Now and Forever (6 of 6)
Series: Pitch Perfect
Dr. James Merritt
Psalm 23:6
Introduction
1. Dr. Nigel Brush is a professor of geology at Ashland University. He states a philosophical proposition that perfectly sums up how all of us have to look at our beginning and our ending.
''Only two answers have come to dominate the modern world. One is that humans were purposely created by God in the past, are meant to serve him in the present, and have the opportunity to dwell with him forever in the future. The alternate answer states that random processes created humans, that we have no particular purpose in the present, and we will cease to exist when we die.''
2. In a way all of us are like a coin; we have two sides - life and death. We are like a book. We have a beginning and an ending. Let me prepare you. When you are younger, all you really think about is life. But, as you grow older, you begin to think more about death. As your beginning gets closer to your ending, you start thinking about all that was in between.
3. That is exactly what a king by the name of David was doing as he wrote the last stanza of a song in Psalm 23. It is the most famous of all the psalms and this song has topped the charts for over 2500 years. There are 150 psalms, but this is the best known psalm, the best loved psalm, and the most quoted psalm. We have been in a series on this psalm that we have called ''Pitch Perfect,'' because what we have discovered is that this psalm is so rich, so deep, and so powerful it basically addresses life from the beginning all the way to death at the end.
4. When David wrote this psalm we don't know how many more days, weeks, or years he had left in his life, but he definitely closes on a high note of what his life will be like for however long it lasts and what his life will be like after his life ends. He is looking at both now and forever.
5. I generally fly quite a bit and I remember one time I was at an airport and I was checkin ...
Series: Pitch Perfect
Dr. James Merritt
Psalm 23:6
Introduction
1. Dr. Nigel Brush is a professor of geology at Ashland University. He states a philosophical proposition that perfectly sums up how all of us have to look at our beginning and our ending.
''Only two answers have come to dominate the modern world. One is that humans were purposely created by God in the past, are meant to serve him in the present, and have the opportunity to dwell with him forever in the future. The alternate answer states that random processes created humans, that we have no particular purpose in the present, and we will cease to exist when we die.''
2. In a way all of us are like a coin; we have two sides - life and death. We are like a book. We have a beginning and an ending. Let me prepare you. When you are younger, all you really think about is life. But, as you grow older, you begin to think more about death. As your beginning gets closer to your ending, you start thinking about all that was in between.
3. That is exactly what a king by the name of David was doing as he wrote the last stanza of a song in Psalm 23. It is the most famous of all the psalms and this song has topped the charts for over 2500 years. There are 150 psalms, but this is the best known psalm, the best loved psalm, and the most quoted psalm. We have been in a series on this psalm that we have called ''Pitch Perfect,'' because what we have discovered is that this psalm is so rich, so deep, and so powerful it basically addresses life from the beginning all the way to death at the end.
4. When David wrote this psalm we don't know how many more days, weeks, or years he had left in his life, but he definitely closes on a high note of what his life will be like for however long it lasts and what his life will be like after his life ends. He is looking at both now and forever.
5. I generally fly quite a bit and I remember one time I was at an airport and I was checkin ...
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