God Our Source of Help

[00:00:00] Let's get our Bible and turn to the book of Psalms. We're going to go to the 20th Psalm tonight. [00:00:06] Psalm number 21. Writer I read described this psalm as a national anthem. That's how it was described and I think there's reason to say that. We'll read Psalm number 20 together. It says to the chief musician a psalm of David. [00:00:33] The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. [00:00:40] Send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Zion. [00:00:46] Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah, grant thee according to thine own heart and fulfill all thy counsel. [00:00:57] We will rejoice in thy salvation. And in the name of our God we will set up our banners. The Lord fulfill all thy petitions. [00:01:09] Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. [00:01:18] Some trust in chariots and some in horses. [00:01:22] But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright. [00:01:33] Save Lord, let the King hear us when we call. Let's pray together. [00:01:41] Our Father in heaven, thank you for again for the chance to get together and look in your word. I pray that you would guide our study in your word. Lord, help me to say the things your people need that would encourage and help them. The truths that are in this psalm and in other parts of the scripture would be just clearly set before our eyes and our understandings. And Lord, thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your love to us as shown on the cross. Thank you for the presence of your spirit in us and among us. So, Lord, tonight we ask you to be among us, to be our teacher, to help us in Jesus name. Amen. [00:02:21] Now, as I said this psalm, one writer said, this is like a national anthem. And if you pay attention to the words that are in the psalm, there's. There's a number of words that give an indication that make you think that maybe this. This psalm was a. Remember, the psalms are songs S O N G as well as P S A LMS Psalms. And so there's reason to think that this psalm was a psalm that was sung when the King and the army was preparing to go out to battle. Look at some of the little features here. Notice in verse 1, the Lord heareth in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. [00:03:12] So they're calling out to God, if you will. I'll say more about that in a minute. But they're calling out to God in preparation for this battle that's about to take place. And they asked for strength in verse number two, for remembering the offerings and accepting the burnt sacrifices. That's all preparation for battle. It was a common thing. Whenever they went out to battle, they would want to get ready, they. They would want to prepare. And one way they did it was through the offerings and the sacrifices. [00:03:47] And verse five talks about the banners. We will set up our banners. I did a little bit of study on that word banner, because, you know, in my mind, when I think of a banner, I think of an advertisement, right? Something you put out to advertise, something with writing on it. But a banner, if you can think in your mind to. Sometimes some, as they say in the old country, right? In the old country, in the castles and in the medieval period, they would have banners that would hang down. They would have a coat of arms of a particular house or different colors. [00:04:25] It would hang down from a horizontal bar, and it would identify what that, you know, what that house was or what that castle, who it belonged to, or something like that. That's kind of the idea of a banner. The idea being a banner was an insignia, a flag, if you would. Not exactly like a flag, like we think, but something you stick up on a pole. And it was a place around which the army would rally. [00:04:54] And so that's what we have here. But again, it's a military thing. It's something that's taken out in the military. You know, even in the military now, they use. In the Marine Corps, they use guidance. Is that what they call them in the army? Guidons, which are. Which are unit insignia that represent the unit. Now, they don't take them into. They don't actually take them into combat generally. But back in the day, that was even as recently as the Civil War, that was a common thing to identify the unit and that kind of thing. But that's why we know that this psalm deals with going into battle. And then in verse number six, he talks about saving them, how God's saving strength. And then in verse seven mentions chariots and horses. Of course, those are things used in battle. In fact, the chariot was. The chariot was the equivalent. I mean, what do we have? What do we have? That is the most feared thing. I mean, nowadays there's so many different kinds of weapons, but in this day, a tank, perhaps, maybe. I guess it depends on where you are and what the environment is like. But you definitely have tanks. You know, you got the A10, right? Is definitely Feared. Different weapon systems are feared. But in this day, a man in a chariot with a horse. [00:06:23] And I actually read about a chariot that had a sieve on it. And it would. They could just. In other words, it had a projection that just running by you would cut you down, would cut you to pieces because it was sticking out of the chariot. And, you know, horses can run pretty fast. They could run 30, 40 miles per hour. And you get hit by one of those with a projection on it, you're gonna. You're having a bad day. It was feared. It was feared. It's hard to hit something moving that fast. And. But that's. That's why we know it's war. It's war. Verse 8. They are brought down and fallen. They're fallen in battle. [00:07:02] So this psalm is a psalm about battle. But notice as I was reading, I was asking myself, but who's speaking and who's being spoken to? [00:07:13] And when you read through it, because it says, the Lord hear thee. Who is thee? Who is the psalmist talking to? [00:07:21] Because you read down in verse number seven, some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord, our God save Lord. Let the King hear us when we call. So here's what we have. We have a group of people that are singing this psalm in preparation for battle. [00:07:42] And they're singing it to an individual who is the thee and thou in this psalm. And I think that individual is most likely it's the man going into the battle. In this case, it would be the king. So picture in your mind, they're singing this anthem because they know a battle's coming. [00:08:05] The people of God are singing this anthem to the king, reminding the king and blessing the king about the battle that's coming. But so that's kind of the general picture, what I think is happening here. [00:08:23] Now, the first thing I want you to see is who their who, their praise and their blessing and their preparation. Who is that all pointed toward? [00:08:37] It's in every case is pointed toward the Lord. Notice the Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of God Send thee help from the sanctuary. Strengthen thee out of Zion, the Lord. Verse 5. Fulfill all thy petitions. [00:08:59] Verse 6. Now I know that the Lord saveth his anointed, his saving strength of his right hand from his holy heaven. You see that? So the source in this. As these people go into battle, go into again. We see this over and over in the Psalms. They're dealing with a serious, a deadly matter. [00:09:21] They're getting ready to Go fight. They're going to die. People are going to die. [00:09:26] But what, but in what is their trust found? Where are they looking for their source and for their help? It's. They're looking to God. They're looking to God in heaven. [00:09:41] They're not looking and looking toward man, but they're looking toward God. Now, here's. Here's the now battle. You think, well, if you're going to go, if you're preparing for battle, then there's, you know, where would you naturally look to prepare for battle? You know, you're going to be looking at your soldiers, you're going to be looking at your training, you're going to be looking at your equipment, right in modern day. You're looking at your supply lines, you're thinking about the enemy, you're thinking about your numbers, you're thinking about your ability versus the enemy's abilities and capability, that kind of thing, but they're not. They might have thought about that, but that's not the primary thing they're looking toward. The primary source of their help, as they see it, is God. [00:10:31] Right? Now, we know that in life situations, in trouble, distress, in whatever, and this is a battle, okay? That's what this is. But you take that with any circumstance that we have our default, our kind of intuitive. [00:10:54] The place we go for our help should instinctively be the Lord, no matter what the situation is. [00:11:03] Whether, you know, oftentimes we think of health problems. [00:11:07] Our instinctive situation is to go to the doctor. And that's fine, that's good. Just like in a battle, you go to the generals, you go to the captains, you go to the ones who are making the weapons, the ones who know strategy. And that's all fine and good, but you do not, under any circumstance, are we to bypass recognizing the true source, our help. [00:11:35] Now, Cal and Adriana are here. Sorry to call you out. I had to. Cal and Adriana are here. He was one of my students in Bible college and they recently got married. And before they got married, we were able to do counseling with them to try and help prepare them for marriage. And that's important, right? In the multitude of counselors, there is safety. But. But that is not the ultimate help in every situation. The ultimate, the primary, ultimate and most important source of help is God himself. [00:12:11] That's why this psalm talks about the name of God. The name of God. The name of God that's calling upon him, knowing him, asking him, reaching out to him. And you can do both at the same time. [00:12:23] You can do both at the Same time. [00:12:27] What you should never do, what we should never do is to seek for the help of man without first seeking the help of the Lord. [00:12:38] I'm going to read you a couple of verses that are striking. [00:12:43] That are striking. Look at. Hold your place here. Look at Psalm number 118, Psalm 118, a little bit of trivia for you. [00:12:55] Psalm 118, verse number eight is considered to be the middle verse of the Bible. Was I talking to you, Sam, about that? This just happened. This is totally coincidence. [00:13:05] Psalm 118, verse 8 is the middle verse in the Bible, if you count by chapters. Okay, if you count by chapters. So 1189 chapters in the Bible. This is the middle chapter. That's an odd number, right? 1189. Nine is an odd number. So that means there is a middle chapter, right? [00:13:25] That this is that middle chapter. And within that, this chapter. Verse 8. [00:13:32] Where'd I go? There we go. [00:13:35] And within that. Within the. Within the. I guess the book of Psalms is. I guess the better way to put it. Verse 8 is the center verse of the Bible. [00:13:44] And within this verse, notice it is better verse 8 to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Somebody count those words real quick. [00:14:00] How many? It's interesting. 14. Now, I'm not making. Listen, I'm not making a big deal out of this. I'm not hanging a hat or say this is spiritual or whatever. I'm just saying this is a. Kind of a neat thing. All right? Neat thing Is that okay? I mean, you aren't going to go out and like, you know, do some crazy superstitious thing over counting verses anyway. Fourteen, that's seven and seven, right? So that means this verse is divided into seven words. Seven words at the front, seven words at the back. Which means there is no middle. Middle word. There's two middle words. [00:14:32] Somebody tell me what the two middle words are. [00:14:36] The Lord. So you can say the Lord is the middle words in the Bible. Okay? Just that. That can be your trivia. Your trivia for today. Verse 9 says it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Notice. Confidence in man. [00:14:55] Confidence in man. And that does not. Listen, that doesn't mean we don't seek help from man. It doesn't mean we don't prepare the horses and the armaments and the soldiers for battle. It doesn't mean you don't train and see. That's this false dichotomy we do false choice where it's got to do one. You got to trust God or The other. And that's how the world characterizes faith. It's just blind faith. There's nothing. It's just a leap into the dark. Or it is only reason. No, no, it's. I've sought God about this. [00:15:32] And so back of any other thing I do regarding man is the Lord, you know why that's important? [00:15:40] Because when you win the battle, who are you going to give the credit to? [00:15:45] Huh? You're gonna give the credit to God. You should, because you sought him first. [00:15:52] And so when the battle is wonderful and you come in from the battle with the spoils of victory, your enemies have been put down and defeated because you sought God, you recognize that God is the one who won the battle. [00:16:07] Whatever means and whatever strength of man might have been used, ultimately, God is the one who did it because you sought him first. But if you do not seek God, who gets the praise? Man gets the praise. And there's a listen. [00:16:23] That is, at its basic level, that is an atheistic way to live, right? [00:16:31] Does not acknowledge God at the front, does not praise God at the end. [00:16:37] That's an atheistic way to live. And Christians can live that way by not acknowledging God at the beginning and not therefore praising him at the end. When the help comes and God still helps those people, even though they do not acknowledge him, he still does so. [00:16:56] He says it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man again. Both of these man's help and the Lord's help are both fine. The Lord uses the help of man, no doubt about that. But the question is confidence, where our trust and reliance lies. That's what we're talking about here. [00:17:18] Verse nine, to liberty's point, right? It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes, those in charge, right? Sometimes that's not going to go the way, you know, that's not going to go the way you want it to go. You know, you think about the election, you know, whoo, election, whatever. And then you're like, if you've been following the news, you're like, we're not trusting in them. We pray to God, we trust in God, and then what good comes? We give God the credit for it. All right, go to one more. Jeremiah 17. This is the one that's a little bit biting. Jeremiah 17, verse number 5. [00:18:09] Jeremiah 17, verse 5 says this, Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man. [00:18:27] That's strong. [00:18:30] That's the same words that say, cursed be everyone that hangeth on a tree, right? Cursed, you remember, in our study of the law, Cursed be everyone that continueth not in all the things that the law speaks. Right? [00:18:47] Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Notice the contrast when a person trusts in the arm of flesh. Now remember, what we're talking about here is where our primary trust is, right? [00:19:08] It's not that we don't rely upon men in cases, but our primary trust, our confidence. Where does that rest? It rests ultimately and finally and most importantly in God himself. [00:19:21] But if it doesn't, and it rests in man, that God's saying in this verse, your heart is already gone. [00:19:28] Your heart has already departed from the Lord. Verse 6. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness. In a salt land not inhabited, you think of the desert. No water, no refreshment. [00:19:46] Verse 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is so. Some trust in chariots and some trust in horses. [00:20:02] That should be in stark contrast to the object of the trust of God's people. [00:20:10] If you have trusted in Jesus to save you. If I have trusted in Jesus to save me, we ought to be trusting him in our battles, in our circumstance, in our marriage, in our friendships, in our work, in our job, in our life, every situation. He is our trust. We instinctively, automatically turn to him and we trust him to work out whatever means or details that he needs to work out. Now go back to Psalm number 20. [00:20:41] Notice verse three. So the help, you can see the help is coming. They're saying to King David, if you will just. I know King David is not specifically mentioned, but just follow with me with the context here. They're saying to King David, the Lord hear you in the day of trouble, defend you in the battle. The Lord help you from his sanctuary. [00:21:04] The Lord strengthened the out of Zion. Now, here's the thing. David's going into battle. [00:21:10] He and his army are carrying swords. They're swinging swords. They're hacking blood. Squirting, right? I mean, they are in the battle. They are, you know, they are eyeball to eyeball with the enemy, okay? [00:21:26] That is not essentially spiritual. Would you agree? Would you agree with that? That's not a spiritual thing. They're going to war. They have a real battle. That's not a spiritual thing. Everything. This is what I want you to see, though. Even though what they're doing is not spiritual, everything they do because Their trust is in God. Everything they do is spiritual. [00:21:49] You understand that? [00:21:52] Sam's a plumber. He has a plumbing business. [00:21:55] In fact, somebody else I met somebody today that knows you, knows of your plumbing business. [00:22:02] Sam's a plumber. You know, he changes, you know, pipes and installs and runs. Runs pipes and supplies water and all that kind of stuff. You say, well, that's not spiritual. [00:22:12] Everything that a child of God does is part of his spiritual life because his trust is in the Lord. [00:22:18] It's sanctified. You understand? [00:22:22] There is no separation of. I was talking to David earlier this week. There is no separation of church and state for a Christian. [00:22:31] God is your. You are God's all the time in everything you do, in everything I do. Even if it's paying bills or getting a coffee or at our job. Our relationships. A lot of times we think our relationships are somehow secular, not connected to God. Especially, you know, our relationships with our extended family around the holidays and all that. No, no, all of that. All of it is sanctified. It's all our trust is in God. There is no separation for that. [00:23:02] Our trust is in him. [00:23:06] So David's battle is a spiritual matter, right? David's battle is a spiritual matter. [00:23:16] Everything in our life is a spiritual matter. [00:23:19] Everything can be taken to the Lord, right? Be careful for nothing. What does it say? Philippians 4. Be careful for nothing. But in. What's the next two words? Everything. [00:23:31] Let your request be made known unto God. That means it doesn't matter what it is. It's spiritual. [00:23:39] This is what it means in the New Testament. To be. [00:23:42] To set our affection on things above, to be seated with God. Right? Our conversation is in heaven. We are essentially spiritual. Everything we do is that way. [00:23:53] All right, I gotta hurry. Verse three. [00:23:57] Now, notice they're saying, the Lord bless you, David. The Lord help you, David. The Lord defend you, David, as you go out to fight the Lord's battles and the Lord. Verse 3. Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Now, when we did our study on the law, we spent a lot of time talking about the sacrifices. [00:24:19] And every one of the sacrifices, from the meat offering to the well, the meat offering was the one exception. But all the different animal sacrifices that we find in the Old Testament, every one of them pointed to what or to whom. [00:24:34] It points to Jesus. It points to the cross. [00:24:37] Blood is shed. It points to the cross. And David's about to go out into the battle, and he's trusting in the Lord and they're blessing him and they're encouraging him Trust in the Lord, Trust in the Lord, and may the Lord bless you and all that. But notice, all of that is in the context to the sacrifices. Now, there's just a simple point we'll move on, which is this. [00:25:03] The only relation that we have to God, the only connection, the only grounds that we have to trust in God and call upon God, get God's help, talk to God or anything, is because of a Savior who died on the cross for us. [00:25:23] We have no right. We have no way. We have no entrance into God's presence, and we have no grounds to appeal to him at all except through the cross. Jesus said, if any man speaking of the. In the context of the sheep and the sheepfold, if any man tries to come in another way, he's a thief and a robber. There's no other way. That's the only reason we can approach the Lord. So when they go into the battle and they're calling upon God, they're making sure they do their sacrifices. Did David, did those, did the soldiers, did the generals and things, the decision makers, did they know what all that meant? I have no idea. Probably not. They probably didn't recognize all that was going on with the sacrifices. But what they did know, I really need God's help. [00:26:19] Lord, help me. But they approached God for help by means of those sacrifices. [00:26:28] You see what I'm saying? You see how our help is connected with the cross in that way? [00:26:38] That is our access to the Lord. Now look at verse number five. [00:26:47] The people speaking apparently to God, say, we will rejoice in thy salvation. And then the name of our God, we will set up our banners. The Lord fulfill all thy petitions. [00:27:03] Now let me ask you a question. Has this battle happened yet? No, this battle has not happened yet. So I have a question. Why then are they rejoicing in advance? [00:27:21] In faith. Let's look at a couple verses and examine that. Look at First Samuel, Chapter one, First Samuel one. [00:27:33] I won't read all of this. But Hannah wanted a baby. [00:27:44] And Hannah went up with her husband to the temple. [00:27:50] And Hannah was sad because of the antagonism of her husband's other wife. [00:28:04] And when Hannah went into the temple, verse 13, she spake. Now, Hannah, which she spake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. And Eli said unto her, how long wilt thou be drunk and put away thy wine from thee? And Hannah answered and said, no, my Lord, I am a woman of sorrowful. Spiritual verse 17, notice. And Eli answered and said, Go in peace. And the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which was for a baby that thou hast asked of him. And she said, let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. Now, it doesn't say that Hannah rejoiced, but just. I think you can read between the lines a little bit. Does Hannah have a baby? Is Hannah expecting a baby? No, Hannah's still standing in the temple. [00:28:55] She has been praying to God. Praying to God? She is. She's bitter in spirit. She's upset because of that antagonism. She's talking to God about it. She has this conversation with Eli. And Eli as God's prophet. Right. Is the priest as God's prophet. Eli assures her. In other words, he utters a prophecy to her and says, go your way. God's going to help you, Basically. [00:29:18] And at that moment, all the sadness went away. But she still doesn't have a baby. [00:29:24] Why did the sadness go away if she still doesn't have a baby? As a believer, we do not have to wait for the realization of that thing for which we hope and that thing upon which we trust. We don't have to wait for that. [00:29:42] We can rejoice by faith. Look at a few more passages in the New Testament, if you would. [00:29:51] Romans 5. Look at Romans 5, Romans 5. We'll quickly go through these. Romans 5:2. [00:30:10] By whom? That is, by the Lord Jesus Christ. In verse 1 also, we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand that's present. And rejoice in hope of the glory of God. You see that? Now, what is hope? We've already gone over this a bunch of times. Hope is faith in the future tense. That's what hope is, Right? Faith in something not yet realized. Yeah. It says here we rejoice hope of the glory of God. This is a reference to our glorification. Right? But here we are. We're not glorified. We're still stuck in this wicked body. [00:30:47] And yet we're rejoicing in something that has not happened yet. [00:30:52] Right? Look at Romans 15 and verse number. [00:31:05] Romans 15, verse 13 says this. Now the God of hope fill you with all what? [00:31:13] Joy and peace in what? Believing. See, we have this idea in our mind. Christianity has taught us that we should be happy when good things happen to us. We should be happy when we get that thing we hope for. And we should. [00:31:33] Right? Should we not? Yes. When you win the battle, you come back, you rejoice. Psalm 20. You come back, you rejoice. [00:31:40] But that's not where it starts. [00:31:45] Here they had joy and peace in believing. [00:31:51] Their faith brought them joy. Look at Philippians, chapter one, Philippians chapter one, verse 25. [00:32:13] And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you for all you offer your furtherance of joy, of faith, that's joy that comes of Faith. [00:32:26] One more. First Peter, chapter 1. Look over there. [00:32:33] First Peter 1, verse 8. A familiar verse speaking of Jesus Christ in verse 7. Whom, having not seen ye love, in whom though now ye see him not yet believing, ye rejoice. See that yet believing, ye rejoice. Believing in this case is an adverb describing how they rejoice. They rejoice by faith. That's what they're saying. [00:33:03] You rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, and you don't even see him. [00:33:10] So here's what I want you to understand, and this is the truth in Psalm 20. They're going out to battle, but they're rejoicing in the Lord. Why? Because they have called upon God. [00:33:20] They are trusting in God. Their faith is in God. And because of their faith, they're happy. [00:33:29] Their confidence in the Lord has made them joyful even before the realization of that thing that they hope to happen. [00:33:39] And this is. [00:33:41] This is a. [00:33:46] This is a great deal of the Christian's joy and rejoicing. It doesn't come. A great deal of the Christian's joy is not intended to come from good news in the past tense. It's intended to come from faith. [00:34:01] And so it leads us to a question. [00:34:05] If a Christian is constantly and habitually despondent and sad and depressed, it could very well be that. What the thing that is lacking is faith, not faith. Just make yourself happier. That's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about. You just say happy things and think happy thoughts and you'll be better. No, it is the listen now. It is the embracing by faith of the truths that are yours. [00:34:48] Right? It is embracing those things because the faith and embracing the truths of the promises of God, what God tells you now are the things that give you the joy. [00:35:04] It's not waiting on some good thing. You get a million dollars, you get a promotion, and all those things are good. And fine, we should rejoice in all of that. [00:35:12] But that's not the sum total of the Christian's joy. Our joy comes from something that transcends just these circumstances. It comes from our faith embracing the spiritual Realities that are ours, whether they be things that we just don't see, like I am a son of God, I am a child of God, God is in me. Or it could be things like we saw that are future rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, the things that God is going to do that haven't yet been realized. Either way, we can get joy from that. Here's the thing. Christians, I know, just like we've read, we've seen with David, we'll see it later. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Why art thou disquieted within me? Christians, believers do get down and do get discouraged and depressed. That is a thing. [00:36:00] But Christians, generally speaking, if they are walking and living in faith, active faith, and embracing the truths that God has spoken, the promises God has made to them, they should be happy people because they have grounds to rejoice all the time. And the faith is the source of the joy. [00:36:23] Not happy, happy times. [00:36:25] And this is the weird kind of contradiction or paradox of the Christian. [00:36:32] It is absolutely true for a Christian to be happy when things are bad. [00:36:36] It's not always easy. [00:36:39] You know, when my wife was having the question about, you know, cancer and before her surgery and all that, it was hard to be happy. I'll be honest with you. It was hard to be happy, right? But we always have grounds to be happy because the grounds of our rejoicing is our faith rejoicing in advance. [00:37:03] Go back to Psalm number to finish up Psalm number 20. [00:37:16] You know, I think one of the reasons that again, everybody goes through down times sometimes that's just a trial the Lord allows us to go through. Okay, that does happen. So I don't want to come down too hard on people that have despondent periods. David, did people always do? All people do from time to time. But for a habitually despondent and depressed Christian, it says something about whether they're embracing the truths of Scripture or they're filling their mind, or maybe the Word is neglecting the spiritual realities that are theirs. [00:38:00] Because sometimes the issues and problems that cause that kind of despondency get so big it blinds us to everything else. And listen, at some point, we have to on purpose choose to set our mind on things that are good, things that are just, things that are of good report. Somebody help me with that verse. You know what I'm talking about? What sort of things are true and honest and just and those kinds of things, we have to set our mind on those things, on the spiritual truths, and not be like a Practical atheist and only think about things of this world. [00:38:35] All right. Lastly, in Psalm 20, you should memorize verse seven. That's a good solid verse. [00:38:49] Some trust in chariots and some in horses. Here's the thing. Should we not be different? [00:38:58] Should we not be different? Should not the people of God be different in the. In the object of their faith? [00:39:04] Look at a couple of verses. Look at Isaiah, chapter 31 real quick. We're almost finished. Just a couple verses I want to share with you. And we'll close Isaiah chapter 31 and verse number one. [00:39:29] Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses. [00:39:36] And trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong. But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord. You see why I said that? Seek the Lord first. [00:39:56] We should have a basic and fundamental difference in the way we think as a child of God. One more Psalm 33, we'll close here. Psalm 33, verse number 16 says this. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host. [00:40:23] A man, a mighty man, is not delivered by much strength. And horse is a vain thing for safety. [00:40:30] Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him. Upon them that hope in his mercy to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive and famine. Our soul waiteth for the Lord. He is our help and our shield. For here it is. Our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name. You see this same things we've been reading about. [00:41:01] It's easy to trust in the arm of man. We've been taught from our earliest memory to trust in man. It's a part of our worldly thinking. You know, we all came up in that. [00:41:18] But we gotta constantly. We have to constantly remind ourselves that that's a vain thing to trust in. It's a vain thing to trust in. Take it to the Lord. Take it to the Lord in prayer. [00:41:29] Amen. Let's pray.