Points of Interest - Psalm 111

I. Call to Worship: Psalm 57:7-11 

II. Offering passage: 2 Corinthians 9:7 

III. Cross-References: 
A. I Corinthians 15 

IV. Scripture references: 
A. Rom. 1:20 – “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” 

B. 2 Cor. 5:21 – “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 

C. Eph. 2:4,5 - “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)” 

D. I Tim. 2:5,6 - ‘For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.’ 

V. Quotes: 
A. Tim Keller (Counterfeit Gods) - ‘“What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.”’ 

B. Gaebelein - ‘strange it is that with such evidences of supernatural intelligence revealed in all creation that so many scientists are atheists … it proves the truth of the Bible that man by nature has a darkened mind and does not know God’ 

C. CJ Mahaney - ‘knowing their condition, we easily understand their desperate cry. Yet our own innate condition is far more serious than leprosy. In Starbucks I was surrounded that morning by lepers, fellow lepers who were born with a spiritual disease infinitely more subtle and sinister and abhorrent than any leprosy or cancer or virus ever known. Yet we rarely grasp the terrible threat facing each of us in our human condition, and so even less often experience astonishment over what God has done on our behalf to meet that threat’ 

D. Spurgeon - ‘the highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father’