Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Wheaton.

Jesus knew that his death would not come until the time appointed by his father.

And in that confidence in his father's protection, he did not give way to fear, as we so often do.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of Psalms 90 through 106.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people loved by God. Well, in our previous study, we considered the second half of Psalm 90 by Moses, the man of God. He faced up to the fundamental reality of life in a fallen world, our ever closer approach to death, which brings home the wrath

of God. We know we are living under that wrath as we live our years and bring them to an end with a sigh.

Moses says we may make it three score and ten, or four score if we're strong and yet the span of

those eight decades is replete with toil and trouble and before you know it they're gone

and we fly away certainly it is a universal human experience that the older we grow, the more time itself seems to speed up

like a mighty river rushing toward a huge waterfall. And yet, despite this common human uneasiness with

time's swift flight and the impending encounter with death,

rare is the human being who stops to consider the power of God's anger and wrath

and therefore takes a hard and narrow path, the path of repentance.

And no one can take that path unless God himself returns to us in pity and steadfast love

so that we can actually learn to rejoice and delight in the days that he does give us here,

kind of like the front porch to what's coming on the other side of that waterfall to jumble up all of the metaphors.

Moses prayed for God to show his servants his work and his glorious power so that the favor

of the Lord would be established upon us and that his grace would establish the work of our

hands upon us. Now a reading from Psalm 91, starting at the first verse.

He who dwells in the shelter of the most high will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the

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