Psalm 30

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0:00 So we're not a little bit devocibrating today, but the text I will look at is our, actually I call the verse of our Psalms from the dead. It just drives me this morning. Psalms 30, let's look at it together. Remember that the Psalms are right in the middle of here in the paper copy. So they're not hard to find. And the Psalms are like the hymnbook of our people, remember? There's 150 of them, which is a number that they picked clearly on purpose.

0:35 It's not like there's 87 or 132. There's 150. And they're not grouped chronologically. We know that for a couple of reasons, but we know that mainly because we can tell that they're grouped thematically. There's a couple of Psalms that we can kind of place where they maybe are events that they might be referring to, or we can see that on chronological order. But the main reason you notice they didn't arrange the Psalms chronologically is because you can see that the groups are not at the top of it. And so they're definitely like a liturgical grouping of things.

1:10 And we're pretty sure that in the first century when kids are going to Hebrew school, the first thing a dude memorized the Psalms. The reason they do that is because you learn so much about the nature and character of God and the response of humanity, and appropriate response of humanity back to that nature and character when you learn the Psalms. So they would memorize all 50 Psalms and they would learn about the provisions, the grace, the justice, the mercy, all of the categories and characteristics of God that would learn from memorizing the Psalms.

1:44 It's like I've tried to memorize Psalms. I can hold them for a period of time, but not as long as I would like. I don't know if you have ever tried that. I've been growing a tradition where we memorize a lot of Bible verses, it's closing the thing. But as a grown person, I've tried to memorize Psalms and it's not very good at it. I bet you're good at it here. I used to memorize verse for that anyway. Psalm 30 is talking. I think it's quite just a mixture of instruction and beauty that's really nice and teary-grat-it, wonderful for us.

2:20 I just want to go through it in a couple of groupings here. And the first, if we look at it as a whole, verse 1 through 3 is kind of a grouping. And then 4 and 5 is kind of a grouping. You can see them in 6 and 7, 8 or 10, and then 11 through 12. There's a heading on it that, of course, is not an original text. The publisher's put it in there. A Psalm of David, a song at the dedication of the temple.

2:55 If it's the Psalm of David, it's not a dedication of the temple because, of course, David didn't build the temple. His son built the temple. So we think it's more likely a dedication of his house. He's setting inside his house. He's the built-up speaker. This is a big deal when he made it. And he says, I will stole you, Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my soul rejoice over me.

3:25 Oh, Lord, my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. Oh, Lord, you have brought up my soul from still. You restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. He starts off with first, second, first, three little things, a couplet. And he says, first, you can imagine for David, I will stole you for you have drawn me up.

3:56 I will stole you, Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my soul rejoice over me. Oh, Lord, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. And then he goes to the stay-all thing. That healed me thing is in the center, and then the two things he stayed from on either side. And he'll still have a couplet, right? So the press of the first one is, you have healed me. And you can see for David, he's protected from his enemies and his foes. He's not been abandoned for close, and his soul has been rescued from stay-all, which is like the place of the dead.

4:32 It's not really the grave, but where the dead man is, it's the house of the dead. And David, after the dedication of his house, is prayed to God because he healed him in these two ways, right? He protected him from his enemies and kept his soul from the dead. I wonder, I don't think, we have one, we'll have one person, I think, who's been the service in the room.

5:08 But most of us haven't been to war like David. So if we were to say, I will still mute the Lord for you have drawn me up and you have not let my foes rejoice over me. I want to challenge you a little bit this morning to think about what foes you might have. What adversaries might be aligned against you.

5:44 How long does it take for a conversation or some people to come to mind? We can close our eyes around curious, raise your hand. It does not take long for conversations to come to mind that when I think about who our men pose, that other line begins to mean. Some of us that doesn't take that long. Not that these are bad people, but some folks have made my life home.

6:17 And the conversations that I can recall, the stupid conversations of people who at times have it with me ill. Who have been aligned against me for one reason or another. And this one I've been thinking about. So he David rejoices that God did not let his foes or his adversaries rejoice over him.

6:53 And he also rejoices that God rescued his soul from the place of the day. We, a couple of us helped a friend move the other day or load up a tough anyway. Little 70s, has some chronic disease definitely on the deep heart movement.

7:29 But in out of my life over the last few decades, is 16 years. And you could see her is not the woman that she was before. The chronic disease is a toughy hurt. It's still there, but there is a noticeable decline. We got to spend some time with her yesterday and I cannot believe. But I just love this woman and wanted to take care of her.

8:04 I wanted, I did tell her God goes in front of you no matter where you find yourself. He does not abandon you and yet her soul, right? Her body like death come is coming. He knows it. It is sad. I will, I could just put some arms around her and, and for sure the slow climb of her disease and the certainty of her death.

8:43 And I cannot. In great gratitude and hope. David from ancient times looks upon the place that God has prepared for him to walk into a home that he has protected him from any and brought him to. And with surety and with faith, he says not only have you protected me from my foes and brought me to this moment, you have healed my soul.

9:18 You will protect me for all eternity. You rescue my soul from scale. Hey, John. Because my hope coming to this moment is not rightly placed in anyone but God and my hope as I look forward out in the future is not in the home that I walk into. It's not in the places that I can secure for myself. It's in the one who rescued my soul from scale.

9:49 He says, I will, it's told you Lord. I will lift you up because you have brought me to this moment. You have healed me today and you protect my soul from scale. Good. I want to encourage you for a moment with the moment. I'm going to count for 30 seconds to see if you can align your heart and your mind with that pain.

10:20 Lord, you have protected me and brought me to this moment. You have healed me today and you preserve my eternity. You protect my soul from scale. Okay, I'm going to count for 30 seconds.

10:50 Okay, of course, after he's been in that moment, he's extolled the Lord in his house. Look at the next verse, verse four. Oh, man, you brought me to today. You healed me in this moment. You protect my eternity. So then, sing golden to the Lord. Oh, you get saved. That's us. What is the response to the provisions of protection, the rescue of God now and forever?

11:25 You'll not say, and that you don't have to save anyone else. It's not a sort of typical thing. He says, what is the response in prison? He says, acknowledge that your provisions brought you to the moment. You're feeling in the moment and you're protecting for the future of us and God not in your time. Praise him. Sing praises to the Lord, and give thanks to his holy name, his name set aside for nothing but the provision of protection.

12:02 He's holy name. This is interesting, verse five. Sing praises to the Lord, and you say, to the Lord, his anger is but for a moment and it's over last for a lifetime. We've been made hairy for the night, but joy comes in the morning. Time to figure out, it seems like this storm, we got to see some of it in the daylight, but like, you know, our little room had water at three o'clock in the morning.

12:33 Right? That was about the worst of it. And I was trying to figure out, is there some science why it seems like the big storms always come through at night? It can't be. Like, it's the plot of some movie or something. The rain has to come when it gets dark. And maybe it's just that's what sticks with me more. Like, I'm less intimidated by the storm when I can see it. But like, it's more nerve-wracking than the dog, and so it sticks with me more.

13:05 I think the words here are so evocative and beautiful, weeping and hairy for the night, but joy comes in the morning. I have told this story before about my favorite evil profession. This is evidence that God will help you in school. I was very good at evil in seven minutes. It was not hard for me. It's the class and then QA for two semesters. The second guy in the APA force now, president of our seven hands.

13:35 It's like calling him up and telling him what to do. I don't remember a lick of Hebrew now. I mean, maybe if I got back into the class, but I remember like some principles, I remember absolutely no vocab, you know? And Hebrews almost all vocab. The syntax is very simple. But one of the things I love in my memory about my first evil instructor is after read lessons he's a pastor now, he would take half the class because so much of Hebrews vocabulary and go through the vocal.

14:06 And I've told stories about the blessing before, but he would like to energize the bonding. He was about my size, maybe a little bit smaller. And he would like to get up and run five miles in the morning. But before he would run five miles, he would read 20 minutes in the Hebrew, the Old Testament, then 20 minutes in the poem, then 20 minutes in the Greek New Testament. And he would take a memory verse from the Old Testament, because he likes the Old Testament verse. In Hebrew, he'd write it on a little sheet of paper.

14:36 Then he'd run five miles and memorize the verse while he ran five miles. Then he'd come back and work on a commentary before he started teaching our classes. By the time he got to it, he had read the Old Testament seven times, and he had read the 12 times in their original languages, and he worked with them so long that he went to the Hebrew words. He could remember the left-hand definition, which counted out how many times that word appeared in the Old Testament. So he would tell you, when you read the word bokeh, the Hebrew words for morning, how many times did it occur in the Old Testament?

15:06 And he knew that everything good in the story happened early in the morning. And he would go to one story, he was like bokeh, oh my gosh, he just still started. And he would tell you about the first time you saw the listen-note bokeh early in the morning when the Israel crossing the Red Sea see it fall behind and then realize that they are protected early in the morning. He was like, if I give a tattoo to the listen-note bokeh, early in the morning, everything good happened. David knew in the film, weeping may last for the night, but the morning is coming.

15:41 We're all weeping stops, and not the happiness, not the gladness, but the sense of doing joy comes in the morning. Because his anger lasts for a moment, but his favor lasts for a lifetime. We can see God does get angry, he got angry at Moses to instruct the law, remember?

16:11 He got angry at David with that sheba. He got angry at King Hezekiah for the choices and the idolacy he had permitted. We can see that Jesus gets angry in lots of places, but what's interesting to me is that in this film David points out that those on whom God has favor, he also can get angry.

16:47 God may get angry with you for an evening. There are consequences to the places that we make. His anger goes last for a moment. David says his favor for a lifetime, God has found favor on you no matter what night time comes.

17:18 When you, the joy comes in the morning that doesn't end. When John gets a picture of the world to come, he says we won't need a son, Jesus on the throne will give us all the light we need. If we need a day that never ends, it will be there for us to grow in the morning. David, if he left the verses to Psalms, he gets it.

17:55 Sing praises to Lord for all you have saved and give thanks to His holy name for His anger, but a moment in His favor for a lifetime, we can make sure for the night, but joy comes in the morning. As for me, he says, come back to himself. So first, he says, all those stories that you have done this thing for me, they said, hey, everybody, this is your character of God. You all are to praise Him. His anger may last for a moment, his favor lasts for a lifetime. We can make the night, the joy comes in the morning.

18:26 As for me, he said, I said in my prosperity I shall never be moved. By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountain stand strong. Now this couldn't be a minute to understand. Then he said, then you hid your face and now it's been smade. And then he says, then in verses eight through ten, to you, O Lord, now I cry, to the Lord I pee for mercy.

18:58 What prophet is there in my death if I go down to the pit? Will you, will the death praise you? Will it tell you of your face? Will it tell you of your face? Will it be merciful to me? O Lord, help, O Lord, beam on Helper. In verse six, he says, hey, I'll have it. I had a pretty good situation. In my prosperity, I said, I'm substantial. My faith and favor, my success and prosperity will never end.

19:28 I will not be moved. I have arrived. David's like, I came out of the field. I defeated the birds and the lions. I defeated Goliath. I out-weighted Saul. I took over Jerusalem. I crawled through the culvert, the government in the city. When they saw that I couldn't take it, I went with Miami. I found the Ark of the Covenant. I moved the Ark of the Covenant through the sea. I was established the temple will be built. I have my house of Peter. He says, all of the things I have assembled around me, I've come through trials.

20:01 I stand and I will not be moved. And by the grace of God, he says, you made my mountain stand and strong. Thank you. I'll take it from here. David's safe. I will not be moved. He's trying to fill us where he put his confidence. He's giving you a little bit of a retrospective. He starts out with Saul and saying, you've protected me from my clothes.

20:33 You hear me in the moment. You protect my eternity. Everybody, let's pray as God because he knows his character. He can make lots of the nights, but joy comes in the morning. Then he says, that's for me. In my prosperity, I said, I got this cover because God in his grace made my mountain strong and secure and bold. He turned his head away. You hid your face and David says, I was dismayed. Everything started to fall apart.

21:07 So now, verse 8, to you, O Lord, I cry. Let's move on to verse 3. I don't know exactly why he was dismayed or what it means to everything so important, but he does ask not to die. So maybe things will go pretty bad. This is where we get back to the little message that I gave to the kids. Because that really has reminded me that children's message is always

21:41 really neat on Sundays. Whatever had driven David to dismay, ask something crazy. I mean, he asked something crazy. Look, that comes for my friends, and it comes for me. That comes for us all, because we, you know, it's straight down.

22:13 We get older until we stop. I'm so grateful to get older because I don't like the alternative. They want to die. That's the only alternative here. David asked what he was crazy. You, O Lord, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy. And then he's like, if he's in the aralic, it's still praise you. Wouldn't he like to praise him on the people? He asked whatever he's asking.

22:44 Because to whom else will we go? This is what David is saying. I used to trust in my mountain, but God made my mountain secure. And when he turned his face, I was cooked to dismayed, and so does who else should we go? Lord, for so my death, prolong my life, multiply the blessing. You are incredibly resourceful and creative.

23:14 You all are, you are blessed, but you have all these opportunities. And you have the capacity to care for people around you. You have its mountains. Holds and... But David encourages us from centuries ago. There is one, the whom we might appeal, that holds the whole thing together.

23:48 And then he's like, oh, I'm not going to be a good person. The whom we might appeal, that holds the whole thing together. Hero, Lord, and be merciful to me. Oh, Lord, be my help. I don't know, this phrase, it must be like when you get a new car and you see that car everywhere, all of a sudden, you've never seen, you know, a 2005 Toyota Forerunner.

24:24 Then you have a 2005 Toyota Forerunner, and all of a sudden, that's all you see on the road. It must be like that for this phrase, be merciful to me, Lord. That's all I can get myself to pray these days, and every time I look at the story of scriptures coming out of me, be merciful to me, or be merciful to me, or be merciful to me. Verse 11, you have turned my morning into dancing. You have aloofed my fat cloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may sting your praise, and not be silent.

24:58 Oh, Lord, my God, I will be thank you for others, but you may not have turned the corner here yet. But let David's prayer be aspirational for you. Prayer can be respected. We can read a prayer and agree with it all the way. Prayer can be instructed. You can read the prayer and go, I don't get this all the way yet, but I would like to. Prayer can be aspirational. They can be, I get this, but it is not me, though I would like words to do. And David moved through from provision to healing to ultimate protection.

25:34 And he looked respectively at his failure. He cried out in his need. And in the moment when he writes this, he is doodling at God's provision, protection, and answering of his prayer. And he writes it beautifully for us, that it might be aspirational for us this morning. You have turned my morning into dancing. You have aloofed my fat cloth and clothed me with gladness, that my glory may sting your praise, and not be silent. Oh, Lord, my God, I will be thank of you forever. May we do the same, huh?

26:06 In the God who has protected us, healed us, secured our future, who build up our mountains and makes us secure, who force all death and prolong life, who has secured an eternity for us that we might acknowledge his goodness and live in his generosity forever. And like David, you can pray that. I want to be a person like David, not because he was a good warrior or a master of power, but in moments he understood things.

26:45 And I would like to understand things like that as well. Let me pray that you can do that. Hey, Lord, thank you for your prophet and came to David and his foreign for us this morning. May his faith inspire us to our own. May your kindness lead us to repentance. May your generosity lead us to exalt your virtue in his hands. Your mercy, good Lord, be merciful to us this morning.

27:19 You can say that for his sake of time. Thank you.