Psalm 120

I. Call to Worship:  Psalm 89:1
II. Offering passage:  Proverbs 3:9
III. Scripture references:

• Ps. 122:1 – “I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘let us     go to the house of the     LORD’”
  
• 122:2 – “our feet are standing in your gates O Jerusalem”
  
• 132:7 – “let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool”
  
• Eph. 2:1 – “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins”
  
• 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)”
  
• Phil. 3:20 – “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ”
  

IV. Cross-references:

• I Peter 2:11,12
  

V. Quotes:

• Derek Kidner - ‘it appropriately begins the series in a distant land, so that we join the pilgrims as they set out on a journey which, in broad outline, will bring us to Jerusalem in Psalm 122, and, in the last psalms of the group, to the ark, the priests and the Temple servants who minister, by turns, day and night at the house of the LORD’