When You Just Can’t Worship Anymore

Sunday, May 31, 2026
Pastor Alex Chen

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Psalm 103

·       John Goldingay – Most of Scripture speak to us. But the psalms speak for us.

Outline
·       When You Just Can’t Worship Anymore
·       Remember How Much the Lord Has Forgiven You 
·       Remember How Much the Lord Loves You

When You Just Can’t Worship Anymore
·       Psalm 103:1-2 -- 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits
·       Deut 4:9 -- 9 “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.
·       Deut 6:12 -- 12 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery
·       Spurgeon – Let us read our diaries… And see if there be not ample cause to worship.

Remember How Much the Lord Has Forgiven You
·       Psalm 103:3 -- 3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
·       William Plumer – When God forgives he forgives like a God, and not like a man.
·       Psalm 103:3-- 3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
·       Psalm 103:10-12 -- 10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Remember How Much the Lord Loves You
·       Psalm 103:4 -- 4 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
·       Psalm 103:8 -- 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
·       Psalm 103:11 -- 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
·       Psalm 103:15-17 -- 15 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; 16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. 17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children