Lord’s of Misrule: The Christian Experience of Seeking God’s Rectification of Injustice

Lord’s of Misrule: The Christian Experience of…

If you have Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 58, as we continue to work our way through the Second Book of the Psalms. David is still on the run, and David is reflecting on the injustice of those who are leaders, judges, rulers, people who are elders amongst the people of God, people who were to be administrators of justice, people who were to see that God's law was established and was administered rightly in the land–these very people David is commenting upon were actively engaged in wrongdoing against him and against his friends in this time. And so David is reflecting on that in this Psalm. He complains about it in the first half of the Psalm. You’ll see that in the first five verses, David's complaint. And then in verses 6-11 you will see David's…

A Plea for Justice

Psalm 43A Plea for Justice If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 43, but allow your eyes to drift a few verses back to Psalm 42 and verse 6. We’re working our way through the second book of the Psalms. That second book entails Psalms 42-72, and we're going through those Psalms on Sunday evenings. And over and over we're going to be asking several questions: 1) What does the Psalm teach me about Christ and 2) What does this Psalm teach me about Christian experience? And in particular we're going to consider several things. First, how the Psalmist's experience foreshadows Christ's experience. And how the Psalmist's experience foreshadows our experience. And then looking at it from the other direction, how Christ's experience informs…

The Handwriting on the Wall

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Daniel, chapter 5. We’re in Daniel and we're contemplating a valiant stand which the aged Daniel makes against Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, and it is perhaps a word of encouragement for Christians today who are facing opposition for the Lord in their own lives individually and corporately, up against overwhelming odds, up against times which look dark and unpromising and yet the Lord shows his faithfulness even in this passage. Let's attend then to the word of God beginning in Daniel 5, verse 1: Daniel 5:1-31 O Lord, our hearts are stirred when we see the hand of Your providence revealed. Humble us before You in Your sovereignty, that we might taste of Your sovereign grace and not of Your sovereign judgment. Teach…

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