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Psalm 16  |  Lance Hartman   
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Series: Psalms

Introduction: The Theme of Satisfaction in God 

• 00:59 | Psalm 16 shows the satisfaction that every believer should have, regardless of circumstances. 
• 01:31 | Our greatest joy, honor, and satisfaction is to worship and glorify the one true God through Christ Jesus. 
• 01:45 | David's highest satisfaction is in God, along with others who find satisfaction in God, leading him to renounce everything idolatrous. 
• 02:17 | Psalm 16 celebrates the temporal and eternal benefits of trusting in and being loyal to the one true God. 
• 03:42 | David was a profoundly satisfied man, satisfied in God. 
• 04:05 | "He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only" — C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory.

I. 04:46 | Four Marks of One Who Believes in God (Verses 1-4)

06:01 | 1. Trusting in Him: God as Safe Refuge (Verse 1) 

• 06:18 | David regularly sought refuge in the one and only place to be found: in God. 
• 06:57 | The prayer for preservation is not based on vague hope, but because David knows to whom he is praying—the only true God in whom there is shelter. 
• 07:27 | A life belonging to our God never goes unsheltered, is never vulnerable to chance events, and is always safe in Christ. 
• 08:26 | No created thing can separate believers from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus (Romans 8). 

08:49 | 2. Finding all sufficiency in Him: The Dual Confession (Verse 2) 

• 09:03 | The Hebrew text uses three words for God: El (Almighty One), Yahweh (personal covenant one), and Adonai (the master). 
• 09:53 | God is My Lord. David bowed his knee and his soul to God in the present. 
  • 10:23 | Each believer can say, "Jesus, you are my Lord"
• 10:41 | No Good Besides You. 
  • 11:19 | David appears to understand that all that we call good in this world amounts to nothing before the only good and source of good who is our God. 
  • 11:44 | God designed humans with longings and cravings intended to be directed toward God alone for joy and His glory. 
  • 13:04 | Believers are now free to bring their longings and cravings under the control of the indwelling Spirit. 
  • 14:40 | The very best this world can offer is nothing without Jesus and adds nothing to Jesus. 
• 15:51 | John Piper is quoted: "God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him." 

16:27 | 3. Delighting in Fellow Believers (Verse 3)

• 16:52 | David calls them majestic or excellent ones, and he delights in them. 

17:26 | 4. Renouncing Idolatry (Verse 4) 

• 17:44 | David is likely speaking of unbelieving Israelites, rejecting divided loyalties. 
• 19:27 | In our day, this represents anything in which people put their trust apart from Christ. 
• 19:44 | The love of God will supplant the love of lesser things in the world (1 John 2:15). 

20:12 | Summary of Verses 1-4: Four Marks of One Who Believes in God. 

1. Trust in him. 
2. Finding all sufficiency in him. 
3. Delighting in fellow believers. 
4. Turning from all that is opposed to him.

II. 20:33 | Full Satisfaction in God as Portion and Heritage (Verses 5-6)

• 20:53 | Using language from the gift of Canaan to Israel, David extols God's goodness to him in this life, seeing God as the one who causes all things to work together for good (Romans 8:28). 

21:21 | 1. God as Portion and Cup: "The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup". 

• 21:27 | God being the portion of inheritance recalls the Levites; believers are the Levites of the New Covenant, being a royal priesthood. 
• 21:56 | Habakkuk’s example shows rejoicing in the Lord even when all material comforts fail. 
• 23:58 | The Lord is the David's cup, meaning that in sorrow and joy, God is the overriding reality of life. 
• 24:28 | We should rejoice in the Lord in it all because it comes from Him. 

25:05 | 2. Reality Exceeds Expectations: "The lines have fallen out for me in pleasant places." Believers have a reality that exceeds expectations. 

• 25:15 | God is able to do "exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think" (Ephesians 3:20). 
• 25:56 | Our cup runs over, and the Lord our God Himself is our heritage.

III. God's Guidance and Presence (Verses 7-8)

• 26:24 | David saw beyond the material to the very presence of the Lord with him, in his thoughts and serenity. 
• 27:00 | Three invaluable benefits of commitment to the Lord are: 
  1. Thinking God's thoughts
  2. Following Him
  3. Resting serenely in His constant presence

27:28 | 1. Blessing the Lord (Verse 7) 

• 28:21 | When we bless God, we say of Him what we could say of no other. 
• 28:45 | Blessing God involves adoration, thanksgiving, praise, and acknowledgment of His wonder. 
• 29:32 | David gives the Lord his mind to fill, his life to lead, and his worries to carry. 
• 30:29 | We bless God by presenting ourselves to Him as a living and holy sacrifice (Romans 12:1-2). 
• 31:20 | We should cultivate the discipline of blessing God by presenting ourselves to Him through the Spirit at all times. 

31:43 | 2. Setting the Lord Continually Before Me (Verse 8) 

• 32:05 | This requires intentionality; we must consciously prioritize the unseen eternal things over the temporal. 
• 32:41 | David had God always before him as his guide and goal. 

33:12 | 3. Unshaken Rest: David sensed God was beside him in everything ("at my right hand"). 

• 33:26 | God has the power to take the shake out of life. 
• 33:45 | Only in Christ’s strength can we stand firm, steadfast, and unshaken.

IV. 33:56 | Joy and Hope (Verses 9-11)

• 33:56 | Verses 9-11 end the psalm on notes of joy and hope. 
• 34:02 | David uses the word my three times: my heart, my glory, my flesh. 

34:24 | 1. Present Joy and Security (Verse 9) 

• 35:23 | His inner person (my heart, my glory/tongue) was filled with gladness and joy because he knew of God's presence. 
• 36:21 | His physical life (my flesh) dwells securely, as he depended on God’s divine protection. 
• 36:51 | Those in Christ should know a blessedness immeasurably greater through the indwelling Spirit. 

37:13 | 2. Future Hope (Verse 10)

• 37:55 | David’s confident hope was that God would not abandon his soul to Sheol, expecting to go there but not to remain there.
• 39:12 | This passage is interpreted in the New Testament (Acts 2, 13) as looking forward to the resurrection fulfilled by Jesus, the promised Messiah. 
• 40:50 | Believers know that death and Sheol have b...