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Galatians 3:26 – 29 | The Highway to Eternity

We are living in difficult times. I do not think I need to list all of the difficult things we are living through as a church family. If I have done my job well enough, then I know, and you know that I know at least some of what most of us in this room are trying to endure. The question that I think we are all asking – and that I think Paul may be asking in the subtext of our text today is this: “How do we remain on the highway to eternity?”

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Psalm 59 | Enemies at the Gate

The superscription of our Psalm today, helps us to feel the emotional tone of the Psalm and to also understand the context of David’s prayer to God. As far as emotional tone is concerned, just like Psalm 58 from last week, this Psalm is meant to be sung during a regular worship gathering of God’s people because the superscription is addressed “to the choirmaster”. This a community worship song.

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Psalm 58 | How to Deal With Wickedness

Psalm 58 is a heavy Psalm to study. It is a Psalm that is full of angry emotion, uncensored accusations, and violent, wartime imagery. One author says that this Psalm “is a prayer for spiritual warriors” who are engaged in spiritual warfare against evil in this present darkness (Eph. 6) because, although this Psalm “is directed against the corrupt and wicked rulers of Israel” we all need “to realize that we are looking not merely at a portrait of others but also into a mirror where we can see ourselves”.2

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Psalm 53 | The Functional Atheist

Psalm 53 is a song written by David that is meant to teach; it is meant to instruct us on the horrific nature of sin. Sin is not a popular topic in the modern church. Many church goers in the West would rather hear three practical points to fix their marriage, be a better man or woman, handle their finances better, or be encouraged to stand strong for their political party.

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Psalm 52 | Trusting God

Psalm 52 is a course study in trusting God amidst the difficulty that comes with suffering at the hands of an enemy. Where Psalm 51 is a course study of walking in repentance after finding out that you are the abuser, Psalm 52 is a course study of trusting God when you have been horribly abused.

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Galatians 3:6 – 9 | People of Faith

The last four words of our text today refer to Abraham as “the man of faith” (v. 9). As I thought about this description of Abraham this week, I thought about all of us in our own unique intersections of this journey of following Jesus as people of faith. Each of us are in our own unique seasons of this struggle to follow Jesus as aliens in a sin-soaked world that is not our home.

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