You know, we've been preaching through some of the psalms. I've not really had any rhyme or reason as to which book of the psalms that I'm preaching at. There's five books of the psalms. And someone asked me, another pastor asked me which books I've been preaching into in psalms. And of course, I've been kind of all over the place, mostly in the lower psalms. But I've just, there's really been no rhyme or reason as to what I choose in my preaching in the psalms. I've chosen some of these Psalms way before this week. Little did I know what, of course, my family would be facing a couple weeks ago, and little did I know what some of you would be facing, and of course, I never know that, and we don't know that. Thankfully, we don't, but God does, and little did we know that We would be in the Psalms at this very moment, but I chose some Psalms that would not be as what I would call popular or known, though I love the Psalms that are known, the ones we run to. Brother Kenny preached Wednesday night, Psalms 23. If you weren't here, you can go back and watch that, but he did such a marvelous job at just going through the text and giving us that staple in the Psalm, Psalms 23. And such encouragement to me and my family, and I'm so glad that we were here. Then we can run to Psalms 100, and we can run to Psalms 103, and we can run to Psalms number one, we can run to Psalms 91, we can run to all of these different Psalms and we can just glean from them. Some of them you know very much, you know, some of you have memorized those Psalms. But then there's Psalms like this that sometimes we read through and we don't quite understand the context or we don't understand why David wrote this or what it means or what he's going through or all. They're very simple. They're not overly complicated. But if we're not careful, we'll jump over these and we'll run to something that is more familiar and we'll miss what God has in store. for us. I know this, I know that this summer God has really helped me in the Psalms unlike any other time in my life. I've ran to this, I've gleaned in these psalms, and it seems like every psalm that I read and every psalm that I preach through, it's just in time for what I needed. Isn't the Bible right on time? Don't we believe in a God that just gives us exactly what we need and when we need it? I mean, God is sovereign and He knows what we need, when we need it, and He wrote this book the only book that he wrote and it's a living book, it's a breathing book so we ought to read it every day and we ought to run to the Psalms and the Proverbs and of course whatever else you're reading in this book because it's all wonderful and it's all for our help and our learning more about God. Psalms 15 kind of ask some questions in the very first, now I'm not preaching out of Psalm 15, but it does ask some questions on basically how we approach God. How do we approach God? It says it in verse one, Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? What's that mean? Who shall be in your presence, Lord? How do we get into thy presence? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? Lord, who's gonna be with you? Yahweh, that's really what it is, Lord, Yahweh. Who's gonna be with you, Lord, in your presence? Who's able, who's fit, who's worthy to be in your presence? Now, if you go back last Sunday, I preached out of the 42nd Psalm, and you understand that the presence of God is what we should desire. Really chapter 16 is answering the question to chapter 15. It points back to Chapter 15 and answering this question. Now, above the Psalm 16 in my Bible, it says the Mictam of David. That word Mictam, not many people know exactly what that means. Even commentators somewhat guess at what that means. But the word in the Hebrew means golden. So we call it the golden psalm. It is a psalm that would be what many people, Spurgeon would know it to be as a jewel of a psalm or a precious psalm. It's also Psalm 16 and I believe it's Psalms 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60 are what they call the golden psalm. And it's golden because of what's in it. So I want us to look at it and just see what David, this has been attributed to David, of course it says the Mictam of David. So this is David writing this after he has been pursued by Saul. This would have been sung in a Hebrew way or prayed in a Hebrew way on their way to Jerusalem during the festivities. They would have used this and sang this maybe during the time of Nehemiah and Ezra. We're not exactly sure. It could have even been at the time of David when he's going back to Jerusalem, when he has maybe been running from Absalom. They're not quite sure when this would have been sung, but we know that this was written during a time of David in trouble. And he puts it in the very first words. He says this, preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord, my goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the saints that are in the earth and into the excellent in whom is all my delight. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another God. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, thou maintainest my lot. The lions are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel. My reigns also instruct me in the night season. I have set the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand. I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiced. My flesh also shall rest in hope, for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life, in the presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the text that I've read this morning. I pray that you'll bless your word. I pray that you'll help those that are in need, of course, and I believe all of us stand in need of your presence and desire it even more. I pray that you'll help us today. Lord, if there's one here today that doesn't know you as Savior, they don't know about that blessed hope, they don't know about the hope of heaven and eternal life and the presence of of God. I pray you'll help them today. And Lord, come to that saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. And we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. This message that's found in Psalm 16, the Psalm of David, he expresses what we see in the very first verse. He expresses his full trust. He says, Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. So he expresses complete trust and complete joy in the Lord. I've entitled this, there could be several titles for this. Y'all know that I struggle in titling messages. If it was up to me, I would just put Psalm 16 as the title, right? Not that I'm lazy, I just feel like sometimes when I title something, it doesn't make sense. But I believe that I took out of the text a phrase that David uses and it says this in verse number 11, the very last verse, in thy presence is fullness of joy. In thy presence is fullness of joy. I'd love to preach to you this morning out of Psalm 16 on in thy presence is fullness of joy because we can enjoy the Lord now, but we also can enjoy the Lord for all of eternity. What you know about the Lord and if you know the Lord, it determines the eternal side of it. We can enjoy the Lord, of course, now. We can walk through the Psalm and we can see some application in Psalm 16. We can see illustration, but we can also see some doctrinal encouragement for the believer this morning. If I were to give this message a second title, I would entitle it this, The Secret of Satisfaction. The Secret of Satisfaction. What is David saying in the overview of Psalm 16? David is basically saying, I am satisfied with the Lord. He is enough. I don't need anything else. I don't need a bigger palace. I don't need a bigger name. I don't need anything else. God is enough. You know what? Thousands of years later, we can honestly say God is enough. God is enough. I want to give you several things this morning and I want you to keep your copy of God's Word open this morning. Look at the very first verse as we've already read it this morning, but look at it with your eyes and let's see it together. Verse number one, preserve me, O God. For in thee do I put my trust. The first thing that I see what David is using just in the very first verse is it is a personal trust with God. He says, preserve me, O God. Preserve me what what's he talking about this this requires faith. He said God. I want you to preserve me He begins not with panic, but he really begins with prayer and that word preserve it suggests Maybe that there was a dangerous situation. We know if you read First and second Samuel, the life of David, you read about how dangerous encounters with not just Saul, but with other enemies, with other animals, with other things that would come after him. David lived the life of danger, but David, here's his trust. Here's what he did. He said, Lord, preserve me. Oh God, preserve me, oh God, for in thee do I put my trust. It was personal for David. Can I ask you, church, this morning, is this thing with God, this relationship with God, is it personal? We call it a personal relationship with the Lord. Why do we call it a personal relationship? Because it is between you and God. It's not about the pastor. It's not, well, my pastor, as long as he has a relationship with God, everything's going to be okay. Well, I can assure you this morning that I do have a relationship with God, but that's not good enough for you. That's not good enough for you. You need to know God. You need to have faith in God. Not just your pastor or your spiritual leader or even your, hey teenager, your mom and dad or a single, your leader, your ministry leader, or those of you that are maybe in a ministry, a Sunday school teacher or a group leader. Hey, it's not good enough for them to have a relationship. You need it. Why? Because testings will come, trials will come, and God deserves our trust and our love. And so we see it's a personal thing, but not only is it personal in verse one, it's permanent. Because he says, preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put, or place, my trust. This is something that is not optional. This is not something that is temporal. This is something that started in David's life, and toward the end of David's life, it was still very evident that he put his God, trust in God, and it was personal, but he also put it in there permanently. And then we see the third thing in verse number one is it's a peculiarity, meaning that he said, for in thee do I put my trust. What's he saying? God, it's in you I put my trust and you alone. Because he says something later, he talks about idolatry. He talks about those that would drink the blood, the false idols. He talks about those that would worship false gods. And it leads to nowhere. Now, nobody in America today much is drinking blood from different things and worship. You know, we maybe know the occult still exists. But as in the Bible times, they did it openly, and they did it in a sense where they would worship, I mean, right in the city streets, and they would worship a false god and bow, like Zach just referenced, Daniel, where they would bow and do all these different sacrifices to Malak and Dagon and all the different, Baal, and all the different false gods. But in America, we have many gods. And a lot of people today are putting their trust in things that will fade away. David says, listen, we ought to have a peculiar trust. It should be in God. It should be an exclusive trust. And so in the very first phrase of verse number one, preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. So trust is not the absence of trouble. Trust is the confidence in the midst of trouble. So trust, just because you trust God doesn't mean that bad things are not going to happen and trials are not going to happen. But listen, it is confidence that when the wind is blowing and the rain is pelting and the fire is raging and all of the ground is shaking, that your confidence is in a great God. Preserve me, O God, for in Thee do I put my trust. William Allen White said, I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love God today. I love that. I've seen yesterday and I've seen the faithfulness of God and I love him today. Why should we be afraid? Why should we fret? Let's put our faith and trust in God. We see in the second verse of chapter number 16, oh my soul, thou has said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord. My goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight. David is referring, of course, to the saints in verse number 3, but he's given somewhat a testimony in verse number 2. He says, Oh my soul, that thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord, my goodness extendeth not to thee. Or David really is saying is I have nothing good but thee. and to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight." Or, and to those that follow you, they also know that your goodness is really all we have. He's referring back to the saints. He, in verse two, he declares the lordship of God. He says, thou art my God. And then in verse three, he honors the saints in whom all my delight. Verse four, he rejects idolatry or the idolatress. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another God. He goes back to verse three and he talks about the people of God. And let me just say something. There's something that's special about coming together with the people of God. That's what makes church so special. We are called out assembly and ecclesia. We are called out to come together on the Lord's day and to hear the preaching of the Word of God and sing the songs of the Lord and lift and make much of Jesus Christ. And we do that together and you leave here on Sunday charged up and encouraged. Why? You've been around the people of God. And let me say in the last two weeks I've discovered that there's no people like the people of God. The people of God are the greatest people in all the world. Why? It's not because of us, it's because of Him. And David said, we have no goodness except for the Lord God. He declares that the Lord God is Lord over all. He says, that's our Lord. That's my God. Thou art my Lord. Thou art my Yahweh. He says something about this in the people of God. And I wanna remind you that the people of God, notice their nobility, their character, We're called, the people of God are called the sons of God. I believe it's in 1 John. 1 John chapter 3. We're called the sons of God. Why? Because we are adopted into the family of God. We believe by faith that He is God and that He sent His Son, Jesus. And when we put our faith in the Lord Jesus for salvation, we become brothers and sisters in Christ. That's what makes this thing so special. We are what we call the family of God. I'm so glad that I'm a part of the family of God. Aren't you? The greatest family in all the world. We see their nobility, but we also see their altitude. Why? Because we are not highly exalted. The people of God, there's nothing special about us. But understand this, we were created in His image. Listen. That ought to do something for you this morning. We are created in the image of God. When I talk to teenagers about their identity, I want to remind them that they are created in the image of God and they are exactly the way that God wanted them to be. Amen? And you are as well. So that ought to do something for us. Then the third thing I see about the people of God is excellency. You know what the Bible calls us? Kings and priests. Oh, you didn't know that the Bible referred to you that way, did you? Kings and priests. Excellency, why? Because we serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords. So we are kings and priests, we are created in His image, we are sons of God. I mean, we could go through this whole thing, but what am I trying to say to you is the people of God are something mighty special. And by the way, we ought to treat each other in a special manner. Sons of God get along with each other. Those that are created in His image ought to get along and love with each other. Kings and priests ought to get along with each other. Understand that there's something special about the people of God. We are born into the family of God. And let me say this about verses 3 and 4. The people of God doesn't follow other little g-gods. We have no business following anything that's not following Christ. David says something, look at verse four, he says, their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another, little G God. That could be anything. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. David is basically saying you can't run after the world and say you're satisfied with God. You can't live in the world, you've heard it said before, you can't have one foot in the world and one foot in the place and presence of God and say, I'm okay. Listen, you're not satisfied with God when you're dating other gods. David is saying here, their sorrows shall be multiplied. The way of the transgressor is hard. We look at sometimes things that happen in people's lives, especially those that are just wrapped up in the world. We've seen it before. We've seen the tragedies of Hollywood. We've seen the tragedies of the sports world. We've seen the tragedies of those that have served self and they've served all kinds of little G gods and understand it leads to a dead end road. But those that are satisfied with God, and make much of His Son Jesus. There's a great hope for them. David begins to expound upon that about contentment. We see that Jim Elliot, I love this quote by Jim Elliot. Jim Elliot said, He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot sold out for God at a young age. went over to the Akka Indians and of course it cost him his life. Him and other missionaries cost them their lives because they sold out for God and left all the earthly things and possessions behind and they went full force for God to reach another tribe, another island, another place that was dark, another place that had not heard to go there with the gospel. We're missing that today in our society where we are just following the world. We're following the things of the world. I want you to look at verse number five in chapter 16. David changes gears just a little bit and he begins verse number five with, the Lord is the portion of my inheritance. He's the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, thou maintainest my lot, the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage. We see a celebration of contentment. David said, I am satisfied with what's coming to me. Well, if you read that passage, you would think, well, what's coming to David? What was David so content about? David says, listen, there's no inheritance that I'm getting land. God has not set aside land for me and different things. David is basically saying, the Lord is my inheritance. The Lord is my inheritance. The Lord is what I'm receiving. Do you remember over in, over in, The Old Testament, of course, in the book of Joshua, Joshua chapter 13, I believe it was. If you go from Joshua 13 to Joshua chapter 19, the Lord's given out inheritances to the tribes of Israel. He describes how the land of Canaan was divided among the tribes of Israel. Inheritance was passed from a father to a son and was preserved within tribal lines. We see that all the way back to the book of Numbers, Numbers 36. The tribe of Levi was set apart. There was 12 tribes. The tribe of Levi was set apart. Levi, of course, was the third son of Jacob and Leah. He was not given a portion of land like the other tribes. God set Levi apart for full-time ministry. God set Levi apart for ministry in the tabernacle of God. All of the descendants of Levi would be called Levites. Joshua chapter 13 and verse number 14, he said, only unto the tribe of Levi He gave non-inheritance. The sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance as he said unto them. So what's he basically saying? He was saying the Levites were not to be concerned with land. They were not to be concerned with material gain as their identity and their role was spiritual. He said, you are not to be concerned about how much land you got. Dan got land. Gad got land. All these different, of course, Judah got land. All the big tribes got land. They were recipients of large numbers. But Levi, Levi, you get no land. Now that sounds cruel, doesn't it? But here's what God said to Levi. Levi, you're not getting land, but you're getting me. There are just some things better than possessions. There are some things better than just getting something and say, oh, what's my inheritance? Or, oh, what am I getting? And God, what do you have for me today? And God says, what if it's just me that you have? What if it's just me? And that's what the Levites received in Deuteronomy chapter 10, verse nine. Wherefore, Levi hath no part or no inheritance with his brethren. The Lord is his inheritance according to the Lord, thy God had promised him. He said in Numbers 18, thou shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them. I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. What's David saying? David is basically saying in Psalm 16, the Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, and thou maintainest my lot. David, though he was not a Levite, he was of the tribe of Judah. He uses some priestly language here. David is saying that even without physical land, his heritage is blessed because it is the Lord himself that he gets. He said, Lord, you are enough. I don't need land. I don't need the inheritance that other people are getting. Lord, I just want you. You are enough. That lines, if you see in verse number six, the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. The lines here David is referring to are boundary lines. We use boundary lines today. We get surveys and we know where the boundary lines are. That's not something new or even 100 or 200 or 300 years old. Hey, that's something that dates all the way back. He's saying the lines here in verse six are fallen unto me in pleasant places. They're fallen unto me. David is saying that even without physical land, even without land, I am blessed because I get the Lord himself. I get all of Him. This is a direct spiritual application for those who serve God without earthly reward. You may serve God today and become unnoticed. You may not feel like anybody sees it or anybody's rewarding you, but we have a God in heaven who sees it and you will have your reward. And our reward is even God Himself. David is rejoicing in the fact that he gets the Lord. He's content. Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of what you already have. And to the Christian, we already have Christ. And He is enough. I want us to look at verse number seven. I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel, my reins or my inner parts. Sometimes it's even referred to as the kidneys. My reigns also instruct me in the night season. I have set the Lord always before me because He is at my right hand. I shall not be moved. We see the confidence in guidance. I love this. It's kind of helped me in the last few years. This quote, God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. God receives the most glory when you and I are satisfied in Him. We're not searching for earthly possessions. We're not trying to climb the corporate ladder. We're not trying to knock other people out that we can get satisfaction. Let me tell you something, all that leads to emptiness. Just ask Solomon. Solomon wrote a whole book at the end of his life called Ecclesiastes, and he says, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. I've served, I've done those things. I've had all the things, the riches, I've had it all. And it leads to emptiness. But when you have Christ, it leads to satisfaction. We see the guidance, the confidence in guidance, because verse number seven says, I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. This walking with God provides unshakable confidence. He says, I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. God is a wise counselor. This is a very prophetic starting in verse number seven and eight all the way through the rest of the chapter. It's basically prophetic because David is basically saying, I shall not be moved in verse number eight. I've received the counsel. I've walked with God. even my innermost parts of my body, my mind and my soul and my body, even my internal organs. He said, they have felt this. They've instructed me in the night seasons, during the lowest points of my life, during the very dark times of my life, the inner parts of me. And he said in verse 8, I have set the Lord always before me because He is at my right hand. I know He's there. I shall not be moved because He is always before me. David is saying stability in life flows from constancy of God. He's building up to verse number 9. I'm not going to be moved because I know the end. I'm not going to be moved because I know what God has prepared for me. I'm not going to be moved because I know He'll never leave me, nor forsake me. He says in verse 9, Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices, my flesh also shall rest in hope. He's declaring He's hoping in God, the securing hope of the resurrection. He says, therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoiceth because, verse number 10, for thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. What's he, this is a messianic prophecy. He's pointing to Jesus. This was actually quoted. Psalm 16 was quoted by two famous preachers in the New Testament. Peter, Acts chapter two at Pentecost, Acts 2, 25. Peter is actually referring to this. Why is he referring to Psalm 16? Because they had just witnessed the resurrection. And Peter said, our hope is the resurrection of Christ. Paul, when he's preaching there after that mission journey in Acts 13, Paul says the very same thing. He says, David saw corruption, his body was in the grave, his body deteriorated, but our Lord did not see corruption, therefore we have hope. Therefore we have hope. He's speaking of the resurrection. He says that will not leave my soul in hell. That's not hell fire like Gehenna as we're referring to. Jesus would have referred to that Gehenna as where they would have been basically thrown the bodies in the garbage pile and burned them. That's what the Romans did. They incinerated bodies. Gehenna is referred to as hell. That's not what that verse, he's talking about Shoal or the place Hades. He's referring to the grave and that which Christ conquered, death, hell, and the grave. He conquered that at the resurrection. And let me say, the resurrection is not part of the gospel. The resurrection is the gospel. Without the resurrection, we are without hope. When we go to a casket or a grave, as I did this week, and we bury a friend and a loved one, and we stand there and watch them lower that casket in the grave, that's not the end of the believer. Why do we sorrow? Paul said in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together in the clouds and so shall we ever be with the Lord. I wanna read you those verses there. Turn over with me to 1 Thessalonians, I believe it is in chapter four. I wanna encourage you this morning in the sense that maybe you've had a loved one pass recently or you've missing someone recently. I want you to notice what, this is our hope. David's hope of life was beyond the grave. It rests in the living Redeemer, as Job did. Job said, I know my Redeemer liveth. Stand in the latter day. Adrian Rogers said this, the resurrection is not merely important to the Christian faith, it is the Christian faith. Look at 1 Thessalonians chapter four, verse number 16. We'll just look at verse number 14. 1 Thessalonians 4, 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. We're not talking about those that took a nap on Sunday afternoon. We're not talking about those that are at two o'clock in the morning taking a sleep before they get up. We're talking about those that have went on before us. They've died. We've had a funeral and we've buried them in the ground. He's talking about those in verse 15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. That is our hope. The hope is because He arose from the dead. There'll also be resurrections. Thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands and even millions of graves will burst open and they will be caught up first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another with these. words. He's saying, Paul's saying to this church at Thessalonica, he's saying, listen, our hope is that our Lord has resurrected and there also will be a resurrection. Those bodies that were decaying and rotten, they'll be put back together and that body will be there. A glorified body will meet in the air and our soul goes immediately to heaven. There's no waiting period, no purgatory, none of that. Our soul immediately goes to heaven, but our body's in the ground, but there'll be a resurrection. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Guess what? Our presence will be with the Lord forever. That's what he's saying in verse number nine and 10. I call these last three verses Beulah land. I love that song, Beulah land. Because we ought to be homesick for a place. Though we've never been there. Though we don't really know what it looks like, we have just a little glimpse of it. They've kind of opened the curtain just a little bit. We know some things about it. We know some dimensions. John describes it some. But understand this place is mysterious mostly. We don't know a whole lot about it. Some people's kind of... Studied it out. I know brother Linwood did a great job of trying to describe heaven and what it is and and what it's not and and there's been a lot of things that's Misconstrued but understand the most important part is that's where our Savior is There's no pain. No death. No sorrow. No sickness. We'll be with him forever and we'll see him that is Beulah land and We'll see the testimony of eternal satisfaction in verse number 11. David is looking prophetically. This is a messianic Psalms. This is a Psalms where we understand that David is saying, I'm looking to the presence of God. And he says in verse number 11, thou wilt show me in the path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy and in thy right hand there are pleasures for Evermore. It's a testimony of eternal satisfaction. David is saying living with God means everlasting joy. That's what verse 11 is referring to. Thou will show me the path of life. In the presence of fullness of joy at thy right hand, there are pleasures for evermore. What's that path of life mean? God guides us here. Jesus leads me all the way. He doesn't leave us on this earth and then just looks at us and says, figure it out boys. It's called the path of life. Every one of us is on a different journey, but that journey leads to the same place for the believer. Your journey will be different than my journey. They're not all the same. We all have different stories and different testimonies of God's grace, but it's the path of life. David said, this is the life that God has given me. It's also the presence of God. He satisfies us, not eventually. He satisfies us, listen to me, church, now. Every one of us should be satisfied in the Lord now. That is our blessed hope. We should be looking for that glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. We ought to be anticipating it. By the way, I believe it's coming soon. Get ready. Our great God's coming. We ought to be satisfied in Him now. And then He says, pleasures forevermore. Verse 11, He secures us eternally. I love that because there's eternal security in that. Pleasures forevermore. Only God can do that. Why should you be satisfied? Because no thief, no devil, no person can rob this from you. No circumstance can take this from you. David is saying, I've been chased. I've been trying to, I mean, I've been slandered. I've been falsely accused. I've been shot at. I've been chased and hide. I've done all this. But I know one day when I get there, he'll have me forever. He'll have me forever. David has been in the valleys of life, but right here, it seems like the last three or four verses, he's on the mountaintop. He's on the mountaintop because we see the grandeur of hope. We see the grandeur of hope because of the ground of love. What is the ground of love? The cross. Agape love. Christ has made this available because of His death, His burial and His resurrection. We see that in Psalm 16. Our hope is that Jesus Christ who died on the cross, a perfect death, He was buried and three days later He got up. He could not have got up unless He died. And He didn't just go pass out. He got up from the grave and He's been alive and He's always and always will be alive forevermore. We see the grandeur of hope. We see the ground of love. And we see the gate of grace. The gate of grace is you and me. Trophies of grace. The path of life that we're on. Let me say this, church. I'm through. What you believe defines you. Who you believe defines you. If you're trying to seek earthly treasures and satisfaction and all the things this world has to offer, you will find emptiness after emptiness after emptiness after emptiness. But if you seek the Lord and his presence and his goodness and his gospel, and you seek all these things that eternal, you will be satisfied. And when you're satisfied, he will be glorified. And no matter what comes your way, you'll be okay. And even if death comes, you're better than all of us. Isn't that encouraging today? There is hope for the believer. Let's close our eyes and bow our heads today. I want to ask you this question before we leave, who would say in here this morning, pastor, I know without a doubt that I'm saved by God's grace. I know I'm saved. Would you lift your hand up? I know I'm saved. Thank you, Lord. That's wonderful, you can put your hands down. Thank you for being sincere this morning. Who would say in here this morning, pastor, I could not raise my hand this morning. I'm not 100% sure that I know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Would you please pray for me? I'm not sure that I know Christ as my Savior. I basically preach the gospel to you this morning according to the Old Testament. David, he even refers to the resurrection, the hope, That same, I love when the Old Testament and the New Testament come together. I love it when Peter and Paul would refer to the Psalms. They did it quite often, especially Peter. I love it that Peter took some of Psalm 16 and he preached it on the day of Pentecost. And listen, during that sermon, 3,000 people believed the gospel and were saved because we have the hope of the resurrection. And that's the message that we should proclaim today. That's the message that I hope I proclaim today is that there is hope beyond the grave because of Jesus. Who would say, Pastor, I'm not sure that I know Christ as my Savior. I'm not 100% certain. Would you please pray for me? Is there anyone here that would raise their hand and say, Pastor, pray for me. I'm not 100% certain that I know Jesus as my Lord and Savior. By that, I'll take it that all of us in here know Christ, and that's wonderful. There's a lot of people outside these walls that don't. Lots of folks that are seeking satisfaction, earthly treasures, temporal things, trying to fill a void that they can fit into the world. But we are a peculiar people, set apart, different, because we follow God. We trust God. This morning, I want you to take some time right where you are, and I want you to pray for some people that you know maybe need this message of the gospel. Maybe you know someone that is away from the Lord. Whatever the case may be there, how God spoke to your heart, maybe you wanna rejoice in the fact that you're saved. Hey, listen, I rejoice in the fact that I'm saved, eternally secure. But the flip side of that is I know people that are not. And I want them to believe. I want them to believe. One day there's a land that's fairer than day and by faith we'll see it afar. I believe we're gonna see it sooner than we think. And everything will be fixed.