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You Crown the Year with Bounty!
MHBC Jan 7/2018 SH
For the director of music.
A psalm of David.
A song.
1 Praise awaits[b] you, our God, in Zion;
to you our vows will be fulfilled.
2 You who answer prayer,
to you all people will come.
3 When we were overwhelmed by sins,
you forgave[c] our transgressions.
4 Blessed are those you choose
and bring near to live in your courts!
We are filled with the good things of your house,
of your holy temple.
5 You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds,
God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas,
6 who formed the mountains by your power,
having armed yourself with strength,
7 who stilled the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.
8 The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders;
where morning dawns, where evening fades,
you call forth songs of joy.
9 You care for the land and water it;
you enrich it abundantly.
The streams of God are filled with water
to provide the people with grain,
for so you have ordained it.[d]
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,
and your carts overflow with abundance.
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;
the hills are clothed with gladness.
13 The meadows are covered with flocks
and the valleys are mantled with grain;
they shout for joy and sing.
On the first Sunday of 2018 I think we need to begin with a psalm of praise and prayer that declare faith in God!..
– written by king David for the director of music.
Imagine Pastor showing up and handing the words to a song to Kendra (worship leader) and saying hit it.. Music is important … Part of worship..
Last supper… when they had sung a hymn they went home!
Sometimes we can wait for the last hymn and we go home.. Different feeling in this passage..
-Psalms the hymn book of the nation of Israel in worship… Church through the centuries has been shaped by the rhythm of the music in the psalms.
- this Psalm would have been written likely – during an autumn celebration of the harvest.. Picturing the wagons full of the harvest..
People coming to temple of God to rejoice!
- The New year is like that..
It is a moment in our lives we look back and look ahead..
The cross helps us to refocus..
God has been good to us in 2017 .. Always faithful.. forgiving… caring..
With us! Salvation, hope, life, new beginnings..
-missions, hospitality, fun!
As the Psalm says in vrs 11: 11 You crown the year with your bounty,
and your carts overflow with abundance
The climax of this psalm, a stanza as fresh and irrepressible as the fertility it describes, puts every harvest hymn to shame as plodding and contrived.
Here we almost feel the splash of showers, and sense the springing growth about us.
Yet the whole song has this directness, whether it is speaking of God in his temple courts (1–4) or in his vast dominion (5–8) or among the hills and valleys which his very passing wakens into life (9–13).
My question this morning- Can we see the beauty and the bounty that God has blessed us with in 2017?
Can we believe in God for hope and a future for 2018..
:38New International Version (NIV)
38 Give, and it will be given to you.
A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.
For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
:11New International Version (NIV)
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
The nation of Israel faced ups and downs with their relationship to God.. God didn’t change..
They did!
Promise of God!
God cares about the soil of pei.. the soil of our hearts!
:14New International Version (NIV)
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Have you ever listened to a song that made you speechless?
The words penetrating the heart!
The Bible has that power.
Speechless praise!
vs 1 – begins Praise awaits you in this place…
‘Praise waiteth for thee’ (av, rv): lit., ‘Praise is silence for thee’, or (Delitzsch) ‘Silence is praise’; and compare 62:1 ().
It may sometimes be the height of worship, in other words, to fall silent before God in awe at his presence and in submission to his will.
Disciples in the boat!
Who is this man that even the wind and the waves obey him!
Praise God for his Grace.
65:1–4.
God of grace- The concept of grace is foreign to the thinking of much of the world.
Grace from God is the best gift we can receive.
Grace is about forgiveness, deeper than that it is about blessings.. God’s riches as Christ’s expense.
Abramham- God's Covenant with Abram gen 15:6
…5And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them."
And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be." 6Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."…
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called a friend of God.
This opening suggests a throng of worshippers at the temple, celebrating a renewal of God’s mercy and the answer to their prayers.
Perhaps, to judge from the way the psalm ends, his displeasure had been shown by drought and shortage; but their first joy is that they are now reconciled, and welcome at his house.
Vs 1-4 remind us of the promise of God for forgiveness.
We are called to own up to our sins and failings through repentence and then we experience forgiveness!
1jn 1:9-1 :9New International Version (NIV)
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sinsand purify us from all unrighteousness.
Sin – separates and bring death.. Forgiveness brings life.. hope..
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