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SCRIPTURE READING:
INTRO:
Have you ever been pressed for time?
Find yourself intensely focused?
Seek out wisdom and help?
Plead for mercy regarding your shortcomings?
Ask God to help your efforts?
Surprised how much you could pack in when urgent?
Has time ever went really slow for you?
Anticipation drew out the time
Suffering seemed it would never end?
Monotony went on and on while time just dragged?
Humor—A husband once said he had been married 45 years, but it has only seemed like 5 minutes…under water!
Funny how those two last words drastically change the condition and experience of time.
Moses is writing one of three psalms he wrote, and the only one actually in the Psalms.
He experienced 40 years in Egypt, 40 years in a desert, and 40 years leading the people of Israel through a wilderness.
He saw hundreds of thousands, and likely over a million, people die in that wilderness on their way to the Promise Land.
The people of Israel had grieved both Moses and the LORD over and over.
Feared to enter the Promise Land
Created and worshiped idols while Moses met with God
Lusted after the way of Egypt
Doubted God’s ability to provide
Almost revolted against Moses
For Moses, this these experiences had to seem like forever!
…but not so for God.
God exists outside of time, so He exists in the past, present, and future eternally.
God is beyond our comprehension!
God is super (above and beyond) natural (state of things in nature).
Consider some attributes of God’s nature as described in the Scripture:
Moral, or communicable attributes:
Holy
Love
Just
True
Etc
Metaphysical, or incommunicable attributes:
Eternal
Infinite
Incomprehensible
Incomparable
Immutable (unchanging)
Immortal
Omnipresent
Omniscient
Omnipotent
Self-existent
Self-sufficient
Sovereign
Trinity
PROPOSITION:
Psalm 90 magnifies our need for God.
God is beyond our comprehension
We need God.
God made Himself available to us through Christ.
TRANSITION:
Psalm 90 lets us listen in as Moses prays to the LORD.
We will find three primary requests that we also need of the LORD.
Moses describes God’s eternality, man’s frailty, and God’s just judgement of sin.
(vs.
1-11)
God is eternal and timeless (vs.
1-2)
God justly judges our sin (vs.
3-11)
Moses prays for wisdom, mercy, and grace to help our use of time on this earth (vs.
12-17)
#1 Teach us to number our days and apply our hearts to wisdom.
(vs.
12)
An angel appears at a faculty meeting and tells the dean that in return for his unselfish and exemplary behavior, the Lord will reward him with his choice of infinite wealth, wisdom or beauty.
Without hesitating, the dean selects infinite wisdom.
“Done!” says the angel, and disappears in a cloud of smoke and a bolt of lightning.
Now, all heads turn toward the dean, who sits surrounded by a faint halo of light.
At length, one of his colleagues whispers, “Say something.”
The dean looks at them and says, “I should have taken the money.”
#2 Give us mercy that we may rejoice and be glad.
(vs.
13-15)
A mother once approached Napoleon seeking a pardon for her son.
The emperor replied that the young man had committed a certain offense twice and justice demanded death.
“But I don’t ask for justice,” the mother explained.
“I plead for mercy.”
“But your son does not deserve mercy,” Napoleon replied.
“Sir,” the woman cried, “it would not be mercy if he deserved it, and mercy is all I ask for.”
“Well, then,” the emperor said, “I will have mercy.”
And he spared the woman’s son.
Luis Palau, “Experiencing God’s Forgiveness,” Multnomah Press, 1984
From a NT perspective, Christ’s salvation is the ultimate gift of mercy and grace that lets us rejoice and be glad with God.
#3 Make Your grace evident in our lives and work.
(vs.
16-17)
See God’s grace evident in the life and work of Apostle Paul:
During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith.
They began eliminating possibilities.
Incarnation?
Other religious had different versions of gods appearing in human form.
Resurrection?
Again, other religions had accounts of return from death.
The debate went on for some time until C. S. Lewis wandered into the room.
“What’s the rumpus about?
He asked, and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions.
Lewis responded, “Oh, that’s easy.
It’s grace.”
After some discussion, the conferees had to agree.
The notion of God’s love coming to us free of charge, no strings attached, seems to go against every instinct of humanity.
The Buddhist eight-fold path, the Hindu doctrine of karma, the Jewish covenant, and Muslim code of law—each of these offers a way to earn approval.
Only Christianity dares to make God’s love unconditional.
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