Restore Us, O God
Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 80 as we continue to make our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. Last week as we studied Psalm 79 together, we saw the lament of the Psalmist for the fall of Jerusalem and the Southern Kingdom with it. Tonight we move from that concern in Psalm 79 with the fall of Jerusalem back a couple of centuries in time, to the fall of Samaria in the late eighth century. And the theme of this Psalm is this repeated prayer that you see in verses 3 and 7 and 19 that the Lord would ‘restore us.’ And in light of the benediction that you heard bestowed on the parents and the children who received the sign of covenant baptism today (the benediction of Aaron this morning), notice the language of verses 3 and 7…