Psalm 11

Do you ever feel like the things that we knew that we knew that we knew are coming into question? Have you ever felt like the foundations are destroyed? Do you ever feel like the ground beneath you has given way? As someone put it the ground rules for society are breaking apart.

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The foundations are being destroyed

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Smaller: careless word. Excluded from a group.

Soul: satan whispers to lead us away

Transition: so the advice these advisors give, if the foundations of society are crumbling, what can even a righteous king like King David, what can you do?

What can the righteous do?

Maybe that's a question you've had too.

Maybe you run from the danger to a refuge.

Maybe its the refuge of ignorance, like a kid under the blanket.

Or the refuge if denial. They've done studies that say that most Americans are unhappy with public education. And yet an overwhelming majority of Americans liked their kid's teacher last year. The problem is out there.

Or the refuge if anger.

Or the refuge of control.

But David is both acknowledging the crumbling foundation AND affirming the one refuge He is running to.

Running and hiding doesn't get us into trouble; running to the wrong refuge and hiding in the wrong fortress does. -Paul Tripp

One commentator put it like this that David says before the song even gets started his decision has been made.

Why is YHWH a better refuge?

God is on His throne

Psalm 10:11 ESV

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

Because God is my refuge, I will wait for His justice

when you come to the psalms, the first question that you ask is, What does Israel mean when they sing this?

But then the second question is what would Jesus be meaning when he sings this psalms.

When Jesus sings, the foundation that is destroyed, he might have in mind is His own body. The stone that the builders rejected.

And if He is destroyed, what can the righteous do? At Calvary?

What He does is trust. He trusts God the Father as His refuge. He dnooes t accept some false refugeof running away like the Pharisees tell him to when he enters Jerusalem or climbing down from the cross like the Scribes suggest.

Because while Jesus knows that during His first coming He would be the foundation that is destroyed, He will come again to rain down fire and brimstone…

What does it mean to take refuge in him? Well, it means that we reject the false refugees. Control and perfection escapism and withdrawal. In forms like drugs and alcohol, of course

It also means that we are constantly preaching to ourselves, about who God is and what He has told us he will do. We're constantly reminding ourselves of how good God is

then we depend on Him and His ways, the things that he has told us to do, we trust in Him as His refuge we obey Him. We submit to King Jesus, who doesn't run to some mountain, he doesn't fly away. Like a bird that's been chased because the enemies want to come to him in the dark. Rather, he lays his life down so that cover wrath might be passed over. For those that he would make righteous