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Today I want to talk about two verses in the Bible both of which we are very familiar with but for some reason we really have never put them together as partners in the message of God.
In Psalm one we read “blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
That’s *Psalm 1:1-2.
*What is the first thing from reading this verse that we can glean from this verse?
It’s the very first word.
Blessed.
What does it mean to be blessed?
IN Merriam Webster’s Dictionary there are several definitions:
Held in reverence, honored in worship, of or enjoying happiness, especially, specifically enjoying the bliss of heaven or bringing pleasure, contentment or good fortune.
IN the New Bible Dictionary it is a word which has two meanings.
When applied to God it has a sense of praise.
And when used of a man it denotes a state of happiness.
So blessed is a man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
So what does that mean?
Happy?
Man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.
Ungodly.
Who are they?
Are they the sinners in this world?
Yes.
Are they the things that as Christians we should not be doing?
Yes.
So where is our happiness?
When we are not walking in sin.
But listen to this.
This verse goes on because it describes our lot in life the things we have to endure the temptations that Satan throws in our path to affect our walk.
To affect our rewards in heaven to affect our lives and our relationship with Jesus Christ.
Blessed is the man that standeth not in the way of sinners.
Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Three different forms of movement here.
And we all do this we are either sitting or standing or walking.
Now as I think of this it makes me think okay what is sitting?
If we’re sitting in the seat of the scornful do you know what we’re doing we’re joining in we’re partners in crime.
We’re going up and we’re joining in on the sin.
For some maybe it’s pornography, for others maybe it’s that third or fourth helping at the buffet.
All of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
All of us it’s not a surprise that we fail.
So we sit in the seat of the scornful were doing the things that we shouldn’t be doing were sitting and we shouldn’t be because we have no blessing in that.
Okay so what if were standing in the way of sinners what does that mean?
Well let’s put it this way if seated we’re joining in I. Then standing I picture it as us looking in upon sin --we are so tempted.
It looks so inviting we're standing on the fence wanting to join in.
We’re standing there saying I want to be in that.
It looks so good.
So fun but you know what?
It’s still sin because if you’re standing there looking in your not looking where you’re going and you’re just going to walk into a wall, a door, or another person.
or your head is so turned away from the path that God has laid out in front of you that where it turns you don’t see that turn and since your focus is on that sinful desire over here when your turn comes up you miss it.
How many people have ever gone down the highway and you get so involved maybe listening to the radio or something like that you miss your exit?
Yeah that’s what happens here we miss the opportunity because we’re not focused on where we’re going.
We’re focused on where we’d like to be.
The next thing we can do as Christians is we can walk not in the counsel of the ungodly when we do that when we are not walking in the counsel of the ungodly we are walking in the counsel of the godly.
Right?
So what does that mean if we are walking in the Counsel of the godly?
We’re focused on where we’re going.
We’re not looking at other things to snare us.
We’re going; we’re staying the course that God has put us on.
We’re not wandering from his path.
His path is the path of righteousness.
It is the path of righteousness because as Christians we are given Christ’s righteousness.
We have his righteousness in us.
We are made right before God.
But we falter and that’s why we have to be wary of what we’re doing as we go through life whether were standing sitting or walking.
Now in order to walk this walk what must we do?
We have to take delight in the law of the Lord.
How do we do that?
How can we take delight in the law of the Lord?
First of all what is the law of the Lord?
Is it the Mosaic Law?
In part.
All those commandments?
In part.
But the law of the Lord is a way of living.
It is who we are as Christians.
Do you take delight in Jesus Christ?
Do you delight in knowing that your actions serve God?
That your actions reflect Christ’s love within you?
So what is the best thing that we can do that allows us to take delight in the law of the Lord?
Where do we find it?
The law of the Lord is the Bible.
It is God’s holy word preserved for us that it may instruct us in all righteousness.
Second Timothy 3:16 says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.
It is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness.
That the man of God may be perfect totally furnished unto all good works.
Scripture is profitable.
Scripture teaches us doctrine it teaches us what God expects us to believe.
It teaches us the foundation of our faith.
It teaches us how to correct how to deal with instances of wrongness.
Of wrongdoing and instructs us how to be righteous.
The next verse continues in Psalm one verse three.
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
That bring it forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
This is a beautiful picture of what being in God’s word means.
It shows us what it makes us like.
It shows us the after effects of being in God’s word.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
A tree!
Not a sapling, not a flower, but a tree!
A big sturdy tree!
You know what it’s by the water, it’s by the river.
You’ll never be thirsty.
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