ADVENT • HOPE
PSALM 130
Application Guide
READ THE TEXT
PSALM 130
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
In general, was there anything that stood out to you from the sermon or the reading of the text? Was there anything you were confused by?
Is it harder to cry out to God when your “sinking into the depths” was caused by your sin?
Does it feel true to say that God does not count our sin against us when we cry out to Him?
Does fear of God cause less fear of other things?
If our current culture’s definition of hope is essentially “wishful thinking”, how would you define biblical hope?
How was the gospel and the work of Jesus magnified through the text or sermon?
Is there anything the Spirit is calling you to obey as an individual or as a group?