wickedplots against the righteous and
gnashes his teeth at him.
But the Lord laughs at thewicked for he sees that his day
is coming.
This is far from being alaughter of cynicism or callous
indifference.
This is a laughter ofconfidence, confidence that the
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Lord knows how the story ends.
The wicked will be no more, forhowever loud the enemies of God
are now, they will one day besilenced.
For however intimidating insize and stature your
circumstances with the enemiesof God, look now there's a day
coming where, even if you golooking carefully for them, you
will not be able to see them.
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The Lord laughs at the wicked,for he sees that his day is
coming.
David, by faith.
Here.
He sees this day coming and heholds out this secure future for
the people of God.
So for all of us, we have thissecure future, even those of us
who have failed to delightourselves in the Lord and have
rather fretted ourselves overenemies that he's already
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defanged, rather frettedourselves over enemies that he's
already defanged, he's alreadydefeated.
The hope that our passage holdsout is that, when we commit our
way to the Lord, he has given usa sure future, and the good
news of the gospel is Jesus isthat way.
He is the truth, he is the life.
And so, for all of those thatthe Father is calling home, when
you roll the full weight ofyour life on to Jesus, this
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promise is yours, it is oursthat there is a future for the
man and woman of peace.
Let's pray, father.
We thank you that you have notsimply given us instructions or
directions to follow, but youhave given us the way your son
Jesus, that we can trust thefull weight of our lives to him
(31:15):
and, even when we don't, thatthere is an abundance of
forgiveness and invitations tocome back, to find our security
and trust in you as we look atthe implications for our lives
today, because we have a surefuture.
Would you find us faithful tothe ways in which you are
(31:36):
calling us to see your kingdomadvance where there is evil,
where there's darkness, wherethere are places where the
wicked have not yet been doneaway with, knowing that we can
pursue those things because ourfuture is not in danger, but you
have secured it in the love ofyour son.
Knowing that we can pursuethose things because our future
is not in danger, but you havesecured it in the love of your
son?
Find us faithful to those tasks.
We pray in his name, amen.
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