Can you guys hear me? One of those stress? Cause he, Quadro single. Good job, guys.
Greatest one. You're ready to come down. We love to have you guys. I'm so happy to be back Once again, it's been a month, crazy month, went back.
I thought was going to drive down to a quarter and visit a missionary then there but That was too much.
And so. Have we through I was in a on a trip with a 2 of the guts I've been disciplined and another friend of us who we've been trying to share the gospel for the last 6 months now and so we we drove out to a conference in Kali, No California by Cali, Colombia.
Out in the is part of the cone actually west part of the country and so it was pretty exciting and Over there we had a great time.
We Once again, we're able to share the gospel to our friend. And there was one station at the conference where the speaker shared from some chapter one.
And it was such a great song, it is such a great, great salmon. I'm pretty sure you guys are pretty familiar with that.
But that's going to be our text this morning. And the reason why I know we come from You guys had DVS last week.
I don't know if there is. New people but I don't I I'm so glad to see John my Colombian brother here but I don't know if there is somebody that is not a believer here yet.
But I asked Fred like, what would be something that I could share? And he said, well, you can.
Share the gospel. And you know the gospel is not only needed for when you need to come for salvation but Even as believers, we need every single day to be reminded of.
Of it and as kids I just remember like growing up and I know the gospel and and I know how to share with all others, know how this week had to also kind of like share a little bit with one of the workers.
Where he works and we kind of know the answers, right? But I think we sometimes take it for granted.
So I would like to today this morning. Spend some time in some chapter one. So if you're ready there, I would start reading it.
And sure, see what the door has for us this morning. It says, some chapter one. Blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the wicked.
North stands in the way of seniors, nor seeds. In the seat of scoffers. But here's the light is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night.
He's like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked art, oh, but I like chaff that the wind drives away.
Therefore, the wiki will not stand in the judgment. Nor seniors in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous. But the way of the wicked will perish.
Let's pray, Lord. I thank you once again for the opportunity to to be here with my brothers and sisters.
My family in Christ. Thank you, Dad. You've brought me back for a little bit and I pray Lord that You would, I know you will speak once again through your word, but I just pray that we will listen once again, Lord.
That today wouldn't be like Another meeting that we have but that we would have our hearts and minds focused on on you and on what you want from us or thank you that you've given us life and hope and that we can understand your word.
Through the Spirit Lord. So I pray that your spirit will lead this time in that at the end of this time together Lord Christ would be glorified that he would take all the glory, he's the only one that deserves it.
Pray your guidance, Lord, this time in Jesus name. Amen. If there is something we all can agree.
That everyone wants to be happy. It's very interesting that you know there's a ton of resources out there in like movies and songs there is the pursuit of happiness by Wills Mead and very famous movie even down there in Columbia.
I don't know if you guys know it but like it's super famous down there and it's like oh such a comforting movie of like a homeless guy that finally finds a job and has a place for his kid to leave a bed.
Finally, instead of sleeping in bathrooms on the streets. And that's the pursuit of happiness.
And he says, This is what is happening. Happiness finally, right? There is another famous song, Happy by Ferrell Williams.
Also pretty well known in South America. All these sources about happiness and a happy life are out there. And we all can agree, right, that everyone wants to be happy, like even believers, non-believers, they, if you ask them, yeah, I just want to be happy, right?
Everyone here wants to be happy, right? I hope so, but everything we do in life or stop doing, has the main motivation.
To reach that end. Happiness. The French philosopher Blase Pascal said once All men seek happiness.
This is without reception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. This is the motif of every action of every man.
Men decide to be happy. That's simple. Sometimes keeps that moving on. In in but now what does happiness consist of?
That's the question. How can we reach that? Happiness that we all loan for. So let's make that question a little more personal.
How can you be social? That at the end of your days on earth You won't look back deeply disappointed by seeing that.
You wasted the only life you had. How can you be so sure about that? The problem here is that nobody can be sure of that.
Based on their own understanding or like reasoning really because why? Because both experiences and recent are very limited.
We don't even know what's going to happen in the future. There is a lot of stuff we don't know.
Like. We don't know what's going to happen the next second. How can we know what's gonna happen 5, 10 years from now?
You know, how do you know that those decisions that you're going to make today or that you made yesterday?
Will not, well. They will make you cry in 10 years with bitterness. We don't have idea of what's gonna happen at all.
And that has to, We need to think about this a lot because what is happiness then if we have our hope in the future and an ideal of what we want in our lives.
But we don't know, we don't hold, we are not the ones that hold the feature.
It's the Lord. So there is only one being in the universe, right? That can give us an authorized answer.
To this question. Is there the only one that contemplates life as a whole? The one that holds the universe on his hand, the one who knows the meaning and purpose of our existence because he created us.
We can see some answers here in some chapter one. And so we're gonna we're gonna ask split this passage here in 3 different parts right the first I think as you read, you can see that.
It's talking about first the way of the righteous, Second, the way of the weekend.
And at the end versus 5 and 6 we see the final destination of these both ways. So basically as we read I'm pretty sure you can see that in this war basically there's only 2 kind of people.
Right? Right, we see it right here. Those who live under the word of God, right? Trusting.
In the Christ of God and those who live trusting in themselves in their own wisdom, in their own opinions, in their own reasoning.
There is no other type of people really in the world, only 2. Kind of people and that's what the Psalm One is describing.
One of them is policing God and the result is blessing, right? Well, the other one is abominable.
And the result is destruction and condemnation. And so we're going to start by looking at the way of the righteous in versus one to 3. Let me read it again.
It says blessed is the man walks not in the council of the wicked, nor stands in the way of seniors, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight.
Seen the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night and then It brings an illustration in verse 3, it says, he is like a tree planted by streams of water.
That yields his fruit in its season in his leaf. Does not weeder. So it's very interesting that inverse one, like if you see the first word of the sum is blessed.
But now, what is the last word? Of the chapter. Perish, glad I said in perish.
So clear contrast to ends. Now, there word that here is using the man is not just for like men, men, men, but men and women in human kind, right?
And the Hebrew word for here for the word blessed in its original form is plural. Which is pretty interesting.
So it's like, blessed are. It means blessed, what does it mean? Happy, satisfied, joyful, complete.
The fact that is imperial, it has a point, not in our language really well in English that doesn't.
Make much sense but but in Hebrew they used it as a to highlight that it's very important to the importance of these plural forms.
So basically what the song is saying here is that the righteous person is very, very happy, very, very happy, extremely happy.
That's the importance of that in the original text. Blessed is a plural word. That's just a singular word.
So it's not someone that simply experiences some momentary. Occasions of happiness because maybe circumstances are favorable and like I'm going to the college I want it and things are going well in my life, right?
Which at the end is the the kind of happiness that The word offers us. It's a hub penis that depends on happening.
Let me say it again. A happiness that depends on happenings. Right, I'm going to be happy when that happens when this happens.
But if a company is really dependent on circumstances. We would be in a big trouble. Why? Because circumstances change all the time.
There's one year that you live here me walking. I know you're in Iowa, then you're back in your country and it's like life keeps moving on and then you think oh yeah I'm in the States This is what I was longing for, circumstances change and it doesn't depend on us.
We don't have control on any of our circumstances. Nothing of what we do now is completely safe in our hands.
And we know that even though we we get used to things and it makes us that makes us happy today I'm so happy to have my My friends today with me. I miss them.
I've been away. But I know that's not going to be for a long time. They're driving back today for a long time.
They're driving back today and and I'm here with my family, and I'm here with my family, my chapel butt.
I'm going back to the missions field. And so we get used to these things and we are so happy.
But that's why this happiness that he is talking, the sun is here is talking, it doesn't depend on.
On these favorable. Favorable events that that that depend on us. No, not really. That the thing that that makes us happy today It will make you bored tomorrow.
It's just like, ecclesiastes 180. He says, all things are full of weariness.
I'm making not utter it. The eye is not satisfied with scene, nor do you feel with earring.
In other words, the pleasure of today would not be enough for the awareness. And boredom of tomorrow.
That's what pretty much Salmon is saying. So the happiness that is described here in this chapter.
Does not depend on the circumstances. It depends on a relationship. The blessing, the joy, the satisfaction that the summons is describing here.
It doesn't depend on circumstances again. It depends on a relationship. It is clear that the man described as blessed here in San has a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and we'll see where we explore how that works.
I don't know how many times I've heard. People like saying, look. It is not easy to be a Christian.
And in Sally, I heard it from Christians too. But think about it guys. When they reality is that What isn't that easy at all is to leave without Christ.
It is to live hopeless without a god in a broken world. What really that is what is really hard.
Complicated to be a Christian is a blessing. Of course the followers of Christ is not immune to the pain and sadness.
Because we're still in this broken world. And we fight against our flesh, of course, but brothers and sisters, the idea here is that we have 2.
Like this idea of like, oh man, this life is so software and we have to endure like this.
Boring and unhappy life of going to church. Doing all this, read the Bible and then. We have to endure all of these situations until we get to that side of glory.
And then we'll be happy. Well, in part it is true that of course, the glory that will be manifested in Christ.
But that is not true. That idea of, because I will be happy until then is not true. That's kind of a cartoon of what following Christ really means.
The Christian is blessed here and now. I said it in John, 1010. I came that they may have life.
And have it abundantly. And at the end of the upper room in speech he says in John 1511 these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full.
Do you hear that? There is no greater joy or blessing that knowing God in Christ. If we had 1,000 lives.
Imagine having a thousand lives. If I had 1,000 lives, I wouldn't like to leave one of them without Christ.
And I'm pretty sure. That's what you will say as well. Maybe it says in sound 36 7 9 how precious is your step was love oh god The children of mankind, they refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
For with you is the fountain of life. In your light do we see? Light however My question is, as believers, I think most of us here are believers.
Do you do you actually feel like David is expressing here. Do you experience that? Do, do you actually feel like, oh man?
The Lord's love is the best thing has ever happened to me. Of course it is, but like do you actually mean it?
Do you believe it with your heart not just with the right answers that we learned in Sunday school. Because if not, we need to identify what's hindering you and me from that experience with God of joy, of contentment.
How blessed is the one who can enjoy this and I know it's hard like I'm not happy all like 24 7 here and there.
Of course not. But that's what we need to come and ask the Lord to really. Feel as with that joy.
Now, the sum is here after saying that the right shit is very blessed. He's going to start describing pretty much, right?
This man's life in negative forms. We see inverse one. There is 3 n's.
Walks who works not in the console of the wicked nor is stands in the way of seniors nor seats in the seat of discoveries is something progressive is very interesting.
Listen, let's not think of that phrase of the Council of the Wiket as referring only to a lifestyle or like.
To openly depraved people that are openly moral. Because the the issue is actually deeper. It goes beyond that.
It's not just, oh wow, that's. People are like crazy or they're they're going against God but us as believers it is assuming like a philosophy that goes against the mind of God revealed in his word.
What is blessed? What these blessed men rejects, this war viewed where many is at the center of this world and that we see it all over right I'm happy it's all about me it's all about what what I want And that's what it goes deeper.
It's not only about the openly depraved people, but they how the world is influencing me.
Different ways of seeing life. That's that's why it's deeper the blessed man is gonna reject that word view.
That the man is at the center of the universe. That word, where view of pursuing. Pleasure as man understands pleasure and not as God.
Understands pleasure. These blessed men has to defend himself of this way of thinking. Why? Because the mine is what leads people to work, right?
It's so hard, guys, when all the thoughts that come to our mind and think about it what we think is what we are going to end up doing right and that's why someone once said very wisely he said You are now what you think you are.
But you are what you think. Let's say it again, you are now what you think what you are, but you are what you think.
That's hard because I sometimes think stuff that I shouldn't think. And I'm pretty sure we all think stuff that we shouldn't.
That, what is that which fills our minds? There is a sequence here that we find pretty interesting, right?
We see walks, then it stands, and then seats. First he listens to the console of the wicked, right?
Then He stops in the way of seniors to walk with them and finally ends up sitting in the seat of his coffers.
What is coffers? Harvard, but pretty much those who mock God who Make fun of God and in the Lord.
What it starts as an notational scene in other words, it will slowly become a lifestyle, right?
And when you get to that point, you don't really care giving your back to the Lord and start mocking.
With a terrible respect to those who follow the way of wisdom or to the Lord like us. Paul says in second Timothy 3.
Somewhere in that chapter he's saying, but the evil doers will all from bad to worse. This even and being deceived.
So the blessing man protects his joy. And think about it. He's a blessed man and does not want to stop him one.
Right? So he's aware that as Paul says in First Corinthians, 1533.
Bad company ruins good morals. And this is one of the biggest challenges for our young people here.
They're in like places, schools were like Nobody cares about God and then you start doubting like, yeah, you're right.
This is not the fun. Yeah, yeah, it's boring. It's for all people.
It's just for my parents. Are you the blessed men or women? Is it your faith? Is it your part in space?
Do you actually believe this? He's careful with what he sees, what he listens to, where he goes and does not abuse of the freedom that he has in Christ and takes seriously the awareness of John in his first letter chapter 2 15 where he says do not love the world or the things in the world What does that mean?
Do you actually think that, oh, what this work offers is more attractive than a life in a relationship with?
God through Jesus Christ. Don't be deceived. That's Momentari. That's That goes and and he's not he's not going to do it forever Now this blessed man is not only described by what he doesn't do, as we see in diverse one, but also by what he does, look at verse 2.
And I actually don't think like necessarily by what he does. Because there is not an imperative here.
There is not like a commandment. Like do this and then you'll be happy. First 2 says, but his delight.
Is in the law of the Lord and in and on his law he meditates day and night. In other words, we could say.
The blessed man is not the one who reads the Bible. But the one who delights in it. We can read the Bible every day, do the art checklist.
Of reading the Bible in a year and yet it's not enjoying what we're finding here. Delighting in the scripture And it's interesting, he said, meditates.
In day and night. So meditating. For these people back in. In what this was greeting.
They were like, maybe Terry wasn't only thinking about it, but kind of whispering.
So there is like a vocal thing and not just saying it but like Thank you about it. Like we all memorize.
Verses from the Bible since we were little kids most of us here I guess but really meditating and do I really believe this what I'm saying?
When we understand the Bible and all the connections that and what the Lord is doing in his word, it definitely makes of the Bible something exciting.
Of course, we enjoy that. The Bible is amazing. But that's not the kind of the light that that he's talking here.
Of course, once again, don't get me run. There is join seeing Jesus in from page to page in description and all the connections but it is this delight of seeing in the pages of the Bible the glory of the living God.
It is the delight of seeing the works of God, his attributes. It is the like of Really, when I opened this book, Meeting with Jesus.
God made flesh and finding him from Genesis to revelations and see how the plan of redemption is developed with such a clear coherence that makes you think.
Wow, this is the mark that this is a divine inspiration book. How is it possible that in a period of 1,500 years, 40 different men in different places in different seasons of life, they're talking about the same person.
It's all pointing out to Jesus. Jesus said of himself. So it is that delight of knowing that of wisdom we need to live in this world.
In such a way that God is going to be glorified and we are blessed, everything is found only in this book and nowhere else, not in TikTok, not in Instagram, not in any of Netflix or any kind of influence that we have in this world.
But really influenced by the word of God. The question is, do we spend more time? Watching all these things than reading this book and not just reading but meditating and being delighted in it.
My answer is not very positive. I wish I could like spend more time and and in in God's word you know there's it's so easy in life to get busy with things even with good stuff like ministry, right?
I, something that I really miss is like being here in the States and just Everything is more quiet here.
Like literally in our church when if the Lord allows you to come in the first floor there is like a pool dance.
The place and what we're saying in the Bible what you hear is And like you can really like.
Entertain and take a time of solidity in the breaking of bread and people just like and playing outside and it's like oh.
I made my chapel just like this quiet time and I mean living with the huddles and being quiet.
And really spending a lot of time with the Lord. But it's not the key, it's OK.
I'm thankful. That's why happiness doesn't depend on circumstances. You know it's it's busy you have people all the time over and it's awesome But I know and I've shared this with you guys, pray that that.
Police me as a servant of Christ and as a member of You're this beautiful family that I would make sure that I'm spending time in God's work.
And I know it's the same for you guys. It's a challenge, right? It's a challenge for all of us.
We're busy with work, it's cool and things, but don't forget the point don't forget that this is what we need to really move on and leave and find the joy be fulfilled within us.
So That's the delight. It is a personal delight. I can make those promises my own that we read here because Christ bomb me with his blood so that I can enjoy them.
That's why for these men is not a burden like, I need to read God's word.
No, no, not at all. It is not a barn to meditate on them day and night.
We need it. It's our source. It feeds our soul. So the sum is here, it shows us.
What the blessed man does not do, but also what he. Does what is inside of this person, not just actions, a ton of activity and church planting and mission, nobody, what's your delight?
What is it? I want to know, ask you a question. What is that which I really find myself like oh complete Maybe you might be in the face of an idol if it's not the lower in his word.
What is it? And now he's going to describe metaphorically in verse 3. Deep righteous men.
So verse 3 it says He's like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season and his sleeve does not wither. You know what he does?
He prospers. They see interesting that is a tree that is planted. He wasn't born there.
It was planted, it was put there. Because why? Well, because none of us is righteous.
But the sovereign guy that chose us took us from the dry land of our own wickedness and sin.
And plugged us in the lens of his grace. Hallelujah, don't don't take these streets for granted and now we're planted by streams of water.
Says streams plural that is streams streams that abundant this person spends his time absorbing the resources of grace that God supplies us with continually.
And as a result, we see that. Yield its fruit. You You yields its fruit in its season.
Basically all what he does prospers. What he's saying here is that in the midst of the drought of this world, how dry our world is, very dry, right?
This person remains vigorous in green. Everything is right around him. And he keeps bearing fruit for the glory of God.
There is a similar passage in Jeremiah, 17, 7 that says I'm not going to read it but if you want to write it in Jeremiah 17 7 says Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.
Whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water that sends out its roots by the stream.
And does not fear when heat comes for its leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of drought.
For he does not cease. To bear fruit. You see? He will come, of course.
Drought will come and it's going to there's going to be dry seasons right believers also have to go through hard times.
Sometimes. Maybe you are in one right now, but Have the blessing, but we as believers, we have the blessing of having got us our God.
It's not just, oh yeah, God, but we can see as David says occasionally in his sums, my God, my salvation is ours.
We have the blessing of knowing that We can do all things which you know, famous Philippians for 13 but do all things means endural things.
Through Christ who strengthens us. In the midst of the heat and the drought. If you're dry Man, we have the blessing of being able to see the glory and beauty of our Lord and Savior.
Through the gospel knowing that one day will be face to face and join him forever. Are you a believer?
You're blessed. If you're not. I hope after these passage you can consider your life.
And and thrust in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the key to describe carefully. The way of it is very key as we see here.
Right, to describe this this way of the righteous because The concept will be, we'll see here is going to be easier to identify it now.
So we see the way of the righteous, right? Here in verses 1, 2, 3.
Now we go to the way of the wiket in verse 4 it says the wicked are no so.
But I like chuff that the wind drives away. The wiki are not so. Basically, it's hopeless.
There is no hope that the wicked or the unbeliever will have a happy life not at all.
It says that they are like, again, it uses some. Some imagery, image is here for us to understand who are like chav that wind drives away What's chaff?
Again, you see the concept between a chaff and a tree. Right in Israel during times of harvested.
They pretty much would heat the wheat so that all the chaff, what it's. What covers the widgets will fly away.
It's It's weightness. It's weightless. And that's what David is saying here.
So are the lives of the weekend like chaff. They go away. No, no purpose. No, they're not.
Their lives are useless. Without everlasting fruit, nothing of what they accomplish, we have an eternal weight.
Which makes me makes me think of the famous are quoted by city start only one life and its song will pass Only what is done for Christ will last.
It does not matter all the world this person was able to get. It does not matter the amount of pleasure this person had.
When the time of death comes, he will see. That his love was wasted. He wasted the only life he had.
But the altitude is crying here is a weightless life, basically, a meaningless life. That is going straight to a final indefinite condemnation as we see in verse 5.
That is going. This combination, which is going to be in the fires of hell. Are ruined life and I don't want anybody here And that's why we're out there, sharing the good news so that nobody would.
Go to hell, but really believe in that. Because there is a final destination we see for the weekend for those who didn't trust in Jesus as we see versus 5 to 6.
The final destination of both ways. It says that therefore was there result therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment or seniors from the congregation of the righteous.
Guys, we could people would not be able to justify their case. They will try to explain the reason why they did not come to Jesus, repenting and believing in Kim.
That will give a ton of explanations maybe. Maybe they said, man, all those Christians. They're like, they have 2 faces.
They're so hypocritical. Really? Do you know the hearts of all Christians? And if that's the case, if all of us were.
Jesus Christ never was. So was your excuse? Oh no, my parents forced me to go to church.
It was their church. I didn't really want to go there. But all what they wanted to do is that you wouldn't get lost.
They they didn't want you to see any of their children perishing But these people, the wicked, will be separated from the congregation of the righteous.
Just as John De Baptist said, announcing the coming of Jesus back in Matthew 3 12 he said He is we knowing for it is in his hand.
He will clear his threshold floor and gather his weight into the barn. But the chaff, he was born with a quinkable fire.
But, 300, and 12. John the Baptist announced it before Jesus coming. He knew he was going to separate the righteous from the weakened in the congregation.
There will never, there is not going to be any mistake in this why verse 6 it says for the Lord knows the way of the righteous.
The Lord knows. The way of the righteous. That is watching his children. And he will take them into his presence which is something we're longing for but the ways of the wicked Well perish.
That's simple. I don't think it's too hard to understand. Thank you, Lord, for your work.
That is simple. Now, I want to ask you. With all this in mind, in which way or which of the 2 groups are you on?
Which way are you walking in? Which one of these 2 lifestyles better describe you? Are you the one that follow your friends in a school and I don't really care what.
Jesus says, who Jesus is. Why are you the one that really likes? In the law in the scripture in the Lord.
Do you have that relationship, that that joy? This happiness that that we can actually have we can go to bed in peace tonight because we are at peace with God even though our war might be A mess right now.
Because you cannot receive results this is the thing we cannot receive the result of one when we are living the the way of the other group.
It's not possible. Are you one of the righteous people that does not walk nor stands nor sits in the way of the weekend?
But don't, wonky's law meditates day and night? Is, is God's word pleasing, really, really pleasing to you?
Is it something that you really enjoy? Is it something you even open? I wonder in if My guys there, Nathan, Jonathan, Josiah.
Daniel, do you guys spend as much time in God's war as you spend in your phones? If we were to see our timing in our phones.
Right now. Well, how much time do you spend in your phone? And I say, I talk to them because these are my buddies.
All these guys, I've the ones I walk daily, so it's okay guys but even to myself like do I spend more time in my phone than in gas war really because that's why we find so much depression right now.
You see here you see it back in Columbia, it's crazy. They don't have enough resources and they're like.
Because all what they see and they say, oh, that's what I want. That's what I decided.
Oh, I'm not like this. I don't have this. So what's the point of leaving?
Are you really like being deceived by the enemy in that way? That's that's why guys, please Sp time in God's Word.
You can be really happy, not the fake happiness that the world offers. So which group are you on?
Because it's, if that's the case, If the case of your case is the one that delights in the love of the Lord, you're meditating constantly in this.
You are blessed. You're a blessed person. I don't know what circumstances you're going through right now, but if you have believing cries, don't take that for granted, and remembers that you are blessed by God.
Amen. Praise the Lord for that. He said in Paul said it in efficiency 1, 3 to 6, less it.
Be the god and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
Even as he chose as in him before the foundation of the world. That we should be holy and blameless before him.
In love. He predestined us for adoption to himself. A son through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will to the pace of his glorious grace.
With which he has blessed us in the beloved. That's a fishing is 1 3 to 6.
We're blessed in Christ. Now, if that is not your case. If you have entrusted Jesus as your Savior, he Christ is not your Savior yet.
If you haven't come to him saying, I'm a senior and I need you Lord. If you haven't gotten to that point.
You're in a big trouble right now, my friend. And you will be unhappy forever. Maybe you will enjoy these short moments of life, of happiness.
To go after death to a place where with endless pain and suffering. But there is hope for you in the gospel today.
There is hope for us, even if you're a believer but you're discouraged they remember this.
Remember that it is hope for us in the gospel today. So that you may be blessed, happy, satisfied, complete.
But I do have to clarify something. Message of the gospel is not that you have to try your best to start living.
This life of the righteous person describing in someone. He's like, oh yeah, I need to do this, all this stuff so I can try my best be like this blessed guy that don't stand no it's not about that the gospel is something totally different let me explain this based on that on a true story that impacted me when I read it.
It says that a long time ago, a man named Joseph Flax We said a Palestinian and he had the opportunity to share the word to a group of Jews and Arabs.
The text he used was actually sound one. You read it and then he asked at the end. Who is this blessed man of whom the psalmist speaks here?
Because these men never walked in the console of the weekend or stood in the way of seniors or sat in the seat of mockers.
She was an absolutely seamless man. Nobody said a word. So Flax said. Was he her grade?
Father Abraham? One old man said, no. It cannot be, it cannot be Abraham.
He deny he's alive. Until the lie about her. Okay, so how about the low giver Moses?
No, someone said. It cannot be Moses, he killed a man, he after he lost his temper by the waters of Mariba.
Flag suggested then, what about David? Of course not, they said. Of course not. So there was for a long time.
Then an elderly Jew, a roast and said, My brothers. I have A little book here, it is called the New Testament.
I've been reading it and if I could believe this book if I could be sure that this is true.
I would say that the men of the first psalm was Jesus of Nazareth.
There is the answer to the dilemma. No, no, of us represent 100% the man that is describing someone at all.
The genius of the gospel is that the second person of the treaty became flesh. Leave the perfect life without sin and that he died on the cross being innocent as we were reminding this morning, satisfying completely, completely the justice of God in the place of this.
Are we guilty seniors? To whom he came to save. The essence of the gospel guys is not we should try our best to live the life of someone so we could be saved.
Because if that was the case then the Gaspel wouldn't begin news but bad news Someone said Christian discipleship can only be passed with a hundred on the grade, right?
Now with 88, now with 95, not even with 99.9. To pass this exam, you need a hundred.
But you know what? It is the teacher who takes the final exam, not the student. Jesus Christ, already passed.
I mean, he did. He did it perfectly. And now he offers us to put that perfection on behalf.
On our behalf through faith. That's the message of the gospel that cries leaves this perfect life.
Of that we see here in someone. So that we would never Without that man, we, we wouldn't not be able to leave.
Thank you, the death that you and I deserve to die. And upon the base of their, now he offers the forgiveness of all our sins.
And the gift of eternal life only through faith in him. If there is somebody here that hasn't really trusted in Jesus Christ.
How's the savior? See, it is a. Cataliko. I was questioned to fame Christopher.
May I? European to take care. Kinoy Masalvashian parati. And does it does the truth?
I just said the same thing in the Spanish. Don't worry. Just for one of my friends that has a hard time to understand English.
But wait, that's not it. He also promises. To transform his own, right?
He promised to send his spirit to dwell in those who belong to him and then the spirit comes to be a never-ending source as we were reading here, sorts of water like the one that is described here in S.
And for that, if you check John 7 33 30 37 to 39 it says On the last day of the feast, a great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, if anyone thirsts.
Let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me as the scripture has said out of his hearts.
Listen will flow rivers of leaving water Now this he said about the spirit. Whom those who believed in him were to receive.
Amen. We have the spirit. So we have we have been planted by streams of water.
We have the spirit God dwelling in us. Don't take that for granted again. I know it's not new for you.
All the believers, we all, if you, as believers of Christ, can experience this blessing of the men in some one because we are in Christ.
But also because we have his disparity in NAS, which equips us to leave. The life of the righteous person that we read here.
Rejecting the cancel of the wicked and the lighting on his law and coming back to him Of course, it's not like we have this perfect life.
No, It doesn't mean that you're going to fall, but it means that you're going to come back to him in repentance and believing in him.
When we are momentarily seduced by scene. And that's precisely what we are offering to you in the gospel.
If you're here without Christ in this morning. My friends, let us not, don't keep wasting our your life.
Stop going the way. That will inevitably take you to destruction. Or maybe to, even if you're a believer, maybe you say, yeah, I believe in the gospel.
It didn't bear fruit at all. Well. Ask yourself, what am I doing with my life?
Am I? Do I really believe in Jesus? The people I love so much my young people here at the chapel is it actually your faith Is it your parents faith?
Do you actually trust in Jesus as your savior? Don't be deceived. Please don't waste your lives.
That is persuading you so that you would not, based on this take so that you would not continue in the stubbornness of your heart.
And you could come to Christ in repentance in faith. Because you we still have time guys We can still flee or you those who maybe don't believe you can flee from that destruction that is found at the end of the path as we read that you're walking and begin to enjoy.
The blessed life that is only found in our precious, glorious and exalted lore. And save your Jesus Christ.
Let's let's give thanks to our lawyer. I don't think we can say anything else.
That we we get to have this life that we don't deserve. To surfing, to to leave for him to know him.
To really enjoy him and to have the real pursuit of happiness.
Nor we thank you this morning that We can come once again and read your word. Thank you that we have.
You're a spirit dwelling in us. Where I know life sometimes gets hard and and it's a no for us.
We don't know if we should stay or move somewhere else or all these decisions that we need to Make Lord but Lord thank you that in the midst of all the unknown of our lives in the midst of this reality that we don't hold our lives in our hands even though we want to.
We want to be controlling every single step of our lives, Lord. This life doesn't isn't isn't about that really it's about this happiness and joy and blessing that we have Lord to know you.
To walk hand by hand with the Son of God. Lord, I pray that just as Paul was saying to the church in Corinthians in Second Corinthians, 11.
Lord, I'm worried that that the, just as the serpent deceived. Adam and Eve, Lord, Satan would deceive us and let us astray.
From from you know, from these simple but real devotion to Christ Lord I pray for the young people who are assembly.
Thank you so much for their lives. Or I just pray for them because Right now there is nothing else I can do because I'm away, Just provide us opportunities for them to come down to Columbia, maybe on a missions tree, but I pray that while they're here Lord you would protect them from the evil one Lord, you pray that for us, even Jesus spread in John 17.
You said, Laura, I'm not asking that you would take them out of the world, but that you would.
Keep them from the evil one and that's my prayer for us Laura it's hard to live in this world or but as we were reminded it is even harder to live without Christ there is no comparison or we get to have a relationship with you.
So protect our young people from the influence of the world from loving the world. They would love the words and the god of the word and the same for the older folks here Lord where they are.
Thank you for this beautiful body of believers. And I just pray for those that haven't really.
Trusted in you here maybe I don't know you know Lord We just pray that they will come to faith in Jesus Christ in repentance, knowing that they need you.
Thank you that Jesus is the perfect righteous one. To leave the perfect life and he went to that cross and paid for us so that we nor would be forgiven.
We're so thankful, Lord, and we can wait to be faced. Faced with you Lord where for this glory nor we will see a face to face but thank you that we can you start now knowing you.
This is eternal life that they may know you. Only true God in Jesus Christ whom you have sent and that starts now but of course it's going to be fulfilled when we We will be with you Lord.
So thank you for this hope, Lord. That is not deferred. Thank you for for this hope that is entertained or that we can know for sure that we're going to see you, not because of.
Who we are and what we've done but because of the one that promised it. Because of what he has done for us.
We worship you, Lord. We thank you. And make Christ be glorified in our lives. His name would pray.