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CrossWay Church
July 12, 2025 Psalm 42 & 43
Locations & Times
CrossWay Church Battle Ground
311 N Parkway Ave, Battle Ground, WA 98604, USA
Sunday 10:00 AM
Psalm 42–43: Faith in the Fog
I) When the Fog Sets In
A) The psalmist longs for God's ______________ — a thirsty deer.
B) _____________ is crashing around him — waves sweeping over.
C) Notice: the psalm never blames personal sin
When has your life felt like it was in the fog?
Which way do you tend to drift — pulling away, or pretending?
II) Faith Pours Out Its Pain — to God
A) The psalms prove we can be __________ with God
B) The psalmist presents his bold _______________ to God
1) ___________ is your God?
2) _______________ are you doing this?"
C) ____________ talks to God, not just about him.
D) God __________ our honest questions, struggles, and doubts.
1) We don't have to have the perfect _________________.
2) We may not get ______________ answers.
What have you been holding back from God?
If you stopped being polite with God, what would you say to him?
III) Faith Preaches Hope — to Its Own Soul
A) The psalmist first ___________ his own heart.
B) Then he does surgery — false hope out, God's truth in.
1) __________ → command to hope.
2) Fixation on _______________ → memory of God's character.
3) The fear and taunting → covenant _________.
4). Self-_________________ → request for God's leading.
C) We keep preaching by speaking to ourselves in ____________ (Pain & Hope channels)
D) We need to blast the hope-channel with God’s _______________
What have you been hoping in that’s failing you — and what truth can you replace it with?
IV) God Answers with the Forsaken One
A) The psalmist ___________ God to send a light to lead him into God's presence.
B) God __________ by sending his Son to deal with suffering’s ultimate source sin.
1) Jesus entered the very ____________ the psalmist sang.
2) Through his Jesus’s suffering, God secured the ________ and rescue the psalmist longed for.
C) Jesus is the way out of the fog and into God’s ____________.
God is able to absorb our emotion and love us, even when we rage against him. God is like a good parent who is not put off when a frustrated child screams, "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you," to his mom because she put him to bed early for not completing his chores. God allows us to pour out our hearts to him and get rid of the poison, regardless of how much there is, so that it can be diluted in the ocean of his love. Jerry Sittser
I) When the Fog Sets In
A) The psalmist longs for God's ______________ — a thirsty deer.
B) _____________ is crashing around him — waves sweeping over.
C) Notice: the psalm never blames personal sin
When has your life felt like it was in the fog?
Which way do you tend to drift — pulling away, or pretending?
II) Faith Pours Out Its Pain — to God
A) The psalms prove we can be __________ with God
B) The psalmist presents his bold _______________ to God
1) ___________ is your God?
2) _______________ are you doing this?"
C) ____________ talks to God, not just about him.
D) God __________ our honest questions, struggles, and doubts.
1) We don't have to have the perfect _________________.
2) We may not get ______________ answers.
What have you been holding back from God?
If you stopped being polite with God, what would you say to him?
III) Faith Preaches Hope — to Its Own Soul
A) The psalmist first ___________ his own heart.
B) Then he does surgery — false hope out, God's truth in.
1) __________ → command to hope.
2) Fixation on _______________ → memory of God's character.
3) The fear and taunting → covenant _________.
4). Self-_________________ → request for God's leading.
C) We keep preaching by speaking to ourselves in ____________ (Pain & Hope channels)
D) We need to blast the hope-channel with God’s _______________
What have you been hoping in that’s failing you — and what truth can you replace it with?
IV) God Answers with the Forsaken One
A) The psalmist ___________ God to send a light to lead him into God's presence.
B) God __________ by sending his Son to deal with suffering’s ultimate source sin.
1) Jesus entered the very ____________ the psalmist sang.
2) Through his Jesus’s suffering, God secured the ________ and rescue the psalmist longed for.
C) Jesus is the way out of the fog and into God’s ____________.
God is able to absorb our emotion and love us, even when we rage against him. God is like a good parent who is not put off when a frustrated child screams, "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you," to his mom because she put him to bed early for not completing his chores. God allows us to pour out our hearts to him and get rid of the poison, regardless of how much there is, so that it can be diluted in the ocean of his love. Jerry Sittser