The Lord’s Day Morning The Third Lesson: A Light for Those in
Darkness Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Dr. Derek Thomas: “Our help is
in the name of the Lord, who made the heavens and the earth.”
Let us worship God. We are reading through the book of Psalms on
Sunday mornings. We are coming now to the Ascent Psalms, the
fifteen Psalms beginning in Psalm 120-134, all of them bearing a
title “Song of Degrees” or “A Song of Ascents.” It’s often
thought that these Psalms were collected together as a group of
Psalms that pilgrims would have sung perhaps as they went on
pilgrimage to Jerusalem to one of the great feasts of Passover
or Pentecost, and as they ascended up to Mount Zion that they
would sing these Psalms. Psalm 124 is a wonderful Psalm that
speaks of God’s deliverance, God’s intervention in time of
trouble and difficulty. The Lord’s people, especially
Presbyterians, have fallen in love with this particular Psalm.
The closing verse of the Psalm is the verse that I cited just at
the beginning of the service this