Let God Carry It

If you are afraid, if you are worried, if you are concerned of certain things that have happened in your life and that are happening right now, if you are worried about the future, the unknown, what will happen to me, to my family, to my children, and the attacks that we go through, sometimes those attacks that come from Satan are fearsome. They're very powerful. And when we go through all these different attacks, worries, anxieties, concerns, heavy burdens, problems, issues, we fear a lot.

We start having our doubts and our concerns, what will happen to me and to my family. However, the Lord sends us a comforting letter today and says, verse one, he who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91 is a letter of comfort sent by God to every frightened, concerned soul.

Do not be afraid, he says, for I know everything about you and I see everything that you've been through and that you are going through and will go through. I know it, I am God, you don't need to tell me, you don't need to explain, but I expect one thing of you, choose to live in the secret place of the Most High. That's all I'm asking you to do, just dwell in the secret place of the Most High and leave everything else to me, leave everything else to me.

We need to understand the way this psalm speaks. This psalm speaks in three ways. Number one, the psalm speaks in the language of the third person.

Number two, the psalm speaks in the language of the present. Number three, the psalm speaks in the language of the observer. These are the three ways Psalm 91 speaks with.

The observer is the Holy Spirit, the third person is the invisible God, and the present is the visible God who is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So the psalm speaks in three languages, the observer, the present, and the third person. The observer is the Holy Spirit, the third person is the invisible God, the present is the visible God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

All glory to his holy and mighty name. For in John chapter 1 verse 18, it says, No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

No one has ever seen the invisible God and no one can ever see the invisible God. It is the Son of, it is the Son who is in the bosom of the Father has declared the Father to all of us. Where is the Son dwelling? In the bosom of the Father.

What is Psalm 91 all about? The Father's bosom. And what is the Father's bosom? It's the image of the King. Now who is the King? It's the Son of God.

And who is the Son of God? Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So where does Jesus Christ of Nazareth dwell? In the heart of his Father. That's why the Son came to take us exactly where He is.

And He said it, Father where I am, I want them all to be with me. I want them all to be with me. I came to take those who are willing, listening to me, accepting me, being obedient to me.

I came to take you to where I am, the Father's bosom. What is the Father's bosom? L-O-V-E. All capital letters.

Love. Love, my beloveds. The world does not understand the language of love, unfortunately.

That's why we struggle. Now the first language Psalm 91 speaks with is the third person. So verse 1, Psalm 91 verse 1 speaks in the language of the third person.

And it reads, He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High. What is the meaning of the secret place? What does the word secret mean? Secret is to cover, to hide. You know when you cover something and you hide something, it becomes secret, becomes unseen, unknown.

So He who dwells in the secret place, this word secret means cover, to hide something or to cover something. Our beloved church mentions this word secret place always in her prayers. The church teaches us to recite this prayer of the all the time.

And what is this prayer that represents the secret place? Lord have mercy. Now the word Lord have mercy is that secret place where it hides and covers those who are seeking the mercy of the Lord. How were we covered? Through the mercy of Christ, through the grace of God.

Lord have mercy which means literally, when you say Lord have mercy, what does that mean? Lord please cover me, please hide me, I need your protection. That's what it means. Now why Lord cover me? Why? Because the first sign of sin ever was nakedness.

The moment they brought God's word, Adam and Eve found themselves before God to be naked. So that was the first sign of sin. Sin made us naked.

That's why we come to the Lord and beg him for mercy, beg him for cover, beg him for hiding, because I am a sinner and sin made me naked. Cover me with you Lord. He who dwells in the secret place, he who seeks my mercy, I Jesus Christ of Nazareth, will cover him with my righteousness.

I'll cover his nakedness with my righteousness. Now who told Adam and Eve that they were naked? Sin opened their eyes. It was sin that opened their eyes that made them realize they were naked.

Were they naked prior to sinning? Yes. How come they did not know they were naked? Because their eyes were not opened yet. Sin opens eyes to things you don't want to see.

Are you with me? I think dear father, where is father Isaac? It's a little bit loud, maybe slightly lower father because I want to yell and I'm holding myself. I can't speak like just you know monotone. I want to scream, shout for the Lord and if I scream I don't want to startle you because the noise is a bit, the sound is a bit loud.

Just a slight reduction in that sound. Now sin opened the eyes and the eyes that were opened by that sin realized they were naked. Our nakedness my beloved resulted in us doing two things.

Our nakedness resulted in us doing two things. One made us feel embarrassed with our own selves. We became embarrassed with what we have done.

Every time we make a mistake we feel ashamed. That shame is nakedness. That shame is nakedness and secondly made us flee from God.

So made us embarrassed with our own selves and made us walk away from God. Prior to the fall Adam was in the bosom of God. After the fall he said to God I'm hiding because I'm naked.

Adam ran away from the bosom of God. God said to Adam can you cover yourself? Why are you running away from me? Okay you've realized your mistake. You've made a mistake.

You've sinned against me. You transgressed against me and you can see that you are naked. You feel ashamed, embarrassed to stand before me as naked.

You're running away but let me say this to you my son. Even though you sin but I'm still love. I'm still that love that created you.

Do you think by running away from me you can cover yourself by yourself? Is there anyone else Adam outside of God that can cover your nakedness? No Adam. Don't run away from me when you sin but rather run to me when you sin not away from me. Run to me.

Yes you feel ashamed. Yes you feel embarrassed but never be embarrassed of your God because he's your dad. Don't ever lose track I'm your dad.

Don't be embarrassed of your dad. Don't ever run away from dad because this dad is the only one that can cover your nakedness. You run away you'll be lost forever.

So Adam said I'm embarrassed. Don't be embarrassed from your father. Come back to the bosom of your father to cover your nakedness Adam.

When we look at the prodigal son you know when you read in the gospel according to Saint Luke chapter 15 and it talks about there is three parables there. The last one and the three are all one. It starts with the lost sheep of the lost coin and the lost son.

All three are the same same thing. One parable with three branches but when we look at the prodigal son the lost son what happened? You see when that son decided to walk away from his father he said I don't want to live with you even though I'm living in a mansion. I live like a king.

I am spoiled. I've got everything that I need at my fingertip but one thing I don't feel, I don't experience. I'm not free because as far as as long as I'm living under your roof dad I have to do your way.

I have to do things your way. I don't want to do it your way. I want to do it my way.

So dad give me my portion. I want to go seek my own life, my own freedom, my own way. He ended up working in the pig's field and that's what happens to every single human being that walks away from the true living God.

The end is the pig's field and what is the pig's field? The filth of the world. Where are you going to end up? In the streets and the dark alleys of this world. Drugs, alcoholism, gambling, men, women, in between, you name it.

The filth of the world. Look the only place where you are safe and sound is the father's bosom. You need Jesus Christ.

No prophet can save you. No good man can save you. No good philosopher can save you.

No good politician can save you because there is no one good. The only one who is good is God and this God who is good his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Period.

Period my beloved. But look at the prodigal son. He walked away from his dad.

He ended up working in the pig's field, in the core and the heart of filth and then he came back to dad after copying it the hard way. He realized what am I doing here? I'm going to perish if I remain here. I'll go back to my dad.

He comes back. The father runs to him to welcome him. Now the father is running.

The father is dressed in holiness and righteousness. The son is dressed in filthiness. The father in holiness, the son dressed in filthiness.

And the moment he meets his son, he does not think twice, does not blink twice. This holy father grabs the son and holds him tied to his bosom, to the core of his heart with his filth. And then he says to the servants three things you do for my lost and dead son.

Number one, bring out the best robe and put it on him. The best, the only one, nothing like it. Bring out the best robe and put it on him.

Number two, put a ring on his hand. Number three, and sandals on his feet. The son sat all clean and the father sat all dirty.

Because he hugged his dirty son. Wow. The son became clean because the father accepted to be dirty for his salvation.

But this time the dirt was not mud. This time the dirt was the blood of his only begotten son. He slain his own son on the cross on Calvary to make us whiter than snow and brighter than the sun.

And to make his son dirty. Crucified among thieves, murderers, second-class citizen. Kicked, punched, ridiculed, spat on and then crucified.

Fully naked from head to toe. The church puts that a little rope around the waist of the Lord Jesus out of respect for for her heavenly groom. But Jesus Christ was crucified fully naked.

And a mature adult, a man in his 33 years of age, fully mature adult man. Do you know how embarrassing it is to be crucified fully naked where people were making fun of him. But you see the holy bible did not go into details what people said.

But God recorded everything. Nothing is lost with God. He can bring out every single dot, letter, word that was uttered out of their stupid and filthy mouths.

God knows what they said about Jesus. And he did not whisper. In fact after all that ridicule, the Lord comes back and says, Father forgive them for they do not know what they're doing.

Why? Because I am all love for you my child. I Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I am all love for you. No matter how far you've gone.

No matter how deep you've gone in your sin and in your wrongdoings. Just come back and say, Daddy I'm sorry forgive me. That's what I came for.

To take you back to the father's bosom. To the father's heart. Because I the son Jesus Christ, I am my father's heart.

I am his heart. And if you choose me, you become his heart as well through me. That's Psalm 91.

He who dwells in the secret place of the most high. The blood of Christ covered me and made me dwell in the father's bosom, in the father's heart. And then the verse continues.

Abide, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. That's the second half of the verse. Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Now my beloveds, the first part of verse one speaks about the secret place. And we said the secret place is, Lord have mercy, which is the father's bosom. Cover me Lord with your blood.

Cover me Lord with your sacrifice. Because without your covering, sin made me naked. And my nakedness cannot take me back to my father's house anymore.

I lost it. That's why the son of God came back. To bring the lost son back to his heavenly father.

And that lost son is all of us. So the secret place is where God covers our sins. But under the shadow of the Almighty.

Now why shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty? Why shall abide under the shadow? When we sinned, we fell under a shadow. And the Almighty turned a shadow into the shadow. I'll say it again.

When we sinned, we fell under a shadow. But the Almighty turned a shadow into the shadow. Now which shadow did we fall under when we sinned? The shadow of death.

Where do we find this? In Psalm 23 verse 4. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. I think it's getting hot. That's not part of the topic.

That's to do with the air con. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Now does death have a shadow? Who can tell me? Does death have a shadow? Well the Holy Bible says it does.

So what are you going to say? Yes it does. Now what is the shadow of death? Hell. Hell.

Hell is the shadow of death. Now what led me to death? Sin. When I broke God's word, I sinned against God.

Through sin, I ended up being dead. And death took me to hell. So sin took me to death, and death handed me over to hell.

What King David is saying in Psalm 23, death is difficult, but hell is impossible, not difficult. So can Christ bring someone from the dead? Yes, well he brought Lazarus from the dead. He was dead four days, and he raised him from the dead by just one word, Lazarus come forth.