I'm going to turn to page number 187.
Page number 187, Jesus Loves Me.
Page number 187.
Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.
All right.
Excellent singing everybody.
Brother Ryan, please open up in order prayer.
Your heavenly Father, thank you God for this church and our guest preacher today, a great
God that I did bless.
The man that got saved today and the great God that you helped him to...
the church so we can give baptized and serve you Lord in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. All right if you
want to take your hymnals turn to page number 467. It's page number 467 the Bible.
And we'll go ahead and sing it twice.
The bee
Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. Our verse of the week is Galatians 3 verse number 8,
which the Bible says, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male or female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. That's again Galatians 3
verse number 8.
Again, it's pretty standard for what we were saying this morning, but we have all of our service times down there the soul winning times
If you're interested again, you can talk contact brother Ryan if you're interested in anything
One thing I do want to add though from this morning's announcements is that the Cheney Marathon on here is going to be moved to the following
Saturday
Because I guess Callie's birthday is more important than soul-warning, I guess, I don't
know.
Just kidding.
I wanted to switch that anyways because it lines up with my day off of work anyways.
So that works a lot better for me anyways.
So everybody benefits in the end of it, okay?
But yeah, we're going to move the Cheney soul-warning marathon one week after for what it says on
this.
It'll be August 4th or something, I like that, I believe, the next Saturday.
Or excuse me, not August 1 in the world, October.
Man, we're going back to the past.
Second thing I wanted to say about this all was I thought I had one more detailing here, but I can't remember it all the time I have.
We see the Psalm down there for the verse a week though, Psalm 46.1.
So if you want to get some candy kiddos, you got to repeat back that verse to my wife or really to any adult in here that can verify that you actually did it and you'll get some candy.
Brother David preached a great sermon this morning about once saved always save he offended a lot of people though
They just got up and left I guess now
No, there's two things I want to say but I number one is something about David come on say no in that sermon that
I was thinking about is that he gave one saying like,
I know that I'm preaching to the choir here.
And it's true that we all do believe that this church
put out, you know what I was glad when I was thinking
about that though is that my kids and your kids
in this room are gonna grow up hearing
once saved, always saved until it's ingrained in their brain.
And how much better is that than all the people
that grow up hearing wishy-washy stuff about salvation
or nothing about salvation at all?
So I give on saying that I'm like, amen.
Keep preaching to the choir because everybody needs to hear this doctrine
because salvation is the most important thing that there is.
And that's what our church is built on is preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So thank you for that sermon this morning, brother David.
And I'm excited to hear your sermon tonight as well.
That's pretty much it, though, as far as the announcements go.
I realized I messed up, too.
I should have sang Happy Anniversary to Daniel and Marina.
So that was a big fail.
It's because they got moved to the back,
so now I understand your pain, Brother Jason.
So with that being said, we'll go into our prayer question.
We'll have our third song.
Let's pray.
Dear other God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.
Thank you so much for everything.
All right, if you want to take your Bibles we're going to turn to Psalm number 11
Psalm number 11
Psalm number 11 we'll sing it out on the first
In the Lord put on my trust, how say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain, for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon.
string that they may privilege shoot at the upright in heart if the foundations
be destroyed what can the righteous do the Lord is in his holy temple the Lord's
throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eyes it's try the children of men
The Lord tried the righteous, but the wicked, and him the love and violence, his soul hated, his soul hated, upon the wicked.
He shall rate snares, fire and brimstone, and horrible tempest, this shall...
righteous Lord, loveth righteousness, his countenance, doth behold, doth behold the upright, in the
Lord put I my trust. All right, excellent singing everybody. Brother Remy, would you please pray for the offering?
God, thank you so much again for everything that you do for us as churchgoers, I just pray that you would
again be able to, David, say, fix the sermon that you fill with your Holy Spirit and I just pray that we'd all
have years to hear the message God and that we pay attention and that we would
take heed to whatever message you've grown in his heart. I just pray that you bless everybody that
gives to the church and that gives back the money that we all owe you God and that you bless everybody
Welcome to Sher Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could go ahead and take your Bibles
and turn to Psalm 77.
Psalm 77, and here at Sher Foundation Baptist Church,
we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Psalm 77, the Bible reads,
I cried unto God with my voice,
even unto God with my voice.
he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My sore ran in
the night and ceased not. My soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God and was
troubled. I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed, Sila. Thou wholest mine eyes
walking, waking. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
I call to Remembrance my song in the night.
I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.
Will the Lord cast off forever, and will He be favourable no more?
Is his mercy clean gone forever?
Doth his promise fail forevermore?
Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Sila.
And I said, this is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high.
I will remember the works of the Lord.
Surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
I will meditate also of all thy work and talk of all thy doings.
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary.
Who is so great a God as our God?
Thou art the God that doest wonders. Thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph, Sila.
The water saw thee, O God, the water saw thee. They were afraid, the depths also were troubled.
The clouds poured out water, the skies sent out a sound. Thine arrows also went abroad.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven.
The lightnings lighted the world.
The earth trembled and shook.
Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters
and thy footsteps are not known.
Thou letst thy people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Brother Jason, could you please pray for the preaching?
Generally Father, I thank you for the sale
and I thank you for everything you've done for us Lord.
Amen. Well, thank you everybody for coming out this evening. We're there in Psalm 77. One thing
you'll probably notice from reading it right now is it's kind of a whirlwind of emotions that the
And I feel like it's a good depiction of the humanity
that we're all faced with in life.
When it comes to personal trials and struggles
that arise in our lives, just to remember God,
to remember when we feel weak, when we feel small,
to just give it all to God.
But the reality of the matter is that's easier said than done.
You know, the writer of this Psalm is credited to ASAP.
If you have that little sub,
title underneath Psalm 77, it says to the chief musician,
to Jethethan, a Psalm of ASAP.
Well, who is ASAP?
ASAP is credited for writing 12 Psalms in the Bible,
Psalm 50 and Psalm 73 through 83.
He's first mentioned in First Chronicles chapter six,
where the Bible lists those who David set over the service
of song in the house of the Lord.
In First Chronicles six, verses 38 and 39,
you see the son of Ishar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, the son of Israel,
and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand,
even Asaph, the son of Barakaiah, the son of Shimea.
So we see Asaph was actually a Levite.
from the lineage of Levi.
He's mentioned again in First Chronicles 15, verse 19.
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan
were appointed to sound with symbols of brass
and a third time in First Chronicles 16,
verses four through five,
and he appointed certain of the Levites to minister
before the Ark of the Lord,
and to record and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel.
Asaph, the chief, and next to him Zechariah.
and Shemi Ramoth, and Jial, and Matathiah,
and Eliab, and Baniah, and Obadidam,
and Jial with salt trees and with harps,
but Asaph made a sound with cymbals.
Asaph is also mentioned in the Bible as a seer or a prophet.
In second Chronicles chapter 29 verse 30 it says moreover has a chi of a king and the princes command the Levites to sing praise
unto the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer and they sing praises with gladness and they bowed their heads and
Worship so that's just a little background of who this psalmist is who asaph is now tonight
I don't really have a sermon title. It's just Psalm 77
It's gonna be a little bit more of a verse by verse Bible study for you guys
So hopefully I don't bore you to death. It's good, but I
promise it's not going to be too long of a sermon. I don't think I have the spirit of
Pastor Thompson on me this evening. But I do want to take the opportunity to just
just look at the heart of ASAP here in Psalm 77. See the way or
just to see the way he deals with struggles in his life
and his heart toward God in those times of struggle.
And I think we can all relate to Asaph here in Psalm 77.
So just looking at verse number one,
it says, I cried unto God with my voice.
Even unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unto me.
Turn to 1 John chapter five.
So from the very get-go,
Asaph starts verse one off with the right attitude.
The attitude that me and you in this room should all have, he's dealing with a burden,
he's dealing with a trial in his life, he's crying unto God, and when it says crying unto God,
it doesn't mean he has like tears in his eyes and he's bawling. No, it just means he's calling
out to God. I mean, yeah, he could have a tear in his eye, that's fine, but what it means is he's
just calling out to God, he's looking for God, and he says he, and he gave ear unto me, so he's
showing that he knows that he's not just speaking into the wind, he knows that he's talking to God
hears him, that he's, and he is showing that he's calling out to God in faith.
So for us in the Christian life, when we call out to God, when we pray to God,
it should be in faith as well.
And we should know that God is hearing, hearing us.
In first John chapter five, look at verse 14, we were here this morning.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything,
according to his will, he heareth us.
And if we know that he hear us.
What's over? We ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
So ASAP and Psalm 77 verse one is displaying that exact confidence in the Lord.
He knows God is hearing him.
He knows his petitions are actually reaching the ears of God.
And in verse two, it starts by saying, in the day of my trouble.
I sought the Lord. That's the attitude. That's the attitude. That's the mindset we all need to have
in the Christian life. Because you know, it gets hard out there for a saint. You know, it's hard
out there in the world for us Christians. We live in a world that just constantly attacks
Christian values, the Christian life. It attacks everything that we hold as true society does anyway.
The Bible says,
yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
That is a promise in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 12.
That is a promise that,
hey, if you're actually living the Christian life,
if you're actually walking the walk of a Christian,
you're gonna have some trials in life.
You're gonna see some persecution from time to time.
But you know what?
It's how we handle that pain, that sorrow and that trial.
It's like a diamond, you know, it's it's tried by pressure and Christian the Christian life is filled with
Pressure, especially when you're trying to live right by God, you know trying to raise your family right
It is a lot of pressure not only from the world
But maybe even amongst your own family amongst your own relatives that don't really agree with every every doctrine of the Bible
Or maybe they're not Christian it is pressure trying to walk that Christian walk when you have those kind of people in your life
But all that's gonna determine the type of Christian the type of soldier of God we're gonna be in life
Have the mentality of whenever something negative happens in life the very first thing we need to do as Christians as
Children of a holy God before anything else is to take it to him take it to God look at verse 2 in the day of my trouble
I sought the Lord my soul ran in the night and see snot my soul
Refused to be comforted and I'm sure everyone in this room at some point in life has dealt
with this at some point in their lives.
You know, your sorry carries through the whole night
and that pain just burdens you
to the point of being completely restless.
You just can't sleep, you're tossing and turning,
whatever you're dealing with, it's in your mind.
Your mind just can't shut off for the night.
Who's had that before?
Yeah, it's a common thing, right?
It's a common thing,
but we have to realize that we have a friend in Jesus.
We can, as God's children, go before him boldly
with confidence and speak to Father God
and have that relationship with him
as a son does his father.
Jesus said in Matthew chapter five, verse four,
bless are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
And again, he said in John 16, 33,
that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer,
I have overcome the world." Turn to Psalm 34 real quick.
So whether it be tribulation, persecution, sorrow, pain,
why is it that we have so much boldness and confidence
in going to God with all of our troubles?
Well, first off is what I preached this morning.
We know we're saved.
We know we're children of God.
But it's also because we have a hope and a peace
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We know we have eternal life.
He is our rock.
He is our sure foundation.
He is our rest.
that our ultimate authority in life,
an ultimate place of refuge and rest in life
comes from Jesus Christ.
Psalm 34, look at verse 18.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.
and save as such as be of a contrite spirit.
That word contrite is a feeling of remorse or guilt.
You know, always remember the Lord is nigh unto them
that call upon him.
He's just a call away, you know,
all hours of the day, all hours of night.
to save us out of all of our troubles.
You know, this is even true for the unsafe person
who's seeking truth.
You know, a lot of times what leads people to getting saved
is a worry or a fear of death.
They don't know where they're gonna go when they die.
They don't know or aren't sure about salvation
or what they have to do to get to heaven.
And thank God there's a church here in the Spokane area
that is gonna clear those things up with people.
In 2 Corinthians chapter seven, verse 10.
It says, for godly sorrow, worketh repentance to salvation.
Not to be repentant of, but the sorrow of the world worketh.
Look, we understand that the lost people in the world who know not God, they don't know
what to do with their sorrows.
Everybody has a conscience, for the most part, everybody has a conscience, people who don't
have their conscience here at least.
They look toward worldly devices such as alcohol or depressants and other drugs with the attempt
or hope to drown their sorrows that the sin that they're living in their life is bringing
Everybody knows that what they're doing is wrong. They just don't know what to do with that sorrow
You know the sorrow of the world that sorrow leads people down a troublesome path
You know, and it ultimately works death,
but a godly sorrow, what this verse is talking about
in 2 Corinthians chapter seven, verse 10,
a godly sorrow where people are sorrowful
from their worries and fears, their guilt,
they're searching for truth, right?
Again, that's why we're out there going soul,
wanting to clear things up with people,
to show them, hey, yes, you know you're a sinner, amen.
But put that godly sorrow that you have toward the truth
and on the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Isaiah 55 verse six, it says,
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found.
Call ye upon him while he is near.
And again in Psalm 8 verse 17,
I love them that love me.
And those that seek me early shall find me.
That's that godly sorrow that leads people
to repentance to salvation, amen.
You know, all of us in this room at some point
in our lives before salvation, again,
We're sinners and a lot of people out there, they're unsure.
They, for them, maybe not for the most part, but a lot of people who are humble,
they understand that they're on their way to hell and they need to save you.
But now, verse three in a Psalm 77.
Now all of a sudden we see this tonal shift in ASAP.
Look at this.
I remembered God and was troubled.
I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed.
Silla.
And verse four,
that holdest mine eyes waking.
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Like, what's going on with Asaph here?
You know, one moment he's doing the right thing.
He's casting all his cares upon God,
knowing that he's right there.
God's hearing him and he knows the Lord cares.
But now it's, he's troubled by even the thought of God.
To the point he can't even sleep, you know?
He's so troubled, he can't even speak.
Turn to 2nd Timothy chapter 1. So we see one moment
He's casting his cares upon God then the next he's wavering. He's fearful
Whatever he's dealing with at this moment is just ruling his thoughts
Second Timothy chapter number one in verse 7 it says for God have not given to us the spirit of fear but of power
and of love, and of a sound mind.
You know, what we see here with Asaph
is the exact opposite of this verse.
You know, whatever he's dealing with in his life
at this moment, it's now given him the spirit of fear.
And as we're about to see in the following verse,
he definitely doesn't seem like he's sound-minded.
Look at verse number five in Psalm 77.
Verse number five, I have considered the days of old.
The years of ancient times and isn't that
exactly what we do.
You know, things aren't going our way.
Then we start pouting.
We start dwelling on the past.
You know, we start trying to relive our old glory days.
You know, you start having all these old memories,
whether good or bad.
You start thinking about your regrets of the past.
You know, I should've did this, I should've did that.
You start thinking about, oh, when I used to have this job
and made this amount of money, you know,
or, oh, when I didn't have these toddlers running around,
I had so much more peace.
You know, that's selfish, you know?
attitude to have, oh, I wish I could go back to the good old days. Look, those
kinds of thoughts, they aren't wise. You know, we should be striving forward,
looking forward in the Christian life, because those thoughts that creep in and
all of us could have them from time to time, doubts and regrets, they're not of
God though. That's what the Bible is saying in 2nd Timothy chapter 1. God
hasn't given us a spirit of fear, but he gave us a sound mind, and we
should be a sound-minded people.
You know we're better off just forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth under those things which are before us
In Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 10 it says say not now
What is the cause of the former days were better than these for thou does not inquire wisely concerning this
You know these thoughts and attitudes that can spring up from time to time. They aren't wise. They're not of God
Quit dwelling on on your past mistakes, you know, or how good you used to have it compared to now.
Move forward with your life and start working towards something better. You know, being a better person for tomorrow, you know
We can't change the past, you know
And instead of trying to relive the past being bogged down by whatever we just don't have control over
Just look forward forget those things which are behind look forward and march forward with the Christian life be better today
For tomorrow look at verse number six of Psalm 77
Because look, no matter what we do, we can't change the past.
It is what it is.
I call to remembrance my song of the night, verse 6.
I call to remembrance my song of the night.
I commune with my own heart and my spirit-made diligent search.
Will the Lord cast off forever and will He be favorable no more?
Is His mercy clean gone forever?
Doth this promise fail forevermore?
hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies,
Selah, and this is what we as sinful men
do to ourselves, time and time again.
We face any kind of adversity in life
and we immediately wanna throw a pity party.
Oh, woe is me.
Nobody understands what I'm going through.
You know, why me?
God must have forgot about me.
You know, the victim mentality is so prevalent.
in today's society. It is dangerous. We as believers should not be that way, you know,
and it's dangerous for even us who are saved. You know, things just aren't going our way in life
and you start questioning God.
to the point you're just blaming God for all your woes.
You know, sometimes when you're surrounded by burden and pain,
you know, sometimes it's our fault, you know?
Sometimes maybe it's something that we did, you know?
Not every little thing in your life
is the doing of God, okay?
Not every little thing we need to put on God
and start questioning God and whether or not,
oh, why is this happening to me, God?
Why did this happen?
It's your fault.
We should not have that attitude.
You know if there was anyone in the Bible who had even the slightest bit of opportunity to do this
To blame or to curse God for their hardship. It was Job
But you know what he never cursed God. He never blamed God for his misfortune
He may have questioned the circumstances maybe like hey, why is this happening?
Why why have things happened this way, but he was careful to not blame God not even a single time
And we should learn from that because you know bad things happen to good people.
Unfortunately, that's just the way the world is.
Bad things happen to even the best of people.
But how do we know if God isn't using those things for His glory?
What we don't know what tomorrow holds
How do we know God isn't using some misfortune in our life to prove us or to or to show us a good work in our lives?
You know, you know, sometimes maybe God is just trying to get your attention to get our attention
Maybe we're screwing up and don't realize it and he's just trying to snap us out of the rut that we're in like hey
What are you doing? You're just trying to get our attention sometimes
You know sometimes God
Just allows those things just like he did Job he allowed all that stuff to happen
But does that mean that it was his fault? No, not at all
So we can't just have this big pity pity party with God every time something negative comes our way
All right, because you never know if something evil that happens in your life
Or if something hurtful in your life happens as something that God means for good for you
You know just like Joseph, right, you know, sold into bonds by his own brothers, you know
Lied he was lied about by Potiphar's adulterous wife, you know thrown in a prison, but what they all thought for evil
God meant it for good, you know, at the end of Joseph's life, you know, he was a ruler in Egypt,
he, you know, you never know what tomorrow holds. And he had a struggle of a life,
more so than any of us in this room, probably, probably, you know, just being lied about by
potifers, adulterers, I can't even imagine, you know, that is, that's nuts. But there's wicked
people out there that want nothing more than to do something like that to us in this room.
But you know what when evil happens don't blame God for that don't blame God for that
You know, it's also just like this church, you know, I've heard plenty about your guys as troubles
Having leadership flake on you or or drop on on you guys drop out on you guys on a whim, you know in the in the past
I'm sure it brought struggles. I'm sure it brought hard times. I'm sure it kind of hurt, you know
I feel for you, you know, I can kind of relate a little bit
But you know, what if God meant that for good for for this church, you know, you have
a great guy like brother Remy and his wife here to be with you guys and encourage you
guys and preach for you guys.
What if it was God's plan all along to have Remy Thompson here?
You just don't know all the struggles that maybe this church has went through.
It was all for a purpose, it was all for a reason.
What if the entire time this was God's plan for this church?
It's just we can't just live out our lives with just being negative
What I'm trying to say is we just we just never know what God has in store for us
We never know how God can orchestrate things that we might not understand for a time
But that that's where faith comes in, you know, yeah, okay. Have the faith believe on Jesus
You're saved, but what next, you know, you have to do everything in the Christian life by faith every single thing
You come to church every Sunday by faith you give your tithe by faith
You you have the faith that God is gonna bless you for what you do for him
No, his his ways are above our ways his thoughts are above our thoughts
We know all things work together for good to them that love God, but do we actually believe that?
Do we actually trust that, you know?
We need to learn a little something from Job.
And even when we're in the midst of difficult circumstances and trials,
we still need to give God the glory he deserves.
And now in verse 10, we're going to see ASAP finally understand this, finally get this.
Look at verse 10, and I said, this is my infirmity, but...
will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. I will remember the
works of the Lord. Surely I will remember
by wonders of old. Look, we have the Bible for a reason. We have all these stories of all the
workings of God throughout human history for a reason. Don't forget creation. Don't forget the
Hebrew Exodus and the plagues that were brought upon Egypt or when the Red Sea was parted or the
war against Amalek. You know, don't forget when they wandered through the wilderness 40 years and
no one's shoes went old and how the Lord fed them all their days. You know, don't forget the walls
Don't forget when Samson slew a thousand men
with the jaw bone of an ass.
Don't forget things like that.
Even the small stories.
Don't forget when Elijah slew the prophets of Baal.
Remember the wonders of old.
Remember all the miracles Jesus did.
Remember Lazarus coming back from the dead.
Remember the death, the burial and resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
Remember when Jesus fed multitudes,
turned water into wine.
Remember when you were born again.
Remember when God made a new creature inside of you.
sealing you with the Holy Spirit of promise.
Remember all these things.
What are these things there for?
To encourage us, to help us remember
that God's on our side,
that God's got our back no matter what.
But we need to have faith.
We need to make sure that we're trusting his works,
that we're trusting that he is in our lives
and that he will bless us.
Read your Bible.
Remember these things.
This will help you and uplift you
in times of sorrow and turmoil.
You know, doubt is natural for a simple man.
You know, your mind from time to time
is gonna be filled with doubt.
But just when you think, has God forgotten?
Remember these things and realize,
no, God has not forgotten.
I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, God said.
That is a promise.
God's not slack concerning his promise.
As we are, as men.
Remember, once saved, always saved.
You know, remember, God can't lie.
He remembers his promises.
Look at verse 12.
I will meditate also of all thy work
and talk of thy doings.
Keep your finger there,
but turn to Deuteronomy chapter six.
I will meditate also of all thy work
and talk of thy doings.
Hey, talk about the Bible with your family at home.
With your children, with your friends.
Hey call up a brother or sister in Christ just talking about the Bible, you know make conversation about the things of God
Ghost go soul-winning, you know force yourself to talk to strangers about the things of God
That's that's what soul-winning is, right?
You're forcing yourself to talk to someone that you've never met a day in your life
And what are you gonna show them the wonderful works of God and what he did for them?
Look at Deuteronomy 6 look at verse 4
4 through 9 it says hero Israel
The Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sitest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou riseest up, and thou shalt bind them, circle that word in your Bibles if you like, bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes, and thou shalt
write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates.
God is teaching us, he is telling us to have his words
to be commonplace in our lives.
You know, our day-to-day should consist of something
to do with the things of God.
You know, every day, all day.
I mean, I know it's a little hard being in the workforce
and having to succumb to the course of this world,
having to be in the workplace with a bunch of simple people,
hearing all the filthy conversation in the wicked,
but dwell on the things of God.
It helps.
God said,
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.
Have a time when you're telling your kids about Jesus.
Talk of them when thou sit us in thine house
at the dinner table.
Well now walk us by the way while you're taking an even stroll with your family
Talk of the Bible when that will lie us down and rise us up. God should be at the forefront of our minds every day
Every night
That's what God is talking about when he says bind them for a sign and they shall be frontlets between your eyes
God wants our hearts. God wants your heart. You know, he wants specifically your heart
So set aside some time of the day for him
You know, he is our father for a reason,
and we need to go to him as his children
on a day to day basis.
I think, you know, and maybe it's just me,
but I feel like one of the hardest things to do
is actually have a solid prayer life.
You know, you kind of just throw it aside
and you don't really think about it,
but God wants your time.
He wants some time for you to commune with him.
Look at verse 13 of Psalm 77
Thy way, oh God is in the sanctuary
Who is so great a God as our God none? That's the answer there the answer is none
There is no other God all the other gods are lowercase g gods if you want go to Psalms 96
There's a few pages forward in your Bibles Psalm 96
And look at verse number four
Psalm 96 verse 4 through 5 for the Lord is
great and
Greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods lowercase g gods for all the gods of the nations are idols
But the Lord made the heavens
In Proverbs 21, verse 30, it says there is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.
He is the God. He is the Almighty. He is the Redeemer.
He is the Lord of all. He is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
Nothing else in this world, no other false religion out there, can even hold a candle to Christianity.
If you notice, everything else is just a bunch of copycats, just a bunch of phony nonsense.
You know, they all pretend to be powerful, but if you've noticed, if you've done any sort of study on, you know, just theology of, you know, all these other religions,
you know, all these lowercase G gods of all these other religions, they always have human flaws.
Have you noticed that?
You know, they're all liars, manipulators,
they all have some sort of limitation.
You know, the God of the sea, the God of rain,
God of love, God of trickery.
It's like, why?
You know, all these different pagan gods, why?
Because they're all made with man's hands.
They're all conjured up by man's vain thoughts.
You know, and in fact, they're all just a bunch of devils too.
There are all bunch of devils at these people are worshiping in other religions
Look at verse 14 of Psalm 77
Psalm 77 so we serve the true God the God of the Bible is the true God
All these other religions bunch of phonies and copycats
You know our God is the God of the sea the God of love. He's all he's all of them combined into one
He is the true God. He stomps over all of them
Look at verse 14
Now art the God that do us wonders that was declared thy strength among the people
Look at Psalm 18 if you would just handful of pages backward look at Psalm 18
Now art the God that do us wonders that was declared thy strength among the people look at verse number one of Psalm 18
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
Psalm 18, verse one,
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
my God, my strength in whom I will trust my buckler
and the horn of my salvation and my high tower.
Look, he's the God of all.
He is the Lord of all.
Go forward, Psalm 46.
Psalm 46 look at verse one Psalm 46 verse one
God is our refuge and strength. So don't forget this next part of that verse
God is our refuge and strength a
Very present help in trouble
You know, God is our refuge. He's our strength our deliverer our rock
He's a very present help and trouble remember to cast all your care upon him for he cared for you
Therefore, will we not fear?
Though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried in the midst of the sea though the waters are of roar and be troubled
Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof sea law though
It seems like the world is crashing around us, you know wars and rumors of wars
senseless acts of violence especially recently right you know in today's modern times a bunch of senseless acts of violence going on out
There taking place in this country, you know go ahead be angry sin not but don't fret either
Don't be worried about these things because you know what the Bible told us that
Perilous time shall come for men shall be lovers of them their own selves
That is the day that we live in today
Where people would rather worship themselves and
Worship the creature rather than the Creator
But don't don't fear those things fret not don't worry because God is greater than our worries and our troubles
Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 12
Asaph wrote in Psalm 73 verse 26 my flesh and my heart fail if
But God is the strength of my heart in my portion forever
He is the strength of my heart
Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 12 look at verse 9 and he said unto me my grace is
sufficient for the
for my strength is made perfect in weakness, you know,
and then it goes on to say,
most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities,
that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
As time like these, we need our savior,
we need our rock.
When we're weak, we need the power of Christ to rest upon us,
you know, or when times are,
When times are worrisome, you know, we got to look to God because our our weakness is made is made perfect
Through him or his strength is made perfect through our weaknesses. Look at verse 15 of Psalm 77
Go back to Psalm 77
In verse 15 asaf writes thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people
The sons of Jacob and Joseph see law always remember we aren't redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold
But with the precious blood of Christ were redeemed. He is our refuge and strength in
Luke chapter 1 verse 68
It says bless be the Lord God of Israel for he have visited and redeemed his people turn to Romans chapter 9
Remember if you're saved this evening
Remember you're a child of the living God. He'll never leave me nor forsake thee
He's visited and redeemed his people. You're part of the you're part of that his people if you're saved
We are through Christ the people of God. Amen
Romans chapter 9 look at verse 25 as he say if also an OC, which is Hosea
I will call them my people which were not my people and her beloved which was not beloved
And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said unto them,
You are not my people.
There shall they be called the children of the living God."
You see, this is what Asaph started to remember.
He started to remember, you know, after...
after this wrestling match in his mind,
as we all in this room can fall victim to from time to time.
After dealing with sorrow and questioning God
with all of his doubts, you know, it's just like us.
We have doubts in our lives,
but we need to be like Asaph.
Remember whom we serve in those times.
The God of the Bible,
who is able to make all who call upon him
children of the living God.
We serve the living God.
We serve Jesus Christ.
The giver of life, the defeater of death.
Back to Psalm 77, Psalm 77, in verse 16.
The water saw thee, O God, the water saw thee.
They were afraid, the depths also were troubled.
The clouds poured out water. The sky sent out a sound.
Thine arrows also went abroad.
The voice of Thy thunder was in the heaven.
The lightnings lightened the world. The earth trembled and shook.
This reminds me of the song David sings in 2 Samuel chapter 22.
If you would just turn your Bibles there real quick.
2 Samuel 22
So Asaph wrote the voice of thy thunder was in heaven the lightning's light in the world the earth trembled and shook look at verse
See you look at verse 7 and 2nd Samuel 22
In my distress I called upon the Lord
and cried to my God and he did hear my voice out of his temple and my cry did
enter into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of
heaven moved and shook because he was rough.
Look, don't forget that our God is a terrible God, the Bible says.
Not terrible the way we use that word today, you know, but terrible as he instills terror.
He is someone to be feared.
Creation itself trembles at his presence, the Bible saying.
Have a healthy fear of God as, even as a believer.
You know, yes, we have no fear of death as the heathen do because we know once you're
saved, you're always saved, amen.
Yes, we understand that.
Again, we don't have fear in regards to what man can do or the workings of Satan that he does in this world
Because we take comfort in knowing we have the promise of heaven in store for us through Jesus Christ our Savior
But the fear of the Lord remember is the beginning of wisdom the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
So yes, it's a wise thing to fear God and like some people out there want to claim right now
Yes, he can and will chastise the believer.
The chastisement of the believer is a real thing, okay?
There's no way you could twist that.
It says, if you be without chastisement, we're of all our partakers, then what?
You're a bastard.
There's no way to twist that you know if you're a child of God you will get spanked from time to time because you know
What we're all sinners we all fall out of line sometimes and sometimes like I said earlier
God needs to get our attention. He needs to correct us. All right all of his parents in the room know exactly how that goes with our kids
It's just you know, we do that with our with our children. Come on
God is a much more loving parent than we are to our kids and we correct our kids. Of course God's gonna correct us
Okay
But we're told not to despise the chastening of the Lord. The Bible says for whom the Lord loveth,
he chasteneth, and scourges every son whom he receiveth.
Blessed is the man whom thou chasteneth, O Lord, and teaches him out of thy law.
The fear, this fear is the fear a son should have of his dad when he steps out of line.
It's a fear that breeds correction in your life.
It's not the fear like some Catholic has, you know, where they think they'll lose their salvation or something and they got to do all their
Hail Marys or whatever. No, once a son, you're always a son. Once you're saved, you're always saved. Turn to Mark chapter four.
And I'm going to read the rest of Psalm 77 for us. I'm going to wrap this up. Like I said, it's a shorter sermon.
It says thy way is in the sea, in thy path, in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Thou letst thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Look, the Lord is always going to make a way through for us.
You know, through all the hard times, through all tribulations and persecutions we might go through in this life.
You know, he is always there to provide for us
and make a way through it all.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13,
it says,
there hath no temptation taken you,
but such as is common to man.
But God is faithful who will not suffer you
or allow you to be tempted above that you are able,
but will with the temptation also make a way to escape
that you may be able to bear it.
So whatever sins we're dealing with,
Whatever troubles that come our way, he always has a way out for us.
Look down at your Bibles at Mark chapter 4, verse 36.
I'm sure a lot of us in this room know this.
We all know it.
Mark chapter 4, look at verse 36.
And when they had sent away the multitude,
they took him even as he was in the ship.
And there were also with other little ships.
And there arose a great storm of wind,
and the waves beat into the ship so that it was now full.
And he was in the hinder part of the ship asleep on a pillow and they awake him and say on him master
Carousel not that we perish. Isn't that us? Is it wasn't a staff in the beginning of Psalm 77?
Have you forgot God?
Do you not care anymore?
And then look what Jesus said and he arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea peace be still
And the winds and the wind ceased and there was a great calm and he said unto them. Why are ye so fearful?
How is it that ye have no faith?
And that would that was a staff in the beginning of that song
He had these fears. He had these troubles. He was blaming God almost
questioning God
For the trials that he was dealing with in his life, and that is just like us in this room
We could fall victim to that too. Well, what is Jesus saying? Why are we so fearful?
Is it that we have no faith?
You know storms in life come
You know even the people who were with Jesus in the flesh had doubts
We know it just like the father of the son who had that dumb spirit tormenting him
You know just a handful of chapters after this in mark form
What did that father say?
It said, with tears, he said,
Lord, I believe.
Help thou mine unbelief.
You know, do we have that kind of faith
to conquer the storms in life when they come?
You know, storms aren't forever.
Storms pass by, but we need to stay rooted and grounded.
We need to be rooted and grounded on that sure foundation that we know that God is always going to provide a way through for us
You know and and after reading Psalm 77
Reading the humanity a staff displays with his own troubles and sorrows and even doubts that
That's the question. I want to leave you guys with
Although troubles come
Although you suffer reproach from friends
family
People outside of this church, when the storms come, do you have the faith in Almighty God still have peace?
To be still on the sure foundation of our rock, the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what matters most in times of trouble because they will come.
Everybody deals with them. That's just the Christian life, but we need to be sure. We need our feet.
sure on that solid rock on that solid ground, amen.
Let's pray.
Dear Lord God, I thank you for this church.
I thank you for the soul that called upon your name
for salvation earlier today, Lord.
I just pray that you would be with him
and lead him to this church, Lord, to get plugged in
and to learn about you and to be discipled up
and be baptized here, Lord.
Again, I thank you for this church.
I thank you for everyone who showed up tonight.
I thank you for...
the kindness that was displayed to to to myself and my family. Lord, I just pray
for this church that it continues to grow, that the people here would continue
to press forward and not be not be fearful of any sort of thing that might
come their way, Lord, but that they would be sure and rooted and grounded in You,
Lord, and that they would always press forward, continue to go soul-winning. And I
and I just pray that you will bless them for their efforts, bless this church,
bless the fellowship after the service. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
All right, if you want to take your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 410.
Page number 410. Faith is the victory.
It's page over 410.
comes the world. Faith is the victory. Faith is the victory. Oh glorious victory that
overcomes the world. His banner over us, his love, our sword, the word of God. We
tread the road, the saints above, with shouts of triumph trod. By faith they
Subdolar of refill, the faith by which they conquer death is still our shining shield.
Faith is the victory, faith is the victory, all the glory is victory.
Bands of ease be left behind onward to the fray.
Salvation's helmet on each head, with truth all gurn about.
The earth shall tremble beneath our tread, and echo with our shout.
To him that overcomes the foe, white raiment shall be giv'd
Before the angels he shall know his name confessed in heaven.
I'd excellent seeing everybody, but the remedy please close this award for her.
Yeah, thank you so much.
The great server we hear God, thank you so much for everything you do for us.
God, I just pray that we take concern of our God
and that we would always trust on you and go to you first
or in trial and tribulation this life, right?
And I just pray that we always, through the doubts and through the fears
and through the pain that we suffer through in this life, always look to you.
God, know that...
You work everything to get it for good, and we can always count on you as our rock and as our savior.
Just stay great, and that's good.