Contentment: When Your Soul Is at Rest
Psalms: Transforming the Heart • Sermon • Submitted
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· 7 viewsEmotions are both complicated and complex, both mysterious and mystifying. Even the experts are not sure what causes us to experience emotions. Both social science and neurobiology have tried, to no avail, to explain the origin of emotions. And for Christians, emotions can be troubling, frustrating, and untrustworthy. Some emotions seem deeply spiritual; other emotions seem downright sinful. God created us to experience emotions, yet there are still godly and ungodly ways to manage them. This 12-session course on the Book of Psalms will help you sort this out.
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When things are going great, is this when you seek God’s face? Be real.
When things are going great, is this when you seek God’s face? Be real.
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Be Worshipful (Psalm 62)
This psalm may have come out of David’s time of trial when his son Absalom sought the throne (vv. 3–4), but it also may have been written while David was ruling over Judah in Hebron (2 Sam. 1–4). Those were difficult years as the forces of Saul tried to continue his dynasty and dethrone God’s anointed king. (For “Jeduthun,” see Ps. 39, and note how the two psalms parallel each other in a number of ways.) In this psalm, David shows remarkable faith as he rests in God alone (vv. 1, 2, 5, 6) and trusts Him to defeat the enemy and restore peace to the land.
Psalm 62 - In this psalm, David shows remarkable faith as he rests in God alone (vv.1,2,5,6).
Psalm 62 - In this psalm, David shows remarkable faith as he rests in God alone (vv.1,2,5,6).
Three powerful truths emerge from his experience:
Three powerful truths emerge from his experience:
For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be shaken.
How long will you assail a person, will you batter your victim, all of you, as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah
1. God alone is our salvation
1. God alone is our salvation
For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
2. God alone is our source of encouragement.
2. God alone is our source of encouragement.
Those of low estate are but a breath, those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,
and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work.
3. God alone is our reward
3. God alone is our reward
God Alone
God Alone
“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.
There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.
And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.
And you know the way where I am going.”
Thomas said, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.”
Jesus replied, “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.
I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
The Way, the Truth, and the Life - He alone
The Way, the Truth, and the Life - He alone