The Rock That Saves

October 26, 2015
Psalm 18:1-9 KJV 

1 [[To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,]] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower. 3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Under what circumstances did David (the psalmist) write this psalm? (v.1a-1b)
2) What had the Lord become to psalmist and what did David commit to the Lord, as a result? (v.1c-3)
3) What sorrows compassed the psalmist? (v.4-5)
4) What did David do in his distress and how did the Lord respond? (v.6)
5) How was the Lord's wrath made evident within Himself, on the earth, and in heaven, in response to David's distress?

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) What has the Lord done for you when you were distressed?

LIFE LESSONS
7) The Lord will always move the heavens and the earth to deliver those, who are intimate with Him, from their distress. 

God's Love Prevails

Monday, October 12, 2015
Romans 8:31-39 KJV 

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. 34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What questions does the Apostle Paul ask the readers in this passage of Scripture? What  (v.31-35)
2) What does Paul conclude about the trial that we suffer in this life? (v.36-38)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
3) What, if anything, can seperate you from the love of God?

LIFE LESSONS
4) There is no trial, hardship, or suffering that is able to separate from God's love. Not even death!