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[3587.00 --> 3589.24] and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
[3589.24 --> 3590.06] again, right?
[3590.08 --> 3591.20] If you do good,
[3591.38 --> 3593.94] and work really hard at being obedient,
[3594.56 --> 3595.56] here's the implication,
[3595.72 --> 3596.30] or the conclusion.
[3597.10 --> 3599.54] Life will be brighter than noonday,
[3599.72 --> 3601.74] and darkness will become like morning.
[3602.38 --> 3603.66] You will be secure,
[3603.84 --> 3604.94] because there is hope.
[3605.30 --> 3606.40] You will look about you,
[3606.48 --> 3608.08] and take rest in safety.
[3608.50 --> 3609.54] You will lie down,
[3609.68 --> 3610.34] and no one,
[3610.50 --> 3611.98] with no one to make you afraid,
[3612.32 --> 3615.22] and many will count your favor.
[3615.22 --> 3621.40] Now read that back over top of Psalm 77.
[3622.54 --> 3624.04] When I was in distress,
[3624.38 --> 3625.36] I sought the Lord.
[3626.02 --> 3628.98] At night, I stretched out untiring hands.
[3629.48 --> 3630.98] I did everything right.
[3632.56 --> 3636.66] I asked God with untiring religious effort.
[3636.98 --> 3638.64] I prayed, and prayed, and prayed,
[3638.78 --> 3639.74] and I did good,
[3639.94 --> 3642.98] and I followed all the advice of Job's friends.
[3642.98 --> 3645.78] And then what does Psalm 77 has Asaph say?
[3645.86 --> 3647.08] After doing everything right,
[3648.48 --> 3652.90] I would not be comforted.
[3655.14 --> 3657.18] You said life would be better,
[3658.18 --> 3660.24] but it only got darker.
[3661.56 --> 3663.42] You said that I would have rest,
[3663.72 --> 3664.12] and hope,
[3664.24 --> 3665.30] and have nothing to fear,
[3665.58 --> 3667.68] that this would work out for my favor.
[3667.82 --> 3669.04] You said it would go away,
[3669.26 --> 3670.50] but that's not what's happening.
[3670.50 --> 3673.42] Look at verse 3.
[3675.24 --> 3676.68] I remembered you, God,
[3677.40 --> 3678.96] and I groaned.
[3680.10 --> 3682.50] Now, this isn't just a dismissive,
[3683.38 --> 3685.42] pre-teen girl,
[3685.52 --> 3687.44] rolling of the eyes kind of groaning.
[3688.48 --> 3689.34] I know that one well.
[3690.68 --> 3693.58] Isaiah and Jeremiah used this same word
[3693.58 --> 3696.98] to describe the roaring of the sea's waves.
[3696.98 --> 3699.52] They used this same word
[3699.52 --> 3701.58] to describe the growling of a bear.
[3703.00 --> 3705.12] So this groaning is a visceral,
[3705.38 --> 3707.16] guttural, soul-crushing,
[3707.48 --> 3709.80] and soul-crushed groan.
[3711.26 --> 3712.06] The psalmist goes on,
[3712.78 --> 3713.14] and he says,
[3713.76 --> 3714.54] I meditated,
[3715.08 --> 3717.26] and my spirit grew faint.
[3718.84 --> 3719.80] Now, in the Bible,
[3719.80 --> 3723.78] almost every time the word
[3723.78 --> 3725.14] meditated is used,
[3726.38 --> 3728.34] it refers to reflecting on
[3728.34 --> 3729.46] the Word of God.
[3730.48 --> 3730.94] So when he says,
[3731.06 --> 3731.66] I meditated,
[3731.76 --> 3733.32] it means he went to the Word of God.
[3733.40 --> 3734.22] He went to the Torah.
[3734.68 --> 3736.50] He dove into what God had to say.
[3736.84 --> 3737.62] I meditated,
[3737.78 --> 3739.02] and my spirit grew faint.
[3740.46 --> 3741.18] In the Bible,
[3741.50 --> 3742.08] again, right,
[3742.26 --> 3743.48] we'll zoom out a little bit here,
[3743.58 --> 3744.68] the Word of God
[3744.68 --> 3746.26] brings life.
[3747.32 --> 3748.82] Think about the very beginning
[3748.82 --> 3749.60] of the story.
[3749.92 --> 3750.68] In Genesis 1,
[3751.32 --> 3752.52] in the creation of the world,
[3752.64 --> 3753.14] God said,
[3753.38 --> 3754.20] let there be light,
[3754.32 --> 3756.68] and there was light.
[3757.50 --> 3757.70] Right?
[3757.78 --> 3758.16] God said,
[3758.28 --> 3759.10] let there be life,
[3759.16 --> 3760.38] and there was life.
[3760.52 --> 3762.54] God's Word brings life.
[3762.64 --> 3763.96] He speaks life.
[3764.82 --> 3766.70] In Ezekiel 37,
[3767.54 --> 3768.54] there's this beautiful
[3768.54 --> 3770.08] and powerful
[3770.08 --> 3772.48] illustration of this.
[3773.24 --> 3774.40] It's a story of God
[3774.40 --> 3776.18] appearing to Ezekiel
[3776.18 --> 3777.20] and showing him
[3777.20 --> 3779.80] a valley full of dry bones,
[3780.20 --> 3780.34] right,
[3780.40 --> 3781.26] in an ancient army,
[3781.46 --> 3781.82] probably.
[3783.26 --> 3784.74] And God asks Ezekiel,
[3785.12 --> 3785.50] he says,
[3785.58 --> 3786.76] can these bones live?
[3787.88 --> 3788.62] And Ezekiel says,
[3788.74 --> 3789.50] only you know,