My Confidence

[0:00] Hello everyone. I've seen quite a few new faces today, or faces I haven't seen before. Just in case I'm from Peru, naturally I don't speak English as my native language, it's Spanish.

[0:14] And I have a son who is going to be two years old in a month, less than a month now. And I've been forcing him to be bilingual. And I'm pushing for him to speak Spanish and English at the same time.

[0:25] And that's causing a toll on me in so many ways, because I'm kind of speaking now Spanglish. So, throughout my sermon, you feel I'm saying something you don't understand, it's probably Spanglish.

[0:36] Just in case. But anyway, we are supposed to... that's my excuse anyway. But we are here to dig into this song. And what I want you to do now is to think there in your seat.

[0:51] When was the last time that you felt in danger? When was the last time that you felt that you, or someone you really care, was in danger, or were in danger?

[1:08] A time in your life when you just felt that your life was being threatened. And what I want you to do is just to remember, how was your attitude in that time? How was your reaction in that time?

[1:22] And how was your handling of that situation? Perhaps you were lucky enough not to have any dangerous situations in your life. You've never been in that situation where you really felt you were in danger.

[1:36] That's great. But personally for me, I had been in several situations where my life was in danger. And it was tough and difficult sometimes.

[1:49] I particularly remember one, this particular situation where we had been commissioned to go and reach and help the setting of the church. And in the middle of the Amazon, to one of those villages.

[2:03] And it was deep, deep inside the Amazon. And they wouldn't speak Spanish at all. They would speak the local dialect. So communication was kind of difficult with them. And they tend to be not really engaging with outsiders either.

[2:21] So we were just a random bunch of guys just coming there, showing up, trying to be in touch with them and set up a church. That's great, isn't it? It's a great thing. And so naturally, we had some people very good and very engaging and responding.

[2:34] But we also have, in a village of 120 people, some people who were really not happy with us. And they were always keeping us in check. Everything we do, no matter where we go, they were always like, we always knew there was this bunch of guys who were this, always keeping us in check.

[2:52] And I particularly remember this night, this particular night, middle of the night, just well past midnight probably. Can't remember what time exactly. Because generally, when you are in the Amazon, there's no power there.

[3:05] So after 6 p.m., you just go to sleep. And then you wake up before 5. So that's kind of the way it works. But just can you imagine, just in the middle of the Amazon, we get this nook on the door. And I just come up to the place where we stay in.

[3:17] And when I come up, I just find this, there were a bunch of villagers with machetes, arrows, and shotguns in their hands.

[3:28] Matt yelling at me and broke in Spanish and saying, you must sleep now. I was kind of like, remember, this is the middle of the night. This is the Amazon.

[3:39] It's not like you're just going to catch a bus, get a cool taxi, and things are going to be easy for you. And you go, these guys, we're actually drunk. So it's even worse. You don't really know what to do.

[3:51] So I was like, you know, I was trying to deal with it and say, you know what the situation? We're in the middle of the Amazon. We cannot leave now. It's midnight. I'll just give us a couple hours. Then we can just leave when the day clears and we can do that.

[4:02] After some just talking and talking, eventually they say, okay, first thing in the morning, you are 11. And they were just really serious. It's very scary. And so they left. I remember myself going back to my hammock.

[4:17] Just scared, as you can imagine. Grabbing a machete in one of my hands. And singing a song in a quiet voice based on that Psalm 27, but it's not there anymore.

[4:31] In the Spanish version of Psalm 27. And singing very quietly in my mind while I was there. I know. I still have a machete in my hands. I know. That doesn't say much of the point.

[4:43] Trust me. But to make a story short, it was difficult for me to sleep that night. But eventually, the next day, the Lord was great. He did a miracle in that place.

[4:54] And we were able to stay for another few months. And after that, we were able to, after a low, hard effort, we were able to set up a church. Now it's a vibrant church in that place. Just to make a story short.

[5:05] It was a great thing. But it was that night, particularly. I really felt scared. I really felt that these guys wanted to do something. They were just doing it. And I remember not even telling the bunch of guys sitting next to me.

[5:18] I was just the one holding on on myself and being so scared of it. But why am I telling you this? I'm telling you this because, as you can see, sometimes in life, waiting under difficult times is tough.

[5:34] Sometimes in life, waiting when we have difficult situations where our life is in danger, it's really tough. And we are not very good at it.

[5:45] Doesn't matter how many years of a Christian you are. Doesn't matter how much of the law you know. Doesn't matter how much of the Bible you know. Doesn't matter how tough you think you are. And one of the things we can see in this psalm is that, precisely, this is a guy, the one who wrote this psalm, which is David.

[6:05] Who is able to keep himself together in a difficult situation. And so, in so many ways, I just want us to see that and see just slightly carefully what it says.

[6:22] But, we are never encouraged to suppose that Christian life will be easy and smooth or free from pressure. Actually, it's something we learn from the psalms is that, in general, that, even in the toughness and the difficulties of times, the psalms, in general, what the psalms teaches us, is that we can pray and we can call upon God in any single situation in our lives.

[6:51] No matter what it is. And you're going to describe what can you learn from the whole psalms, the 150 psalms, is that, doesn't matter what your situation is, that you can count on God and you can pray on Him.

[7:03] You can name whatever situation you can see. Times of despair, when you are overwhelmed by danger, or sometimes you are anger, or sometimes you are starving, or sometimes you feel like something is not right with you.

[7:15] And even sometimes when you feel like you are sin, you have sinned. The psalms always teach us that we can always be in touch with God and come close to Him.

[7:27] Especially in those dangerous situations, as I described the one for myself, and as we're going to see the one from David. Something to say before we get into this psalm, about Psalm 27, a few things.

[7:42] Psalm 27, along with Psalm 26 and 28, are three psalms whose main topic talks about waiting in God, or waiting in the Lord with confidence.

[7:53] They are like triplet psalms, that are all part of the same idea altogether. That we can wait for the Lord's help, in hope and in confidence, under difficult circumstances.

[8:05] Words like the house of the Lord, temple and tabernacle, are frequently mentioned there. You'll see it throughout these three psalms particularly. Always been mentioned and mentioned.

[8:16] I'll tell you all the end why I think it's that. And particularly about this psalm, no one can read this well-known Psalm 27, without being struck by the contrast that exists between the first one to six verses, from the second part of the psalm, from 7 to 14.

[8:35] There is like a different contrast between both of them. And it is so marked that some commentators suggest that we have been, what we have here is probably two psalms who have been composed under different circumstances, that probably have been merged together.

[8:55] Again, this is what some commentators think. We don't have certainty to say that. But it's just the contrast between one to six, from 7 to 14, that make us believe that, make us think that.

[9:06] But overall, both sections, it has something in common, is that throughout a psalm, we can see the reality of David's faith.

[9:20] It is important, however, to realize that this is not a faith that is fair weather only. This is not a faith that only behaves when God is good.

[9:32] But rather, this is a faith, displaying in the psalms, that behaves in a way that doesn't matter what the situation is, that the psalmist, David, still trusts in God under all the circumstances, and under all the difficult pressures.

[9:50] This is the kind of faith that stuns the shocks and pressures of life, and comes out stronger from all these pressures. But, to be honest, we can never have or display this kind of faith, this kind of confidence as David had, if we try to trust in a God that we don't know.

[10:12] One of the things we see throughout the psalms, and throughout the psalms in general, that whoever the writer of that particular psalm you're reading is, he is speaking from a point of knowing who his maker is, for knowing who his God is.

[10:27] We cannot never develop a confidence in a God that we don't know. And perhaps that is something to keep in our hearts as we dig in into the world.

[10:38] If we want to know how we can face tough times in our lives, get to know your maker. Get to know your creator. Get to know who God is. Once you know who God is, you can actually develop the patience to deal with tough times.

[10:54] I think that's what we see. Again, I'm saying so many things in general about the psalms before we dig into it. And I really like the way the psalm finishes. In verses 13 and 14, I'll just read it to you.

[11:06] And he finishes in this way. After all the struggles from the chapter, he says, David definitely had to know his maker to be able to learn a psalm with those difficulties like this.

[11:31] And that's such a faithful, trustworthy way. Anyway, so I divided this psalm in three different things. So I'm going to be speaking from these three things today. The things that I think David did.

[11:43] And we can see in these things that we can actually do it ourselves. So there are three things I think he did. From verses 1 to 3, what David is doing is, David is remembering, or David remembers who God is.

[11:57] That is the first thing we see in this psalm, that he remembers who God is from verses 1 to 3. From verses 4 to 6, he not only remembers who God is, but he, David, delights in the beauty of God.

[12:11] So from 1 to 3, he remembers who God is. From 4 to 6, he decides to delight in the beauty of God. And in the last part, from 7 to 12, David not only remembers who God is, not only delights in the beauty of God, but also he resolves to walk in God's way.

[12:33] So those three things we're going to be seeing today. And you're saying, why are you not mentioning 13 and 14? I think 13 and 14 has a whole global effect on the psalm that I will tell you at the end. So, let's read for a moment 1 to 3.

[12:48] David remembers who God is. This is what he says, The Lord is my light and my salvation. Who shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

[12:59] When the wicked advance against me to dewar me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall. Though an army beseech me, my heart will not fear.

[13:11] Though war break out against me, even then, I will be held confident. If we are to wait with confidence in God, we must remember who God is.

[13:23] And if we're going to remember who God is, it is so important that we see God rightly. We see God on whom He is, knowing the way we want Him to be.

[13:37] So many times when we try to see about God, we want to make God fit in our mind and our thinking in the way we want God to be. But it's something we see from David, it's he sees God rightly.

[13:50] David was being hunted down by enemies. They were seeking Him with violence to take His life, and they wanted Him dead. Imagine yourself in that situation. I can imagine myself, I can relate to that.

[14:02] Seeing all the things that were going on through His mind, probably all the same things that would have been going through your mind in a situation like that. But perhaps not in David.

[14:14] Because it seems to us that David knew who God was. Look what he calls him. God is my light. He says, God was His light. That light that shines in the darkness.

[14:25] Even in His darkness, God was shining His light upon him and guiding him for the way to go. God knew where to take him because God knows everything.

[14:39] He knows everything. He doesn't need to Google for things to know where He's going. God knows where to go and where to take us. And I think David starts with that. God is my light. Why is it important?

[14:51] Why is the light so important? I'll tell you why it's important. Just an example. When you walk on the Amazon and it's so dark, in the middle of the night, and your flashlight is not working, light is very important in that way.

[15:01] So I think David says, light is so important because even when I'm struggling in this situation and I don't know where to go, God is my light. And He can help me to see clearly.

[15:15] He trusts that God is His life. And He knows where to take Him. But God wasn't only His light. He was also His salvation. It didn't matter who was surrounded David.

[15:30] It didn't matter who his enemy was. David knew that God was His salvation and that whatever the enemy would be, they couldn't even touch Him.

[15:42] They couldn't even close to Him because he knew that God was His salvation. He also declared that God is His stronghold. He also declared that God is His stronghold.

[15:56] He's like fortress, as a different version would say. He wasn't alone. God was with Him. He was this impenetrable fortress that no matter what the people around Him would do, He would be able to keep Him safe.

[16:11] I think this psalm talks about confidence in a way that we can trust in God. We can trust that God will protect us. We can trust that whatever the situation may be, God will be there to help us.

[16:23] I know it's very easy to say it. I know I can stand here as a preacher and say, yeah, yeah, that's the easiest thing to say. But I tell you, God can do it. You could say, okay, we are not David.

[16:42] David's been hunted down by his enemies. We are not a king who is like running away. So what can we learn from this song personally? I want you to, for a moment, to go for the verses 5, this very instant.

[16:55] And we're going to read just the first part, where he says, For in the day of trouble, He will keep me safe in His dwelling. What do you think David is referring when he says this day of trouble?

[17:09] What do you think is the day of trouble for him? You would see in verses 2 and 3, we can say that perhaps the day of trouble would be evil men advancing against him, enemies attacking him, armies besieging him, wars breaking out against him.

[17:30] Perhaps that was his way, or his day of trouble. But I think it didn't end there. Look down at verse 10 as well, what he says. Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.

[17:45] His day of trouble was not only enemies besieging him, but also I think it was that friends and family deserted him. So basically, let's see what David is doing throughout the song.

[17:57] It's like he is expanding the concept of day of trouble, and apply it to any sort of suffering that we could ever experience.

[18:09] So, whatever the day of trouble, whatever your day of trouble could be, someone attacking you, or opposing you, causing you sadness, sickness, or whatever it be, we can all add to this song and say, even in those difficult times, God is still good, and God is still my fortress, and God is still my salvation, and God can still keep me safe in the day of trouble.

[18:38] I think it's a fascinating song. But, okay, you're saying this, but how do we, generally the question is, how do you really react in the day of trouble?

[18:51] One of the biggest temptations we may face when we are in these difficult days of troubles is to sing wrongly about God. Because why? Because we come to God in desperate need.

[19:03] Trusting, okay, you're saying to trust in God, we're going to trust in God, I'm going to pray to Him, I'm going to ask Him to keep me free, to set me free for this problem, I'm going to ask Him to do something for me, but then we go, we just go wait and see it.

[19:14] And when you see it, you realize God doesn't do anything. And what do you think? There's something wrong with this. He may be not trustworthy, because He's not doing what I want Him to do.

[19:32] And that's generally the danger in these difficult situations when it comes to trusting. Because it's easy to trust when we see God doing what we want. But what about when He doesn't?

[19:49] What about when you're praying for that cancer to go away? What about when you're praying for that family member to come to faith? What about when you're praying for your partner not to leave you?

[20:06] And he doesn't. even in those difficult times, David comes back to us and says, I know that He will keep me safe.

[20:32] Whatever safe may be. This is a wonderful song from David. Because it opens up the whole life. Nobody promises that a Christian life is going to be great.

[20:45] It's going to be fascinating. It's going to pop up once we want it. Actually, no. It's all the opposite. It gets even harder and harder and harder. Why? Because God has promised something better at the end.

[20:58] Something that is not accomplished in this life, but in the life to come. We can't get foreshadows of that. We can't get some wee pictures of it. But that's not it at the end. So you think sometimes that God is good because your bank account was great.

[21:15] God's not good because of that. If you think that God is good because your life is great and your family is doing well, your children has got a job and all that, yeah, God is not good because of that. God is good because He is good.

[21:29] Despite what you get or what you don't. And I think we can see through this psalm that it doesn't matter what the situation is, David still thinks and still believes and still proclaims that God is good.

[21:42] You see, brothers and sisters, that one of the things we can always keep in our minds is that our confidence starts not when we see our deliverance, but our confidence starts when we see our deliverer.

[22:18] Mighty, sovereign, powerful, ruling for His throne, lifted up high, doing what He wants when He wants in the way He wants it.

[22:37] Perhaps I'll say it again. Our confidence doesn't start when we see our deliverance. It starts when we see our deliverance rightly in power.

[22:52] and I think that's one of the good things that this psalm does for us. God is all those things from 1 to 3 that David is saying. He is light, He is salvation, He is stronghold.

[23:04] But David doesn't say that the Lord is light. He doesn't say that the Lord is salvation, salvation is strange and far away from Him. Rather, he says that the Lord is His life.

[23:16] David says the Lord is my life, the Lord is my salvation. He implies a sense of belonging. What can we say about that? How do we consider God?

[23:27] Is God your life? We all know God is life. Is God your salvation? We all know God's salvation but is God you? Do you have this sense of belonging that David has?

[23:44] Is God your life? Is God your salvation? If the answer is yes, then who shall we fear? As David said.

[23:56] But who shall I fear? Am I going to be scared of this? David said, no, I won't. So what he chooses to do, David first? He chooses to remember who God is.

[24:06] Who God is? He is his light, he is his salvation, he is his stronghold, he is the deliverer, mighty, he is the God maker of the universe, he is God sovereign, doing what he wants, when he wants, in the time he wants it.

[24:21] Once David sees that, he can go on to the next bit, which is, not only he's seeing who God is, he's remembering who God is, but now he decides to delight in the beauty of God.

[24:31] Verses 4-6, this is what he says, one thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord, and to seek Him in His temple, for in His day, for in the day of trouble, He will keep me safe in His dwelling, He will hide me in the shelter of His second tent, and set me high upon the rock.

[24:58] Then my head will be exalted about my enemies who surround me. So, at His second tent, I will sacrifice with shouts of joy.

[25:11] Here we see David delighting on the beauty of God. To not lose heart, to not give in into temptation while we wait on God, we must delight ourselves in the beauty of God.

[25:25] But the question is, what is the beauty of God that He's talking about here? I think the beauty of God is the truth of God. He's a perfection of God in all His attributes, His wisdom, His power, His love, His justice, and so many more things that we can not name just now.

[25:49] But you're saying, like, what is the difference between remembering who God is and delighting in the beauty of God? What is the difference between 4 to 6 compared to 1 to 3? Well, I think it's one thing to remember who God is.

[26:03] I think it's one thing to remember the truth about God and to be aware of who God is. But it's quite another different thing to delight in that beauty of who God is.

[26:17] The word beauty of verses 4 means delightful or to be delightful means to bring pleasure, something that brings pleasure and satisfaction to our lives. So, to be a Christian, in other words, it's more than simply knowing thoughts about God.

[26:37] It's more than just knowing what the Bible says. But to be a Christian, it means to taste and see that God is good.

[26:48] And not only to see that God is good, but to choose to delight in His goodness, to delight in all the things that He is. So, it is possible to find pleasure in God.

[27:02] Pure, exhilarating pleasure and joy. When we do that, when a believer does that, he finds himself. He does not escape from reality, but actually He conquers it by discovering a deeper and greater reality in which and by which He is able to cope with life and all its pressures.

[27:28] He finds, in fact, something larger than life. And those effects do not wear off. Because what? Because He finds Himself that God is powerful and majestic.

[27:41] He chooses to delight in Him. But what is, if He chooses to delight in Him, what is delighting in Him has to do with confidence?

[28:00] Why is it important? Okay, yeah, you're saying, yeah, we have to delight in Him. Why? Why is it important to delight in Him? Well, let's check again verse 5. Well, verse 4 says that why does He want to delight in Him?

[28:13] He wants to gauge the beauty of God. And then verse 5 says, why? Because He says He wants to be safe in the day of trouble. He is delighting in the beauty of God even in the day of trouble.

[28:26] Even where situations arises and situations get tough, He chooses to delight in Him. And those times when we feel we don't belong, those times when we feel like the situation is out of control, those times when we feel like seriously bad, those times when we are like hopeless, David chose to delight in God and so we must.

[28:52] You will tell me, yeah, it's easy to say from a pulpit, put it into practice, let's see what you get. We just got to do it.

[29:05] David himself wasn't a perfect person at all. His life was always in trouble. He was always running away, being hunted down.

[29:16] Always doing good things, always doing bad things. But yet still, he knew who his maker was. And he still decided to delight in Him.

[29:30] And we see in verse 6 where this word is all delight and taken. Verse 6 says that then my head would be exulting about the enemies who surround me at his secret tent.

[29:45] And I will sing. I will sacrifice with shout of joys and I will sing and make music to the Lord. He is able to walk around with his head held high, singing songs to the Lord.

[30:00] He has joy and this joy is rooted in the satisfying beauty of God that will never change. Before we move to the next one, one of the things I really like about this part is that in verse 4 he asks one thing I ask from the Lord.

[30:21] The only one the only one I do seek is just one thing he is seeking one thing he is asking. He is not asking to be famous. He is not asking to be successful.

[30:33] He is not asking to be rich or blessed. But what he asks is to dwell in the house of the Lord to gain the beauty of the Lord. Because why?

[30:44] Because his joy was in God. And because his joy was in God his enemies couldn't touch him. Failure couldn't touch him. God kept and said it is important to keep in check what we do desire.

[31:02] In the case of David he was deciding to dwell with the Lord. I wonder what we really desire in our hearts. Generally what we desire in our hearts reveals where our confidence is.

[31:17] Have you ever heard a person saying like if I only get this I will finally be happy. Oh I only make millions. Ah finally I will just rest and enjoy this.

[31:28] Oh if I only get married I will do this. Have you ever heard that? I am just filling the blanks. But you know this have you ever heard this if I only so many times what we seek reveals where our confidence is.

[31:44] For David he is not seeking all these things. The only thing David is seeking in verse 4 is like I want to dwell with the Lord. Why? Because I want to rejoice I want to delight myself into this beauty.

[31:55] And that's what I want. He wanted one thing to delight in the beauty of God and compared to the beauty of God everything else is like it's like rubbish for him.

[32:14] Just for a moment think about it. Think what your desires are. Are your desires rooted in satisfaction to be with God? Or are you just rooted in your own personal comfort?

[32:29] Do not take me wrong I'm not saying personal comfort is bad. But what I'm saying is like when we replace all personal comfort as the goal for satisfaction rather than me for satisfaction and rejoicing in God that becomes a problem.

[32:46] But David come back to David doesn't only resolve himself to remember who God is he doesn't only desire to delight in God he does also resolve verses 7 to 12 to walk in God in God's way.

[33:04] So if we do want to wait with confidence and hope in God we should resolve to walk in God's way. David trusts that the Lord will be merciful for it.

[33:15] One of the repeated ideas of this section from 7 to 12 is a constantly mention of he is deciding to seek in God's faith. Basically this is a repeated idea from verses 4 and verse 4 he mentioned he wants to seek the Lord he wants to dwell with the Lord in verses 8 he says I want to seek you Lord I want to seek your presence I want to be in your presence so he trusts that the voice that shouts and sings in him sings to him and worships in verse 6 can also be confident that the Lord will hear him when he prays in verse 7 praying is one aspect of seeking the Lord what David is done in verse 4 seeking him in his temple he is also instructed to do in verse 8 okay we are seeing all of this this is what

[34:19] David is doing I know you are following my life thinking I hope you do but we are seeing all the things that David is doing we are seeing all this great but yet we see from verses to 7 till 12 actually there seems to be a conflict with David in one sense he do trust in God but in another sense he is like Lord please be merciful to me hear me oh Lord do not hide your face from me there is this sense of fighting and wrestling in his mind why because as I said before David was still a sinner David was a person who was a murderer at some point an adulterer a liar so it's so easy to imagine why David would wrestle in these verses with this question will God really forsake me will God have hide his face from me he might be thinking like I want to gaze on the beauty of

[35:20] God but am I a sinner how am I going to do that that's why in verse 7 he says please Lord I plead for mercy please have mercy on me that is why I said at beginning this from 1 to 6 seems to be something going on and from 7 to 14 there seems to be a different country something different going on but I think it's all just matched all together in his wrestling he remembers what God has asked for him look what it says verse 8 my heart says you seek his face your face Lord I will seek a better translation from verse 8 would say to my heart he has said seek my face and what I think David is remembering here he is remembering that at some point at one point God asked him asked his people not him particularly his forefathers to seek his face in

[36:24] Deuteronomy chapter 4 and I think that invitation was always present in David's mind he knew that what God really wanted from his people was to seek to him and I think that's what he keeps in mind in this situation God will never call for a law and withhold his own so he knows if God always wanted to be seek then David could seek for every person and this is what produces profound confidence to the point that he expresses verse 10 where he says even when my father my mother would forsake me I know he will not forsake me why because God was asking me to seek him before and why because I know he will be there for me I think what he I think he picks the image of parenthood here not thinking his parents were very bad or mean people but

[37:27] I think he just used it as a reference to say that if the most improbable thing ever happened even if the most improbable thing ever happened like my parents that changed my nappies or changed my diapers nappies or whatever you want to call them ever forsake me even the most improbable happens David knew God will not God will be there for me this psalm is all about confidence whether you are in the first section one to six or whether you are in the second section seven to fourteen there is a confidence in God David had confidence do he and one of the things about verse 10 is like this confidence expressed in verse 10 leads him in verses 11 to obedience teach me your way Lord lead me to straight paths because of my oppressors when we have seen who God is we can trust him when we trust him we can walk in his ways when we walk in his ways we are no longer afraid of where he would take us and we are no longer afraid where he would take us we can go wherever he lead us we just decide to follow him perhaps you wonder why can

[38:53] I know be obedient to the Lord perhaps you don't trust him properly and why you can trust him properly perhaps you don't know him go from one way to another this is probably the last few minutes and I'll finish and all the issues that we face generally and the troubles is that rather than being compelled as I said to amazing the beauty of God and to be fascinated about who God is sometimes in this day of troubles we do self focus on ourselves and we do think oh there's something in me to fix it we always want to fix our own troubles and that's something common always happening personally than me like you remember my story I was trusting in God but what had in my hand beginning of my story had a machete with me right so much trusting for me

[39:57] I was trusting that the Lord will keep me safe but in one of my hands I was trying to solve the problem on my own what was the way to solve the problem on my own having a machete next to me and in so many ways when it comes to trusting we are kind of like that in one way we do want to wait and trust in God but in the other way this is a better way to solve it let's do it that way and it's in this situation when we do that that we become less focused on God and more focused on ourselves and we lose the fourth perspective of the situation and God become so small for us and the situations we are facing because even bigger so what has David done in order to wait for God three main things he decided to remember who God is he decided to delight in who

[40:57] God is and he decided to follow and obey God's way but one of the things that you can see throughout this passage as well is that there is a constant mention of the word temple tabernacle house of God throughout this passage it's something very compelling as I said chapter 26 chapter 27 so how can God how can David have the confidence that God will rescue him it seems like the answer for him straight is like he goes to the temple he goes to the temple but one of the things we know because of the time that David wasn't the one who built the temple he was his son the one who built the temple and one of the things that David is saying constantly he wants to be at the temple he wants to go and gaze in the temple of

[41:59] God I wonder what is he meaning by it wouldn't it be that he is not actually meaning a physical temple but he is meaning the place where God dwells which at the time could be the tabernacle which was a foreshadow of the war once became flesh of the war that chapter John verse 14 says it became flesh and dwell among us or it's better translated from the Greek and the one who put his tabernacle among us it is funny when David is talking about trust he says I want to go to the temple I want to be in a temple I want to dwell in the temple and we put that in context I do think that temple for ourselves could be

[42:59] Jesus the real temple the real dwelling place where God lives the place where mercy and justice leads why is David always confident that God will rescue him why is David always confident that God will be there for him because he was hoping for his Messiah Jesus why can we have confidence that God will be there for us because that's what his son Jesus Christ has said to us he is Jesus the dwelling place from God on earth he was he is and he will be he is the new temple that wasn't built from from David he is a better temple he is the only temple the one we can trust so how do

[44:00] I end this son David seeks for the temple the dwelling place for God where he could find mercy in the new testament that is Jesus in whom we can gaze on the beauty of God David knew that God will not forsake him in the same way if we do believe Jesus he has promised that he will never forsake us can we face difficult times can we face time troubles can we go for difficult times in our lives yes we can why because we got Jesus done this you