Songs of Degrees, Part 7

What Are Absolutes?

Our everyday lives find structure in the thousands of things we accept as truths, from the numbers we use to the names of colors and textures. There are absolutes in the Bible, and they are constants in the spiritual realm, just as "2+2" is a constant in the physical realm.

Absolutes of God is about the Word of God and its building blocks of truth -- "the first principles of the oracles of God" (Hebrews 5:12) -- which have been forgotten or misplaced.

In our society, we have insisted that diversity is good. In reality, what we have are divisions created by an ignorance of God's definition of truth. The one Authority who can settle all arguments in the controversies that divide us is the Holy Ghost, and we have ignored Him!

God's desire is that the words He spoke become alive in His people so that He is seen in His church. God wants to be visible, not only to His church, but also to the whole world. He wants to see truth believed and lived out in front of the entire world.

Seven Absolutes of God

1. God's will for man is that he be perfect in Christ Jesus.

2. The knowledge of good and evil does not produce godly believers or healthy Christians.

3. The natural man does not receive the things of God.

4. Every believer must know the voice of God.

5. The Holy Ghost is the Teacher sent from God to indwell every believer.

6. Once we repent of our sins, we become His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.

7. The Bible was written both historically and spiritually.

Songs of Degrees, Part 7

Turn Again Our Captivity

Songs of Degrees: This is a sermon series about Psalms 120 through 134. The Songs of Degrees, or the Songs of Ascents, are meant to teach us about our upward journey toward what God wills for His church. There are 15 of these songs and there were 1,500 years between the ministry of Moses and the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. When God gave Moses the plan for the Tabernacle, it was the beginning of His plan to restore man, to rescue man. This plan, we know, was fulfilled by the death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord and Savior.

We know that God frees us from our captivity. What we often don’t understand is how we end up back in captivity again after we’ve been freed. We can get imprisoned by our own thinking when we allow doubt, fear, unbelief, anger, unforgiveness, etc. to enter into our minds and hearts.

Scripture References (Rollover with mouse to view or click here to open Bible in a new window)

Psalm 126

1	A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2	Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
3	The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4	Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
5	They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6	He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Psalm 126

Matthew 5

1	And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2	And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3	Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4	Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5	Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6	Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7	Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8	Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9	Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10	Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11	Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12	Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Matthew 5:1-12

Psalm 51

1	To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2	Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3	For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4	Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5	Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6	Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7	Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8	Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9	Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10	Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11	Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12	Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13	Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14	Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15	O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
16	For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17	The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18	Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19	Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Psalm 51

Isaiah 61

1	The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2	To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3	To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4	And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isaiah 61:1-4

Phillipians 3

13	Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14	I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:13-14

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