Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall dwell in safety.
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Friends, won't you pray with me? Good and gracious God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be acceptable, perhaps even pleasing, in your sight. Great God, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. Our text this morning is the parable of the friend at midnight. And if you were to look up this parable in your pew Bible, you would see that it is sandwiched between two of Jesus' most well-known teachings about prayer. On the one side, you have Luke 11 verses 1 to 4, which is the Lucan version of the Lord's Prayer. And on the other side, starting with verse 9, ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened unto you. However, all of these words did not necessarily come out of the Savior's mouth at the same time. The author or the community that gave us our modern gospel of Luke compiled things in a way that made sense. In this case, a chapter about prayer. …
… serves the heart? Right thinking serves right emotion? And my answer is everywhere, Cover to cover, the pattern is the same. So let's go and watch it happen. Psalm 16 verse 8 to 10, I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices. because these words are infinitely important. I don't think that's an overstatement. Therefore and because, on both ends of this verse, because you will not abandon my soul to Sheol or let your Holy One see corruption. So here's the pattern. God has shown me a truth, a great reality. He will be at my right hand. He will not let me be shaken." That's a truth. That ought to be sung. Why? Therefore, my heart is glad. The truth serves the gladness. That's the pattern over and over again. You cannot turn that around. You try to turn that around, you wreck God's whole design and creation. You can't say, because I am glad, I'll build my doctrine on that. My emotions govern my doctrine. It doesn't work like that. Doctrine exists for the sake of the emotions, not the other way around. Psalm 47 verses 1 and 2, clap your hands, all peoples, shout to God with songs of joy, for the Lord Most High is to be feared, a great King above all the earth. So here's the great truth. God is to be feared above all the earth. God is a great King over all the earth. Therefore, …
it is good to be back with you on the sunday after in a lot of churches it's the day you can count on a guest preacher on the substitute organist and a lone choir soloist, because the regular organist and the choir and the pastor really need a day off. Not in Duke Chapel, clearly, but in a lot of places. In my church, we call it Low Sunday, because the attendance is usually low, along with the adrenaline. Sometimes you can find an Easter bulletin still tucked in the hymnal. from last week, or a kind of shriveled azalea blossom under your pew that fell from the flowered cross when the sexton took it out on Monday. Faithful Christians may say, the Lord is risen all year long, but on this Sunday in particular, it can feel as if he was risen last week. So in some ways, it's a lot like other weeks after, the week after the wedding, the week after the graduation, the week after the baptism, the birth, the death. …