Psalm 127 & 128 | Faithful Labor & Fruitful Blessing

Preacher: Joel Fair
Scripture: Psalm 127-128

God Calls Us To Faithful Labor & Promises Fruitful Blessing

1. Faithful Labor (127 & 128 Vs 1-2)
2. Fruitful Blessing (127 & 128 Vs 3ff)
3. The Gospel - Both Faithful Work and Fruitful Blessing

Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Luke 12:22-31
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

1 Cor 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Stephen Whitmer “Unless God Works, We Work In Vain”
Knowing that God works in and through us gives us confidence and boldness to be more, not less, active in the good works he has planned for us.

Charles Spurgeon The Treasury of David
Happy is the man who hits the golden mean by so working as to believe in God, and so believing in God as to work without fear.