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May 22, 2010 - Church at Worship
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Sermon: "He Knows My Name (Psalm 139)" by Randy Roberts
Part 13 - Psalms for the Playlist of Your Life
Pastoral Welcome: Genevieve Koh
Child Dedication: Ira Weston Libby - Rob Mohr
Leif Andrew Crounse, Madison Michelle and Morgan Tyler Ghosh - Randy Roberts
Children’s Feature: Jackie Bishop
Responsive Reading: O Lord, You Have Searched Me (Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #724) Ralph and Patricia Watts
Note: Child dedications are in the extras section of the DVD
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON
It’s affirming when people remember your name. It can also be surprising. When I was a seminary student, one day I met the pastor of the large campus church. His church and school had several thousand members. Even though I had met him, I assumed that, in the future, when I saw him again, I would be just a familiar face. I knew the question that would likely go through his mind, for it has often gone through my own mind: “What was his name?”
It’s affirming when people remember your name. It can also be surprising. When I was a seminary student, one day I met the pastor of the large campus church. His church and school had several thousand members. Even though I had met him, I assumed that, in the future, when I saw him again, I would be just a familiar face. I knew the question that would likely go through his mind, for it has often gone through my own mind: “What was his name?”
Imagine my surprise, the next time I saw him, when he greeted me by name! It was not only surprising, it told me that I mattered. “He remembered my name!” We all appreciate it when such happens.
But, in reality, we likely yearn for something much deeper than that. So let me ask you: Do you long for intimacy? Do you yearn to know and be known deeply, fully, completely by someone else? Do you desire the experience of deep soul communion that is lasting? Most of us do, whether we recognize it or not.
If you answer such questions in the affirmative, Psalm 139 is for you. I don’t know that there is a more poignant statement in all of the Bible regarding how deeply our God knows us. This psalm gives us the absolute assurance that God knows us deeply, intimately, eternally.
At the same time, it also includes a prayer – in the concluding two verses of the psalm – to be known fully and completely by God. It seems, then, that the reality is two-fold: God both knows us and desires us to invite him to know us.
What an unspeakable privilege: to be known intimately by the God of the universe! Precious reality, indeed. And it is to such realities that we turn our minds as we study Psalm 139.
In the name of the God who knows you intimately.
Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor
MEDITATIONS
MEDITATIONS
Our greatest claim to nobility is our created capacity to know God, to be in personal relationship with him, to love him and to worship him. Indeed, we are most truly human when we are on our knees before our Creator. – John Stott
Though you are one of the teeming millions in this world, and though the world would have you believe that you do not count and that you are but a speck in the mass, God says, “I know you.” – D. Martyn Lloyd Jones
