Wait and Hope in Jehovah
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 11/15/2009 PM |
Text: | Psalm 130:5-7 |
Psalters: | 73, 111, 363, 162 |
Applicatory to the Lord's Supper |
- The expectation.
- The attitude the forgiven sinner may and can have is to “wait” and “hope.”
- To hope is have expectations of something, to long for it, and to be certain that it will occur.
- To wait is to look for something patiently and quietly.
- “I wait for Jehovah.”
- For what? For the light of His countenance while sitting in the darkness of the depths.
- Ultimately it is for the coming of Jesus Christ.
- Who waits?
- That the “soul” of the psalmist waited indicates that sincerity of his waiting.
- We may have hope in Jehovah personally, but we want this also for the church.
- “In His word” do I hope.
- We hope in His “word.”
- What supports patience is the confidence put in the divine promises given in God’s Word.
- This is God’s word of promise concerning ...
- My and our hope is also in divine mercy, “for with Jehovah there is mercy ... and plenteous redemption.”
- Mercy is God’s deep-seated desire to bless the miserable.
- And “with Him there is plenteous redemption.”
- The perseverance and the attitude of the forgiven waiters and hopers is that they “watch” and pray.
- The figure.
- I and we look to God eagerly anticipating an end to our waiting and experience of various distresses.
- Jesus’ coming is said to be as the morning, and the light of God’s countenance is as the morning light.
- We discover pardoning grace through the bright shining of the sun of righteousness as healing in its rays.