The Great God Is Our God
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
1/1/2017 PM
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Text:
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Psalm 48:1,14
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Psalters: |
375, 322, 398, 134 |
Confession of Faith |
- Jehovah is great.
- “Jehovah” declares that God is the “I am.”
- Jehovah is “great” in magnitude and in extent, in intensity, and in importance.
- He is great in His being. So great that no creature can conceive of just how great He is.
- “According to Thy name, so is Thy praise unto the ends of the earth” (10). As great as He is, so He is to be praised.
- He is especially great in His work of redeeming the church (the city of our God, Mount Zion, 1,2,8; cf. Matt. 27:53).
- It is only in the church that God dwells, making it “the mountain of His holiness” (1), devoted to God’s honor.
- The psalm speaks of an historical event when the city had a divine (and miraculous) deliverance from a surrounding enemy.
- “This God is our God.”
- “This” distinguishes the only true God as the One Who did great things for us.
- With this God you have a relationship: one of possession: “our.”
- One, to claim this God as ours he must first have taken us to be His. He is ours because we are His.
- Two, before anyone can say “our” he has to say “my.”
- This God is our “Guide,” faithful and constant to bring, to drive, to carry, and to shepherd us all the way.
- He guides us by His counsel, feeding and leading us in the ways of peace, salvation and life.
- The Spirit leads us to the fullness of Christ, guiding us into all truth.
- This relationship is “for ever and ever.”