“The Lord Our Helper” (Psalm 124)

“The Lord Our Helper” (Psalm 124)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, July 28, 2019

Psalm 124:1–8 (NIV)

A song of ascents. Of David.
¹ If the Lord had not been on our side—
       let Israel say—
² if the Lord had not been on our side
       when people attacked us,
³ they would have swallowed us alive
       when their anger flared against us;
⁴ the flood would have engulfed us,
       the torrent would have swept over us,
⁵ the raging waters
       would have swept us away.
⁶ Praise be to the Lord,
       who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
⁷ We have escaped like a bird
       from the fowler’s snare;
the snare has been broken,
       and we have escaped.
⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord,
       the Maker of heaven and earth.

1. Take a moment to contemplate the thought: “What if God had not been for us?” (verses 1–5).

a. Don’t take God and his help for granted (verses 1a, 2a).

b. Without God’s help we would have been defeated (verses 1–3).

c. Without God’s help we would have been overwhelmed (verse 4).

Psalm 69:2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.

Psalm 69:1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

Psalm 144:7 Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners

d. Without God’s help we would have been lost, gone forever (verse 5).

Psalm 94:17 Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

2. Take a moment to rejoice in the thought: “Our God is for us!” (verses 6–8).

a. Because the Lord helped us, he is worthy of praise.

b. Our Lord helped us and accomplished an unimaginable rescue (verse 7).

c. The Lord who helped us is the one who made the universe! (verse 8).

Psalm 121:2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Jeremiah 32:17 "Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

d. The Lord, our Helper and our Creator, is for us!

Main Idea: “We live in a world full of dangers and snares, but we have a God who is our faithful helper and will never abandon us.”