The Best Is Yet to Come - Part 2

Yolanda non-he's increasingly it's one thing to rejoice rule would go with Don for you to be considered rejoicing for overgrown will do for you in the future that I am Turning Point up to your marshal program for doing that. Just like in David as he completes the series when the world falls apart his driver to introduce the conclusion of this problem is the best is yet to come.

Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for being with us during the month of June, one month.

This is been trying to sort out what's next word we go now what happens. Some of you are in places that are fully opened up some are still being sheltered, and wherever you are the one thing that is the constant and all is the presence of Almighty God revealed in his son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit lives within us have come to know that in a much different and more real way. I hope you have two we have been studying during the month of June the book of Psalms we chosen Tim some of these are the sheltering Psalms. Actually that's the name given to them and we've studied them in relationship to the things were experiencing right now. First of all, we discovered that our issues are not new to us.

David went through many of the same things we've experienced not in terms of the modern circumstances that we see everyday but in his life and his time in the same God who helped David who worked with him to bring him out and set them free as the God is working in our lives as well right now let's get started with part two, Psalm 16. This is called the best is yet to come. David pauses as we often ought to pause in the parentheses of our life and reflected upon the fact that he had some good friends among the people of God, he says as the saints of your excellent wants, in whom is my delight stop for a moment when you're in the midst of difficult times and counted up true godly Christian friends that God has given you one of the best things about going through difficulty going through a little storm in your life is that all of a sudden the true nature of God's people is evidence to you and you find out that you have some wonderful godly friends who God is given to you so he rejoices in the presence of God and very quickly in the next verse he talks about seeing God's principles in verse 46 concerning the sorrow shall be multiplied to hasten after another, God, their drink offerings of blood, I will not offer nor take up their names on my lips begins to think about the people that he loves and then he begins to think about the people he doesn't think so much about how I know were supposed to love everyone but David. Here's talking about those who offer themselves to idols and those lips read the names of idolatry. David had seen the idols of Moab, and the idols in felicity and he had heard about the idolatry been going on in the history of his own people, and he said, as I sit here thinking about all of this and meditating on the goodness of God I am so thankful for the principles of God's holiness that it kept me from being an idolater and from honoring the name of idols with my lips just revels in the presence of Almighty God, you know, if God never did anything for us if we couldn't enumerate on our hands and blessings that we feel if we truly understand our Bibles men and women just to know God and just know that he knows us is blessing enough to keep us occupied for the rest of our lives, but David doesn't stop there. He moves in the main part of the Psalm to seeing God and what he is doing at the present time he remembers who God is and then in verses five through eight he remembers what God is doing and will go through these very quickly, but you will notice how wonderfully they are listed for us.

He rehearses what God is doing.

First of all, in verse five he sees that the Lord is his completeness or Lord you are the portion of my inheritance and my cup Old Testament language that puts these Hebrew words together. Simply saying that the Lord is the one who makes us complete that provides for us what we need is the answer to the prayer in the Lord's prayer. Give us this day our daily bread. God is provided for severe stop.

Thank God just for the daily provisions that provides and then he goes on to say that not only is God, his completeness, but God is his certainty to maintain my lot says now that doesn't mean God takes care of the empty lot you all out in the country but word lot here means your circumstances. He takes care of your circumstances is it an interesting thing that this one who writes these words in this parentheses in his life is the one who is been hunted down by Saul.

He's the one who is been thrown out of his home.

One who is lost his presence among the people who can't worship with the people of God in his city is a fugitive to his own family and yet he's able to praise God in the midst of it all and say hello Lord God, you maintain my lot. Take care my circumstances. Anyone had to learn this lesson the hard way. It was David and it was God who protected them through the long days of Saul's hatred toward him and then he says in verse six the Lord is our contentment. This is a wonderful verse of actually seeing this on a couple of Christian cards over the years never have quite understood what it meant, but I now understand what it means and what a blessing it is the Lord is our contentment. He says in verse six.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant faces. Yes, I have a good inheritance, Lord, when I look back over my life. I had a good life and have a great deal to be thankful for. Can you say that when I look back over my shoulder. I was born in a Christian family. I was reared on the gospel, nurtured on the milk of the word of God, given the privilege of going to Christian schools and Christian college blast with godly friends who gave me good counsel when I needed it and on and on, protected from the things that could have been maybe should happen to me when I was running wild.

As a young man I look back in scope. God, man, I've had a good life.

I'm more blessed than I should be I should live at least 150 years to be this blessed God is blessing. That's what Dave is saying he saying the lines have fallen to me in pleasant places and I have a good inheritance when you get yourself down in a self pity party and everything gets out of perspective you need to come back to realize what you have and how God has blessed you and be content with what you have word of God says we can learn in whatever state we are to be content. Philippians 411. Did you know that. And did you know it's something you have to learn. It's not something that automatically happens you don't just wake up some babies are born contented and some are not all babies are born discontented. They have to learn to be contented. All they may be more compliant than others, but you let them not have their bottle in a short period of time they become discontented. Amen.

You have to learn contentment. David, like Paul, learn to be content is 13 five says let your conduct be without covetousness, be content with such things as you have, for he himself is set I will never leave you nor forsake you contented.

Then in verse seven.

David continues to review the blessings of the Lord in his life. Presently she takes inventory accounting is blessings one by one, and he realizes he says the Lord is our counsel says I will bless the Lord, who has given me counsel. My heart also instructs me in the night seasons. How many of you know what a blessing it is to know Almighty God on a first name basis and be able to come to him as the word of God says if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, it doesn't say go through all of these hierarchical people before you get the goddesses just go right to God and asking and he will give you wisdom and you will never scold you for coming and he is always available to you and sometimes in the night seasons when you're not even thinking about him. He solves your problems in the night.

You know that experience when you go to bed at night thinking about something that's heavy on your heart and you give it to God in the night when you wake up in the morning somehow in the night. God has brought it all together in your mind, and resolved say I never had that experience. We try counting your blessings before you go to sleep telling God about the needs that you have in them, leaving them with him watching what he does.

David says my heart instructs me in the night seasons. While the Lord is our completeness and our certainty in our contentment in our counsel and he ends this little section by saying the Lord is our confidence. He ends with this strong statement of affirmation, as he reviews the blessing of the Lord in his life. He says I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

What a rejoicing powerful statement. The Lord is before and I have sent him before me and he is at my right hand going to be moved chances bless you see when David is done he's reviewed who God is and now he's rehearsed what God does. And finally, he brings this to a conclusion by rejoicing at what God is going to do and this is one of the most amazing portions of Scripture in the Old Testament because it demonstrates the supernatural quality of the Old Testament word of God here in the Old Testament. David looks out into the future and through the eyes of faith.

He sees things he has no right to see he comprehends things that have never been communicated to him as far as we know from the Scripture, except through faith by the Holy Spirit and he writes accurately. So much so that when New Testament writers set out to talk about the truth which he unfolds. They quote this Psalm as evidence ballots watch what happens. First of all, in rejoicing. What God was going to do for him. David looks into the future and he says I'm just having this wonderful time of praise rejoicing and I see the resurrection. Notice verse 10 he says, for you will not leave my soul in Sheol or in the abode of the dead or in the grave, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption and notice in the text the words holy one are capitalized in the Bible because there a reference to the Lord ultimately but you see before David even saw the resurrection of Christ, he saw his own resurrection. He has been reminded that while he doesn't understand completely. What's going to happen.

David has rehearsed for all of us, all the good things God has done for him and is doing form in his life and it is incomprehensible to him that God would so care for him during his life would not care for me in his death and beyond.

And so David sees that he will not be left in the grave, nor will he be left to suffer corruption. He sees his own resurrection. For some reason, God allowed David to know things about the future and what he was going to do that you don't find in the other books of the Bible. For instance, periodically, people will come to me after someone they know has lost a baby and they will say pastor what happens to a little one when it dies. It's not old enough to have understood and accepted the gospel. What if it's just there for five months old. What happens to that child. And of course if you ever have a question ask you know that the answer to that is found in the story of David and the Old Testament when his little baby died the baby born to him and Bathsheba. The Bible says that while the baby was sick unto death that David fasted and he wore sackcloth and he mourned when the baby died. David got up and dressed, anointed his body with fasting went back to life.

Nobody could understand it seem like everything was upside down. Someone came in asking why did you pack this is a strange way to act and David responded in the words second Samuel chapter 12 the subway said and he said while the child was alive, I fasted and I wept for. I said who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me that the child may live, but now he is dead. Why should I fast can I bring him back again. I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me what David say he knew that God had cared for that child and that someday he would see that child again. How did David know that through the eyes of faith God had given him to acknowledge that there is life after death that there is a place God has prepared for those who love him and that even though we did not have all the details that are written for us in the New Testament Scriptures. He knew enough to believe in his own resurrection, but there's something even more amazing here. He believed not only his own resurrection, but he saw enough to write about it, the resurrection of the Messiah.

You say pastor Jeremiah where is that here. How do I know that. Listen to the words here in the 10th verse four. He will not leave my soul in Sheol nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption. David could never been the fulfillment of that phrase because he would not be considered the holy one. You will show me the path of life in your presence is fullness of joy. I can only appeal to the New Testament commentary on this and I want to tell you that on two occasions. This passage is quoted in the New Testament when Peter was preaching on the day of Pentecost in that great sermon that because so many people to believe he is preaching and in the words of acts chapter 2 we read now watch carefully, whom God raised up his preaching on the resurrection you hear Peter's voice, whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be held by it for David says concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is at my right hand that I should not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad. Moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope. This is a direct quote from Psalm 16, for you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the ways of life you will make life joyful in your presence. Peter said that David said that Jesus Christ was coming out of the gray. I didn't say that Peter said that Sable did David understand all the nuances of that. I don't know but I know that he spoke the truth about the resurrection of the Messiah, the holy one. Paul was preaching later on and he brought the same emphasis to this very passage for in acts chapter 13 we read. Therefore, he also says in another Psalm. Speaking of David will not allow your holy one to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell asleep and was buried with his fathers and saw corruption. Paul said David said this, but it couldn't of been totally about himself because he fell asleep.

He died.

He said it about another and that other was the Lord Jesus. So now watch this here is David counting his blessings he doesn't have the resurrection to look back upon. You can only look forward to it and you say will. What a blessed man I am for God is not going to leave my soul in the grave is provided a way out through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. How many of you know, because he lives we live also man and finally he ends his little praise party by rejoicing around is going to put this up here because it's the best way I know to explain it. He rejoices in Christ's resurrection and he rejoices finally in the rapture. Notice verse 11 it says for you will show me the path of life and in your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. David looks out into the future and he sees a time when the Lord Jesus is going to come out of the grave. The final proof of his Messiah ship but he looks even beyond that and he sees a path that he says this path leads from where I am now right out into the presence of Almighty God and one day I want to walk down that path and walk down that road and I would end up at the end of that path and I want to be in the presence of God with the fullness of joy and with pleasure. I want to tell you something were so pleasure mad in this world today, but we don't even have a good definition of it. There is no pleasure in this world that can even be compared to the pleasure of being in the presence of Almighty God for one moment, and were going to live with him for eternity. David looks beyond that you say.

How does one get to the presence of the Lord will right now there's only two ways you can die as a Christian and Paul said for me to live is Christ and to die is gain and in second Corinthians. He said something like this that when you die what happens is your absent from the body and present with the Lord absent from the body. What happens when a Christian dies.

The Bible says immediately when they brayed there last there absent from this body, and their present with the Lord and be there forever, but you know what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping to beat the rap of death. Aren't you.

I'm looking forward to the rapture. Paul says in first Thessalonians chapter 4 that the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first and we who are alive and remain on Obama among that group shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Now watch this. And thus we shall always be with the Lord that cited the presence of the Lord, you either die into his presence, or you fly into his presence.

A man in David saw that you know what if all you know about life was who God is what he does that be enough to keep you happy but then you know not only who is what you find out how he ministers to you as your counselor is your friend is your provider is your satisfaction is your contentment, but then added to that is the fact that he's got this future prepared for us in his wonderful place where we are going to be with him forever and no joy as it's meant to be known in pleasure as we've never known it and it says it's going to be the fullness of it all out to the fullest extent you what you meditate on that for a while. Then you stay in your little pitiful phone.

Can you asked me what's wrong. I'll tell you, you just need to go back to the Bible and find out what God is done for you is not a one of us here that have an awful lot to rejoices on a man and woman came to her pastor. She been in the church for years. She was very very sick and they didn't expect her to live for much more than a week or so she called her pastor up. Not that people do this. She said pastor wants to come over. I want to plan my service. So he went over to her house and she told him all the hymns that she wanted to have some all the Scripture she wanted have read who she wanted to sing the solos but she said pastor is one thing I want you to do. I know you think this is strange about what you hear me now I want you to promise me today that you will do this and he said was that he said were when you when they lay me out in the casket and the permit. I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand. He just could not believe anybody would ask for something so bizarre. She was in overeater as far as he knew, he said well you know what, I've never had anybody asked me that before but he said if you try to help me understand why you're doing it. Maybe it will help me feel better about doing it.

She said pastor one things I loved about this church been coming here for since I was little girl. I don't think I missed one potluck dinner since I've been coming weeks to have them all the time and she said I remember this after the first course was served. One of the deacons of the elders would stand up and say save your fork, the best is yet to come. And she said I want to be buried with a fork in my hand. So when they walk by the casket look at me you be standing there when they say what's that fork you can tell him the best is yet to come. Amen. You have a lot to I don't know what kind of misery index you're living in, how difficult it is for you, but I know this in the midst of it all. You can take a little parentheses out of the war get someplace along with Almighty God, and remember who he is doing what is God plan.

Let me tell you something when you summed it all up you going to have to say this is pretty good but the best is yet to come tomorrow morning to begin a brand-new series and this is something we talk before many years ago. It's called revealing the mysteries of heaven. This is really a very special series because it's not just typical series of messages on heaven. This series is about all the things that you wondered about heaven that often don't get addressed like what we know each other. There what we can do in heaven will we be board and all of those questions that you hear talk about all the time to take the morning to talk what happens to children when they die before the age of accountability to the go to heaven. One of the Angels do with regard to heaven.

Listen, this series is his devotional in terms of it. It's very heartwarming. It's also teaching a lot of information hopefully to make heaven even more attractive than it is. Say tomorrow.

It started.

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