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February 27, 2010 - Church at Worship
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Sermon: "Sheltered in the Forgiveness of God (Psalm 32)" by Randy Roberts
Part 4 - Psalms for the Playlist of Your Life
Pastoral Welcome: Genevieve Koh
Pathfinders Bez Rengifo
LLU Welcome - Richard Hart
Children’s Feature: Jackie Bishop
Responsive Reading: Blessed Is He Whose Transgressions Are Forgiven (Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #758) - Danny and Lidia Anamuro - 1st service
Corey Bom and Rafael Molina - 2nd service
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON
Some people spend much of their lives running from the past. Over the last week or so, I have had two or three in-depth conversations with people who are struggling mightily with issues in their past. It continues to amaze me what a power choices we have made in the past can still have over us today – and over our future, as well. Sometimes the past is filled with the pain of injuries and injustices done to us. Other times, however, what haunts us about the past are the decisions and actions that we ourselves have made. What do we do about such things?
Some people spend much of their lives running from the past. Over the last week or so, I have had two or three in-depth conversations with people who are struggling mightily with issues in their past. It continues to amaze me what a power choices we have made in the past can still have over us today – and over our future, as well. Sometimes the past is filled with the pain of injuries and injustices done to us. Other times, however, what haunts us about the past are the decisions and actions that we ourselves have made. What do we do about such things?
One choice that many make is to simply try to run from the past. There are many ways to do this: stay busy, don’t think about it, become obsessively involved in activities or behaviors (e.g., work, shopping, food, drugs, sex) that take away the pain for a while. However, such things only help a little and don’t help for long. In fact, sometimes they become the problem rather than the cure.
The psalm that we consider today has a different way of dealing with such issues. In this psalm – the subtitle of which tells us that it is a psalm of David – David urges anyone struggling with such realities to simply do one thing: Own the past. Confess it. Ask for God’s forgiveness. And his promise is that such an action will make all the difference.
Listen, in fact, to what he says, “Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds those who trust in him” (Psalm 32:10, TNIV).
If you grapple with issues of the past, I hope this psalm’s message will offer you a way to deal with and will bring you peace.
Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor
March 6 - An Exercise in Contrasts (Psalm 36)
March 13 - Wise Counsel for When Life’s Not Fair (Psalm 37)
March 20 - The Divine Citadel (Psalm 46)
April 10 - A Familiar New Song (Psalm 96)
April 17 - Stand and Deliver (Psalm 101)
April 24 - Looking Beyond What’s in Front of You (Psalm 123)
May 1 - If … (Psalm 124)
May 22 - He Knows My Name (Psalm 139)
MEDITATIONS
MEDITATIONS
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. – St. Augustine
True liberty is not found without confession of our sins and the experience of divine forgiveness. – Paul Tournier
For him who confesses, shams are over, and realities have begun. – William James
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance. – John Donne
