Summer Mixtape: The Greatest Hits from the Psalms
Where is Your Joy?
Speaker: Pastor Stephen Hsu
Scripture: Psalm 1&2
WHY don’t we have joy?
a. We seek Worldly things (1:1, cf.2:1-3)
b. We Fear God’s law/judgement (1:4-6, cf. 2:4-5)
HOW do we find joy?
a. Savour His Word (1:2)
but whose DELIGHT is in the law of the Lord, and who MEDITATES on his law day and night.
—Psalms 1:2
b. Kiss His Son (2:6-12)
‘This is what I told you while I was still with you: everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms’
—Luke 24:44
3 Steps to be like a Tree (1:3)
1. Pray the Psalms
2. Sing the Psalms
3. Eat the Psalms
When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight…
—Jeremiah 15:16a
BIG IDEA:
The good life is about finding our joy in God’s Word/Son
