02232020 Meditate on God's Word Day and Night Psalm 1:1-6 Part 1

Meditate On God’s Word Day and Night Psalm 1:1-6 Psalm 1:1-6 1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. The Big Idea God delivers the person who delights in His Word so much that he mediates on it day and night; from the ways of the wicked and makes him fruitful. A. INTRODUCTION PS 119:24 B. THE BLESSING OF DELIGHTING IN GOD’S WORD 1-2 C. THE PERSON WHO DELIGHTS IN THE WORD OF GOD 3 1. FRUITFUL 3A 2. STOUT 3B HABAKKUK 3:17-18 3. PROSPERITY 3C ISAIAH 64:4; 2 CHRONICLES 16:9; PSALM 34:19 D. WHAT IS MEDITATION? E. WHAT IF MEDIATION & PRAYER ARE DRUDGERY? Thomas Watson: “THE REASON WE COME AWAY SO COLD FROM READING THE WORD IS, BECAUSE WE DO NOT WARM OURSELVES AT THE FIRE OF MEDITATION.” PASTOR MARK DEMIRE MEDITATE ON GOD’S WORD DAY AND NIGHT PSALM 1:1-6 THE COMMUNITY OF GRACE (FEBRUARY 23, 2020)