Esther TOP. True Repentance - Psalm 51. 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 actual author, as one of a band of kinsmen who worked and sang together, would, not unnaturally, be content to sink his individuality and let his song go forth as that of the band. All unrest of longing, all fever of thirst, all outgoings of desire, are feelers put out blindly, and are only stilled when they clasp Him. Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. (To help fight spam, this address might change occasionally.) For example: Of course, there are other psalms that focus on thanksgiving, but this is the only psalm that is labeled as a psalm for giving thanks. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your God? I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. 1 As the deer pants for streams of water. For it is the strong members that are the bones; and sometimes even those that are strong sink under their temptations. 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. For to account for his fears, in the midst of those things, which he now knows, having come after a sort to the understanding of them, he has been looking behind him again in anxiety, lest the enemy be stealing upon him: he cannot yet say, I am made whole every whit. . 428.] For whosoever of the body of Christ considers this, does he not exclaim, with the voice of Christ's Body, Why have You rejected me? It "pants" and "thirsts," is "cast down" and disquieted; it is "poured out"; it can be bidden to "hope." We don't know when the psalms were gathered into five books, but the separation dates back to before our oldest manuscripts, compiled in the Masoretic Text. A. PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. For the Psalm itself begins with a certain pious longing; and he who sings so, says, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God Psalm 41:1. Who is it then that says this? But inasmuch as You sit at liberty, I have thus spoken unto my soul. Who shall bring any charge against you as Gods elect? It suggests that the psalmists faith will bridge over the interval between himself and the sanctuary: I can send my thoughts to Thee from the distant frontier" (in loc.). Mount Mizar is one of the hills in that area. It destroys serpents, and after the killing of serpents, it is inflamed with thirst yet more violent; having destroyed serpents, it runs to the water-brooks, with thirst more keen than before. 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. 9. For there are already many things that I admire in the tabernacle. My health (my salvation) cannot be from myself; this it is that I will say, that I will confess. The enemy is called a "loveless nation." 15. And he knows it. It has been ingeniously conjectured by Delitzsch that the Korachite psalms originally formed a separate collection entitled "Songs of the Sons of Korach," and that this title afterwards passed over into the superscriptions when they were incorporated in the Psalter. But more important than any of that is God Himself. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is your God? religion or Christ. Take all the parts of a sermon and put them together into a whole, and that whole is the central idea-the big idea-in the sermon. The angelic choir makes an eternal holiday: the presence of God's face, joy that never fails. When shall I come and appear before God? They keep him from capsizing in the tumult of his emotions. With wise resolve he finds in dejection a reason for nestling closer to God. All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. RELATING TO THE PSALM He is the health of my countenance, and my God. The title then of it is, On the end: a Psalm for understanding for the sons of Korah. And this, which is soon in the sight of God, is late to our longing. What abyss is this that calls, and to what other abyss? Therefore the refrain comes for a third time; and this time the longing, trembling soul continues at the height to which the better self has lifted it, and silently acknowledges that it need not have been cast down. It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. The facts on which faith feeds abide while faith fluctuates. Why sons of Korah? 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. Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. 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. For I am alarmed by the Apostle's saying, Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. For many of us other desires can get in the way of us really desiring God. Why, when already longing for those things, have I been cast down to these, by the weight and burden of my iniquity? I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. Perhaps there was something in there for you too. 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. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. It is a birthday that is being celebrated (say they), there is a marriage here; that those songs may not appear out of place, but the luxurious indulgence may be excused by the festive occasion. "As a deer longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for . He ends with naming Him "the gladness of my joy." 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. The deer will die. A. Look at programs man has instituted to build the churches. It is not however one individual, but it is One Body; but Christ's Body is the Church. For he said not, My tears became my drink, lest he should seem to have longed for them, as for the water-brooks: but, still retaining that thirst wherewith I burn, and by which I am hurried away towards the water-brooks, My tears became my meat, while I am not yet there. 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. Chained " whoooa is me I'm miserable " (5.) ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. His situation and mood closely resemble those in another Korachite psalm (Psalms 84:1-12), in which, as here, the soul "faints for the courts of the Lord," and as here the panting hind, so there the glancing swallows flitting about the eaves are woven into the song. It is God who justifies. 8. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. It is the prerogative of faith to make pictures drawn by memory pale beside those painted by hope. Galatians6:2 5. What is going on here? We must learn to preach the truth to ourselves. BOOK 2: CHS. Here, the Psalmist is making an eschatological statement that even in the midst of powerful opposition, God will rule and prevail over that which is unjust in both the short-term as well as the long-term (v. 3-4). If it is, the second part of the psalm is also conformed to the other two in regard to its not beginning with the Divine name. The same construction is found in Book 1 in Psalms 25:1-22; Psalms 26:1-12; Psalms 27:1-14; Psalms 28:1-9; Psalms 35:1-28; Psalms 37:1-40 where it is obviously the designation of authorship, and it is naturally taken to have the same force in these Korachite psalms. Not many of us can compose songs when were discouraged and weeping day and night. In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. He never loses this grip on the great truths about God. And when these are heard, what do we passers by say? Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? Many ingenious attempts have been made to explain the name either as symbolical or as a common noun, and not a proper name, but these need not be dealt with here. The refrain is repeated for a third time, and is followed by no relapse into sadness. It is useless to speculate on its origin. The locality thus designated is too far north for the scene of Davids retreat before Absalom, unless we give an unusual southward extension to the names; and this makes a difficulty in the way of accepting the hypothesis of the authors having been in his retinue. But in the Hebrew Bible, God never gave anyone this blessing nor did God ever use the word when he was speaking. PSALM 42 Let there be no sloth in your running; run with all your might: long for the fountain with all your might. 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. For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY DESIRE GOD? Let Him deliver you, if He can. 4. The waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. restoring the joy. Here goes. From whence did I remember you? We have met with the sons of Korah in other titles of Psalms: and remember to have discussed and stated already the meaning of this name. St. Paul had a blinding revelation on the road to Damascus, an encounter with the risen Lord Jesus that turned his life completely topsy-turvy and started him on a perilous road that would take him all over .read more Scripture: Philippians 1:18-26, Psalm 42:2-5, Luke 14:1-11 Denomination: Catholic No doubt the psalmist connected communion with God and presence in the Temple more closely together than they should do who have heard the great charter, "neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem"; but, however the two things were coupled in his mind, they were sufficiently separate to allow of approach by longing and prayer while distant in body, and the true object of yearning was not access to the Temple, but communion with the God of the Temple. Would you have me not disquiet you, panting as I am after what is good, thirsting and labouring as I am for it? [Note: Bullock, p. And since it is said to you, Disregard this or that thing, if you prefer working iniquity to despising some temporal good, you choose to be bitten by a serpent, rather than destroy it. 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 know this is a given but prayer prepares the preacher's heart for the studying of God's word (1 Peter 2:1-2) and it prepares the preacher's mind to receive clarity and insight into God's word (Psalm 119:18). ), saying, I thought to know this; it is too painful for me, until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand of the last things. The twofold emotions of Psalms 42:6 recur in Psalms 42:7-8, where we have first renewed despondency and then reaction into hope. Romans8:23 When that health (that salvation) is perfected in us, then shall we be living in the house of God for ever, and praising for ever Him to whom it was said, Blessed are they that dwell in Your house, they will be praising You world without end. Lecture 1: Expository Preaching of the Psalms - Dr. Steven Lawson The Master's Seminary 104K subscribers Subscribe 598 Share Save 45K views 10 years ago TMS Archives: Expository Preaching. 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? If by abyss we understand a great depth, is not man's heart, do you not suppose, an abyss? Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. So bloated with other things hasnt got space for water., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 3 Feel guilty about not desiring God more. To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers me from His holy hill. Romans8:24-25. scenes of glory on a sea of gloom. Deep calls unto deep with the voice of your water-spouts. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. Psalms 43:2 looks back to Psalms 42:9, the former clause in each verse being practically equivalent, and the second in 43 (Psalms 43:2), being a quotation of the second in Psalms 42:9, with a variation in the form of the verb to suggest more vividly the picture of weary, slow, dragging gait, fit for a man clad in mourning garb. Servanthood What does it mean to be a servant of Christ. Let this be allowed; and this meaning retain its place in the Church; a place both truthful and sanctioned by usage. 334.]. Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. PSALM 51:1-2. And it is principally in the temptations of the Church they say this, Where is your God? Anathematize yourself, by being displeased with yourself; for if you are pleased with yourself, God will be displeased with you. Two-person skit: the chained, the Devil (2.) Psalm 27. putting God first. So cried our Head also, as if speaking in our name. It is a very elementary but necessary lesson for the conduct of life that emotion of all sorts, sad or glad, religious or other, needs rigid scrutiny and firm control, sometimes stimulating and sometimes chilling. It is likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. Thats why a singable psalter is good to keep around or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions. The psalmist paints his calamities as storming on him in dismal continuity, each "flood" seeming to summon its successor. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. He was called the sweet dropper because of how much confidence and joy his sermons caused. A similar bit of local colour is generally recognised in Psalms 42:7. 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. OBJECTIVES:Each listener should be able to understand the story, repeat it, and . God-Centred As we have seen, the immediate cause was his separation from the temple of God. Again that voice! Emotion varies, but God is the same. Water the key theme in the Psalm. sing unto the . Hebrew word doesnt mean spirit but a persons life; who and what we really are. The name "Elohim" occurs 164 times in this section of the Psalms, and the name "Yahweh" ("LORD") appears only 30 times. Why have You rejected me? Some ancient Hebrew manuscripts united Psalms 42, 43 as one. The epithet answers to that of the former part, "the living God," from which it differs by but one additional letter. "My soul is cast down; therefore let me remember Thee." A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. [Note: Merrill, "Psalms," p. The deer that rejects water. Doesnt believe in it, doesnt long for it, or doesnt know they long for it. Korah was a great-grandson of Levi who rebelled against Moses leadership (Numbers 16:1-2). Verse 5: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? But the gloomier mood has shot its last bolt. But they are happy in their very yearnings who are conscious of the true direction of these, and can say that it is God for whom they are athirst. But the victory is not quite won, and therefore Psalms 43:1-5, follows. aye, let them say it! Key idea here is longing for God when in a wilderness situation. But the curb has not been applied quite in vain, for throughout the succeeding verses there is a striking alternation of despondency and hope. {Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5} But probably the text is faulty. The Point Of Psalms 34 That I may behold (he says) the beauty of the Lord. For you do not doubt of your God. send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . Who shall separate you from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:3135 paraphrased), Fifth, the psalmist remembers. The insufficiency of the circumstances described to warrant the vehement emotions expressed is implied in the summons. Inevitably there are times we do feel cut-off from God. For I will go into the place of Your Tabernacle. He began with yearning after the living God. It is sometimes right to pray for the defeat of enemies. 14. That is the worlds way with the calamities of a devout man, whose humble cry, "My God," it resents as presumption or hypocrisy. And assuredly he does but the more thirst for the water-brooks from making his tears his meat.And they daily say unto me, Where is your God? I thought on these things, and poured out my soul above myself Psalm 41:4. Psalm 41:9. Strip away allow God to strip away all the things that give us temporary satisfaction. But isnt it amazing that hes singing his prayer! For it is there is the house of my God. So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. Thus is it wisdom is learned, and thus faith, when man calls to man. Psalms 43, 66, 67, , 71 are anonymous. And why ask, who it is other than yourself, when it is in your power to be the thing which you are asking about? In building the Lord's house. I shall not want for refreshment, "He leadeth me beside the still waters." 3. When shall I come and appear before God? Psalms 42-72 (Reformed Expository Commentary) Hardcover - November 11, 2019 by Richard D. Phillips (Author) 11 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $33.98 4 New from $23.88 In the inspired poems of the Psalms, we find the full range of human emotions laid bare before the heart of God and in settings familiar to our experience. 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. Soul. Without it we die. "Mizar" is probably the name of a hill otherwise unknown, and specifies the singers locality more minutely, though not helpfully to us. I shall not want for nourishment, "He makes me to lie down in green pastures." 2. He called his book The Souls Conflict with Itself, because in Psalm 42:5 thats exactly what you have; the soul arguing with itself, preaching to itself. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. Sermon Seeds is a weekly e-mail list featuring brief, expository outlines designed to help preachers and Bible teachers with their preparations. And the little hill of Hermon. It's as if the writer is saying, "If you want to know how to thank God, let . Justly, because the understanding spoken of is an abyss. God was not providing for his needs just then. For were it to rest in itself, it would not see anything else beyond itself; and in seeing itself, would not, for all that, see God. My God is the saving health of my countenance. And we are told in answer, that it is some festival. Scripture: PSALM 42:1-11, PSALM 43:1-5 Inner-Turmoil David Cawston Psalm 42:1-11; Psalm 43:1-5 Introduction: I have a churning place, it's in my stomach just below my rib cage. The difference between the devout and the worldly man is just that the one can only say, "My soul pants and thirsts," and the other can add "after Thee, O God." But yet, Why have You forgotten me? The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. Dont compromise! sermons and saints. It is a faith that hungers and thirsts for God and yet remains empty. When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. Nevertheless he believed God would remain loyal to him. In the daytime the Lord would pour out His love to the psalmist, and in the night he would respond by praising God. Hear what else there is in the hart. Esther 2:1-18 - The Best Beauty Pageant Ever. 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. You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. But, considering that lovingkindness is in the Psalter mainly a Divine attribute, and that, when a human excellence, it is regarded as derived from and being the echo of experienced Divine mercy, it is best to take the passive meaning as the principal, though sometimes, as unmistakably here, the active is more suitable. Nature reflects the poets moods, and overmastering emotion sees its own analogues everywhere. A second purpose is that you want to leave something lasting in the minds of the congregation when a sermon is over. There is much in the psalms which favours the hypothesis that the author was a Korachite companion of Davids in his flight before Absalom; but the locality, described as that of the singer, does not entirely correspond to that of the kings retreat, and the description of the enemies is not easily capable of application in all points to his foes. : 42:2-6) The . God is close to us and cares for us as a shepherd cares for his sheep. Streaks of brightness flash through the gloom. It was a long way from Mount Zion where the ark dwelt in Davids day. Understand that God may use suffering to refocus our deepest desires on Him. the office of keepers of the door of the sanctuary had been hereditary in their family from the time of Moses. He could not obtain the refreshment he needed yet, but he looked forward to finding it soon. The imagery of floods lifting up their voices, and cataracts sounding as they fall, and breaking waves rolling over the half-drowned psalmist has been supposed to be suggested by the scenery in which he was; but the rushing noise of Jordan in its rocky bed seems scarcely enough to deserve being described as "flood calling to flood," and "breakers and rollers" is an exaggeration if applied to any commotion possible on such a stream. Scripture (Psalm 32:1-5) verses 1-2: The one who has his sins covered is "blessed." The Hebrews used two different words to describe being "blessed." One word meant God bestowed the blessing. Neither abstractions nor dead things can still its cravings. Let them still say, Where is your God? Preaching Christ from Psalms: Foundations for Expository Sermons in the Christian Year by SIdney Greidanus Publisher: Eerdmans , 2016 ISBN: 9780802873668 3 ratings Digital $26.99 Digital (Group) $26.99 Overview PROPOSITION: In this sermon we see an 1) unrealized cure, 2) unabashed command, 3) unjustified criticism, 4) unapologetic confirmation. Perhaps because expository sermons take much diligence and study, many preachers look for an easier way. Psalm 41:11. Matthew24:12 When we see the strong members of the Church generally giving way to the causes of offense, does not Christ's body say, The enemy breaks my bones? To what mortal's lot has it fallen? 2. The psalmists lamentation because of his enemies 42:6-11. And just as there we found cause for rejoicing, so here there will not be wanting an occasion for sorrow. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. What we do at church is a real transaction with the living God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. All Your overhangings and Your waves have come upon me. running for God. He then forwarded these photos to several university e-mail lists. 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. Why have You rejected me? DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 2 The psalmist encouraged himself rhetorically by reminding himself that he would again praise God. Once more the contending currents meet in Psalms 42:9 and Psalms 42:10, in the former of which confidence and hope utter themselves in the resolve to appeal to God and in the name given to Him as "my Rock"; while another surge of despondency breaks, in the question in which the soul interrogates God, as the better self had interrogated her, and contrasts almost reproachfully Gods apparent forgetfulness, manifested by His delay in deliverance with her remembrance of Him. It is reported of stagsthat when they either wander in the herds, or when they are swimming to reach some other parts of the earth, that they support the burdens of their heads on each other, in such a manner as that one takes the lead, and others follow, resting their heads upon him, as again others who follow do upon them, and others in succession to the very end of the herd; but the one who took the lead in bearing the burden of their heads, when tired, returns to the rear, and rests himself after his fatigue by supporting his head just as did the others; by thus supporting what is burdensome, each in turn, they both accomplish their journey, and do not abandon each other. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. And, as it seems to answer, Would you not have me disquiet you, placed as I am here in so great evils? 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