Psalm 131

Psalm 131 God's word says a song of a sense of

David oh Lord my heart is not

proud nor my eyes haughty nor do I involve

myself in great matters or in

things too difficult for me surely I have

composed and quieted my soul like a

weaned child rests against his mother my soul

is like a weaned child within me

oh Israel hope in the Lord from this time

forth and forever let's pray have a

father we love you this morning thank you for

the opportunity to sing to you

this morning you are so worthy of our worship

as we come and we hear your

word I pray that you bless our minds and our

hearts to your truth and that you

bless your message in spite of the messenger

they'd all be for your glory

in Christ's name amen so we're going into the

book of Psalms this morning and

it's not the book of Psalms wasn't randomly

put together they didn't just

take a 150 songs of the people of Israel and

put them in a book in fact there

is a pattern there's five books to the book of

Psalms and the editors those

that compiled it and of the Jews put them

together in a certain order for a

specific reason there's a lot of themes that

go and there's a specific pattern

that goes through each of the five books of of

the Psalms and our song today is

in and we've talked about the songs of a scent

in the past these are 15 different

Psalms and this one we're looking at is the 11

th of these 15 different Psalms

called the songs of of a scent and so one of

the one of the things the

compilers didn't do was tell us why they did

the things that they did we get to

study and figure out why they put the Psalms

in the order that they did and

why they call these Psalms these 15 Psalms the

song songs of a scent we

don't exactly know we can just study and try

to learn and and so through that

because of that they didn't tell us many

people have different ideas of why these

songs are called that some people believe that

it's a song of spiritual

ascent that as you go through maturity in

Christ that you ascend spiritually this

is what Augustine's view and others thought it

was a musical ascent that

each of these Psalms started and then went up

either in key or went up in

excitement or mood or tempo that they would

ascend musically until you get to

the last Psalm and it would just be really

exciting and big and grand and

this is what Calvin thought to there's some

indication that the Psalms of the

songs of a scent were used from the Jews that

when they came out of of exile and

Babylon and Assyria that as they were going

back to the land of Israel they

would sing these songs and praise God in

anticipation of going back to their

home and rebuilding Jerusalem or or rebuilding

the temple or just going to

occupy the the promised land again after exile

Psalm 126 of the 6th Psalm of

a scent says when the Lord brought back the

captive ones of Zion we were like

those who dream and then in verse 4 it says

restore our captivity oh Lord as the

streams in the south those who so in tears

shall reap a joyful shouting he who

goes to and fro weeping carrying his bag of

seed shall indeed come again with a

shout of joy bringing his sheaves with them so

that you can picture them going

back to their homeland and in praise and

worship to God singing these songs but

I believe that the best reason or the best

reason for these songs being put

in in in our book is for the those children of

Israel who are going to

Jerusalem to worship either in in the change

of elevation as you go from

other parts of Israel up to Jerusalem and you

ascend an elevation as you go

forward or there were 15 steps to the temple

and as you ascended those 15

steps you would sing these 15 different songs

as you would go to the temple for

for sacrifice daily or for the the Passover or

the other feasts and so as

you come to worship God and if this was the

case as you come to worship God you

would sing these in anticipation and in in in

desiring worshiping your Lord and

Savior the God of Israel who who rescued you

from Egypt who brought you to the

promised land and conquered the promised land

for you as Hebrew people and so

that the the all these songs of these songs of

ascent have a major theme to

them the major theme is hope they are songs of

hope and expectation that God

will take care of them that God will rescue

them that God will give them

their prosperity and and in salvation in the

end one writer says about these

songs that they are animated by a spirit of

courageous hopefulness in a time of

trouble so we we live in a time and you could

you could have this same idea at

any time in all of human history but we live

in a time of trouble we live in a

time of trials and tribulation and we're all

going through things in our lives in

our nation in our world the wars and the

rumors of wars the pain and the

suffering and then we always need to have that

hope that we have in Christ be

reminded of that and we always need to be

reminded that that where we have the

true hope of Christ we can find true rest in

our Lord and Savior no matter

what's going on around us now in contrast to

the world which looks for their

hope and their rest and external things and

things outside them if the things

externally to them are not going well or as

they expect then they lose their hope

they lose their satisfaction they lose their

contentment but ours is an

internal rest and an internal hope that has

given us by God through His Son and

His Holy Spirit there was another period that

we talked about Thomas Watson

earlier there was one named Jeremiah Burroughs

and he wrote a book called the

rare jewel of Christian contentment now he is

not as easy to read as Thomas

Watson but they have modernized that and it's

a great book a great necessary

thing for all of us to learn Christian content

ment well he said he compared the

difference between the the world's external

hope and contentment with the

Christians internal hope and intentment he

said that the external

circumstance looking to your external

circumstances for your satisfaction is

like warming your clothes by the fire he said

to be to be content as a result of

some external thing is like warming a man's

clothes by the fire but to be

content through an inward disposition of the

soul is like the warmth that a man's

clothes have from a natural heat of his body a

man who is healthy in body puts

on his clothes and perhaps at first on a cold

morning they feel cold but after

he has had them on a little while they are

warm now how did he get warm they

were not near the fire no this came from the

natural heat of his body now when a

sickly man the natural heat of whose body has

deteriorated puts on his clothes

they do not get hot for hot for a long time he

must warm them by the fire and

even then they will soon be cold again and

that is the difference between the

external heat the external things that the

world looks to for contentment and

satisfaction and the internal things that we

look to through Christ no matter

what's happening around us we can be content

and satisfied and have hope and

rest and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that

's what this Psalm is talking

about it's the kind of a contentment the quiet

ness and rest we can have in our

soul because of who Christ is and what he's

done not rooted in our money not

rooted in our circumstances not rooted in the

temporary things of the world but

rooted in the eternal things of our Lord and

Savior this is the kind of rest that

David is singing about rooted in the un

changing God our God will always be

faithful to us now when I thought about this

passage and preparing this message

I thought about just my short time here on

earth 43 years about to be 44 and it

seems like it's getting a longer time every

year that that goes by and and you

know we've been through so many different

things as a family just me

personally growing up or whatever and I'm sure

we can all relate to that it's

just just great times of struggle and pain and

adversity but as I go through

those things every time the Lord has been

faithful and as I see the that the

Lord is faithful I grow in maturity in in in

the Lord and I learned to say hey

the Lord took care of me and so as I face the

next adversity and then the next

one after that I can remember how the Lord

took care of me in the previous

bout with trial and remember that he will take

care of me in the current bout

of trial so it's it's like we're ascending the

steps with David and

learning from each previous step how good our

Lord is how much he cares for

us and how much he is with us it's the reality

of who we are in Christ and my

favorite passages that teaches the same thing

and I've read it before and I'll

probably read it again to you because it's so

very important in our Christian

life is from Romans 5 one through five Paul

wrote therefore having been

justified by faith we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ through

whom also we have obtained our introduction by

faith into this grace in

which we stand and we exalt in hope of the

glory of God and not only this but

we also exalt in our tribulations knowing that

tribulation brings about

perseverance and perseverance proven character

and proven character hope and

hope does not disappoint because the love of

God has been poured out within

our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was

given to us and this is the

progression of the Christian life as we go

through the tribulation and we see

that the Lord helps us and is there and we

have that that fact that we're

justified by faith and we have peace through

God through our Lord Jesus Christ

that doesn't change based on the external

circumstances we learn to have

hope that the next time we face the trib

ulation he will be with us because

God is faithful through Christ and he takes us

through these experiences and

that matures us and turns that those

experiences as hard things in life into

hope in Christ for the next time until we get

to glory and we'll have that

eternal hope in our in our face we can see

with our eyes David had the same

experience and you can see because we have his

life from when he was a

teenager until when he died as king of Israel

we can see the path that he took

we have those stories those accounts of his

life and we can see him grow in the

same experience the same maturity as we do his

life was there for our help for

our benefit so we can read that and so he

could write this song in experience

from God's great grace to him and so he can

teach all of us through this song

and through his life that all of us must find

our rest our true rest and God alone

first in our first verse because humility

leads to rest he wrote in verse

one oh Lord my heart is not proud nor my eyes

haughty nor do I involve myself in

great matters or in things too difficult for

me a soul that finds rest in God is

a soul of a humble person now compared to our

world it's full of the noise of

arrogance and pride we are always trying to

get ahead and to be the man or the

the the boss babe or whatever the deal is we

're always trying to make give a

reason for us to be proud of what we have done

and what our accomplishments it

surrounds us in our world everyone is special

everyone is a right to their

opinion and their opinion is the one that's

right there is a pride of having

stuff so we see that on TV we see that on

Facebook with the the social media

influencers where they make their lives look

so good and and like you would be

jealous of what they have when usually it's

just borrowed anyway and that

usually comes out in in boasting on their part

and there's also a pride in

those that don't have but those that want

those they don't believe they have

the superiority and at someone else's fault

and and then they just think if

they had whatever the other person had then

then finally they would be happy

then finally they would be content with their

lives we look at that the houses

and the cars and the stuff that our neighbors

have and we decide that if we

could just have that then we would finally be

content and happy our whole

economy is based on debt if we would get rid

of the greed of the people and

these this pride of wanting and this pride of

having and we would live in

within our means our whole economy would crash

it would be over with but if

there was a true wave of contentment if there

was peace in our nation we would

not have the system that we have today both

the pride of having and the pride

of wanting lead us to feelings of insecurity

insignificance and out of

control of our lives but David didn't have

these feelings David was king over

Israel but look at what he said in verse one

again oh Lord my heart is not proud

nor my eyes haughty nor do I involve myself in

great matters David took those

things that he could have said well I'm the

king I have everything and he

humbled himself even though he was king he

humbled his feelings he said in

verse one my heart is not proud the heart is

the seat of your emotions in

in the world in the in the word and in David's

day the heart is where your

feelings happen and David didn't lift up his

feelings to the level where they

were the most important things in his life he

didn't lift up his emotions to

where they were the what was controlling him

and the way that he looks at the

world he humbled his emotions he humbled his

feelings and realized that they

were not always right and we could definitely

deal with that today in our

culture where feelings and emotions are at the

height of importance and they're

taken up to the maximum level you can't say

that you can't do that because it

hurts my feelings no one can correct you no

one can can think differently about

a subject that you still you feel strongly

about if if the wrong is

president is elected on either side in some

cases the whole world is over we

we kneel down on the street and scream no for

the cameras to become a meme that

that that girl who did that just her whole

life was over because Trump was

elected the first time we love Elon Musk

because he makes electric cars and he's

saving the planet and then we hate him because

he has different opinions and

ideas in us we hate Elon Musk because he's

making electric cars because he

believes in the climate hoax but then we love

him because he has the same

opinions as us it goes both ways really we're

the most sensitive and cautious

generation about the things that we say

especially in England where they they

arrest you for praying silently in front of an

abortion clinic or what you said

on social media and we're not too far behind

them when we arrest grandmothers

80 year old grandmothers protesting at

abortion clinics reminding that the

mothers that their their negative emotions

about killing their babies are

valid negative emotions we can't hurt their

feelings but when you as we look

around this landscape where we have have gone

from a culture of reason to a

culture of emotions and feelings has that made

our culture happier has that

made our culture more content or satisfied at

their lives no we're less

satisfied than ever we are the least happiest

but with the most stuff

available to us we live lives of leisure and

and ease compared to the

generations that have gone before and those

that are living other countries in

the world but we're the most medicated and

depressed that we have ever been in

history we are not content the world tells us

to follow our heart but the

Bible tells us our heart is this deceptively

wicked who can know it they

tell us don't get married don't have kids don

't have too many kids if you do

you need stuff and you need things and money

you need a career all these things

your husband isn't living up to your

expectations so get rid of them your

wife isn't as pretty as she used to be so bye

this is a recipe for pain and we

can see in our culture we can see it all

around us every everything is

everybody's a press and everybody's a victim

but one of the things that we

must do to find true rest in God is to humble

ourselves from thinking that our

emotions and feelings are the number one most

important thing Isaiah 57 15 says

for thus says the high and exalted one who

lives forever whose name is holy I

dwell on a high and holy place and also with

the contrite and lowly of spirit in

order to revive the spirit of the lowly and

revive the heart of the contrite no

humble your emotions make yourself contrite

and realize that you are not the

most important thing we are not the most

important thing in the universe and when

we do that the Lord the God the most important

thing comes to us and and

blesses us so David said I don't trust my

heart my heart is not proud I don't

lift myself up in my emotions he doesn't he

didn't lift himself up in his

status either as the wealthiest man in Israel

and the king of all Israel he

said nor my eyes haughty now the NASB uses the

word haughty but the ESV

translate haughty is lifted up so it's he his

eyes are not lifted up and so what

do we picture when we picture someone whose

eyes are are lifted up they stick

their nose up with it right so he was not snob

bish he was not arrogant and

all that he had his status as king he was

humble even though he was the king he

knew that his position came to him from God it

was God who anointed him and took

him as a shepherd boy and anointed him and put

him in that place he taught

Solomon this truth as well Solomon wrote in

Proverbs 30 verses 13 and 14 there is

a kind oh how lofty are his eyes and his

eyelids are raised in arrogance there

is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords

and his jaw teeth like knives to

devour the afflicted from the earth and the

needy from among men Solomon didn't

think too highly of arrogant men either there

is no rest there is no

contentment or satisfaction when you're

constantly comparing yourself to others

based on your status he didn't rule he didn't

let his emotions rule he didn't

let his status rule him he didn't let his

actions rule them look at the last

part of verse 1 nor do I involve myself in

great matters or in things too

difficult for me this literally means I have

not walked around in things that

are too great for me trying to define

satisfaction and and security and the

things that we do by themselves will always

lead to this appointment we don't

even do this today we don't find satisfaction

just in the fact that

we're here we find satisfaction in the God

that we came to worship and our

culture is frantically running around looking

for the next thing that will

bring satisfaction the next thing that will

bring happiness and they can't

find it I'm unhappy in my job I won't be happy

until the grass is greener and I

find another one I won't be happy with my kids

until they get out of their

diapers and they stop crying all the time and

then you realize they don't cry they

just talk back to you all the time now and

then I'm not going to be happy until

they get out of school or not happy until they

leave the house then we'll

finally be able to do the things that we want

to do I'm not happy until I finally

retire and then I'm bored and don't do

anything with my life we all know we're

constantly looking and going to the next and

trying to find the next and now

David had reached as we said the pinnacle of

Hebrew society he was anointed

King by God and he sat on the throne and what

he said went there was no next

thing for him he had reached the top but he

didn't find his happiness and

satisfaction in that he was humble and

remember the times the prophet Samuel

had had taken David and God had told him to an

oint him as King and so he went and

anointed him as King but Saul the King that

was there when David was anointed

was an arrogant man he was actually taken away

from being King that the throne

was taken away from him because he thought he

would do and worship God in

the way that he wanted to do and and not

follow God's commands when it came to

winning a battle you can see that in first

Samuel so David was anointed as

King and Saul wouldn't give up the throne and

so Saul wanted to go and kill

David so he chased David through the

wilderness so David had his men and

they were running through the wilderness

hiding from Saul and in one day Saul was

getting close so David and his men went and

hid in a cave well in that cave

something happened in first Samuel 24 verses 3

through 6 he says he came to

the sheepfolds on the way where there was a

cave this is Saul and Saul went in to

relieve himself now David and his men were

sitting in the inner recesses of

the cave they were hiding on the inside of the

cave and Saul happens to come to

use this cave and the men of David said to him

behold this is the day of which

the Lord said to you behold I'm about to give

your enemy into your hand and you

shall do to him as it seems good to you then

David arose and cut off the edge of

Saul's robe secretly it came about afterward

that David's conscience

bothered him because he had cut off the edge

of Saul's robe so he said to his

men far be it from me because of the Lord that

I should do this thing to my

Lord the Lord's anointed to stretch out my

hand against him since he is the

Lord's anointed so at that time he could have

reached out and took the throne for

himself it was he was the anointed King of

Israel he had the status he just

hadn't been set on the throne yet but he could

have went and took it for

himself but in humility he said I'm not going

to touch the Lord's anointed this

King and this was the first time it happened

it actually happened again

where he had the opportunity to kill Saul and

he didn't he could have

grasped the glory with his hands and got that

status for himself but he was

humble may we learn from David's life that he

was committed to humility and

he found rest and contentment in God by being

humble secondly because trust

transforms turmoil look at verse number two I

love this verse surely I have

composed and quieted my soul like a weaned

child rests against his mother my

soul is like a weaned child within me the

alternative to pride in verse two is

peace and a calm and quiet soul he's focused

on his soul not the things

that are happening around him outside of him

it's what's on the inside of him he

is at peace in his heart he is resting and and

weaned in his soul he's not

frantically running around looking for

approval as we just talked about in his

humility he is resting in who he is as a child

a weaned child and this is the

master poet David wrote so many of the Psalms

and the way that he uses word

pictures in many cases are just very beautiful

and full of meaning and so he

uses this word picture of a weaned child as a

picture of contentment so as we

compare a weaned child to an unweaned child

and those of you who have been

around children even if you haven't had any

you know that the baby who doesn't

understand all he knows is there's this empty

cavernous pit in his stomach and he

feels this pain of hunger and he doesn't know

if that'll be the last pain he ever

feels everything is over until I get fed right

now and he swings his arms and

he cries bloody murder and and if he didn't

have the power to go get that

bottle from your hand but if you were taking

too long and he did he would go

over there and murder you for that bottle or

for the suckle on the breast but

the weaned child is completely different the

weaned child has experienced the

reality that his mother cares for him that the

mother is not gonna let him

starve the mother here's no need for all the

pain and suffering and wailing and

frantic reaching out for the food the mother

is gonna take care of him and so

he asks for food he asked for sustenance and

the mother provides the weaned child

is is enjoying look at look at how he writes

it just simply enjoying that the

comfort and peace of sitting on his mother's

lap like a weaned child rest

against his mother and I think of Jace and how

Jace will come in here and he'll

give him a doughnut he wants to come to church

and you know go in there and play

but he'll come out here for the service and he

'll just fall right asleep on

Taytay's lap what a beautiful picture he ain't

worried about nothing around here

Taytay's taking care of it's just a beautiful

picture and exactly what

David is talking about his stomach still feels

hunger there's still pain

there's still trials and troubles but he rests

even though he feels that hunger

and you know that takes training it takes

maturity that's the baby grows in

maturity and learns that fact he no longer

cries out in distress he has

learned that he just needs to ask Frederick

mayor teaches that this must

be learned and this comes from practice he

said clearly he had not reached this

position without effort he had found it

necessary to still and quiet himself as

a nurse quiet a fretful babe there had been

that time when he was fed at the

breast of the world's constellations the we

aning had been hard but he had learned

to get all from God and to draw on his

sustaining grace David had learned this

lesson himself and and he learned this lesson

in his life by facing adversity

and troubles and sufferings just like we all

must do if you remember the story

that David faced Goliath he didn't just come

from from nowhere and to go fight a

giant there is stuff that happened before that

he fought a bear and a fought a

lion to protect his sheep and he beat them

listen to 1st Samuel 1733 then

Saul said to David you're not able to go

against this Philistine to fight with

him for you are but a youth while he has been

a warrior from his youth but David

said to Saul your servant was tending his

father's sheep when a lion or a bear

came and took a lamb from the flock I went out

after him and attacked him and

rescued it from his mouth and when he rose up

against me I seized him by his

beard and struck him and killed him your

servant has killed both the lion and the

bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be

like one of them since he was

taught to the since he has taught to the

armies of the living God and David said

the Lord who delivered me from the Paul the

lion and from the Paul the bear he

will deliver me from the hand of this Phil

istine and Saul said to David go and

may the Lord be with you and the Lord was with

him just like he was with the

bear just like he was with the lion he was

with him against the Philistine and

he slew David or excuse me he slew Goliath the

giant Philistine just like

the wheat the wean child knows that his mother

will not let him starve David knew

and grew into a maturity that knew he could

rest and be satisfied with the

living God as he said God turns our turmoil

our trouble and our tribulation

into maturity and that maturity brings rest

and hope and peace lastly we find

at rest in God because hope holds our hearts

verse 3 O Israel hope in the Lord

from this time forth and forever this psalm of

the song of ascent that the

theme of the song is hope we're going to

worship God we are going up from our

homes to the city of Jerusalem to Mount Zion

to worship the God who saved us

from Egypt the God who rescued us from all the

peoples of Canaan and conquered

the land using us that the God who has

protected us and and given us so much

prosperity in the land of of Canaan and now

Israel and not only that every

single one of those things was pointing to a

Messiah who would come every

temp every artifact in the temple every

worship everything about the worship of

God in the temple every sacrifice every

offering pointed to Jesus Christ the

Messiah they didn't know his name yet they

didn't know what he would look

like or how it would all happen but they knew

that he was coming they look

forward in hope to the truth that God would

keep his promise that he made all

the way back with Eve in the garden that he

would send his seed to save mankind

now when the seed got here as we'll talk about

it a little bit they they

misunderstood but they look forward in faith

and David looked forward in faith

to the one who they all pointed to and his son

that would would sit on the

throne forever that God had promised them they

they had hope in a rescuer and

we have that same hope we look back that that

rescuer that Messiah that Lord who

who all the Old Testament pointed towards has

come and lived the perfect

life as a man in our place has died on the

cross was buried and then the third

day was resurrected now he's ascended and

seated on the throne interceding for

us even now how much should we rest and that

truth and that God look at the

author of Hebrews what he wrote about at verse

19 of chapter 10 therefore

brethren since we have confidence to enter the

holy place by the blood of

Jesus by a new and living way which he inaugur

ated for us through the veil

that is his flesh and since we have a great

priest over the house of God let

us draw near with a sincere heart and full

assurance of faith having our

hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience

and our bodies wash with pure

water let us hold fast the confession of our

hope without wavering for he who

promised is faithful David look forward to the

one who would fulfill the

promised promises that it was made in the Old

Testament we look back but we

also look forward to the hope of his appearing

to the time that he will come

and make all this right every trial every

injustice done to us every hardship

that we've been through we will understand you

know in a very brand-new light

with with eyes unshielded and clouded from the

truth of his holiness his

goodness and his sovereignty so we get to look

back and look forward in hope

that God will make everything right and that's

what David did even in this song

let's hope in our God the Lord now and forever

these three verses is a very

short song but it's very important it's a very

very good song I know I love it

look read the Psalms and think about what they

're saying and in the difference

between one who trusts in the external things

of this world the temporary

things of this world and the eternal things of

our loving and faithful Savior

is so very stark Matthew wrote about this and

in Christ's ministry and he had

gone Christ had gone to so many places and was

rejected by those places and the

things that they said that they were hoping

for the Messiah that they said

they were waiting for to come was in their

face and they missed it because of

their sin because they're misunderstanding

because they were

looking at the external things so John the

Baptist had come and sent messengers

and the people rejected his his message and

then Christ came and and they

rejected his message as well look at Matthew

11 18 says where John came

either eating nor drinking and they said he

has a demon look he come he's wearing

animal skins and eating locusts and honey and

he said repent the day of the Lord

is coming repent and be baptized and then

Christ came in verse 19 says the

son of man came eating and drinking John was

fasting Christ was eating and

drinking and celebrating because the Messiah

was finally here and but this is

their response they said behold a gluttonous

man and a drunkard a friend

of tax collectors and sinners yet wisdom is

vindicated by our deeds in other

words they weren't happy with the fasting and

their repentance and they

weren't happy with the joy and the partying

and the rejoicing because the

Messiah was here nothing could make them happy

and so Jesus brings woes to them

he went to these under these cities and they

were unrepentant to horizon the

side and to Capernaum and in Capernaum he had

many miracles that he did healings

and all kinds of things this is what he says

in in a woe to Capernaum verse 23

11 and you Capernaum will not be exalted to

heaven will you you will descend to

Hades for if the miracles had occurred in Sod

om which occurred in you it would

have remained to this day nevertheless I say

to you that it'll be more tolerable

for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment

than for you very strong words

and what was their sin they thought they were

lifted up they thought they were

were worthy of praise and adoration they had

made it they were a strong and

economic city they were very spiritual people

and and but in their pride and

their lifted upness they thought they were

going to heaven but Christ said

they were they were on their way to Hades to

hell their sin was pride so why

would Christ say this why would he go to Caper

naum knowing that they would

reject him rejected John the Baptist they

rejected him why wouldn't he go to

Sodom with these miracles if they would have

repented we we don't understand

all that but in verse 25 Jesus says and at

that time Jesus said I praise you

Father Lord of heaven and earth that you have

hidden these things from the wise

and intelligent and I revealed them to infants

yes father for this way was

well pleasing in your sight all things have

been handed over to me by my father

and no one knows the son except the father or

does anyone know the father

except the son and anyone to whom the son will

s to reveal him so we can be

satisfied in knowing like that wean child that

God has his purposes that God has

his reason that he's doing these things for

his purposes just like like David at

the other difficulties he didn't think too

highly of himself to think he knows

all the answers he kept his emotions at bay he

kept him in check with scripture

with the truth that he knows and he didn't he

didn't think too highly of his

status either he had maturity to know that he

could just rest in the lap of

God like the weaned child well later in that

passage crisis is disappointed in

the city of Capernaum and says all those

things about them talk about their

pride that kept them away from true repentance

and true satisfaction in

Christ but he says to all of us in verse 28 of

chapter 11 come to me all who are

weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest

they weren't weary and heavy

laden they were or built up in their own pride

in their own strength they thought

they had made it then he says take my yoke

upon you and learn from me for I am

gentle and humble and heart and you will find

rest for your souls for my yoke is

easy and my burden is light don't be like

those sinners in Capernaum proud be

like the sinners here humble yourselves before

God and he will give you true

rest and peace and satisfaction in your life

no matter what's going on and

remember when you're going through those

trials and tribulations he has a

purpose and he has a reason for those things

and he's using them to mature you

into a weaned child satisfied with his gifts I

have one more story before we're

over there was a missionary in the 1800s named

John Patton and he went to an

island in the middle of Pacific called the New

Hebrides and these these people

had no clue who God was the true God of the

Bible they were cannibals these

they're wicked tribes as you see all the

movies about and everything these these

were those the backwoods cannibalistic pagan

demon worshiping tribes and one

day they decided that this white guy we're

gonna kill him and we're gonna

eat him and sacrifice to our gods and so he

was running away from him and he

came across this and if you need to read the

biography there was someone he

didn't trust he wasn't sure that he could

trust him so he said hey look you go

down this trail and you get up in this tree

and I'm gonna tell all those people

chasing you with spears and darts that you

went this way okay so what could he

do he gets up in that tree he doesn't know if

the guy was trustworthy or not

and then he might say hey he's over there he's

easy he's stuck in a tree he

can't go nowhere so this is this is what he

wrote about being stuck in that

tree this is great I'm gonna try to keep my

composure the hour spent there live

all before me as if it were but of yesterday I

heard the frequent

discharging of muskets and the yells of the

savages yet I sat there among the

branches as safe in the arms of Jesus never in

all my sorrows did my Lord draw

near to me and speak more soothingly in my

soul then when that when the moon

light flickered among those chestnut leaves

and the night air played on my

throbbing brow as I told all my heart to Jesus

alone yet not alone if it be to

glorify my God I will not grudge to spend many

nights alone in such a tree to

feel again my Savior spiritual presence to

enjoy his consoling fellowship well

that untrustworthy guy told the truth he they

were they left and then he was

able to stay John Patton and was able to start

a church there and evangelize

some of those tribes and this is hmm this is

what he wrote about the first

time they had the Lord suffer at the moment I

'm sorry at the moment when I

put the bread in the wine into those dark

hands once stained with the blood of

cannibalism now stretched out to receive and

partake the elements and the seals

of the Redeemer's love I had a foretaste of

the joy of glory that broke my heart

to pieces I shall never taste a deeper bliss

till I gaze on the glorified face

of Jesus himself John Patton sat in the lap of

his Savior and rested and as a

weaned child he hoped in his Lord now and

forever more let's pray hey my father

you're so good to us bless us as we leave here

to worship you in a way that

pleases you that brings glory to your name

thank you that you are faithful and

trustworthy in Christ's name Amen

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