1 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:10,440 S1: I have a strong inclination, a rock ribbed belief that 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,879 S1: in Proverbs we are told to trust in the Lord 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,960 S1: with all our heart, and that the Book of Psalms 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,240 S1: shows us how to do that. It works it out 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,400 S1: for us. And today at the Radio Backyard Fence, pastor 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,560 S1: and author doctor H. B Charles takes us to the 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,680 S1: Psalms to show us how to develop a stubborn trust 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,720 S1: in God. It's the kind of trust that allows you 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,440 S1: and me to bring our complaints, our sorrows, the struggles 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,680 S1: of daily life to the one who sees us, who 11 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,440 S1: hears us, and who cares. On Facebook, I ask this question. 12 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,720 S1: What Psalm speaks to what you're going through today? Do 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,879 S1: you have an answer to that? Go to our Facebook 14 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,520 S1: page or give us a call. We'd love to hear 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,040 S1: from you and don't miss our featured resource at the website. 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,740 S1: Chris Fabry live.org. Psalms of trust by our guest. We'll 17 00:01:01,740 --> 00:01:04,340 S1: talk about it straight ahead here on the program. From 18 00:01:04,340 --> 00:01:06,620 S1: the heart to the heart for the heart. Thank you 19 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:09,259 S1: to our team, Ryan McConaughey. Doing all things technical. Trish 20 00:01:09,260 --> 00:01:11,940 S1: is our producer out today. Lisa's in the chair. Josh 21 00:01:11,940 --> 00:01:14,860 S1: will be answering your calls. 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He is senior pastor of 45 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,640 S1: the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, author of 46 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,040 S1: a number of books, including It Happens After Prayer on 47 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,540 S1: Preaching the Difference Jesus Makes. You can find out more 48 00:02:57,540 --> 00:03:00,500 S1: about him. He has a podcast. Just go to Chris 49 00:03:00,540 --> 00:03:04,780 S1: Fabry live.org. We will link to his website. Our featured 50 00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:08,419 S1: resource today, as I said, is Psalms of trust. Living 51 00:03:08,419 --> 00:03:12,700 S1: with confidence in God at all times. Doctor Charles, welcome 52 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:14,500 S1: back to the program. How are you doing today. 53 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:17,580 S2: Chris? All is well and it's a great joy to 54 00:03:17,580 --> 00:03:18,940 S2: be with you. Thanks for having me. 55 00:03:19,460 --> 00:03:22,220 S1: Do you agree with my opening statement about Proverbs three 56 00:03:22,220 --> 00:03:24,620 S1: and the song showing us how to trust him? 57 00:03:25,380 --> 00:03:29,980 S2: I think that is a great, great statement. Psalm Proverbs 58 00:03:29,980 --> 00:03:33,220 S2: three five and six really is a life passage for me. 59 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:38,140 S2: And I do agree that that reality of wholehearted trust 60 00:03:38,140 --> 00:03:41,420 S2: in God is fleshed out in the Psalms that teach 61 00:03:41,460 --> 00:03:44,220 S2: us what it means to live with confidence, with God 62 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:46,020 S2: and God in every season of life. 63 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:48,540 S1: And I hear a lot of we have a lot 64 00:03:48,540 --> 00:03:51,260 S1: of conversations, and I'll hear people call in and they'll say, 65 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:54,940 S1: you know, I'm angry or I'm upset and I'm I'm 66 00:03:54,940 --> 00:03:58,170 S1: sorry because, you know, I shouldn't feel this way as 67 00:03:58,170 --> 00:04:01,210 S1: a Christian. It's like, well, read the Psalms. You got 68 00:04:01,210 --> 00:04:04,490 S1: everything in there. He can handle whatever it is that 69 00:04:04,490 --> 00:04:06,610 S1: you're going through. That's one of the things I pick 70 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:08,450 S1: up from the Psalms. What do you think? 71 00:04:09,330 --> 00:04:13,050 S2: So I often say that the Book of Psalms is 72 00:04:13,050 --> 00:04:18,210 S2: my favorite book, period. Um, it's my favorite book because 73 00:04:18,210 --> 00:04:21,330 S2: it is the most honest book I've ever read. You know, 74 00:04:21,650 --> 00:04:24,210 S2: almost in the same Psalm, you can catch the psalmist saying, Lord, 75 00:04:24,210 --> 00:04:27,770 S2: I praise you. And where are you? You know, um, 76 00:04:27,850 --> 00:04:31,609 S2: it addresses all of life from the highest of highs 77 00:04:31,610 --> 00:04:34,890 S2: to the lowest of lows. There is a old book 78 00:04:34,890 --> 00:04:40,450 S2: by Warren Weathersbee on selected Psalms that is called Meet 79 00:04:40,450 --> 00:04:43,729 S2: Yourself in the Psalms. And I love that title because 80 00:04:43,770 --> 00:04:48,010 S2: it's absolutely true. As you read the Psalms, if you 81 00:04:48,010 --> 00:04:51,090 S2: just keep reading at some point, uh, if you are 82 00:04:51,130 --> 00:04:56,110 S2: going through a season of blessings or a period of suffering, 83 00:04:56,110 --> 00:04:58,750 S2: you'll inevitably meet yourself in the Psalms. 84 00:04:59,550 --> 00:05:05,510 S1: Is there a problem in isolating verses from the Psalms 85 00:05:05,510 --> 00:05:09,349 S1: and taking one verse and making that, you know, the 86 00:05:09,350 --> 00:05:11,550 S1: thing that you remember? Because I've got a bunch of 87 00:05:11,550 --> 00:05:13,630 S1: them that I that I do that with. What do 88 00:05:13,630 --> 00:05:14,070 S1: you say? 89 00:05:14,870 --> 00:05:19,669 S2: Sure. I, um, I think there is a real place 90 00:05:20,270 --> 00:05:27,270 S2: for memorizing and holding fast to particular verses in the Psalms. 91 00:05:27,270 --> 00:05:29,830 S2: In fact, this is one of the reasons why so 92 00:05:29,830 --> 00:05:35,990 S2: many Christians love the Psalms. It's not, uh, the Psalms 93 00:05:35,990 --> 00:05:40,990 S2: in their entirety, but when they think of the Psalms, verses, lines, 94 00:05:40,990 --> 00:05:44,510 S2: statements come to mind and there is absolutely nothing wrong 95 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:47,710 S2: with that. But, uh, when, when I was a boy 96 00:05:47,710 --> 00:05:50,870 S2: in school, you did not want to play basketball at 97 00:05:50,870 --> 00:05:54,690 S2: recess with the guys who would cherry pick. That is, 98 00:05:54,730 --> 00:05:57,730 S2: they would on one end play offense and not come 99 00:05:57,730 --> 00:06:00,970 S2: down and play defense. They just wanted to score and 100 00:06:00,970 --> 00:06:04,409 S2: not play any D. And if you read the Psalms 101 00:06:04,410 --> 00:06:06,650 S2: or any part of the scriptures like that, you'll find 102 00:06:06,650 --> 00:06:10,250 S2: yourself doing the same thing where you pick the verses 103 00:06:10,250 --> 00:06:13,010 S2: that you like and don't get a sense of the 104 00:06:13,010 --> 00:06:17,490 S2: message of the Psalm in its entirety. Sure. For instance, 105 00:06:17,490 --> 00:06:21,450 S2: in Psalm 23, I need to be reminded about the 106 00:06:21,450 --> 00:06:25,409 S2: still waters and the green pastures, but I also need 107 00:06:25,529 --> 00:06:28,409 S2: to be reminded about the valley of the shadow of 108 00:06:28,410 --> 00:06:32,089 S2: death and the presence of enemies at the table. 109 00:06:32,570 --> 00:06:36,090 S1: MM. Absolutely. One of my favorites that I keep going 110 00:06:36,089 --> 00:06:41,050 S1: back to is Psalm 138, the eighth verse. The Lord 111 00:06:41,050 --> 00:06:45,610 S1: will fulfill his purpose for me. Your steadfast love, oh Lord, 112 00:06:45,610 --> 00:06:48,810 S1: endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. 113 00:06:49,010 --> 00:06:51,909 S1: And even in there you get that tension of God 114 00:06:51,910 --> 00:06:55,270 S1: is going to do his. He's got a good. For me. 115 00:06:55,270 --> 00:06:58,390 S1: He's got his purpose for me. And yet at the 116 00:06:58,390 --> 00:07:02,270 S1: same time the psalmist says, don't forsake the work of 117 00:07:02,270 --> 00:07:05,110 S1: your hands. Well, if there's not that tension on the 118 00:07:05,110 --> 00:07:07,710 S1: inside of me, you don't have to say that that 119 00:07:07,710 --> 00:07:10,990 S1: last line. But there is. Because we're human, right? 120 00:07:11,350 --> 00:07:14,670 S2: Yeah. This is the language of the father who brings 121 00:07:14,670 --> 00:07:17,710 S2: his suffering child to Jesus and says, I believe, help 122 00:07:17,710 --> 00:07:22,670 S2: my unbelief. We we are we are often in that 123 00:07:22,670 --> 00:07:26,230 S2: same predicament. We believe. And yet we need the Lord 124 00:07:26,230 --> 00:07:30,710 S2: to help us deal with our unbelief and the tension 125 00:07:30,710 --> 00:07:36,270 S2: in the Psalms between um, confidence and petition, uh, really 126 00:07:36,270 --> 00:07:40,750 S2: does remind us of the reality of faith that's ambidextrous. 127 00:07:40,790 --> 00:07:44,230 S2: You know, true faith, uh, has to be able to 128 00:07:44,270 --> 00:07:47,070 S2: take blessing in one hand and suffering in the other 129 00:07:47,070 --> 00:07:50,290 S2: hand and hold those hands together with confidence that all 130 00:07:50,290 --> 00:07:52,370 S2: things work together for the good of those who love 131 00:07:52,410 --> 00:07:54,490 S2: God and are called according to his purpose. 132 00:07:54,890 --> 00:07:58,530 S1: And isn't it true that many times what we call 133 00:07:58,570 --> 00:08:03,530 S1: bad or suffering becomes the blessing? It changes hands? 134 00:08:04,690 --> 00:08:13,450 S2: Absolutely. The suffering becomes a means to blessing or suffering 135 00:08:13,690 --> 00:08:18,170 S2: shapes or cleanses our perspective on what it means to 136 00:08:18,210 --> 00:08:22,130 S2: be blessed or suffering teaches us to put our confidence 137 00:08:22,130 --> 00:08:26,730 S2: in the source of the blessing, not the blessing itself. God. 138 00:08:26,890 --> 00:08:31,690 S2: God uses our sufferings and our trials and our hardships 139 00:08:32,090 --> 00:08:35,890 S2: to get us to look beyond ourselves and others and 140 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:39,329 S2: our surroundings, and look to the hills and remember that 141 00:08:39,330 --> 00:08:42,370 S2: our help comes from the Lord who created heaven and earth. 142 00:08:42,770 --> 00:08:45,290 S1: Okay, there he is. He's going through him already. So 143 00:08:45,290 --> 00:08:48,790 S1: we heard Psalm 23. You got Psalm 121 right there. 144 00:08:48,990 --> 00:08:51,230 S1: Where's my help? That's one of my favorite songs. It's 145 00:08:51,230 --> 00:08:57,510 S1: so good. Oh, so you take ten of these? 323. 46, 91. 146 00:08:57,550 --> 00:09:04,030 S1: It almost sounds like we're playing football. Psalm 27. Psalm 733442. 147 00:09:04,070 --> 00:09:08,950 S1: 121 and 11. You take those ten psalms and you 148 00:09:08,990 --> 00:09:11,870 S1: work them out. You flesh them out on the page 149 00:09:11,870 --> 00:09:15,150 S1: in a new book that is titled Psalms of Trust 150 00:09:15,150 --> 00:09:19,790 S1: Living with Confidence in God at All Times. Highly recommended. 151 00:09:19,790 --> 00:09:22,790 S1: We have a link to it at Chris Fabry live.org. 152 00:09:22,870 --> 00:09:26,910 S1: It's by HB Charles Jr, pastor, author and you're going 153 00:09:26,950 --> 00:09:29,390 S1: to hear more from him. Get out a pencil and 154 00:09:29,390 --> 00:09:30,790 S1: a piece of paper because you're going to want to 155 00:09:30,790 --> 00:09:38,110 S1: take notes today. And if you have a response (877) 548-3675. 156 00:09:46,710 --> 00:09:49,970 S1: No matter how old, how young, the circumstances of your life, 157 00:09:49,970 --> 00:09:55,050 S1: whatever you are going through, the Psalms speak to that. 158 00:09:55,050 --> 00:09:57,970 S1: And Reverend H. P Charles Jr, senior pastor of the 159 00:09:57,970 --> 00:10:01,290 S1: Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, is with us today. 160 00:10:01,330 --> 00:10:04,650 S1: His new book is Psalms of Trust. He's taking these 161 00:10:04,650 --> 00:10:07,970 S1: ten Psalms and kind of flesh them out and put 162 00:10:07,970 --> 00:10:10,770 S1: them before us. And I guarantee you, there's something, probably 163 00:10:10,770 --> 00:10:13,570 S1: something we've already talked about, encouraged you. But there's something 164 00:10:13,570 --> 00:10:18,370 S1: coming up here for you today, whatever your circumstance. And 165 00:10:18,370 --> 00:10:21,890 S1: that's my question to you on Facebook. Is there something 166 00:10:21,890 --> 00:10:26,170 S1: going on in your life that the Psalms have spoken to? 167 00:10:26,210 --> 00:10:28,090 S1: You know what Psalm speaks to what you're going through 168 00:10:28,090 --> 00:10:31,170 S1: right now. Uh, and if you have that question, you 169 00:10:31,170 --> 00:10:36,850 S1: want to talk with Doctor Charles, you can call us (877) 548-3675. 170 00:10:36,890 --> 00:10:40,610 S1: I noticed that the translation in the book is the ESV. 171 00:10:40,890 --> 00:10:42,969 S1: Is that your favorite translation? 172 00:10:44,170 --> 00:10:49,240 S2: It is my favorite translation the year that translation came out, 173 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,800 S2: I think 2001. I read through it and said, I'll 174 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,000 S2: try it out for a few Sundays between sermon series, 175 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,360 S2: and I have been preaching from it ever since. I 176 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:05,880 S2: use it for both my meditation and memorization. Memorization of Scripture. My. 177 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,440 S2: My word work and my public teaching. 178 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,840 S1: I love it too. And I wasn't a big ESV user. 179 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,120 S1: I read CSB and I grew up on King James, 180 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,440 S1: you know. And who can. You cannot do Psalm 23 181 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,480 S1: without hearkening back to the majesty of that Elizabethan language 182 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,480 S1: in Psalm 23. But I just found that the ESV 183 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,440 S1: really hits there. There are some times when I wonder, 184 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,480 S1: why did they use that word? And I'll go to 185 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,120 S1: Bible Gateway and see, you know, what? What is the 186 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,000 S1: NIV say? And NASB and King James, etc. just to 187 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,800 S1: see what was the different take on this word that 188 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,580 S1: what it means. But I just feel like the ESV 189 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:50,540 S1: reads so well. I when I was a teenager, they 190 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:53,140 S1: used to let me read scripture every now and then 191 00:11:53,420 --> 00:11:56,860 S1: and have me go up there. And I was reading 192 00:11:56,860 --> 00:12:00,740 S1: a Psalm one day and doing it very dramatically. And 193 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:03,740 S1: I came to this. We could we could even do the. 194 00:12:03,780 --> 00:12:07,900 S1: On Psalm 46, you know, though its waters roar and foam, 195 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:12,220 S1: though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah. I said, 196 00:12:12,380 --> 00:12:17,380 S1: say la. And afterward the organist who taught music at the. 197 00:12:17,420 --> 00:12:20,380 S1: At the college that I eventually went to, he got 198 00:12:20,380 --> 00:12:22,940 S1: his doctorate in the bassoon. Believe it or not, he 199 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:24,380 S1: came up to me and put his arm around me 200 00:12:24,380 --> 00:12:27,580 S1: and said, Chris, the the. Selah. That word right there, 201 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:31,860 S1: that's a musical notation. It's like fortissimo, you know, that 202 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:35,940 S1: you'd see it's not something you say. It's something for 203 00:12:35,940 --> 00:12:39,260 S1: the musicians to see and to respond to, or for 204 00:12:39,260 --> 00:12:42,340 S1: the reader to respond to, but to, not to say aloud. 205 00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:45,079 S1: And it was the first time anybody had ever told 206 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,360 S1: me that. I just thought, you're supposed to say it. 207 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,800 S1: So do you agree with my the doctor there? 208 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,079 S2: Yeah, I do absolutely agree. There is some disagreement about 209 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:00,080 S2: what the exact meaning is. Um, generally it is assumed 210 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:05,640 S2: that it is a call to pause. Um and either way, 211 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,040 S2: um whatever that musical notation is, um it's probably probably 212 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:16,319 S2: not wise or best to read it into the text. 213 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:18,520 S2: But when you're reading. 214 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:19,760 S1: God knew my heart. 215 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,280 S2: He did indeed. 216 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:22,840 S1: He knew my teenage heart. 217 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:23,240 S2: Yeah. 218 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,200 S1: Okay. I asked you before because I watched this, uh, 219 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,520 S1: podcast that you did. Are you doing Psalms in the summer? 220 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,240 S1: Summer Psalms this year. 221 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,319 S2: I just finished the summer Psalm series, which usually happens 222 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,300 S2: in the month of July here at our church. And, um. What? 223 00:13:42,340 --> 00:13:45,220 S2: Wherever I am, it just happens. This year I am 224 00:13:45,220 --> 00:13:49,380 S2: between series. But wherever I am in my preaching diet, we, uh, 225 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:52,500 S2: we stop and do selected Psalms. I've been doing that 226 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:55,020 S2: for a number of years. Quietly, I hope the Lord 227 00:13:55,020 --> 00:13:57,660 S2: lets me press on that I can get through most, 228 00:13:57,660 --> 00:13:59,740 S2: if not all of the Psalms. That's a big task. 229 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:04,020 S2: But yeah, every summer I am working on selected Psalms. 230 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:08,900 S1: You said in that podcast that your preaching changed when 231 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:12,380 S1: you took a class on the Psalms, and the instructor 232 00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:15,020 S1: said to, you need to take it. Much like what 233 00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:17,939 S1: we were saying, don't isolate the verses. Take it all 234 00:14:17,980 --> 00:14:23,180 S1: as one work so that you work through the whole thing, right? 235 00:14:23,980 --> 00:14:28,380 S2: Yeah. I um, my father, under whose preaching I was 236 00:14:28,380 --> 00:14:33,500 S2: converted and nurtured, my father was a historical hero as 237 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:37,580 S2: a preacher was Charles Spurgeon. And Spurgeon most famously preached 238 00:14:37,780 --> 00:14:41,920 S2: from typically one verse. That is how my dad preached. 239 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,200 S2: My dad did not preach in series, but he often 240 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,400 S2: preached psalms, and he would preach a verse from the 241 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:52,360 S2: psalm or a line from the Psalm. And many of 242 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,080 S2: his friends preached the same way that he invited. So 243 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,320 S2: my hearing of the Psalms were on selected verses. And 244 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,760 S2: when I took this class on preaching the Psalms and 245 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,680 S2: the teacher, the Prof. Emphasized the importance of reading the 246 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,920 S2: Psalms as a as a unit of thought. Uh, it 247 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,880 S2: really did change and affect my reading of the Psalms, 248 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,920 S2: my study of the Psalms, and my preaching of the Psalms. So, um, 249 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,560 S2: for instance, this past month I preached Psalm 90, which 250 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,840 S2: is a long psalm. Um, I, um, I've, I've, I've 251 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,680 S2: tried to take them as a unit so that you 252 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,240 S2: can get the highs and the lows, the ups and 253 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,000 S2: the downs of the thought of the psalmist over the 254 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,700 S2: course of, um, the verses of the Psalm. I think 255 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:42,540 S2: that is the best way to study the Psalms. 256 00:15:42,860 --> 00:15:46,900 S1: That's really good. That's really good. And I've asked you, 257 00:15:46,940 --> 00:15:50,100 S1: since there are ten Psalms in the book, I've asked you, 258 00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:53,140 S1: can we go through since this program, we get to 259 00:15:53,180 --> 00:15:55,540 S1: slow down here in the afternoon a little bit. You 260 00:15:55,540 --> 00:15:58,740 S1: don't have time to, you know, read 15 verses on 261 00:15:58,780 --> 00:16:01,300 S1: most programs, but boy howdy, we're going to do it today. 262 00:16:01,740 --> 00:16:05,740 S1: I've asked you to go to Psalm 46, which has 263 00:16:05,740 --> 00:16:09,660 S1: the inscription to the choirmaster of the sons of Korah. 264 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,940 S1: And if I read, if you read the Old Testament 265 00:16:12,940 --> 00:16:15,500 S1: and you see the sons of Korah, the sons of 266 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:18,260 S1: Korah have kind of a heart. It's like, I wouldn't 267 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:21,260 S1: want my name to be sons of Korah with all 268 00:16:21,260 --> 00:16:25,180 S1: that happened to them. Why did they include themselves in that? 269 00:16:26,060 --> 00:16:31,420 S2: Well, this is another picture of God's redeeming and rescuing grace, 270 00:16:31,420 --> 00:16:35,860 S2: is it not? Cora, um, is not a name that 271 00:16:35,860 --> 00:16:40,280 S2: you would want to be associated with. But God used 272 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:46,160 S2: these sons of Korah as a Levitical ministers who had 273 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:51,080 S2: some role in the preparation and leading of musical praise 274 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,120 S2: in the corporate assembly of God. Uh, that's that's his 275 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,080 S2: skewing and transforming grace. That is the only reason any 276 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,080 S2: of us get to do anything for the Lord. 277 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,400 S1: Bingo. And if you're listening today and you say, well, 278 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,639 S1: you know, you have a better relationship because you you 279 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,800 S1: guys are perfect. He said, no, no, no. The sin 280 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,600 S1: separates us from God. H b and me. We're all 281 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,400 S1: in the same boat. It's his grace and his mercy 282 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,440 S1: that restores us and gives us the ability to have 283 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,840 S1: a relationship with him. So that's the first thing. So 284 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,560 S1: listen to that. Second thing is, I want you to 285 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,200 S1: read Psalm 46 in its entirety. And friend, if you're 286 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,800 S1: driving on the road, if you're listening in your, on your, 287 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,270 S1: in your home or you listen to the podcast, Just 288 00:17:36,270 --> 00:17:39,070 S1: just slow down and I want you to listen to 289 00:17:39,109 --> 00:17:44,550 S1: HB read these verses from the scriptures. Psalm 46. Here 290 00:17:44,550 --> 00:17:44,990 S1: we go. 291 00:17:46,550 --> 00:17:51,830 S2: Psalm 46. To the choirmaster of the sons of Korah, 292 00:17:52,430 --> 00:18:01,590 S2: according to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, 293 00:18:02,430 --> 00:18:09,389 S2: a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear. 294 00:18:10,150 --> 00:18:13,910 S2: Though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved 295 00:18:13,910 --> 00:18:18,390 S2: into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar 296 00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:24,990 S2: and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. There 297 00:18:24,990 --> 00:18:29,750 S2: is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, 298 00:18:30,150 --> 00:18:34,470 S2: the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in 299 00:18:34,470 --> 00:18:38,290 S2: the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God 300 00:18:38,290 --> 00:18:42,929 S2: will help her when morning dawns. The nations rage. The 301 00:18:42,930 --> 00:18:49,209 S2: kingdoms totter. He utters his voice. The earth melts. The 302 00:18:49,210 --> 00:18:53,770 S2: Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob 303 00:18:53,770 --> 00:19:00,170 S2: is our fortress. Come, behold the works of the Lord. 304 00:19:00,810 --> 00:19:04,530 S2: How he has brought desolations on the earth. He makes 305 00:19:04,570 --> 00:19:09,010 S2: wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks 306 00:19:09,010 --> 00:19:13,330 S2: the bow and shatters the spear. He burns the chariot 307 00:19:13,330 --> 00:19:19,730 S2: with fire. Be still and know that I am God. 308 00:19:20,330 --> 00:19:23,730 S2: I will be exalted among the nations. I will be 309 00:19:23,730 --> 00:19:28,930 S2: exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. 310 00:19:29,530 --> 00:19:34,390 S2: The God of Jacob is our fortress. Amen. 311 00:19:34,750 --> 00:19:38,669 S1: Amen. As you read that, I want to ask you 312 00:19:38,710 --> 00:19:41,230 S1: what you were thinking because you've gone through you've written 313 00:19:41,230 --> 00:19:43,830 S1: about this, but as you read that, you know, each 314 00:19:43,830 --> 00:19:46,830 S1: time you read that something comes to your heart. The 315 00:19:46,830 --> 00:19:50,869 S1: thing that came to my heart is imagine Jesus as 316 00:19:50,869 --> 00:19:53,950 S1: a boy, as a young man, as a teenager in 317 00:19:53,950 --> 00:19:59,670 S1: his 20s, in the carpenter shop. Imagine Jesus reading that 318 00:19:59,670 --> 00:20:05,190 S1: from the scroll and looking at that and realizing who 319 00:20:05,230 --> 00:20:09,150 S1: he is in relation to God the Father. Uh, it 320 00:20:09,150 --> 00:20:11,710 S1: just it kind of boggles the mind, doesn't it? 321 00:20:12,310 --> 00:20:20,270 S2: It does indeed. What came to my mind is verse ten. Uh, we, 322 00:20:20,310 --> 00:20:24,350 S2: we are most familiar with verse one and verse ten 323 00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:28,350 S2: out of Psalm 46, be still and know that I 324 00:20:28,390 --> 00:20:31,830 S2: am God. But after that statement in verse ten, there 325 00:20:31,869 --> 00:20:37,290 S2: are two strong declarations. I will be exalted among the nations. 326 00:20:37,609 --> 00:20:42,290 S2: I will be exalted in the earth. And reading that 327 00:20:42,290 --> 00:20:47,609 S2: verse just now just drew my mind to Philippians chapter two, 328 00:20:47,650 --> 00:20:50,850 S2: verses nine through 11, and reminds us that all of 329 00:20:50,850 --> 00:20:54,290 S2: the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ. There. 330 00:20:54,290 --> 00:20:59,369 S2: Paul says that God has. In fact, after the incarnation 331 00:20:59,369 --> 00:21:04,210 S2: and crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, God has highly exalted 332 00:21:04,210 --> 00:21:07,570 S2: him and has given him the name that is above 333 00:21:07,570 --> 00:21:10,290 S2: every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee 334 00:21:10,290 --> 00:21:12,609 S2: shall bow in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and 335 00:21:12,609 --> 00:21:16,090 S2: every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the 336 00:21:16,090 --> 00:21:18,650 S2: glory of God the Father. So if these sons of 337 00:21:18,690 --> 00:21:23,770 S2: Korah believed that God will be exalted, that God rules 338 00:21:23,770 --> 00:21:26,730 S2: the nations, how much more should we trust this who 339 00:21:26,970 --> 00:21:29,970 S2: live on this side of Christmas, Good Friday and Easter 340 00:21:29,970 --> 00:21:30,870 S2: Sunday morning. 341 00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:36,990 S1: What does that mean? To be still? Unpack. Be still 342 00:21:37,230 --> 00:21:37,830 S1: for me. 343 00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:44,510 S2: Yeah. Um, I think the typical reading of this is, um, 344 00:21:44,750 --> 00:21:52,230 S2: some quiet meditation, um, contemplation. But the idea here is 345 00:21:52,550 --> 00:21:57,869 S2: stop striving. So to the unbeliever. The warning here is 346 00:21:58,550 --> 00:22:03,350 S2: stop fighting against God to the believer. The warning is 347 00:22:03,590 --> 00:22:12,550 S2: stop fighting for yourself. Just quit fighting. Quit striving, quit struggling. 348 00:22:13,790 --> 00:22:19,630 S2: Just be still and trust that God will be exalted 349 00:22:20,150 --> 00:22:24,469 S2: among the nations of the earth. God has everything under 350 00:22:24,470 --> 00:22:28,830 S2: control is the basis of the confidence of the soul 351 00:22:28,830 --> 00:22:30,730 S2: that we'll will be able to go to sleep with tonight, 352 00:22:30,730 --> 00:22:31,370 S2: God willing. 353 00:22:32,210 --> 00:22:36,370 S1: And I think right there is is. Why stop your striving? 354 00:22:36,410 --> 00:22:41,010 S1: Be still. It is so hard for somebody like me 355 00:22:41,010 --> 00:22:44,690 S1: because I want control. I want God to do what 356 00:22:44,690 --> 00:22:46,889 S1: I want him to do when I want him to 357 00:22:46,890 --> 00:22:50,330 S1: do it, you know, and to and, and it's like, 358 00:22:50,930 --> 00:22:54,410 S1: hang on, you're not in control here. And, and if 359 00:22:54,450 --> 00:22:57,570 S1: you can realize that you're not in control here, there 360 00:22:57,570 --> 00:23:01,290 S1: is a peace that can come over you when you say, 361 00:23:01,330 --> 00:23:04,090 S1: I'm not going to trust in my ability to work 362 00:23:04,090 --> 00:23:07,889 S1: this out myself in my mind or in my relationships 363 00:23:07,890 --> 00:23:12,410 S1: or whatever, you know, that that God is at work here. 364 00:23:12,410 --> 00:23:15,610 S1: And when I begin to trust him, then I can 365 00:23:15,609 --> 00:23:19,810 S1: live life open handed rather than trying to strive, as 366 00:23:19,810 --> 00:23:23,290 S1: you were saying, or hang on to it there. 367 00:23:23,970 --> 00:23:26,490 S2: I'll admit to you, and I guess all of our 368 00:23:26,770 --> 00:23:28,390 S2: listeners know you can just. 369 00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:29,270 S1: Admit it to me. 370 00:23:31,109 --> 00:23:34,869 S2: My, my, um, my besetting sin of the spirit is, 371 00:23:34,910 --> 00:23:41,629 S2: is worry or anxiety. And we often associate worry with fear. 372 00:23:41,990 --> 00:23:45,470 S2: But I don't think we consider how much worry is 373 00:23:45,470 --> 00:23:52,310 S2: also associated with pride. We are anxious about things in life, 374 00:23:52,630 --> 00:23:56,270 S2: not merely because we are fearful about the unknown, but 375 00:23:56,550 --> 00:23:58,669 S2: because there is a sense in us that wants to 376 00:23:58,670 --> 00:24:02,830 S2: have a sense of control. Um, we we want matters 377 00:24:02,830 --> 00:24:06,949 S2: to be in our own hands. And life by God's 378 00:24:06,950 --> 00:24:11,750 S2: design does not permit that. This is why Matthew six 379 00:24:11,790 --> 00:24:16,470 S2: just says, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And. 380 00:24:16,470 --> 00:24:19,229 S2: And in the real sense, leave those things you're tempted 381 00:24:19,230 --> 00:24:23,430 S2: to worry about in God's hands. This be still, I think, 382 00:24:23,470 --> 00:24:29,179 S2: really addresses that temptation to worry about the circumstances of life, 383 00:24:29,180 --> 00:24:33,500 S2: and it calls for a sense of positive relinquishment, where 384 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:35,740 S2: I just kind of give up and give it over 385 00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:39,060 S2: to God and trust that he knows what's best. He 386 00:24:39,060 --> 00:24:44,060 S2: cares about me, and he is in control of all 387 00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:47,260 S2: that is happening in me and around me and to me. 388 00:24:48,340 --> 00:24:51,180 S1: And isn't it interesting that the Psalm this is Psalm 389 00:24:51,180 --> 00:24:54,500 S1: 46 begins with God is our refuge and strength a 390 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:58,899 S1: very present help in trouble. And it ends with the 391 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:03,420 S1: Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob 392 00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:07,540 S1: is our fortress. So that refuge, strength, that fortress. And 393 00:25:07,540 --> 00:25:11,340 S1: then the presence of God, which causes me to think 394 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:14,380 S1: of of Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd. I 395 00:25:14,380 --> 00:25:17,660 S1: shall not want. He makes me. He's. His presence is 396 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:20,660 S1: with me even through the valley of the shadow of death. 397 00:25:20,660 --> 00:25:22,980 S1: I want you to talk about that. And if there's 398 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:25,720 S1: somebody who's listening right now, if you're listening and you say, 399 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,960 S1: that's what I needed to hear today and you want 400 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,000 S1: to talk more about it, turn to Psalm 46 and 401 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,200 S1: join us eight, seven, seven, five, four, eight, three, six, 402 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:42,760 S1: seven five. Our number (877) 548-3675. Or you can answer the question, 403 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,880 S1: what Psalm speaks to what you're going through today at 404 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,240 S1: that same number. Go to Chris Fabry live Psalms of 405 00:25:49,240 --> 00:26:05,680 S1: trust is our featured resource today. Pastor author, doctor H 406 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,200 S1: B Charles Jr is our guest today at the Radio 407 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,200 S1: Backyard Fence. And his new book is really Good Psalms 408 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,919 S1: of Trust. He takes ten different Psalms and kind of 409 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,240 S1: unpacks them for your heart and mind. Subtitled living with 410 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,379 S1: Confidence in God at All times. Do you need that? 411 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,900 S1: Do you need the confidence that only God can give you, 412 00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:31,580 S1: the trust that you can place in Him as He 413 00:26:31,580 --> 00:26:36,139 S1: works in you, through you? Um, just go to chris.org. 414 00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:38,540 S1: We've got a link to it right there. We're in 415 00:26:38,540 --> 00:26:42,220 S1: Psalm 46. I want you to respond to that, that 416 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:46,300 S1: at the beginning it says, the sons of Korah, right? 417 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:51,420 S1: That God is a very present help in trouble. And 418 00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:54,780 S1: then in the middle of that, it says, repeats, the 419 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:59,340 S1: Lord of hosts is with us. And then at the end, after, 420 00:26:59,380 --> 00:27:03,220 S1: be still and know the Lord of hosts is with us. 421 00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:06,500 S1: There is something about that, you know, saying it three 422 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:09,100 S1: times and it may say it more times. There's something 423 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:12,340 S1: about saying it three times that emphasizes, you need to 424 00:27:12,380 --> 00:27:15,700 S1: know this. God is with us. 425 00:27:18,140 --> 00:27:22,560 S2: We don't know the occasion or background of this psalm, 426 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:30,480 S2: but there is something chaotic happening. This is the picture of, um, 427 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:37,000 S2: natural disasters. And there's a picture of military conflict. And 428 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,800 S2: in the midst of this, and I want to just 429 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,840 S2: make a note that the ten Psalms of Trust that 430 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,480 S2: I've selected all have this in common, that yes, they 431 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:50,280 S2: reflect confidence in God, but that confidence is not in 432 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,720 S2: life's ideal circumstances where it's easy to trust God when 433 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,600 S2: the sun is shining and you can see your way. 434 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,280 S2: These Psalms are Psalms where the the writer is obviously 435 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,080 S2: going through some difficulty, facing some challenge or trial and 436 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,639 S2: trust God in the midst of it. This is the 437 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,400 S2: circumstance of Psalm 46, and it begins with a great assurance. 438 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,760 S2: I mean, how many Psalms begin better than this? God 439 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,300 S2: is our refuge and strength. He is a very present 440 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:25,820 S2: help in the time of trouble. You are right. In 441 00:28:25,820 --> 00:28:29,540 S2: verse seven and 11 there is the refrain of the Psalm. 442 00:28:29,540 --> 00:28:32,260 S2: It's what we would call today, the chorus of the song. 443 00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:36,859 S2: And there in that refrain, the key takeaway of the 444 00:28:36,859 --> 00:28:41,740 S2: psalm is stated. It says in both verses, the Lord 445 00:28:41,740 --> 00:28:46,740 S2: of hosts is with us, and Lord of hosts means 446 00:28:46,740 --> 00:28:50,460 S2: he's the Lord of the angelic host, the armies of heaven. 447 00:28:50,460 --> 00:28:56,100 S2: It pictures God as a divine warrior who fights on 448 00:28:56,100 --> 00:29:00,420 S2: behalf of his people. And then it says, The God 449 00:29:00,420 --> 00:29:03,820 S2: of Jacob is our refuge. I think that might be 450 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:08,820 S2: one of my favorite lines in this psalm. Uh, Jacob, 451 00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:12,140 S2: here is another way of referring to Israel, but it 452 00:29:12,140 --> 00:29:16,740 S2: is interesting, provocative that he mentions Jacob. Abraham, of course, 453 00:29:16,740 --> 00:29:19,920 S2: was the father of the faithful. Isaac was placed on 454 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680 S2: the altar as a type of Christ. Jacob is the 455 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,960 S2: worst of the patriarchs, right? He's the heel grabber, the trickster, 456 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,120 S2: the huckster. But he's. 457 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,360 S1: The wrestler. He's the striver, isn't he? 458 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,400 S2: He is that that stopped striving. 459 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:36,280 S1: Yeah. 460 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,840 S2: Fits in as a word to Jacob. Wow. If you 461 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,160 S2: read the story of Jacob, Jacob did more wrong than 462 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:49,960 S2: he did right. And yet the God of Jacob is 463 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,720 S2: mentioned here. And that God of Jacob is our fortress. 464 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,640 S2: He is our. This is the language of an ancient 465 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,000 S2: panic room where you can run and hide and be 466 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,400 S2: safe in the time of danger. Alexander McLaren said that 467 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,720 S2: the God of Jacob is the Lord of hosts. But 468 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,560 S2: more wondrous still, the Lord of hosts is the God 469 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,640 S2: of Jacob. And if the Lord of hosts is the 470 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,360 S2: God of Jacob. Chris, there's hope for me and you 471 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:17,920 S2: as well. 472 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:25,150 S1: Amen. Amen. And and then we're not, uh, the, the Lord, 473 00:30:25,150 --> 00:30:27,350 S1: we don't have a deity that is with us that 474 00:30:27,350 --> 00:30:30,510 S1: will just make us feel better though, that will just 475 00:30:30,510 --> 00:30:34,590 S1: encourage us. Who is impotent, who doesn't, is not able 476 00:30:34,590 --> 00:30:38,590 S1: to do anything. It says he breaks the bow and 477 00:30:38,590 --> 00:30:41,950 S1: shatters the spear. And in that culture, it's like you 478 00:30:41,990 --> 00:30:44,750 S1: got a bow, you got a spear, you're you're a victor. 479 00:30:44,750 --> 00:30:49,390 S1: You got chariots, man. You are, you know, horses and chariots. Uh, 480 00:30:49,510 --> 00:30:53,630 S1: you're you're, you're the bee's knees. But this is what 481 00:30:53,630 --> 00:30:56,110 S1: the Lord of hosts does. He breaks the bow. He 482 00:30:56,110 --> 00:31:00,150 S1: shatters the spear. He burns the chariots with fire. It's 483 00:31:00,150 --> 00:31:03,870 S1: like he is Lord over all that. You can trust 484 00:31:03,870 --> 00:31:05,190 S1: in him, right? 485 00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:10,590 S2: Yeah. This, this, this part of the of the psalm, uh, 486 00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:15,670 S2: reminds us that no one can fight like God can fight. 487 00:31:16,470 --> 00:31:21,170 S2: If I could say this respectfully and reverently, Chris. God doesn't. 488 00:31:21,290 --> 00:31:25,890 S2: God doesn't fight fair. He doesn't. He doesn't just defeat 489 00:31:25,890 --> 00:31:29,930 S2: the enemy. He breaks their bow. He shatters their spear. 490 00:31:29,970 --> 00:31:33,490 S2: He burns their chariots. That's what he did to Pharaoh 491 00:31:33,810 --> 00:31:36,450 S2: and his armies in the Red sea. He started taking 492 00:31:36,450 --> 00:31:41,410 S2: off their chariot wheels in the middle of the Red sea. Uh. 493 00:31:41,410 --> 00:31:46,209 S2: God will have the last word. He rules and overrules 494 00:31:46,210 --> 00:31:51,209 S2: and super rules. Our God is is not, as you said, 495 00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:57,690 S2: some weak or impotent God. He he is. He is 496 00:31:57,690 --> 00:32:01,570 S2: a God of sovereign authority. He is a God of 497 00:32:01,570 --> 00:32:05,250 S2: omnipotent power, and he is a God of loyal love. 498 00:32:05,450 --> 00:32:08,010 S2: And he is worthy of our trust. In every season 499 00:32:08,010 --> 00:32:08,570 S2: of life. 500 00:32:09,210 --> 00:32:13,170 S1: You just see that power, that strength all through here. 501 00:32:13,170 --> 00:32:16,350 S1: And the refuge, you know, the being hidden in the 502 00:32:16,350 --> 00:32:20,030 S1: cleft of the rock. But is there a sense of 503 00:32:20,030 --> 00:32:23,230 S1: the grace and mercy of God? Because that's what. And 504 00:32:23,230 --> 00:32:25,710 S1: I think that's one of the reasons why people say, well, 505 00:32:25,710 --> 00:32:27,830 S1: the Old Testament, God's really mad and he's doing all 506 00:32:27,830 --> 00:32:29,830 S1: this bad stuff. And then in the New Testament, it's 507 00:32:29,830 --> 00:32:32,510 S1: all love and grace and everything. I don't think that's true. 508 00:32:32,510 --> 00:32:34,830 S1: I don't think God changed from the Old Testament to 509 00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:37,750 S1: the new as we read it. But I don't see 510 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:41,350 S1: here maybe you can enlighten me. I don't see the grace, 511 00:32:41,590 --> 00:32:46,510 S1: the mercy, the the heart of love of Jesus. As 512 00:32:46,510 --> 00:32:49,230 S1: we've just read this. Correct me if I'm wrong. 513 00:32:49,910 --> 00:32:54,030 S2: Yeah, I think, as I mentioned in that refrain in 514 00:32:54,030 --> 00:32:58,070 S2: verse seven and 11, the reference to God being the 515 00:32:58,110 --> 00:33:04,350 S2: God of Jacob, um, this is, um, this is a 516 00:33:04,350 --> 00:33:11,310 S2: reminder of to Israel of their weakness and frailty and sinfulness. 517 00:33:11,710 --> 00:33:16,290 S2: And it is, it is an affirmation that God is 518 00:33:16,290 --> 00:33:19,090 S2: not just with you when you are at your best. 519 00:33:19,530 --> 00:33:23,810 S2: All of us have Jacob like tendencies, and our God 520 00:33:24,770 --> 00:33:29,130 S2: is the fortress as the God of Jacob. I also 521 00:33:29,130 --> 00:33:32,690 S2: think earlier in the Psalm there is this chaotic language 522 00:33:32,690 --> 00:33:37,010 S2: in verses two and three. We won't. We. We won't fear. 523 00:33:37,010 --> 00:33:40,650 S2: The earth gives way. The mountains are moved into the 524 00:33:40,650 --> 00:33:44,450 S2: heart of the sea waters. Foam mountains are trembling. I mean, this, 525 00:33:44,450 --> 00:33:49,770 S2: this seems like some action movie where all of the. 526 00:33:49,770 --> 00:33:54,770 S2: The land just collapses in a calamity. But then verse four. 527 00:33:55,690 --> 00:34:00,890 S2: From the chaos of the rivers and the waters, the 528 00:34:00,890 --> 00:34:03,410 S2: Bible says there's a stream that makes glad the city 529 00:34:03,410 --> 00:34:09,010 S2: of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. Verse 530 00:34:09,010 --> 00:34:12,050 S2: five if this is not grace and mercy and love 531 00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:14,709 S2: and compassion. I don't know what it is. God is 532 00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:18,390 S2: in the midst of her. God is in the midst 533 00:34:18,390 --> 00:34:22,910 S2: of her. She shall not be moved. God will help 534 00:34:22,910 --> 00:34:28,070 S2: her when morning dawns. Um. Most battles would take place 535 00:34:28,070 --> 00:34:30,950 S2: at dawn because it was believed that that was when 536 00:34:31,150 --> 00:34:35,710 S2: the opponent was most vulnerable. When we are at our weakest, 537 00:34:35,710 --> 00:34:40,430 S2: our most vulnerable, our most frail place, when morning comes, 538 00:34:40,910 --> 00:34:45,070 S2: that's when God will show up to help. Wow. I think, 539 00:34:45,070 --> 00:34:47,870 S2: I think all of these are the, the, the, the 540 00:34:47,910 --> 00:34:51,069 S2: terminology of grace and mercy is not here. But the 541 00:34:51,070 --> 00:34:57,069 S2: truth is, is, is seasoned throughout this Psalm that God 542 00:34:57,270 --> 00:35:00,630 S2: is a not just a strong and mighty God. And 543 00:35:00,630 --> 00:35:03,790 S2: he is, but he is a God that cares for 544 00:35:03,790 --> 00:35:04,590 S2: his people. 545 00:35:05,350 --> 00:35:08,830 S1: And the whole idea of being present the Lord of 546 00:35:08,830 --> 00:35:14,210 S1: hosts is with us makes me think of Emmanuel, God 547 00:35:14,210 --> 00:35:19,890 S1: with us. He eventually revealed himself to be one of us, 548 00:35:19,930 --> 00:35:23,890 S1: becoming one of us so that we could be, you know, 549 00:35:23,930 --> 00:35:27,609 S1: take our Jacob heart and turn it toward him and 550 00:35:27,610 --> 00:35:30,490 S1: be forgiven, you know, because of what the Lord has 551 00:35:30,489 --> 00:35:34,010 S1: done for us when he was with us. All right. 552 00:35:34,050 --> 00:35:38,130 S1: HB Charles Jr is our guest today. Kay is in Nashville. Kay. 553 00:35:38,170 --> 00:35:39,290 S1: Why did you call today? 554 00:35:39,930 --> 00:35:44,090 S3: Oh my goodness. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you for this good, 555 00:35:44,130 --> 00:35:47,450 S3: good Bible study on this Thursday afternoon that the Lord 556 00:35:47,450 --> 00:35:51,089 S3: has given us. Chris, when you said Psalm 46, my 557 00:35:51,090 --> 00:35:53,969 S3: mind went immediately to verse ten. I was like, yep, 558 00:35:53,969 --> 00:35:56,810 S3: I know that. Then Pastor Charles said, most people are 559 00:35:56,810 --> 00:36:00,169 S3: familiar with verse one and verse ten. So I read 560 00:36:00,170 --> 00:36:02,570 S3: verse one and I was like, yeah, I know verse one, 561 00:36:02,570 --> 00:36:06,250 S3: but to me, verse ten is telling you what you 562 00:36:06,250 --> 00:36:09,170 S3: should do from verse one. What am I doing while 563 00:36:09,170 --> 00:36:12,870 S3: I'm being still. I'm under the refuge and the strength 564 00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:15,950 S3: of the Lord Almighty. And then I thought I knew. 565 00:36:15,950 --> 00:36:18,549 S3: Verse ten. All I knew was, be still and know 566 00:36:18,550 --> 00:36:21,830 S3: that I am God. I forgot about the. I will 567 00:36:21,830 --> 00:36:24,830 S3: be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in 568 00:36:24,830 --> 00:36:26,870 S3: the earth. And I said, well, I just said this 569 00:36:26,870 --> 00:36:30,149 S3: to myself this morning. I said, the message that's going 570 00:36:30,150 --> 00:36:32,669 S3: to come from this mess that I'm in is going 571 00:36:32,710 --> 00:36:35,549 S3: to be loud and clear. The Lord will be exalted. 572 00:36:35,550 --> 00:36:38,790 S3: People will hear how great and how faithful he's been 573 00:36:38,790 --> 00:36:41,790 S3: in this season of my life, and I will still 574 00:36:41,790 --> 00:36:45,750 S3: continue to praise him despite what's happening. So thank y'all. 575 00:36:45,790 --> 00:36:47,989 S3: Like y'all, y'all, y'all done preached me happy while I'm 576 00:36:47,989 --> 00:36:49,669 S3: in this line. Hallelujah. 577 00:36:50,790 --> 00:36:52,870 S1: Well, that is why we're here, okay? And I'm not 578 00:36:52,870 --> 00:36:54,950 S1: going to ask you, you know, exactly what you're going through, 579 00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:57,870 S1: but it sounds like it's been, it's been water that's 580 00:36:57,870 --> 00:37:00,510 S1: deeper than you can get through yourself, right? 581 00:37:00,790 --> 00:37:05,150 S3: Yes, it definitely has. Yeah. I'm here by the grace 582 00:37:05,150 --> 00:37:08,310 S3: and mercy of God, no doubt about it. He is. 583 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:10,700 S3: He is keeping me in his perfect strength. 584 00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:14,060 S1: HB would you pray for K and anybody who has 585 00:37:14,060 --> 00:37:17,140 S1: water over their head today? Would you do that right now? 586 00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:20,700 S2: Indeed. It'll be my privilege, father. In the name of 587 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:24,540 S2: the Lord Jesus Christ. We draw near to the throne 588 00:37:24,580 --> 00:37:29,820 S2: of grace that is available to us by the blood 589 00:37:29,820 --> 00:37:34,299 S2: and righteousness of our great High Priest, your son, our Savior. 590 00:37:34,780 --> 00:37:38,060 S2: And we cover our dear sister K in believing prayer 591 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:43,140 S2: and indeed acts as we've been meditating on in Psalm 46, 592 00:37:43,140 --> 00:37:46,739 S2: that she would not fear, though there may be chaos 593 00:37:46,739 --> 00:37:50,419 S2: all around her, though there may be war, a gangster 594 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:56,620 S2: even may. There may be be be anxiety within her. 595 00:37:57,180 --> 00:38:02,740 S2: May she be still. Quit striving. Let her hands drop 596 00:38:02,739 --> 00:38:06,140 S2: down and give all of the matters that are before 597 00:38:06,140 --> 00:38:10,239 S2: her to you with confidence that you are our refuge 598 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,839 S2: and strength and help in trouble. I pray that for 599 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,600 S2: all who are listening to us today, who find themselves 600 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:22,640 S2: going through dark valleys, those who are carrying heavy burdens, 601 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,160 S2: those who are fighting fierce battles. Would you deepen our 602 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,480 S2: confidence in you through the Lord Jesus Christ by the 603 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,080 S2: help of your spirit? Would you help us to walk 604 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,920 S2: by faith and not by sight? Bring every sphere of 605 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,200 S2: our lives under the authority of the Lordship of Christ, 606 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,319 S2: fulfill every holy desire we have and bring to pass 607 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,040 S2: the deeds prompted by faith. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. 608 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,600 S1: Amen. So did you hear that prayer? The confidence. God, 609 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,280 S1: don't just give me confidence. Give me confidence in you. 610 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,279 S1: Confidence that you are at work, even in this thing 611 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,120 S1: that I can't figure out. What in the world is 612 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,120 S1: going on here. I'm going to place my trust, my 613 00:39:05,340 --> 00:39:09,140 S1: confidence in you because of all these things that we're 614 00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:13,980 S1: talking about today. Psalms of Trust by H. P Charles Jr. 615 00:39:14,020 --> 00:39:17,299 S1: Living with confidence in God at all times is our 616 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:19,620 S1: featured resource. Can you hang on? I want to send 617 00:39:19,620 --> 00:39:23,500 S1: you a copy of that from HB and those at 618 00:39:23,540 --> 00:39:26,980 S1: Moody Publishers. We want to put it in your hands, 619 00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:29,580 S1: and I think this will be something that will really, 620 00:39:29,580 --> 00:39:33,060 S1: really encourage you. Again, Psalms of trust. We have a 621 00:39:33,060 --> 00:39:39,100 S1: link right there. Chris Fabry live.org. Chris fabriclive.org. More straight 622 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:53,859 S1: ahead on Moody Radio. Coming up tomorrow on Chris Fabry Live, 623 00:39:53,860 --> 00:39:56,020 S1: we had the ladies of Point of Grace with us 624 00:39:56,580 --> 00:39:59,540 S1: a few months ago, and we recorded this thing because 625 00:39:59,540 --> 00:40:02,779 S1: they've got this song called Lunch Box Notes. Have you 626 00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:06,640 S1: ever written a lunch box note to your child or 627 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,120 S1: do you remember getting a a note in your lunchbox 628 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,200 S1: from somebody else? Uh, you're going to hear them describe 629 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,879 S1: why they wrote this song and sing it. We'll play 630 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,319 S1: it for you. I'm not going to sing. So make 631 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,879 S1: sure you tune in. Maybe more people tune in if 632 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,279 S1: I say that. So we're going to play that. And 633 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,359 S1: then I want you to tell me the lunchbox note 634 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,759 S1: that you received that stuck with you, or the lunchbox 635 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,320 S1: note that you have written to somebody else. Or maybe it's, 636 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,759 S1: you know, not to your child or when you were 637 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,120 S1: a child, but it's a note that you've written to 638 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,880 S1: your spouse. Uh, join us for that. I'm looking for, 639 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,680 S1: I'm looking for your story tomorrow here at the Radio 640 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,920 S1: Backyard Fence. Psalms of trust is our featured resource by 641 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:55,400 S1: pastor H B Charles Jr. Just go to Chris Fabry live.org. 642 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,880 S1: There are ten Psalms there. We've focused on Psalm 46, 643 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,460 S1: but I told Charles H. B in the in the 644 00:41:03,460 --> 00:41:07,180 S1: break that a good friend of ours at Moody Radio, 645 00:41:07,540 --> 00:41:11,020 S1: Colin Lambert, who was vice president of Moody Radio for 646 00:41:11,020 --> 00:41:15,780 S1: many years, went down to Austin, Texas, with his family, 647 00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:20,739 S1: has had some health struggles, and just last Thursday passed away. 648 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:26,259 S1: And today, as we're talking, the memorial service for him 649 00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:30,739 S1: is happening there in Texas. And I want you to 650 00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:34,180 S1: speak into the life of anybody who has lost somebody 651 00:41:34,219 --> 00:41:37,420 S1: dear to them, or maybe has had some other kind 652 00:41:37,420 --> 00:41:41,620 S1: of huge loss in their life. And earthquake has happened 653 00:41:42,340 --> 00:41:46,379 S1: to what the Psalms, what these Psalms of trust speak 654 00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:49,740 S1: into our hearts, our souls. What do you say. 655 00:41:51,140 --> 00:42:00,580 S2: Indeed, brother? Um, inevitably there will be, uh, dangers, difficulties 656 00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:04,160 S2: and deaths that we will have to face until Jesus 657 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,640 S2: returns or calls us home to him. One of the 658 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:12,520 S2: great comforts of all of the Psalms is Psalm 23, 659 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:17,120 S2: verse four, where David has been bragging on how great 660 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:24,520 S2: his shepherd is. He provides nourishment. He provides refreshment. He 661 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:33,840 S2: provides leadership. He provides restoration. Everything I need, my shepherd provides. 662 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,600 S2: And then in verse four, he admits that even though 663 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,680 S2: his shepherd is good and wise and faithful, there are 664 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,080 S2: still times when he will have to walk through the 665 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:52,279 S2: valley of the shadow of death. The valley of the 666 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,200 S2: shadow of death is a is an idiom, Hebrew idiom 667 00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:02,500 S2: for deep darkness. It. It refers To, um, obviously we 668 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,980 S2: associate it with death, but it refers to any situation 669 00:43:06,180 --> 00:43:09,780 S2: that is so dark that you cannot see your way. 670 00:43:10,540 --> 00:43:12,740 S2: So indeed, the death of a loved one can be 671 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:15,940 S2: the valley of the shadow of death. The unemployment line 672 00:43:15,940 --> 00:43:19,340 S2: can be the valley of the shadow of death. A 673 00:43:19,660 --> 00:43:22,859 S2: bad diagnosis from the doctor can be the valley of 674 00:43:22,860 --> 00:43:25,100 S2: the shadow of death, heartbreak, you name it, go down 675 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:29,500 S2: the list. Um, but the good news of that same 676 00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:33,860 S2: verse is that even though we cannot control our circumstances, 677 00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:36,620 S2: and this is what blesses me about faith in Christ, 678 00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:39,259 S2: we may not be able to control our circumstances, but 679 00:43:39,260 --> 00:43:44,700 S2: we can control our response. And, and David says, even 680 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:46,580 S2: as I am in the valley of the shadow of death, 681 00:43:46,580 --> 00:43:48,299 S2: don't choose to be here. I'll be here as long 682 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:52,940 S2: as the shepherd requires. I can dictate my response. And 683 00:43:52,940 --> 00:43:56,459 S2: I choose not to be afraid, not because I have, 684 00:43:56,500 --> 00:44:00,250 S2: as you mentioned earlier, self-confidence. This is God confidence. In fact, 685 00:44:00,290 --> 00:44:04,490 S2: it's been well said that that courage is just fear 686 00:44:04,489 --> 00:44:08,930 S2: that has said its prayers. David says, I am not 687 00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:13,089 S2: afraid for two reasons. God is present with me and 688 00:44:13,090 --> 00:44:18,290 S2: God is prepared for whatever is ahead. He's present. You 689 00:44:18,290 --> 00:44:22,009 S2: are with me and he is prepared. Your rod and 690 00:44:22,010 --> 00:44:27,250 S2: your staff, they comfort me. And one interesting thing about 691 00:44:27,250 --> 00:44:30,730 S2: Psalm 23, verse four, in the previous verses, he has 692 00:44:30,730 --> 00:44:34,330 S2: been talking about God and now he speaks to God. 693 00:44:34,530 --> 00:44:39,090 S2: Not not. He is with me. You are with me. 694 00:44:39,330 --> 00:44:43,129 S2: It's one thing to be talking about God in those 695 00:44:43,130 --> 00:44:47,170 S2: good days when there's green pastures and still waters. But boy, 696 00:44:47,170 --> 00:44:49,810 S2: you better know how to talk to God for yourself 697 00:44:49,930 --> 00:44:52,850 S2: when you are going through the valley very quickly. It 698 00:44:52,850 --> 00:44:56,850 S2: is not in the book, but famously the pastor, Donald 699 00:44:56,850 --> 00:45:01,070 S2: Grey Barnhouse was driving his children home from his wife, 700 00:45:01,070 --> 00:45:04,149 S2: their mother's funeral, and he was lost for words to 701 00:45:04,190 --> 00:45:08,590 S2: comfort his grieving children. There is a truck that shows 702 00:45:08,590 --> 00:45:12,710 S2: up next to them and in the shadow he gets inspiration. 703 00:45:13,310 --> 00:45:15,870 S2: The shadow of the truck could do them no harm, 704 00:45:16,270 --> 00:45:19,790 S2: and the shadow of the Valley of death does no 705 00:45:19,790 --> 00:45:22,550 S2: harm to the child of God. He is with us 706 00:45:23,030 --> 00:45:26,910 S2: and he will comfort us by his rod and his staff. Wow. 707 00:45:27,790 --> 00:45:32,070 S1: Wow. And we need that shadow, don't we? Indeed. Every day. 708 00:45:32,190 --> 00:45:35,870 S1: And I love that I put a note in Psalm 23. 709 00:45:36,070 --> 00:45:40,270 S1: Psalm 21, verse six says, for you make him. And 710 00:45:40,270 --> 00:45:42,390 S1: this has taken it out of context, but it's a 711 00:45:42,390 --> 00:45:44,470 S1: great verse, and it says kind of the same thing. 712 00:45:44,670 --> 00:45:48,630 S1: You make him most blessed forever. You make him glad 713 00:45:49,150 --> 00:45:51,230 S1: with the joy of your presence. 714 00:45:51,550 --> 00:45:51,950 S2: Mhm. 715 00:45:52,310 --> 00:45:56,450 S1: So there it is again. If you have if you 716 00:45:56,450 --> 00:45:59,650 S1: order your fears, you know. And there's everything to be 717 00:45:59,650 --> 00:46:02,489 S1: afraid of in this valley of the shadow of death. 718 00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:06,970 S1: But if you say, I'm not going to fear that 719 00:46:06,969 --> 00:46:10,129 S1: I'm going to place my trust in God, I'm going 720 00:46:10,170 --> 00:46:15,210 S1: to reverence him above the circumstantial fear. Something happens on 721 00:46:15,210 --> 00:46:18,410 S1: the inside, and it's all through the pages of this book. 722 00:46:18,410 --> 00:46:22,290 S1: I'm so glad that you've put these on the page 723 00:46:22,290 --> 00:46:27,050 S1: for us, HB and we'll put people to our website. 724 00:46:27,050 --> 00:46:30,930 S1: Chris Fabry live.org. We got a link right there. Psalms 725 00:46:30,930 --> 00:46:34,170 S1: of Trust by HB. Charles Jr. Come back and see 726 00:46:34,210 --> 00:46:36,290 S1: us real soon friend. Thanks for being here. 727 00:46:37,010 --> 00:46:38,050 S2: Thank you Chris. 728 00:46:38,930 --> 00:46:41,489 S1: Chris Fabry Live is a production of Moody Radio, a 729 00:46:41,489 --> 00:46:45,290 S1: Ministry of Moody Bible Institute. Thanks a lot for listening.