Psalm 94: Comfort from the Future
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Remembering the Lord's past faithfulness brings encouragement. But we also find consolation in God's promises for the future. Today, W. Robert Godfrey draws our attention to Psalm 94 and the hope it gives to Christians in distress.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California. He is the featured teacher for many Ligonier teaching series, including the six-part series A Survey of Church History. He is author of many books, including God’s Pattern for Creation, Reformation Sketches, and An Unexpected Journey.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | We could also probably write a book on judgmentless Christianity, |
| 0:04.0 | Christianity that wants only to think about the love of God, |
| 0:07.0 | only to think about the mercy of God, only to think about the kindness of God. |
| 0:11.0 | But we have to hear the scripture that reminds us that God is a God of judgment, |
| 0:17.0 | as well as a God of mercy. |
| 0:20.0 | ... as well as a God of mercy. |
| 0:31.3 | When you turn on the TV or visit a major city, you see immorality celebrated. |
| 0:34.9 | There is the horror and tragedy of abortion on demand. |
| 0:40.2 | Many other injustices as the wicked seemingly prosper and violate God's word. How does the Christian rejoice in the Lord and have a sense of happiness when we're surrounded |
| 0:46.1 | by sin? This is the Friday edition of renewing your mind, and I'm so glad that you're joining |
| 0:52.1 | us today. Our guest teacher is the chairman of |
| 0:55.6 | Ligonier Ministries, W. Robert Godfrey, and today he'll take a deep dive into Psalm 94, so if you |
| 1:02.8 | have your Bible with you, you can get it ready. Also remember that if you'd like to study more |
| 1:07.7 | Psalms with Dr. Godfrey, you can request the entire 12-message study |
| 1:12.1 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. But be quick as this offer |
| 1:18.2 | ends at midnight. Here's Dr. Godfrey on Psalm 94 and the comfort we can find from the future. |
| 1:28.4 | We're continuing to look together at book four of the Psalter, the book that is seeking comfort |
| 1:35.3 | in the face of crisis. |
| 1:37.9 | And I was making the point in the last lecture that in book four, very often comfort is |
| 1:43.1 | sought by looking backward, looking backward to God's |
| 1:46.3 | faithfulness in creation, looking backward to God's faithfulness in his covenant with Moses and the |
| 1:52.2 | chosen people. And the idea is the God who is so powerful in creation and so faithful in making |
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