Ps 31
The Boston Globe review in pictures
- 1/00 Y2K computer crash scare
- 10/00 — USS Cole a Guided Missile Destroyer was attacked
- Florida ballot recount - Nov. 00
- George Bush won the election by 1000 votes in Florida
2001
- Wikipedia the largest encyclopedia in human history began 1/01
- World Trade Center - Sept. 11/01
- 01 — Enron’s bankruptcy willful corporate fraud and corruption
2002
- 1/02 - Euro entered circulation
- Wall St. Journalist Daniel Pearl is murdered in Pakistan 2/02
- The Beltway sniper attacks by Muhammad & Malvo
2003
- An ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars began in 2003
- Statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, pulled down 4/03
Saddam captured 12/03
- Columbia destroyed on re-entry2/03, 7 die
- Hubble Ultra Deep Field discover over 10,000 galaxies in what was thought empty space 9/03
2004
- 385 killed in a Russian school by hostage takers 9/04
- 131 people 400 injured in Madrid train bombing 304
- Indonesian tsunami kill 230,000+ people 12/04
2005
- London terrorist bombing kill 56 people 7/05
- Hurricane Katrina kills over 1,800 people 9/05
2006
- You Tube lunched 3/06 — 65,000 new videos daily & receives 100 million views daily
2007
- 1/07 — Nancy Pelosi becomes first female Speaker of the House
4/07 — 32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre.
2008
- 1/08 Gaza - Israel seals border conflict last one year
- 5/08 — 70,000 lives lost in Chinese earthquake
- 9/08 Barack Obama first black president elected
2009
- 1/09 - Sri Lanka: Genocide - 60,000 killed by its own army
- 6/09 - Michael Jackson the world comes unglued with his death
- 09 — Flues and viruses (h1n1, avian, west Nile)
- 10 yr. of war & destruction,
- 10 yr. of poverty,
- 10 yr. of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
- 10 yr. of more pollution
- 10 yr. seeing the death of loved ones
- 10 yr. of growing old
- 10 yr. of health deteriorating
- 10 yr. of seeing believers drifting
- 10 yr. of families disintegrating
- 10 yr. of being adrift Sp.
- 10 yr. Of unhappiness
— Where is the love Where is Christ
- Right there where he has always been
- Found in where you look
- We have been blessed with freedom laughter, possessions
PSALM 31
❶ Ruin - Trouble - The cry throughout
- v. 9 ... I am in trouble ...
- He talks about the “they”, “them”
v. 10 His greatest enemy is his sin
- “ ... because of mine iniquity ...”
v. 22 - For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes
❷ Resolve - v. 1, 6, 14 -“TRUST”
- To trust you have to give yourself over to someone or something
- Note the thou, thy the LORD
❸ Realize - His knowledge of all that his God has become & done
- (rock, defense, fortress, leading, guide, strength, redeemer, position, mercy)
- v.16-18 - His desire — Nothing but God
- v.19 Oh how great is thy goodness ....
- That’s the past
- v. 19 .... which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
- That the future
❹ Remedy - v. 24 - COURAGE
- Our Action
