God Our Dwelling Place

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God Our Dwelling Place

Remembering
I shall remember the deeds of the LORD;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
Psalm 77:11

God's holidays – Leviticus 23:1-2

• The Feasts are central to the nation of Israel
  
• A key to our understanding God's dealings
  
• The feasts are central in Israel's life, culture and identity
  
• God established 7 feasts for His covenant people to observe.
  
• These were not suggestions or recommendations but commandments!
• The three purposes of the feasts – God's Great Gatherings
  
• To define Israel's covenant identity with God
  
• Established to strengthen Israel's spiritual devotion and renewal
  
• Established to give a prophetic revelation of God's redemptive plan for the ages

Psalm 90

• The Psalm was a prayer written in response t0 divine affliction
  
• The thought moves from:
  
  • Vss 1-2 God as the eternal God

The Lord Our Dwelling Place

• Verse 1 – the psalmist addresses God directly
  
• Here a great foundational reality is confessed.
  
  • Throughout her history, God has been home to Israel.
    
  • He is like a house, filled with comfort and security.
    
  • It is not the Promised Land or ever the temple that lets God's people be at home, but God Himself.
    
• Like the prodigal in Jesus' parable, to go home is to go home to the waiting Father!

Psalm 90

• The Psalm was a prayer written in response to divine affliction
  
• The thought moves from:
  
  • Vss 1-2 God as the eternal God
    
  • Vss 3-6 To man as finite man

In the light of who God is:

• The problem of man is expounded in verses 3—12.
  
• The thesis is immediately given in verse 3:
  
  • God "turns man to destruction and, at the same time, calls him to "return" or "repent."
    
  • The first sign of 'destruction' is our mortality (Vss 4-6)
    
  • The second sign is God's wrath against us, His "No" (Vss 7-12)
    
• There is a light at the end of the tunnel
  
  • The last word is God's mercy toward us
    
  • His "Yes" (Vss 13-17)
    
  • This is the content behind the call to repent.

Psalm 90

• The Psalm was a prayer written in response t0 divine affliction
  
• The thought moves from:
  
  • Vss 1-2 God as the eternal God
    
  • Vss 3-6 To man as finite man
    
  • Vss 7-12 To God angry with our sin

The Wrath of God

• Romans 1:18
  
• The root of the noun anger is "nose."
  
  • Psalm 18:15 – When God is angry He snorts like a wild horse
    
• He sees "our secret sins' (reference Matthew 5:21 ff).
  
• All of this meditation on our mortality (vv. 3—6) and God's wrath against sin (vv. 7—11) is designed for our instruction.

Psalm 90

• The Psalm was a prayer written in response to divine affliction
  
• The thought moves from:
  
  • Vss 1-2 God as the eternal God
    
  • Vss 3-6 To man as finite man
    
  • Vss 7-12 To God angry with our sin
    
  • Vss 13-17 Concluding that God will be merciful in our need

Return

• The psalmist implores the Lord to "return' in verse 13
  
• Moreover, the psalmist asks that God will now make His people "glad' to the same extent in which He "afflicted" them through the years in which they saw "evil'.
  
• He also asks in verse 16 for God's "work' to "appear' or "be seen" by His "servants.
  
• This psalm ends with the call for the favor of the Lord our God to be upon His people in verse 17.

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25