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Psalm 16
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Introduction:
There was a company named Theranos.
We all run to someone or something for security
Maybe business not going well
Struggling to pay bill
Phone call family or friend unwell
Relationship on the rocks
Life is so uncertain.
Overwhelmed for the future.
The season you are in is just a struggle.
Life is spinning out of control.
Where do you put your trust?
This Psalm of David shows us where to put our trust.
King David trusts God.
And not just in a shallow way I trust God because it’s the right thing to say;
This is a real deep trust.
He shows us how he trusts God in Psalm 16 this morning.
And he really lives it out.
As I said; This is a psalm David wrote.
See at the beginning there it’s a miktam.
This is a fancy Hebrew word.
So fancy no one knows what it really means.
Probably a musical term.
Something that signals some kind of song.
But we’re not sure.
Let’s take the psalm from the beginning.
We’ll see David completely trusts God and how he trusts God.
His confidence is not misplaced.
1. King David trusts in God (16:1-2; 11)
Look at verse 1
David is in some kind of danger.
We’re not sure what danger he is in.
There are plenty of times in the Bible when he is unsafe.
It could be that Saul, remember the first king of Israel, King Saul he is pursuing David.
But whatever the situation might be David’s instinct – what’s important - is he immediately turns to God.
I take refuge in you.
Little bit like my little one-year-old Rebecca at the moment.
She was a happy-go-lucky child, now everything sets her off.
She just wants her parents.
It’s her instinct.
Like a child turns to their parents.
That’s David’s instinct.
He trusts in God.
He turns to God.
Why does trust God?
Well he can see clearly who God is.
Two things he tells us.
Notice that the beginning of the passage and the end of the passage.
1.1 There is no good apart from God (16:1-2)
First at the beginning he goes Verse 2
psalm 16:2
That’s incredible isn’t it.
I have no good apart from you.
Is that how you think?
If you know David, he is the King of Israel.
Powerful.
Respected.
And unlike kings and queens these days, they may record Christmas messages, host charity parties, celebrate jubilees – all important, but back then, they had real powerful kings.
They had absolute power.
David would say execute him.
it would happen.
Just like that.
And he conquered armies and cities.
People bowed down to him.
Not only was he powerful.
David was rich.
Nations around him paid him tribute – taxes every year.
So can you understand when David says ‘you are my Lord, apart from you I have no good things’ - that’s just incredible.
He is a powerful King who recognises the true King.
God.
King David trusts this God that the world rejects.
Submit to God?
You gotta be joking.
There is no God.
That’s our world isn’t it?
there’s no God.
trust in yourself.
You earned everything good you have.
My third daughter Ruth, last week I took her to the playground and she wants to do the very things her sisters can do.
So she’s on the monkey bars.
She’s only 2 almost 3.
But she can’t do it on her own.
Her sisters can.
So, at the monkey bars, I’m fully holding her legs and you know she’s holding swinging from bar to bar.
But If I let go, she would fall off.
But when she gets to the other side, she gets off she says I did it.
It was all me.
The world is like that with God.
They think that they have everything in this life and shun God.
It’s wrong.
But that’s not David.
This mighty king who commands nations.
Here he is in trouble.
He doesn’t rely on himself.
He trusts God.
He depends upon God.
In our world people live in fantasyland.
They say I did it my way.
David lives in realityland.
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