Psalms 119:129-144

Points of Interest
Psalm 119:129-144
I. Call to Worship:  Psalm 70:4,5
II. Offering passage:  Matt. 6:19-21
III. Scripture references:    

• Ps. 81:10 – “Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.”
  
• John 7:37 - “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”
  
• Matt. 11:28 - “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”
  
• Num. 6:24-26 – “The LORD bless you, and keep you; The LORD make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace.”
  
• II Cor. 5:31 – “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our     behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
  
  
  

IV. Quotes:

• Spurgeon (God’s Word is)  - ‘full of wonderful revelations, commands and promises. Wonderful in their nature, as being free from all error, and bearing within themselves overwhelming self-evidence of their truth; wonderful in their effects as instructing, elevating,     strengthening, and comforting the soul. Jesus the eternal Word is called Wonderful, and all the uttered words of God are wonderful in their degree. Those who know them best wonder at them most. It is wonderful that God should have borne testimony at all to sinful men, and more wonderful still that his testimony should be of such a character, so clear, so full, so gracious, so mighty.’
  

• Luther – ‘when Your Word is revealed it gives light’
  
• David Mathis  - ‘the love of God rescues us from the wrath of God, without compromising the justice of God, to the glory of God’
  
• Matthew Henry - ‘the sins of sinners … are the sorrows of saints’
  
• D.A. Carson  - ‘however uncivil our society     becomes, we must never be angry     people, but broken people living under the cross’
  
• John Piper - ‘God-glorifying faith is a future oriented confidence in God’s integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all His promises’
  

V. Notes:

• “And Can It Be”
  

He left His Father’s throne above
(so free, so infinite His grace!)
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race.
Tis mercy all, immense and free
For, O my God, it found out me.
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?