Quiet Waters /// Week 6

Pastor Matthew Hartsfield

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SERMON NOTES:

Quiet Waters (6)

Move Into Your Dream Home

July 12, 2020

Psalm 23:6 (NLT)

Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life. and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.

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As translated by Eugene Peterson, in the Message Bible:

Psalm 23:6 (Message)

Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I'm back home in the house of God for the rest of my life.

This is a rich and reassuring verse, full of hope. And it begins with the very first word: surely.

David didn’t write… “Maybe,” or “Probably,” or “Perhaps.”

You can have a rock-solid confidence in the promises of our Lord.

In a world of broken promises, we worship a promise-keeping God.
In an uncertain world, we worship a certain God.
In an unsure culture with shifting commitments, we worship a sure God with rock-solid faithfulness.

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And what is David so sure about?

We can count on being chased down and hounded by goodness and love!

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Where in your life right now do you need goodness to chase you and pursuing you?

Where is evil gaining the upper hand?
Where is ugliness creeping into your thoughts?
Where is despair settling into your soul?
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God's goodness overwhelms evil!

God's goodness destroys transforms ugliness into beauty!

God's goodness redeems despair with the hope of new life!

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Where in your life right now do you need mercy to track you down?

Is there a pattern of sin that seems unshakeable?
Have you caused other people hurt and pain?
Have you ever wandered from God to pursue your own desires?

We worship a God who has broken the back of sin!

We worship a God who suffered hurt and pain to forgive the hurt and pain you have caused others!

We worship a God who constantly pursues you to bring you back home, into his loving arms!

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There is a very active nature to this verse.

It uses the word PURSUE.

God is not some disinterested deity.

He’s not merely reclining upon a regal throne in heaven.

He isn't a passive God

Your God is a pursuing God, a chasing God, an active, participating God!

That's why God came in the form of His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our Good Shepherd.

He pursued you when you were not pursuing him.

He chased after you when you were completely ignoring him.

He set out a search party for you when you were content to wander away, like a stray sheep.

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Romans 5:6-11 (NLT)

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

God doesn’t wait for you to get your act together.
He doesn’t wait for you to earn His favor.
He doesn’t sit back and wait for you to be good enough.

He came when we least deserved it.

He came when we were still guilty.
He came when we were still covered in the grime of sin.
He came when we were mired in shame.

He didn’t wait for us. HE CHASED US!

God is pursuing you right now.

Patiently
Persistently
Gracefully.

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"… and I will live in the house of the Lord forever."

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You and I can become homesick for heaven, our intended forever home.

Philippians 3:20-21 (NLT)

But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. He will take our weak, mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own…

Solomon reminds us in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that God has

"set eternity in the hearts of men and women."

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2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing…"

Isaiah 53 reminds you that all of us like sheep have wandered astray.

But your Good Shepherd has come for you, and chases you with goodness and mercy, calling you home.

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Quiet Waters /// Week 6 Pastor Matthew Hartsfield

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