2025-10-05 Sermon Notes1
| Series | Location | Subjects | Takeaways | Sermon Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison on the Psalms | Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church | - | - |
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Takeaways and Next Steps
📖Bible Passage
Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
Points
- No one should ever say I cannot pray for I don't know what to say, because our verse today is a prayer suitable for every Christian.
- He has given us the prayer, and He has given us the power to pray it.
- This is not an ambitious prayer. It is not discontented. It does not ask for any favors. This prayer is simply asking for God to remember us.
- This is a lesson for us in all prayers. Many of us pray that we should be spared from all pain, but God has never intended that we should be spared from all pain. Even God's own Son endured excruciating pain.
- Therefore I dare not ask that God spare me from all pain. Why should I be granted what even the Lord was not granted.
- Similarly I should not ask for God to give me great riches, or to be spared from poverty. Yes, I ask for God's provision but not riches.
- For who am I that God should keep me from all poverty. There are many men far greater than I who endured far worse poverty than I.
- We should desire and ask for God's favor. The favor that God bestows upon His people, upon His own Son.
- This favor is immutable. What good is the favor of any man who can simply break his word and turn his favor on a dime. No God's favor is consistent, loyal and honest.
- This favor is unbounded. It is deep and wide and immeasurable.
- What we ask for is only what God gives to all His people. No more and no less. And what we ask for is not our due. It is a favor for us.
Asking for His Salvation
- We pray not only for His favor. We ask for His salvation.
- This is what God's people prayed for many times. The people asked for God's salvation when Pharaoh's armies threatened to kill them, but God halted the armies with his mighty pillar of flame, and God parted the sea so that His people could cross in safety.
- Salvation also means when God saves His people from their sins.
- This is sanctification.
- Deuteronomy 33.25 Your bars will be iron and bronze. As your days, so your strength will be.
- God promises strength.
- This prayer is what you need when you are living and it is what you need when you are dying.
This is a personal prayer
- If you have never prayed for yourself in the singular, then you are not qualified to pray for God's people in the plural.
- He who has a heart for others must first wrestle with his own need for salvation.
- Notice, the personal nature of this prayer. "Remember me O LORD".
- You who are rich, pray that you will not take it for granted, for richness brings much arrogance. You who are poor, pray that you do not fall into resentment of God.
This prayer is fit for the depressed and despondent
- these downtrodden people are God's people as well and this prayer is fit for them.
- These are the people who fear that God has forgotten them,
- Isaiah 49.14 But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."
- You may think you are forgotten, but you are dear to God.
- These are the people who fear that God has forgotten them,
- The very best prayer you can pray is a sinner's prayer. Why do I call this a sinner's prayer. Because this is the same prayer that the thief on the cross said. Lord Remember Me.
- Luke 23.42 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom."
- Be careful when you are despondent because at this moment you will be tempted to save yourself through your own work and merit.
God's favor toward His own people does not change
- It is good for a person in distress to remember that God's favor toward His own people does not change
- God will not forget His own.
Application
This is a proper prayer for the awakened yet unforgiven sinner
- Nothing that we can do can save us from our wretched state. There is no bargain we can make. There is no merit that we can point to. The only thing that we can do is come to our Lord and say "Lord, remember me".
- This is a Gospel prayer. It says, remember me with your favor. Everything that we have is merely by His favor.
- This is also an argumentative prayer. We can say to God, Lord, you have had favor toward your people. Have favor also toward me.
- Commit your desperate case to Him. He who has saved desperate sinners thousands of times. Come to Him.
Further Study
💬Discussion Questions
2025-10-05 Sermon Notes1
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💡Big Idea
Takeaways and Next Steps
📖Bible Passage
Points
Asking for His Salvation
This is a personal prayer
This prayer is fit for the depressed and despondent
God's favor toward His own people does not change
Application
This is a proper prayer for the awakened yet unforgiven sinner
Further Study
💬Discussion Questions