21. Phone conversations about anything and everything
22. Great friends
23. Seed buns
24. Pancakes
25. Siblings
26. Spring coming
27. Mangoes on sale
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Amazing Grace!
Basic summary of this morning's sermon;
Psalm 22. David wrote this psalm about a thousand years before Christ died. He was running from Saul.
The first 21 verses are of suffering and lament, midway verse 21 and the remainder is thanksgiving.
This is a psalm that is about Jesus Christ, but it is also our song, written by a man.
God often seems distant during times of hardship. David asks Him to be near three times in this psalm. If David (or we) didn't have God, he wouldn't have anything. No hope, no future, no reason to live.
Jesus teaches us to call God our Father, but when He was dying on the cross, He called Him 'My God'. He was truly forsaken by His Father.
How could God forsake God?
David felt forsaken, but God was near him all the time, because Jesus went through being really forsaken, He took away the separation that we had created between us and God.
David felt like God was far away, but he continued to trust in Him.
The suffering described in psalm 22 is extreme, David was speaking metaphorically. Someone today might say 'I feel like I got hit by a truck'. It is more expressive of the actual pain someone is going through.
David described the worst spiritual and physical suffering he could imagine, Christ was forsaken by God and died on a cross. And He referenced David's psalm.
If Christ had not come, our suffering would be meaningless. But He did, and our suffering is like the last few blows of an already defeated enemy. Painful, but we know we've won.
When we are suffering, we need to go to Jesus, because He knows what we are going through and can help us.
David was answered in the middle of his prayer, and goes on from suffering to thanksgiving and praise. Verse 21 he demands help, mid-way the verse, he received help 'from the horns of the wild oxen' as he says.
God did not deliver Jesus, but He was resurrected after He had gone through everything. Jesus went through more than David did, or than he imagined in his psalm. God saves us in a way that's more than we could imagine.
God is beyond our imagination.
These are basically the exact notes I wrote in church.
It was an awesome sermon. Tonight's sermon was amazing as well, but in a more personal way. Submitting fully to God's will, and being happy while doing it. Thy will be done in the Lord's prayer. LD 49.
17. Quiet.
18. God's blessing of an amazing pastor.
19. Books.
20. Being able to give to people.
Psalm 22. David wrote this psalm about a thousand years before Christ died. He was running from Saul.
The first 21 verses are of suffering and lament, midway verse 21 and the remainder is thanksgiving.
This is a psalm that is about Jesus Christ, but it is also our song, written by a man.
God often seems distant during times of hardship. David asks Him to be near three times in this psalm. If David (or we) didn't have God, he wouldn't have anything. No hope, no future, no reason to live.
Jesus teaches us to call God our Father, but when He was dying on the cross, He called Him 'My God'. He was truly forsaken by His Father.
How could God forsake God?
David felt forsaken, but God was near him all the time, because Jesus went through being really forsaken, He took away the separation that we had created between us and God.
David felt like God was far away, but he continued to trust in Him.
The suffering described in psalm 22 is extreme, David was speaking metaphorically. Someone today might say 'I feel like I got hit by a truck'. It is more expressive of the actual pain someone is going through.
David described the worst spiritual and physical suffering he could imagine, Christ was forsaken by God and died on a cross. And He referenced David's psalm.
If Christ had not come, our suffering would be meaningless. But He did, and our suffering is like the last few blows of an already defeated enemy. Painful, but we know we've won.
When we are suffering, we need to go to Jesus, because He knows what we are going through and can help us.
David was answered in the middle of his prayer, and goes on from suffering to thanksgiving and praise. Verse 21 he demands help, mid-way the verse, he received help 'from the horns of the wild oxen' as he says.
God did not deliver Jesus, but He was resurrected after He had gone through everything. Jesus went through more than David did, or than he imagined in his psalm. God saves us in a way that's more than we could imagine.
God is beyond our imagination.
These are basically the exact notes I wrote in church.
It was an awesome sermon. Tonight's sermon was amazing as well, but in a more personal way. Submitting fully to God's will, and being happy while doing it. Thy will be done in the Lord's prayer. LD 49.
17. Quiet.
18. God's blessing of an amazing pastor.
19. Books.
20. Being able to give to people.
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