I will say unto God, You are my lifter up. Descend then, that you may be lifted up: be not lifted up, lest you be cast down. The waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . In tribulation no man has leisure to hear: attend, when it is well with you; hear, when it is well with you; learn, when you are in tranquillity, the discipline of wisdom, and store up the word of God as you do food. But that just isnt the way we are. JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE This is not inconsistent with righteousnessit is righteousness. As he walks in this tabernacle, and contemplates God's wonderful works for the redemption of the faithful, the sound of that festivity charms his ears, and bears the hart away to the water-brooks. It is a faith that hungers and thirsts for God and yet remains empty. He ends with naming Him "the gladness of my joy." This I make my business here; I who am the hart thirsting and longing for the water-brooks, calling to mind the sweetness of that strain, by which I was led on through the tabernacle even to the house of God; while this corruptible body presses down the soul, Wisdom9:15 there is yet with me prayer unto the God of my life. I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. God being what He is, no longing soul can ever remain unsatisfied. The story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah is found in 2 Samuel 11-12. Devil; Wraps chains around the chained (3.) He therefore glances back to himself, as if he were coming from that world; and says to himself, now placed in the midst of these sorrows, comparing these with the things, to see which he had entered in there, and after seeing which he had come forth from thence; Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why do you disquiet me? And then once more above this conflict of emotion soars the clear note of the refrain, summoning to self-command, calmness, and unfaltering hope. Just as if his soul was silently replying to him, Why do I disquiet you, but because I am not yet there, where that delight is, to which I was, as it were, rapt for a moment? [Note: Bullock, p. Scripture ref: Luke 16:19-23. For it is written in a certain passage, The mercy of the Lord is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Arise, O Lord! My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is your God? Esther 4 - For Such a Time as This. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. Each of us must walk in the light we have. he says, In the voice of joy and praise; the sound of keeping holiday. For it is there, in the sanctuary of God, in the house of God, is the fountain of understanding. 15. He was a captive in Babylonia and preached to the exiles about the fall of Jerusalem, and after having heard. 4) Paul's sermon at the synagogue (Acts 13:16-41) involves an exposition of the prophecies of the Old Testament and a revealing of the hearts of his listeners: They are a people who may become scoffers and eventually unbelieving. This morning, I want to quickly offer us (be me, specifically) some hope when dealing with discouragement. The "soul" is feminine in Hebrew, and is here compared to the female deer, for "pants" is the feminine form of the verb, though its noun is masculine. RELATING TO THE PSALM Accept that we may need to make effort. It is ourselves, if we be but willing! Spiritual Depression - Psalm 42-43. Let them still say, Where is your God? It would be good if all of us were so composed and careful in the expression of our discouragements that we never said anything amiss. The deer will die. Methods devised to proclaim gospel. PROPOSITION: To study the story of the rich man and Lazarus and notice: 1) The characters, 2) The circumstances, 3) The cries of the rich man, 4) The conclusions of the story. Apr 24, 2020. Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. But the gloomier mood has shot its last bolt. Here, when men keep festival simply for their own indulgence, it is their custom to place musical instruments, or to station a chorus of singers, before their houses, or any kind of music that serves and allures to wantonness. 14. So, the psalmist affirms God's sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. Some of them were among the faithful adherents of David at Ziklag, {1 Chronicles 12:6} and in the new model of worship inaugurated by him the Korachites were doorkeepers and musicians. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. When shall I come and appear before God? Psalm 41:3. DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 2 A. Emotion varies, but God is the same. The stimulus serves for a moment; but once more courage fails, and once more, at yet greater length and with yet sadder tones, plaints and longings are wailed forth. Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. He calls past experiences to mind. 1. When we think and feel with God in the Psalms, this is the main result: we come to love God, and we want to see God and be with God and be satisfied in admiring and exulting in God. Those very tears were sweet unto me: being thirsty for that fountain, inasmuch as I was not as yet able to drink of it, I have eagerly made my tears my meat. "Korah, Asaph, Heman, and Ethan are all associated with the service and music of the sanctuary in Davids reign. Not many of us can compose songs when were discouraged and weeping day and night. The first time we see it in Bible history is in I Chronicles 16, when King David is bringing up the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. These loveless people are not further defined, and may either have been Israelites or aliens. I think an abyss may not unreasonably be understood of man, of whom it is said elsewhere, Man shall come to a deep heart, and God shall be exalted. The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. Are they not a kind of harts that the Apostle addresses, saying, Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Law of Christ? Now Korah may have been, as indeed he was, a certain definite person; and have had sons, who might be called the sons of Korah; let us however search for the secret of which this is the sacrament, that this name may bring to light the mystery with which it is pregnant. How much was this cast in the teeth of the Martyrs! The feminine soul has to give account of her moods to calmer judgment, and to be lifted and steadied by the strong spirit. No, but calls on is equivalent to calls to him. When the Rumors are Not True - Psalm 26. The word rendered "loveless" is compounded of the negative prefix and the word which is usually found with the meaning of "one whom God favours," or visits with lovingkindness. Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for you. My brother! Again, verse 8: By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. This is not a song of jubilant hope. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. In the waves that deep calls; in the overhangings is the other deep which it calls to. They are the ballast in his little boat of faith. REKINDLE YOUR PASSION (PSALMS 42:1-2 ) INTRO: SKIT: SATAN GOT YOUR JOY AND PASSION (1.) Where, I pray, is your God? For He who threatens does not let His judgments fall upon us, but keeps them suspended over us. The stage of mechanical repetition of complaints is not far from that of cessation of them. But When shall I come? He was called the sweet dropper because of how much confidence and joy his sermons caused. And it was in the sanctuary of God that he understood this, and understood of the last things.For he tells us of his progress, and of his guidance there; as if we had been saying, You are admiring the tabernacle here on earth; how came you to the sanctuary of the house of God? For I will go into the place of Your Tabernacle. {Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5} But probably the text is faulty. So, let me invite you to take your copy of Gods Word and turn to Psalm 42. In the house of God there is a never-ending festival: for there it is not an occasion celebrated once, and then to pass away. (vv. Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary. And when these are heard, what do we passers by say? I will be preaching on Psalm 6 to the saints and friends of the Bethany Baptist Church in Bellflower, Southeast LA, California, this Sunday, April 26, 2020, Lord-willing. The Place of Refuge and Strength - Psalm 46. Nature reflects the poets moods, and overmastering emotion sees its own analogues everywhere. 3. For there are already many things that I admire in the tabernacle. HAVE MERCY ON ME, GOD. AND XLIII. Yet, with the strange but universal love of summoning up remembrance of departed joys, the psalmist finds a certain pleasure in the pain of recalling how he. (1) There are a number of ancient manuscripts that have both of these psalms as just one continuous psalm. Hermon means anathematizing. There is no necessity to conclude that these were heathens, though the taunt is usually put into heathen lips {Psalms 79:10; Psalms 52:2} but it would be quite as natural from co-religionists, flouting his fervour and personal grasp of God and taking his sorrows as tokens of Gods abandonment of him. My God is the saving health of my countenance. Deep calls on deep, then, is, man calls to man. Verse 1 begins: "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His lovingkindness is everlasting." This phrase one of the most famous in the whole Bible. 12. For he compared these things in which he found himself, to those toward which he had been raised; and saw himself cast out far from the sight of God's eyes, as he speaks even here, Why have You rejected me? The correspondence between mans needs and their true object is involved in that name "the living God"; for a heart can rest only in one all-sufficient Person, and must have a heart to throb against. To recall past joys adds stings to present grief, but to remember God brings an anodyne for the smart. The enemy is called a "loveless nation." 5) Finally, at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17:22-34), Paul exposes the gathered worshipers as being ignorant of . So thats a sermon for me, today. The two psalms (Psalms 42:1-11, Psalms 43:1-5) are plainly one. AS THE DEER PANTS FOR STREAMS OF WATER. The deer that doesnt mind a sip or two of water if it happens to come their way or it isnt too inconvenient to look for it. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. The unity is vouched by the considerations already noticed, and by the incompleteness of Psalms 42:1-11 without such triumphant close and of Psalms 43:1-5 without such despondent beginning. 2 Wash away my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin. With the alternation of mood already noticed as characteristic, the singer looks forward, even from the midst of overwhelming seas of trouble, to a future day when God will give His angel, Mercy or Lovingkindness, charge concerning him and draw him out of many waters. Again the psalmist encouraged himself with the rhetorical refrain (cf. Apart from air, water our most basic need. We must learn to preach the truth to ourselves. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. The insufficiency of the circumstances described to warrant the vehement emotions expressed is implied in the summons. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. When I have laughed at the stone, and he who pointed to it has been put to the blush, he raises his eyes from the stone, looks up to heaven, and perhaps says, pointing his finger to the Sun, Behold there my God! (NLT) Psalm 63: 1-5 - O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. Anathematize yourself, by being displeased with yourself; for if you are pleased with yourself, God will be displeased with you. Perhaps avarice whispers in your ear some dark counsel, hisses against the word of God, hisses against the commandment of God. The higher self arrests this flow of self-pity and lamentation. Psalm 22 is an excellent choice for a sermon on Good Friday because, according to Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34, Jesus, "the man of sorrows" (Is 53:3), voiced the haunting opening words of this magnificent psalm, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" in his dying moment on the cross of Golgotha. Numbers 26:10-11) were distinguished musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31-48). HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY DESIRE GOD? And whither shall I flee from Your Spirit? If man then is an abyss, in what way does abyss call on abyss? There he understood of the last things; and solved the question concerning the prosperity of the unrighteous, and the sufferings of the righteous. Acts 4:25). For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. 3. Apart from air, water our most basic need. He never loses this grip on the great truths about God. For you do not doubt of your God. What is meant by like the hart? Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? That day of extrication will surely be followed by a night of music and of thankful prayer (for supplication is not the only element in prayer) to Him who by His deliverance has shown Himself to be the "God of" the rescued mans "life." In the mean while dwell in hope: for hope that is seen is not hope; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Why have You forgotten me? But it is a song of faith. My health (my salvation) cannot be from myself; this it is that I will say, that I will confess. Long thou for this light: for a certain fountain, a certain light, such as your bodily eyes know not; a light to see which the inward eye must be prepared; a fountain, to drink of which the inward thirst is to be kindled. The Point Of Psalms 34 That's what he's seeking - jubilant hope. My soul is disquieted on account of myself.Therefore I remember You, O Lord, from the land of Jordan, and from the little hill of Hermon. Each swing of the gymnast lifts him higher until he is on a level with a firm platform on which he can spring and stand secure. Esther 2:1-18 - The Best Beauty Pageant Ever. You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. How does the Psalmist know this? P. J. Tibayan. Hope in God. Psalm 42 essentially a lament, with Psalm 43 forming the Psalmists prayer in response to the lament. And its shaped by thinking and feeling with God in the Psalms. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Psalm 127. The psalmist encouraged himself rhetorically by reminding himself that he would again praise God. Nevertheless he believed God would remain loyal to him. Fourth, the psalmist preaches to his own soul. For I am alarmed by the Apostle's saying, Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. Hope and trust hold the field. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. seeing that deep calls to deep, and after those sufferings severer ones are to be dreaded. Original setting not known. So ends the first of the psalms; but obviously it is no real ending, for the victory over fear is not won, and longing has not become blessed. WHATS THE PSALM ABOUT? And we are told in answer, that it is some festival. Galatians6:2 5. A Heart for the Lord - Psalm 84. restoring the joy. Assuredly it is from your seeing me labouring, that you labour with me: for I am labouring not for myself, but for you. Psalms 43, 66, 67, , 71 are anonymous. And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. The psalmist was thirsty for God. 17. Both psalms are individual laments. PROPOSITION: In this sermon we see an 1) unrealized cure, 2) unabashed command, 3) unjustified criticism, 4) unapologetic confirmation. In this penultimate volume of his series on preaching Christ from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus offers expert guidance for busy pastors on preaching Christ from Psalms. For men saw their torments outwardly; they did not inwardly behold their crowns! I thirst for God, the living God. He doesnt feel jubilant hope. It was in wonder and admiration he spoke this: Abyss calls unto abyss with the voice of Your water-spouts. Last week's psalm was an unusually long one for the Psalm of Ascents, but this week we are back to a short psalm. Because then God gives us all good things, because He Himself is good, not because we are worthy of it; because He is merciful, not because we have in anything deserved it; it is from the land of Jordan, and from Hermon, that I remember you. Expository sermons allow the preacher, rather, to bridge the gap between an ancient culture and our own to make appropriate applications to those who hear him. Who shall separate you from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:3135 paraphrased), Fifth, the psalmist remembers. : 42:2-6) The . But the victory is not quite won, and therefore Psalms 43:1-5, follows. He hacked into the Harvard server, downloaded private dormitory ID photos, and posted them on his blog. The second part of the psalm takes up the question of the refrain, and first reiterates with bitter emphasis that the soul is bowed down, and then pours out once more the stream of reasons for dejection. Tweed. And he knows it. To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers me from His holy hill. This mans faith was not so dependent on externals that it could not come close to God while distant from His temple. Men may speak, may be seen by the operations of their members, may be heard speaking in conversation: but whose thought is penetrated, whose heart seen into? I am thirsty in my pilgrimage, in my running; I shall be filled on my arrival. He longed for God, whom he confidently expected to be able to praise in the future when the Lord would deliver him. 2. This is a holiday of such a kind, as neither to be opened by any dawn, nor terminated by any evening. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. And just as there we found cause for rejoicing, so here there will not be wanting an occasion for sorrow. For I will confess unto Him. The separation, however, is old, since it is found in the LXX. I have within a victim to sacrifice; I have within an incense to place on the altar; I have within a sacrifice wherewith to propitiate my God. Am I already 'drinking' from this 'fountain' with nothing to fear?Still Hope in God, is his answer to the soul that disquiets him, and would fain account for her disquiet from the evils with which this world abounds. I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! u.s.). He was blogging and trying to find something to get a girl off his mind. Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed.
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