Peter Barnes | Psalm 84
SERMON NOTES
Heading for Home
Psalm 84; Hebrews 11:23-40
– Derek Kidner: ‘The Pull of Home’; blessing in verses 4, 5, 12
1. The blessing of pilgrimage to God.
– 84:1-7; contrast to Isa.57:20-21
– Thomas Watson: ‘The world is enough to busy us, but not to fill us.’
– Camus’ tombstone: the search is enough. It isn’t!
– Thomas Chalmers’ conversion
2. The blessing of prayer to God.
– 84:8-9; through the anointed one (the Messiah)
3. The blessing of the presence of God.
– 84:2, 10-12; Spurgeon: ‘God’s worst is better than the devil’s best.’
– Heb.11:24-27