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I pray Amen All right, turn in your song books page number 232 Page number 232 we're going to sing tell me the story of jesus Page number two three two tell me the story of jesus And let's go ahead and sing it out on that first verse The angels Tell me the story Tell me the story Let's sing it out on the second I am Tell me Right Let's sing it out on the last page 232 on the last Day Me Tell me Amen great singing Amen Amen. All right. Well, let's take our bulletins We'll look at some announcements real quickly If you do not have a bulletin You can raise your hand and one of our ushers will get one for you If you need a bulletin this evening just put your hand up and we'll get one for you the verse this week Psalm 103 8 the lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger And plenteous in mercy and that's a good verse there. We like that If you open up your bulletin, you'll see our service time sunday morning service 10 30 a.m We'd invite you to be with us, of course on sunday morning on the lord's day for church sunday evening service at 6 p.m We're glad you're here for the midweek service If you look at our sowing times our main so many times on saturday mornings at 10 a.m And then we have additional sowing times on thursdays and sundays at 2 p.m So if you'd like to go slowly there'll be an opportunity for you to do that Of course this weekend if you look at the announcements and upcoming events, of course We've got the vision offering coming up and you should have one of these uh, flyers there in your bulletin Make sure if you haven't taken a moment to look through that that you read through that And prepare for the vision offering not this sunday, but next sunday and then last sunday night We had the testimonies from the philippines missions trip and that was went great And of course, there's choir practice on sunday at 5 p.m for easter biblical leadership institute starts back up on tuesday March 18th, so that's this coming tuesday and then homeschool group. You can check the dates there there's other things there for you to look at if you look at the back of the bulletin birthdays and anniversaries for the month of March we had this week miss denise anderson's birthday on march 4th and brother scott sweeten's birthday on march 10th And today is my mom's birthday granny simenez on march 12th. Happy birthday to her And then also montel johnson jr has a birthday on march 15th praise report money matters All of those things are there for you to look at and I think that's it for all the announcements We're going to go ahead and take our song books and we're going to sing page number 264 as we prepare to receive an offering this evening 264 And we'll sing once for all sing it out on the first Who's Oh On the second Our perfect salvation Once Nice Blessed Oh Amen good singing just a quick reminder. Make sure you check your cell phones and place them on vibrate if you need to Be baptized you can let us know on your communication card We actually have a baptism tonight after the service. So that's good We'll have the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time Let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer family father. Lord. We do love you We thank you for lying us together together tonight. Lord We pray that you bless the offering to give them the giver We ask that you meet with us that you'd help us in jesus name. We pray. Amen So So So So Thank you very much that was beautiful it's going to take our prayer sheets tonight We'll go over our prayer list If you did not receive a prayer sheet on your way in just raise your hand and one of our ushers can get one For you get a prayer list just put your hand up and we will get one for you I would like you to notice on the back of the prayer sheet there under the safe and healthy Pregnancy is that miss ariel shavoyan has been added and expecting mother. So congratulations to brother jacob and miss ariel and Go ahead and keep your hands up if you need a bulletin Want to remind you that the way you add a prayer request on the prayer sheet is through your communication card And on the back just make sure you fill out if it's private or public if it's private Only I will see if it's public open on the prayer sheet Let's go and take this request to lord. I'm going to pray out loud I'm going to ask that you would pray with me and your mind and your heart and let's pray together Heavenly father lord, we come to you tonight, uh for these requests from our church family lord We begin with these requests regarding health. We pray for brother alex rosalis praying for his niece Esme that she would have a successful surgery also brother warren praying for his siblings health Miss kate praying for complete healing miss. Amy for the health of her son her son's caregiver miss tomorrow praying for health of ruben Gonzalez and miss madore praying that she Can get carpal tunnel surgery for her wrist pain miss christine praying for her health brother sabro praying for his health as well miss docma praying for her pain Brother edgar selene, of course praying for your etsy and jonathan Lord, we pray for these individuals also for our missionaries. Uh, dave comitado's wife angel With her treatment for breast cancer lord We ask that you would help these individuals that you'd be with these individuals that you would heal them That you would put your healing hand over them lord We ask that you give strength to them and wisdom to the doctors nurses dealing with them We also pray for the ladies in our church that are expecting we pray for miss antonina miss katie Miss ejana miss masha miss mars miss melody also miss ariel that you'd give them all healthy pregnancies with no issues and no complications and What we pray for also these that have financial needs or physical needs brother warren praying for his siblings Not only their health but also Their finances mr. Marr praying for her husband's new job prospects brother evan praying for Work schedule to improve so that he can make it more to church services and Miss christine praying for her finances for the salvador praying for finances and work miss maria Praying for her son vitale to pass his citizenship test and lord We ask for all these individuals what we pray that you'd help them and be with them that you'd open doors for them we also pray for these that have requests regarding salvation brother warren praying for the salvation of his co-workers and also Miss christine praying for her family's salvation miss dogma praying for her daughter and her family's salvation lord. We ask that you would give Help these individuals help them lord to come to the place where they'd be Willing and able to hear the gospel and receive it and accept it lord. We pray that you would send a soul winner to Communicate the gospel clearly to them. We also pray for A couple of praise reports. I just want to acknowledge some praise reports miss nicole and miss natalie both having similar praise reports that You've answered prayer for them and that Praising you for it lord. We just thank you that you are A god that hears and answers prayer and we pray lord that you continue to do that We pray for julie gerber and for the lord's wisdom and guidance in her life. And then lord, we also pray for Brother salvador praying for his family as well. And then we pray lord for these that have unspoken requests miss michelle scott And my dad brother felix and brother louise and miss britney Miss kate all having unspoken requests for the salvador miss dogma all having unspoken requests Lord, you know what their petitions are You know what they're asking for we pray that you'd answer according to your will and then lord We pray for our ministry here. We pray for the work being done In the philippines for our missionary. They've got one kala and for pastor stuckey and his family and the work In cebu and in manila and papanga and be cold lord. We pray that you would bless these locations We pray for the upcoming vision offering that your will be done with that. We pray for the easter services as well Lord, we just pray that you would uh continue to help us And we ask that you meet with us tonight for you to help us to learn from your word in jesus name. We pray. Amen Please open most to psalm 30 Psalm 30 if you need the bible, please raise your hand and unless you could bring your bible Psalm 30 just keep your hand up unless you will come by Psalm 30 meaning verse number one I will extol thee. Oh lord for that was lifted up lifted me up and has not made my foes to rejoice over me Oh lord, my god I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me Oh lord that was brought up my soul from the grave That was kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit Sing unto the lord. Oh you saints of his And give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness For his anger endureth but a moment In his favor is life Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning And in my prosperity, I said I shall never be moved Lord by thy favor that was made in my mountain to stand strong Thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled I cried to thee. Oh lord and unto the lord. I made supplication What prophet is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall declare thy truth Here oh lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper That was turned for me my morning into dancing That was put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent Oh lord, my god, I'll give thanks unto thee forever. Let's pray Heavenly father. Thank you for this evening. God. I thank you for our church and for your word I ask you please meet with us tonight. Give everyone here to attend the hearts of the message And please be their pastor, please strengthen him and fill in your spirit. We love you in jesus name pray. Amen Amen All right We were there in psalm 30 and we of course have been making our way through the book of psalms on wednesday night And we find ourselves here in psalm 30 tonight. It's not a long psalm only 12 verses but i'd like you to notice and begin with the Superscription if you remember when we started studying the book of psalms, we began to notice these superscriptions that are written At the top of the psalms and your bible may have like a heading and those headings are not scripture Those are just added by The people that print the bibles but these superscriptions and these psalms are actually part of the original language meaning that they're Found in the hebrew and they're translated And if you notice psalm 30 and verse 1 it begins with the superscription a psalm and song At the dedication of the house of david and sometimes these superscriptions they give us some insight into the psalm Most of the time if you notice if you go back and look at the psalms It'll just say something simple like a psalm of david just identifies the writer but this psalm and other psalms actually give us a Context to the occasion of the psalm and here we're told that this is a psalm and song at the dedication of The house of david now i'd like you to keep your place there in psalm 30 That's going to be our text for tonight But go with me just real quickly to the book of second samuel chapter 5 If you would second samuel chapter 5 if you find the one and two books They're all clustered together for second samuel for second kings for second chronicles if you can find second samuel chapter 5 And of course when you read the superscription a psalm and song at the dedication of the house of david Then it seems that this was a psalm written by david at the dedication of his personal house and The bible does talk about the fact that david had a house built In fact, i'd like to just show you the verse real quickly second samuel chapter 5 and verse 11 The bible says and hyrum king of tyres sent messengers to david and cedar trees and carpenters and masons Notice the last part of verse 11 it says and they built david and house So david of course had his house had a palace built, uh for himself. That's what's being referred to here And this psalm the superscription seems to indicate that it was written at the dedication of the house of david now If that's true And and i'm not saying it it is or it isn't true But if that's true Then then praise the lord for that the problem with that is that The language of the psalm if you read the psalm and we just read it together 12 verses It's a very beautiful psalm. It's an impactful psalm The the language of the psalm does not seem to acknowledge David's house or the building of a house In in any way nothing in this psalm seems to go with something you would write With the dedication of the house of david Now i'm not saying that that it wasn't written for the dedication of the house of david However, what I want you to notice and you're there in second sam if you would go to first chronicles real quickly first chronicles 28 you got second samuel first kings second kings first chronicles first chronicles 28 then do me a favor When you get to first chronicles put a ribbon or a bookmark or something there because we're going to leave it And we're going to come back to it and we're going to be going back and forth Between psalms and first chronicles for the uh sermon what I want to Show you is that some people believe that The reference here to the house of david is not a reference to david's personal house Although the bible does mention that they built david house But it's actually a prophetic reference to the house that david wanted to build Which was the house of god or the temple now We know that david did not build the temple in first chronicles 28 if you're there If you look at verse three the bible says but god said unto me this is david speaking Thou shalt not build a house for my name because thou has been a man of war and has shed blood And if you remember david had a desire to build a house for god In fact, david asked nathan the prophet if he could build a house for god and nathan All right, excuse me He was told yes to go ahead and build it and then the prophet had to come back the next day and say actually god Said no And and this is what david is referring to god said unto me thou shalt not build a house for my name because thou has been a man of war and has shed blood so David was not allowed to build the house of god And so then you have a problem because if this psalm is a dedication to the personal house of david That's fine except for the fact that There's nothing in the context that seems to point to that or make a reference to that in any way shape or form If you take the position That david is referring that this is referring to prophetically to the house that david would build Or attempt to build or set up to build For the house of god And then of course the problem you have is that david didn't build the house of god He wanted to but he was not allowed to what david did do is that he prepared for the house of god And we've talked about that over the years how he took up special offerings But one of the biggest things that david did to prepare for the house of god is that he actually bought the mountain Uh that the temple would be built on in fact If if you don't mind go to chapter three of second chronicles and let me show you something real quickly second chronicles chapter three and when david bought this mountain and this mountain is An important mount it's the same mountain that abraham took isaac up, uh to sacrifice if you remember that story in the in the book of genesis, um, this this mountain that was purchased by david is connected to a pretty Interesting and epic story. Are you there in second chronicles chapter three look down at verse number one second chronicles three in verse one The bible says this then solomon began To build the house of the lord So this is the house that david wanted to build that he wasn't allowed to at jerusalem notice the words here in mount mariah and of course, that's Where uh that that's of significance mount mariah notice what the bible says here Where the lord appeared unto david his father? In the place that david had prepared in the threshing floor of ornan the jebuzite so There's a story about The Threshing floor of orden the jebuzite and david and how david came about purchasing this mount mariah That ended up being where the temple would be built. There's a story that's associated um with that purchase and if you look at that story and then you look at psalm 30 The story and psalm 30 actually line up pretty Nicely, so for that reason many people believe that the superscription When it says a dedication to the house of david That it's actually not referring to his personal house, but it's a prophetic Thing to the house that david wanted to build that he was not allowed to and specifically to the purchasing of the mount where the temple would be Built now that story is found in first chronicles 21 and in second samuel 24 I'd like you to go back to first chronicles 21 and just put your finger there or keep a place there and then go back To psalm 30 and let me just say this We do not know for sure and I don't know for sure that the story of the threshing floor of orden Is what is being referenced here in psalm 30? Many people believe that it does And what I can tell you this is that I do see how it aligns itself nicely with psalm 30 and for that reason what i'd like to do this evening is to Walk you through psalm 30 and then use the story as an example of the application as a parallel to the psalm because whether or not it was actually Written in reference to this specific story. It does line up as an example of how Of what it is that david is talking about. So hopefully that makes sense to you. Keep your place there Like I said in first chronicles 21 make your way back to psalm 30 and let me just tell you this What david does in this psalm? Is that he begins by giving us statements verses one through five are statements And then in verses six through nine, he gives us the story and the story is the story that He learned the statements from the statements are statements of truth And the story is that what brought him there and we'll look at the story here in a second But let's just begin by looking at these statements And if you're taking notes and I always encourage you to take notes on the back of your course the week There's a place to write down some things. Maybe you'd like to jot this down The first thing we see in verses one through four is the exaltation of david the exaltation of david If you notice there in verse one He says a psalm and song at the dedication of the house of david and then he says these words He says I will extol thee o lord and the word extol means to praise highly it means to glorify It means to exalt someone or something with great enthusiasm And here david is saying I will extol thee o lord he says for thou has lifted me up he says and Has not made my foes to rejoice over me. I want you to make a note of that. He's specifically Uh extolling the lord praising the lord giving things to the lord glorifying the lord Because he says you lifted me up and specifically he says you've not made my foes to rejoice over me He said you haven't allowed my enemies to mock me to rejoice over my defeat He says o lord my god I cried unto thee and thou has healed me o lord thou has brought up my soul from the grave that has kept me alive That I should not go down to the pit. We're going to come back to verses two and three but notice verse four Sing unto the lord o ye saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness So I want you to notice that david begins by saying I want to extol the lord. I want to praise the lord. I want to glorify the lord I want to exalt his name and he says specifically because he has not made my enemies not made my foes to rejoice over me He says he's healed me. He brought me up From the grave. He kept me alive He said that I should not go down to the pit then he says sing unto the lord He says give thanks unto the lord. So we see the exaltation of david But then I want you to notice verse number five and verse number five is actually the pinnacle of this psalm In verse six, we're going to begin the story That gives us these statements, but I would say that verse number five is the key To this psalm and you'll recognize it. It's a famous verse psalm 30 verse five. David says for his anger endureth but a moment So in verses one through four, we see the exaltation of david and in verse five, we see the expectation of david And he has this expectation of the lord He knows the lord well enough to know some things about god and here's what he knows about god He says for his anger endureth but a moment In his favor is life. He says weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning So there's this expectation that david has And the expectation is that though god's anger sometimes is against us though his Punishment or his correction is on us. He says it endureth but for a moment He says weeping and difficulty will endure for a night But joy cometh in the morning and there's both a practical and a spiritual application here there's a very practical application to what david is actually dealing with in his life if you Accept that this psalm is written in regards to the story of the threshing floor of ornan But there's also a spiritual application the spiritual application is this that if you're saved The anger of the lord endureth but a moment weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning the thing about The morning is the fact that the sun rises and the sun sun in the sky is a representation of the son son of God who rose from the dead and when the bible teaches us this is this that no matter how hard Your life gets here on this earth it endureth but a moment weeping may endure for a night But joy cometh in the morning. The thing about the unsaved is that when their night comes morning never comes When they go to sleep when they go to death, there is no resurrection There is no joy that cometh in the morning You can apply this to the lord. Jesus christ If you remember when he came to get arrested and they began to take him to put him to death He said this is your hour And the power of darkness, but the idea was this that joy was coming in the morning There was coming a resurrection the s-o-n sun would rise like the s-u-n sun rises every morning So we see the expectation of david In fact, I want you to notice this is a theme in the bible If you go real quickly to psalm 103 and look down at verse number eight just real quickly psalm 103 in verse eight There's this theme in scripture that sometimes god is mad at us But his anger endureth but a moment In his favor is life weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning Psalm 103 in verse 8 the bible says this the lord is merciful and gracious Aren't you thankful for that? Slow to anger and plenteous and mercy notice verse 9 He will not always chide Neither will he keep his anger forever And this is again This is not talking to an unsafe person because to unsafe people god will keep his anger forever But to those of us that are saved the promise the expectation that david has is this that he will not always chide Neither will he keep his anger forever now, you might just think that david is giving spiritual talk here You know He's being like a preacher and just giving this these spiritual words to try to help people feel better for his anger endureth But a moment in his favor his life weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning But when you look at the story that is probably associated to this psalm What you find is that david had found himself in a time when the lord was angry with him and the lord was upset with him And I believe that in verse six we get the explanation In verses one through four we get the exaltation and in verse five we get the expectation But in verses six through nine, we get the explanation and we're going to spend most of our time here because I want you to see How this parallels to the story in first chronicles 21. I want you to notice several things about the story first We see david's pride You notice verse six he says and in my prosperity I said I shall never be moved now notice. There's a shift here in the way that david is speaking in verses one through five He's talking about extolling god lifting up his name giving thanks singing to the lord He's delivered him his anger endureth But for a moment weeping may endure for a night, but then in verse six, he says let me tell you What taught me this he says in my prosperity? I said I shall never be moved. What is that? That's pride The fact that he was doing well, he was succeeding things were going well in his life and he thought I shall never be moved. Nothing's going to hurt me. Nothing's going to cause me to fall and I want you to notice how this Coincides to first chronicles 21 if you can make your way back to first chronicles 21 and again Let me just give the disclaimer. Uh We don't know someone will email me saying, you know, whatever that i'm wrong i'm wrong a lot I don't know if you know that but um We don't know for sure that this story is what's being referenced in psalm 30, but I think that it does align itself nicely Uh with psalm 30 and based off the superscription then it's probably in reference to this story So where does the story begin it begins with david's pride and in my prosperity? I said I shall never be moved Notice first chronicles 21. Here's where the story begins the bible says and satan stood up against israel And provoked david to number israel And david said to joab and to the rulers of the people go Number israel from beersheba even to dan and bring the number of them to me And I want you to notice this statement here. He says that I may know it That I may know it now this might Not seem like a big deal to you. Like what's the big deal that david? Asked to number the people because notice the response from joe at verse three and joe have answered The lord make his people and hundred times so many more as they be but my lord the king Are they not all my lord's servants? Why then does my lord require this thing? So notice that joeb is pushing back and saying look david The the lord make the people whatever that number is you're asking for we don't know what it is You're asking us to go number israel. He says whatever that number is. I pray the lord makes it many more as they be And he says and no matter what that number is he says are they not all my lord's servants aren't they all your Citizens, aren't they all? Under your kingdom. He says why then doth my lord require this thing? That he says why will he be notice the words here a cause of trespass to israel? Now again, when you're reading this you might think to yourself. What's the big deal about this? This uh census, I mean this is what governments do every 10 years or so They number the people the problem is that the children of israel had specifically been told that they were not to number the people And that they were only to number the people when god Directed them to do so as we see in the book of numbers, of course And here we get some clues as to where david's heart is notice again the last part of verse two He says that I may know it It's not god asking for this it's just david wants to know how many servants do I have how many soldiers do I have? It's a pride thing and if you compare it to psalm 30 and verse 6 when david says And in my prosperity I said I shall never be moved and then of course we see joab have a little insight here Where he says are they not all my lord's servants and again when it comes to first and second samuel and first and second chronicles Uh, usually we accept the fact that this is given in chronological order Although there are some stories that are probably not in chronological order and we don't know for sure The chronology of the story it seems to indicate that it's towards the end of david's life And if you consider that it's towards the end of david's life, then you realize that david has already fought some battles I mean, he's he's had absolom. He's had issues Uh with people being disloyal to him and and and there's probably some insecurities here And this is why joab is saying you don't need to count the people. You don't need to number the people They're they're with you. Are they not all my lord's servants? Why then does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to israel? But why does david do it because david just wants to know And it's a pride thing And notice what the bible says in verse four Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against joab Wherefore joab departed and went throughout all israel and came to jerusalem and joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto david and all they of israel were A thousand thousands and in hundred thousand men, that's one million one hundred thousand that drew sword and judah Was 403 score and ten thousand that's four hundred seventy thousand men that drew sword And so so he gets this number And again To you and I it might just seem like what's the big deal? Well, we're about to see in a minute what the big deal is as we continue in first chronicles 21, but the Problem is that it was something that david was asking for for his own pride In my prosperity, I shall never be moved go back to psalm 30 real quickly. Look at verse seven So in verse six, we see david's pride And in verse seven, we see david's punishment The bible says in psalm 30 verse 7 lord by thy favor thou has made my mountain to stand strong We'll come back to that but notice the last part of verse seven thou didst hide thy face And I was troubled And again you and I might not think a lot about that now that's hide my face and I was troubled But this has to do with the favor of god. This has to do with the blessing of god He says you are not looking towards me. You are not helping me. In fact, if you Remember you don't have to turn here. I'll just read this for you. But if you remember the Famous aronic blessing and number six remember when the priest gave a blessing to the children of israel The blessing goes like this number 6 24 through 26 the lord bless thee and keep thee the lord make his face to shine upon thee And be gracious unto thee the lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace So those statements the lord make his face to shine upon thee the lord lift up his countenance upon thee the lord looking on you, uh with pleasantness Is connected to his favor his blessing and here we see in verse seven That david says thou didst hide thy face And I was troubled. He said when god began to look away is that things did not go Well, let me show you a verse that kind of connects this if you go to isaiah 54 just real quickly You're there in psalms. You have psalms proverbs ecclesiastes song of solomon then isaiah isaiah 54. Do me a favor I know you got your place in first chronicles But if first chronicles 21, but also keep your place in isaiah because we're just we're going to come back to it If you don't mind keep your place there in isaiah psalms proverbs ecclesiastes song of solomon isaiah isaiah 54 in verse 7 the bible says this And notice how this connects with what we read earlier in psalm 30 for a small moment This is god speaking for a small moment. Have I forsaken thee? But with great mercies will I gather thee in a little wrath notice the words I hid my face from thee for a moment But with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the lord thy redeemer again? I want you to notice the emphasis in scripture and the emphasis of scripture is this that for those of us that are saved the Endurance of god's wrath on us. He says it's it's a moment. He says for a small moment. Have I forsaken thee? He says I may forsake and of course, we're not talking about losing your Eternal salvation here. We're talking about god's help and blessing upon our lives He says for a small moment have I forsaken thee he says but with great mercies I will gather thee in a little wrath. I hid my face from thee for a moment But with everlasting kindness, that's not a moment. That's forever. Will I have mercy on thee and if and you'll notice that that's similar to what david said there in psalm 30 when he said In verse number five his anger endureth But a moment in his favor is life weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning So we see david's punishment and then we see david's prophet I want you to notice that there and if you go back to if you're there in psalm 30 or go back to psalm 30 Hebrew plays in isaiah go back to psalm 30 look at verse 8 He said I cried to thee o lord and unto the lord. I made supplication We'll come back to that look at verse 9 What prophet is there? I want you to notice this because we've actually seen david do this already in other psalms And I just think it's interesting because maybe it's not You know, I think you and I might think if you and I did this We might think we're being carnal and and david maybe was being carnal. I don't know But we've seen him do it in more than one psalm and and he says this what prophet is there in my blood When I go down to the pit And what he's saying to god is this? Lord, if you kill me, what are you going to get out of that? What prophet is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? He says shall the dust praise thee so we see not only the prophet of david But the praise of david shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth And here what david is saying he's saying if you kill me if you let me go down to the grave If you let me go down and become dust he said am I going to praise you from the grave? Will I declare thy truth? He says i've only written up to psalm 30 There's 150 of these that we have to get through god. He says if you kill me now, that's What he's saying And we've seen him do that already in other psalms But what I want you to notice is this that david has a belief That he was going to die now, maybe he's speaking metaphorically I don't know. I don't think so. In fact, if you look back at verse number two notice what he says Psalm 30 in verse 2 he says oh lord my god, I cried unto thee and thou has notice the words healed me Oh lord thou has brought up my soul from the grave thou has notice these words kept me alive That I should not go down to the pit so the wording that david is using here It sounds like he thought I am as good as dead Now if you go back to first chronicles 21 We've been looking at david's punishment from psalm 30 and what is the punishment thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled What is his punishment? He says he he says thou has Afterwards he says you healed me afterwards. He says you brought my soul up from the grave afterwards He says you kept me alive afterwards. He says you did not let me go down to the pit while he's going through it He says what profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? What prop what are you going to get out of killing me? So it sounds like david thought i'm going to die Now compare that to first chronicles 21 look at verse 11 Remember the story david says to joeb go count the people joeb says why why are you going to do this? It doesn't matter They're all your servants. Let we whatever that number is. Let the lord make it a hundred times that but don't don't do this David and david the bible says this word prevailed look at verse 11 in first chronicles 21 verse 11 the bible says so God came to david and said unto him thus saith the lord choose thee either it's interesting because god sends this prophet To david and he says all right, david you counted the people and you weren't supposed to now You're going to have to take your punishment and god actually in this story What's interesting about the story is that god actually gives david three options. Have you ever done that with your kids? Where you're like, okay, you can get this or or this can happen or this you choose Well, this is what god does with david He says and and he gives them three options and they're three options of three notice verse 12. He says either three years famine So verse 11 does say the lord choose thee so you can choose it's it's a choose your own punishment Uh adventure here for david either three years of famine So he said you're gonna have three years of the land going through famine. So it's longer But it's a little more bearable or three months to be destroyed before thy foes While the sword of thine enemies overtake thee and again David kind of focuses in on that one Because if this is towards the end of david's life. David's already done this You know david's already ran from saul and was hiding from saul while saul was hunting them down David was already running from absolom and and and hiding from absolom while they while absolom was hiding him Uh was was hunting him down So when david hears, you know three days the sword or excuse me, three months to be destroyed before thy foes You know, he's got some ptsd there. He's like I don't want that I've already done enough of that. So already did that to me absolom already did that to me So then Here's the third option or else three days So this is the shortest of the options, but it's the most severe of the options three days the sword of the lord Even the pestilence so you can get three years of famine or you can get three months of persecution Or you can get three days of pestilence in the land and the angel lord destroying throughout all the coast of israel now Therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me Notice the response verse 13 and david said unto god I am in a great strait And I don't I think that's what we probably all would say in this situation. He says this is a difficult decision to make this is a Hard decision to make and what david does is he says let me fall now into the hand of the lord And what he chooses is that third response and some people argue whether he's choosing any response or just letting god decide but the third Option was the option of the sword of the lord Even the pestilence and and david says let me fall now into The hand of the lord and then he says he says here's why I chose that one even though it's more severe And and it's a shorter time, but he says this is what i'm counting on This is what i'm i'm betting on look the last part of verse 13. He says for very great are his mercies But let me not fall into the hand of man And again david he's already ran from saul he's already ran from absolom. He knows how people are just disloyal and how they are Without mercy. He says I don't want to have to deal with that He said let me fall into the hands of the lord He said because here's if there's one thing I know about the lord. It's this that he is very great Are his mercies? He says let me not fall into the hands of man notice verse 14 So the lord sent pestilence upon israel And there fell of israel notice it 70,000 men 70,000 people died as a result of this and of course the lesson for us is this that our sin is always going to affect Others it's going to hurt others And what's interesting too? Is that what is it that david was doing? He was Counting the people and what is it that he gets he gets a count of the dead bodies? And oftentimes the thing that we pride ourselves in is the one thing that god's going to destroy In our lives and get rid of so the lord sent the pestilence and There fell of israel 70,000 men verse 15 And god sent an angel unto jerusalem to destroy it So the pestilence is coming through and now we get to the city of jerusalem. This is where david lives And as he was destroying the lord beheld and he repented him of the evil And said to the angel that destroyed it is enough stay now thine hand stay now means don't don't go further stay right there Stop stay now in thine hand and the angel of the lord stood notice the words here by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite Now I want you to get the picture here because the angel lord is coming through and I mean the bible says With the sword of the lord even the pestilence when I you know You might as well make a movie out of this thing when I envisioned this I envisioned some Bad looking angel, you know some mean looking angel with a sword that's pestilence and he's just bringing destruction He comes to jerusalem. He's destroying but then god has a change of mind He repented him of the evil and said unto the angel that destroyed it is enough stay now thine hand and the angel lord stood So he's just there, you know, god says stop and he just stops And he stood and where he stopped happened to be the threshing floor of order in the jebusite notice verse 16 and david Lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the lord stand between the earth and the heaven So not only was it that the lord why did the lord say stop because god, what does that stop anyway? Why was it that the lord said stop here? two reasons number one because Where this threshing floor born in the jebusite is is where god wants the temple to be built so he's Emphasizing that but not only that verse 16 tells us that david happens to be there I mean, it's like the angel of the lord is coming with the sword of his pestilence and david is looking up and he's thinking To himself i'm as good as dead I'm done God's gonna kill me. I mean this is the end Which resonates with what he says? In psalm 30 when he says That god healed me when he says Looking for the verses. I don't have them in front of me right now Good night, I don't know why I can't find that. Let me look at it psalm 30 Look at verse 8 I cried unto the lord and unto the lord. I made supplication What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee shall it declare? thy truth look look up at verse uh one when he says I will extol thee o lord for thou has lifted me up and has not made my foes to rejoice over me Oh lord, my god, I cried unto thee and thou has healed me The verse seems to indicate that maybe david was being affected by the pestilence That killed these 70 000 people but he says god healed me look at verse three Oh lord, thou has brought up my soul from the grave. He said I was as good as dead Thou has kept me alive that I should not go down to The pit and again, maybe david is just saying that at the dedication of his house that he lives in But it kind of makes sense that he's writing that in the dedication of the house of the lord because this is what brought him Here where the bible says in this very dramatic fashion that the angel lord with the sword of the lord is coming to destroy Jerusalem where david lives where david is and god says stay now thine hand and the angel lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornam the Jebusite and david lifted up his eyes and saw the angel lord stand between the earth and heaven Having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over jerusalem. Can you see why david might say? You kept me alive You preserved me Then david and the elders of israel who were clothed in sackcloth make a note of that. They were clothed in sackcloth fell upon their faces What do we see next in our psalm go back to psalm 30? What did we just see in the story? when the angel ends The bible says that david And the elders of israel last part of verse 16 who were clothed in sackcloth fell upon their faces What does our psalm continue look at verse 8 we see david's plea I cried to the o lord And unto the lord I made supplication What prophet is there in my blood when I go down to the pit Shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth here o lord and have mercy upon me Lord Be thou my helper now compare that To david's plea if you go back to first chronicles 21 If you look at verse 16 the way that verse 16 ends It says then david and the elders of israel who were clothed in sackcloth fell upon their faces And david said unto god look at verse 17 It is not I that is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered even I is it That have sinned and done evil indeed But as for these sheep, what have they done? Let thine hand I pray thee o lord my god be on me and on my father's house But not on thy people that they should be plagued So once you notice that david here, of course has a plea to god He's confessing to god and he's saying lord i'm the one that commanded He says is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered is it? Uh that not he's saying is it not I that have sinned and done evil. Uh, he questions. What have they done? Let thine hand I pray thee o lord my god be on me and on my father's house But not on thy people that they should be plagued and what david is asking here is when he is asking He's asking god for mercy. We saw that in psalm 30. I cried unto thee. I made supplication He said have mercy without my helper, but he's asking for mercy for the people And he's saying lord. I'm the one that did wrong. I'm the one that sinned take it out on me and don't hurt these people and when we find ourselves in times in our lives when God is angry with us Then this is the way that we should pray is Lord i've sinned don't hurt these sheep But as for these sheep, what have they done? Let thine hand I pray thee o lord my god be on me What's interesting to me about david is that we find I think we don't find anybody else in the bible getting right with god As many times as we see david getting right with god I mean, he's just constantly and this is what? Differentiates him from saul and other individuals Is that he cries out to the lord For mercy and be that my helper and it doesn't mean that there weren't consequences. Of course, there were consequences He got right in psalm 50 after adultery with basheba But he still had to deal with absalom and all that mess and here he's lost the opportunity to build the temple He's not going to build the temple But he can at least begin to help and prepare the next generation to do what he was unable to do Go back to psalm 30 look at verse 9 And then we see his praise First we saw the prophet what prophet is there in my blood? Then we saw The pit when I go down to the pit Then we see the praise shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth? So that's the explanation remember I told you we'd spend most of our time there in verses one through four We saw the exaltation in verse five. We saw the expectation in verses six through nine. We saw the explanation but then quickly tonight Notice in verses 10 through 11, we see the exchange Notice what happens here? Look at verse 10 just for context Hear o lord And have mercy upon me lord be thou my helper verse 11. He says thou has turned For me my mourning into dancing Thou has put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness If you remember in first chronicles 21 16, we saw that david and the elders of israel Were clothed in sackcloth they fell upon their faces here He's saying you turned the morning into dancing you took my sackcloth What's sackcloth sackcloth is a coarse rough fabric made from goat's hair or other rough materials? Uh similar to burlap and it was worn in the bible You'll see this throughout the bible Uh as a symbol of mourning as a symbol of repentance as a symbol of deep humility of getting right with god And here david says you have turned my mourning into dancing He says you put off the sackcloth and girded me with uh with uh, gladness So what we see is this exchange where god? Changes the morning into dancing the sackcloth into gladness. And again, we see this in the bible Let me just uh, give you some examples real quickly if you can go back to isaiah I'm, not sure if you kept your place there. I think I asked you to keep your place there If you look at isaiah chapter 61 in verse 3 Isaiah 61 in verse 3 and while you turn there, let me just read to you from esther Remember the story of esther esther and mordecai and remember hayman? And how he was going to persecute the jews and he set up this day to kill all the jews And and of course, you know, you know the story god turned that whole thing around in esther chapter 9 and verse 22 The bible says this as the days wherein the jews rested from their enemies and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy And from mourning into a good day that they should make them days of feasting and joy and sending portions one to another and gifts To the poor and i'm not going to sit here and preach the whole book of esther But if you remember the story there was supposed to be this these days that were supposed to be bad days Where they were going to be persecuted where they're going to be killed They basically made it legal to kill all the jews and and because esther and because she went to the king and because of mordecai God turned that around and he turned the days from a day of sorrow to a day of joy from a day of mourning To a good day notice isaiah 61 in verse 3 isaiah 61 in verse 3 The bible says this to appoint unto them that mourn in zion notice the words here. He says to give unto them beauty Notice how beautiful the bible is beauty for ashes Ashes aren't beautiful in fact ashes are just the evidence of destruction If you've got a pile of ashes is because something burnt down Because something was destroyed But god says that he can give them beauty for ashes He can give the oil of joy for mourning He can give the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness That they might be called the trees of righteousness In the planting of the lord that he might be glorified. Do you believe that god can turn mourning into dancing? That he can turn sackcloth into gladness Do you believe that god can bring something beautiful out of ashes because this is what the bible says about god The bible says that all things work together for good and look you and I we mess things up and david mess things up But god can turn mourning into dancing sackcloth into gladness He can take the joy The ashes and turn them into beauty And he can take off the spirit of heaviness and give you A garment of praise so we see the exchange of david and then I want you to notice lastly if you can make your way back to psalm 30 We see the end of david in verse 12 the bible says to the end And the idea is this that this is he's saying this is the whole point. This is this was the whole end game of this story That i'm telling you He says to the end That my glory may sing praise to thee And if you remember how he started the story because remember the story begins in verse six Verses one through five are statements leading us to the story in verse six. The story begins this way And in my prosperity I said I shall never be moved So the story begins with my pride and bringing glory to myself The story ends with to the end that my glory whatever glory that I happen to have That it would sing praise to thee That it would glorify you And not be silent. Oh lord. My god. He says I will give thanks unto thee forever So I hope you can see and i'm not going to sit here and tell you that this psalm 30 is about the story found in first chronicles 21 But it seems to line up It seems to go together and it seems that this was why david would write this as a dedication and the big takeaway the key portion of the psalm I'd like to just remind you is there in verse five He says for his anger endureth, but for a moment In his favor is life Weeping may endure for a night But joy cometh in the morning In our world of prayer heavenly father lord, we love you And we thank you for these songs and the truths they teach us And lord, we pray you to help us and sometimes we find ourselves in these situations But help us to remember That your anger endureth for a moment Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning lord I pray you to help us to realize that sometimes we burn things down, but you can bring beauty out of ashes and you can turn weeping into Gladness and lord we pray that you to help us to remember these things and be comforted by it In the matchless name of the lord, jesus christ, we pray Amen. All right. Well, we have a baptism tonight. So we're going to go ahead and prepare for baptism as we sing the final song Okay Page number 455 we're gonna sing. Oh perfect. Love Page number 455 and let's sing it out on the first Transcending That there's maybe the love which knows no ending Forever Page 455 on the second Now Me On the third Is Oh Good let's sing it out on the last page 455 on the last Is Oh Oh All right Well tonight we have miss cricket coming for baptism and sometimes these baptisms require a little bit of explanation, so let me Explain miss cricket has been a member of our church for a long time. She came to us From a different church and she'd been baptized but one of the things we teach here at our church is that baptism identifies you not just with christ, but with the church and the organization that baptizes you and she just had it on her heart for a long time that she just Didn't want to be identified with that So she's coming for baptism and I think it's great Uh, so miss cricket have you accepted lord jesus christ as your personal savior? All right by your profession of faith I baptized my sister in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost Buried in the likeness of his death raised to walk in newness of life This is Here All right, well, thank you very much for being here tonight I want to remind you that we have a soul winning on thursday at 2 p.m Saturday at 10 a.m. And of course we have church on sunday. We'd love for you to be a part of that Is there anything that we can do for you? Please? Let us know i'm gonna ask brother moses to close us out with a word of prayer Let's pray Heavenly father. Thank you so much for the service lord. Thank you for the sermon I pray that you'd uh, keep us safe until we meet again lord. I thank you for the baptism tonight and in jesus name. I pray Amen