Psalm 90

Intro:

This psalm teaches us to have an eternal perspective. We recently studied 1 Corinthians and studied the resurrection. We need to live out of the perspective of our eternal life into this earth. We need to focus on eternal values and consequences.

This world is full of distractions. I believe that the devil is constantly throwing distractions our way to keep us from considering the eternal consequences, and most importantly, the eternal God

When our lives are focused on the hear and now, we have a really hard time accepting pain. We are so self centered, and focused on the present, that a pain, hard pain, ruins us. We think that a good God cannot allow it.

This is why we must come together every Sunday to be reminded of what really matters, to set the perspective straight

God gives us songs to sing to prepare us for hardships and this is one of them. Many Christians are not prepared for hardships. We don’t like to talk about it so when it hits, then we aren’t ready. God gives us songs that mourn pain and death.

God is our dwelling place (v1-2)

we our sojourners as were the Israelites

God’s eternality is the solution to our passing away

we are passing away (3-11)

This is because of our sin (7-11)

People ask, how can a God allow suffering? Here the suffering is directly linked to our sin. The question is not, why suffering? but why sin?

Man returns to dust only because of their sin. Death is unnatural to God’s design. It doesn’t fit. It is wrong.

Two weeks ago we spoke about the resurrection. How the first man was made from dust and must return to dust, and how the second man came from heaven. The reason that man returns to dust is because they sinned. It is not because God created us unholy or mortal. He created us immortal, but our sin brought mortality into the world. The wages of sin is death. Because we sinned, our whole selves died and our wholes selves needed salvation. so Jesus, the 2nd Adam, the man from heaven, came to earth to save us. If we believe in Jesus, we are no longer in sin and mortality, but we are forgiven, and we will be raised to life with bodies that are no longer bound by sin and mortality, but are freed from sin and immortality. We are no longer identified as children of Adam, but of Children of Jesus. Our bodies will no longer be under the curse of Adam, but liberated to glorious eternal life in Christ.

Sin is serious (8).

The secret sins are those that no one knows about, sometimes not even ourselves. They are the ones we think have no consequences, otherwise they would not be secret. But they lead to death. Do not play around with sin. Follow Christ. Obey Scripture!

We rarely recognize this disastrous effect of our sin because we are so focused on the here and now, we have a hear and now perspective instead of an eternal perspective. We are distracted by the immediacy of this life. There are countless distractions.

God is our dwelling place (v1-2)

we our sojourners as were the Israelites

God’s eternality is the solution to our passing away

God has been God from before the mountains were form. Before anything else existed, God was, even though there were no eyes to witness him. God has never changed. He remains the same. This includes his unchanging faithfulness to his people.

We can trust that he will remain the same to us.

When life is hard and it feels like God has forsaken us, remember these promises. We don’t just have a few years of God’s unchanging behavior to guarantee that he will be unchanging and faithful to us, we have eternity past as a witness to God’s never ending goodness. He is consistent. He doesn’t decide every morning if he will love us or not based off of his emotions. (like many church goers). He is committed to us and loves us every day the same.

Teach us to number our days (11-12)

We are living a lie! We don’t fear God. We are living an illusion that our lives will go on forever, and that our sin has no consequences.

Return O Lord!