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Psalm 119:105-112 - Nun · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. Merry Christmas to you today.
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  We are continuing in Psalm 119, verses one O 5 through 112, one
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  O 5 through 112, and this comes from the verses in Psalm 119
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  that all start with the Hebrew letter.
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  None, None. Not the Catholic order of women,
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  not nuns, none. But today, man, this is a really
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  sobering portion of someone 19 even as it relates to Jesus.
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  And I think as we walk through this together, you'll see what
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  I'm talking about. Verse 105.
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  Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
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  I've solemnly sworn to keep your righteous judgments.
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  I am severely afflicted Yahweh. Give me life according to Your
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  Word. Yahweh, please accept my free
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  will offerings of praise and teach me Your judgments.
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  My life is constantly in danger, yet I do not forget Your
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  instruction. The wicked have set a trap for
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  me, but I have not wandered from Your precepts.
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  I have Your decrees as a heritage forever.
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  Indeed, they are the joy of my heart.
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  I am resolved to obey your statutes to the very end.
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  Let's look as as I think about Jesus, as I think about
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  Christmas, I remember the fact that Jesus was born to die.
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  From the very first moment that he entered into this world,
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  there was already the picture as he's laid in a Manger, like a
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  lamb would have fed out of that. He was the Lamb of God who would
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  take away the sin of the world. Let's begin in verse one O 5.
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  One O 5. Your word is a lamp for my feet
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  and a light on my path. I think about what John says in
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  John one, that he was the light of the world and yet the
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  darkness did not comprehend or overcome him.
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  That he was in the world and the world was made by him, but the
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  world did not know Him. And into our darkness, into our
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  spiritual darkness, into our evil and mistreatment, Jesus
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  came. The Word is the light that shows
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  us in the darkness, in the blackness of what sin has
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  created. God's Word shows us the way
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  forward. When you look at your
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  relationships and you don't know what to do, God's Word will show
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  you how to reconcile, how to have humility, when to take some
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  good steps for safety or for the blessing of others or for their
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  encouragement. When you are struggling at work,
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  God's Word can show you how you're supposed to relate with
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  your boss or with your coworkers or with your workload and even
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  your work ethic as you navigate through.
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  For many of us, we don't have to directly deal with politics.
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  I'm certain there might be a politician or someone that might
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  listen to this podcast. But as you're trying to
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  determine what choices do I make, especially in today's
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  culture and age in regards to what direction our country goes,
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  you can find out the answers through the Word of God.
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  And I'm so thankful that every single day that I live, I can
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  find out the path that I'm supposed to walk through the
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  Word I love. Here he says, your word is the
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  lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
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  God's word doesn't give us the full route of what our life is
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  going to entail, But here, a lamp for the feet.
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  That's just step by step. You are walking and and though
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  it's dark, you can see the next step that you need to take
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  because that lamp is right there.
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  And so you're able to say, OK, I don't know all of the steps that
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  I'm going to take. I can't walk the entire journey
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  in this light, but I can take the next right step.
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  And for you today, I want to encourage you, God always has a
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  next right step for you, the next right way to respond to
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  someone, the next right way to apologize, the next right person
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  that you're supposed to speak to about the Lord, the next right
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  step of how you should begin mending a relationship.
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  God's not going to line it all out for you.
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  He's not going to give you the blueprints for the rest of your
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  life. But as you take the next right
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  step, God can be glorified. Verse one O 6 sorry, I'm also
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  supposed to be tying this in for for Jesus.
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  Verse one O 5 Jesus took the next right step.
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  Even in the garden of Gethsemane.
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  He's praying not for everything that'll happen.
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  He's just saying for the next right step, he says, God, if
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  it's your will, let this cup pass for me.
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  Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.
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  And he took the next right step. He exited the garden or that
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  portion of the garden with his disciples, and he said it's
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  time, and he took the next right step and met Judas and the
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  temple guards that would take him away and put him on trial.
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  And if that's the step that Jesus took, that next right
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  thing that he was supposed to do, then certainly we can
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  realize, OK, God might not always be pleasant.
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  It might not always results in immediate happiness.
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  But I know what the next right thing to do is from your word
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  verse one O 6. I have solemnly sworn to keep
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  your righteous judgments. Jesus was the only one whoever
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  did actually keep God's righteous judgments and his
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  promise is true. I think it's Paul in maybe
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  Second Corinthians that says that in Jesus all of God's
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  promises are yes and Amen, that you can take to the bank.
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  What Jesus has said to you. He is faithful and he kept his
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  promise to keep the righteous judgments of God, and he will
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  keep all of his promises to you as well.
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  Verse 107 I am severely afflicted.
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  Yahweh, give me life according to your word.
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  I can think of no one who underwent greater affliction
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  than Jesus. I'm sinful and so when someone
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  harms me, it can sometimes feel good to try and inflict harm
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  back on another person, even if not verbally.
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  Like mentally in my head, I'm like, Oh yeah, I, I would say
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  this to that person in retaliation for what they said
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  to me. Or man, if I get the chance, I'm
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  really going to lay into that person and it can bring me some,
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  you know, quote UN quote relief to go, Oh yeah, I'm going to
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  return evil for the evil that they had towards me.
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  Jesus never did that. He never had that quote UN quote
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  relief moment of responding with hurt towards others that hurt
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  Him. He always bore it.
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  You can think of him at the trial, beaten, mocked, scourged.
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  His beard was ripped out. They took him, delivered him to
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  the Romans, who whipped Him with the cat of nine tails, the whip
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  made-up of broken bones and glass and other sharp objects.
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  He was so disfigured that the prophet Isaiah, talking about
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  what would happen to Jesus, says he was unrecognizable even as a
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  man as a result of what he went through, and that severely
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  afflicted Savior was not left in his affliction.
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  They are at the end of verse one.
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  O 7 Yahweh, give me life according to your word, that
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  three days later he was instructed to rise, and just as
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  he had done for those that were dead, the Father called the Son
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  to rise. And he rose in the power of the
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  Holy Spirit, and he rose in his own power, victorious over sin
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  and death in the grave and hell, and he rose triumphant.
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  And that Jesus that was given life according to the decree,
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  the word of God. He has said that if Jesus came
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  out of the grave, then we are coming out of the grave as well.
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  Jesus is the first fruits of the resurrection.
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  That just as surely as Jesus's tomb is empty, your tomb and my
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  tomb will one day be empty. We will be given those new
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  resurrection bodies and we will live and rule and reign with
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  Him. What a wonderful truth in the
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  affliction that you currently are facing.
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  Realize this is not the end. The end is resurrection.
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  The end is life according to the Word, the promise of the Word of
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  God as guaranteed by Jesus's life.
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  Verse one O 8 Yahweh, please accept my free will offerings of
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  praise and teach me your judgments.
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  Oh friend Jesus, he freely gave his life.
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  He had no sin. He had no sin that he needed to
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  atone for with his sacrifice of his body and his blood that was
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  broken for us. Here is the psalmist praise.
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  Please accept my free will offerings of praise.
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  It was adoration and praise to God even as you think about
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  Jesus last words on the cross, Father into your hands I commit
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  my spirit that Jesus offered his life freely.
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  He did not have to die. John talks about that within his
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  gospel that as Judas and the temple guards came to arrest
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  Jesus and they asked, oh are are you Jesus of Nazareth?
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  And he says, I am that covenant name.
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  Yahweh from the Old Testament says that the temple guards,
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  everyone fell back as a result of the power that Jesus showed.
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  But Jesus wanted to be taken in obedience to the will of the
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  Father, planned from all eternity past.
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  Jesus is eager, joyful sacrifice on our behalf so that we could
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  be reconciled with our God. Three and one.
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  Jesus freely offered his life. As he said, no one takes it from
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  me. I have the power, I have the
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  authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to pick it
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  back up again. Jesus freely gave his life.
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  But as we learned, even in Leviticus, though Jesus offered
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  a free will offering of praise, we needed a sacrifice for our
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  sin. We needed a sacrifice because we
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  were alienated from God and we had no way back to him on our
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  own. And Jesus's sacrifice was a sin
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  offering. Jesus's sacrifice was that Day
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  of Atonement type offering where all of our sins are covered,
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  where we are freely forgiven forever because justice has been
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  poured out on the Son of God, and because G and because the
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  Father will always accept the sacrifice of the Son, everyone
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  who identifies with Jesus and with his sacrifice, they will
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  always be accepted by the Father.
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  I love this. Because Jesus accepted the
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  sacrifice of Jesus, or sorry, Because the Father accepted the
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  sacrifice of Jesus, the Father will accept you as you accept
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  the sacrifice of Jesus. What a wonderful, wonderful
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  truth. Psalm sorry, verse 109.
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  My life is constantly in danger, yet I do not forget your
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  instruction, Jesus. They tried to kill him several
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  times. They tried to kill him in
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  Capernaum. They tried to kill him in
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  Nazareth. They tried to kill him several
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  times in Jerusalem, eventually succeeding.
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  Yet though Jesus's life was in danger, he didn't 'cause that he
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  didn't allow that to turn him away from the Father.
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  He didn't allow it to turn him away from his mission.
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  Instead, he went to it. I believe it's man.
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  It's either Matthew or Luke's Gospel that talks about Jesus.
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  He he set his face toward Jerusalem for that final
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  Passover week where he would give his life, that he had an
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  intention that he would give his life and nothing would deter
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  him. For you, what deters you from
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  walking with God? Even death itself and the sin of
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  all the world being placed on Jesus could not deter him.
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  What do you allow to deter you from your walk with the Lord?
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  Verse 110 the wicked have set a trap for me.
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  Yeah, we can definitely think about Jesus with that says, but
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  I have not wandered from your precepts.
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  Do you allow the wickedness and the evil of others to deter you
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  from your walk with the Lord? Do you allow what someone else
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  said about you one time to keep you from walking with Jesus?
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  Do you allow the mistreatment that you suffered at the hands
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  of others to deter you from worshiping and following the God
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  who has never once mistreated you and who will bring you
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  ultimate healing forever? Be like Jesus and though the
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  wicked have their traps, you have chosen that you will not
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  wander from God's precepts. Verse 111.
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  I have your decrees as a heritage forever.
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  Indeed, they are the joy of my heart, Jesus delighted to do the
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  will of the Father. And I even think about Hebrews
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  chapter 12 where we are told that Jesus for the joy that was
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  set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and
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  his sat down at the right hand of God.
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  Are God's decrees, His words, His commands?
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  Are they a joy to your heart, or do you ignore them?
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  Do you wish that they said something else so that you can
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  live your life however you want? No, my friend, choose to
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  embrace, to love, to enjoy the Word of God.
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  Very often, especially in churches nowadays, people can
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  place a lot of importance on stories, on self help, on ways
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  of spending your time in the gathering that don't focus on
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  Scripture, that don't focus on the Word of God.
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  And the truth is we need the life and the joy and the purpose
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  and the relationship with God that only comes through meeting
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  God where we where he has placed his identity and his character,
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  which is within his word. We know what we're supposed to
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  do. We know who we're supposed to be
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  as a result of knowing who God is and what he has done and what
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  he has said. Verse 112.
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  Then, as we end today, I'm resolved to obey your statutes
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  to the very end. Jesus, to the very end of his
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  life, followed the Lord even in his dying moments on the cross,
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  he remembered to honor his mother.
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  And he told his disciple John to take care of Mary, just as Jesus
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  took care of Mary at various points throughout his life.
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  And he told Mary to take care of John.
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  He says you're you're going to need a replacement.
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  And so you take care of John and John, you take care of my
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  mother. That the 10 commandments, Jesus
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  was still actively obeying them as he was dying.
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  What a wonderful Savior. May we resolve to obey the
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  statutes of God to the very end of our lives.
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  Thanks for tuning in today. I hope that kind of this
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  Christmas episode of sorts will remind you of the wonderful
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  Savior that we worship today. I think of Luke 214 I preached
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  about a couple of Sundays ago, which says as the angels
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  proclaiming glory to God in the highest heavens and peace on
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  earth to those He favors, May God bless you today and keep
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  you. May He make His face to shine
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  upon you and give you peace. Thanks for tuning in today.
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  See you next episode.