Psalm 127

Points of Interest
Psalm 127
I. Call to Worship:  Psalm 107:1-3
II. Offering passage:  I Chron. 29:9-14
III. Scripture references:

• Prov. 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
  
• Deut. 6:6 – “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. ‘You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when     you lie down and when you rise up.”’
  

IV. Notes:

• Nisi Dominus Frustra – ‘without the LORD, frustration’
  

V. Quotes:

• Benjamin Franklin - “In the beginning of the Contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favour. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace     on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without     his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been     assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they     labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel …”
  
• Iain Duncan Smith (the Work and Pensions Secretary in the UK) “Children from broken homes are nine times more likely to commit crimes than those from stable families … the breakdown of marriage had led to the fracturing of society, as well as addiction, crime and lost productivity and tax revenues that, in all, cost Britain around £100 billion a year”
  
• Spurgeon  – ‘where society is rightly ordered, children are regarded, not as an encumbrance, but as an inheritance; and they are received, not with regret, but as a reward’