expository sermon on psalm 42

Psalm 41:3. So bloated with other things hasnt got space for water., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 3 But it is a song of faith. This man was cut off from worship of the living God. 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! 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. Some ancient Hebrew manuscripts united Psalms 42, 43 as one. 9 ). 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. "Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other" ( Psalm 85:10 ). 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. 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? For it is there, in the sanctuary of God, in the house of God, is the fountain of understanding. Why have You forgotten me? "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. Naturally this transition strophe is marked by the mingling of both. I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. This mans faith was not so dependent on externals that it could not come close to God while distant from His temple. I. In the midst of the tumult of emotions, were not always careful with our words. The stage of mechanical repetition of complaints is not far from that of cessation of them. 1-10 and (2) vv. Light and Troth-i.e., Lovingkindness and Faithfulness in fulfilling promises-are like two angels, despatched from the presence-chamber of God, to guide with gentleness the exiles steps. If even it has been the lot of any, that very calm is more to be dreaded. The psalmist was thirsty for God. Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. 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. 3-7, NIV) Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Therefore the psalm must be pre-exilic; and while there is no certainty attainable as to date, it may at least be said that the circumstances of the singer present more points of contact with those of the supposed Korachite follower of Davids fortunes on the uplands across Jordan than with those of any other of the imaginary persons to whom modern criticism has assigned the poem. 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. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. The higher self arrests this flow of self-pity and lamentation. A. It is ourselves, if we be but willing! ), 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." He remembers past corporate worship experiences. The psalmist paints his calamities as storming on him in dismal continuity, each "flood" seeming to summon its successor. Since no reason for the variation is discernible, and the proposed slight change of text improves construction and restores uniformity, it is probably to be adopted. Beginning with a general introduction on how pastors can interpret and preach from the biblical psalms and why they should Greidanus proceeds by discussing twenty-two psalms in the Revised Common Lectionary, Year . BOOK 2: CHS. 1. 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." 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. 14. Perhaps there was something in there for you too. 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? 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. You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. SUBJECT: Covetousness TITLE: The Rich Man and Lazarus Type: Expository. But that just isnt the way we are. Devil "I've got his .read more Scripture: Psalm 42:1-2 When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. Whilst therefore it is summer, while it is well with you, while you are in tranquillity, hear the word of the Lord. Psalm 27. putting God first. The prophet Ezekiel lived in a time when the people of Judah did not experience peace. Dont take these times together lightly. But yet, Why have You forgotten me? 7. Psalm 42 essentially a lament, with Psalm 43 forming the Psalmist's prayer in response to the lament. (2) Psalm 43 has no title for it. Where, I pray, is your God? For there are already many things that I admire in the tabernacle. Why, when already longing for those things, have I been cast down to these, by the weight and burden of my iniquity? Strip away allow God to strip away all the things that give us temporary satisfaction. Psalm 41:11. ), 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. This psalm is the fourth and last psalm in the Psalms of Ascent that is attributed to King David. Deep calls on deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. For there is a depth, a profound, the bottom of which cannot be reached by sounding. scenes of glory on a sea of gloom. If you would also ask the meanings of the names, Jordan means their descent. 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? All Your overhangings and Your waves have come upon me. In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. And what is it that the ant does? But even these bitter sarcasms are less bitter than the remembrance of "happier things," which is his "sorrows crown of sorrow." The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night will He declare it. The serpents are your vices, destroy the serpents of iniquity; then will you long yet more for the Fountain of Truth. The writer remembered with great delight the times when he found spiritual refreshment at the sanctuary in Jerusalem, but he was not able to return there yet. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. 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. Apart from air, water our most basic need. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. 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. 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? The kingdom of Israel was first united under David, and it is appropriate that David would write a psalm about living together in unity. The "soul" is the seat of emotions and desires. He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for you, how will He not also with Him graciously give you all things? God-Centred As we have seen, the immediate cause was his separation from the temple of God. 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. While they say daily unto me, Where is your God? Mountain Hill Church, All rights reserved, Website Created by Digital Design Solutions, New Life in the Spirit (Part 1) Romans 8:1-17. Perhaps the singer had seen, during his exile on the eastern side of Jordan, some gentle creature, with open mouth and heaving flanks, eagerly seeking in dry wadies for a drop of water to cool her outstretched tongue; and the sight had struck on his heart as an image of himself longing for the presence of God in the sanctuary. But in the Hebrew Bible, God never gave anyone this blessing nor did God ever use the word when he was speaking. For example, Isaac Watts wrote these verses to be sung: Thats not a jubilant song. 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. The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night-time will He declare it.There is with me prayer unto the God of my life. And he knows 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. 118-29.]. Hope in God. When would my soul attain to that object of its search, which is above my soul, if my soul were not to pour itself out above itself? And its shaped by thinking and feeling with God in the Psalms. 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. For many of us other desires can get in the way of us really desiring God. Devil" I've got it I've stolen his JOY" (4.) {Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5} But probably the text is faulty. + Funeral Homilies Richard Sibbes, one of the great old Puritan preachers of Cambridge who died in 1635, wrote a whole book on Psalm 42:5. The bold metaphors are more striking when contrasted with the opposite ones of the first part. Emotion varies, but God is the same. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is your God? Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 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. How could it happen? Psalm 42 - Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. They retained the former office in the second Temple. The story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah is found in 2 Samuel 11-12. Accept that we may need to make effort. He longed for God, whom he confidently expected to be able to praise in the future when the Lord would deliver him. Its not wrong to want relief and to pray for it. Hear what else there is in the hart. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) REKINDLE YOUR PASSION (PSALMS 42:1-2 ) INTRO: SKIT: SATAN GOT YOUR JOY AND PASSION (1.) [Note: For the meaning of Maskil, see my note on Psalms 32.] Notice that the Psalmist responds to his circumstances at one point by asking God, Why? Verse 9: I say to God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. Soul. For having but the first-fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves; waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. It was a long way from Mount Zion where the ark dwelt in Davids day. Hes confirming his faith in the midst of turmoil and discouragement by remembering how real God was in corporate worship. Has learnt to put up with less. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. My health (my salvation) cannot be from myself; this it is that I will say, that I will confess. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up. And may He grant our desire through the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 12. We must learn to preach the truth to ourselves. 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. When shall I come and appear before God? Whither then shall I go from Your presence? Water the key theme in the Psalm. The refrain is repeated for a third time, and is followed by no relapse into sadness. In building the Lord's house. It is the prerogative of faith to make pictures drawn by memory pale beside those painted by hope. Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed. 1. Thus one might think of this book as "the book of Elohim.". Last week's psalm was an unusually long one for the Psalm of Ascents, but this week we are back to a short psalm. The deer that rejects water. Doesnt believe in it, doesnt long for it, or doesnt know they long for it. 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. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Deep calls unto deep with the voice of your water-spouts Psalm 41:7. He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). 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. (NLT) Psalm 63: 1-5 - O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. All of the psalms in Book 2 have a title assigned to them except psalm 43, making it more likely that it . Esther 3:7-15 - The First PLO. He doesnt feel jubilant hope. Hope and trust hold the field. 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. Because Korah is equivalent to Calvaria.Therefore, the sons of the bridegroom, the sons of His Passion, the sons redeemed by His Blood, the sons of His Cross, who bear on their forehead that which His enemies erected on Calvary, are called the sons of Korah; to them is this Psalm sung as a Psalm for understanding. 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. That is the worlds way with the calamities of a devout man, whose humble cry, "My God," it resents as presumption or hypocrisy. This too proceeds from that longing, of which in another place comes that cry, One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (Heb. (1) There are a number of ancient manuscripts that have both of these psalms as just one continuous psalm. It is not however one individual, but it is One Body; but Christ's Body is the Church. What should I say, but. Acts 4:25). Psalms 42:3). Let there be no sloth in your running; run with all your might: long for the fountain with all your might. 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. I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! 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Update: Here is my sermon on Psalm 6 (video and manuscript) In this Psalm David, who is himself a shepherd, describes the LORD as his own personal shepherd. He just said in verse 8, By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me.. 3. 13. 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? 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. The title then of it is, On the end: a Psalm for understanding for the sons of Korah. It is likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. On which account too this Psalm is ordinarily chanted on those occasions, that they may long for the Fountain of remission of sins, even as the hart for the water-brooks. 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