Sermon Outline:

How Should We Pray When We Are Facing the Consequences of Our Sins? (Psalm 90:1-17, ESV)

• Teach us to see who we are in light of who You are (Psalm 90:1-11)
  Sober acknowledgment of God’s nature and ours

• • About God (Psalm 90:1-2)

• • • God is an everlasting refuge (Psalm 90:1)

¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.

• • • God is the everlasting existing One (Psalm 90:2)

² Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

• • About Man (Psalm 90:3-11)

• • • Man is finite (Psalm 90:3-6)

³ You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”
⁴ For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
⁵ You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶ in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.

• • • Man is fallen (Psalm 90:7-11)

⁷ For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
⁸ You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
⁹ For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰ The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?

• Satisfy us with Your unfailing love (Psalm 90:12-17)
  Humble request for mercy in spite of man’s sinfulness

• • Teach us to number our days (Psalm 90:12:17)

¹² So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
¹³ Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
and for as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷ Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!