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*A Song For Tomorrow*
*/Psalm 1/*
It occurred to me the other day just how much God loves music.
Think about this – the only art of earth that we take to heaven is music.
I don't know what all we are going to do in heaven, but if you sing or play an instrument already I know one of the things you are going to be doing.
Even if you don't sing and you don't play, you are going to learn very quickly - perhaps to do both.
The Bible makes it very plain there is always music in heaven.
Of all the arts and crafts that human kind has learned over the last several thousands of years, the only one we are told specifically in the Bible we will take from earth to heaven is music.
We are continuing a series of messages that I am calling "Soul Music."
Soul Music is just that – it is music that speaks to the heart, music that speaks to the soul and music that speaks to the spirit.
I've given you "A Song For Yesterday" that deals with your past.
I've given you "A Song For Today" that helps you face whatever problems may be in your life right now.
Today, I want to give you "A Song For Tomorrow.
It is the very first Psalm and the very first song in the Book of Psalms, because you remember the word "psalm" means "song."
This psalm tells us how to approach tomorrow.
How to make sure if indeed we do live to see another day, we can ensure that tomorrow can be successful.
That word, "success" is one of the most used, misused, and mis-abused words that I know.
What the world calls success is not necessarily success.
Let me give you two kinds of successes that people have.
1. Success that dies with a person
2. Success that outlives a person
The first psalm was written to show us the way to true success.
True success makes you not only emotionally happy; it makes you eternally happy.
The first five words say, "How blessed is the man."
Another translation puts it this way, "How happy is the man."
We know that this psalm is God's blueprint for blessing.
It is God's hallway to happiness.
The word "blessed" is actually in the Hebrew language a plural word.
It refers to the intensity and the multiplicity of the blessings that await anyone who will do what this psalm tells them to do.
In the Old Testament, blessing would be synonymous with what we would call "success" today.
Now in the right way get into your heart and mind that God wants you to be successful.
Psalm 35: 27 says
"The Lord ... delights in the prosperity of His servant.
(Psalm 35:27, NASB)
The Apostle John even said to some of his friends,
"I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers."
(3 John 1:2, NASB)
Every parent has the desire that his children be successful.
I am no different from any other parent.
Let me share with you one of the greatest fears I have for my three sons.
It is not that they will not succeed; my greatest fear is that they will succeed in things that really don't matter.
Anyone knows that real success always means being prepared for tomorrow.
You don't focus on tomorrow, because tomorrow may not come.
If tomorrow does come, you should be ready to make tomorrow the greatest today of your life.
The psalmist tells us exactly how to do that.
*I.
Stay Away From Bad Company*
I love the way the message translates verse one.
"How well God must like you – you don't hang out at Sin Saloon, you don't slink along Dead-End Road, you don't go to Smart-Mouth College."
(Psalm 1:1, MSG)
The psalmist describes three groups of people that you could call "the skeptic", "the sinner", and "the scornful".
They are all very different.
The first person we call, "the skeptic", the person that hangs out at "Sin Saloon."
He is referred to also as "the un-godly."
The prefix "un" means "not".
If you are unafraid that means you are not afraid.
If you are ungodly, it simply means there is no room for God in your life.
Very few people are really "anti-godly".
They are just ungodly.
Most people don't go around talking about how they hate God.
As a matter of fact, most people believe in God.
The problem is they just don't have any room for God in their life.
We love to trumpet the statistics here in America that 96% of all of us believe in God.
The only problem with that is at least 80% of us live as if there were no God.
We may not have many intellectual atheists, but we are full of practical atheists.
The word "ungodly" literally means "wicked."
We often times think of wicked people as people who murder and lie and steal.
Wicked people can wear tailor made suits, go to church every week and give money to charity.
Then we move from the sinner to the skeptic.
What is the difference?
The wicked person is ungodly, but the sinner is unholy.
The sinner is someone who not only lives as if there is no god, but knows he lives that way and it doesn't bother him.
As you now know, Hollywood not only flaunts fornication and pre-marital sex both in its lifestyle and in it movies; it actually brags about it.
The Hollywood mentality is described perfectly in Proverbs 30: 20,
"Equally amazing is how an adulterous woman can satisfy her sexual appetite, shrug her shoulders, and then say, "What's wrong with that?" (Proverbs 30:20, NLT)
Finally, we come to the scornful or the scoffer.
This is a person that is unruly.
The word refers to "a dog snarl" and it literally means to "make a face at."
This is a man who is not only a sinner and wicked, but laughs about it.
He mocks God.
He mocks sin.
He makes fun of the whole concept.
Proverbs 14:9 speaks of,
"Fools [who] mock at sin." (Proverbs 14:9, NASB)
If you want to be successful, you've got to stay away from the bad company represented by these kinds of people.
First of all, you cannot listen to their counsel.
You've got to turn a deaf ear to the counsel of this world.
The world is the devil's psychiatrist and you don't need to be lying on her couch.
I had a man come to me one time who was having severe marital difficulties, who was trying to get his marriage back together and as we talked I asked him how I could pray for him and his wife.
Do you know what he said?
He said, "Would you please pray that she would reject ungodly counsel?"
He then told me how she was getting counseled from a woman who had been divorced several times and she was advising her to also get a divorce.
You would be better off getting advice on brain surgery from an automobile mechanic than you would to listen to the world's advice.
Think about it.
Why would you listen to a world full of sin advise you on how to deal with sin?
It is like a man who had a sick mule and he went to his next door neighbor and said, "Sam, my mule is sick.
When your mule got sick what did you do for it?"
He said, "I gave him a quart of kerosene."
The man went home and gave his mule a quart of kerosene and the mule died.
He came back and said, "Sam, didn't you tell me to give my mule a quart of kerosene?"
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