Psalm 107
V 4:
Sin: They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;
6 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
Chorus:
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
V 11
11 Sin: Because they rebelled against the words of God,
And despised the counsel of the Most High,
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains in pieces.
Chorus:
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
Sin:
Fools, because of their transgression,
And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
18
19 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
Chorus:
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
When we see the pattern here.
The Israelite's committed sin and were afflicted and then they cry out to God and God rescued them.
Time and again they committed one sin after another.
1. Rebellion against Word of God.
2. Transgression and Iniquities
Why do we commit these sins again and again.
The root of any sin is : Independence from God.
Lets look at Genesis 1:26
V 26: God gave to man the authority over fish, birds, cattle, creeping thing.
They were not afraid of anything.
Today if we see a serpent here, what will you do. you might jump, cry or do all sorts of things. But Eve was not like that. she was speaking to serpent directly face to face. Authority . Where did that authority come from. Dependence on God.
Were they working hard for food? No, God has given every herb. It is only after they were out of the garden - they started working for their food. Till then they were just receiving- Dependence on God.
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
They were naked - there was no ashamed -
Shamefulness - comes from knowing about what is good and evil.
Now lets go to turning point in the history of man
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Knowing about good and evil: Independence from God
This food is good for me.
It will make me wise.
It was pleasant to the eyes.
The moment you are independent from God - with your own knowledge of good and evil.
You will start working things on your own, You will be ashamed.
As i shared before, i am like a person who goes to God only when it really matters.
I mean if there is headache, cold, i wont depend on God. Why to disturb God even for cold. Then if turns out to be something big, Then i will cry out and say God - Its time You step in. This is going out of my hand.
But your Faith in God starts from depending on God for the smallest of things.
Adam and Eve, for food, for authority - for everything in their life they depended on God.
My mother-in-law, if you speak to her-
if you ask her, how are you - she will say - Gods grace- i am good.
Aunty the curry is good - she will say its just Gods grace.
Initially i used to think why she always ends with Gods grace.
And when i asked her, her pastor taught her that anything in her life is by Gods grace only.
Romans 6:14
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Law is about knowing good and evil.
But Grace is all about receiving from God.
The key to live under this grace if
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
V 4:
Sin: They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;
6 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
Chorus:
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
V 11
11 Sin: Because they rebelled against the words of God,
And despised the counsel of the Most High,
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains in pieces.
Chorus:
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
Sin:
Fools, because of their transgression,
And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
18
19 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
Chorus:
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
When we see the pattern here.
The Israelite's committed sin and were afflicted and then they cry out to God and God rescued them.
Time and again they committed one sin after another.
1. Rebellion against Word of God.
2. Transgression and Iniquities
Why do we commit these sins again and again.
The root of any sin is : Independence from God.
Lets look at Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[b] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
V 26: God gave to man the authority over fish, birds, cattle, creeping thing.
They were not afraid of anything.
Today if we see a serpent here, what will you do. you might jump, cry or do all sorts of things. But Eve was not like that. she was speaking to serpent directly face to face. Authority . Where did that authority come from. Dependence on God.
Were they working hard for food? No, God has given every herb. It is only after they were out of the garden - they started working for their food. Till then they were just receiving- Dependence on God.
Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
They were naked - there was no ashamed -
Shamefulness - comes from knowing about what is good and evil.
Now lets go to turning point in the history of man
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Knowing about good and evil: Independence from God
This food is good for me.
It will make me wise.
It was pleasant to the eyes.
The moment you are independent from God - with your own knowledge of good and evil.
You will start working things on your own, You will be ashamed.
As i shared before, i am like a person who goes to God only when it really matters.
I mean if there is headache, cold, i wont depend on God. Why to disturb God even for cold. Then if turns out to be something big, Then i will cry out and say God - Its time You step in. This is going out of my hand.
But your Faith in God starts from depending on God for the smallest of things.
Adam and Eve, for food, for authority - for everything in their life they depended on God.
My mother-in-law, if you speak to her-
if you ask her, how are you - she will say - Gods grace- i am good.
Aunty the curry is good - she will say its just Gods grace.
Initially i used to think why she always ends with Gods grace.
And when i asked her, her pastor taught her that anything in her life is by Gods grace only.
Romans 6:14
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Law is about knowing good and evil.
But Grace is all about receiving from God.
The key to live under this grace if
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
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