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Lesson Summary:

The psalmist prays for God to honor His everlasting choice of David and Jerusalem.

Focus Passage: Psalms 132

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. David’s Choice of God (132:1-9)

Principle: God’s People Choose Abiding with the LORD Above All Things.
Application: How is your life showing that you have a desire to dwell intimately with God?
Scripture Reference

⁴ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
John 15:4-5 (NASB)

II. God’s Choice of David and Zion (132:10-18)

Principle: God Has Chosen His People to Abide with Him Forever.
Application: How are you encouraged knowing today that God has chosen you to be in an everlasting intimate relationship with Him?
Scripture Reference

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Or Him, in love Him. In love
⁵ He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will
Ephesians 1:3-5 (NASB)