Sermon
The Purpose of Life
Mercy Hill Church - Cincinnati
Speaker: Ernie Bonnoitt
November 4, 2024 · 36 min
Summary
Psalm 115 teaches that God alone is sovereign and worthy of trust, contrasting the living God with powerless idols. When the world seems chaotic and God distant, believers must continually trust in His control, remember His promises, and respond with worship—especially in the face of cultural mockery.
Highlights
An idol is anything that absorbs a person's heart and imagination more than God or anything that a person seeks to give them that only God can give.
God is too big and too vital to be worried about even the greatest rebellion we can create. Even the greatest mockery is nothing to him because it doesn't shake where he stands.
The only place that you can have complete trust is in God Almighty. And he's saying it in a time when there's not a great wealth of evidence in his personal life of God moving.