A Morning Prayer Series

- Over the course of the game, the contestant eliminates cases from the game, periodically being presented with a "deal" from The Banker to take a cash amount to quit the game.

- Should the contestant refuse every deal, they are given the chance to trade the first case - chosen before play - for the only other one left in play, and win whatever money was in the chosen case.

- Obviously, all throughout this show, the player must make a choice of whether they want to keep going and try to win it all or accept a deal and walk away with at least some money.

- It’s amazing how greedy some people would get as they chose to keep going, even though they were offered quite a decent amount of money.

- In life, all of us have a lot of choices to make, but the most important choice a person makes is whether they will give their life to Jesus Christ and become part of the family of God or reject Him and live for themselves.

- Those who choose to live for themselves reject God’s offer of salvation, and choose to keep living without Christ…

- Sadly, at the end of their life, they walk away with nothing but eternal punishment for rejecting Christ’s offer of salvation.

- Here in vs 4-8, David describes those who reject God’s offer and live wicked lives, and he compares it with the choice he has made to follow God.

- In vs 4, he points out that God doesn’t take pleasure in wickedness and evil does not dwell with Him.

- So as David goes before God in the morning, he reminds himself that it will only do him harm if he chooses to live a wicked lifestyle that day.

- In choosing wickedness, he would not be pleasing God, and he also would be driving a wedge between him and God.

- Those who live for the world don’t care about God, so they don’t care that it’s a wedge between them and God.

- But for David, and the righteous person, it’s a scary thought to think of that wedge being there.

- Anything that comes between our relationship with God should grieve us and bring us to our knees!

- I remember years ago, I was not walking with the Lord, and I was living for the world.

- When I woke up in the morning, I didn’t feel the joy of the Lord…

- I couldn’t even approach Him because I was too ashamed of my sin.

- So, I continued living for the world and put God in the back of my mind.

- Thankfully, the Lord got a hold of me, and now when I wake up in the morning, instead of being miserable feeling distant from God, I feel His joy and peace and thank Him for another day to live for Him.

- In vs 5, David says the boastful will not stand in God’s sight, and He hates the workers of iniquity.

- The KJV uses the word “foolish…”

- Adam Clarke calls him “a madman!”

- Any person who chooses to reject Christ’s offer, and chooses this world over Him, is fighting against God Almighty, whether they realize it or not…

- Of course, that’s foolish because no man and no demon, not even Satan himself, can fight against God and win…it’s not possible!

- But what about the last part of the verse, when He says, “You hate all workers of iniquity…”