Psalm 24
June 27, 2021
preached by Pastor Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“The marvel of Heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation!”

“As salt tinges every drop in the ocean—so does sin affect every atom of man’s nature!”

“The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness; not my merit but my misery; not my riches but my need.”

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), English pastor and author

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), novelist and famed Soviet dissident

“God does not rule creation through coercion, but through a cross.”

~ Stanley Hauerwas (1940-present), former Duke University professor and public intellectual

“Jesus did not come with sword in hand, but with nails in hand. Not to bring judgment, but to bear judgment.”

~ Edmund Clowney (1917-2005), Presbyterian theologian

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”

~ John Piper (1946-present), Christian pastor and writer

“He rises up and defends your case, based on the merits of his own sufferings and death. Your salvation is not merely a matter of a saving formula, but of a saving person.”

~ Dane Ortlund (1978-present), contemporary pastor and author

Sermon Passage

Psalm 24 (ESV)

A Psalm of David.

¹ The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof,
the world and those who dwell therein,
² for he has founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
³ Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.
⁵ He will receive blessing from the LORD
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
⁶ Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah
⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates!
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
⁸ Who is this King of glory?
The LORD, strong and mighty,
the LORD, mighty in battle!
⁹ Lift up your heads, O gates!
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
He is the King of glory! Selah