Psalm 16, Jude 20-25
June 24, 2018
preached by Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American writer and visual artist

“My anxieties have anxieties.”

~ Charles Schultz (1922-2000), renowned American cartoonist

“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.”

~ Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), American moral and social philosopher and writer

“The more we understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the more we find it is the end of insecurity — not the perfect end in this age, but the increasing and ultimate end.”

~ Jon Bloom, contemporary author and blogger

“Prayer is where the action is.”

~ John Wesley (1703-1791), English minister, writer and theologian

“The Spirit walks slowly, gently moving us from intellectual security to heart security, as the truth of adoption slowly sinks in. The spirit of our age moves quickly. We need to slow down with the Spirit, allowing him to grasp our hand and guide us into gospel meditation and prayer, where our adoption becomes a heart-convincing reality.”

~ Jonathan Dodson, contemporary pastor and author

“Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation. And to be at last summoned inside would be both glory and honor beyond all our merits and also the healing of that old ache.”

~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer and Christian thinker

“In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less. Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy.”

~ a Gospel Prayer from contemporary pastor and writer J.D. Greear (1973-present)

Sermon Passage

Psalm 16, Jude 20-25 (ESV)

Psalm 16
¹ Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
²  I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
³  As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.
⁴  The sorrows of those who run after
another god shall multiply;
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.
⁵  The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
you hold my lot.
⁶  The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
⁷   I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.
⁸   I have set the Lord always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
⁹  Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being  rejoices;
my flesh also dwells secure.
¹⁰ For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
or let your holy one see corruption.
¹¹ You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Jude 20-25

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. ²² And have mercy on those who doubt; ²³ save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, ²⁵ to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.