 Psalm chapter one as you know this is the Psalm of David you know David wrote approximately 75% of the Psalms and you had other authors you had ASA you have a bunch of other folks even Moses wrote one Psalm 90 and and so these are some great songs the songs were the hymn book for the nation of Israel and they would take these particular songs and put music to them and and these are great great song they they incredible whatever it is you're going through in life you can find a song that will meet you right there and it's just good to be able to go through the Psalm so we're gonna look at Psalm one for those of you who love titles is how to live a blessed life how to live a blessed life we think that this blessed life is something that is automatic and I believe that David is going to show us some things here he's gonna show us those who are blessed some things that they do and some things that they don't do and there are some things he's gonna talk about the first part is negative in the second part will be positive and he's gonna share some things with us and you're gonna see whether you're living the blessed life or not and I believe I'm so glad David pinned this Psalm and God put it upon his heart to do it look what he says there in verse one we're gonna we're gonna look at this song we're gonna pick it apart and we're gonna dissect it and we're gonna have some fun notice he says blessed is the man stopped right there so you thought we're gonna read some more didn't you blessed is the man Escher is the Hebrew word for blessed it means happiness it means contentment it almost has a similar meaning to in the New Testament that that the the Beatitudes in Psalm 5 you know blessed is the man and blah blah blah blah it almost has almost has the same meaning in the New Testament Macarius is the is the Greek word it means happiness or contentment or in Ephesians 1 3 when it says talks about the blessed man this man that we blessed and blessed in heavenly places that's eulogy is where we get our English word eulogy from it means to speak well love but here the Hebrew word is Escher it means happiness or contentment so happy or content is the man who does what notice who walks not in the council of the ungodly the first thing we see is that the blessed man he's not walking in the council of the ungodly let's just back it up a little bit the blessed man is walking it said the Adam walked with God in the cool of the day enough walk with God and was not for God took him Abraham God said walk before me and be blameless we see that the walk David yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil for you with me we're talking about the walk the Christian life is a walk sure it's a run we run too but walk speaks of a continuous action it's not like we are walking then we sit down for a minute now it speaks of continuous action means progress you're walking some way speaks of purpose you're going somewhere the Bible talks about this walk to walk and not grow weary in Isaiah and walk before me be blameless and aim is walk humbly with your God and we see constantly we're encouraged to walk with God but there's a certain way so walk humbly with your God you can walk with God and be cocky and be arrogant you can't bring pride into the presence of God you got a walk before him humbly walk humbly with your God so it's talking about the walk the even in the New Testament it speaks of a walk for we walk by faith and not by sight do you always got to see it are you spiritually from Missouri the show me state well you just always got to see it but the Bible talks about us walking walk by faith and not by sight we we this Christian life is just that it is a walk the Bible says walk in the spirit and you should not for fear fulfill the lust of the flesh it's a walk walk through the script to walk a walk so the question is how is your walk how would you walk with the Lord today how would you evaluate your own walks the Bible says in Proverbs 20 verse 6 every man will proclaim each his own goodness if I was asked you how you walk with the Lord you're lied to me and tell me it's all good when you know it's not good you oh yeah my walk with the Lord is great how's your walk if you want to live a blessed life your walk has to be right blessed is the man oh how happy and content oh Paul reminded us Paul said in Ephesians 4 as you were Philippians 4 he says 411 he says I have learned how to be content I learned how to be a base I learned how to abound he says contentment is something that's learned and so if this Hebrew word Escher means happiness or contentment when we walk with the Lord there's a happiness and there's a contentment that we have with walking with the Lord and so blessed is the man who walks watch this who walks not in the council of the young godly oh we have to talk about this especially in today's time that we live in in what council are you walking in right now nowadays we fail to realize that hey people know more about Freud and Maslow and young more than they know Peter James and John nowadays even in the church we hear people talking about you got to get in touch with your inner child and all kind of mess like that and no more about that hey let me tell you something psychology came along in 1934 as an alternative to Christianity because you got to realize the soul is God's business the original definition of psychology is the study of the soul but the etymology of that word changed to the study of human behavior no the real definition is the study of the soul the soul is God's business the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he makes me to lie down in green passions he leads me besides the steel wardens he restores my soul the soul is God's business and man has tried to take it to make it his business but the soul the psyche that's God's business God is the one David said that restores my soul or poor David and poor Isaiah and Ezekiel who didn't have psychology or someone's couch to lie on to talk to about their problems they went to God David said God is the one who restores my soul I know many of you you can't go to a higher learning of education without studying psychology that's just how the world is the world has just duped us and now what used to be an alternative to Christianity is now the norm now you go to Christian University then you study psychology and now they're saying you can marry the two together now I just say the devil's alive you can't marry the two together I don't care what they say I'm gonna stick to the word says blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly everyone is walking according to some council this is why I'm so thankful for Calvary Chapo's that we're gonna teach the whole council of God this is what acts 20 verses 27 and 28 says Paul says I am free from the blood of all men for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole council of God and if God's word is God's word from Genesis the revelation then we're gonna teach it all they said God's word is anointed from Genesis to the maps to the back of the book amen so we see that the blessed man to live a blessed life we're not gonna walk in the council of the ungodly hey when trouble comes your way and it will come your way who do you go to for council who do you go to for council and whoever you're listening to that's what you're walking in you're walking in that council oh I know what I'm saying is not popular with a lot of folks but you know since when I'm gonna say that which is popular I'm gonna say that which is biblical and the soul is God's business and there are many of you that are walking in the council of the ungodly you have no clue what the Bible says but you have a clue of what Sigmund Freud had to say about stuff and he was a pervert oh just look up the history about how little boys did liking his mother and all kind of where he was a pervert for it was a pervert look it up look the history up today he's revered he was a pervert to come up with some of those thoughts and ideas and things I know you got a and B out of that class I know you did but still so blessed is the man that walks not in the council of the ungodly you cannot be walking in the ways of God or you cannot have a great walk with the Lord if you're walking in the council of the ungodly notice out what else he says nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful I want you to watch this he's walking standing and sitting he's walking in the council of the ungodly that wasn't enough he's gonna stand in the path of sinners and then he will sit in the seat of the scornful there's a couple of people that reminds me of this one is Peter we always picking on Peter Peter gonna get us when we get to happen man you always dogging me down there you know I think you did stupid things for us to the dog you on you know we're gonna have that conversation when we get up there but he says who walks not in the council ungodly no stands in the path of sinners so if you're walking in the council of the ungodly you will stand in the path of sinners it gives the connotation of sinners trying to come to the Lord and you in the pathway you're gonna keep them from coming we're supposed to be the ones who walk in with God and showing them the way this is the way walk in it this is the way to get to God and we're standing in the path of sinners and if that's not good enough we're gonna sit in the seat of the scornful those who are mocking God we sit and we we don't mind God but we just kind of laugh with them and they're mocking God but and saying jokes and inappropriate things and we we don't rebuke them we don't lovingly rebuke we just we don't want to anybody and that's the big thing today we're just ridiculous as a society everybody so touchy touchy and so I'm offended get over yourself I said folks you a mess everybody just touchy touchy moody and but see everybody is so sensitive can be offended but you can offend the Christian all day long and nobody cares about that and I get on them about that I said oh I'm offended too we all gonna be offended let's just sit and be offended together some mess this world is a mess it needs the Lord we know that but we cannot walk in the Council of the ungodly and stand the path of sinners or sit in the seat of scornful like I said it reminds me of Peter when Jesus was arrested and they were doing their thing with Jesus it said that Peter kind of he just kind of went to where they were and he just kind of stood there and then next you know we read that was like in John 18 then another gospel it says that he was sitting among the enemies of God by the fire and we like Peter dude and that's when they began to say oh well you're not with him no I don't know the man which don't matter Peter warming himself by the enemy's fire we cannot warm ourselves by the enemy's fire and not expect to get burned and they said they said yeah you were with him you know what warming himself by the enemy's fire that's why it was by a fire that Jesus had to restore Peter because it was that a fire that he denied him here he is sitting among them warming itself are you hanging out with the people who are mocking God are you trying to be warmed and and get fulfillment by the world's fires we cannot walk in the council done golly and stand in the path of sinners the next thing you know we're sitting in the seat of discord for the other person reminds me of his lot it says in Genesis 13 it said that lot looked and he saw that the fields were green and he's looked at it and he saw Sodom and the fields were green and he said that it was like Egypt we know Egypt is a pituitary type of the world and he and the next thing you know the Bible says in Genesis 13 then he he pitched his head towards Sodom oh he's getting closer first he looked then he pitched his tent then next thing you know we find him sitting in the gates to sit in the gates at that time mean that you're one of the judges of the city oh first you just start off with just looking the next you know you got a little closer he pitched his tent the next thing you know we see him in Sodom as one of the judges sitting in the gates with them no wonder he lost his testimony no no wonder when the Lord told him to get everybody out and he went to his son-in-law's and and they thought he was just joking they said he's just joking and when we try to warm ourselves by the enemy's fire the very people that God has called us to reach we find what they would just look at us as a joke you just you playing right are you serious about this Jesus thing dude you just with us at the bar and now you're trying to tell us see this is what happens we can't live a blessed life by walking in the council then golly nor standing the path of sinners and nor sit in the seat of the scornful but I want you to notice something notice the conjunction but in verse 2 meaning that what he is about to say is in direct contrast to what he just said but his delight is in the law of the Lord so deliver blessed life you're not gonna walk in the council of the ungodly you're not gonna stand in the path of sinners you're not gonna sit in this seat of the scornful but your delight is in the law of the Lord I love that I love it because it reminds me of what Job said in Job 23 verse 12 when Job said I desire your word more than my necessary food Job said I would rather sit and delight in the word of God than eating not just any food notice he says my necessary food that's fruits and veggies and nuts and berries that stuff y'all like to eat out here you know you won't get some real food you come on back where we are we get some good ribs and some mashed potatoes and you know some something gonna stick to your bones you know y'all look at that and say oh is it gluten-free and all that kind of stuff where's the fat-free menu the skinny menu you kidding me we go to place and we throw down so he said I desire your word more than my necessary food he said I would rather sit and feast upon the word of God than I would to eat those things that are necessary for my physical body I would rather take care of the spiritual man more so than I would take care of the physical man this is what he delights in what do you delight to do well you may say I'd like to work out okay that's great that's good but do you desire that more than you desire the word of God do you desire you put anything else in that sentence do you desire that more than the word of God because the little blessed life your delight will be no notice in the law of God and notice how often he meditates on it notice and he in his law he meditates day and night the word meditate there that Hebrew word is a word that that talks about when a cow choose the cudd when the child cow choose the cudd is choosing you know and each and you and it's chewing and just you know and then it swallows it and then throughout the day it barfs it back up and choose on it some more make sure it gets all the nutrients and nuggets it needs to get out of that whatever it is he's eating grass or whatever so this is how it is notice meditate on the word of God day and night a lot of people say oh I'm not a morning person well you need to become one the reason why is because notice if it gives the connotation of when a cow choose to cut and then he's chewing it and then bars it up throughout the day and choose on it some more hey that will mean you have to feast in the morning in order for you to barf it back up later on in the day and chew on it a little bit more some people said well you know I I'm a night person I like to just read at night and you know that's good that's good but if you want to live the blessed life the blessed life the man who is blessed who meditates on the word of God day and night it's not just day it's not just night it's not an either or but it's a both man day and night oh this is we find this throughout the the throughout the scriptures oh we see this several times throughout the word of God and David said in Psalm 63 verse 1 he talked about oh Lord you're my God early shall I seek you in Psalm 119 147 and 148 it says in the night watches I meditate on your word and early I meditate on your word the same thing is said in Isaiah 26 verse 9 the same thing talking about meditate on the word of God day and night is there this book of the law Joshua 189 this book of the law should not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate there in day and night it's throughout the word of God that this is how we should meditate oh when is it that the children of Israel gathered at the manor early in the morning so if you're not a morning person you need to become one because see it's nothing like getting the word of God before you leave out for the day I just wonder I just wonder I just wonder watch this Satan came to Jesus in Matthew 4 and Luke 4 he came to Jesus to tempt him we know those three temptations he came to him on and I want you to notice each time that Jesus stabbed him with the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God he quoted Deuteronomy 6 13 Deuteronomy 6 10 Deuteronomy 8 3 notice that's chapter 6 through 8 of the book of Deuteronomy a small portion of scripture couple chapters and so I suggest to you that those were the chapters that Jesus was meditating on early and when he met Satan that day he was able to use the word boom and it is written it is written it is written and I and he had victory and it says that after the third time Satan had to go and I wonder how many times we were defeated throughout the day that God wanted to give us victory if we took the time to meditate on the word before we left I wonder how many times we would have been victorious but we end up being defeated by Satan for that day because we never to get in the word because we say we're not a morning person I wonder if God wants to give us that word that we need and I guarantee you the word you meditate on in the morning will be the very thing that you would use to defeat Satan throughout the day or it happened with Jesus why wouldn't happen with us so you need to become a morning person and then how is it all my goodness we that average American watches seven to eight hours of TV a day and we have all those images and things and mess and drama and and humor that's called comedy shows and movies we got all this stuff and then we go to bed on that but what will happen if the last thing we meditated on at night is the word of God and the first thing we wake up to is the word of God you will live a blessed life and your walk with God will be a blessed one he tells us right here and notice now he's going to describe it a little bit more but his delight is in the law the Lord in his law does he meditate day and night oh he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water oh really so the blessed man the one who meditates on the word of God day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water you got to understand that is a unique tree a tree planted by the rivers of water has a way of allowing its roots to go down deep the roots of a tree planted by the rivers of water will go down deep and it will grab on to a rock and it will wrap itself around that rock and the stability of that tree it will be shaken but not moved and that's how we will be when we're meditating on the word of God day and night we will be like that tree and we reach our roots down and grab on to the rock and you know from 1 Corinthians 10 for that rock is Christ and grab on to that rock all the winds will come but we won't be moved we will be as solid as a rock because that's why roots are that's what happens our roots go down because we meditate day and night on the word of God and the more we know him the more we love him and it goes down and grabs that rock and we are stable sturdy like a tree planted by the rivers of water I love how he says that and notice it says and brings forth its fruit in its season oh y'all y'all don't know nothing about seasons out here y'all just got paradise weather year-round you know I was hating on you guys last winter when I had to get out and shovel some snow and and people were saying I was sipping on hater aid and I was just you know I just hated you guys out here for that it's just give forth this fruit in his season the Bible says that he that God wants our lives to be fruitful and that he wants us to bear not just fruit but much fruit and that our fruit should remain but notice it says bears his fruit in his season our lives go through seasons so often we don't understand the season that we're in and and through sin we can allow a blizzard and a winter time to come in our lives where God seems distant he seems cold to us and it may not be said it could be sin that brings the winter time but it could be a winter time God has allowed not because of sin but he's saying can you trust me in the winter time when it seems like I'm distant and cold can you still trust me but so often we bring winter in our lives because of sin but not all in not in all cases then there is fall that we experience where things are falling off our lives there are people and things and attitudes that God will allow to fall from our lives and oh it fall can be a beautiful thing well for us it can you know back where we are it's like all of a sudden the leaves starts changing it's like overnight God takes out a paintbrush and just starts painting these colors and it's just amazing thing I I send y'all a picture you know so you can you know and so fall can be beautiful but at the same time that there's things and people falling out of our lives because there's no good for us and sometimes people look at fall as as a negative thing and fall doesn't always have to be a negative thing it can be a beautiful thing because there's some things in our lives that are not like Christ and God will allow them to fall off like leaves fall into the ground oh there's some of you that are in springtime springtime is when things began to grow and things are sprouting in your life and you just walking with God you understand in the Lord and how things work and things are growing that's a beautiful thing where things are growing in your life then there's summer where things are hot and God wants us to be hot on fire for him and sometimes we can allow mess in our lives and next you know all of a sudden it's a short summer and fall starts coming in winter but you got to understand the season that you're in do you know the season that you're in the Bible says in 2nd Peter 5a it says humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he will exalt you in due season there's a season in our lives where when it comes to promotion and exaltation and all those sorts of things God has a season by which he will exalt us and so often we get frustrated because it's not our season and we get envious because it's someone else's season it's not your season Psalm 75 and 6 and 7 says exaltation or promotion neither comes from the east or from the west or from the south it comes from the Lord he exalts one and put another down God is the one that's going to exalt you don't don't try to exalt yourself jinx 410 says humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up God is the one who exalts God is the one who lifts up it's just not your season and so we see that the blessed man he understands the season that he's in who brings forth his fruit in his season and notice whose leaves also shall not wither you know God never wants our lives on the leaves in our lives to ever wither he never wants that oh he will allow it but he never wants it well you know I stumble and fall all the time God doesn't want you to stumble and fall all the time and 2nd Peter 1 verses 8 through 10 God says he wants us to neither be barren nor unfruitful and then in verse 10 he says that if we do these things we shall never stumble God doesn't want us to stumble God doesn't want us to be barren and unfruitful he wants our lives to be fruitful we're connected to God who is life and he wants us to be alive he wants our lives to be alive and so do you understand the season that you're in because when we're in that season our leaves our leaves shall not weather and notice he says and whatever he does shall prosper oh wow whatever he does when we are delighting ourselves in the law of the Lord we meditate on the word of God day and night we shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that gives forth this fruit in this season who leaves also shall not weather and whatever we do is going to prosper oh please don't look at prosperity only in a financial sense it's not what he's referring to it can include that but it's not what he's referring to because remember I quoted Joshua 1 8 9 I didn't finish the quote says this book of the law should not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate there in day and night that thou may do it according to all that is written there and for then you'll make your way prosperous and then you will have good success the person who is prospering and has good success is the person that meditates day and night on the word of God day and night on the word you guys out here you just you're in a mist of what we call Calvary land we don't have k wave back there that we can just tune in to and and hear the electronic seminary going over the airwaves we don't have that oh we got radio Christian radio station and you know I happen to be on that radio station but it's me and there's a couple of national people but we don't have k wave we don't have a plethora you guys are out here in the midst of where teaching this is the teaching capital of the world there's no other place on the planet that has a plethora of churches teaching verse by verse chapter by chapter book by book from Genesis to Revelation there's nowhere else on the planet that is like this and you guys in the midst of it so you have no excuse the Bible said to whom much is given much is required you have no excuse for not meditating day and night on the word of God or you get soon you get in your car and deal with this horrible traffic that's out there all you gotta do is turn on you can listen to two or three studies because you're gonna be in traffic waiting bumper to bumper for two or three hours I don't envy you guys for that I can tell you that I was told hey take your hour and a half to get there today I said oh boy let me early in and somebody take me out because I got here in 40 minutes and but I was I was ready for that traffic traffic is horrible I think y'all some y'all can't drive just darting in and out no no blinker turn signal what we call turns y'all blinker or whatever y'all call that thing y'all don't use it you know whatever it is just dark and it seemed like the more expensive the car the less they use it the next thing I'm behind them next thing they're doing this and I'm like dude what you know y'all gonna have me lose my religion out here I do what was that move you just did I I struggle with y'all sometime out here with that traffic and he says he shall bring forth his fruit in his season and whatever he does shall prosper and then he's about to contrast the ungodly the ungodly are not so meaning they're not like the righteous but are like the chaff which the wind drives away that's a very interesting analogy what they would do and you've been taught well so you've heard these things what they would do is they will you know get that fork and they will toss the wheat in the air and the chaff will keep blowing and nothing but wheat will fall down they will keep doing it over and over again to all they have is wheat all the chaff blew away when you meditate on the word of God day and night you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water who bring forth this fruit in his seasons whose leaf also shall not with him whatever you would do will prosper but here's the thing you will not be like the ungodly the ungodly are like chaff that the wind drives away they are driven away by every wind and doctrine and movement and teaching they're blown away and when you don't meditate on the word of God day and night you will be blown away just like everyone else is blown away by every wind or doctrine that come into the church back where we're from it's not like it here because you have K wave back where we from people think that they're they're telling me something good when they say oh I just listen to Christian radio all day long I'm like where's your discernment some of that some of that mess is some mess and you listen into it you don't have any filters what's right or wrong because you don't meditate they don't meditate on the word of God and they're like the chaff that the wind blows away just like it talks about in Ephesians 414 that they're carried away by every wind or doctrine and when people every isn't there certain churches whatever wind of doctrine that blows into the church that church follows it those are people that are not being taught the word of God like you guys are Calvary chapels we just stay the course we stay the course I'm not up late Saturday night oh God what do you want me to teach your people tomorrow how about just pick up where I left off last week that's what I'm gonna teach you the whole council of God where's other churches they you know it's a topical different topic every week or it's a six week series and all this kind of stuff but we just gonna stay the course and those churches whatever blows through the church they find themselves blowing right along with it because they're not a church that's based upon the word of God individuals are just like that when you're not in the word meditating day and night you will be blown by every wind of doctrine you be coming up in the church talking about some holy laughter and some weird goofy stuff that's floating through the church you can always tell these churches this that's something just left something blow through the church and next you know you just sit back and just sit back and watch next you know they're talking that same talk yeah you know you just got to claim it I ain't claiming that you clean yeah I'm not sick who had you I'm not claiming that sickness you're sick take some medicine nightquill or been a drill you're sick you got a cold common cold I ain't claiming that stop I get weary of that stuff I get weary of it but that's how the ungodly they're driven away like the wind this is therefore the ungodly should not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous there there are two types of judgment that shall take place for believers those of us who are believers we will stand before the Bema seat of Christ that is the judgment seat of Christ Bema means judgment seat where we will not be judged for our sin or sins that was dealt with on Calvary's cross but we'll be judged by the deeds the things that we have done in the name of the Lord they will either be wood hay or stubble or gold silver and precious stones notice gold silver and precious stones are things that can endure the fire wood hay and straw or stubble old King James is something that burns with fire and so when we stand before the Lord and we see his face I used to think when I was a Christian when I first got saved I used to think that you know there was a giant conveyor belt and my works went into this giant and went down in this big furnace and then what came out those are my rewards if you remember in the book of Revelation it said that Jesus eyes are like a flame of fire and when we see him face to face all those works those things that we did to be seen we did it for our glory they will be burned up and those things that we did for God and for the Lord they will endure and we receive a reward for those of first Corinthians 3 13 through 15 talks about those particular things as well and so okay all right my wife said I got five minutes okay all right five minutes all right and then there's the the great white throne judgment which is the judgment of all unbelievers now you said well if the unbelievers are already in hell what they need to be judged for oh they need they're gonna be judge of why they're going there why they're gonna stay there because see you have to understand that everyone has eternal life then you said oh boy I was with you to that statement everyone has eternal life it just depends where you're gonna spend it everyone has eternal life either you're gonna spend it eternally in hell or internally in heaven everyone has it see once you got to understand we are body soul and spirit and if our bodies goes to the ground and our spirit or our souls goes to either heaven or hell dependent upon if we accept the Christ as our Lord and Savior well then Paul tells us absent from the body is present with the Lord so we know when we die even though our bodies will be stressed out horizontal in front of some church or wherever our spirit is gonna go be with the Lord absent from the body is present with the Lord well the same thing is true for the unbeliever absent from the body will be present in hell but what about his body at the great white throne judgment he will be reunited with his body his body will be changed to be able to endure hell for all eternity just like at the Bema seat of Christ our bodies will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of our bodies will be changed so we can endure heaven for all eternity this is why he says that the ungodly are not so they're like the chaff with the wind drives away therefore the ungodly should not send in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the right to this two different kind of judgments that will take place that's why the Bible says in the book of Revelation the book shall be open it's an old saying but we used to say back in the 80s God is looking and he's booking he knows what we're doing and knows why and in what spirit we're doing it in he knows so he's looking and he's booking no one can say oh god you unfair you know you you send me to hell that's not right I was good down there and God would just say roll them and the screens would just start and say wasn't that you right there look look at the screen Gabriel bring bring it out bring you know magnified is that not you that's you right there well see what see God would have happened it's just what it is okay no she said I got two minutes okay they give me enough time to to wrap it up okay all right and verse six the last verse says for the Lord knows the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish the Lord knows the way of the righteous you know why because Psalm 37 23 says the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord that's how he knows our ways our steps they've been ordered by God but the way of the ungodly shall perish or be unfruitful so let me just wrap it up with this how do we lead a blessed life we lead we we lead a and live a blessed life by not doing something and doing something we live a blessed life by not walking in the council of the ungodly nor standing in the path of sinners nor sitting in the seat of the scornful that's what not to do but it's a contrast but his delight is in the law of the Lord in his law does he meditate day and night to live a blessed life we meditate on the word of God day and night and then we will see the fruit of that we will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water the gifts for this fruit in this season whose leaf also shall not weather and whatever he does shall prosper God wants our lives to prosper and we only think okay yeah yeah I can receive that that means my boss can call me in tomorrow and and give me a raise he might call you in and fire you because it might open up to the door for a better job that God had for you down the road the whole time and he knew you wouldn't leave that job on your own so he had to fire you all y'all don't want to hear that kind of blessing okay all right all right that'd be another message that'd be another that'd be another message but may we as his people be a people that live a blessed life where we're not standing in the way of sinners and keeping people from coming to the Lord warming ourselves by the enemy fire but we're gonna delight ourselves in the law of the Lord and in his law does we we will meditate day and