The Book of Psalms: ”The Terrible Beauty of God’s Power”

May 21,  2023

Lead Pastor Dan Acker

 

"The Psalms are inexhaustible, and deserve to be read, said, sung, chanted, whispered, learned by heart, and even shouted from the rooftops. They express all the emotions we are ever likely to feel (including some we hope we may not), and they lay them, raw and open, in the presence of God."  -NT Wright

 

GOD’S POWER DISPLAYS HIS HOLINESS

 

 Psalm 68:1-4

 

"As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine."  -Charles Spurgeon

Exodus 15:11

 

GOD’S POWER DISPLAYS HIS GENTLENESS

 

Psalm 68:5-10

 

"God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient."  -Stephen Charnock

 

Matthew 11:29-30

 

(NIV)