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DELIVERED, GUIDED, PROVIDED (1 OF 2)
by Marion Clark
Scripture: Psalm 78:12-16
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Delivered, Guided, Provided (1 of 2)
Series: Psalms
D. Marion Clark
Psalm 78:12-16
Introduction
For the ninth year I have had the privilege of preaching the Sunday after Christmas. The first year, the Responsive Reading happen to fall on Psalm 78, and I thought it to be a fitting text to preach from. Since then, I have gone back to the same Psalm every year. Each time there seems to be one thing more that I learned.
The psalm basically is a rebuke to the people of God for forgetting his great wonders. The psalmist promises that he will pass on these glorious deeds to the next generation. So he recounts those wonders, as well as the failures of God's people to obey God and to remember what he had done. We are going to look at verses 12-16, which summarize God's works. They provide a tidy three-point sermon about what God did for his people. He delivered them; he guided them; and he provided for them.
Text
God Delivered
12 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
The wonders of God that take center stage in the history of Israel are those involving their exodus from Egypt. The exodus is the great story of deliverance. No wonders top those wonders; no deliverance is more significant than that deliverance. For though their history begins the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, it is this event that turns them into a nation; and not merely a nation, but the nation of God. Though God made a covenant with their fathers - Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - it is when the exodus takes place that he makes a covenant directly with them to be their God and for them to be his people. Of all their deliverers, it is Moses who rises supreme because he was the redeemer whom God sent to deliver his people.
''In the fields of Zoan,'' refers most likely to the place where Pharaoh held court when Moses met with him and pronounced each plague. So Moses pronounces each of the ten wonders. Verse 13 takes us ...
Series: Psalms
D. Marion Clark
Psalm 78:12-16
Introduction
For the ninth year I have had the privilege of preaching the Sunday after Christmas. The first year, the Responsive Reading happen to fall on Psalm 78, and I thought it to be a fitting text to preach from. Since then, I have gone back to the same Psalm every year. Each time there seems to be one thing more that I learned.
The psalm basically is a rebuke to the people of God for forgetting his great wonders. The psalmist promises that he will pass on these glorious deeds to the next generation. So he recounts those wonders, as well as the failures of God's people to obey God and to remember what he had done. We are going to look at verses 12-16, which summarize God's works. They provide a tidy three-point sermon about what God did for his people. He delivered them; he guided them; and he provided for them.
Text
God Delivered
12 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
The wonders of God that take center stage in the history of Israel are those involving their exodus from Egypt. The exodus is the great story of deliverance. No wonders top those wonders; no deliverance is more significant than that deliverance. For though their history begins the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, it is this event that turns them into a nation; and not merely a nation, but the nation of God. Though God made a covenant with their fathers - Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - it is when the exodus takes place that he makes a covenant directly with them to be their God and for them to be his people. Of all their deliverers, it is Moses who rises supreme because he was the redeemer whom God sent to deliver his people.
''In the fields of Zoan,'' refers most likely to the place where Pharaoh held court when Moses met with him and pronounced each plague. So Moses pronounces each of the ten wonders. Verse 13 takes us ...
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