Psalm 24
July 25, 2021
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), novelist and famed Soviet dissident

“I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin…. Repentance requires that we draw near to Jesus, no matter what. And sometimes we all have to crawl there on our hands and knees. Repentance is an intimate affair. And…intimacy with anything is a terrifying prospect.”

~Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, former professor of English at Syracuse

“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker’s, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”

~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“He rises up and defends your case, based on the merits of his own sufferings and death. Your salvation is not merely a matter of a saving formula, but of a saving person.”

~ Dane Ortlund (1978-present), contemporary pastor and author

Sermon Passage

Psalm 24 (ESV)

¹  The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,
the world and those who dwell therein,
²  for he has founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
³  Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴  He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.
⁵  He will receive blessing from the Lord
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
⁶  Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah
⁷  Lift up your heads, O gates!
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
⁸  Who is this King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle!
⁹  Lift up your heads, O gates!
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰ Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory! Selah