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\u201cWait Upon the Lord with Hope\u201d \u2013 Psalm 130:5-6<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Introduction \u2013 Watchmen<\/h4>\n

Listen to these words from Psalm 130:5-6: \u201cI wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK\u2026 that must be important\u2026 because it is repeated twice \u2013 \u201cmore than watchmen wait for the morning.\u201d What does that mean?<\/p>\n

I can tell you that it is not referring to guys that work in a factory making clocks and watches. After all that Psalm was written long before Jesus was born, and they didn\u2019t have watches back then. And if that\u2019s kind of what it meant, it would have said \u201cmore than sundial guys watch for the morning\u201d \u2013 because if they were concerned about the time they would have consulted the town sundial.<\/p>\n

No, watchmen referred to men that were guarding the city from attack. They might walk along sidewalks on the top edge of the city wall. They would watch and listen for any sign of enemy movement so that they could alert the city\u2019s residents to prepare for battle. In Roman times, there were four overnight shifts, so you can imagine the last guys \u2013 with the shift from 3:00 \u2013 6:00 in the morning \u2013 and they\u2019ve been walking for three hours already, and they\u2019re tired, and their eyelids are getting droopy \u2013 kind of like when you\u2019re listening to the pastor preach!! And they just want to go home to bed. And they keep looking toward the east, waiting for that first glimmer of dawn from the rising sun \u2013 the sign that their shift is over. They hope\u2026 they hope\u2026 THEY HOPE it\u2019s going to be soon!! So, now you can imagine what it\u2019s like for watchmen to wait for the morning.<\/p>\n

And the person who wrote the psalm said, \u201cI wait for the Lord, my soul waits for the Lord more fervently than those watchmen wait for the morning!\u201d And he adds, \u201cIn His Word I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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1. Theme word: Hope<\/h4>\n

Hope is our theme word for today. Our Advent series is \u201cWait Upon the Lord.\u201d Last Sunday we talked about \u201cwith faith\u201d \u2013 like Abraham and Sarah waited for a son, and waited for their family tree to start growing, because\u2026 well, because God promised it. So, they waited with faith\u2026 because God was trustworthy, and He keeps all His promises in Christ. (Remember the little Bible verse we had with all those actions?) And today, our theme adds that we wait upon the Lord with hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d is kind of a Christmas word, isn\u2019t it? Everybody is hoping for something for Christmas. There is a song that goes, \u201cI\u2019m dreaming of a white Christmas\u2026\u201d That person is hoping for snow before Christmas, and to last all the way through Christmas. Not likely where we live\u2026 rain, maybe, and more rain, and more rain.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another song, \u201cIt\u2019s beginning to look at lot like Christmas,\u201d and in one of the verses it explains what kids wanted for Christmas, oh, about 60 years ago:<\/p>\n

A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots Is the wish of Barney and Ben
\nDolls that’ll talk and will go for a walk Is the hope of Janice and Jen
\nAnd Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.<\/p>\n

The \u201chope of Janice and Jen.\u201d Yes, we all get our hopes up for Christmas. If we could read your dad\u2019s mind, we might hear this: \u201cMan, I sure hope I get what I want for Christmas. I really want a new car. Do you think I\u2019ll get it? I sure hope I do.\u201d What about your mom? She might be thinking: \u201cI hope that everybody can get here for Christmas. I hope we can find the PERFECT Christmas tree. I hope that there\u2019s a small brightly-wrapped gift under the tree with my name on it, because you know what comes in small packages\u2026 maybe diamonds, or jewels, or gold of some kind. I\u2019d love some new jewelry for Christmas. And I know I deserve it, because I\u2019ve been really good. I\u2019ve done a lot of good things for a lot of people. I\u2019ve been working really hard. I\u2019ve been really nice to everyone \u2013 especially my kids. It has been a long time since I\u2019ve been bad, so I sure hope people are watching so I get just what I want for Christmas!\u201d<\/p>\n

After hearing these words, what do you hope you will get for Christmas? I don\u2019t even know what kids want for Christmas these days. So, each of you tell me one thing you hope you\u2019ll get for Christmas. (Wait for answers.)<\/em> Do you think you\u2019ll get what you\u2019re hoping for? What makes you think you are going to get it? On what do you base your hope? Is it just because you\u2019ve been asking for it all year? Is it because you\u2019ve been really good and you deserve it? Is it just a hope like every other hope that is all based on chance and luck, or is it based on something more solid, real and certain? Might it be based on who you have told what you\u2019d like? (Not Santa, but your parents!! And you know they love you, and they want to give you good gifts \u2013 maybe not all the things you want, but some things you want, and especially the things you need!!)<\/p>\n

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2. Psalm 130 – a Penitential Psalm<\/h4>\n

The verse that I read at the beginning of this message is part of a Psalm that is called a \u201cPenitential Psalm.\u201d What that means is that the person who wrote it is repenting, or turning from sin, and turning toward God. The person who wrote it feels really bad for what he did, thought and said that was wrong – just like you and I do. He wanted to tell God that he was sorry, so he wrote this Psalm to do that. It is like a prayer to God. We can use it ourselves to pray to God and tell him that we are sorry too. Let\u2019s do that now. I\u2019m going to read it, and explain it, and I want you to think about it, and make this \u201csorry\u201d prayer your own.<\/p>\n

It starts with \u201cOut of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.\u201d That describes how low and sorry the psalmist feels. It\u2019s like he\u2019s crying from the bottom of a pit, or the bottom of a well, or the bottom of a cave or mine, or the bottom of an ocean. Out of the DEPTHS he\u2019s crying to God. And he\u2019s crying loudly because he\u2019s sorry for what he has done. But he\u2019s also crying loudly because he wants to make sure God hears him. If you were calling out to your parents because you had fallen down into an abandoned well, you would have to cry out loudly, too, so they would hear you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the psalmist says next: \u201cO Lord, hear my voice!\u201d So, he\u2019s crying from the bottom of something, and he wants God to hear him. The next sentence explains even more: \u201cLet your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy.\u201d Did you know that God has ears? Yes, He has ears to listen to all of our prayers \u2013 prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of asking for things, prayers saying you are sorry for your sins. That last one is what the psalmist was expressing to God \u2013 listen to my pleas for mercy. A plea is a request, and not just a gentle request, but a very passionate and heart-felt request, like begging. \u201cGod, hear me. You\u2019ve got to HEAR ME!! I need your mercy.\u201d The psalmist knows what he has done wrong. He doesn\u2019t tell us, but we know the things that we have done wrong, and we can make a plea for God\u2019s mercy, too. And mercy\u2026 well, that\u2019s like when you deserve something bad for what you\u2019ve done, but your parents, or in this case God, doesn\u2019t give you all the bad that you deserve.<\/p>\n

Mercy would be:<\/p>\n

Your parents tell you that you won\u2019t get any dessert unless you eat all your vegetables. You don\u2019t eat them all, you try, but oh, they just don\u2019t taste so good. Half your vegetables are still on your plate, but your parents\u2019 mercy allows you to have a little taste of dessert.<\/p>\n

Mercy would be:<\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t tell your parents that you were going to your friend\u2019s place after school, and they were worried about you, they didn\u2019t know where you were. You know that the rules at your house mean that you\u2019ll be grounded for a whole week. But your parents only ground you for 3 days instead of 7 days. That\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n

The psalmist is calling out for God\u2019s mercy. He knows he has done wrong things, sinful things, and he knows he should receive punishment from God, but he asks for mercy\u2026 maybe less punishment, or none at all. \u201cLet your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he points out that he doesn\u2019t even deserve to be in God\u2019s presence. \u201cIf you, O Lord, should mark iniquities [that\u2019s just another word for sins]\u2026 so, if you should pay attention to our sins, who could stand? Who could even dare to stand before you?\u201d<\/p>\n

I remember a time when I was about 11 years old. My brother and I were playing hockey in the basement of our house. I took a hard shot and someone put a window right in front of where the ball was going. Who would do that?? Well, you know what happened \u2013 the window broke, and my dad was going to be coming home from work in a few minutes. Should I just pretend that nothing happened and hope that my dad wouldn\u2019t notice? (Remember hope is our key word today.) Should I say that it was my brother\u2019s fault? Should I, would I, could I even dare to stand before my dad and tell him that I broke the window? That\u2019s what I did! I went to the front step of our house, and looked down the street, and waited\u2026 waited until I saw my dad coming home. Then I walked down the street to meet my dad as he was walking home from work, and I told him. I dared to stand before him and tell him.<\/p>\n

When we truly realize all the wrong things we have said and done and thought, when we realize how sinful we are, we don\u2019t deserve to stand before a holy and sinless God. Do we dare to come to God with our sins? The psalmist did, and was he surprised!!<\/p>\n

The next thing he writes is \u201cWith You there is forgiveness!\u201d When I broke that window in the basement, I was brave and courageous to tell my dad about it because\u2026 I knew my dad, and I trusted him to be forgiving. In the same way, the psalmist knew God, and He trusted God to be forgiving. \u201cWith You there is forgiveness.\u201d There IS forgiveness. Even back almost 3,000 years, the man who wrote that psalm knew that God is forgiving. That\u2019s God\u2019s character, His nature. The psalmist added \u201cI wait for the Lord, my soul waits and in His Word I hope.\u201d He was waiting for God to send the Messiah, the Saviour, the Redeemer, the one who would forgive sins once and for all.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s kind of how the Psalm ends: \u201cO Israel,\u00a0hope in the\u00a0Lord!\u00a0For\u00a0with the\u00a0Lord\u00a0there is steadfast love, and with Him is plentiful redemption. And He will\u00a0redeem Israel\u00a0from all his iniquities.\u201d There is hope again, and love, and redemption \/ saving, but that redeeming is in the future \u2013 \u201cHe WILL redeem Israel.\u201d And the psalmist had to wait, patiently, fervently, hopefully, like the watchmen wait for the morning! It would still take hundreds of years before that Saviour came, but that didn\u2019t stop the psalmist from trusting God, and from hoping for\u2026 well, a Christmas present.<\/p>\n

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3. The waiting is over… the best gifts!<\/h4>\n

We know that that Christmas present came one year a long time ago when Mary gave birth to a baby boy and placed him in a manger bed. His name is Jesus, and it\u2019s especially because of Jesus that we can trust God to be forgiving of us, too. We don\u2019t have to wait anymore, like the psalmist did. The waiting is over. What we wait for is the celebration of Jesus\u2019 birth, the celebration of hopes realized, the celebration of forgiveness accomplished when Jesus died on the cross\u2026 for US!!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just stop right there. A few minutes ago, I asked you on what you based your hope of getting good presents for Christmas? When it comes to gifts, you have to put your hope in the one giving the gifts. At Christmas, it\u2019s your parents, grandparents, maybe your siblings. They love you and they give you good gifts.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the church, to our own soul, and to faith, JESUS is the giver of all good gifts! In the psalm it says, \u201cIn his Word I hope.\u201d The Word of Jesus is THE BEST! What he says is always the truth. He never lies, and he never disappoints us. He is always doing and saying the right things for us, and so the hope we have in Jesus is sure, certain and real! It is not just good luck and chance. We can be certain that He will give us all the best gifts!<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not going to get those gifts because we\u2019ve been really good and we deserve it. We don\u2019t necessarily deserve the gifts that God wants to give us, but He gives them because His nature is to give good and perfect gifts.<\/p>\n

In the church we receive gifts all the time. We get gifts of God\u2019s love, joy, peace, forgiveness, and so much more! These are THE BEST gifts we can ever get, even better than a new car! A new car won\u2019t be new for long. It will get old and run down before we know it. The best toy you could ever get is not going to be the best toy next year, and it sure isn\u2019t going to last forever. The gifts we get from Jesus last forever! So when we say that we hope in Jesus, we aren\u2019t just saying that Jesus might give us forgiveness if we are good enough. We are saying that Jesus WILL give us forgiveness, because HE is good enough! Our HOPE is always in Jesus! Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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