Adjust Your Awe - Psalm 27 - Mercy Hill

All right it is a pleasure to be with you Mercer you truly blessed Aloma time worship fee. Yes, I'm so thankful to be here today as my father was a given, onto my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is a pleasure to be in the house, the Lord, with my mercy of family. I am so grateful to be here. I love this church I love your leadership and I just love that we get the partner together in the kingdom of God doing the work of God in the earth, a man to come over very quickly and pray for us before we get into the word of God heavenly father we thank you Lord for this day. Got a thank you for your critical lovingkindness got. I pray as always, if you would help with the servant now God make me as is microphone that would simply magnify the things you said into me more that this word he could see the soul into our hearts that is good soil about produce a harvest in our lives God and pray right now that your glorious proclaimed God that we pray right now that we leave our time together saying what a great sermon, but saying what a great God father. Would you be the glory, the praise and the honor in Jesus name we pray. A man, a man will have the distinct pleasure of pastoring vertical charts in the little metropolitan area of Hillsboro, North Carolina, was simply means I'm a little country boy and so I'm glad to be here with you all today I want to take a moment and tell you about my my family, my family, I have four children, four children have three boys and a little girl girl.

My wife and I we finally got our precious baby girl London grace advice and loving grace. She's the best policy has me wrapped around her finger and she knows it and I know it, and apologetic about how tall the boys soccer be fair, gentlemen do not expect the same thing that she did. When you turn 18, got a go she can stay until she's married June got got here God not my loving grace and stress it's only me.

She humbles me every every Christmas season like Christmas. Come on now London loves Christmas actually London love any type of celebration she's seven years old is your birthday today.

I promise you she's probably more excited about your birthday and you will remember a few years ago. London, she made a request after Christmas.

She says daddy can we leave the Christmas tree up baby this thing to come down daddy. I rearranged little tree in here and I'm tired of it as a kid we just can we at least leave it up until my birthday so that way on my birthday I can come downstairs Norma present under the Christmas tree. I think I'll head below to the Christmas tree since is my birthday will baby your birthday is in April. She loves to celebrate me though was just just a few months before Christmas time of prayer at night and I pretty much children she.

She would always start to ask God for Christmas gifts is not the only one to look at me like that she would pray. God I want to pay the dog out with the Barbie cart as you start praying and pray with her that we would get up and leave the room and she would forget to pray to God about my Christmas gifts was humbling to me was that even while I was in the moment. I member gospel to be so close. A writer just like that someone says you are concerned about my gifts while you're in the presence of the giver. Yeah, yes, will be a type of daily guys cannot come to work. I cannot come to work God is, I really believe that the word of the Lord is given me is something that we all need to wrestle with.

I think sometimes I learned about my daughter in those moments when I learned about myself in those moments was that I have an issue with this thing called all write it down if you can get students take notes all all will be saved again. All we all are in all of something. The question I want to lift up tonight is what are you in all because whatever you are in all of is what she will be after my was in all of these things. She wasn't in all of her father.

She was nine and all the giver, but all all the gift that will submit to you that she's not even in all give she's actually in all of her self is the gifts for her is what these things make her feel when I want to lift up to you is we need to just our all. I love you guys.

If I hear from the country but from the country. My mom would say we might have an attitude adjustment. And now I've been here since humor zeal for all adjustment. I believe 1 Great Pl. We see this is in the Psalm 27 Psalm 27 ordering these verses. Psalm 27. I just want to look up a few verses from their Psalm 27, starting at verse number one, says the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid when evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh my my adversaries and foals in its day who stumble and fall going on in Against me, my heart shall not fear the war rise against me yet. I will be confident one thing have I asked the Lord that I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life today is upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple, suggesting today that you're all shakes almost everything that happens in your life.

You're all shakes, how you live your all shapes, the decisions that you make all shapes the person that you married, all shapes, the school that you went to your all shades even what you eat. I think sometimes were not even aware of our all our shakes so many things in our lives but does it inform and shape your pursuit of God's leasing with mistake with me.

To be honest in the hustle and bustle of life. If were not careful we can lose our all all God listen to. We can be just to do with his beauty and his Majesty, we can lose our one for his greatness and my heart has been broken because I can be honest and say there been times in my life that I have not always been in all of, this, this idea of losing our all God will affect our faith in his word. It will affect our our expectation, it will affect our obedience to the mission it will affect our urgency for the gospel.

Our all not careful losing our all for God calls us to wander away from him all together.

I would like to suggest that one of the biggest problems that we see not just in our world and not just in the church is not a sin problem. It's not a government problem is not an education problem is not a political problem is not even a theological problem is not a leadership problem.

It's an all problem we have to just address our all we want to adjusted systems, gives context to your list. Talk about a four second like I can feel you asking the question pastor. What is all write as I can take notes. All is defined as a reverential state or condition of mind and heart that results in respectful fear. She knew when wonder secular since a person can be an all war field with all of something or towards a place or thing.

Example I remember when when I graduated from high school, my parents.

We went out to Las Vegas and we drove out and we actually would not go see the Grand Canyon and everything the Grand Canyon listen when you see it. It puts you in what and all I remember when Job out there. We were looking at.

Where is it was all the building and the King is my father's, like that of all directions go to the building that was like hey listen really for the Grand Canyon. Have you seen it. I remember that the work was likely to just walk this way and you'll see a mission of enlightenment will know what it is and we wanted. There was all my father being such a kind and generous man decent meeting to go down the Grand Canyon.

My mother's is how do you suppose that we will do this, looking for us. They had three modes of transportation. You could write a bus but halfway down his drinking. You can ride a donkey all the way down to the ranking, you could go for the premium package helicopter down to the Grand Canyon.

My father would all of his grace said let's all go will go get a helicopter ride down the Grand Canyon was we got down there being a river and looking up and seeing how beautiful the Grand Canyon was.

I was not in the Grand Canyon.

I was in all the God of the Grand Canyon here is that this thing actually put me into a place I was thinking about God differently want you to understand is that we are created we are created for all Psalm 33 verse eight says this let all the earth fear the Lord and let all the inhabitants of the world watch this stand in all of him which are all what you see that God has been calling us. We have been why your for all this is not just a spiritual Christian issue. This is every human being on the face of the earth is wired to the something there's a challenge.

The challenges is always design stay with me for God and God alone.

Everything we see, was meant to point us to God and for us to be in all of God because of the things that we see something living every creation should put us again all of the creator and the challenge that many of us have a not guilty of is that I have often times put my all in the creation and not the creator of this is comparatively trying to put your all in a sign for grandma's pancake sampler at Cracker Barrel, as opposed to putting your all in the actual day.

We have made the mistake of not guilty of discipline and something that points to God and not God himself go somewhere. Here is where the problem is, for many of us. We look to creations to satisfy. As we look to creations that bring us hope we let the creations that bring create peace. We look to creations to give us identity. We look to these things we have been in all these things and it causes us to miss God let me say this for whoever was here for the first time.

There is nothing on this earth that was created that will completely satisfy you. There is nothing on this earth made of this earth that will completely bring you peace. No matter what your heart's longing for. There was no creation that is designed to fulfill what you desire what you long for. I would suggest that the fall of mankind was not a fall and just seeing it was a fall. All school-age is three verse six that Whitney says this so when the woman saw the tree was good for food. Oh, and that it was a delight to the eyes.

I see again all the tree was to be desired to make one wise, all she said she also gave some to her husband was with 38 all all there was not. All his creation and what he could do for them is the answer was this when the serpent says you can be wise like God for the fall happen right there when all was exchange for God, for self when God is no longer sitting on the throne of your heart. There was a shoe with your all writers down there only two places for your Allstate with only two places for your all you have all gone all God's creation.

We have a vertical all or a horizontal all your all.

Maybe in what you do it. Maybe your career, it may be in what other people think about you. Maybe where you live it. Maybe other people's opinions and maybe you and your spouse may be in your children miss place all for now some of you have a food isn't all you saw that maybe what you say all you want to be misplaced on must be gone. This thoughts listen to me early in life.

I just told you about my daughter missing you.

You can ask any child I have a toddler that refuses problem already. They have already figured out.

I don't like it. I don't want it. I am in all of myself will go to people that have a problem is never adjusted. Turning the big people to have all problem is never adjusted come to adjust the mall today in this Psalm David is writing here and he reveals. I love this is all most theologians would argue here that Dave is either writing in one or two situations either one and he is fleeing from King Saul who wanted to kill him or he's fleeing Absalom and his son wanted to kill him. Either way, this is not a situation where I would get all of God. But here's our first point right as I can see this is personal and is a personal gesture on his thoughts. Person let's look at it right here. Psalm 27 verse one says that the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid, David isn't quite the situation and he starts with theology. This is awesome. This is also because if it were me and all my enemies were in The lame cabbie out of the junk I was say Lord didn't know about only one okay okay God bless you for the email start with the request. He starts with the truth. You see is all yet he says the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is a struggle to my life of whom shall I be afraid. What was the most important word in that very verse is this a short word is the word gonna love it.

It's one thing to know that God's salvation is another thing to know that he's salvation. What is something to know he's my salvation. This is when you're on adjusting God, not just… You're my God, not just stronghold your mouth stronghold and not just delivering you are not just a healer, you are all is person David says you must like my salvation and my stronghold is a personal thing.

David have to be looking back and think about all the different times that he's been saved and delivered by God is personal.

Everybody say is personal to say this that I theology of God is not just something that is a theology of the Bible but of the God of the Bible theology stay with me that is completely based on knowledge and understanding, but has not touched your personal experience is extremely incomplete and lacking listen to me. I want to be biblically sound. I want to be sound in doctrine, but listen I just can't have a cognitive understanding of God know when my cognitive understanding meets my personal experience and something beautiful that happens there.

God doesn't just want you to have any knowledge of him as the father. He says you have an experience of him as your father gets personal. Miss place all you ask yourself the question, where is my all. I've seen Christians and believers swim themselves into debt trying to find life through material things, providing a false sense of security. Horizontal all I've seen couples destroy one another in marriages and families searching for all and someone else in a person that was never meant to handle all I've seen people treat the church like a ecclesiastical shopping mall asking the church to provide all of their needs. All listen to me misplaced all will always lead to misplaced worship. What ever you're always your worship is sure to follow.

I know that you guys would talk about the wise family. Just insert this right here that I believe that the most important thing you can teach your children is to be in all God the most important thing you look for in your spouse to be praying for your spouse that will be in all of God.

The most important thing you do for your family member is help them to see how great and mighty God is all my goodness misplaced all.

I cannot be more concerned with my children disobeying me that I am disobeying God I cannot be more concerned about what they know what I want and I don't make sure they know what God wants. God is your salvation.

God is your life God is your life God is your strength. What is your all mercy, mostly with me the second thing we see here is all adjust your perspective is adjusted personally do what adjust is your perspective.

Let's look at the text right here. Psalm 27 verse two and three with evil doers assail me to eat my flesh, my adversaries and foals. It is they who stumble and fall going army and Against doing my heart shall not fear the war rise against me. I will be confident statements all of God. Listen to me changed his perspective in his life. David is a campus in a very dangerous situation, but his perspective changes because of his all of God. I want you to hear this because I think sometimes we are waiting for God to change our situation instead of changing our perspective on the situation grew up in church. My grandma was say listen, I don't have time to tell God how big my problems till my problems how big my God is change my perspective. And when I look at God longer than I look at the issue. When I look at God longer than I look at the situation.

When I look at his loving kindness and grace when I dwell upon the good news of Jesus Christ helps put everything else into perspective for me yeah yeah this way the site is like this.

Fear is is the only solution for fear. Yeah, yeah, I meant to say that fear is the only solution for fear we talk about Pastor my fear of God disarms my fear of other things kind of looking first Samuel chapter number 17.

We see where David fights Goliath. David here just a shepherd boy it is is confused because the army of Israel are not fighting this man. He is a giant everyone is up next Friday 11 and David says our fighting now, all now I got it much. I worry I know you trained warriors, but I got this look at what David says in first sandwich of something. Verse 36 to 37. I want to hear fear.

It always was over here is your assignment down both alliance's and this uncircumcised sign shall be like one of them, for he has the file.

The arms of the living God. And David said, the Lord, who delivered me from the power of the lion from the power of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, go, am the Lord be with you, how much to see this every body else was afraid of Goliath was his fear of God to change his perspective on the situation.

I want to see this now in chapter 27 of Psalm Davis all is is is helping him see the situation differently.

She knew God would be his deliverer. I don't know who's in here today and maybe you're struggling with your faith made. Maybe you feel like your creating distance between you and God. You're finding it hard to read your Bible you find it hard to pray because you have the voices of fear and God says just look at me yeah just look at me say this, that the proper place all proper place all God will always change your perspective. Example, many all ever heard of the pilot fish pilot fish pilot pilot fish pilot pilot pipe pipe pilot fish. I thought if I said it more know still nothing.

Pilot fish pilot fish is is that that weird little fish that we see swimming with sharks missing the pilot fish delicacy like you know is Mr. Wickham enough that we meet. This is like right next to the shop that you have all this? Quite a while because of the shark thank you Tyler fish would understand. Found out about my music director. She was telling me that she saw God when she saw the polyp as I said you saw God would you saw the pilot fish.

I said tell me will she said to me that when she was told I was just found out that apparently fish swims with the shark because Tyler fish actually eats the parasites, which is a fancy word for the leftover flash in the teeth of the shark. I look, I know this sharks can flawless fear will reach some of you are really trying to like that they have the fish and apparently fish actually eats all the left over carcass tests in the mouth of the shark and the scale that is not out of his mouth.

There are pictures of the fish allowing going into the mouth of the shark and the shock allowing the left over carcass out of the sharks mouth said you have me understand how did you see God in the pilot fish simply because if God would think so much of the shark that he would create a fish just to clean his mouth, think so much of this fish that he would have a shark that would protect them from the other predators in the seat, how much more does he think of you. Okay… The Bible unnoticed by the church begin to feel like this in Matthew chapter 6 verse 25 that Frank's Jesus I tell you, God, help us to not be anxious about your life what you will be what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing that this is what Jesus is God's creation says look at the yeah so nor reap nor gather into the bars and only father please are you not more valuable than the I want you to see this. This is a creation should point us in the creator, I'm glad you will go home and googled a pilot fish but tonight is not a sermon about the pilot fish tonight is a sermon about the fish and he sent his son Jesus died on the cross for you that you like the license it went with me all this.

It's doing all switch you will pursue. After all, you know all he is holy and righteous. The sun's are you in Leslie Riker number 301 since been adjusted personally and adjust our perspective now in a just world pursue write it down if you can do students take notes our pursuits is right here was still in them. Psalm 27 verse four. He says one thing I asked a little over that will I seek after God help us, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and incline your in his temple. See this David is surrounded by enemies on every side and and he has a prayer and he only makes one request request is not that God would take down his enemies. His request was not that God would deliver him out of the situation is where class was not God and what you make this easier on me because request was not God like my low request was sent because God I just want to see you is someone that isn't all God killed my pursuits are what I'm after house that I desire to dwell on line market is upon because I am in all live in a culture that is so consumer wristed that we don't realize that the world around us is praying on your all you see commercials, they always ask you questions Tyler… Always I am tired of Cheerios and the floor in the carpet. I don't have anything to vacuum up over the same time is always a government whose materials like this. What do you see the point is where going to deal what you're all he would know to always go I bet you know your favorite name. Yours all selfless's dangerous self deceived into believing that when we are the object of our own section, we will be satisfied.

Many of us come to our careers, our jobs, even our spouses trying to serve our own personal all trying to serve yourself as a creation and not seeking the creator of the greatest mistake that you can make with your line.

We are called and wired to be in all of God. So how do we get back to all God's stars with disconnection and reconnection close right here. One of things we had better Ray is disconnecting from the world reconnecting with God as I need to disconnect so I can identify my all think I'm hauling a copy of the job.

When I went to prices and I don't share this with our church, God told me all was my daughter love and grace was my all my daughter I have two sisters, one sister is younger to me was sisters older than me. Yes, it was horrible.

I thought my father mistreated me greatly.

He loves me just not like them.

My younger sister. I believe this she has liquid gold in her eyes.

You should see it work.

It's amazing puts me in all but once I had my daughter London. She was about three weeks old and I remember I was just staring at her and I couldn't stop.

I will be at work all day and I will come home my wife to have a mother who are you doing now see Le I was in a, father say hey man, I'm sorry to sorry for son all these years I can hold this against you, and now I understand I have my own daughter. And really what it was all my daughter listen to me.

I was and I thought my daughter could provide for me.

Stay with me because I watched my sisters love for my father and I loaned for that kind of love. My wife loves me. I believe it, I'm sure of it. But I feel like sometimes is conditional fellas is look at me don't you turn them my daughter as I do no wrong. Who here it was that this little girl at three weeks old.

She is now not even knowing it had a feeling in my heart with love.

I put extra hard to say my dear old me no matter what in God's mind you already have somebody somebody that can fulfill that your daughter should see you Google you really all one day, but I already know who you really all you see my just think what has Should jerk I did is not God was captured your heart that is not God, it may be a good thing God thing, because that thing is something that your worship identify your all to know why you're all know why my daughter was the way that she looked at me. I was important.

I couldn't reach her bed sermon yelling, hearing me, I could make a bad leadership decision. I was all in much and it really wasn't all it was. This is what sin is like in the middle of the word sin is the Y middle decision is captured.

Your heart is not God. Your question to ask yourself this week. Anything that you're not willing to give up for God – an idle anything you're not willing to give up, for God is your God that's mature is in. What are you looking for in means that you should be looking to God for what you looking for in other people. Are you looking for people to affirm you when God already said your life. We have this habit of close right here in the church to make the right just as our all what I'm good enough. I cross another anything at all gospel notes which your blessing to increase our awareness. I was going to title this destruction by distraction.

Make maybe today you say you got awaited my awareness of God, greater karma time for my awareness of this is why I did when I was younger.

Phenomenal older like walking outside. I'm that old man just where you going.

I'm just walking on that old guy. My joints is out there walking got nowhere in the just walking there was a lot of things I have all my beauty around you drive by it every day, but you never take time to be aware of it and also really like is outside like outside outside nodding your screen importunate outside outside creation glory.

My stories are so don't lose your hold the gospel close is the thing that keeps me in all God is always God's will and sell all visit agendas go over full started with misplaced all I believe restoration in light of the gospel. It starts out all of God's love through his son Jesus Christ is every about every eye closed father we are in 1/2 you still love me, but I'll stop trying to figure it I'm just in all. Gotta love my wife love my children love my church but God they just help me see you got helpless to not put other things other people other ideas in your place.

Well, all should be Holy Spirit touch every heart in the room right now.I'm praying is a restoration of all was not and how easy things are how things are or how many things go according to our plan, but no, our all is in your beauty but we can say like David, regardless of our circumstances, there is lien design packs to see you.

Love you gospel overflow our with Casca the people of God saying