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Psalm 73

Kevin Bruney
08/15/21 - Sun Worship

Psalm 73:17-24    Can you relate to Asaph?
I [Aseph] was confused, I can't make any sense of this until I did what?  Until I entered God's house. Or as we might say today,.. until I went to church.  I showed up, I saw the things and then something happened.  I gained an eternal perspective of what was going on.  We should be reminded here of the importance of assembling in the presence of God.  Sometimes we get up in the morning and try to figure out am I going to go today, had a rough week, things are bad, times are tough, really just not feeling it today.  You know what you should do?  Go to church.  When things are bumming you out, things aren't well and times are tough at work.  You know what you should do?  Go to church.  When you have problems with your family and things aren't good in your marriage and all these things are going on and you feel like a fraud if I just go cuz I have all these problems.  You know what you should do?  Got to church.  What he says is when he went there, my eyes were taken off the here and now and they were put on an eternal perspective.  Perhaps Asaph went in... and saw the prayer and worship... saw the sacrifices... heard the words being read from a scroll or songs being sung...  and reminded him that God was at the center,... how God actually views sin and what it's cost.  He saw and recognized and realized who was really in the slippery place, it wasn't me, but all these wicked ones.  All the perceived good life they have around them, it's just a dream.  That's what it's like.  These wicked people out there see and think they have all this good stuff, but how fast is it going to be gone [snap] just like that.  It's over in a vapor and... you wake up and eternity begins and how fast is destruction and calamity going come upon those people.