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What I'm going to preach on today.

I think he hit every point.

So, if you want to, I can closes in prayer right now.

I mean you bought you've already heard heard the sermon but he actually did.

That was amazing.

He prayed my sermon today and so so is it is good to be here today and I hope you're here.

And I hope you're ready to to hear word from God today because we are living in perilous times, aren't we?

When you look at our nation in our country.

And when you look at some of the things that's going on in our culture sometimes, we just want to shake her head like or what's going on.

I remember back in 2008/2009 when the stock market crashed when they had all the banking crisis in the Ponzi schemes, and people lost billions of dollars in their 401ks and all.

And I remember reading an article That at that time it was revealed that some of the executives on Wall Street had voted themselves millions of dollars in bonuses.

And I remember reading one, executive One, Man, spent 1.2 million dollars redecorating his office.

and he had a trash can in his office that he paid $2,400 for a trash can.

But yet this is the same people who want to talk about the people who don't have things to eat and how we're going to help them and how they want to take your money and give to them.

But yet, they are redecorate their office and spend millions of dollars and thousands of dollars on a trash.

Can government officials and in Congress and State legislatures, they vote themselves, pay raises and the whole time.

They have the lowest approval rating of any one at any time in America.

But yet they'll vote themselves raises and it just looks like when we see the corruption this in politics and the corruption that's in the court system.

All the corruption in in culture, it just seems like that the innocent the ones who tried to live in.

According to God, we become the victims.

And and we are charged with things.

And the ones who are committing the crimes just seem to get away scot-free.

They're just get away scot-free.

Well, these examples and there's many more.

We have to ask ourselves during this days that we live in.

Who in the world?

Can you trust?

Who can you trust in in our government or in, even in the state legislature who in the world?

Can we trust?

Because we're having a credibility meltdown in our society?

The people that supposed to be looking after the people are not looking after the people.

Well, you say, well this is unprecedented, well, no, it's not.

It's been going on ever since mankind.

Matter fact, King David looked around one day and saw some of the same contradictions that I'm talking about people over spawn, stability and credibility, failing the people.

And that's what we're going to look at today.

How in the world can we live in a culture like ours, but live Above The Fray and not below it, I can remember once when I was working at Nortel at the time and I was talking to a gentleman and he really wasn't complaining about how things were in the world.

It's just that, his life was falling apart, his wife was almost ready to leave him.

He had a couple of teenage a boy and a girl.

Both of those were rebelling.

And he was having some financial problems, and he was talking to me about it one night.

And I told him this, I said, well, you know, sometimes when it seems like everything is going wrong, we just need to look at the things that God has blessed us with, and I will never forget his response.

He says, I want to tell you something, he said, you may be right?

He said, but I am too stressed to be blessed.

now, what I want to talk about this morning as I want us to reverse that because you may be looking at your life this morning and you anxious, you are worried your fretful.

Everything may seem to be going wrong then when you look at the world there's nobody you can trust, you don't even watch TV anymore because you don't know what to believe and what not to believe.

But this is the title of today's message.

We need to be in the attitude that we are too blessed to be stressed.

We need to reverse that.

And what I want to talk about is how do we respond to a world that's in chaos.

So I want you to turn to Psalm chapter 37, Psalm chapter 37 you say well where slimes at Wells?

Right after Proverbs?

You say well where's or right before proverb?

You say well where's Proverbs at?

Well it just is kind of in the middle of the Old Testament.

All I can taste but turn to Psalm chapter 37.

And we going to look at if there's around 40 40 versus in here, we're only going to read first level but you going to get the jest of what we're talkin about too blessed to be stressed.

So let's begin.

Inverse one.

Do not fret because of evildoers nor be envious of the workers of iniquity for.

They shall soon be cut down, like the grass and wither as the green herb.

Trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness.

The light yourself also in the Lord and He Shall give you the desires of your heart, not a good promised, their delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.

Does that mean that every and anything that I desire, that he's going to give me no.

But I'll explain that when we get to it commit your way to the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass.

He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the Noonday.

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him.

Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way.

don't fret because we want people's got money to spend $2,400 on a trash can Don't worry about that.

Don't fret don't envy that.

Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass cease from anger and forsake wrath, do not fret, it only causes harm.

Just worry yourself to death, be anxious, have to be get on antidepressants and all the medication ulcers, you just any and everything, he said, don't do that.

He said, all it does is cause he's harmed.

First night for evildoers, shall be cut off.

But those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth for yet a little while, and the wicked shall be no more indeed.

You will look carefully Forest Place, but that shall be no more but the meek shall inherit the earth and she'll Delight themselves in the abundance of Peace.

Well, in this, these passages here, David gives us some help.

In answering some questions.

So I want to ask you this more.

Are you too stressed to be blessed?

Are you worried this morning?

Are you anxious?

Do you envy those who have a lot?

Even if they got it in unseemly means, do you envy those on Wall Street or governmental officials or political leaders who used striving?

And they have millions and millions and millions of dollars because they're taking it from us taxpayers, do you envy them for doing that?

Well, here's what we need to do.

Only give you five principles that will help.

You keep your bearings in a culture that has lost its moral compass.

We need to keep our bearings, if we don't, we going to get angry, but there's no telling what we may do.

We don't need the stress, we are too blessed to be stressed.

So I want to give you these five principles.

Principles number one, if we're going to overcome this culture, we need to have a confidence that relies on the Lord.

We need to have a confidence that relies on the Lord.

This first principle is foundation to all of life.

Look at it in verse 3, trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and feed on his Faithfulness trust here.

What does that mean?

It means that you're confident in something, you're confident in someone, like I said, many times for the reason, many people don't trust God is because they don't know God, if you don't know God, you confidence in them.

If you don't know a certain person, you're not going to do certain things.

You're not going to let that person take care of your children.

You're not going to let that person watch your finances.

Why because you don't trust them because you don't know him, but he says, in God, we can have confidence that relies on the Lord.