1. Part of the journey involves seasons of affliction, and during those times it is easy to feel separated from God, even rejected by our God
  2. None of us can enter the Kingdom of God based on our righteousness. Whether we realize it at the time, we are being carried through this life by our loving Savior.
  3. Punch the prophet and don’t sell the vineyard.
  4. Everyone is stained by sin. Who can stand before God? Who can dwell in His holy presence? Only the one who walks blamelessly.
  5. Syria vs the God of all creation.
  6. Psalm 2 ends by describing the state of blessing for those take refuge in God. In this life we are often left to wondering why God, who loves the world so much, is so rejected and hated by so many that He created.
  7. When God changed Jacob’s name to Israel, thereafter his story was linked into as God’s story. Psalm 8 speaks of the human being, as humanity, but also of Christ.
  8. This Psalm was written when David had to fake insanity to escape danger as he was on the run from King Saul.
  9. A showdown with the prophets of Baal.