Help with Being Holy: When My Sanctification Is Stuck

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Psalm 130:1-8
November 13, 2022

Psalm 130:1-8: Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
     O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
    to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord
    more than watchmen for the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.

O Israel, hope in the Lord!
    For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
    and with him is plentiful redemption.
And he will redeem Israel
    from all his iniquities.

Sermon Outline

1. Psalmist's situation: "Out of the depths..."

• Description of depths

• Result of depths

2. Psalmist "cries out"

3. Psalmist waits for the Lord

4. What waiting looks like

• Psalmist waits intensely

• Psalmist reminds himself of what he knows of God

  • Forgiveness

  • Unfailing love

• Psalmist helps others before he gets relief

Closing song: "Tired" by Linda Rich

Benediction

Now to him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,... to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. — paraphrased from Revelation 1:5-6