From Bitter to Better
There's Something About the Sanctuary
November 17, 2024
Psalm 73:17 ESV
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
1. A
of
- Psalm 73:1 ESV
Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2. The
of
- Psalm 73:2-16 ESV
2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
3 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.
11 And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
3. The
of God’s
- Psalm 73:17-28 ESV
17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.