This Sunday, we’ll continue our look at the Psalms of Ascent with Psalm 123. We’ll see how on our life’s God-ward journey in Christ, God provides us mercy and grace along the way to combat our sin and pride. We hope to see you there!
Schedule
@945 Small Groups / Sunday School for all ages
@1045 Worship Gathering
@6pm Something Needs to Change video study
Sermon Notes
Mercy and Grace ~ Psalm 123
The sermon in one sentence: Life in Jesus is an upward journey on which God provides abundant mercy and grace.
- The Problem: Pride (123:3-4)
- Pride is a specific form of idolatry
- Idolatry says, “There is a better way than God’s” (false-religion)
- Pride says “My way is better than God’s” (self-religion)
- The story of humanity from Genesis 3 on is that we spurn God and choose sin because we think we know better, though we don’t
- The Solution: We Need God’s Mercy and Grace (123:1-2)
- Saved by grace through faith: Repent of sin, idolatry, and pride; trust in God (123:1)
- Depend on God’s mercy (123:2)
- Depend on God’s grace
Songs for Worship
O Worship the King
I Exalt Thee
At Calvary
Tell It Out with Gladness
Refiner’s Fire
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