Formed in a New Community

Formation: In Christ, with Community, for the City PART I
24 September 2017
Reverend Abe Cho

Psalm 95
1Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with music and song.
3For the Lord is the great God,
    the great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the depths of the earth,
    and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5The sea is his, for he made it,
    and his hands formed the dry land.
6Come, let us bow down in worship,
    let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
7for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,
    the flock under his care.
    Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8"Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
    as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9where your ancestors tested me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10For forty years I was angry with that generation;
    I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray,
    and they have not known my ways.'
11So I declared on oath in my anger,
    'They shall never enter my rest.'"

What worship can do for you...

REORIENTS (v1-6)
--We have all multiple and fragmented desires.
--We want everything, but they end up destroying us in the end.
--Which desire should we give our lives to
--PRAISE - v1 - Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord...

GROUNDS US (v6-8)
--Does our pursuit of comfort, wealth, status become our atonement process?
--We strive to convince ourselves that we are ok.

CHANGES US (v8-11)
--The end of Psalm 95 - never rests
--Author of Hebrews comments that this is a search that never ends.
--We are no longer the heroic figure in our story.
--Jesus becomes our atonement story.
--We have to give Him our sin--not try to atone for it ourselves.