Sunday, February 9th, 2020 - PM - The Lord Is My Refuge & Fortress (Ps. 91)

Okay Psalm 91 and again, I would like to read the song in its entirety if we begin. Along with me if you would there is no inscription. And so it almost continues right above 90.

In the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord is my refuge and my Fortress my God. I trust surely he shall deliver thee From The Snare of the Fowler and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust his true Shelby by shield and buckler Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night or for the arrow that flies by day that walketh in darkness nor for the destruction that wasteth at Noonday Livestock in 10,000 at virus scan.

I Shall Behold and see the reward of the wicked because he has made the Lord which is my refuge even the most high.

There shall no evil befall thee neither shall any plague come nigh, thy dwelling? You shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in Old Highway. She'll barely up in their hands against the stone and Young Lion and the dragon shout out Trampled Under feet. Because he has set his love upon me by the river hymn. I will set him on high because he had known.

I shall call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him satisfy him and show him my salvation Lord. I pray that you will open our eyes behold wondrous things out of all of this precious stone. They would bring forth Treasures in darkness. Lord made those things that the holy spirit with a lumen guide us and help us to rightly divide the song to put before us as as an encouragement that you are our Salvation, you are our refuge and our strength of high-power our Fortress in our Butler and are sealed movie understand better with that mean help us Lord as we walk with you and walk for you in Jesus name. I pray amen. Psalm 91 I believe gives us the Bible's antidote to fear and worry to anxiety and all those things that would play guy and remove our mind from its anchor in God. If I had a thought that I would read through Psalm 91, it would be trusting in the Lord learning to trust in him more learning to trust in him better trusting in the Lord because he is my refuge because he's my Fortress. I don't want that word refuge to become try. The idea of God being our refuge is woven throughout the phone's it's one of the things that drives us as as frail finite beings to the song to remind us that the Lord is our refuge. How many Psalms come to mind when we think of the word refuge all 91 ought to be the top of the list we think of the warming are resting but 1291 helps us understand a little bit further in what that Refuge is and that he is also my Fortress. He is my strong tower Ryan's Steak and I can abide in him. Dangers that played this life are real and they surround us and there could be danger that threatened us and our well-being. They're dangerous M remind me to come back and we can get worked up about that and it can play harmonica player heart. So through all generations Psalm 90 verse 121 remind is wore down that's been our Dwelling Place in all generations. There's never been a time when people haven't had access to his word. It's a fundamental truth about the inspiration in the preservation of scripture. And so through all generations we have is truth. We have an antidote to the fears that played

And it's true. If you look at verse number for he shall cover thee with his feathers under his wings shalt thou trust his truth. Shall we buy shield and buckler these these truth truth of the promises that God will watch over protect those that are his own and so a lot of metaphors by the imagery through this song Beautiful language talk about the snare of the Fowler in the feathers and wings in all these pictures. What are mine Themis dominant for this is the thing that that's throughout the solder and that is the fact that God is King over all creation over all the universe and so

Psalm of Refuge tied to the idea that God is King What does to be solidified in nearby because it was higher Refuge. Could you claim? Then the highest the holy has the most high God who is El Shaddai? Who is the old mighty? Only two times throughout the salt. Will you find the name of Mighty reference one of those happens to be here in Psalm 91? Lord you been our Dwelling Place, I will declare he is my rock song 92 if you look at burst number 15, he said to show that the board is upright. He is my rock and there's no unrighteousness in him to see Psalm 91.

Is there any place where I'll be right there for I will declare that he is my rock and then all the way up to phone 94 you look at Psalm 94. Will go through at outside is my Fortress. He's my protection. He's the rock where I hide it looks Psalm 94 inverse number 22, we read these words to the board is my defense. My God is the rock of my refuge. So this is a theme that is so closely connected with the idea that God is King because we're assault ship phones. In fact, there's a whole chain of them. Will then from here to Psalm 103, really? Psalm 93 Psalm 95 96 97 98 99 all center around the idea of the Lord's kingship. Yes. That's so 95 to 99.

Not just as to where they are in the sulfur, but they're also tied. where it's at the forts on 93.5 versus floor drain is clothed with Majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength report at the girded himself. And so what were you looking at in Psalm? 91 is the heart of the answer to the question Lord. What about the promises because we've been here ever since 89 89. What does reeling Lord are your promises? True Lord. Are you really going to do what you promised David? Will you have a son to sit on babies from Forever? You promised him back in 2nd Samuel 7 into Lord is your word reliable by the time we get through this divorce my rock the woods. My defense is true. I don't have to doubt his word. And so refuse kingship put those two ideas together when you're looking at this section, especially the salt Lord. Where's your headset where it where is your mercies are new Every Morning. Where is your loving kindness?

The Lord is King. Blessed are all that take refuge in him. And who is your reference? That's my question to you today? I swear I'm going to bring out in the message and hopefully you picked up somewhere along the way that I was sympathizing turn pronoun to draw your mind to the person that is represented speaking throughout this whole section 2 and 3. I'm not going to be hard mode. And so you have to cut it after abortion to 3 because when you look at the parallels that are in the song. With the verses that I've broken down you have three parallels at each thought and so I'm hanging my structure on three parallel. If you do it differently. Do you have to have two parallels in the first part and then that lost parallel goes down into the bottom.

Skip the song you can think of a book you'll find eventually where you have a note that carries over and you only have two in the Olympian. We have to count from the first part of it and total pick up note where you have to parallel in the first section and one pair of Rosie and you can you say you have to pick up mode OKC 332 would be an example of that. If you want to look at the musical example. I don't know where they came from under the shadow of the almighty standing somewhere in the shadows.

I'm going to do some homework on this one. I'm interested in it. Now. I really didn't know whose inner handle until this meeting but I'm looking for an example and I found one here with a pickup note so you can look and see if there's an extra count that needs to be given somewhere along the way there 330 to get Psalm 91. Structuring the salt as we go through the at 1 and you'll notice I broke it down into three parallel and that'll be divided up as we go the first that I would throw your attention to a Cena versus one through three or if you want to pick up milk. 3 or 3 parallel the first three parallel technically, it's a stanza and then an extra parallel the song It's a third person Declaration of God as Refuge. What is it a third person declaration Edwards the song at the saying this about that third person in a third person is God really with me and you'll see that is that first second or third person? Bring out some grammar. I know Breaking Free making things about English grammar. What's the weather in the secret place of the most high God is my refuge and my Fortress. I want you to notice the third person declaration. I will say of the Lord he is third person idea in that is that God is referred to that person is where I find safety. I will declare that he is my refuge deal Moody's haven't noticed. I had a movie in my morning message. There's a quote that I didn't know about from d l moody in your bullets in and then now I selected a quote from the old movie for the backdrop of the sermon today. By the way, so are we good deal Moody and we're on the way from underneath wing? In the corporate media ruining this profile the only place you're going to be safe for all eternity is in his third person. That is Thomas is referencing. It's in Christ. It's in our refuge dwelleth in the secret place of the what are the next word. El elyon The most high connect. That's the first name. Where was in the secret place of the most highly secret place you can go there. Shia LaBeouf died under the shadow of the almighty again. The only other place that the almighty is used in the Soul Stone 68 verse number 14. It says women jeans in it. It was white as snow and Salma the hill of God station. So in that song we're talking about the most feared the Abraham was known as The Almighty as we're getting ready to study an accident up until the burning bush by Jehovah. He was not known by that name. Add Exodus 3 Jacob Abraham to them as the almighty that was his name to Abraham. That was his name Isaac. That was his name to Jacob. And then when God delivered Israel with a mighty hand out of the van with the Pharaoh in Exodus. Under Moses. He reveals himself the I am that I am and you get to learn a little bit more of who he is in an intimate way until December 14th that the storm that's calling upon the Lord as king to go back to Stone 68 again and look at burst number 24. They have seen I don't even know God even the goings of my God in the sanctuary again. Tiny ideas here to the song The Lord Is King so he can use his power Psalm 68 verse verse number 28. What's he going to use his power cord by God? Has commanded that shrink strengthen a God that would sell his Rock for us. What you going to do to celebrate victory victory by his power because he is the king who put together. Set the most high. the Almighty Is my shelf is our shelter if you can say that with me in both, we ought to feel love we ought to feel so many things about that when we get to The Refuge you're going to be able to lay your head down at night and rest in him you going to be able to not worry about every little noise is made when distracted by all these things and have to go check the locks on the doors every time we turn around and make sure that he's the old like there's nothing too hard for him. There's nothing else out of fruit.

I have time to do that because you coming to play here with some instances. We can trust in him. We can question him even when the dangers of Life retinol Think about it only takes one pivotal moment. And it seems like everything in life is turned upside down. One little thing changes and changes everything in God he's stable and he's solid. So even when circumstances might even went pain of Life work or dangers and come out of skin This Life as we know we have a constant. We have a stability. We have a short e in this Refuge because he never changes. He's the same yesterday today and forever will Evan flow, but he remains

Enceladus almost is telling us we can truly know the Lord as our refuge our refuge. This is a place of safety in so we can say with confidence in a I am trusting in Him. Are you pressing anything? Where is your trust the song that says he's my refuge and that's where I lean. That's a third person declaration. God is my refuge. He is my refuge that third person. I'm telling you all about him. That's where I find safety where I find my name is meth notice as we move through the song again. I'll reverse 3, surely. He shall deliver thee From The Snare of the Fowler and from the noisome pestilence shall cover thee with his feathers under his wings shalt thou trust notice which the second person description of God showed first-person third-person declaration. What's the third person decorate God is not real. Second person description from getting confused and give me some things to hang your memory on the third person is what? Especially when we are affirming that God is our refuge now in the second person. We're going to find a description of what that represent look like Striker Vivid detail and noticed the second person pronoun these signs shall all those teas that the King James translators help without understanding second person. It's all right here for you. So don't let the Elizabethan throw you off read it for the beauty that's here and let it stand as he says he covers D with his feathers under his wings shalt thou trust. What's the description of this Refuge? Well, it's like the feathers of the Hindi. I think it was mentioned in the morning that the Lord has under his wings in in regards of I grew up with chickens and I don't know about you, but I've seen them when they passed a mama. Hen and he's going to watch over it the second person description of God being a refugee. There's no need to fear is what does Fowler language remind me to bring up the speed for us today?

If I was a bird, so you could have snare down and eat rat fur trapping permit is a good skill to know and learn and then so you put a snare down and this bird comes along and have different kinds of snare. You can have a dead Falcon are you can have a ilusionar you can have how do you get into the snare? That's another thing you want to try to make sure it's on a path that they read with travel. You want to make sure that attract notice what God said. He's going to deliver you Shirley. He shall deliver thee From The Snare of the Fowler. Can I say that I believe the Fowler hear the picture of the wicked one and we're told by Paul and Ephesians 6 set of The Wiles of the devil and he and he tries to tempt us away from God's path, but also not trying to entrap also from the noisome pestilence noisome pestilence under his wings shalt thou trust what he says his truth shall be thy shield and buckler is truth shall be that shield and buckler sitting on this work Butler and it's the only place that it's used is here in this first and so we have to kind of look at it maybe Understand what the word how can I let you know the King James translators have nailed it here a buckler if you can understand what color is your understand the sense behind this word. It literally means a wall like a curved wall. And if you know anything about Roman Warfare, they had a shield-wall and this is Butler is a shield that forms this wall. Let's move to consider whether fomas to send he shall cover thee with his feathers. So I'm covered over and I'm trusting under under that nothing can get you there. I'm safe, but he's his truth shall be the shield and your wall your buckler. There's nothing in through this weather. It's an individual. You know, it's David wrote this song like the Septuagint contributes to him. I don't think there's precedent for that but it could have been written by they have their armor bearers that would bear some of this for them and you can read about how they would use their armored bears and so they would have these Smugglers they would make these walls know the Civil War to get a lot of engineering and transform for landscaping of the south in particular because of all the trench warfare, they were in gation and they would build wall and it would help ward off the curved wall Jerusalem in the wall speaker protection. Nothing's going to get through that because this is the almighty's wall. This is the team And I'm woodworker. There's no need to fear verse number five thou shall not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flies by day 24/7 this buckler is going to protect you. This wall is going to be your Shield North Myrtle. Tesla has a when you can't see it. Send protect you from when you can see God's Gonna protect you from here. You are underneath that shelter and you got it filled and you're going to be okay. God can take care of you verse 7 you want them? They're all gone now, but you're say I don't know where all did I happen? If you're in the Lord 10000 at the right hand, but it shall not come nigh Thee. I wonder how many of our soldiers have found this first to be a good Refuge to them in time warfare and can we apply this with fellow soldiers falling on either side and yet the Lord watch over them and protected them. I think a man like Sergeant your how many did he watch go down and get the Lord delivered him and allowed him to be a victory for

So if we were to come to this song and treat it literally. I mean, I'm a literal. It's okay. I take the Bible literally, please don't misunderstand me, but it's okay. I'm going to run up the middle of warfare, You're not going to come home. I'm just saying you don't have enough. Okay, whatever you want to explain that to put warms my heart and apply it literally is going to be the same. There's someone who wants us to wrongly divide the Bible. Okay, and if we wrongly divide it we can do great damage and Great Mall. There's no need to fear. So when you describe this second person description of God is Refuge. Number one. There's no need to fear vs. Forza 7 vs. 8 to 10 show it that you're going to Shirley requite the wicked to bring Vengeance on those that are wicked. He's going to set everything right in his time. Don't worry about it. That's part of the description of his Only With Thine Eyes Shall Behold and see the reward of the wicked is Judgement Day is coming and God will requite the wicked verse 9 because thou Hast made the Lord. That's Jehovah, which is my refuge. Even the most high. I have a Tatian there show no evil. Befall thee neither shall any plague come nigh, thy dwelling? The second part of this description is that in the day of judgement? You're going to be safe when God Reigns his wrath down on the wicked. You're not going to be part of that number. And that's part of the description of how God watches over us that are his.

God will also protect it from harm verses 11 to 13. So the second person description of God is Refuge shows that there's no need in God will protect us from harm. This is what I've been looking to get to hear. The really would be versalift for he shall give his angels charge over thee. Keep me or guard thee all that way.

Tread upon the lion and the adder the Young Lion and the dragon shout out Trampled Under G. Daddy Yankee what? Fast forward from where the psalmist is writing. We come to the last station we go to the beginning of his ministry. He was baptized and then right after that he was led by the spirit in the wilderness for 40 days and the purpose that God karate cells is to be tempted of the devil and 40 days was ended and he was in hunger about a person who can

Right on right on cue. And he comes in heat temps the board three distinct. I'm the first the first impatient and you know what it is. It's attempted because of his hunger turn Stone into bread make me some in the bread and Jesus answered him with scripture right in his heart in his life and it just came out of the well, he and he said if by bread alone, but by every word, I'm just about me it's not just about my physical limitations in my right now and where I can just magically turn this into something that is only going to benefit me more than that. Get thee behind me Satan in another sensation. The Lord was taken up to the Pinnacle at the highest point in the city. And it's miraculous to think how all this happened that the devil has power to the people. He pick him up from the Pinnacle to cast thyself down. What the devil is prove it here you can make it.

Interesting thing to me is that the devil didn't read the next verse?

You stopped for the only quotes scripture that fulfills his purpose at the time and be careful. Anybody contact 2K contact is King. What did the devil leave out for your adversary the devil as a roaring? Walketh about seeking whom he may devour.

Now the serpent was more subtle than the beasts of the field with the Lord God Edmond. Okay, you're with me. Okay, we'll keep going. He says and the Young Lion and the dragon Revelations snake what a slippery serpent he is and he's sober he knows how to take the Bible and cast down on it and give you to doubt the word of God. But notice you're not going to protect you from harm. So this is why I say you might be careful in how you handle the scriptures. There is a master of twisting. There's a master of deception is named Andres toward about those rest the scriptures that say rest of them to their own destruction. I'm think I'm telling you. This is a wrong way to approach the Bible to take his first to tear that verse out pulled up in your pocket and stick it in there and go and live and you might make it out. But you also might not why can I say that with compass? Why can I say that with a Blog over and read passages like Hebrews chapter 11. He reminds me. We have a long list in the Hall of Fame that did see that deliver and set physical Deliverance here. Now we go through all these Bible characters and we were Joyce and all the victories that God gave Then comes to Part B. And you read it in that in the middle of the Earth if it changes and we begin to learn that there were some that didn't make it out on skating. There were some that as the writer to the Hebrews says we're saint of Thunder for their faith. They are there at the end of the story. And so if we were to take this in limited like the devil did to the scope of physical deliver and then we have wrongly dividing the word of Truth and we are not staying with the spirit has to say to us here because we're Limited in this Physical Realm. There's a spiritual battle being way and the truth of the matter is that God will protect us from harm. What a portrait of God's providential protection over his children that we have painted here in person. You protect them from every trouble the Hunter's trap the fabled play. This writer said from The Unexpected attack of disaster. No evil. No play coming near and then even stubbing your toe on a rock. Protection is uprooted all the time during the night during the day. Even when the brightest part of the day in the darkest part of the night that the protection has an offensive element. Is it insured even though a thousand ten thousands are dying children will only see But not be touched by the struggle. how to take the What a mighty God we serve. He can deliver and he promises that no harm will come to us. So let's look here at the first. person demonstration of God being our refuge God is our refuge Now we move from the third person. Second person the first person or the third person was what third person was a declaration.

He is my refuge that third person. The second person was a description. He's going to keep you in this way to keep you in that way. You can watch over you like this. You can protect you like that second person Daytime Nighttime the first person and we see this narrowing down the first person straight. So is Ron from the Declaration to the description and now what I've called a demonstration because God shows up first person.

All this has been said about me. It's been described how I'm the Refuge now, it's my turn to speak the words that end in the spinal stroking God is speaking directly in the first person because he's confirming the truth that he is our refuge. Aren't you glad when God answers prayer? Right here. We see an answer to the psalmist prayer in this phone. So we look back the first number 14 in the preceding song He said early with a mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our day. God answers prayer in here. He shows up in this song Because here's what I'm going to do because he has set his love upon me. Therefore will I deliver him to deliver it. I'm going to do that. I will set him on high because he has known my name.

The Serpent's head is FIFA brute power and the spirit of power because he has set his love upon me. Therefore will I deliver him? I will set him on high. What is it Deliverance look like it's be set on high because you know my name he shall call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him the first person demonstration started showing up. He promises to rescue he promises to protect those that loved and trusted you promising to answer them when they call on him at in times of trouble. Satisfyer early without Mercy in here. Answers. I will reward you. I will give you long life with long life. Will I satisfy satisfy with long life? Will I satisfy him and show him my salvation? What a beautiful picture here got answers with a reward. question we have to answer is okay pastor. I'm trying to get really confused. You're out in the world. Am I supposed to use this?

I don't want to be guilty of using it like the devil. I don't want to miss apply misappropriated strippers in wrong. We divide the word of Truth run out to Blazing battling not come home today because is Titanic. I don't want to do that. Well, you could try to take it literally and good luck with that. Let me know how it works out. We make God our refuge then if you take this, literally you're going to come away with the idea that your life is going to be trouble free.

Not like that. So I don't think the way to take this is absolutely verbatim literally that you can run on the middle of the Blazing till the battle and everything's going to be okay. Now that God praise the Lord is his doing it's marvelous. I'm going to rejoice in it, but I'm not going to encourage your counsel somebody to go do that. So if we're taking supper for doing good for

So just take it literally would do a disservice to the rest of the scriptures. Perhaps maybe we should take it as scatological e 2nd Timothy Chapter 4 verses 17 to 18 pulse is using similar language to Psalm 91. He says there that the Lord sleeping with me when nobody else did Whitney remember his account of that and the Lord delivered him right in the day of judgement as a reference earlier. Are the promises of God or are the only good though for there? And in the Judgment Day is that the only time I show up this phone and find something in confidence in this life. I can see the good hand of God before I have to go towards bar. Truly, I think we can glean some encouragement that yes, God will work here and now just so to limited and Shadow. Obviously the only if we do with this service as well. Can I just encourage you to use all 91 to help bolster and facilitate your trust in God?

What is this song resonates deep down in you that if you're in the Lord you're going to be okay?

Whatever the circumstances are. If your number is up, and it's time for you to go cuz you're going to be okay if he determines that you need to live longer than somebody else. You're going to be. Okay, never beat her ass. What about this guy over here before? This was after the Lord came back and appeared to him by the seaside there and said Peter. Do you love me Peter do you love me?

What do you worry about that? Peter you do when you've been called a few

He will shield you. He will watch over you. in let this song also encourage you do not ever tempt God's Providence.

Is that true? You run out blazing, you know Saddles opening guns and everything ready to Take On The World start out with a squirt gun base. I might have a rude awakening don't tempt God Providence I go back to the devil was tempting him, why he would turn around and say the Lord thy God Scripture

Jesus responded in like manner with the scriptures that shall not tempt the Lord thy God that was his response when the devil misquoted Psalm 91 Stop. Thank God we can learn a lot from that another word on 91. They have to be used in keeping with the teachings of the rest of scripture. We have to compare scripture with scripture everything else. I love him for the good and if we live our lives irresponsibly and there's a shelter here because that's taking this out of context and not using the scriptures the way that God intended it to God that you can watch out for you that you're going to be. Okay. If you're in him, then don't worry about things that we can throw at you because God cannot protect you and he's going to watch out for you until he calls you home. So many one is a great assurance. We're trusting in a sovereign God if we're doing our best to live responsibly not or his or his leaving then most assuredly we can stay with the song to send first one. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. Let his watch care rain over you let the love of God for you to serve him and freedom.

Well, that sound mind we can go against The Wiles of the devil and not be overtaken because he delivered.

He's the one he's Myra. Second person. This is what it looks like. He delivers you here in the dark.

When the Lord comes in and fix, yep, that's me because you believe my name. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to satisfy you with long life. If you have receive eternal life for Jesus Christ, you'll never care. That's a pretty good definition for long life. He's satisfied with her safe.