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Jul 20, 2025

Great God, Glad People, Global Purpose | Summer of Psalms

Great God, Glad People, Global Purpose | Summer of Psalms

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Great God, Glad People, Global Purpose

 

July 20, 2025

Psalm 67:1–7 (ESV)

1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah
2  that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah 5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. 7 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!

Psalm 67:1 (ESV)

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah

Psalm 67:2 (ESV)

That your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.

Genesis 12:1–3 (ESV)

1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Observation: We are blessed to be a to others, especially those that are far from God.

QUESTION: How are you doing making God’s known to others?

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Psalm 67:3–4 (ESV)

Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy.

Observation: Missions exists because doesn’t.

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal of missions. It’s the goal of missions because in missions we simply aim to bring the nations into the white-hot enjoyment of God’s glory. The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God. But worship is also the fuel of missions. Passion for God in worship precedes the offer of God in preaching. You can’t commend what you don’t cherish. Missionaries will never call out, “Let the nations be glad!”
If they cannot say from the heart, “I rejoice in the Lord.…
I will be glad and exult in you”
— John Piper

Question: How is your and ?

Revelation 5:11–12 (ESV)

11 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

Psalm 67:4 (ESV)

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

Observation: God is the judge and guide.

2 Corinthians 5:10 (ESV)

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Question: What kind of will you face?

3 Takeaways

1. Be a locally.

2. Go on, or support, a mission trip.

3. Jesus.

Psalm 67:6 (ESV)

The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.

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