Meditation of my Heart - Part 1

0:00He was wounded for our transgressions. You are listening to the Daily Doctrine Devotional with Pastor Tim McVeigh. Brother McVeigh is the pastor of the Black Creek Baptist Church in Black Creek, New York. To support this broadcast or to correspond with this ministry, please contact us through our website and some evangelists.com. Thank the Lord for those that got another year of life. Thank the Lord for that, another year of marriage. Amen. I'm just glad today that God's giving me life, life in this man Jesus Christ. And we attended virtually online yesterday, the memorial service for a dear friend of our family.

1:04And amongst other things, testified of the faith of Christ. And then the pastor said, I believe we'll sing that old hymn, the Comforterous Cump. Probably a good thing, you know, some folks behind us, we're on pretty narrow country road. Out there near the West Branch of Susquehanna. And I want to thank the Lord for just helping us strengthen in this. The Comforter the Holy Ghost. You don't understand that until you've experienced it. You understand that comfort, that rest that God gives us. Well, thank God for the blessed Comforter. Well, thank God for the help that he gives. And he truly is a Comforter. He comforts us. It's not just in death and in funeral he comforts us in our own foolishness. When we find repentance and the sorrow that can so overthrow us. And the sorrow that attends to us when we have aired transgress God's law sinned against him. And we find that sweet forgiveness of sins, but many times there's a great sorrow that accompanies it.

2:05And can I say the blessed Holy Ghost will take that sorrow away. He'll remind you you're forgiven. Remind you your sins are gone. And I tell you, I find more, probably more relief than that to not do it again. Then I would if he beat me up and chased and me and wounded me. I find that great relief when God forgives me and then comforts me in my sorrow over sinning against him. He certainly makes me think. Well, thank God for that this morning. God for his kindness too. If we're back in Psalm 19 again, I thought I'd get out of this. And then Lord clearly oppressed upon me to deal with this thought to sworn the very into that chapter. Psalm 19 and in verse 14, a well-known pastor, you should have let the words of my mouth and the meditation a singular of my heart. And that is singular. It is a meditation. And the Bible deals with that much. The meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight.

3:09O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. I don't know what that meditation of the heart. And I understand what a day when folks are encouraged to meditate. You go to the hospital, the clinic, places like that. And they have meditation centers. In fact, most hospitals, they still have a chapel. But it's designed as a meditation center. There's always some weird A-flat music playing in the background with some strange instruments. And there's always just some kind of a surreal sense. And there's incense in those places. And there's all kinds of books about spiritual healing, spiritual helps. But it's never God's spirit. And it's always just the idea that we're going to meditate. And the kind of things on the outside, the danger of those things is that you'll expose yourself to devils unwittingly. You'll meditate on things that you have no idea what you're meditating on. And I believe so a lot of people are just filled with devils. They don't know it because they've meditated.

4:09And they put themselves in a trance. And when you put yourself in a trance, you are subject to things that you can't understand or comprehend. That's just a scriptural. The Bible gives us understanding of those things. It's a great danger. And again, we talk about that spirit of slumber here often. And it's something I know I've told confess to you that I'm plagued with that at times. Many times I can't lay down in the afternoon, unless that spirit of slumber come upon me. And my imaginations flee to ungodliness and wickedness. And sometimes it's hard to rouse yourself out of a spirit of slumber. And people have asked me, even recently, somebody asked me, again, what's it doing between sleep and slumber? Sleep, you're in a state where you don't know what's going on. The slumber, you're in that semi-conscious state. You're kind of there. You can easily be awake and you can easily be moved. But at the same time, you're kind of disconnected. And it's an unclean spirit that comes. It's a carnal spirit in the spirit of slumber. And again, so I want to just define this very carefully, because a lot of times you get caught in a straight twist them.

5:14And you'll be thinking you're in a meditative state on God. And your mind will drift into a spirit of slumber. I've had many people talk about that over the years. It isn't just foreign to one or two people. It's foreign to, or not to many people, but it's very common amongst us that you'll find yourself you're mind drifting to a place. You don't want it to go. And so the meditations he speaks of are very clearly defined in the scripture. I do find it a great part of my ministry. And now with children, it's very hard to do so. But when he speaks of that going into your closet and shutting the door, the reason you shut the doors to block everything out, I personally have learned. And I know this is a great offense to some people. Why people pray out loud. They pray loudly in common prayer. But you know, I've exhorted them that over the years. My wife even said to me, because it's hard for me to pray when everybody around me is praying. And I said, well, honey, just pray louder than them. And they won't distract you.

6:15And she was a little bit uncomfortable with that, but that's okay. You pray in a little place where you have to get your mind and your heart settled on God. And you have to be able to pray through to the focus. And listen, if you're speaking to this great God of heaven, I would say there's no distraction that's going to take you if you're truly communing with God. But you have to put yourself in that place. That's why Jesus Christ Himself said to go in your closet, shut the door. You're trying to block everything out. And then you're communing with the most high God. Part of the reason you didn't do the prayer and cry aloud. And this is a statement I'm making to us as a church. I've made it before. I'm going to just add a little bit to it. Because oftentimes when you pray in quiet, you pray in your heart, which again, you can speak to God in your heart. But if you're in that place, one, you're going to fall asleep too. Spirit of slumber might come upon you while you're praying. I speak from example, from experience. The Spirit of slumber may come upon you. You need to pray and cry aloud. He said, He shall hear my voice. Second reason you're going to your closet and shut the doors.

7:15You're not a set of thing out. But then you're isolated. You don't wake everybody up. But by the Herbert, he would pray in the guest bathroom or for a hotel. He'd go in the bathroom and pray. And he would kneel on the floor in the bathroom. And he would pray with the commode seat down. I mean, we stayed in South Dakota one time. And there was no seat on the commode, which is kind of rough. I don't know how many razors we dropped to know that week. But he would, he went and he was upset because he didn't have a place to pray. I said, pray should just pray in the room. I said, I need to get up anyway. At 2.30 in the morning, I realized I should have asked to do something else. But he'd get up and he'd pray and cry aloud. And so we're talking about notes. There's meditations on the Lord. Meditation on the law of God. The Psalmist said it on this wise. He said, the meditation of my heart. That is a communion with God from heart to heart. That is deep calling unto eat the deep. That's what he speaks of. Let's just run that through scripture with the Lord's help. Let's go back to the Psalms in chapter 1.

8:16Very early, this is mentioned in Psalms. And by the way, most of the meditation just speaks of, in the plurality of meditation versus meditate and action, the meditation is all in the Psalms. And I think it's very important for us to understand that because of course we do see Jesus Christ in some of these Psalms. But in Psalm chapter 1, in verse 1, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor siteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord. And here's what it says, and in his law, doth he meditate day and night. Now, his entry says in his law. That's a position. In the law of God, meditating day and night. And who is this speaking of? The man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. That's who's meditating. It's that man that's not standing in the way of sinners, not sitting in the seat of the scornful. By the way, the scornful cannot meditate in the law of God. Centres cannot meditate in the law of God.

9:16He tells you that. His delight is in the law of the Lord. The delight in the law of the Lord, you have to submit yourself to the law of the Lord. It must be your schoolmaster to meditate in his law. Secondly, then we see in the Psalm, this is what I want to go to. Let's go to Psalm 49. Let me tell you about this. Actually, Psalm 5. I was one off. Sorry, but that's Psalm 5. Not that you're eternal. It won't bother you that bad to turn back. Psalm 5, the chief musician upon Nehaloth, the Psalm of David. In verse 1, he says, give ear to my words, oh Lord, and he asked this of the Lord. He said, consider my meditation. So he asks the Lord, even consider those things I'm meditating on. When I'm meditating on the law of God, would you consider those meditations? So again, is it you need incense? Do you need some aflatt, weird, Asian music playing in the background? Do you need a yoga mat? No. It is the meditations of the heart in the things of God. Is that time? And it's pondering, if you will. There's a difference from meditation and pondering,

10:16but it's part of it. As you sit there and you muse over the laws of God, and you go through them. By the way, I think you would muse correctly, because there's times it is great joy. It brings great happiness. It's a great understanding. But you spend that time to meditate in his law. And so again, he says, consider my meditation, harken to the voice of my cry, my king, and my God for under thee, while I pray. Now he says, that was a pattern of meditating. And you see that, and the fact that oftentimes a cry will come out of that. When you meditate in the laws of God, and you go through them, and you begin to meditate upon them, there instinctively is something in us. When we realize we violated that law, those when you're in that meditation, walking with God, communing with God. And by the way, you better make sure it's the God of the Bible. I want to be clear about that. You better see your communing with. Maybe Jesus Christ the righteous, and not another God. But when that comes out, then a cry will often accompany that,

11:16because you'll see the error or the fally, or it could be a cry of joy. It could just be a cry of exaltation, because you realize what he's done. But it's to meditate in his law. It's to sit there and ponder these things, and wrestle through these things, and think over the laws of God. But many won't even read the laws of God. Many will not even ponder them. Think about them. They don't want to discuss those laws of God. And because of the pain that it causes them, we get to meditate to them, is the greatest relief you'll ever find in your Christian walk, or your carnal walk. But it's the greatest relief you'll find is to think on those things. Now we're in Psalm 49. In Psalm 49, I'll begin reading in verse 3. He said, My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and here's pretty well-defined who we're speaking of this morning. And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. Understanding comes from the Lord. The parable of the sower, the only person that has understanding, is that one that sprung up

12:17in bare-forth fruit. This is he that has understanding. That understanding of company, salvation, is understanding that God gives, therefore, you're in this place where meditated in these things, meditating with understanding reveals Christ to you. It also reveals you to you because you're meditating on the law of God and you're seeing that contrast between you and Christ. And that's the greatest thing any one of us needs. There's nothing greater you need in your life. I know it has all the daily needs and the daily benefits and health and everything else they're consumed with, but the greatest thing you need is to see where you stand with God. And if there's a division between you and God, according to the law of God, to meditate on that, it tells us time you reconcile that with God so that there was no separation between you and God. That is the greatest thing any one of us could ever have in this room, is a walk with God like Enoch. He walked with God and he was not for God took him. Enoch didn't come under the wrath of God in judgment, he came under the joy of the Lord in judgment.

13:18He walked with God and God took him one day, just took him on. There was nothing between him and the Lord, can two walk together except they be agreed. There was nothing between Enoch and God. He was nigh unto God and God said, well, we'll just take Enoch with me. And forever, Enoch's been with the Lord. That's a wonderful thing. Now, some of you can wrestle this through, but he took him bodily, but you'll figure that out later on one day, okay? And just as Korah went bodily into the earth, so Enoch also bodily went into the heavens. And some of you can sort that out, but it's a completely one day. It's an excellent study to look at that. But the Bible tells us of the understanding of the meditation. Let in your heart think on these things, and let in your heart ponder these things, especially when you have understanding. But the second part of this deals with this, he said, I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Look at that just briefly in Scripture, but he said, I'm going to incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Let's go to the book of Numbers.

14:19It gives him a understanding of that number, chapter 12. He was numbered among transgressors. You have been listening to the daily doctrine devotional with Pastor Tim McBae. Please contact us by mail at Black Creek Baptist Church, PO Box 83, Black Creek, New York 14714. For online correspondence, you can contact us through and some evangelists.com or through the ministry website, onesoalatatime.net. Music has been provided by Brother Matt McFarland of Surrey Main. And you can hear more of his music at sermonsinsong.com. Thank you for listening. Who can number his generation? Who shall declare all the triumphs of his cross?

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