Psalms 119:69 - A Good Lie

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Song. Well, we have some good lying today as we are in the TED section and studying this whole idea of the good, the tav, and as we get to today's verse, which is verse 69, I know it's a little hard, a little challenging to think of a lie as good, but hopefully you'll see with me that since it was good that he was afflicted, as I've read ahead in the psalm, these lies end up being good, although at the time clearly lying is not good. Don't get me wrong on that, but it's good that we're afflicted sometimes with lies, as the case may be. So reading verse 69, it says in the King James Version, the proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. Now, as we've been talking about throughout the psalm, that the psalmist, or the Holy Spirit gave the psalmist the idea of what's in Isaiah 11 about the seven anointings and sent each of these letters, and the letter tet is one of those letters, and it has to do with the tav, goodness, and in so many different ways that would have these anointings. And again, today we get to the fifth verse, which would be the anointing of knowledge, and knowledge from a Hebrew standpoint is beautiful. The inside of that word is this idea of seeing truth, okay? And so seeing the truth in this verse is substantial and significant because, and it's also, I find it absolutely fascinating that King David, the psalmist, clearly is quoting Job with this passage because that whole idea of forged a lie, those words are only used in the scriptures except right here, which are there in here and here with Job.

And so he's quoting something that you remember Job's counselors, they did the same thing and he made reference to it. And so it makes you ponder since we know that the whole concept here is there's got to be something good going on because that's what the psalmist is teaching us. And so here we have the proud that have forged a lie against him, and I'm sure there were tons and tons of places that that happened to King David, it certainly happened to Job, but the interesting thing is where does it happen to you? And then he follows it with, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. And we've talked about these precepts being these ideas that we cherish in our heart. And so those are like, love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and your neighbor as yourself.

And so loving these people that are lying against you, it's an interesting situation. And so how do you do that with your whole heart under this situation unless you understand that if you come down a couple verses, so let me just read the next two verses so you can kind of see where it goes. It says the proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in thy law. Then he comes up with verse 71, it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

In other words, this affliction he's talking about is these people that are lying and these people who are abusing him that are hearts as fat as grease, but he's saying it's good. It's good because as it turned out, he learned these statutes as a result of all this going on. And I think if you look back, you know, we're talking about this idea of the hidden goodness in the situations where all things come together for good for those who are, you know, the whole Romans, you know, 828 idea. So as we think about this, and I couldn't help but think about a story in my own life. And see, you could call this sort of the West Side story because the car dealership I had was West Side Chrysler Dodge Jeep.

Anyway, you may have heard me talk about it before that we had a situation where office manager had embezzled some money and then didn't pay the payroll taxes. And this thing started to collapse and the whole city of Mocksville where the dealership was rumors started flying and some people forged some lies. That might have been proud people to you can't help but know that a lot of times, these people who think they're better than you, you know, they know what really happened. And even though they didn't know what happened, and so since a lot of money was gone, and a lot of things were going on, as you might guess, people were saying that Robbie took it. And, and it was almost unbelievable. Some of the rumors that came back to me at the time, it was crushed me. Because a lot of these people, like, you know, I thought were my friends, and a lot of things were going on. But I remember this little story here. So, oh, you know, all this is going on.

I'm crushed. And I'm, I'm, there's a hill is called Depot Hill, or as you as you're coming into Mocksville, and I'm going up this hill in my car, and I'm praying at the time. And I'm saying, God, are you aware of all that these people are saying? I said, you need to do something to protect your name. Because they all know that I'm a Christian.

He made it really clear in my soul that he's like, Robbie, I can take care of my reputation. Don't worry about it. You worry about what you're doing. And in the situation was, as the as the place was collapsing around us, and it was because the money was gone. And we were having to come in for a landing somehow without hurting people. And so it was critical at that point in time, the precepts that we that we brought the dealership in as a for a landing. In other words, I, you know, God put it on my heart that I was not to leave customers hanging with cars that needed to be paid off or taxes that needed to be paid for the customers, and whatever. In other words, I knew I was going to end up having to burn somebody because the money wasn't gone. And so we worked very, very, very hard, that that would end up being the government and it would end up being Chrysler, who had a lot both of those people had a whole lot to do with the mess that we're in anyway. But anyway, since it we you're here you are in this very, very difficult situation. And I was always so thankful that God gave us the wisdom to be able to walk out of there with the place collapsing, without hurting any of the customers without hurting any of the smaller suppliers, and thinking of, of trying to think of, you know, do the best we can with a very horrible situation. As a result, you know, God used all these things to teach me a lot of statutes, things that I did not understand or never would have understood, had I not been through these things. And like it says, you know, in Second Corinthians one, you know, he, the God of all comfort, I've used many of the things that I've been through for years and years, and with people that were in horrible situations financially, I can relate. I can tell you kind of what that's like. And kind of, you know, what a wonderful time to sit down and figure out what are the precepts here?

How can I do this as ethically as I can, considering that somebody is going to have to lose out on this thing big time. So, you know, again, a lot of people could probably still second guess all that went happened at the end of West Side. But I know that from my standpoint, there's a certain amount of peace that I've really felt God was with me in that. And it was really good for me, as it turned out, that these people forged lies against me. Because as a result of all those things going on, I had no place to hide but in God. I mean, there was just nowhere to go. Because a lot of the folks I thought were my friends, you know, things are just falling apart all around you. So it's a really beautiful thing that when, you know, you're in these situations is a place where God really, really teaches you statutes like nothing else. So I don't know if you would agree that they were good lies, but something to think about today as we're talking about the Tet section of the 119th Psalm. Thank you so much for studying with us today.