March 13, 2016
Worship: Knowing You Jesus by Graham Kendrick
All I once held dear, built my life upon
All this world reveres, and wars to own
All I once thought gain I have counted loss
Spent and worthless now, compared to this
Knowing you, Jesus
Knowing you, there is no greater thing
You're my all, you're the best
You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love you, Lord
Now my heart's desire is to know you more
To be found in you and known as yours
To possess by faith what I could not earn
All surpassing gift of righteousness
Oh, to know the power of your risen life
And to know You in Your sufferings
To become like you in your death, my Lord
So with you to live and never die
Graham Kendrick
Copyright © 1993 Make Way Music
Christian lyrics - KNOWING YOU JESUS LYRICS - GRAHAM KENDRICK
All this world reveres, and wars to own
All I once thought gain I have counted loss
Spent and worthless now, compared to this
Knowing you, Jesus
Knowing you, there is no greater thing
You're my all, you're the best
You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love you, Lord
Now my heart's desire is to know you more
To be found in you and known as yours
To possess by faith what I could not earn
All surpassing gift of righteousness
Oh, to know the power of your risen life
And to know You in Your sufferings
To become like you in your death, my Lord
So with you to live and never die
Graham Kendrick
Copyright © 1993 Make Way Music
Christian lyrics - KNOWING YOU JESUS LYRICS - GRAHAM KENDRICK
Video: https://youtu.be/OhLOwQ3af4w
Witness:
Went to Church tonight and heard a guest speaker. There was much good I heard as he spoke. I wrote down a lot of little pithy statements. Seems a lot of preaching today is given in small “sound bites” or twitter like statements. I don’t know if that is done self-consciously or not. However, it does seem to be the prevailing method amongst many prominent preachers. It caters to our poor memories and short attention spans. Never-the-less, I found many things he said to be good and useful. However, I also heard the prevailing weak theology of the day present in much of today’s preaching. A popular Arminian theology that downplays God’s sovereignty and up plays man’s. Phrases like “God (or He) invites He doesn’t force”(a complete misunderstanding of those who believe in God’s sovereign control over everything) and an emphasis on our “choice” and the elimination of any talk of God’s choice (election, predestination). The worse statement made tonight was even highlighted favorably by our pastor: “Aren’t you glad God let His Son die just in case you choose Him later.” Such statements come from the influence of “Open Theism” which believes that God does not know the future and therefore takes risks when He acts. This is pure heresy that prevails in a small but growing body of theologians but has a big influence on the Christian community at large. Their “God is too small”(the title to a J.B. Phillips book). The truth is that God didn’t “have faith in us before we had faith”. There is no faith where perfect knowledge exists. What Jesus says to His Disciples He says to all His followers, “you did not choose me, but I have chosen you” (John15:6). Our choice is preceded by His prior choice in eternity (Eph. 1:4). I don’t know if the speaker believes the tenants of open theism, perhaps he has not thought out the logical ramifications of his statement, nor has our pastor. We need to be careful to develop our thoughts about God from what He has revealed in His infallible WORD and not our feelings of what God should be like, which lead to unguarded statements like “now that is a God I can worship.” Such statements reveal a lack of humility and in essence place us over God, making Him in our image. My question would be, “what if God came to you and told you that He sovereignly chose you before the foundation of the world”? Would you still worship Him? I believe He has already told us that in His WORD.
Ps 25:1-3
25 Toa you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
2 in you I trust, O my God.
Do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 No one whose hope is in you
will ever be put to shame,
but they will be put to shame
who are treacherous without excuse.
NIV
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Ps 25:1-3
25 To you, O LORD, Io lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you Ip trust;
q let me not be put to shame;
r let not my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed,s none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who aret wantonlyu treacherous.
ESV
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Ps 25:1-3
25 1 O LORD, I give my life to you.
2 I trust in you, my God!
Do not let me be disgraced,
or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.
3 No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced,
but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Ps 25:1-3
25 To You, O LORD, I alift up my soul.
2 O my God, in You aI trust,
Do not let me bbe ashamed;
Do not let my cenemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, anone of those who wait for You will be ashamed;
1Those who bdeal treacherously without cause will be ashamed
NASU
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Here is an outline of the first three verses as I see it.
I. Profession (Praise) 25:1-2a
II. Prayer 25:2b
III. Promise 25:3
I. Profession:
In verse one and part of two, we have David’s profession of faith in God. Some versions translate the first part of verse two as “O my God, in you I trust” followed by a semi-colon or a comma making it connected to the prayer that follows. However, I believe the NIV (1984) may have it correct by connecting it with verse 1. This seems to flow better to me and keeps with the couplets that seem to appear in these verses. So we have “lift up” coupled with “trust,” “put to shame” with “triumph over” etc. The JFB commentary says:
Psalms 25:2 I trust in thee - and in none besides; answering to "I lift up my soul unto thee" (Ps 25:1).
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
I put praise in parenthesis because I believe this is praise in the form of profession. In professing his dependence, devotion, and delight in the Lord, David is beginning this psalm, I believe, with praise and thus in worship. The USB OT Handbook says:
Psalm 25:1-2 To "lift up the nefesh" (verse 1) means to pray to God, to
worship him (see 86:4; 143:8).
(from UBS Old Testament Handbook Series. Copyright © 1978-2004 by United Bible Societies. All rights reserved.)
There is power in praise. Nehemiah 8:10 declares: “the joy of the Lord is your strength. NIV”
Paul and Silas saw this power demonstrated before their very eyes.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such
a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose.
Acts 16:25-27 NIV
Moses and the Israelites declare in Exodus 15:2:
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. NIV
There is the presence of God in praise. Psalm 22:3 says:
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. ASV
Much more could be said here, but I will end on a vertical note and discuss the rest of my outline tomorrow (actually later today – it’s 2:20 am).
Praise promotes the glory of God:
I will confess and praise You, O Lord my God, with my whole (united) heart; and I will glorify Your name forevermore. Ps 86:12 AMP
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