Non Nobis Domine (Not to Us, O Lord)
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 115. As we read this psalm together tonight, I want to point out several parts of the passage as we look through it. The opening declaration of the psalm is the destination to which the psalm is going even though it is stated out front. Now how do I make that argument? Because of what it said in verse 2. In the second verse, we have a taunt from the unbelieving nations against Israel, and that is the context for this psalm. Times are hard in Israel, and the opening word of giving praise to God for victory is where the psalmist wants the people of God to get to but they’re not there now. Right now, they’re being mocked by pagans and they’re beings asked, “Where is their God?” Now the third to the eighth verses…