PSALM 125 Safety in the City THESIS: Gods security is not threatened by our circumstances (Rom 8:35-39) Psalm

120-134: Trouble Trust Triumph 121-Expectation 120-Prayer 122-Rejoicing The Songs of Degrees 124-Deliverance 123-Defense 125-Security Steps to Spiritual Growth 127-Established
126-Fellowship 129-Salvation 132-Rest
130-Patience 133-Unity

Cross-References:
Rom. 8:35-39 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Job 1:9-10 9Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. Job 2:4-5 4And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. 5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. Isa. 26:3 3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered; Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. James Weldon Johnson

128-Fruit 131-Hope 134-Blessing

I. PRINCIPLE: THE SECURITY OF THE SAINT, 1-4 A believer is safe in two ways: A. You Are Personally Safe, 1-2 1. Permanence: The Believers Essential SecuritySelected, 1 2. Protection: The believers Eternal SecuritySurrounded, 2 B. Your Possessions Are Safe, 3-4 1. Problem: A Sad Truth and Subtle Temptation, 3 2. Prayer, 4 II. PEACE: THE STEERING OF THE SINNER, 5 A. Sin: Crooked DealingsNot Clever, 5a B. Sentence: Coming DownfallNot Cool, 5b C. Sigh: Crosss DonationNow Calm, 5c Notes:

Notes: Key Thot: To get at Gods people you have to first get past God (Isa 26:3)