Living Hope Church Green River
07/14/24 Special Guest: Rondie Taylor
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His focus in this position is supporting pastors throughout all of Wyoming with church planting, church strengthening, and discipleship. So please join me in welcoming Randy back to Living Hope. (silence) Well, first of all, if you have children, I'm assuming it's still kindergarten to third grade, they're going to children's church. They can dismiss out the back. I feel like old times. But it's so good to be with you. Steve gave me a better introduction than I can do, but there are many here that I don't know. And so it was almost eight years ago now that my family and I moved here to Green River and had the joy of working with many of you to start Living Hope Church. And then as he said a year or so ago, we were called to a role as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Southern Baptist Mission Network. We had the longest name in the world. And in that role, I helped lead the network, which is a collection of 95-ish churches like Living Hope, scattered across the state. And we had the desire to reach Wyoming with the gospel. And we believe we reach Wyoming with the gospel better when we work together. And so it is my joy to support and encourage, to train and to facilitate networking within our convention. And it's been so exciting to travel our state and to see what God is doing all across our state. And we are so thankful to you and to your church for giving and supporting through the Wyoming Southern Baptist Mission Network. And those funds are making a difference in the gospels being proclaimed. But that is more than enough about me. If you'd like to ask questions about that, I'd love to share with you more what we do. But I'd rather talk about the Bible. So today we're going to be in Psalm 37, if you would like to head in that direction. Psalm 37 includes a verse that might be familiar to you. It's a verse that might even hang on your wall or a neighbor's wall. It's verse 4, and Psalm 37 4 reads, "Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." But so often when we read this verse, when we read this promise, we read it without the context of the Psalm. And when we read this verse, we often read it as a promise that God will simply give us what we want. And our minds, when we think about what we want, our minds are filled with middle-class American dreams. Perhaps we read this verse and we mix delight in the Lord with our own happiness, and we make it dependent on that. That's not what this verse is talking about. In middle-class American, our personal happiness is not at all the context in which David is writing this passage. So what I want to do with you this morning is first we're going to read the first 11 verses of Psalm 37, and then we're going to walk through the passage and establish the context for this verse and see what it is that God is really calling us to do, and what it is that He promises us as His followers. And the good news is that when we read this Psalm in His context, we learn that God's promises are not dependent on our circumstances. His promises are dependent on our feelings. But instead God's promises are true even when life is difficult, unfair, and feels out of our control. So we're in Psalm 37, we're going to read verses 1 through 11, and then we'll unpack it together. David writes, "Do not fret because of those who are evil, or be envious of those who do wrong. For like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. Take the light in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He will do this. He will make your righteous rewards shine like the dawn. Your vindication will be like the noonday sun. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him. Do not fret when people succeed in their ways when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath. Do not fret, it leads only to evil. For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land. A little while, and the wicked will be no more. Though you look for them, they will not be found. But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity. Let me pray for us. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank You for this morning, Lord. We thank You for this church. God, we thank You for the opportunity to open up Your Word and to hear from You. So, God, I pray in these next few minutes, Lord, that You would speak clearly through Your words, Lord, and that You would give me Your words to share. God, I pray that You would speak to our hearts. And God, I pray that You would call us to deeper faith as we just learn more about who You are and who we are in You. So, God, I pray that You would speak to us this morning through Your Word, in Your name we pray. Amen. So, when you look around the world, when you look around your personal life, it can often feel as though the unrighteous or the wicked are prospering in. They are excelling beyond yourself and beyond fellow believers. And maybe that those that are lying, cheating, stealing, exaggerating, those that are cutting corners at work, maybe they're the ones that are getting the promotions and the pay raises. And maybe that the dishonest or the wicked are getting elected in the community. And maybe that those in the Good Old Boys Club that do things that go against your morals, they may be the ones getting the jobs or having success or seemingly excelling in life. And they have the cars, the trucks, or the boats that you want. When you look at the broader world, it often feels as though evil is prospering. So, what do we do with that as a church? What do we do with that as Christians? And we see in this song, this isn't a new thing to our day. David was dealing with the same issues and feelings of unfairness that we do. And he was feeling as though the ungodly were getting ahead and prospering above and beyond himself and other followers as he writes this song. And so, he writes Psalm 37 as a wisdom song in which he contrasts the ways of the wicked with the ways of the godly. And these first 11 verses of Psalm 37 are David's instruction, or they are his wisdom for the godly that feels as though they have been left behind in this world. And so, Psalm 37 isn't just delight in the Lord when we feel like it or when life is good. But Psalm 37 is God's instruction on how do we as followers of God live when things feel unfair? When we feel as though we are falling behind, or when the wicked seem to be prospering or being elevated above the ways and the people of God. Not about you, but for me at least, this is relevant and needed instruction in my life, and I believe in the life of the church. So, let's unpack and we're going to answer the question, how do we as Christians? How do we as followers of God? How do we as the church respond when evil seems to be prospering and we feel as though we are left behind? Let's look at verses 1 and 2 first. David says, "Do not fret because of those who are evil, or be envious of those who do wrong. For like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away." So, David's first instruction, his first exhortation here that he gives the godly is that when things seem unfair, or when it seems as though the evil are prospering, those who do evil are prospering, he tells us to not fret and do not become envious. And so, our first point is, do not fret or become envious over the prosperity of others. That's such simple, but profound advice, because our natural human reaction to this situation is envy and it is fretting. The Hebrew word here, fret literally means to be heated or hot with anger. The great English preacher Charles Spurgeon says, "To fret is to worry, to have the heart burn, to fune, to become vexed. Nature is very apt to kindle a fire of jealousy when it sees lawbreakers riding on horses and obedient subjects walking in the mire." Maybe in our day we replace that with the brand new truck and we're driving the old used Honda Civic. But David here instructs believers not to allow evil men who prosper temporarily to lead them to become a source of heated anger and worry in their lives. Friends, if we're honest, how much time do we spend fretting, worrying, talking, perhaps gossiping over the prosperity of others, especially those that we feel are unworthy of their success? I'm sure you have personal examples of friends or neighbors or family members or coworkers or maybe you zoom farther out of people who you know aren't doing the right thing, but they seem to be prospering. In that case, it is so easy to sit around and become angry, to talk and gossip with others about them and to lose sleep and energy over their perceived success. So what is it or who is it that you tend to fret and worry over because you don't feel like justice is happening the way you think it should? So David says don't fret, but then he also says don't become envious of them as if wanting to trade places with them. Here's where an individual may come to mind who seems to be succeeding and you either feel like you're more deserving of them or you feel like you are morally superior to them and because of that, you should be the one having the success. I can't think of anything that will steal your joy, your thanksgiving, your gratitude, your contentment faster than envy. You can't delight in the Lord or be thankful for what you have when you are envious of others. And so David here he calls us to step back and have perspective and trust our lives and their lives to God, the one who is the only righteous judge. David writes grass is green for a season, but eventually it withers and dies in the heat of a dry summer wind. Morgan in his commentary writes the test is found in time. All the apparent prosperity of the wicked is transient. It passes and perishes as do the wicked themselves. So when you feel your heart becoming envious, lift your eyes from the other person or the other situation or the other political party and lift them to the Lord and the goodness and blessings that you have in your life. Envy will never lead you to joy. It will never lead you to contentment and it will never lead you to goodness. But it will only lead you to anger, bitterness and ultimately waste the days in a wasted life. So David says first don't fret, don't become angry or envious. But it said he calls us to lift our eyes to God and to trust and delight in him. We see that in verse three. He writes trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. And so if you're taking notes our next point is simply trust in God when things seem unfair and delight in him as opposed to the world. Again I love the simplicity of this advice. If we don't want to fret over the things of this world then the solution is to trust God to trust in his timing and to trust in his sovereignty. Friends as Christians we often confess with our mouths that God is sovereign. Meaning that he is in control of all things. And yet so often our actions, our worries, our fretting tell a completely different story. By confessing God is sovereign we are saying he holds all things in his hands and we can trust them to him. But when we fret we are doubting whether or not God is really sovereign and in control. I think so often we trust God with big things like salvation. But we struggle mightily to trust God with the more personal things and we try to help him along. We trust him with our salvation but we struggle to trust him with our nation with our politics with our families with our children with our career with with our friends with the town scuttle but with our health. You fill in the blank whatever is you fret about. But the Bible tells us God is in control he is sovereign over all things even those things that are personal or may feel too insignificant for him. He is sovereign over at all and he cares about it all. Jesus tells us even the hairs of your head are numbered and he knows that God knows it all. Now for some that is a higher number than others but he knows it all and he cares about that very insignificant detail. Jesus says he provides for the sparrows and the lilies of the field and we should not be afraid because we are worth so much more than they. God knows you. He cares about what you are going through. He cares about what you are fretting over and he is worthy of your trust. And so the very real practical application here is when you feel yourself fretting or worrying pause and pray and gain some perspective of time. And that perspective that we are searching for is that this life is temporary. The things we are fretting over are temporary and they are fleeting. They are not the end of the world and God has it all in his hands and he is worthy of your trust. But I don't know about you but for me I'm not good at this. And so I have to be very intentional to pause, to pray, to step back and gain perspective and give it over to God each and every time and each and every day. And so the counter to fretting David says is to trust in the Lord and then he gives us the counter to envy next. The counter to envy is to delight in the Lord. David says in verse 1 don't envy those that do wrong. We are prone to envy those doing wrong because we believe they are getting what we deserve. And when we do that we are desiring or envying or delighting in the things of this world. We become envious when those who we deem as doing wrong have more than we do. When they have more power, when they have more wealth, when they have more toys for Steve recognition than we do. But all of those things David tells us are temporary in there of this world. David says here let them have those things that's all that they have. But for those that are of God we aren't called to find our joy and our satisfaction in this world but we are called to find our joy, our delight, our satisfaction and God alone. And I love this word delight. Think about your life. What is it that you delight in? What is it that you find joy and satisfaction in? If you were to walk over here and grab my cell phone from the front row and be scrolling through my pictures it wouldn't take you long to see what I delight in. My phone is full of thousands of pictures of my children doing ordinary everyday things. I love your children, I know many of your children. I care about them. But their artwork isn't covering my fridge and my office. Their first words, their first steps, their silly faces or sayings are not on my phone. But these pictures, these videos, these moments with my children bring me immense joy because they are my children and I delight in them. David says our love and our relationship with God should bring us that kind of joy and that kind of delight. What was the last time you delighted in God? It was the last time you delighted and found joy in him. Not served him out of duty. Not read your Bible because you felt obligated. Not be prayed because you were in a hurry to eat, not came to church because you felt like you had to. What was the last time you simply paused and delighted and found joy in God? Myer and his commentary wrote, "We cannot delight thus without effort. We must withdraw our eager desires from the things of this earth, fastening and fixing them on him." We aren't just going to stumble and to delight but it takes intentionality. When your heart is struggling with envy, with fretting, pause and pursue God. Where is it or in what ways do you delight in the Lord? Think about my life. For me, there are worship songs and there are songs that reorient my life around the greatness and the grandeur of who God is. There are songs that remind me of the incredible grace and love that God has shown me. And for me, when I focus on the greatness of God, when I focus on my insignificance and delight of his greatness, and then I pause and reflect on his deep and personal love for me, in those moments I find delight. I find joy and satisfaction in him and it helps me to reorient my life around him. This may sound counter the first example, but as I said, for me, the greatness, the grandeur of God, it leads me to delight in him. So sometimes there are days I just need to go for a drive and turn the radio off and turn my phone off. Or sometimes I go to a specific location where God has met me before and just rest in the grandeur and greatness of God's creation. For me, when I need perspective, when I need to remember that the things I'm dealing with are like withering grass and I need to renew my joy and God, I need to go and I need to be with him and I need to be in his creation. Our convention campground where your kids, some of your kids were just this past week and some of your youth will be in a couple of weeks. It sits 15 minutes from my office in Casper. And there have been days where I was overwhelmed, where I was fretting, where I was envious. I need to delight in God and to not stress over that most recent phone call. And so there have been days I simply drove up the mountain and just sat or maybe met a friend up there and delighted in God in his creation, his faithfulness, his greatness. But we're all different. So what is it for you that leads you to delight? What is it that leads you to reorient your life around God? Where are those places or what are those things that lead you to delight in him? Maybe for you it's something like serving or helping or sharing that leads you to delight in the Lord. This is so important to know, but where or in what way do you find joy in delight in God? I mentioned this at the beginning, but so often we read delight in the Lord as an activity to do when things are going well. We are called to delight in the Lord always, and specifically in this song we are called to delight in the Lord when things are difficult. When we ourselves are worried or envious, but that takes intentionality to lift our eyes from the problem, the worry, the concern, and to lift them back to God and delight in him. And then the second half of that verse says that God will give you the desires of your heart. So this promise here is dependent on you first, delighting yourself in the Lord. And as we find our satisfaction or our delight in the Lord, our desires will shift from the things of this world, the desires of this world to the righteous desires of God. And as we develop the desires of God, the promise is we will be given those desires. So my friends, the bad news here is that God doesn't promise you that if you desire a boat you are going to get a boat. He doesn't promise if you desire a promotion or a new job or a race or a new house or whatever else it is of the world that you desire that he's going to give it to you. But David does say that as you delight in God, your desires will become those of God and he will give you those things. McLaren wrote, "When we delight ourselves in the Lord, he gives us our delight. If he himself is our delight, he will give us more of himself. Longings fixed on him will fulfill themselves." Let's look at verses 5 through 7. David here writes, "Commit your ways to the Lord. Trust in him and he will do this. He will make your righteous rewards shine like the dawn, your vindication, like the noon day sun. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Do not fret when people succeed in their ways, or when they carry out their wicked schemes." In this word here translated commit, in the original Hebrew, it literally means to roll. As in to roll your worries, to roll your issues, to roll your person who is causing your threat, to roll them over to God. David says, "Give the issue to God, and as you delight and follow after him, then you will shine like the dawn, and you will be vindicated if you are acting righteous." Now that vindication may not come tomorrow, but ultimately in time God will vindicate the righteous and cause them to shine. So our next point is this, "In times of trial or burden, give it to God, commit it to God, and trust him for your vindication." So David says to give the problem, the burden to God through prayer, and then trust it to him. Some translations capture this better than others, but the original Hebrew has the idea of sitting still, and we saw that. Sit still and wait patiently for the Lord as we trust him, as we trust him for our vindication, as we trust him to make us shine. I think sometimes we do a decent job of giving or committing our burdens to God through prayer. But if you're anything like me, we struggle to sit still and trust God for our vindication. We give the burden to God through prayer, but then we do everything we can to justify or vindicate ourselves. And when we fail to sit still and trust God for vindication, we often find ourselves slipping into sin. When we fail to trust God for vindication, we can find ourselves making sure that every single person hears our side of the story. Or maybe worse, we find ourselves exaggerating gossiping or straight up lying about other people in order to vindicate or make ourselves look better. But David here says, "Give it to God, roll the burden over to him, and then trust it to him. Sit still and wait for him to move." The hard part is that vindication may not and likely will not be immediate. With this perspective and this psalm, it may not even come in this lifetime. But if we trust our life to God, we will ultimately be vindicated and our reward will be found in heaven. Here's the reality. We should be far more concerned that we are seen as righteous and that we are doing right in God's eyes than we should be about being vindicated in the eyes of man and the eyes of this world. Verse 8, "David writes, "Refrain from anger and turn from wrath. Do not fret for it only leads to evil. For those that are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land. A little while in the wicked will be no more, though you look for them they will not be found. But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity." In these final verses, David reinforces or he returns us to the first two verses. He repeats the original advice, don't fret, don't turn to anger when the evils succeed because in time they will receive the justice, the reward they deserve. David here uses a series of contrasts, but they can be summed up in the principle that evil men will be cut off in the final day and they will experience the justice they deserve, but those that know God will inherit the land. And this phrase here, "Inherent the land" means that they will ultimately inherit the fullness of God's blessing. So the perspective of time, the perspective of eternity frees followers of God to trust the things of this world, to trust justice, to trust our vindication to Him because we know what awaits us in eternity. So in the light of an eternal perspective, we as Christians can trust all things to God. But here's the deal. We as New Testament believers know that none of our righteousness is accomplished by our own merit. We know that none of us are worthy of salvation and eternal life in our own righteousness. But instead we too, like those wicked around us, are all sinners deserving of God's wrath and justice. Romans 323 tells us that all, that means you and that means I, have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. All of us have sinned, all of us have been the ungodly, all of us have done wrong before God. And Romans 623 tells us the wage or what we deserve for our sin is death, it is eternal separation from God. So my friends, we as Christians, we don't get to read this psalm smugly with our nose up in the air as though we are better than others. We don't get to walk through this life of the strut as though we are better than those far from God. That we are better than those that sin, or even better than those that sin against us because we too are just sinners. But we have met a Savior. It makes me think of 1 Corinthians 6. In 1 Corinthians 6 Paul lists the multitude of sins, and he lists these sins that will make you cringe. And then he writes, "And that is what some of you were, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God." Salvation, eternal life, forgiveness of sins is not of us, but it is all about Jesus, and it's accomplished through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. So when we read here that the evil, the wicked will perish and get the justice they deserve, it is comforting in that we know that God has justice covered. It is comforting in that we know that we can trust all things to God. With a New Testament perspective, I don't think we should revel or celebrate in the destruction of others. But instead, as we read this in the light of the New Testament, I think it should lead us to a different set of emotions and actions. We can revel and we can celebrate in this destruction of sin and of Satan that we know that there's one day coming. Absolutely, we can celebrate in that. But Jesus and his life and ministry models that we are to have compassion and love for those headed towards eternal destruction. And we are called to do all we can to point them to the only one who can save them through Jesus Christ. In Matthew chapter 9, if you read it, Jesus is traveling through the towns, he is meeting the people, he is healing the sick. And then in verse 36 it reads, "When he, Jesus, saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." When Jesus saw the people, when he saw the crowds, when he saw those living in sin, he says he didn't condemn them, but instead he was led to compassion when he saw them. It continues in verse 37, it says, "Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.' Ask the Lord of the harvest therefore to send out workers into his harvest field." So in Matthew 9, Jesus doesn't condemn the crowds, but he instead has compassion on them. And he tells the disciples, and he tells you and I, that the crowds, that the people, that the helpless, that those far from him are his mission, and thus they are our mission as well. And so I want to encourage you today that David calls on us to not fret. He calls on us to not envy when evil seems to prevail and when sinful people prevail. He said he calls us to delight in the Lord and to trust in him and to trust justice to him, but I think Jesus takes this even a step farther than the New Testament as he so often does. We as New Testament believers are called to not envy and fret. We are called to trust and delight in the Lord, but we are also called in Matthew 5 to love our enemies. To have compassion on them and to love them so much that we share the hope of Jesus with them. And so our final point if you're taking notice, let your delight in the Lord lead you to have compassion and love for even your enemy. I want to challenge you this week that when your neighbor, your coworker, when that peer at school or work, when that person you see on social media or on the news who seems to be getting ahead because of or in spite of their wicked ways, would you before you fret? Would you before you become envious before you become angry? Would you first trust him to God as David says? Would you also take time to step back and intentionally pray for them? Pray for them and pray for your own heart? Would you pray that God would move in their lives and they too might experience the forgiveness of sins that you and I enjoy? Would you pray that God would move in your heart and free you to forgive them? That he would move in your heart and build in your life a compassion for them? Perhaps would he even move and move in your life and give you a love for them? Would you pray that God would not only soften their hearts? Would he might give you an opportunity to play a role to play in their salvation story as you shine his light in your actions and share the hope of Jesus with them? Friends, if you want to not fret, if you want to not worry, if you want to not become envious of someone in your life who seems to be prospering, then pray for them. When we step back, when we delight in the Lord, when we trust God with all things, even those that seem unfair, it frees us to forgive, to have compassion, and even to love those that frustrate us the most. It frees us to move from worry and envy to trust, compassion, and love. So as we respond to this passage this morning, who is it that you need to trust to God in your life? What is the situation in your life that you need to roll over to God and to give to him this morning? Would you do that in prayer this morning as we pray? Who do you need to ask God to soften your heart and grow in you compassion and love for? Would you today in this moment commit and roll those people and those situations over the Lord? Would you take time in the next few moments or this afternoon or this week to pray for them or to pray for that situation, giving it to God and asking to move? Maybe you're here today and you would describe your relationship with the Lord as duty. You would describe your relationship with the Lord as obligation, as impersonal, as surely lacking delight. Would you plan today and set aside intentional time to get away and to simply delight in the Lord this week? If you're anything like me, if you don't put it on the schedule, you'll never get to it. Find the best way that you delight in the Lord and put away your phone and go with intentionality in room and time to delight in him this week. Would you schedule that this morning? It may be last that you're here and you've never experienced the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ in your own life. I said earlier, but the Bible tells us that all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and that the wage or the just result of that sin is eternal separation from God. I didn't get to it, but the good news comes in the second half of Romans 623 where Paul writes, "But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." The Bible says, "Yes, we've all sinned, but Jesus has made a way through his life, death and resurrection for you and I to be forgiven and to inherit eternal life with him." No matter what your past looks like, no matter what your week looks like or your week ahead looks like, forgiveness of sins and eternal life in heaven is available to you through Jesus. If you will turn for your sin, if you will ask for forgiveness to make him Lord or the boss of your life. So if you've never done that, would you make that decision today? You can pray in your seat. You can come and talk to me after service. I'd love to talk with you. You can call Pastor Ruben up a camp. He's got cell reception. Or you can call a friend that you know as a Christian and ask your questions. But I would encourage you to ask your questions or make that decision today if you're ready. So I'm going to close this in prayer. I'd ask you to pray as well and however God is moving your life. And then after I'm done praying, Steve's going to come and he's got some announcements for you. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for who you are. God, we thank you that you are indeed sovereign. We thank you that you are worthy of our trust no matter what is going on around us. God, I pray that over the last 30 minutes or so and in the moments to come, Lord, that you would help us to lift our eyes from our situations, from those people that are driving us crazy, from the news or whatever it is that we're fretting about. Lord, you would lift our eyes, Lord, and would you give us your perspective? God, I pray, Lord, that you would help us to move from fretting and envy to trust and delighting you. That we find our hope and our purpose in you. God, I pray that we wouldn't just celebrate and revel in the destruction of those around us, Lord, but God, that you would give us a heart and a compassion for them. That we would be burdened to share your hope, the hope that changed our lives for those around us. Would you grow in us as individuals? Would you grow in this church, a heart, and a compassion for the lost around them? That they would faithfully proclaim your good news to the city. God, that many might come and find their hope in you alone. So, God, we trust all things to you. We thank you that you are good and that you are sovereign. God, we thank you for the forgiveness that we have in our own lives, Lord, and may we beat lights and share that with others. We thank you for this time, and we thank you for David's wisdom, Lord, may we go, and may we live it out. God, we love you so much, and we praise you, and in your name we pray. Amen. All right, thanks. Youth Group will resume meeting on July 31st, which is the next meeting. There is Summit Camp 14s, July 22nd through 27th. If you have any questions, you can contact Ruben about that. Vacation Bible School is August 5th through August 8th. I know we're still probably looking for volunteers. You can see Brittany. She's shaking your head, yes. We want everybody we can get. We need many hands to make the work light. And there is still a sign-up sheet in the back for those that want to volunteer for snow cones and handing out snow cones and popcorn at the sogra fields. We do that as an outreach and ministry that this church showed love for our community. So pray that you have a great week, and thank you for coming, and hope to see you next week. Thank you. [BLANK_AUDIO]