Hidden Treasures of Psalms 119: Verse 42 - Your Innocence Card

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Song. Oh my, what this verse does for my soul, personally, with this particular vav section, as how fun is this, as we're talking about a continuation that the vav means and there's more. And so, we talked about yesterday, verse 41, which is, let thy mercies come also unto me, even thy salvation according to thy word.

So, this next verse is definitely connected and there's more, right? So, verse 42 is what we're going to study today. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me, for I trust in thy word. And I just, oh my goodness, what this verse means to me. So, as we've talked about many times that as we line up Isaiah 11 with the seven anointings to what this would be, this would be understanding, which always has to do with your heart, because understanding happens in your heart. And if you want a really fun search, just take your like blue letter Bible and put the word understanding and heart together and do a search and see all the places that those things are connected. Certainly in the 119th Psalm, especially in always the second verse, because understanding has got so much to do with your heart.

So, here, right, we've just gotten salvation. And so, now I've got an answer to people that reproach me. And we talked about before this word reproach is that disgusted look people get on their face when they look at you, when they're really upset at you. And you can't help but wonder who's the Psalmist talking about that was reproaching him. And as I, you know, kind of meditated on that, I believe it's Satan, right?

Who's the person that reproaches me all the time? And wouldn't it be good to have an answer? Well, without salvation, I'm just gonna tell you don't have one. As you receive your salvation, right? And in order to do that, I'm going to use the word something God gave me, which is very, very precious. And I will call it my innocence card. Okay. And so if you have an innocence card, and you're innocent, then anytime the accuser says, hey, you know, you're an alcoholic, or you're a pervert, or whatever it is that you're doing, you're a pervert, or whatever it is that he's using on you, hold up the innocence card and go, wait a minute, Jesus died for me. So I have an answer wherewith to him that reproach with me, because I trust in his word, right, that I believe what he said he was going to do. Well, the story that I have along this, you know, in other words, when you understand your salvation, when you truly understand it, do you get an innocence card?

Okay. And so I have a story that is just so meaningful to me, that is a complete application of this verse. So one of my biggest struggles in life, honestly, has been with lust. And it used to be with masturbation as it was, it was connected to that struggle.

And so, you know, I used to just, oh, and this was even after I got on the radio. And, you know, the first years of my ministry and the amount of shame and reproach that was going along with this was absolutely unbelievable. Well, I belong to a wonderful ministry called masculine journey. And at one point, they, my good friend, Sam, who leads that ministry was telling a story about a struggle he was having, and he was going to this counselor. And the counselor told him that what needed to happen was he needed to get in touch with his younger self, which he called a younger Sam, in order to determine what the real problem was, and then get Jesus into that to help Jesus give him, you know, how we always talk about judgments and interpretation of what the events actually were. And so, as I listened to him go through the process he went through with little Sam, and see the cleansing that he got to see the healing he got, it gave me hope that like, man, if this could work for Sam, maybe it can work for me with this horrible problem I have with lust, and so forth. And so you know that the next very next morning, I just said, Okay, Jesus work with me here. What what is the incident?

Where Where is my little Robbie need to get into there where I got myself in the beginning of this horrible problem that I have. And I began to think through and I thought of this incident and that incident stuff that little boys do. And now that wasn't it. That wasn't it.

And then I remembered this incident with a family member, who just basically took off their clothes in front of me. And I said, that's not it. But, you know, I actually wasn't listening for Jesus went on to several other and he just kept on saying, go back to that one, go back to that one. And he was like, that's it right there. And at the time, I was 12. And I really had never seen a naked woman's body before. And so oh my goodness, this one was, you know, upfront and personal right in my face.

And it was actually done, I think intentionally, in order to get me to look. And so as I was reflecting on this, and Jesus was with me, he said, Robbie, you were duped out of your innocence. You didn't realize that they were taking your innocence right there. And I said, but I'm not innocent. I wanted to look and he said, Well, you know, Robbie, here is your innocence card.

Do you want it? Because I want you to be innocent. And I want you to hold this innocence card. And that was exactly what he said to me. And I was like, Jesus, you don't understand. I'm not innocent.

I wanted to look. And, you know, I was very much involved in this. And I knew this was a family member. And I knew it was wrong. And, you know, I argued with him for actually some time. And finally, he said to me, Robbie, didn't I pay enough to give you your innocence in this situation? And of course, I'm sitting there thinking, Oh, man, yeah, I mean, you clearly paid way more than enough in order to give me my innocence card. And I reached out and I took it, my innocence card.

And immediately, I had an answer wherewith to him that reproaches me, okay. Because I trusted that Jesus was giving me this innocence card, right. And I can't even, you know, it immediately healed me was so from so many effects of that lust that I'd been through for years and years and years.

I can't even believe the healing that I received. Because I had that conversation, was able to forgive all those people that were involved in all those years. And then I had a really good time of breaking the agreement that I was what the accuser had been telling me I was all these years a pervert, right? Because I now have my innocence card and such, you know, I now have an answer wherewith him to him, that reproach with me, because I trust in your word. And you see how that got down in my heart. And that is understanding like, I understood my salvation actually has something from my standpoint, you know, that I can actually hold on to this innocence card and cling to it in times where I need it. And so I hope that through the study of this verse today, that you too will get that understanding that being that down in your heart place. As we look at this beautiful like and there's more so there's salvation, right? But now with the salvation, we have an answer wherewith and guess what? This keeps going and there's more and there's more and it's coming next time on Hidden Treasures of the 119th Psalm.