Messages That Matter By Dr. Andrew Corbett

Psalm 5 is referred to as 'The Morning Psalm'. The first of the five books of the Book of Psalms are psalms largely written by King David. In Psalm 5 David is under threat and he expresses his confidence in GOD because he has come to continually experience GOD's care. GOD's faithfulness to him over the years gave him many reasons to trust GOD even in difficult times. Let's consider what we can learn from Psalm 5 so that we too can develop confidence in GOD.

The first of the five books of the Book of Psalms are psalms largely written by King David. In Psalm 4 David is under threat and he expresses his confidence in GOD because he has come to continually experience GOD's care. GOD's faithfulness to him over the years gave him many reasons to trust GOD even in difficult times. Let's consider what we can learn from Psalm 4 so that we too can develop confidence in GOD.

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Therefore, the person who is seeking God, to know Him and to love Him, is the person who treats all people with respect - but especially those in their inner circles of relationships

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Intuitively we might suspect GOD to be unique, eternal (uncreated), infinitely loving (which means GOD is not a monolith), all-powerful, impeccably good (holy), supremely intelligent, communicative, transcendent (unlike us), immanent (close to us), omnipresent. Do all religions present GOD to be like this? No they don't. And when we come to know the True God, it leads to us being positively transformed. Here's how.

The Christian life is not merely the acceptance of a set of propositions, it is a spiritual transformation. Jesus said it was 'better that I go, so that I can send the Holy Spirit'. By the filling of the Spirit we are able to know God better, and love Him and others better.

The Christian life is not merely the acceptance of a set of propositions, it is a spiritual transformation. Jesus said it was 'better that I go, so that I can send the Holy Spirit'. By the filling of the Spirit we are able to know God better.

The reason I want you to know this is because I want you to truly know God and make Him known. It is my pastoral hope that you will be diligent to maintain your fervent love for God through developing your intimacy with Him. And, your relationship with God enables you by His Holy Spirit to be able to love others, and develop genuine intimacy with another human being.

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high...

Jesus declared, "...with man this is impossible - but with God, nothing is impossible!" and the Bible is replete with example verifying this divine claim. When you come to know God you will come to know that He is the God of the Impossible!

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What they told him would have troubled him even more. The prophesied coming king was to be born in the same town that Israel’s greatest king, King David, had been born: Bethlehem. This almost certainly meant that this prophesied coming king was a direct descendant of king David.

The Word was not hedged in by His body, nor did His presence in the body prevent His being present elsewhere as well. When He moved His body He did not cease also to direct the universe by His Mind and might. No. The marvelous truth is, that being the Word, so far from being Himself contained by anything, He actually contained all things Himself. In creation He is present everywhere, yet is distinct in being from it; ordering, directing, giving life to all, containing all, yet is He Himself the Uncontained, existing solely in His Father.

Throughout the times that backdrop most of the Old Testament, the nations that surrounded Israel conceived of a world in which there were gods that ruled over a nation or territory. Several of these territorial deities are named in the Old Testament - Ba’al, Dagon, Molech, Rimmon, Nebo, Bel, Marduk, and Azazel, for example. But the God of the Bible, Yahweh (“Yar-way”) refused to be thought of as a mere territorial god! Yet, despite His constant revelation to His covenant people, the Hebrews, even they could not conceive of their God as being any greater than the conception of gods by the surrounding nations. Ultimately this wrong theology would lead to Israel’s demise time and time again. Then, what the Middle-Eastern Lutheran theologian, Dr. Munther Isaac, calls “the Jesus Event” happened! And once-and-for-all from that time on, no-one could ever be excused for conceiving of the God of the Bible as anything less than the GOD of all Heaven and all Earth!

Charles Spurgeon said that the Lordship of Jesus was one the topic that every preacher loved to talk about but it was also the one topic that every preacher was incapable of expressing adequately. Tim Keller said that a preacher should talk about the message of hope to be found in Jesus as though those sceptics listening to it would say, “Wouldn’t it be great if that was true!” And that’s the Good News about this story about Jesus - it is true!

Throughout the Old Testament, God made certain promises to the patriarchs (Abraham, Issac, and Jacob/Israel) that their descendants, the nation of Israel, longed to see fulfilled. These promises centred on having a holy Homeland and a Messiah. Over the centuries that followed their expulsion from their Land which sent them into exile into Babylon initially and then into Persia, the Israelites became known as Jews. Their expectations of how these divine promises would be fulfilled then became greatly embellished with the promise of a homeland being interpretted to mean that the Romans would be overthrown and expelled out of ‘their’ land, by the promised messiah who would then have to be a powerful military commander. These embellished expectations then gave rise to the Jewish sect known as the Zealots; and, prior to the Zealots it led various other unsuccessful Jewish revolts. But when the messiah actually appeared, He was not the military commander that the Jews were expecting. How could this carpenter’s son

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