Psalm 146
Sermon Notes:
I. Exhortation to Praise (vv. 1-2, 10)
II. Exhortation to NOT Trust (vv. 3-4)
III. Grounds for Trusting and Praising God (vv. 5-9)
Understanding Holiness
Psalm 99
Sermon Notes:
1. God's Holiness
2. Demands Justice
3. Which Produces Forgiveness and Worship
Light in the Land of the Living
Psalm 27
Sermon Notes:
1. The Lord is a Protecting Light
2. Dwelling in His Temple
3. Confidence in Prayer
4. Confidence in the Future that Waits
The Proof is in the Pudding
Psalm 105
Sermon Notes
1. Summons to Praise
2. Grounds for Praise
3. Canaan to Egypt
4. In Egypt
5. Egypt to Canaan
Reflection Question:
What are some of the works that God has done in your own life that show his faithfulness?
The Lone Deliverer
Psalm 3
Sermon Notes:
1. Enemies of the Deliverer
2. Protection of the Deliverer
3. Peace of the Deliverer
4. Justice of the Deliverer
Reflection Questions:
1) Who are the enemies of God in your own personal life? How can you best pray for them?
2) What are things or people you look to for relief and deliverance?
3) What are your abilities, resources, or relationships that you look to as sustaining you? How can we rightly understand God's use of them in our lives vs. a sinful view?
There Can Be Only One
Psalm 2
Sermon Notes:
1) Rival Kingdoms
2) God's Response to His Rivals
3) The Son Declares Salvation & Judgment
4) Injunctions to Respond
Reflection Questions:
1. In what ways do you see the nations in an uproar against God?
2. How can our response to the nations be similar to God's?
3. How should our "thick, blood-bought, family" relationship with our God affect our thoughts, emotions, repentance, and obedience?
Pride Comes Before the Fall
Isaiah 39
Itinerary for New Eden
Isaiah 35
Main Point: God brings his people back to a New Eden through Jesus Christ.
1) God Rejuvenates a Desolate Place
2) God Goes to Rescue His People
3) God Makes a Highway to Eden
A Diamond in the Rough
Isaiah 29
Sermon Notes:
Main point: God causes his people to see coming salvation out of apparent destruction.
I. Distress of God's People (vv. 1-4)
II. Deliverance from Enemies (vv. 5-8)
III. Blindness to God's Work (vv. 9-16)
IV. Revelation of God's Work (vv. 17-24)