Psalm 23 is Not Just For Precious Moments

Thanksgiving, Encouragement, and a Word of Advice

Well, I just wanted to wrap up this week. Just say thank you so much for watching my videos. Thank you for commenting. Thank you for liking them. Thank you for subscribing and sharing them. I appreciate it all it is it is all it means a lot to me.

It means a lot to me that I'm close to 3 ,000 subscribers. That is a Relatively small drop in the YouTube bucket, but I'm grateful for it and thanks for watching. I wanted to give you a couple pieces of advice some positive advice, you know because That my that rant this morning I was a little extra, you know what I mean, that's all the kids are saying these days little extra.

But you know I Listen, I'm not one of these despair guys. I'm not one of these woe is me kind of guys, you know. And and the reality is that you shouldn't be either. I mean Christ is on his throne Christ is coming back Christ is putting his enemies under his feet right now and No matter how many evangelical leaders say and do stupid things no matter how racist they are no matter how many Tantrums, you know, Eric Mason and Kyle Howard and Jamar Tisby and Matt Chandler and Russell Moore and Tim Keller and all these guys.

No matter how many Tantan temper tantrums they throw it doesn't matter. But how these stupid articles they put out let them waste their time with Sesame Street. It's all good. It's all good, man. You have a God to follow you have a Lord to serve you have a I mean guy I hope you guys have families to take care of and you're building things and stuff and just you know.

Let's let's let's remember who we're responsible for. We're responsible for ourself. We're responsible for our families our churches and you know. All those big wigs that have a lot of money and big platforms and gospel coalition and all that stuff.

Responsible for them. You're not responsible for them. So don't worry about it so much here's a little bit of a of a rule of thumb that I you can you can you can use if the if the big Eva in Evangelical intelligentsia types if the gospel coalition types are against it and it's controversial like I'm not talking about the deity of Christ, right?

Like that's controversial in some circles, but when we're talking about in the walls of Christianity, right like with with reformed Conservative type Christians, even if you're not reformed conservative Christianity if if gospel coalition is against it.

There's a good chance. You should be taking taking a look at it. You know, I think about like Doug Wilson, right like all these all these these these Complimentary and type guys, you know, there's very winsome kind of guys gospel coalition types big Eva types.

They want to warn you against Doug Wilson was a good chance that you should probably check into it. Have you seen his article the most recent no quarter November article about how sexism is a virtue? Oh, man, that's a good one.

I wouldn't have said it. But it's hard to argue. It's hard to argue with this article. It really is. It really is. It's good stuff. Also, I would recommend you check out Amazon Prime man rampant. It's good stuff, man.

Yeah, but big Eva doesn't like that stuff. They don't like they don't like the Bailey's, you know, Warren war horn media. They don't like war horn media. You should probably check it out because if they don't like it Chances are it's something you should check out.

I mean, I'm just saying I'm just saying, you know All that forbidden knowledge, you know Doug Wilson the Bailey's oh it's good to be a man. That's a good one, too. Have you checked that out? It's good to be a man.

It's a it's a good newsletter. It's a website. There's some great content coming out of there. It's good to be a man. Check it out. I Mean look the reality is guys that if big Eva is against it, there's a good chance.

You're probably on to something if you're into it. That's all I'm gonna say. That's all I'm gonna say. Anyway, I'll leave you with with this Psalm 23 we all I mean most of us have memorized this song, but but it's so good I mean you you can you can kind of just like sometimes when you when you're very familiar with the passage you can kind of Sometimes just go to sleep when you hear it, you know, cuz I've just heard it a million times.

But just just take a step just take a step back and just try to listen to the words here the Lord. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me besides still waters.

He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. That's awesome. That's really awesome, isn't it? God is leading if you're God if you're Christ's he's leading you in paths of righteousness.

For his name's sake man that changes how you view what you do every day, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Let's continue he says. Even though I walk in the valley the shadow of death. I will fear no evil courage guys courage.

Don't fear evil fear God. Don't fear evil. For you are with me your rod and your staff. They comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. I love that one. See, this is why we can feast right guys because we're in a war right?

We're in a battle and There are serious enemies right they hate us they do they hate your guts. They hate my guts. You know Christ says whoa for whoa. Whoa to you if everyone speaks well of you and he's not talking about people speaking well of you because you're doing good things.

He's talking about like our enemies speaking Well of you like the evil people like all like that like the socialist liberal progressives. You know the people that have the their pronouns in there and their profile like if they think that your theology is just dandy.

Like whoa to you. That you've got a problem. You know what I mean? If if like if like. The LGBT transsexuals that are trying to teach it and groom your children in the schools. Like if they think well of your politics like whoa to you, right if you vote Democrat in other words, whoa to you.

But you see there's serious things right these are there's serious issues here there's there's danger it's a battle. People's lives are hanging in the balance like this is all serious stuff, right? But we can laugh man, we can feast why?

Because Christ is with us and he prepares a table in the presence of our enemies like in the fight. God prepares a table for us in the midst of our enemies. God prepares a feast for us. That's why we can have a good time with this man.

That's why we can have a good time with this. Yes, these are serious issues. But we can have a blast while we're fighting on the Lord's side. Definitely we can. You anoint my head with oil my cup overflows man, we've got more than we need don't we.

We've got more than we need don't we? He says surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord. Forever man, we're on the Lord's side. What can man do to me?

Take courage. I mean Psalm 23 should give you a lot of courage. Should give you confidence a lot of faith in Christ. This is not just a Precious moments thing that you know your grandma cross-stitched and it's hanging on your wall or it's on your mug or something like that like this this Psalm should Fill you with courage.

To do what needs to be done. And I'm not saying it's not gonna be scary because you can have anxiety and still have courage. That's the thing. I'm trying to tell my kids this right like having courage doesn't mean you're not scared.

It means you are scared, but you do it. Anyway, you do what needs to be done. Anyway. Despite your fear despite your anxiety despite you don't know how it's gonna turn out you do what's right you do what you need to do.

You might watch my kids play. This is watch my kids play and I've got a four-year-old and I got a two-year-old they're playing with each other. You know, they play with their Star Wars toys. It's all battles for them.

It's always battles and they always have a mission to accomplish in their play. There's an at-at coming and general Grievous is coming and my little son will go. Oh, no, there's general Grievous. Pew pew pew pew and they're always in a battle and You know, yeah, that's that's a fantasy.

It's they're just kids, right? They're playing. It's it they're all but eventually you grow up right eventually you grow up and there's a real battle going on. And you don't know how it's gonna turn out but when your kids you practice winning that battle, right.

But now when we're adults, we don't know how it's gonna turn out. But actually we do. We don't know how each individual battle turns out right? Like we we could be taken out tomorrow. We do know how the war turns out.

Christ is guaranteed and sealed that victory and now we go to war for him knowing that we got the winning plan. We got a leader that cannot fail. He's on our side. So he. We can we can feast we can laugh and at the same time we have anxiety.

We don't know how each battle is gonna turn out. But we know that goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our life and we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Hope you have a good week.

I hope this is helpful. God bless.