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Our great God, we have prayed
this morning, sung this morning that you are indeed an awesome
God. And Father, we do thank you for that. Because you are
a God that is not incompetent or impotent in any way, shape
or form, you are a God who is worthy of us taking refuge in. And Father, I thank you. for the hope that I have that
it is you that can use the foolishness of preaching to proclaim your
word for your glory. And so I pray that you would
help my stammering lips. I pray, Father, that you would
open the eyes and the ears of these dear people here today
I pray, Father, that in our lives that you would tear down that
which needs to be torn down, that you would build up that
which needs to be built up. Father, I pray that for Christ's
sake, that you would bless this time that we have together. May
the Spirit of Christ be present among us this hour. In Jesus' name, amen. The question that I would like
to present to you today is a very simple question. The question
is, is God your refuge? Now, it's a simple question and
probably many of us would maybe answer yes easily. The problem
is that in reality, it's a difficult question. It's much like asking
somebody, do you love? Do you love your husband? Do
you love your wife? It's easy to say, oh, yes, I
do. But saying it and doing it are
two separate things, aren't they? In Psalm chapter 16, and that's
going to be our main text today. So if you would like to turn
in your Bibles to Psalm chapter 16. David beautifully here outlines
for us the characteristics of the one who has made God his
refuge. David here, I believe, in Psalm
chapter 16, verses 1 through 11, is providing for us a crucial
and a revealing test for the one who would say, is God really
my refuge? Well, let's look at what David
says in verse 1 of chapter 16 in the book of Psalms. David
says in Psalm 16, verse one, preserve me, O God, for I take
refuge in you. What does he mean by preserve?
Well, he means to watch over, right? To guard, to protect. In fact, the word to preserve
has the connotation of to hoard. I mean, the picture is of a like
a hermit or a miser taking that which is precious to him and
kind of hoarding it away from everything else. And so David
asks God to watch over him. hoard him, protect him as that
which is precious. Clearly, I believe that this
is from David, a request for preservation in all of life's
walks. I don't think there would be
one compartment in David's life in which he would not want the
preservation of God. You know, it's interesting because
as we look at this verse, David says, preserve me, O God, for
I take refuge in you. It's a very simple request, isn't
it? A very simple request. Yet behind
this request, we have what I'm calling inspired reasoning. You know, a lot of times we don't
think about using reasoning with God, do we? I mean, that's just
not our place. But, you know, if it is biblical and you find
it oftentimes throughout the Psalms, if it is biblical, we
can use reasoning with God. David does here. He says, preserve
me, O God, for I take refuge in you. Or another way to say
it would be, God, I take refuge in you. So therefore, please
preserve me. Unfortunately, the the New King
James Version in chapter 16, verse one, translates the phrase,
translates the phrase, I take refuge in you as for I trust
in you. Now, clearly, the idea of trust
plays a part of refuge, doesn't it? But if you take away the
word refuge, I think it really takes away a lot of the beauty
and the fullness of the chapter. Now, what is a refuge? We don't use that word a lot
in our Western society. The dictionary defines it as
a shelter, as a protection from danger or trouble, a place of
shelter or a place of safety. Anything to which one has recourse
for aid, relief, or escape. Pretty basic, isn't it? But what
does it mean in the text of Scripture when it talks about a refuge? I think, biblically speaking,
the word refuge can be summed up like this. A refuge is where
we run to when we are scared. A refuge is wherever we go for
comfort when we are disappointed. It's wherever we go for direction
when we are perplexed. A refuge is to whomever we cry
to when we are sorrowful. It's where we go for relief when
we are pressed. It's where we go for healing
when we are sick. It's where we go for strength
when we are tempted. Now, we mentioned earlier that
saying that God is our refuge might be easier than actually
living it. And why is that? Well, pinch
yourself. It's because you are human. Because we are human,
when we are faced with distresses, when we are faced with trials
or anything that just makes us want to run for shelter, what
do we inevitably do as humans? We run to something. But the
question is, who do we run to? Is it God? Is it Christ? You see, there are many forms
of refuge in this world. Did you know that drugs are a
form of refuge? Alcohol is a form of refuge.
Why do people want to get stoned? Why do they want to get drunk?
Because they are running from something. They want to get away
from it. It could be sports. It could be pornography. It could
be movies. It could be shopping. You know,
we have the shopping, the compulsive shopping disorder now. Why would
somebody want to go out and rack up a credit card, just buy a
bunch of things that are new? Well, because they're down. They're
feeling pressed. They want to get away. They want
to escape. So they go to the mall. All of these things are
possible refuges. The problem is, is that they
are all wanting, aren't they? They are all lacking. They are
insufficient. They are like a straw house in
a tornado. But that's the human heart, isn't
it? That's what you and I are faced with. We want to run when
we feel like we need shelter, when we feel pressed. We want
to run to something that pampers or strokes the flesh to hide
us from the storms of life rather than running to Christ. So then
what does it mean then to make God our refuge, practically speaking,
in the Christian life? Well, thankfully, I believe in
Psalm chapter 16, David outlines for us six characteristics of
the one who has made God his refuge. Six characteristics of
the one who has made God his refuge. Number one, who is he
who has made God his refuge? Number one, he who has an acute
awareness of sin and God's holiness. Look at verse 2 of chapter 16. David said, I said to the Lord,
you are my Lord. I have no good besides you. David didn't say, I'm a pretty
good guy and God, you just make me better. No, he says, I have
no good apart from you. I'll tell you what, folks, there
is nothing more antithetical. There is nothing more opposite
to making God your refuge than an exalted view of yourself. David said, I have no good besides
you. You know, the seemingly harmless
attitude that permeates our society of, you know, I'm really not
that bad. That has absolutely no place in the kingdom of heaven. Our brother Howard mentioned
in, I think, a Wednesday night message a few months ago that
when you come to Christ, you don't come as one that is in
not need of righteousness. You come bruised, don't you?
You come beat up. You come sick. You see, there's
no place for self-sufficiency in the kingdom of heaven. Christ
himself made this very clear in his earthly ministry, that
he came to save the sick. He came to save the sinner. He came to save the poor in heart,
not the righteous or the righteous self-righteous. I think this
is this is summed up for us in an incredible way in the parable
of the rich young ruler. And I would like for us to turn
there, if you would, to your Bibles, to Mark chapter 10. In Mark, chapter 10, verse 17,
we have the I'm sorry, it's not a parable. In Mark, chapter 10,
verse 17, we have the actual account of a young, rich ruler
coming to Christ. And he asked the question, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus responds in verse
19, he says, you know, the commandments don't murder, don't commit adultery,
don't steal, don't bear false witness, do not defraud, honor
your father and mother, basically be perfect. And in verse 20,
the rich young ruler says, teacher, all of these I have done for
my youth up looking at him. Verse 21, Jesus felt a love for
him and said to him, one thing you lack, go and sell all you
possess and give to the poor and you will have treasure in
heaven and come follow me. But at these words, the man was
the young man was saddened and he went his way now. From this
passage of scripture, I think it's clear that Christ is not
making a doctrine about possessions, is he? Because if we take what
he says about selling all of our possessions, probably none
of us here would have any clothes on if we took it to the nth degree.
He said, give away all your possessions. So he's not making a doctrine
about possessions. Rather, he is using that command
to the rich young ruler to expose the heart condition of that young
man. You see, instead of saying what
the rich young ruler said in verse 20, he said, teacher, I
have kept all these things instead of saying that at that point
after he heard what was required, which was basically 100 percent
righteousness. It's at that point. The rich
young ruler should have said, Oh, Lord, Lord, I'm in trouble. Jesus saved me, but he did not. Well, it's interesting here that
if you want to find something that Christ does say about money
in this passage, if you look on a few verses down, Christ
says what? That if you are rich, you are
going to have a real big difficulty in seeing your spiritual bankruptcy. So believer, non-believer as
well, when you feel the weight of your sin, don't suppress it.
Don't conjure up in your mind all the good works you supposedly
done in the past. When you feel the weight of your
sin, people run to Christ for refuge, not to yourself, not
to past works. Why? Because there is nothing
more opposite to making God your refuge. than an exalted view
of yourself. Who is he who has made God his
refuge? The one who has an acute awareness
of his sin and the holiness and righteousness of God. Secondly, our second characteristic
of the man who has made God his refuge. Who is he who has made
God his refuge? He who delights in the people
of God. He who delights in the people
of God. Look at verse three. As for the saints who are in
the earth, they are the majestic ones or the godly ones in whom
is all my delight. You see, David loved the people
of God. He delighted in them greatly.
He esteemed them very highly. In fact, in Psalm chapter 15,
one over, he said something very similar when he said, ask the
question, who may abide in your holy hill, O Lord? And the answer
was he who despises a reprobate, but who honors elevates, delights
in those who fear the Lord. You see, David had an affinity
for, he had a kinship with, he had a love for the people of
God. I'll tell you, one of the most
amazing passages of Scripture, I believe, that talks about the
benefits and the results of loving the brethren is found in the
book of 1 John chapter 3. And if you would, I would like
for you to turn there to the book of 1 John towards the end
of the New Testament. In 1 John 3, verses 18 and following,
the Apostle John gives us three benefits to loving the brethren. Let's read, starting with verse
18. Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue,
but in deed and truth. We will know by this that we
are of the truth and will assure our hearts before Him in whatever
our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our heart
and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not
condemn us, we have confidence before God. And whatever we ask,
we receive from Him because we keep His commandments and do
the things that are pleasing in His sight. Now, what is the
commandments? This is His commandments, that
we believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one
another just as He commanded us. The One who keeps His commandments,
abides in Him, and He in Him. We know by this, that He abides
in us, by the Spirit whom He has given to us. What are the
three benefits? What are the three results of
loving the brethren? Number one, found in verse 19
of 1 John chapter 3, assurance of salvation. Isn't that wonderful? That if you love the brethren,
that is going to point back to saving faith. Secondly, verse
22, it's answered prayer. Do you realize that your love
for the brethren or lack thereof affects your prayer life? Amazing, isn't it? And then lastly,
in the last verse that we read there in first John chapter three,
love is a testimony that the Holy Spirit empowers you. So love for the brethren we see
is a protective canopy, so to speak. It's an umbrella of protection
for the believer. Now, I probably don't need to
spend a lot of time persuading you here that the chief outlet
or the chief avenue in which we show love to one another is
where? It's the church, isn't it? It's
the house of God. Note what Hebrews 10, 24 and
25 says. It says this, And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and
good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another and so
much more as you see the day of approaching. It is in the
house of God. It is in the church with other
saints in which will be our chief avenue in which we will love
the saints. I wanted to show you also a separate
text that looks into what King David himself says about the
importance of being in the house of God. From Psalm chapter 16,
turn a little bit over to the right to Psalm chapter 27. Psalm chapter 27, verses four
and five. Look what David says in verse
four. One thing I have asked from the Lord that I shall seek. that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of
the Lord. Isn't that a wonderful prayer?
Is that your prayer? I think what David had in mind
here, you know, he's king, but I think in David's mind, he's
like, you know, if I ever stop being king and become a shepherd
or become a teacher or do this, no matter what I do, one thing
I know is that I want to be in the house of God all the days
of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord. You know, this was
my prayer after our business meeting last Wednesday night.
After, you know, you hear about all that God has done and the
hopes of all that God is doing, you know, you just I just walked
away with it with the sense that, you know, it doesn't matter what
I do, if I do this or if I do that, Lord, just as long as I
can stay in the house of God. Now, here's the kicker. Look
at verse five of chapter twenty seven. For in the day of trouble,
he will conceal me in his tabernacle. In the secret place of his tent,
he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. You see, David understood something.
He understood the protection that the house of the Lord provides
for his saints. Why is it that people who live
outside the church walls, one of the first places they go when
they need refuge is where? The church. Now we want to go
to church. Things are bad. Now we go to
church. David says, uh-uh, it doesn't work like that. David
said, look specifically what says for in the day of trouble,
you will conceal me in the tabernacle. David understood that when you
are in the house of God, that is where you receive the protection. God has designed it for that.
Folks, it's about being a sheepfold. We are a sheepfold. If you become
a renegade sheep, If you become a maverick sheep and live outside
the church walls, so to speak, there are dangers, there are
pitfalls and there are wolves. So King David himself, I think,
understood the importance of being in the house of God and
loving the brethren. So who is he who has made God
his refuge? The one who loves the brethren. Well, this leads us to our third
point. Our third characteristic of the
one who has made God his refuge, who is he who has made God his
refuge? Answer number three, he who has
a zealous hatred for idolatry, look at verse four. The sorrows
of those who have bartered for another God or hastened after
another God will be multiplied. David says, I shall not pour
out a drink offering of blood. I won't even take their names
upon my lips, David says. David says here that there is
nothing but sorrow for those who pursue false gods. David
says, I don't want anything to do with idol worship. He vows
not to even make the slightest offering to him. And he vows
not to even take to take their name on his lips. And it almost
seems like David here is almost being a little bit rash, isn't
he? I mean, come on, David, take their name upon your lips. And
you might say, well, yeah, what does this have to do with me,
really? I mean, I'm not tempted to bow down to an idol. I mean, we don't worship idols
here. I think if you did a very cursory
study even of the Old Testament into the idolatries of the nation
of Israel and some of the worship practices of the nation surrounding
the nation of Israel, you would find something that that kind
of worship inevitably, inevitably involved some kind of sexual
immorality. And it is very interesting because
when you look at Paul in the New Testament, When the Apostle
Paul oftentimes speaks of idolatry, he equates it with sexual immorality. Look at Colossians chapter three,
verses five and six. I'm going to read that. You don't
have to turn if you don't want to. But in Colossians chapter
three, verse five and six, it says this. Therefore, consider
the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity,
passion, evil desire and greed, which amount to idolatry. For
it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come
upon the sons of disobedience. If you look at these words, immorality,
impurity, passion, evil desire, that's basically encompassing
every kind of sexuality that there is the idea of greed, meaning
in this context, the wanting more and more of that which is
forbidden. And so Paul says, look, We as
believers must consider, must reckon ourselves that we can't
even do that kind of stuff. We are dead to that. You see,
David and Paul, I think, understood something here. They understood
that even small, seemingly harmless doses of sexual immorality can
lead to huge and disastrous results for a believer and ultimately
the church. I don't have to remind you that
we lived in a Sin, sexually soaked society. It is everywhere. And by God's grace, it's a wonder
all of us aren't just way out in left field. So let us, brothers
and sisters in Christ, let us be zealous and vigilant to have
not a trace of sexual immorality named among us. We need to fight
hard to keep it out of our minds. We need to fight hard to keep
it away from our eyes, to keep it absent from our speech, and
to keep it removed from our homes. Because really, what is the issue
here? What's the issue here? It's kind of what we said about
in the introduction, isn't it? Sexual immorality can easily
become a form of refuge for a human being. Because in a human being,
there is such a tendency for us to run to fleshly and to physical
pleasures when we need refuge. And you see, sexual immorality
is because it is so rampant. It is so easy for any one of
us to fall into that, because when we as humans need refuge,
we go to that which pleases the flesh typically. Who is he? who has made God his refuge.
He who has a zealous hatred for idolatry. He who has a zealous
denial and abstinence from sexual immorality. Well, number four,
the fourth characteristic of the man who would make God his
refuge. Who is he who has made God his
refuge? The answer, number four, the one who knows and understands
That when you have Christ, you have everything. The one who
constantly preaches to himself that when you have Christ, you
have everything. Look what David says in verses
5 and 6 of Psalm chapter 16. The Lord is the portion of my
inheritance and my cup. You maintain my lot. The lines
have fallen to me in pleasant places. Indeed, my heritage is
beautiful to me. David says the Lord is the portion
of my inheritance. Now, that's amazing. Coming from
the king of Israel, who could essentially have anything that
he wanted in his kingdom. And yet he says the Lord is what
I get. And it wasn't, the Lord's what
I get. No, it's the Lord is what I get. And then he then refers it to
my cup. You know, the terminology of
my cup back then would often refer to your lot in life or
the things that you would have to go through in life, so to
speak, what you would go through, what you would have to do in
life. And David says, God, Christ, you are what I get in my life. And to boot then, David says,
at the end of verse five, he says, you support my lot. The inheritance and the cup that
David speaks about is protected by God himself. He says, you
support what I get. You know, in our Western society,
there is no such thing as a secure inheritance, is there whatsoever?
And I was teasing the first service today that my brother is constantly
telling me that he and my parents are secretly trying to oust me
from the will, so that I get a pocket watch or whatever and
he gets everything else. So it's either that or an inheritance
tax, a deadbeat brother or sister, they come out of the woodwork,
potential of probate, not to mention what? Our own mortality,
right? Our own mortality makes any inheritance that you could
possibly get any possession you could possibly get on this earth
as unsecure. But David says that in Christ
and with Christ as my cup and as my portion and as my inheritance,
David says, I've got everything signed, sealed and delivered.
Now, I think that we'd be missing something. If we simply said
these two verses are talking just about an earthly inheritance,
this is not just about an earthly inheritance, is it? It's about
our mindset. It's about our attitude as a
Christian, about life in general, isn't it? Let me ask you. Let
me ask you this question. We stated that the characteristic
of the one who has made God his refuge understands that when
you have Christ, you have everything. So if that is true, then what
then is the protective umbrella or what is the canopy of safety
that this mindset provides for us? Well, I think the answer
is this protection and safety from disappointment. What did
Christ himself say? He says, he who comes to me will
not be disappointed. In fact, look what David says
about his inheritance in verse six. David says the lines have
fallen to me in pleasant places. My heritage is beautiful to me,
he says. Folks, there is no disappointment
here in David's voice. In fact, He gives us imagery.
He likens his inheritance that he has in Christ to a piece of
ground, a beautiful piece of ground that is that is properly
marked. That's got the the ponds and
the streams and the wildflowers and the lush grass and the cattle
grazing in it. And he looks at it. He says,
this is great. This is what I have. This is
mine. This is permanent. This is very beautiful to me.
You see, David knew that with God and with Christ, you cannot
be disappointed. And that's why he can say at
the end of verse 11, in your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand, there is
pleasures forevermore. Believer, let me ask you this
question. Do you find yourself digging your heels into this
sod, into this earth? I can tell you this for certain,
that it will disappoint every time. The greatest dream that
you could have will in some shape or form Whether it's a job, or
a marriage, or a relationship, or a car, or land, whatever,
the greatest dream that you can have fulfilled on this earth
will leave you disappointed. Run to Christ. Preach to yourself
all that you have in Christ. He will not disappoint. And don't
ever forget that understanding this is going to protect you
from needless disappointment in this life. Don't put a lot
of stock into this earth, I think is what David is saying. Who
is he who has made God his refuge? He who knows and understands
that when you have Christ, you have everything. Characteristic
number five of the man who has made God his refuge. Who is he who has made God his
refuge? Number five. He who cherishes the instruction
and the counsel in the Word of God. Look at verse seven and
eight. David says, I will bless the Lord who has counseled me.
Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. I have set the
Lord continually before me because he is at my right hand. I will
not be shaken. I believe clearly in verse seven.
David has, I believe, meditation in mind here, right? And David
understands that it is through meditating upon the Word of God
that Yahweh, the Almighty God, instructs us. And then David
rejoices and he blesses the Lord. Why? Because David realizes that
the instruction that he is getting from the Word is coming from
the mouth of God Himself. Folks, I believe firmly that
David understood and believed in the sufficiency of the Word
of God for all things in your life. I do not believe that there
is a compartment in your life in which the Word of God is not
sufficient. The Apostle Peter says that the
Word of God can save your souls. And I'm here to tell you today
that if the Word of God can save your soul, it is sufficient for
you in every aspect of your life. David then says boldly and with
confidence, look again at verse eight. He says, I have set the
Lord continually before me because he's at my right hand. I will
not be shaken. David understood the importance
of having God in every compartment of his life. You see, when the
instruction from the mouth of Yahweh himself goes before David
in every walk of his life, David realizes something. David understands
that he is resting on a very solid rock. He is in a very capable
refuge. You know, our Lord in Matthew
chapter seven, after he completed the Sermon of the Mound, what
did he say? The one who hears these sayings of mine and obeys
them is what? going to be likened to a wise
man who builds his house on the rock, and when the winds blow
and the storms of life come, that house will stand. And I believe that these verses
of Psalm chapter 16, in verse 7 and 8, clearly echo those words
of Christ in Matthew 7. So, who is He who has made God
His refuge? He who cherishes and obeys the
instruction and the counsel from the Word of God. This leads us
to our sixth and last characteristic of the one who has made God his
refuge. So who is he who has made God
his refuge? Number six, the one who, like
Christ, embraces the hope of the resurrection. Look at verses
nine through 11. David says, therefore, my heart
is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh also will dwell securely
for you will not abandon my soul to shield. Neither will you allow
your holy one to undergo decay for you will make known to me
the path of life in your presence is fullness of joy in your right
hand. There are pleasures forever.
And there's two particulars that I want to bring out of these
verses. Number one, clearly, I believe to some degree David
here is speaking of his own personal hope of his resurrection. I mean,
he says in verse 10, you will not abandon my soul to shield
to the grave. David understood that he was going to die and
that he would be buried. But David also understood and
believed that he would rise again. I believe that David was also
speaking of the eternal joy that awaited him in the presence of
God in verse 11. But the second particular is
this. If we go to the New Testament, both Peter and Paul in the book
of Acts specifically state that David here in Psalm chapter 16
is looking ahead and applying these verses not necessarily
just to David himself, but more fully and more specifically to
the son of David, Jesus Christ. If you would turn into your Bibles
to one of the very beautiful passage of Scripture in Acts,
chapter two, in Acts, chapter two, verses 24 through 31 is
where we're going to be. It really kind of offers us an
inspired commentary of some chapter 16. And it's not often that you
get an inspired commentary. But this is it in Acts, chapter
two. Remember, the apostle Peter in the context is preaching to
the men of Israel, reminding them that they are the ones that
is killed. have killed the Messiah, but that it was all in the timing
of God, that God was in complete control of everything. And so
Peter picks up in verse 24 and he says this, But God raised
him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since
it was impossible for him to be held in its power. For David
says of him, I saw the Lord always in my presence, for he is at
my right hand so that I will not be shaken. Sound familiar?
Therefore, my heart was glad, my tongue exalted. Moreover,
my flesh will live in hope because you will not abandon my soul
to Hades, nor allow your holy one to undergo decay. You have
made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of
gladness with your presence. And then Peter picks up again
in verse twenty nine and he says, Brethren, I may confidently say
to you, regarding the patriarch David, that he both died and
he was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. In verse
30 he says, and so, because he was a prophet, get this, he knew
that God had sworn to him with a promise to seat one of his
descendants on the throne. Verse 31, he looked ahead and
spoke of the resurrection of Christ. that He was neither abandoned
to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay. This Jesus God raised
up again, to which we are witnesses." What do we see in this beautiful
passage of Scripture? That, folks, Christ Himself embraced
the cross with confidence. Why? Because He, the Son of God,
took refuge in God the Father. Now that might be a little bit
foreign to us. We don't think of God the Son, who is God, taking
refuge or needing refuge in anything. But God the Son took refuge in
God the Father and He knew and He believed and He took refuge
in the fact that the Father would not allow Him to remain in the
grave. He faced the cross with confidence. I think the application here
just screams out to us. Christ is our forerunner. He is our example. He is our
hope. He is our guarantee. He is our
surety that since he was raised and he enjoys constant eternal
fellowship with the Father, so also will we. I think David understood
that as well. So what is the protective canopy
here? What is the safety here? Well,
it's this. It's hope, isn't it? It's hope. We live in a hopeless world.
But we have hope. We have the guarantee. We have
the surety of living someday with God the Father and with
God the Son forever in complete and utter happiness. We have
the guarantee that our bodies will be raised from the dead
someday. Who is he who has made God his
refuge? The one who, like Christ himself,
embraces the hope of the resurrection and can echo the words of Paul
in 2 Timothy 1, chapter 1, verse 12, which says, For I know whom
I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able. to keep that
which I have committed until that day. Let's pray. Father, what a profound passage
of Scripture. What a great hope that you have
given to us. What a forerunner we have in
Christ. What a hope that we have of eternal
bliss with you someday. What a hope that our our bodies
that will someday decay in the grave will be raised again with
newness of life like yours. Father, there is no way that
we have exhausted the concepts of each of these six characteristics,
probably each of these six characteristics could be a sermon or two on themselves.
But I pray that you would use this precious chapter in the
book of Psalms to help us as believers, and as sheep, and
as fellow brothers and sisters, to go back here and ask ourselves
the question, am I making God my refuge? Is He really my refuge? For Father, You are a worthy,
You are a capable refuge, and worthy of our worship, and worthy
of us running to You. I thank You that you will never
disappoint. Though sometimes you may put
us in the wilderness, I thank you that you never disappoint. In Christ's name we pray.
Is God Your Refuge?
| Sermon ID | 42522222138256 |
| Duration | 41:04 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Language | English |
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