03-05-2025 part 1: Not Easily Moved: Embracing God's Steadfastness through Psalm 62
The salient theme of this podcast episode revolves around the profound understanding of God as our unwavering rock, salvation, and defender, as articulated in Psalm 62. Dr. David Spoon elucidates the significance of recognizing God's steadfastness in our lives, particularly during tumultuous times. He invites listeners to reflect on their own experiences of divine blessing and encourages a deepened appreciation for God's continuous support. Emphasizing the necessity of faith, he asserts that, despite life's challenges, we need not be greatly shaken if we stand firm on the foundation that is God. This episode serves as a compelling reminder of the solace and strength found in divine reliance amidst the vicissitudes of life.
The exploration of Psalm 62 by Dr. David Spoon presents a profound reflection on God's unwavering nature as a rock, salvation, and defender for His people. The discussion hinges upon the psalmist's declaration of trust in God, emphasizing the importance of waiting patiently and confidently for divine intervention. Dr. Spoon articulates that true faith is characterized by a steadfast reliance on God's promises, which serves as a bulwark against the uncertainties and challenges of life.
In this enlightening episode, Dr. Spoon invites listeners to consider the blessings they have received from God, prompting them to reflect on the tangible ways in which God's presence has been evident in their lives. This self-examination not only fosters a spirit of gratitude but also reinforces the belief that God's salvation is not a one-time event but an ongoing process of deliverance from various trials. By acknowledging these blessings, individuals can deepen their relationship with God and develop a more resilient faith that is capable of withstanding life's storms.
Furthermore, the discussion underscores the notion that God serves as a defender in the face of adversity, emphasizing that believers need not fear being shaken by life's challenges. Dr. Spoon encourages a perspective that recognizes God's omniscience and sovereignty, reminding listeners that they are not alone in their struggles. The episode serves as a powerful reminder of the strength found in faith, urging individuals to embrace their identity as children of God, secure in the knowledge that He is their ultimate defender and source of salvation.
Takeaways:
- In times of uncertainty and trials, we must remember that God serves as our unyielding rock, providing steadfast support and foundation.
- David's assurance in Psalm 62 emphasizes that true salvation and defense come solely from God, highlighting His omnipotence.
- Reflecting on the blessings we receive from God encourages a deeper appreciation for His continuous presence and love in our lives.
- Our faith in God empowers us to remain stable and unshaken amidst life's challenges, anchoring us in His divine protection.
- Acknowledging God's role as our defender fosters a sense of security against life's adversities, reminding us of His unwavering support.
- The call to draw nearer to God promises that He will likewise draw nearer to us, reinforcing the profound relationship we share with Him.
Transcript
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Speaker A:We talked about that last week.
Speaker A:David said, truly, my soul silently waits for the Lord.
Speaker A:From him comes my salvation.
Speaker A:Verse 2 on Psalm 62 says this.
Speaker A:He only is my rock and my salvation.
Speaker A:He only is my rock and my salvation.
Speaker A:Now, I think a lot of us understand the salvation part is we become more and more aware of God bringing deliverance for us.
Speaker A:We get that, that he has saved us.
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Speaker A:Very, very cool.
Speaker A:But it's really important for us to understand something.
Speaker A:God is our rock.
Speaker A:Now, for those of you that are out there, that are old enough to remember, we're not talking about a pet rock.
Speaker A:That's A very small rock.
Speaker A:We're talking about a gigantic rock.
Speaker A:And he is our rock.
Speaker A:And what that means is he is the steadfast foundation for us that doesn't move.
Speaker A:And what.
Speaker A:Typically, what we'll think is happening is when we go through a circumstance and we're not sure how it all plays out, we think, well, maybe God is over there.
Speaker A:Maybe God is over there.
Speaker A:Maybe he's moving over here.
Speaker A:And I'm not.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:God is a rock.
Speaker A:He is steadfast.
Speaker A:Jesus used this illustration when he talked about people building their house on the sand versus people building their house on the rock.
Speaker A:And what was the big difference?
Speaker A:People who build their house on the rock are able to withstand storms.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:When we build our foundation on the rock, the God that is higher than I.
Speaker A:On my rock, the God that is higher than I.
Speaker A:We are not easily moved.
Speaker A:We are not pushed around.
Speaker A:We are in stability.
Speaker A:We are in a place where we can stand firm, steadfast, as we are commanded in the scripture.
Speaker A:Not easily moved or swayed.
Speaker A:In fact, what David says in the rest of this verse, he says this.
Speaker A:He only is my rock and my salvation.
Speaker A:He is my defense.
Speaker A:Wait, wanna stop right there?
Speaker A:Defense.
Speaker A:If you have a situation and you need to be defended, God is your defender.
Speaker A:The Holy Spirit is your defender.
Speaker A:Jesus Christ is your defender.
Speaker A:God the Father is your defender.
Speaker A:Could you get a better team to defend you?
Speaker A:Nope, can't be done.
Speaker A:It says that Jesus is our advocate.
Speaker A:That's the defense attorney right here.
Speaker A:It says that he is our defender.
Speaker A:It says the Holy Spirit is also our advocate.
Speaker A:Another defender.
Speaker A:We are being defended by Lord God Almighty in all these different arenas.
Speaker A:And we don't think of it in those terms.
Speaker A:We think of the Lord's with us and he loves us.
Speaker A:And, you know, that's cool.
Speaker A:And I'm hoping everything breaks down really cool for eternity.
Speaker A:You need to understand that God is your defense.
Speaker A:And that means that there are people on offense against you.
Speaker A:But it don't matter.
Speaker A:If you are stable on the rock and God is truly your defense, he will defend you.
Speaker A:He said, well, I need this.
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Speaker A:So David says, he is my rock and my salvation.
Speaker A:Hallelujah.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:We are saved because he is my defense.
Speaker A:What do I need?
Speaker A:Defense work.
Speaker A:Sometimes I need defending because sometimes I'm an idiot or sometimes My situation gets out of control.
Speaker A:I need my defender.
Speaker A:And David says this.
Speaker A:I shall not be greatly moved.
Speaker A:It's a very interesting statement in the Hebrew when it says I shall not be greatly moved.
Speaker A:It could be and maybe should be alternately translated, I will not be greatly shaken.
Speaker A:Things that happen to you catch you off guard.
Speaker A:I get it.
Speaker A:But you know what you don't have to do?
Speaker A:Tremble.
Speaker A:You know what you don't have to do?
Speaker A:You don't have to sit there and shake because you don't know how it's going down.
Speaker A:You can stand firm in the Lord.
Speaker A:It's like, but, Dave, this relationship is going goofy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Not bigger than your God, is it?
Speaker A:Maybe it's bigger than your faith.
Speaker A:Oh, did I just say that out loud on the radio?
Speaker A:It's not bigger than God, but maybe because your faith isn't operating, maybe it looks a little bit bigger than your faith.
Speaker A:Here's the answer.
Speaker A:Use more faith.
Speaker A:God is sufficient the way he is.
Speaker A:Do you believe it?
Speaker A:Abraham believed it was willing to sacrifice his son, so much so that he believed that God could raise him from the dead.
Speaker A:Do you believe it?
Speaker A:Is your faith bigger?
Speaker A:Because God's plenty big enough.
Speaker A:We're done there.
Speaker A:But do you believe?
Speaker A:Do you trust?
Speaker A:Do you operate so that you are not greatly shaken?
Speaker A:Oh, it doesn't mean that things don't bug you.
Speaker A:Nobody said that.
Speaker A:It doesn't think things aren't challenging.
Speaker A:Nobody said that either.
Speaker A:But to be shaken versus to be greatly shaken is substantially different, isn't it?
Speaker A:To miss a step is one thing.
Speaker A:To be pushed down is a whole nother.
Speaker A:Well, guess what?
Speaker A:Because he is our defense, because he is our rock, because he is our salvation, not only can we wait for him to do what he wants to do, but we can stand firm on that rock and not be moved.
Speaker A:Isn't this amazing how just these two verses, I mean, it just.
Speaker A:They so connect to us being stable in the Lord.
Speaker A:I think sometimes our instability really comes down to the moment that we stop looking at the Lord and the moment we start looking at the circumstance and just believing it's bigger than anything else.
Speaker A:Back in the day, when I was a younger Christian, they used to use the illustration of the binoculars.
Speaker A:You guys ever use a pair of binoculars?
Speaker A:I have.
Speaker A:So you look in the one end, right?
Speaker A:The small little end.
Speaker A:And then things that are far away, that kind of changes the magnification, right?
Speaker A:So that you can see it better.
Speaker A:I think the enemy uses that, but flips it.
Speaker A:I think he makes us see things that are as bigger than.
Speaker A:They're not actually bigger.
Speaker A:I think he moves it against us and uses his own set of binoculars to help us see things the wrong way.
Speaker A:We need to have our faith enlarged and recognized.
Speaker A:When you see that circumstance, that's not bigger than God, Is it bigger than what God can do?
Speaker A:He who spoke the universe into existence?
Speaker A:Well, if it is, there's something wrong with us because nothing is greater.
Speaker A:Nobody is greater.
Speaker A:No circumstance is greater.
Speaker A:And what do we say all the time?
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:It only takes a moment for a miracle, but do we believe?
Speaker A:I think that question that Jesus asked when that guy was getting healed, just the two blind men, just so powerful.
Speaker A:Do you believe I am able to do this?
Speaker A:So if in your circumstance right now, it's really a little frustrating, you're not sure why it's not coming about the way you think it should, or you're just not understanding it and Jesus is sitting next to you and turns to you and says, do you believe I am able to do this?
Speaker A:Your answer tells you everything you need to know.
Speaker A:Do you believe I am able to do this?
Speaker A:Well, let's see if God is in fact my salvation and my rock and my defense, I think my answer should be, yes, I believe not.
Speaker A:I have believed.
Speaker A:I do believe right now in the faithfulness of God.
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Speaker A:Luke 4, 38, 39, 40.
Speaker A:Which apostle's mother in law was referred to as being taken with a great fever?
Speaker A:Was it Peter, Judas, James, or Andrew?
Speaker A:Peter, Judas, James, or Andrew?
Speaker A:Luke 4, 38, 39, and 40.
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Speaker B:Hello, this is Jamie.
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Speaker B:I'm just peachy.
Speaker A:You're peachy.
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Speaker A:All right, let's do it real simply.
Speaker A:Which apostle?
Speaker A:Let me name them all.
Speaker A:Which apostle's mother in law was referred to as being taken with a great fever?
Speaker A:Is that Peter, Judas, James or Andrew?
Speaker B:I would choose a Cephas Simon Peter.
Speaker A:That is correct, Emmanuel.
Speaker A:You are right.
Speaker A:That is it.
Speaker A:Simon Peter is like.
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Speaker A:Kind of tough to have a mother in law if you're not married the last time I checked.
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Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:No, they weren't.
Speaker A:So anyway, that's an excellent job and an excellent answer, and I have to give you a golf clap for that.
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Speaker A:Praise the Lord.
Speaker A:You be strong.
Speaker A:The Lord is with you.
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Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Amen.
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Speaker A:Don't you love stuff like this?
Speaker A:This is the stuff that I love.
Speaker A:It's like, look at, look at what David said and look at what he says in this very first part.
Speaker A:He goes, truly my soul silently waits for God.
Speaker A:From him comes my salvation.
Speaker A:From him comes my salvation.
Speaker A:He only is my rock and my salvation and my defense.
Speaker A:I will not be greatly moved or I will not be greatly shaken.
Speaker A:That's just, you see, the reason that we get that, I want to just make sure you understand that the reason that we get to have that is because he loves us.
Speaker A:It's not because you're brilliant.
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker A:You're better than this person.
Speaker A:You're worse than this person.
Speaker A:You're this, this, this.
Speaker A:Oh, stop already.
Speaker A:Stop, stop, stop.
Speaker A:You get the benefit and the gracious and the kindness and the coolness and the awesomeness from God because he loves you.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker A:In your heart, even though you've got to wrestle through some things, you know he loves you.
Speaker A:It was an old Pentecostal line.
Speaker A:Oh, I know that.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:There's something to be said for that.
Speaker A:There's something to be, you know, appreciated about.
Speaker A:That doesn't mean that it's wrong or anything.
Speaker A:It's just a great line.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know that.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:You should know.
Speaker A:He loves you so much.
Speaker A:He is there.
Speaker A:You can wait.
Speaker A:You don't have to be frantic.
Speaker A:Look at all the stuff that's going on in the world.
Speaker A:If you obsess in this, and I don't care what political side you are, if you obsess in this stuff, you will be greatly shaken.
Speaker A:But if you are steadfast in the Lord, if He is your rock, if he is your salvation, if he is your defense man, you are good to go.
Speaker A:Nay in all these things.
Speaker A:Romans 8:37 says, Nay in all these things.
Speaker A:How many?
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:How many is all?
Speaker A:All in all these things.
Speaker A:We are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Speaker A:It's through Jesus that we get to do all of this cool stuff, including conquer.
Speaker A:Oh, I love it.
Speaker A:Because God is with us.
Speaker A:And if he's with you, who can be against you?
Speaker A:And who cares?
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:All right, we'll take a short break, then we'll come back.
Speaker A:You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.
Speaker A:Don't go anywhere.
Speaker A:Let's get into our text.
Speaker A:Colossians chapter.
Speaker A:We covered everything, right?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Colossians chapter 3, verses 2 through 4.
Speaker A:Whatever you do, or I'm sorry, it's actually Colossians 3:24.
Speaker A:Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically.
Speaker A:Is something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord because you serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:The scripture tells us that whatever we do.
Speaker A:Now, I've.
Speaker A:We've gone through this a couple of times, and we have to go through it multiple more times to really grasp it.
Speaker A:But that phrase whatever we do happens to mean whatever we do.
Speaker A:That's what it means.
Speaker A:And we're supposed to do it enthusiastically with an eagerness.
Speaker A:Not with an obnoxiousness, with an eagerness to do it as unto the Lord.
Speaker A:So the things that we're required to do that we have to do, there should be a disposition and attitude of enthusiasm that is connected to the Lord.
Speaker A:It's not that you like to do everything, but if you can understand that in the doing of it unto the Lord, you're doing it with a different priority in mind.
Speaker A:You understand that?
Speaker A:In other words, what you do, do it unto the Lord and do it with this attitude of a full heart and an eagerness.
Speaker A:I had somebody, I'll say her name, Suzy Lopez was at kprc.
Speaker A:She was the direct marketing director.
Speaker A:Susie did, the marketing director for San Diego.
Speaker A:She said something to me one time that was so profoundly simple, it was irritating because I had to do something for a client because that's what you had to do at Salem.
Speaker A:And I was like, blah.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:So she said, dave.
Speaker A:She goes, if you can't get out of it, get into it.
Speaker A:And it was like, that was really good advice.
Speaker A:If you can't remove yourself from it and you have to do it, at least do it right.
Speaker A:I mean, do what you're going to do, and do it with the right attitude, do it with the right spirit, do it with this better mindset.
Speaker A:And I think she was more right than wrong.
Speaker A:No, I'm not talking about doing bad things or anything like that.
Speaker A:That's weird stuff.
Speaker A:I'm talking about doing it as unto the Lord and recognizing that when you do it that way, it is from the Lord and only the Lord that you will receive the true eternal reward.
Speaker A:You might go through whatever your process is, but when you do it as unto the Lord, you can recognize that the Lord is the one that brings the reward.
Speaker A:And that's just living your life for the Lord.
Speaker A:That's just good, right?
Speaker A:I mean, that can't be a bad thing.
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