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!! Ps. 90:1-17 Significance in Light of Eternity
Maranatha Baptist Church.
Sunday Dec. 31, 2006.
10:00 am
Like any other year, in 2006 were heard accusations of racism.
United Nations special envoy *Stephen Lewis* *accused the world of racism* for *ignoring the plight of **Africa*.
*Mel Gibson* went on a *racist tirade* after being *stopped for drunk driving* and *Michael Richards’* known for his character portrayal of *Kramer on Seinfeld*, stumbled after being *heckled in a comedy club* responding with *racist remarks*.
*Each of these responses* has *differing impacts*.
*Most people* realize just how *useless the United Nations* is often *grinding to a halt* due to *selfish national self interests*.
*Mel Gibson*, with *great personal resources*, is *able to use his own funds* to *continue his own personal projects*, but *Michael Richards* is *quite limited in his options*.
With *little personal assets*, his mistake will have *significant future consequences*.
*Moses,* the *author of Psalm* 90, probably *wrote* this Psalm in connection with *Israel**’s failure at Kadesh-barnea *recorded in* *Numbers 13-14.
*The people* (excepting Joshua and Caleb) *refused to follow Moses into the Promised Land*.
This mistake had devastating consequences for the entire generation.
Consequently, they had to *wander *in circles for *40 years in the wilderness* until *all those who rebelled* (over a million funerals) *had deceased*.
As you *leave 2006*, there no doubt was *mistakes** made*.
There are *probably* *unmet financial goals*, *fitness hopes*, *relational weaknesses*, *familiar alienation* or *personal spiritual devotion*.
*How do we bridge* *a new year* *with past mistakes.*
*Psalm 90* can *help our perspective on the past* and our *expectation of the future* as we *relate to our life* in 1) *comparison, *2) *opposition* or 3) *obedience to God*
1)      Life In *Comparison to God* (v.
1-6)
*Moses is:*
*90: the man of God**.*
He is described as the “Man of God” (Deut.
33:1) which is a *technical term* used over 70 times in the OT, always referring to *one who spoke for God.*
He brings God’s *message* to the people of God to consider their life in comparison to God
 
*God is*
*90:1 our dwelling place**.*
*God is our sanctuary for protection*, *sustenance*, and *stability* (cf.
Deut.
33:27; Ps. 91:9).
* *Regardless of our* *problems, confusions* or *going into the unknown*, *we can go forward with confidence *because *we know the one who* *knows the path before us* and *protects,* *sustains* and is *always there.
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*God is *
*90:2 from everlasting to everlasting**.*
God’s nature is *without beginning or end*, *free from all succession of time*, and contains in himself the cause of time (cf.
Ps. 102:27; Is. 41:4; 1 Cor.
2:7; Eph.
1:4; 1 Tim.
6:16; Rev. 1:8).
*Our intercessor,* Christ is described as:
*Heb 13:8  Jesus* Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
* In a *world* that *forever changing at breakneck speed*, it is a comfort to know we *can trust one who* *never changes*.
*We can always know* *what He expects *and that *we can rely on him* to *always do what He promises*.
*Ahead to Verse 4*
*Psa** 90:4  For* a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
* *For some 2006* was *too long* *with sorrow.
For others*, *it’s** pleasure was fleeting,* but *for God*, His perspective and control of events are constant.
*His grasp* of *our mistakes of the past*, *our worry of the future* or *our uncertainty of the present* are *understood *and *in control by Him**.*
*Please turn to Gen. 3*
 
*Back to Verse 3*
*90:3 You turn man to dust*
* The translation is best of dust and not “Destruction”.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses and other aniliationist like to use that translation to say that sinners will ultimately be destroyed.
* But “Dust”, though different from the “dust” of *Gen.
3:19*, this phrase is no doubt *a reference to that passage*.
*Gen 3:17  And* to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have *eaten of the tree* of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' *cursed is the ground* because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; Gen 3:18  *thorns and thistles* it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Gen 3:19  By the *sweat of your face* you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are *dust,* and to dust you shall return."
* *Sin has very real consequences*.
Because of sin, we suffer against *a plantet in rebellion*, *work is difficult*, and our *bodies** deterriate until death*, when we *return to the dust* from what *we were first created.*
* This year even saw documentaries, like “*/An Inconvenient truth/*” with Al Gore.
*The problem*, besides some *questionable science*, is the fact that *the ultimate solution to the environmental problem* is *not the UN, Keyoto teaties* or *councils on climate* change, but holiness.
* *As we live in obedience to God’s decrees*, we will be *good stewarts of his resources.*
*Please turn to James 4*
 
*Things can change so quickly* can’t they*?
In recent days* we have seen *trees hundreds of years old in **Vancouver**’s **Stanley** park* *topple over in wind storms*.
*Pro 27:1  Do* *not boast about tomorrow*, for you do not know what a day may bring.
*Jam **4:13*  Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- Jam 4:14  yet *you do not know what tomorrow will bring*.
What is your life?
For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
* *We are foolish* to have *confidence in any of the things of this life*.
Things can change so quickly
 
*Things can change:*
*90:5 as with a flood**.*
Humankind is snatched from the earth as *though it were being swept away by floodwaters*.
* Recall just *a year ago at this time* the effect of the Sunami in Sumatra.
Things *can change so quickly.*
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*/Like a dream/*/:/ *This year passed* *like a nightmare* or *fleeting dream*
*Quote: *Jim Elliot wrote: “Wherever you are, *be all there*.
Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God”
*Quotation:* *Where are you living today*?
*Younger people* *tend to live in the future*.
*Older people* tend to *live in the past*.
*Wise people* *live in the present*
*Illustration* Some time ago, *psychologist William Moulton Marston* asked three thousand persons, "What have you to *live for*?"
He was shocked to find that *94 percent were simply enduring the present while waiting for the future*.
They would describe this as *waiting for "something to happen:* waiting *for children to grow up* and leave home, *waiting for next year*, waiting for another time to take a long-dreamed-about *trip*, waiting *for tomorrow*.
They were all waiting *without realizing* that *all anyone ever has is today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes.*
How then are we to *regard opportunities before us*: *perhaps we are too busy*:
*A poem entitled No Time to Play.* \\ \\ My precious boy with the golden hair \\ Came up one day beside my chair \\ And fell upon his bended knee \\ And said, “Oh, Mommy, please play with me! “ \\ \\ I said, “Not now, go on and play; \\ I’ve got so much to do today.
\\ He smiled through tears in eyes so blue \\ When I said, “We’ll play when I get through.
“ \\ \\ But the chores lasted all through the day \\ And I never did find time to play.
\\ When supper was over and dishes done, \\ I was much too tired for my little son.
\\ \\ I tucked him in and kissed his cheek \\ And watched my angel fall asleep.
\\ As I tossed and turned upon my bed, \\ Those words kept ringing in my head, \\ \\ “Not now, son, go on and play, \\ I’ve got so much to do today.
“ \\ I fell asleep and in a minute’s span, \\ My little boy is a full-grown man.
\\ \\ No toys are there to clutter the floor; \\ No dirty fingerprints on the door; \\ No snacks to fix; no tears to dry; \\ The rooms just echo my lonely sigh.
\\ \\ And now I’ve got the time to play; \\ But my precious boy is gone away.
\\ I awoke myself with a pitiful scream \\ And realized it was just a dream \\ \\ For across the room in his little bed, \\ Lay my curly-haired boy, the sleepy-head.
\\ My work will wait  til another day \\ For now I must find some time to play.
*Psalm 90* can *help our perspective on the past* and our *expectation of the future* as we *relate to our life* in 1) *comparison to God*
\\ 2)  Life *In Opposition to God* (v.
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