1/25/2024 0 Comments Hasten to his throne meaningWe saw last week that in the Book of Psalms overall - and especially in the immediate psalms leading up to Psalm 67 - there is an all-nations theme that’s been building. You are at work in your people, in us, and we surrender to your work now, for your glory. Local church application.Īnd before anything else, let’s pray again and ask for God’s help.įather, in this moment again, here by your grace, we ask that you, by your Spirit, would speak to us through your word. Then second, How do we as Cities Church step into our missionary calling with a renewed passion and energy? Either way, I’m answering two questions:įirst, we’re asking: What is the overall meaning of Psalm 68? And for those of us who don’t like sermon outlines, you’re a weirdo. I do have a sermon outline for those of us who appreciate such things. There are three things that we must do as part of our missionary calling, and that’s where we’re going to spend most of our time, but before we get there I want to tell you the meaning of Psalm 68. I want us to choose greater faithfulness in God’s purpose to magnify his glory among all nations.Īnd this week, as a Part Two, I want to get practical. My hope for last week’s sermon, Part One, and this week’s sermon as a Part Two, is that God by his Spirit would lead us to step into our missionary calling with a renewed passion and energy. We now get to join in on God’s global work - and my prayer is that we would. We’re here because of the church’s missionary calling, and we’ve also inherited that calling. We exist not only for ourselves to know and enjoy God, but also so that others from all nations may know and enjoy God. We saw last week that, going back to the very beginning and all throughout the Bible, God has called his people to be a “so that” people. So we as the people of God - as the church of Jesus Christ, as this local assembly called Cities Church - we have a missionary calling.
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