Psalm 42:1-11
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”
4 When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
5 Why are you cast down, O my
soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down
within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your
waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The Lord will command
His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my
soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
Numbers 16:1-5
Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; 2 and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown. 3 They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”
4 So when Moses heard it, he fell on his face; 5 and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is His and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him. That one whom He chooses He will cause to come near to Him.
Numbers 16:28-35
28 And Moses said: “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. 29 If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.”
31 Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods. 33 So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up also!”
35 And a fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.
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My tight title my sermon a small thing is longing for God And actually my main scripture is song I’m 421 through 11 but I’m going to I kind of rearrange things a little bit I want to move to one of my.Following scriptures before I go to the main scripture but before I go there a little bit of background you know when you read the Psalms most of the time I mean majority of them I didn’t go through and do the do the math but most of them are by David right there are there are amazing they’re wonderful There are so much joy in praise and so many wonderful poems and wonderful thing songs if you will in the books of songs but not all of them are written by David now when we read some 42 when I get to it a while that really sounds like David because the. The context of it sounds like David because what’s what’s the word say about David what’s God say about David he’s a man after God’s own heart so you can hear that in the patches when we get to it but this song was actually written by the sons of Korah he was the Levites who were the Levites they were the priest right but Cora led to rebuild against Moses So this was their father that led everybody in against Moses not the sons of core they didn’t need rebellion but was Koren self so he led a rebellion against Moses but this when I get to it but 1st I want to turn to Numbers Chapter 16beginning with verses one through 5it says.Now Cora the son the vicious are the son of Gadhafi the son of Levi because again the Levites were the priest with they thin an ob realm the sons. And on the son of Poleski sons of Reuben took men and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel $250.00 leaders of the congregation representatives of the congregation men every known they gathered together against Moses and Aaron and said to them you take too much upon yourselves so they made it sound like this is a good thing they were going to do because we’re going to try to take some of this away from you they’re actually rebelling against his authoritysays for all the congregation is holy every one of them and the Lord is among them why do you exult yourself above the assembly of the Lord so when Moses heard it he fell on his face and he took he spoke to core and always company saying to morrow morning the Lord will show who is his and who is holding and will cause him to come near to him then jumping the verse 28 I think I have that one too yes verse 28 through 35 And Moses said by this you will know that the Board has sent me to do all these works for I have not done them of my own will want to pause there Moses say and I’ve not done this of my own will but God chose Mame God to adore a ordain me I speak adore me him he were daid me for this God chose me to do this to be the leader of this nation it would have been a lot simpler to just stay there many and intended the sheep but God chose me to lead Jews out of Egypt so I am his chosen vessel and he knew it. Verse 29 if these men died naturally like all men were up there visited by a common fate of all the common fate of all men then the Lord has not sent me but at the Lord creates a new thing and if the Earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them and they go down alive into the pit then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord still he said listen they haven’t rejected me they’re rejecting the Lord now it came to pass as he finished speaking all these words that the ground slid apart under their feet and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households and all the men with Korah with all their goods so they they and all those with them went down alive into the pit the earth closed over them and they perished from among the assembly then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry and they said lest the earth swallow us up also and fire came out from the Lord and consume the $250.00 men who were offering incense Imagine you’re standing there in the earth opens up room swallows them up they’re gone God definitely showed them who was in control who was in authority and he had chosen Mosesdo not try to usurp the one that God put in place as a leader but I said all that so Cor rebelled against God He rebelled against Moses but his sons praise the Lord did not. His sons longed for God and that’s why we get the Psalms you’ll see that what a beautiful song they long to get back to God Let’s go ahead now word of prayer then we’ll get to the the main message the main sermon Heavenly Father we thank you and praise you for your love we thank you Father for your words the father’s we opened a song this morning Father is it is such a beautiful song of how one should long for and in seek after the father may we be faithful to seek after you with all of our hearts souls and minds Father God made that we seek after you with all that is within us because you want to have that relationship with us you want us to come to you you want us to worship you father because you are worthy because you love a so much Father God and you want us to come to you in just receive that amazing gift you have for years so father may each of us surrender to you and seek you with all that we have and may you receive the glory honor for your worthy in Jesus’ name amenso his sons do not follow in his footsteps they were faithful faithful to Godbut it came aboutthat after a time that they were exiled we know that they went to Drew some when they had to temple and I’m not sure if this was actually course sons or maybe even grandsons I’m not sure how many generations but when it says sons it was the descendants of Cora so they were exiled they were forced to live among their captives captives the Gentiles and they oppressed them they question their faith so let’s go ahead turn to some chapter 42 verses one through 11as the deer pants for the water brooks so pants my soul for you God my soul thirst for God for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God my tears have been for my tears have been my food day and night while they continually say to me where is your God when I remember the things I pour out my soul within me for I used to go with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with a voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast Why are you cast down oh my soul this in the East he’s talking of himself why are you cast down oh my soul within me why are you disquieted within me hope in God for a show yet praise him for the help of his countenance Oh my God my soul is cast down within me therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan and from the heights of Herman from the Hill of Mazhar deep cause into deep at the noise of your waterfalls all your ways and billows have gone over me the Lord will command His loving kindness in the day time and in the night his song shall be with me a prayer to the God of my life I will say to the to God my rock Why have you forgotten me why do i Good morning because of the oppression of my enemyof done rearrange things as with a breaking of my bones my enemies reproach me while they say to me all day long where is your god why are you cast down oh my sold in why are you disquieted within me hoping God for Rochelle yet praise him the help of my countenance and my God I will yet praise him that was in our songs I would yet praise Him He is my health he is my God Is he not Amen.You know as Karen was sayingsometimes we don’t we take things for granted. I don’t we I mean we took it for granted when we walked in here this morning those who got her 1st going to flip the light switch on and the lights are going to come on righttook it for granted I mean how many times have we at home you know we take it for granted we’re going to our 1st is going to come on whenever that thermostat calls for heat and we’re going to keep us warm the lights are going to come on but what when that power goes out and the luck tricks off for a day for 2 days for 3 days don’t we miss ityou don’t realize how much you miss something you’re going to miss until it’s gone what friends here’s where the sons of corps are they were the warship leaders they were the midget musicians or actually they were the musicians that went in led the warship when they would go with the multitude in worship God So here they are they’ve been carried off captive not able to go to the temple not able to go to the temple in worship their God So they long for that you long to have an object to come back on you long to have those comforts they do wrong to go and worship Godoh God when are we going to be able to go again when I remember these sayings my soul is cast down within meas the deer pants for the water brooks so my soul longs for the it’s like the bricks of water have completely dried up in my friends what is the necessity I mustn’t forget about those notes but what is the necessities of life air number one right air I mean cut your air off I was painting one time. And I was wearing a hood with a fresh air mask had the line to the supply line everything to it so that thing seals on you very good you know well very tightly while the hose bumped the ground something and I’m inside of the cab of a locomotive the hose bumped against something come off so I knew where it was like I mean like right now you’re Gad I was going for the windows it was rip this thing off to get air that’s how much we need air do we desire and long for God as much as we desire airthe dear parents for the water you need water to survive how long can you go without water somebody smarmy tell me how 3 days 3 dayswe should not be able to suffer survive without god for 3 days not for one moment actually we should live as a deer that hasn’t had water for days and days and days longs for is how we should be longing and seeking after the god of ourselves nation longing for him desiring to come unto Him They long to get the temple represented the place where they worship God It’s where the ark was you had the veil in the holy of holies and yes the only want to go in there was the priest but everybody else gathered around and that was the place where they would go and worship they were not able to do that they missed it they long for it when are we going to be able to go to and worship GodWe need to have that same attitudeI think we’ve become comfortablewe have so many comforts in this nation in which we live you know we stop and think about some of the nations and you think how open they are to people coming in and sharing the gospel because they haven’t had. That comfort to the have the freedom to come and worship as we do every week there’s no one out there with roadblocks up trying to stop us from coming here worship is there we can freely comewe’re ever but do we have that desire to have that longing as much as we desire the breath that we breed or the water that we drink do we desire that much or do we take it for granted.I want to read another song so I’m 63yet this is a Psalm of David Oh god you are my god early will I seek you my soul thirst for you my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water so I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory because of your loving kindness because your loving kindness is better than life so ya why I said that it sounded like a soma David because your loving kindness father is better than life my lips shall praise you thus I will bless you while I live I will lift up my hands in your name my soul shall be satisfied with morrow in Phadnis and my ma so praise you with my joyful lips when I remember you in my bed I meditate on you night in the night watches because you have been my help therefore in the shadow of your wings I will rejoice my soul follows close behind you your right hand upholds meyou know there are so many things in our lives that can distract us from Godso many things that we actually consider blessings may God has blessed most of us with so many wonderful things but sometimes these things can distract us from Godand you know what I’m talking about I mean that grass gets cut sometimes twice a week.Having those vehicles causes up that I have to maintain them the home by going to see if we hold our own home it always means something done right they are wonderful blessings and I’m not down in that same we shouldn’t have them when you look at the nation of Israel look at Abraham and all those God bless thembut they kept him 1st we need to make sure that we don’t become so distracted that we have no time for God that we don’t long for him we must long for him do we really hunger for him do we take take it for granted again to come in worship we should not you know yes it says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment or religion or approach the or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to put it petition the government for redress or grievance So yes it’s in our Constitution that we have that freedom to calm today or tomorrow or wherever someone goes and worsens but in truth they could never take it away I don’t care what laws they pass they’re not they could not prevent us from worshipping God because in actuality we don’t have to come to this house to worship GodWe can worship him anywhere right and everywherebut if God took it away it was taken away we was carried off captive somewhere would we miss itwould we miss it like the sons of Korah missed itwould we long for God would we long for this that we have here today I hope so I hope you would long for God I hope you would hunger for you know the cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the bread of Heavenwhose the bread of heaven. Jesus Christ says I am the the Way the Truth and Life he is the bread of heaven is the hunger for him that’s the cost to get into the kingdom to hunger for Jesus Christ instead of what the world has to offer instead of the bread that the world has we need the hunger and long for the bread of heaven and his name is Jesus rightrevelations 3speaks of the lukewarm church and today to the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write these things says the Amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot I wish you were cold or hot so then because you are Luke Mormon neither cold nor hot I will vomit you out of my mouth because you say I am rich have become wealthy have need of nothing and do you not know that you are wretched miserable poor blind and naked I counsel you to buy food from me go to buy from me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich and white garments that you may be closed that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and in order your eyes with I have that you may see as many as I love I have I rebuke and chase in them therefore be zealots and repent be zealous for God hunger for God long for God seek after God whatever we want to use but make sure we are going after Godseek in that relationship with him desiring to be with him alwaysGod is the ultimate source of joy peace comfort in our hearts you know we can seek it in so many wrong ways so many wrong areas but we’ll never find it until we find God.So we make him the one that we long for you know there are so many things in the world that people long for that there will long after you know people that are in the midst of a war what are they going to long for the men they’re not long for peace I thoroughly believe that most of the time when there’s a war those they’re out there on the battle lines they long for peace they’re there because they’re authorities asked them to go there but most of them probably long for peace I’m not going to say it’s ever in every case but they probably long for peace to be able to go home to their families rightthose that are battling an illness what are they long forto be well right those that are battling cancer they long to hear those words it’s goneyeah those are battling depressionand there are many they long to be well they long to have the mental capacity step out them they do they don’t choose that those that are destitute and poor What are they long for to be able to help have enough to take care of their families to feed their children rightthose that are in slaved What are they long for to be free of Prez we were enslaved by sin right and we longed to be free and we found that freedom right his name was Jesusthose that are homelessthey long for a place to call their own a place where they can lay their head down at nightbe warm have food in the cupboards they long for you know stop and think of the 2 probably most important things on this earth that most long for one is going to be to have a home a home that is safe. To secure a place where their children can be safe and secure I thoroughly believe thatbut you know what the next one is what the most what is most everyone long forlove Amen they did a long list he says it with a chuckle but they long for love everybody longs to have somebody that loves them and somebody they can one ofa man come on everybody longs for love The problem is so many today are looking in the wrong places I was a song OneCome on Brian sing up for me looking for love in all the wrong places.And look at.Even those who are saying it but people long for love and affection they truly do you know those that are in a relationship that has gone bad they long for that relationship to be healed they long for that one that loved them when they 1st were married they 1st came together they long for it to be restored to the way it used to be they truly do they don’t like being in a battle they don’t like unrest they don’t like abuse they long for peace confort love safety all those things that’s what the average person longs for yet there are those out there thattheir wicked but most people long to be love and to love someone elseyou know Jesus talked to the woman at the welland the disciples had went away. So she comes to draw water and he says Draw me some water from there I had the scripture Mark but all this will go with my amplified Ronnie’s version so he asked for water she said Why do you a Jew speak to me a Samaritanand he says if you knew who spoke to you you would have asked me for water and I would have given you living wateryou would never have come here and draw water again who are ears perked up wow that would save me a lot of trouble having to come out here every day and draw water your roses and Wes really am I mean my inversion right I’ll never have to come out her draw water againshe says word I get this water course Jesus explains to her I am that water I am the living water he who comes to me will never thirst again will never thirst againwhen we long for him seek after the one that is the well of water the spring of water gushing up in us can be see says I know that use warship in Jerusalem Jesus says The time is now where we do not need to worship in Jerusalem they long to go to the temple brothers and sisters we don’t need to go to the temple we just need to go to Jesus His spirit is here nowlong for him don’t think you have to as I said earlier you don’t have to come here to this building but let’s long for him each and every day every day when we rise up out of the bed that’s good morning Jesus thank you for another day Lord be with me todayhunger for the Lord thirst for the Lord and He will he is the. An ending spring the water that will fresher that will refresh your soul you know I love Praise and Worship Music I said in the beginning I love it it lifts your soul upwhen you’re in despair turn to praise and worship music on or get that him the way out is sing it from your heart you know we don’t always wake up every morning feeling like praise God how only a do weknowbut we hope and up at let’s just do it anyway because what the disowns of course say and yet I will praise him there in captivity their captives or ridiculing them where is your god but they say yet will I praise him so were ever we find ourselves if we are in slaved if we don’t have that home let’s say yet will I praise Him yet will I long for him yet will I seek after him as a dear Panta through the water Amen.
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