See how great wonders I admire in the tabernacle! My tears (he says) have been not bitterness, but my bread. The effort of faith should be persistent, even if old bitternesses begin again and "break the low beginnings of content"; for, even if the wild waters burst through the dam once and again, they do not utterly wash it away, and there remains a foundation on which it may be built up anew. These outlines are eventually posted on this website. Whither then shall I go from Your presence? 8. I. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. 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. Rather than drinking from God, he had to drink the water of his own tears. For that hart that made tears its bread day and night, borne along by longing to the water-brooks (that is, to the spiritual delights of God), pouring forth his soul above himself, that he may attain to what is above his own soul, walking towards the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God, and led on by the sweetness of that inward spiritual sound to feel contempt for all outward things, and be borne on to things spiritual, is but a mortal man still; is still groaning here, still bearing about the frailty of flesh, still in peril in the midst of the offenses Matthew18:7 of this world. The facts on which faith feeds abide while faith fluctuates. Acts 4:25). Again the psalmist encouraged himself with the rhetorical refrain (cf. I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:11; Psalms 43:5). Psalm 41:9. Psalm 42:2. The separation, however, is old, since it is found in the LXX. 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. silence is not always golden. 1. When Fear Grips Your Life - Psalm 27. This conflict of opposite emotions is the characteristic of the second part of the psalm, while that of the first part is an all but unrelieved predominance of gloom, and that of the third an all but undisputed victory of sunshine. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. They rush upon him, multitudinous and close following; they pour down on him as with the thunder of descending cataracts; they overwhelm him like the breakers and rollers of an angry ocean. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. Is it disquieted on account of God? Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. It is sufficiently distinct in tone to explain its separation from the preceding, inasmuch as it is prayer throughout, and the note of joy is dominant, even while an undertone of sadness links it with the previous parts. 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. To see those who were thought to have some stability, giving way under temptations, so that the rest of the weak brethren despair when they see those who are strong succumbing; how great, my brethren, are the dangers! running for God. sing unto the . 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. the office of keepers of the door of the sanctuary had been hereditary in their family from the time of Moses. 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. 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. Faith may have a long struggle with fear, but it will have the last word, and that word will be "the help of my countenance and my God. When the Rumors are Not True - Psalm 26. Scripture: Psalms 42:1-2 Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational Summary: THIRSTING FOR GOD THIRSTING FOR GOD (NLT) Psalm 42: 1-2 - As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. For just as worldly prosperity is signified by the day, adversity by the night, so again in another way worldly prosperity is expressed by the summer, adversity by the winter. Original setting not known. If you would also ask the meanings of the names, Jordan means their descent. revival. For what is there more profound than that abyss? And just as there we found cause for rejoicing, so here there will not be wanting an occasion for sorrow. The twofold emotions of Psalms 42:6 recur in Psalms 42:7-8, where we have first renewed despondency and then reaction into hope. John 4:14). He is the health of my countenance, and my God. 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. Streaks of brightness flash through the gloom. 14. However, he came back to the same expression of confidence with which he ended the first stanza. You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. The feminine soul has to give account of her moods to calmer judgment, and to be lifted and steadied by the strong spirit. If by abyss we understand a great depth, is not man's heart, do you not suppose, an abyss? settled. The angelic choir makes an eternal holiday: the presence of God's face, joy that never fails. Not mere bodily presence there, but that joyful outpouring of triumph and gladness, is the object of the psalmists longing. Psalm 41:5. Mount Mizar is one of the hills in that area. So bloated with other things hasnt got space for water., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 3 Let Him deliver you, if He can. For example: But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. In this that I suffer are all Your waves; in the severer punishment that Thou threatenest, all Your overhangings have come unto me. 2 Wash away my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin. 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. HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY DESIRE GOD? "Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other" ( Psalm 85:10 ). He never loses this grip on the great truths about God. It was a long way from Mount Zion where the ark dwelt in Davids day. When David came to the throne, one of his first thoughts was how he could show mercy to the household of his adversary Saul ( 2 Sam. Why have You forgotten me? The sons of Korah (cf. It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. For it was said of a certain person, he calls on death; Wisdom1:16 that is, lives in such a way as to be inviting death; for there is no man at all who puts up a prayer, and calls expressly on death: but men by evil-living invite death. 2. Thats what hes seeking jubilant hope. seeing that deep calls to deep, and after those sufferings severer ones are to be dreaded. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. For in tribulation every one must be profited by what he heard in the time of security. Why sons of Korah? But You are trying me, and I know that Thou dost but put off, not take utterly from me, what You have promised me. Assuredly it is from your seeing me labouring, that you labour with me: for I am labouring not for myself, but for you. The psalmists lamentation because of his enemies 42:6-11. For in prosperity God commends to you His mercy, in case thou serve Him faithfully, for He frees you from tribulation; but it is in the night only that He declares His mercy to you, which He commended to you by day. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. Why then does Korah stand for Christ? This mans longing was intensified by his unwilling exile from the sanctuary, a special privation to a door keeper of the Temple. Devil; Wraps chains around the chained (3.) Mistaking the desire for religion and religious practices for a desire for God. The preceding verses have given ample reason why she has been dejected, but now she is summoned to repeat them to a judicial ear. Again that voice! OBJECTIVES:Each listener should be able to understand the story, repeat it, and . That is the worlds way with the calamities of a devout man, whose humble cry, "My God," it resents as presumption or hypocrisy. Psalm 41:11. The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. Hebrew word doesnt mean spirit but a persons life; who and what we really are. 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 it is in hope that we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. 11. Start With Prayer. Why, when already longing for those things, have I been cast down to these, by the weight and burden of my iniquity? Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary. Psalms 43, 66, 67, , 71 are anonymous. 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. Furthermore, it is said in a certain passage, Your judgments are a mighty abyss, Scripture meaning to suggest that the judgments of God are incomprehensible. To what mortal's lot has it fallen? The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit. "My soul is cast down; therefore let me remember Thee." Where, I pray, is your God? In his prayer, he would also ask God the reason for his continuing physical and emotional distress. It is a faith that has uncertainty in it; it is tinged by shades of doubt. Without it we die. The waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. Yet we must even now take notice of this title in such a way, that what we have said already should be no prejudice against our saying it again: for all were not present in every place where we said it. How does he solve it? Perhaps because expository sermons take much diligence and study, many preachers look for an easier way. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Dont compromise! 2. I, who tremble all over, when my soul was disquieted on account of myself, feared greatly on account of Your judgments.Are those judgments slight ones? PROPOSITION: In this sermon we see an 1) unrealized cure, 2) unabashed command, 3) unjustified criticism, 4) unapologetic confirmation. For I will confess unto Him. 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. In his sorrow he could still think of Him at intervals as the help of his countenance and call Him "my God." He then forwarded these photos to several university e-mail lists. Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. From whence did I remember you? The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. Individual rather than corporate. God was not providing for his needs just then. May the Lord increase our hunger and our thirst to see the face of God. It begins with a cluster of seven psalms (reckoning Psalms 42:1-11; Psalms 43:1-5, as one) of which the superscription is most probably regarded as ascribing their authorship to "the sons of Korach." Expository Songs Psalm 42:1-2: Chandos Anthem No. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (Heb. But no finite being can still them; and after all sweetnesses of human loves and helps of human strengths the souls thirst remains unslaked, and the Person who is enough must be the living God. He was blogging and trying to find something to get a girl off his mind. Hope and trust hold the field. 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. Romans6:12-13 I admire the sight of the bodily members warring in the service of the soul that serves God.And wonderful though the tabernacle be, yet when I come to the house of God, I am even struck dumb with astonishment. In Book 2, the titles identify David as the writer of 18 psalms (Psalms 51-65, 68-70). A similar bit of local colour is generally recognised in Psalms 42:7. During Ezra and Nehemiahs time (fifth century B.C. Anathematize yourself, by being displeased with yourself; for if you are pleased with yourself, God will be displeased with you. Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and Solomon composed Psalms 72. The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night will He declare it. 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. Update: Here is my sermon on Psalm 6 (video and manuscript) 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. The enemy is called a "loveless nation." 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. scenes of glory on a sea of gloom. What we do at church is a real transaction with the living God. {Nehemiah 11:19} The ascription of authorship to a group is remarkable, and has led to the suggestion that the superscription does not specify the authors, but the persons for whose use the psalms in question were composed. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Psalm 127. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your God? The certainty of return to the Temple overbears the pain of absence from it, and the vivid realisation of the gladness of worshipping again at the altar takes the place of the vivid remembrance of former festal approach thither. Psalms 42:5 has the refrain in a form slightly different from that of the other two instances of its occurrence. Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. It is God who justifies. 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. 9. What he is inwardly engaged on, what he is inwardly capable of, what he is inwardly doing or what purposing, what he is inwardly wishing to happen, or not to happen, who shall comprehend? (Doesnt mean they are bad. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. Therefore follows: The Lord will commend His loving-kindness in the day-time; and in the night-time will He declare it Psalm 41:8. He may not have asked the question with theological or linguistic precision, but if he proves in time that he didnt mean that God had forgotten him, we will let that be words for the wind. 13. It "pants" and "thirsts," is "cast down" and disquieted; it is "poured out"; it can be bidden to "hope." A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. For it is there, in the sanctuary of God, in the house of God, is the fountain of understanding. The Jordan Valley is quite wide north of this sea and the mountains of Hermon rise up to the east from it. revive us again. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. ), the temple singers were still called the sons of Asaph. In view of the long and continued service of these temple servants, we cannot be absolutely sure when these psalms were composed, but whether they were written in the time of David or as late as Ezra, they are still Davidic associates, and that seems to reinforce the Davidic nature of these collections." God means for these encounters with Him in corporate worship to preserve your faith now and in the way you remember them later. They are the ballast in his little boat of faith. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. When can I go and stand before him? 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? Psalm 41:10. Has learnt to put up with less. let me put two sayings of Scripture side by side, 'My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,'-'Father Abraham! I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! Let this be allowed; and this meaning retain its place in the Church; a place both truthful and sanctioned by usage. More deceptive is when weve tried to get our deepest desires met by things that are of themselves good: for example, relationships, careers, serving others. Does man call on man as God is called upon? It is a faith that hungers and thirsts for God and yet remains empty. He doesn't feel jubilant hope. Dont take these times together lightly. He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). The kingdom of Israel was first united under David, and it is appropriate that David would write a psalm about living together in unity. What then is the abyss that calls, and to what other abyss does it call? Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. 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? With wise resolve he finds in dejection a reason for nestling closer to God. What will you confess? Everything We Need - Psalm 23. We will be looking at this Psalm in three parts over the next three weeks. When shall I come and appear before God? Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. It's as if the writer is saying, "If you want to know how to thank God, let . For He who threatens does not let His judgments fall upon us, but keeps them suspended over us. I have now had the perception of something that is unchangeable; why do you disquiet me still? Evidently he was near the Hermon range of mountains that stood north of the Sea of Chinnereth (Galilee). Of that house he speaks in another Psalm, after he had put a certain abstruse and difficult question to himself (viz., why is it that it generally goes well with the wicked on earth, and ill with the good? 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. refreshing waters from a high hill. In preparing an article on the above topic the writer is ex-plicitly informed that what is required is t"not an expository sermon," nor " an outline of an expository sermon, but di- Faithbook (Psalm 133) On October 28, 2003, a Harvard student by the name of Mark Zuckerberg was bored. So cried our Head also, as if speaking in our name. Rich Man and Lazarus Sermon Outline. Psalms 42:3). Let them still say, Where is your God? "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. I thought on these things, and poured out my soul above myself Psalm 41:4. Longings and tears, remembrances of festal hours passed in the sanctuary melt the singers soul, while taunting enemies hiss continual sarcasms at him as forsaken by his God. It is the only psalm, of the 150 psalms, so labeled. There is with me prayer to the God of my life. Psalm 27. putting God first. The name "Elohim" occurs 164 times in this section of the Psalms, and the name "Yahweh" ("LORD") appears only 30 times. Apart from air, water our most basic need. . The shifting of the initial word of Psalms 42:6 to the end of Psalms 42:5, and the substitution of My for His, bring the three refrains into line, and avoid the harsh expression "help of His countenance." Verses 5 and 6 make clear that any strength the Psalmist will have does not reside in self, but in God. Deep calls on deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. 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. 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. Tweed. It has been much disputed whether its proper signification is active (one who shows lovingkindness) or passive (one who receives it). About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . For I am alarmed by the Apostle's saying, Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. But it is a song of faith. We have undertaken the exposition of a Psalm corresponding to your own longings, on which we propose to speak to you. Weve got to preach it to ourselves, and preach diligently and forcefully, or well give way to a downcast and disquieted spirit. It is sometimes right to pray for the defeat of enemies. Esther TOP. Here goes. For men saw their torments outwardly; they did not inwardly behold their crowns! 12. For having but the first-fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves; waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. How could it happen? 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. ), 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. A Primer on Prayer - Psalm 28. 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! The last twelve deal with instruction. Your water-spouts disquieted spirit confidence with which he ended the first stanza of mountains that stood north of sea. Is in hope that we are saved ; but hope that we are saved but. 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