The Question and answer Psalm
I. Question: Who shall abide who shall dwell?
This is a question of relationship with the Lord. The Lord manifested his presence to his people at the ark of the Covenenant which was in the tabernacle. David had a tent made for the ark when he was established in the city of David. His holy hill Mt. Zion. Who can abide there? Who can have a relationship with the Holy One of Israel?
II. Answer: The righteous
A. Truth
1. He that walketh uprightly, uprightly = in accord with truth
2. He that worketh righteousness, = commits right works
3. He that speaketh the truth in his heart. = declares and confirms truth in the inner man
You can determine your true character by seening what you do when no one is looking. What you speak in your heart is what you realy are! "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."
Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Ps 19:7 ¶ The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
The great transgression is sinning against the great commandment. Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart soul mind and strength.
B. Love
1. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, = slanders, speaks evil of his neighbor.
2. nor doeth evil to his neighbour, - evil = unpleasentness, bad
Le 6:2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Ex 22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
3. nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. Reproach = scorn, shame, to taunt 2Sam 16:5-14
C. Honor
* In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD.
Who do we bestow honour on and who do we despise or hold in contempt? We had better honor who God honors and despise who God Despises.
D. Contentment
1. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Judges 11:35 The day of proken promises are upon us. Contracts are no longer honored let alone a handshake.
Do we keep our word?
2. He that putteth not out his money to usury, Seeking intrest for borrowed money.
Mt 5:40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
Lu 6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
3. nor taketh reward against the innocent. - reward = bribe
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Mt 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Psalm 14
I.The Fool Speaks (vs 1)
A. With his Lips
B. With his Acts
II.The LORD Sees (vs 2-4)
A. His Place (2)
B. His Perspective (2-4) cf Rom 3:10-12
1.No understanding God.
2.No seeking God
3.No respecting God cf (Mt 25:40)(Amos 8:4-14)
III. The Psalmist Sings (vs 5-7)
A. Of the Righteous (5)
B. Of his Refuge (6)
C. Of his future Rejoicing (7)
A. With his Lips
B. With his Acts
II.The LORD Sees (vs 2-4)
A. His Place (2)
B. His Perspective (2-4) cf Rom 3:10-12
1.No understanding God.
2.No seeking God
3.No respecting God cf (Mt 25:40)(Amos 8:4-14)
III. The Psalmist Sings (vs 5-7)
A. Of the Righteous (5)
B. Of his Refuge (6)
C. Of his future Rejoicing (7)
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Psalm 13
Psalm 13 – How Long?
In our study of the Galatians we passed by the fruit of the Spirit. One of those evidences of a Spirit filled life is long suffering / patience. As we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must acknowledge that patience is a necessary discipline. Being in submission to the Holy Spirit will produce patience.
God commands that we have patience
2Peter 1:5-6 cf Luke 21:5-19
Patience is a part of ministry: 2Cor 6:4, 2Cor 12:12, 1Tim 6:11
Patience is a part of the christian life: Rom 15:5, Col 1:11
Patience produces joy and rejoicing in others 1Thes 1:3, 2Thes 1:4
Patience will be necessary till Christ Comes! 2Thes 3:5,
James 5: 7-11 / Rom 5:1-5, Romans 8:
Let's consider tonight a genuine experience of long suffering.
Here is the key, long suffering has it's sustainability in God.
I.A Concern to be Addressed (vs 1-2) How long?
A. will I be forgotten? - Hebrew = forgotten
(Dut 31:16-18) (Job 13) (Psalm 22)
B. will you be hidden from me? - Hebrew = concealed
C. will I take counsel in my soul having sorrow in my heart daily? -
D. will my enemy be exalted over me? (cf vs 4)
Your enemies define you! Who is against you?
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Heb 13:5-6 – Dut 31:1-7 Ps 118:6
II.A Call to be Considered (vs 3-4)
How do you respond in time of trouble and turmoil? How you respond says everything about you!
A. Consider me = look to me, regard, pay attention
B. Hear me = answer me, show hearing by responding
We need to reflect and meditate on the reality of how great it is to
1) Know God!
2) Have an audience with God
3) Have help from God
C. Lighten me (Ezra 9:8)(Ps 19:8)(Eph 1:18)
III.A Commitment to be Followed (vs 5)
I have trusted in thy mercy
Rom 12:1 By the mercies of God
2Sam 24:14
Neh 19:9
Psalm 25:6 / Psalm 145:9
Lam 3:22 / 32
Dan 9:9
IV.A Commendation to be Given (vs 5-6)
– Faith shines brightest in dark hours.
A. My heart shall rejoice
B. I will sing unto the Lord
In our study of the Galatians we passed by the fruit of the Spirit. One of those evidences of a Spirit filled life is long suffering / patience. As we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must acknowledge that patience is a necessary discipline. Being in submission to the Holy Spirit will produce patience.
God commands that we have patience
2Peter 1:5-6 cf Luke 21:5-19
Patience is a part of ministry: 2Cor 6:4, 2Cor 12:12, 1Tim 6:11
Patience is a part of the christian life: Rom 15:5, Col 1:11
Patience produces joy and rejoicing in others 1Thes 1:3, 2Thes 1:4
Patience will be necessary till Christ Comes! 2Thes 3:5,
James 5: 7-11 / Rom 5:1-5, Romans 8:
Let's consider tonight a genuine experience of long suffering.
Here is the key, long suffering has it's sustainability in God.
I.A Concern to be Addressed (vs 1-2) How long?
A. will I be forgotten? - Hebrew = forgotten
(Dut 31:16-18) (Job 13) (Psalm 22)
B. will you be hidden from me? - Hebrew = concealed
C. will I take counsel in my soul having sorrow in my heart daily? -
D. will my enemy be exalted over me? (cf vs 4)
Your enemies define you! Who is against you?
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Heb 13:5-6 – Dut 31:1-7 Ps 118:6
II.A Call to be Considered (vs 3-4)
How do you respond in time of trouble and turmoil? How you respond says everything about you!
A. Consider me = look to me, regard, pay attention
B. Hear me = answer me, show hearing by responding
We need to reflect and meditate on the reality of how great it is to
1) Know God!
2) Have an audience with God
3) Have help from God
C. Lighten me (Ezra 9:8)(Ps 19:8)(Eph 1:18)
III.A Commitment to be Followed (vs 5)
I have trusted in thy mercy
Rom 12:1 By the mercies of God
2Sam 24:14
Neh 19:9
Psalm 25:6 / Psalm 145:9
Lam 3:22 / 32
Dan 9:9
IV.A Commendation to be Given (vs 5-6)
– Faith shines brightest in dark hours.
A. My heart shall rejoice
B. I will sing unto the Lord
Habakkuk
Habakkuk
I.Distressed over sin (1:1-4)
Hab 1:1 ¶ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
II.Depressed over Judgment (1:5-2:20)
A. God is Eternal (1:12)
Ge 21:33; Ex 3:15; 15:18; De 32:40; 33:27; 1Ch 16:36; 29:10; Ne 9:5; Job 36:26; Ps 9:7; 33:11; 41:13; 55:19; 68:33; 90:1,2,4; 92:8; 93:2; 102:12,24-27; 104:31; 111:3; 135:13; 145:13; 146:10; Pr 8:23-25; Isa 26:4; 40:28; 41:4; 43:13; 44:6; 46:4; 48:12; 57:15; 63:16; Jer 10:10; 17:12; La 5:19; Da 4:3,34; Mic 5:2; Hab 1:12; 3:6; Ro 1:20; 16:26; Eph 3:21; 1Ti 1:17; 6:15,16; Heb 1:8; 9:14; 2Pe 3:8; 1Jo 2:13; Re 1:4,6; 4:8-10; 5:14; 10:6; 11:17; 15:7; 16:5
B. God is Holy (1:13) Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:
Ex 3:5; 15:11; 24:9-11; Le 11:44; 19:2; 20:26; 21:8; De 32:4; Jos 5:15; 24:19; 1Sa 2:2; 6:20; 1Ch 16:10; Job 4:17-19; 6:10; 15:15; 25:5; 34:10; 36:23; Ps 11:7; 18:30; 22:3; 30:4; 33:4,5; 36:6; 47:8; 48:1,10; 60:6; 89:35; 92:15; 98:1; 99:3,5,9; 105:3; 108:7; 111:9; 119:142; 145:17; Pr 9:10; Isa 5:16; 6:3; 12:6; 29:19,23; 41:14; 43:14,15; 45:19; 47:4; 49:7; 52:10; 57:15; Jer 2:5; La 3:38; Eze 36:21,22; 39:7,25; Da 4:8; Ho 11:9; Hab 1:12,13; Mt 5:48; 19:17; Mr 10:18; Lu 1:49; 18:19; Joh 7:28; 17:11; Ro 1:23; Heb 1:8; Jas 1:13; 1Pe 1:15,16; 1Jo 1:5; 2:20; Re 4:8; 6:10; 15:4
C. God is Righteous (1:13- 2)
Jg 5:11; Ezr 9:15; Job 36:3; Ps 5:8; 7:9; 48:10; 50:6; 71:15,19; 72:1; 88:12; 89:16; 97:2; 111:3; 112:4; 116:5; 119:40,137,142,144,172; 143:1; 145:7,17; Isa 41:10; 51:8; 56:1; Jer 4:2; 9:24; 12:1; La 3:34,36; Da 9:7; Ho 14:9; Mic 7:9; Mt 6:33; Joh 17:25; Ac 17:31; Ro 1:17; 3:4-6,21,22; 9:14; 10:3,4; 2Ti 4:8; 1Pe 2:23; 2Pe 1:1; 1Jo 2:1; Re 16:5
1. Habakkuk needed to learn that comparing yourself with the wicked is not wise! (vs 1:13)
comparing ourselves is not wise!(2Cor 10:12)
2. Habakkuk needed to learn that God's ways are not man's ways. (1:13-17)
all our righteousness is as filthy rags!(Is 64:6)
3. Habakkuk needed to learn that Faith pleases God (2:4)
without faith it is impossible to please God! (Heb 11:6)
4. Habakkuk needed to learn that God's righteousness must be respected. (2:4-19)
a. God knew exactly what the sins of the chaldeans were!
b. The sins mentioned were much like the sins of God's people that initiated God's judgement.
i. The woe of covetousness cf (Is1:21-24) 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
ii. The woe of destroying human life (Jer 7:6)(Amos 4:1)(Micah 2:2) 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
iii. The woe of prompting Drunkenness (cf (Is 5:11, 22)(Is 28) 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
iv. The woe of Idolatry (Is 2:8)(Is 57:4) 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
D. God is Sovereign 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Ge 14:18-20,22; 24:3; Ex 8:22; 9:29; 15:18; 18:11; 19:5; Nu 27:16; De 2:19; 4:39; 10:14,17; 32:8,39,41-43; Jos 2:11; 3:11; 1Sa 2:6-8; 2Ki 19:15; 1Ch 29:11,12; 2Ch 20:6; Ne 9:6; Job 9:12; 12:9,10,16,17; 25:2; 33:13; 34:13,24,33; 36:1-33; 41:11; Ps 10:16; 22:28,29; 24:1,10; 29:10; 44:4; 47:2,3,7,8; 50:10-12; 59:13; 65:5; 66:7; 67:4; 74:12; 75:6,7; 76:11,12; 82:1,8; 83:18; 89:11,18; 93:1,2; 95:3-5; 96:10; 97:1,2,5,9; 98:6; 99:1; 103:19; 105:7; 113:4; 115:3,16; 135:5,6; 136:2,3; 145:11-13; 146:10; Ec 9:1; Isa 24:23; 33:22; 37:16; 40:22,23; 43:15; 44:6; 45:7,23; 52:7; 54:5; Jer 10:10; 18:1-23; 27:5-7; 32:27,28; La 3:37,38; 5:19; Eze 16:50; 17:24; 18:4; Da 2:20,21,47; 4:3,17,25,34,35,37; 5:18,26-28; 6:26; Mic 4:7,13; Hag 2:8; Mal 1:14; Mt 6:10,13; 11:25; 20:15; Lu 1:53; 10:21; Joh 10:29; 19:11; Ac 17:24-26; Ro 9:19; 14:11; 1Co 10:26; Eph 4:6; 1Ti 6:15,16; Heb 1:3; Jas 4:12; Re 1:6; 4:11; 11:4,13,17; 19:6
God met the need of his prophet!
III.Delivered by Faith(3)
A. The Prayer of Faith (vs 1-2)
B. The Remembrance of Faith (vs 3-15)
1. God revealed himself to his people!
3 ¶ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
This refers to the visible display of the glory of God when he gave the law upon Mount Sinai, as appears by De 33:2 whence these expressions are borrowed. Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai in a cloud (Ex 19:20) and his glory was as the devouring fire, not only to enforce the law he then gave them, but to avow the deliverance he had wrought for them and to magnify it; for the first word he said there was, "I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt (MHC)
2. God removed his people! (Ex 6-12)
Some think that this verse refers to God's deliverance of his people from Egypt (Ex 6-12)
3. God rebuked his people (Num 14:12)
Others believe that it speaks of the judgment that God brought on his people in the wilderness wanderings
(Num 14:12) 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
4. God rewarded his people!
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
God gave them the land of the heathen for an inheritance.
Ex 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
5. God released his people!
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Hebrew expositors refer it to Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, or Syria, the first oppressor of Israel (Jg 3:8,10), from whom Othniel delivered them. Thus the second hemistich of the verse will refer to the deliverance of Israel from Midian by Gideon (Jg 6:1-7:25) to which Hab 3:11 plainly refers. Whichever of these views be correct, the general reference is to God's interpositions against Israel's foes of old. (JFB)
8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
"Was the cause of His dividing the Red Sea and Jordan His displeasure against these waters?" The answer to this is tacitly implied in "Thy chariots of salvation." "Nay; it was not displeasure against the waters, but His pleasure in interposing for His people's salvation" (compare Hab 3:10). thy chariots--in antithesis to Thy foe, Pharaoh's chariots," which, notwithstanding their power and numbers, were engulfed in the waters of destruction. God can make the most unlikely means work for His people's salvation (Ex 14:7,9,23,25-28; 15:3-8,19). Jehovah's chariots are His angels (Ps 68:17), or the cherubim, or the ark (Jos 3:13; 4:7; compare Song 1:9). (JFB)
9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths (Ps 77:8)of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers(Ps 78:15-16). 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear(Josh 10:10-13). 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation(Ps 68:7), thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck(Ps 68:21). Selah. 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
No obstacle could prevent Thy progress when leading Thy people in safety to their inheritance, whether the Red Sea, Jordan, or the figurative waves of foes raging against Israel (JFB)
C. The Joy of Faith (vs 16 – 19)
1. Not according to emotion
16 ¶ When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself,
2. Not according to circumstances
that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
3. Not according to human ingenuity
18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
I.Distressed over sin (1:1-4)
Hab 1:1 ¶ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
II.Depressed over Judgment (1:5-2:20)
A. God is Eternal (1:12)
Ge 21:33; Ex 3:15; 15:18; De 32:40; 33:27; 1Ch 16:36; 29:10; Ne 9:5; Job 36:26; Ps 9:7; 33:11; 41:13; 55:19; 68:33; 90:1,2,4; 92:8; 93:2; 102:12,24-27; 104:31; 111:3; 135:13; 145:13; 146:10; Pr 8:23-25; Isa 26:4; 40:28; 41:4; 43:13; 44:6; 46:4; 48:12; 57:15; 63:16; Jer 10:10; 17:12; La 5:19; Da 4:3,34; Mic 5:2; Hab 1:12; 3:6; Ro 1:20; 16:26; Eph 3:21; 1Ti 1:17; 6:15,16; Heb 1:8; 9:14; 2Pe 3:8; 1Jo 2:13; Re 1:4,6; 4:8-10; 5:14; 10:6; 11:17; 15:7; 16:5
B. God is Holy (1:13) Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:
Ex 3:5; 15:11; 24:9-11; Le 11:44; 19:2; 20:26; 21:8; De 32:4; Jos 5:15; 24:19; 1Sa 2:2; 6:20; 1Ch 16:10; Job 4:17-19; 6:10; 15:15; 25:5; 34:10; 36:23; Ps 11:7; 18:30; 22:3; 30:4; 33:4,5; 36:6; 47:8; 48:1,10; 60:6; 89:35; 92:15; 98:1; 99:3,5,9; 105:3; 108:7; 111:9; 119:142; 145:17; Pr 9:10; Isa 5:16; 6:3; 12:6; 29:19,23; 41:14; 43:14,15; 45:19; 47:4; 49:7; 52:10; 57:15; Jer 2:5; La 3:38; Eze 36:21,22; 39:7,25; Da 4:8; Ho 11:9; Hab 1:12,13; Mt 5:48; 19:17; Mr 10:18; Lu 1:49; 18:19; Joh 7:28; 17:11; Ro 1:23; Heb 1:8; Jas 1:13; 1Pe 1:15,16; 1Jo 1:5; 2:20; Re 4:8; 6:10; 15:4
C. God is Righteous (1:13- 2)
Jg 5:11; Ezr 9:15; Job 36:3; Ps 5:8; 7:9; 48:10; 50:6; 71:15,19; 72:1; 88:12; 89:16; 97:2; 111:3; 112:4; 116:5; 119:40,137,142,144,172; 143:1; 145:7,17; Isa 41:10; 51:8; 56:1; Jer 4:2; 9:24; 12:1; La 3:34,36; Da 9:7; Ho 14:9; Mic 7:9; Mt 6:33; Joh 17:25; Ac 17:31; Ro 1:17; 3:4-6,21,22; 9:14; 10:3,4; 2Ti 4:8; 1Pe 2:23; 2Pe 1:1; 1Jo 2:1; Re 16:5
1. Habakkuk needed to learn that comparing yourself with the wicked is not wise! (vs 1:13)
comparing ourselves is not wise!(2Cor 10:12)
2. Habakkuk needed to learn that God's ways are not man's ways. (1:13-17)
all our righteousness is as filthy rags!(Is 64:6)
3. Habakkuk needed to learn that Faith pleases God (2:4)
without faith it is impossible to please God! (Heb 11:6)
4. Habakkuk needed to learn that God's righteousness must be respected. (2:4-19)
a. God knew exactly what the sins of the chaldeans were!
b. The sins mentioned were much like the sins of God's people that initiated God's judgement.
i. The woe of covetousness cf (Is1:21-24) 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
ii. The woe of destroying human life (Jer 7:6)(Amos 4:1)(Micah 2:2) 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
iii. The woe of prompting Drunkenness (cf (Is 5:11, 22)(Is 28) 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
iv. The woe of Idolatry (Is 2:8)(Is 57:4) 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
D. God is Sovereign 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Ge 14:18-20,22; 24:3; Ex 8:22; 9:29; 15:18; 18:11; 19:5; Nu 27:16; De 2:19; 4:39; 10:14,17; 32:8,39,41-43; Jos 2:11; 3:11; 1Sa 2:6-8; 2Ki 19:15; 1Ch 29:11,12; 2Ch 20:6; Ne 9:6; Job 9:12; 12:9,10,16,17; 25:2; 33:13; 34:13,24,33; 36:1-33; 41:11; Ps 10:16; 22:28,29; 24:1,10; 29:10; 44:4; 47:2,3,7,8; 50:10-12; 59:13; 65:5; 66:7; 67:4; 74:12; 75:6,7; 76:11,12; 82:1,8; 83:18; 89:11,18; 93:1,2; 95:3-5; 96:10; 97:1,2,5,9; 98:6; 99:1; 103:19; 105:7; 113:4; 115:3,16; 135:5,6; 136:2,3; 145:11-13; 146:10; Ec 9:1; Isa 24:23; 33:22; 37:16; 40:22,23; 43:15; 44:6; 45:7,23; 52:7; 54:5; Jer 10:10; 18:1-23; 27:5-7; 32:27,28; La 3:37,38; 5:19; Eze 16:50; 17:24; 18:4; Da 2:20,21,47; 4:3,17,25,34,35,37; 5:18,26-28; 6:26; Mic 4:7,13; Hag 2:8; Mal 1:14; Mt 6:10,13; 11:25; 20:15; Lu 1:53; 10:21; Joh 10:29; 19:11; Ac 17:24-26; Ro 9:19; 14:11; 1Co 10:26; Eph 4:6; 1Ti 6:15,16; Heb 1:3; Jas 4:12; Re 1:6; 4:11; 11:4,13,17; 19:6
God met the need of his prophet!
III.Delivered by Faith(3)
A. The Prayer of Faith (vs 1-2)
B. The Remembrance of Faith (vs 3-15)
1. God revealed himself to his people!
3 ¶ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
This refers to the visible display of the glory of God when he gave the law upon Mount Sinai, as appears by De 33:2 whence these expressions are borrowed. Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai in a cloud (Ex 19:20) and his glory was as the devouring fire, not only to enforce the law he then gave them, but to avow the deliverance he had wrought for them and to magnify it; for the first word he said there was, "I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt (MHC)
2. God removed his people! (Ex 6-12)
Some think that this verse refers to God's deliverance of his people from Egypt (Ex 6-12)
3. God rebuked his people (Num 14:12)
Others believe that it speaks of the judgment that God brought on his people in the wilderness wanderings
(Num 14:12) 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
4. God rewarded his people!
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
God gave them the land of the heathen for an inheritance.
Ex 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
5. God released his people!
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Hebrew expositors refer it to Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, or Syria, the first oppressor of Israel (Jg 3:8,10), from whom Othniel delivered them. Thus the second hemistich of the verse will refer to the deliverance of Israel from Midian by Gideon (Jg 6:1-7:25) to which Hab 3:11 plainly refers. Whichever of these views be correct, the general reference is to God's interpositions against Israel's foes of old. (JFB)
8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
"Was the cause of His dividing the Red Sea and Jordan His displeasure against these waters?" The answer to this is tacitly implied in "Thy chariots of salvation." "Nay; it was not displeasure against the waters, but His pleasure in interposing for His people's salvation" (compare Hab 3:10). thy chariots--in antithesis to Thy foe, Pharaoh's chariots," which, notwithstanding their power and numbers, were engulfed in the waters of destruction. God can make the most unlikely means work for His people's salvation (Ex 14:7,9,23,25-28; 15:3-8,19). Jehovah's chariots are His angels (Ps 68:17), or the cherubim, or the ark (Jos 3:13; 4:7; compare Song 1:9). (JFB)
9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths (Ps 77:8)of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers(Ps 78:15-16). 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear(Josh 10:10-13). 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation(Ps 68:7), thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck(Ps 68:21). Selah. 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.
No obstacle could prevent Thy progress when leading Thy people in safety to their inheritance, whether the Red Sea, Jordan, or the figurative waves of foes raging against Israel (JFB)
C. The Joy of Faith (vs 16 – 19)
1. Not according to emotion
16 ¶ When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself,
2. Not according to circumstances
that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
3. Not according to human ingenuity
18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Zephaniah outline
Zephaniah
The word of the LORD for yesterday, today and tomorrow
I.Chapter 1 - The Day of the LORD concerning Israel
A. The LORD's Servant – 1:1
B. The LORD's Stretched out hand 1:2-4
C. The LORD's Sacrifice 1:4-13
D. The LORD's Speedy Riddance 1:14-18
II.Chapter 2 – The Day of the LORD concerning the nations
A. Israel (2:1-3)
1. The command to Israel (vs 1) - gather (cf Mt 24:16)
2. The condition of Israel (vs 1) – Nation not desired
3. The call to Israel (vs 3)
B. The Philistines (2:4-7) to the West cf Ezk 25:15-17
C. The Moabites (2:8-11) to the East cf Ezk 25:8-11
1.The chastisement of Moab (vs 9)
2.The cause for judgment (vs10)
3.The consequence of judgment (vs 11)
D. The Ethiopians (2:12) to the South
E. The Assyrians (1:13-15) to the North
All the nations around Israel would be affected by her judgment. They would not escape.
III. Chapter 3 – The Day of the LORD concerning restitution.
A. The Corrupted People - 3:1-7
B. The Consenting People – 3:8-13
C. The Comforted People – 3:14-20
The word of the LORD for yesterday, today and tomorrow
I.Chapter 1 - The Day of the LORD concerning Israel
A. The LORD's Servant – 1:1
B. The LORD's Stretched out hand 1:2-4
C. The LORD's Sacrifice 1:4-13
D. The LORD's Speedy Riddance 1:14-18
II.Chapter 2 – The Day of the LORD concerning the nations
A. Israel (2:1-3)
1. The command to Israel (vs 1) - gather (cf Mt 24:16)
2. The condition of Israel (vs 1) – Nation not desired
3. The call to Israel (vs 3)
B. The Philistines (2:4-7) to the West cf Ezk 25:15-17
C. The Moabites (2:8-11) to the East cf Ezk 25:8-11
1.The chastisement of Moab (vs 9)
2.The cause for judgment (vs10)
3.The consequence of judgment (vs 11)
D. The Ethiopians (2:12) to the South
E. The Assyrians (1:13-15) to the North
All the nations around Israel would be affected by her judgment. They would not escape.
III. Chapter 3 – The Day of the LORD concerning restitution.
A. The Corrupted People - 3:1-7
B. The Consenting People – 3:8-13
C. The Comforted People – 3:14-20
Psalm 12
Psalm 12 – HELP LORD
I.The Prevailing of the Wicked (vs 1-4)
A. The Failing of the Righteous (vs 1)
Godly = the saint, the holy, the pious
Cease = come to an end, to be no more
Faithful = established, pillars
Fail = disappear, vanish
Isaiah 57:1, Rom 8:36 , Heb 11:32-40, Rev 6:9-11
B. The Flattering of the Wicked (vs2)
flattering = smooth words
Gen 27:16 – smooth
Pro 6:24 – flattery of the strange woman
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Psalm 55:21
C. The Future of the Wicked (vs 3)
cut off = kill
Rev 19:11-16
D. The Focus of the Wicked (vs 4)
Pride = who is lord over us?
Our lips are our own .
With our tongue we will prevail
II.The Pronouncement of the LORD (vs 5)
* Think of God moving to the aid of his people! The God of Heaven! Creator of the Universe! The Eternal God.
A. The Cause
1.Oppression of the poor – havoc, violence, destruction
2.sighing of the needy – crying, groaning, lamentation
B. The Cure
1.I will arise
2. I will set him in safety.
III.The Purity of God's Word (vs 6) This verse in context is in relationship to his pronouncement in verse 5.
Pure = clean, without taint, no lies or error mixed in. (this is in contrast to the flattering lips of the wicked in verse 3!)
purified = distilled, strained, refined – 7 perfection
Pro 30:5 – Every Word of God is pure, he is a shield who put their trust in him.
IV.The Preservation of God's Word (vs 7)
verse 5 is not just promised to the people of God in that generation, but to the righteous in all generations!
1. The righteous of today
2. The righteous of tomorrow. - 1Kings 8:54-61
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
V. The Prevention of Wickedness (8)
The reason why the wicked walk on every side is because of the vilest men being exalted.
I.The Prevailing of the Wicked (vs 1-4)
A. The Failing of the Righteous (vs 1)
Godly = the saint, the holy, the pious
Cease = come to an end, to be no more
Faithful = established, pillars
Fail = disappear, vanish
Isaiah 57:1, Rom 8:36 , Heb 11:32-40, Rev 6:9-11
B. The Flattering of the Wicked (vs2)
flattering = smooth words
Gen 27:16 – smooth
Pro 6:24 – flattery of the strange woman
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Psalm 55:21
C. The Future of the Wicked (vs 3)
cut off = kill
Rev 19:11-16
D. The Focus of the Wicked (vs 4)
Pride = who is lord over us?
Our lips are our own .
With our tongue we will prevail
II.The Pronouncement of the LORD (vs 5)
* Think of God moving to the aid of his people! The God of Heaven! Creator of the Universe! The Eternal God.
A. The Cause
1.Oppression of the poor – havoc, violence, destruction
2.sighing of the needy – crying, groaning, lamentation
B. The Cure
1.I will arise
2. I will set him in safety.
III.The Purity of God's Word (vs 6) This verse in context is in relationship to his pronouncement in verse 5.
Pure = clean, without taint, no lies or error mixed in. (this is in contrast to the flattering lips of the wicked in verse 3!)
purified = distilled, strained, refined – 7 perfection
Pro 30:5 – Every Word of God is pure, he is a shield who put their trust in him.
IV.The Preservation of God's Word (vs 7)
verse 5 is not just promised to the people of God in that generation, but to the righteous in all generations!
1. The righteous of today
2. The righteous of tomorrow. - 1Kings 8:54-61
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
V. The Prevention of Wickedness (8)
The reason why the wicked walk on every side is because of the vilest men being exalted.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Heaven
Psalm 23:6 And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
* From a word meaning lofty. high
* The Bible speaks of three heavens.
I. There is the first heaven above the earth where the birds fly and the clouds exist.
Ps 104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Ge 7:11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened
II. There is the second heaven where the planetary bodies travel their orbit around the sun, and where the stars hold the station God gave them.
Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
III. There is the third heaven
2 Cor 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
A. Moses called it the heaven of heavens
De 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
B. The heavens are spoken of in scripture as a plurality, a group.
C. The heavens are:
1.The Display of God's Greatness
Ps 8:3-4 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
2.The Declaration of God's Glory
Ps. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
3.The Distance of measurement exposed
Ezr 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Job 20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? Cf Gen 11:4
Ps 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Ps 108:4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
4.The Dwelling place of God.
2Ch 6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
Cf - 1Ki 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Psalm 115:4 read all!!
La 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Ac 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Eph 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
(Heb 8:1)
5.The Deliverance of God revealed.
Psalm 144:5 Read all cf Ps 18:6-9
6.The Depository of the believer's treasures
Mt 6:19 ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Lu 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
7.The deliverance of the Believers.
Re 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
8.The Destruction of Evil.
2Pe 3:1-7
Ps 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Joe 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Joe 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
See Psalm 57
D. The heavens are spoken of in their relationship as one and cohesive, this is because they all share a common position. High and lofty above man. And connected to the almighty and his purpose.
Ec 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
E. Heaven is also addressed in the singular. * The third heaven
Da 2:28 - But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets,
1. It is the place of God's throne
Mt 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Ps 11:4 ¶ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
a. Its appearance Isaiah 6:2 / Rev. 4
b. Its accessibility
i. to the Sons of God – Job 1:6 / 2:1 (Gen 6:2-4)
ii. to Satan – Job 1:6 – 12 / 2:1-7
iii. to the Saints – Acts 7:56-60 / Heb 4:16
iv. to the sorrows of wickedness -
Ge 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Ge 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
B. It is the place of Christ's work - At the right hand of God
1.He is adding to the church - Acts 2:41-47
2.He is functioning as our forerunner – Heb 6:18-20
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Forerunner = shipping term of the scout boat that went ahead to look for a safe lane into port.
3.He is preparing a place for believers – John 14:2
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. / Rev 21
4.He is enabling his Church with gifts – Eph 4:7-13
5.He is encouraging his people – Heb 4:14-16
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Cf Heb 216-18
6.He is praying for his believers -
a. intercession -
Ro 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
(cf John 17)
b. advocacy -
1Jo 2:1 ¶ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
7. He is taking care of his Churches – Rev 2-3 read Rev 1:9-20
C. It is the place of the believer's future
1. The presence of the Lord with his people
a. Those that die in the Lord. 2Cor 5:6-8
b. Those that are caught up. 1Thes 4:16-17
A prepared place - John 14:1-11
I go to prepare a place for you
A Blessed Hope
Ac 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Col 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;Col 1:6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Tit 2:13-14 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
A reserved inheritance -
1Peter 1:3 -9¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 ¶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Acts 20:32
Eph 1:1-14 – The down payment of our inheritance is the Holy Spirit! Think of what the Holy Spirit accomplishes in the life of a believer now, his presence is just a taste of what we will have for all eternity!
John 14:16-20 – Watch the continuing work unfold
John 14:4 the way ye know
John 14:20 – in that day ye shall know – Pentecost
Rom 8: - In the day of our faith being made sight, we will know our inheritance fully!
Lu 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
2. The Judgment seat of Christ
Reward of the inheritance
Col 3:18-25 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
2Cor 5:10-11
Paul understood that there was a reward for his service to Jesus Christ.
1Cor 9!
The Judgment seat - Bema gr. was the term from the Isthmian games where the athletes competed for a laurel wreath (corruptible crown) The judges on the bema watched to see that every rule was obeyed. Dis-qualification was the result of not striving lawfully. Does it matter if you serve God according to the truth and instruction of the Scriptures? Yes!
Rom 14:10 / 1Cor 3 - temple cf 2Cor 6
We strive for an incorruptible crown!
1Thes 2:19-20 -a crown of rejoicing (Phil 4:1)
2Tim 4:8 – a crown of righteousness
James 1:12 – a crown of life – (Rev 2:10)
1Peter 5:4 – a crown of glory
2Ti 2:1-5 -
Isaac Watts wrote
Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb,
And shall I fear to own His cause, Or blush to speak His Name?
Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas?
Are there no foes for me to face? Must I not stem the flood?
Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God?
Refrain
And when the battle’s over We shall wear a crown!
Yes, we shall wear a crown! Yes, we shall wear a crown!
And when the battle’s over We shall wear a crown
In the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown (wear a crown) Wear a crown (wear a crown)
Wear a bright and shining crown; And when the battle’s over
We shall wear a crown In the new Jerusalem.
Christ our example
John 19:1-5 Behold the Man
Rev 4:4, 9-11 – Casting their crowns – Behold the King! Cf
Wouldn't it be something to discover that the reward we have worked for in this life was our way to give above the voice of praise, and put at his feet a tangible representation of our lives! A demonstration of sacrifice for his great love for us . We love him because he first loved us!
Re 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. Cf Rev 14:14 1 Crown / Rev 19:11-12 many crowns
Re 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Warning - Rev 3:11 – that no man take thy crown! - cf Mt 25:15-28
Mt 25 is not dealing with the Church it is dealing with Israel in the tribulation. However, the mind of God concerning stewardship, faithfulness and reward is demonstrated here.
After the judgment seat of Christ:
3. The marriage of the lamb
Rev 19:7-9
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
3. The return with Christ
Rev 19:11-21
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Mt 24:27-30
4. The millennial reign
Rev 20
2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
Re 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Cf - (1Peter 2:9)
1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
According to the millennial Scripture passages The millennial Kingdom will be characterized by
Conditions in the kingdom will be: fruit of Christ's leadership / the same things that are evident in the life of Spirit filled believers! Is Jesus Christ king of your life?
Psalm 72 / 2Chor 9:1-12 cf Mt 12:42
6. The future state.
Rev 21-22
Rev 21:9 I will show thee the Bride the Lamb's wife.
Ps 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. The final sheep fold!
Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (See Heb 12:22-23)
Re 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Re 22:20 ¶ He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
* From a word meaning lofty. high
* The Bible speaks of three heavens.
I. There is the first heaven above the earth where the birds fly and the clouds exist.
Ps 104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Ge 7:11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened
II. There is the second heaven where the planetary bodies travel their orbit around the sun, and where the stars hold the station God gave them.
Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
III. There is the third heaven
2 Cor 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
A. Moses called it the heaven of heavens
De 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
B. The heavens are spoken of in scripture as a plurality, a group.
C. The heavens are:
1.The Display of God's Greatness
Ps 8:3-4 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
2.The Declaration of God's Glory
Ps. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
3.The Distance of measurement exposed
Ezr 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Job 20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? Cf Gen 11:4
Ps 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Ps 108:4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
4.The Dwelling place of God.
2Ch 6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
Cf - 1Ki 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Psalm 115:4 read all!!
La 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Ac 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Eph 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
(Heb 8:1)
5.The Deliverance of God revealed.
Psalm 144:5 Read all cf Ps 18:6-9
6.The Depository of the believer's treasures
Mt 6:19 ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Lu 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
7.The deliverance of the Believers.
Re 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
8.The Destruction of Evil.
2Pe 3:1-7
Ps 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Joe 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Joe 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
See Psalm 57
D. The heavens are spoken of in their relationship as one and cohesive, this is because they all share a common position. High and lofty above man. And connected to the almighty and his purpose.
Ec 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
E. Heaven is also addressed in the singular. * The third heaven
Da 2:28 - But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets,
1. It is the place of God's throne
Mt 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Ps 11:4 ¶ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
a. Its appearance Isaiah 6:2 / Rev. 4
b. Its accessibility
i. to the Sons of God – Job 1:6 / 2:1 (Gen 6:2-4)
ii. to Satan – Job 1:6 – 12 / 2:1-7
iii. to the Saints – Acts 7:56-60 / Heb 4:16
iv. to the sorrows of wickedness -
Ge 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Ge 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
B. It is the place of Christ's work - At the right hand of God
1.He is adding to the church - Acts 2:41-47
2.He is functioning as our forerunner – Heb 6:18-20
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Forerunner = shipping term of the scout boat that went ahead to look for a safe lane into port.
3.He is preparing a place for believers – John 14:2
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. / Rev 21
4.He is enabling his Church with gifts – Eph 4:7-13
5.He is encouraging his people – Heb 4:14-16
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Cf Heb 216-18
6.He is praying for his believers -
a. intercession -
Ro 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
(cf John 17)
b. advocacy -
1Jo 2:1 ¶ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
7. He is taking care of his Churches – Rev 2-3 read Rev 1:9-20
C. It is the place of the believer's future
1. The presence of the Lord with his people
a. Those that die in the Lord. 2Cor 5:6-8
b. Those that are caught up. 1Thes 4:16-17
A prepared place - John 14:1-11
I go to prepare a place for you
A Blessed Hope
Ac 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Col 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;Col 1:6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Tit 2:13-14 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
A reserved inheritance -
1Peter 1:3 -9¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 ¶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Acts 20:32
Eph 1:1-14 – The down payment of our inheritance is the Holy Spirit! Think of what the Holy Spirit accomplishes in the life of a believer now, his presence is just a taste of what we will have for all eternity!
John 14:16-20 – Watch the continuing work unfold
John 14:4 the way ye know
John 14:20 – in that day ye shall know – Pentecost
Rom 8: - In the day of our faith being made sight, we will know our inheritance fully!
Lu 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
2. The Judgment seat of Christ
Reward of the inheritance
Col 3:18-25 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
2Cor 5:10-11
Paul understood that there was a reward for his service to Jesus Christ.
1Cor 9!
The Judgment seat - Bema gr. was the term from the Isthmian games where the athletes competed for a laurel wreath (corruptible crown) The judges on the bema watched to see that every rule was obeyed. Dis-qualification was the result of not striving lawfully. Does it matter if you serve God according to the truth and instruction of the Scriptures? Yes!
Rom 14:10 / 1Cor 3 - temple cf 2Cor 6
We strive for an incorruptible crown!
1Thes 2:19-20 -a crown of rejoicing (Phil 4:1)
2Tim 4:8 – a crown of righteousness
James 1:12 – a crown of life – (Rev 2:10)
1Peter 5:4 – a crown of glory
2Ti 2:1-5 -
Isaac Watts wrote
Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb,
And shall I fear to own His cause, Or blush to speak His Name?
Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas?
Are there no foes for me to face? Must I not stem the flood?
Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God?
Refrain
And when the battle’s over We shall wear a crown!
Yes, we shall wear a crown! Yes, we shall wear a crown!
And when the battle’s over We shall wear a crown
In the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown (wear a crown) Wear a crown (wear a crown)
Wear a bright and shining crown; And when the battle’s over
We shall wear a crown In the new Jerusalem.
Christ our example
John 19:1-5 Behold the Man
Rev 4:4, 9-11 – Casting their crowns – Behold the King! Cf
Wouldn't it be something to discover that the reward we have worked for in this life was our way to give above the voice of praise, and put at his feet a tangible representation of our lives! A demonstration of sacrifice for his great love for us . We love him because he first loved us!
Re 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. Cf Rev 14:14 1 Crown / Rev 19:11-12 many crowns
Re 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Warning - Rev 3:11 – that no man take thy crown! - cf Mt 25:15-28
Mt 25 is not dealing with the Church it is dealing with Israel in the tribulation. However, the mind of God concerning stewardship, faithfulness and reward is demonstrated here.
After the judgment seat of Christ:
3. The marriage of the lamb
Rev 19:7-9
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
3. The return with Christ
Rev 19:11-21
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Mt 24:27-30
4. The millennial reign
Rev 20
2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
Re 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Cf - (1Peter 2:9)
1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
According to the millennial Scripture passages The millennial Kingdom will be characterized by
- Righteousness
- Obedience
- Holiness
- Truth
- Fullness of the Spirit
Conditions in the kingdom will be: fruit of Christ's leadership / the same things that are evident in the life of Spirit filled believers! Is Jesus Christ king of your life?
Psalm 72 / 2Chor 9:1-12 cf Mt 12:42
6. The future state.
Rev 21-22
Rev 21:9 I will show thee the Bride the Lamb's wife.
Ps 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. The final sheep fold!
Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (See Heb 12:22-23)
Re 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Re 22:20 ¶ He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Proverbs Outline (Chapters 1-8)
Proverbs Outline
I. Sayings to the Son (Ch 1-7)
A. Wisdom's Forsaking (Ch 1)
1.The Purpose of Proverbs (1:1-6)
2.The Premise and Promise of Proverbs (Pro 1:7-9)
3.Principle Propositions in Proverbs (1:10-33)
B. Wisdom's Focus (Ch 2)
1.The Search for Wisdom (2:1-5)
2.The Source of Wisdom (2:6-9)
3.The Satisfaction of Wisdom (2:10-21)
C. Wisdom's Favor (Ch 3) (How to obtain it)
1.Obey God's Word (1-4)
2.Trust in the Lord (vs 5-10)
3.Receive Chastening (vs 11-26)
4.Love your Neighbor (27-35)
D. Wisdom's Faithfulness (Ch 4)
1.Wisdom is Life (vs 13) and (vs 20-23) cf (vs 10)
2.Wisdom is Light (vs 18) and (vs 25-27) cf (vs 12)
3.Wisdom is Loved (vs 1-8)
E. Wisdom's Fidelity (Ch 5)
1.Wisdom's Invitation (5:1)
2.Wisdom's Intention (5:2)
3.Wisdom's Instruction (5:3-23)
4.Wisdom's Implication (1Co 6:15)
F. Wisdom's Finances (Ch 6)
1.The Foolishness of Co-signing (1-5)
2.The Foolishness of Laziness (6-11)
3.The Foolishness of Perverseness (12-19)
4.The Foolishness of Disobedience (20-35)
G. Wisdom's Fear (Ch 7) To Fear God is to Avoid Physical and Spiritual Adultery
II. Sayings to the Simple Chapter 8 & 9
A. Chapter 8
1. Wisdom's Passion (vs 1-5) – The welfare of men
2. Wisdom's Position (vs 6-9) – Righteousness
3. Wisdom's Priority (10-11) – Wisdom over Wealth
4. Wisdom's Preeminence (12-16)
a. Wisdom's Dwelling (vs 12)
b. Wisdom's Hatred (vs 13)
c. Wisdom's Ownership (vs 14)
d. Wisdom's Beneficiaries (vs 15-16)
5. Wisdom's Profitability(17-21)
a. In relationship (vs 17)
b. In riches (vs 18)
c. In reward (vs 19)
d. In righteousness (vs 20)
e. In results (vs 21)
6. Wisdom's Pronouncement(22-31)
a. Possessed of the Lord (vs 22) The Authority of Wisdom
b. Preceding creation (vs 23 – 30) The Antiquity of Wisdom
c. Producing delight (vs 30 – 31) The Attractiveness of Wisdom
7. Wisdom's Pleading (32-36)
III. Sayings of Separation (Ch 9-31)
I. Sayings to the Son (Ch 1-7)
A. Wisdom's Forsaking (Ch 1)
1.The Purpose of Proverbs (1:1-6)
2.The Premise and Promise of Proverbs (Pro 1:7-9)
3.Principle Propositions in Proverbs (1:10-33)
B. Wisdom's Focus (Ch 2)
1.The Search for Wisdom (2:1-5)
2.The Source of Wisdom (2:6-9)
3.The Satisfaction of Wisdom (2:10-21)
C. Wisdom's Favor (Ch 3) (How to obtain it)
1.Obey God's Word (1-4)
2.Trust in the Lord (vs 5-10)
3.Receive Chastening (vs 11-26)
4.Love your Neighbor (27-35)
D. Wisdom's Faithfulness (Ch 4)
1.Wisdom is Life (vs 13) and (vs 20-23) cf (vs 10)
2.Wisdom is Light (vs 18) and (vs 25-27) cf (vs 12)
3.Wisdom is Loved (vs 1-8)
E. Wisdom's Fidelity (Ch 5)
1.Wisdom's Invitation (5:1)
2.Wisdom's Intention (5:2)
3.Wisdom's Instruction (5:3-23)
4.Wisdom's Implication (1Co 6:15)
F. Wisdom's Finances (Ch 6)
1.The Foolishness of Co-signing (1-5)
2.The Foolishness of Laziness (6-11)
3.The Foolishness of Perverseness (12-19)
4.The Foolishness of Disobedience (20-35)
G. Wisdom's Fear (Ch 7) To Fear God is to Avoid Physical and Spiritual Adultery
II. Sayings to the Simple Chapter 8 & 9
A. Chapter 8
1. Wisdom's Passion (vs 1-5) – The welfare of men
2. Wisdom's Position (vs 6-9) – Righteousness
3. Wisdom's Priority (10-11) – Wisdom over Wealth
4. Wisdom's Preeminence (12-16)
a. Wisdom's Dwelling (vs 12)
b. Wisdom's Hatred (vs 13)
c. Wisdom's Ownership (vs 14)
d. Wisdom's Beneficiaries (vs 15-16)
5. Wisdom's Profitability(17-21)
a. In relationship (vs 17)
b. In riches (vs 18)
c. In reward (vs 19)
d. In righteousness (vs 20)
e. In results (vs 21)
6. Wisdom's Pronouncement(22-31)
a. Possessed of the Lord (vs 22) The Authority of Wisdom
b. Preceding creation (vs 23 – 30) The Antiquity of Wisdom
c. Producing delight (vs 30 – 31) The Attractiveness of Wisdom
7. Wisdom's Pleading (32-36)
III. Sayings of Separation (Ch 9-31)
Ephesians Outline
I.Part 1 – The Position of the Believer (Ch 1-3)
A. Chapter 1
1.The Witness of God (1:1)
2.The Will of God (1:1)
3.The Welfare of God (2-14)
a. Grace
b. Peace
c. Spiritual Blessings
4.The Workings of God (15-23)
B. Chapter 2
1.The Believer's Past (1-3)&(11-12)
a. Our past state
i. dead in trespasses and sins; (1)
ii. the children of wrath(3)
iii. without Christ (12)
iv. aliens from the commonwealth of Israel (12)
v. strangers from the covenants of promise (12)
vi. having no hope (12)
vii. without God in the world (12)
b. Our past walk
i. according to the course of this world (2)
ii. according to the prince of the power of the air (2)
iii. in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind(3)
2.The Believer's Present (4-6) &(8-9)&(14-20)
3.The Believer's Future (7) & (10)
C. Chapter 3
1. The Mystery of the Gospel (1-6)
a. Dispensation (1-2)
b. Revelation (3-5)
c. Unification (6)
2. The Ministry of the Gospel (7-12)
a. The gift of grace (7-8)
b. To make men see (9-10)
c. The eternal purpose (11)
d. Boldness and access (12)
3. The Mentality of the Gospel (13-21)
a. Glory in personal persecution (13)
b. Glory in God's provision (15-19)
c. Glory in Christ's power (20-21)
II.Part 2 – The Practice of the Believer (Ch 4-6)
A. Chapter 4
1. Walk worthy of your calling (vs 1-16)
2. Walk worthy of your conversation (vs 17-32)
B. Chapter 5 - 6:9
1. Walk in love (vs 1-2)
2. Walk in light (vs 3-14)
3. Walk in carefulness (vs 15-19)
4. Walk in submission (vs 20-6:9)
C. Chapter 6
1. Walk in power (vs 10-17)
2. Walk in prayer (vs 18-20)
3. Walk in peace (vs 21-24)
A. Chapter 1
1.The Witness of God (1:1)
2.The Will of God (1:1)
3.The Welfare of God (2-14)
a. Grace
b. Peace
c. Spiritual Blessings
4.The Workings of God (15-23)
B. Chapter 2
1.The Believer's Past (1-3)&(11-12)
a. Our past state
i. dead in trespasses and sins; (1)
ii. the children of wrath(3)
iii. without Christ (12)
iv. aliens from the commonwealth of Israel (12)
v. strangers from the covenants of promise (12)
vi. having no hope (12)
vii. without God in the world (12)
b. Our past walk
i. according to the course of this world (2)
ii. according to the prince of the power of the air (2)
iii. in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind(3)
2.The Believer's Present (4-6) &(8-9)&(14-20)
3.The Believer's Future (7) & (10)
C. Chapter 3
1. The Mystery of the Gospel (1-6)
a. Dispensation (1-2)
b. Revelation (3-5)
c. Unification (6)
2. The Ministry of the Gospel (7-12)
a. The gift of grace (7-8)
b. To make men see (9-10)
c. The eternal purpose (11)
d. Boldness and access (12)
3. The Mentality of the Gospel (13-21)
a. Glory in personal persecution (13)
b. Glory in God's provision (15-19)
c. Glory in Christ's power (20-21)
II.Part 2 – The Practice of the Believer (Ch 4-6)
A. Chapter 4
1. Walk worthy of your calling (vs 1-16)
2. Walk worthy of your conversation (vs 17-32)
B. Chapter 5 - 6:9
1. Walk in love (vs 1-2)
2. Walk in light (vs 3-14)
3. Walk in carefulness (vs 15-19)
4. Walk in submission (vs 20-6:9)
C. Chapter 6
1. Walk in power (vs 10-17)
2. Walk in prayer (vs 18-20)
3. Walk in peace (vs 21-24)
Psalm 11
Psalm 11 – A Psalm of David
I. His Declaration –(vs 1)
Trust – Ruth 2:12 / 2Sam 22:31 / 24 xs in Psalms / Pro 30:5
Isaiah 57:13
II. His Question – (vs 1)
Soul – This was not just physical preservation this was spiritual. (2Sam 26:19)
Your Mountain – Man has the capacity to rely in himself and other avenues of help rather than God! Will you flee to your mountain? Or will you run to God?
Ps 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
III. His Position – (vs 2)
The Righteous have enemies!
Abel had his Cain
Joseph had his brethren
Joshua & Caleb had their evil spies
Hannah had Peninnah
David had his Saul
Solomon had his Adonijah
Elijah had his Jezebel
Nehemiah had his Sanballat & Tobiah
Job had his wife
Jeremiah had his Jehoiakim
Daniel had his captive brethren
John the Baptist had his Herodious
Jesus had his Pharisees
The disciples had their persecutors
Paul had his Judaizers
Timothy had his despisers
You will have your enemies!
Ps 34:11 ¶ Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
IV. His Foundation – (vs 3-7) - God
A. The Lord's Place (vs 4) He is Sovereign! He is in control.
Isaiah 6 / Isaiah 57:15
B. The Lord's Patience (vs 4-5)
Try -test, prove, as gold is refined
The only way one becomes more pleasing to the Lord is to be more righteous, more like Christ. Therefore the Lord tries us.
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold
James speaks of the trying of your faith.
Peter talks of this.
1Pe 4:12 ¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you; 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
C. The Lord's Punishment (vs 6)
Isaiah 13
D. The Lord's Passion (vs 7) - Righteousness
Pr 15:9 ¶ The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
I. His Declaration –(vs 1)
Trust – Ruth 2:12 / 2Sam 22:31 / 24 xs in Psalms / Pro 30:5
Isaiah 57:13
II. His Question – (vs 1)
Soul – This was not just physical preservation this was spiritual. (2Sam 26:19)
Your Mountain – Man has the capacity to rely in himself and other avenues of help rather than God! Will you flee to your mountain? Or will you run to God?
Ps 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
III. His Position – (vs 2)
The Righteous have enemies!
Abel had his Cain
Joseph had his brethren
Joshua & Caleb had their evil spies
Hannah had Peninnah
David had his Saul
Solomon had his Adonijah
Elijah had his Jezebel
Nehemiah had his Sanballat & Tobiah
Job had his wife
Jeremiah had his Jehoiakim
Daniel had his captive brethren
John the Baptist had his Herodious
Jesus had his Pharisees
The disciples had their persecutors
Paul had his Judaizers
Timothy had his despisers
You will have your enemies!
Ps 34:11 ¶ Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
IV. His Foundation – (vs 3-7) - God
A. The Lord's Place (vs 4) He is Sovereign! He is in control.
Isaiah 6 / Isaiah 57:15
B. The Lord's Patience (vs 4-5)
Try -test, prove, as gold is refined
The only way one becomes more pleasing to the Lord is to be more righteous, more like Christ. Therefore the Lord tries us.
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold
James speaks of the trying of your faith.
Peter talks of this.
1Pe 4:12 ¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you; 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
C. The Lord's Punishment (vs 6)
Isaiah 13
D. The Lord's Passion (vs 7) - Righteousness
Pr 15:9 ¶ The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Psalm 10
I. The Lord Hides
The Word of God declares the omnipresence of God. (Psalm 139) (Pro 15:3) (Jer 23:23-24)
When man has the thought process that the Lord is afar off or that God is hiding himself, it is not that God is not there but rather that either God has chosen to withdraw the tangible evidence of his presence from man, or man has circumstantially been brought to a place of not being able experience his presence.
When God has withdrawn the tangible evidence of his presence from man it is an effort of God's part to repair man's relationship to him, or strenghten his relationship.
Ge 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Ge 4:6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Ps 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Isaiah 1:15-20, Isaiah 30:9- ff , Is 59:1-8
Jer 7:16, Jer 13:17 secret places – hiding places (Ezk 39:29)
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Job 23, 42:1-7 / 1Peter 1:3-9, / Phil 3:10-15
Ps 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Joseph (Gen 37-50) / Hannah (1Sam 1-3) James 1:1-12 / 1Pet 1:1-9)
Here in our text there is no indication of chastening of sin, rather it appears that God would strengthen the poor and the humble!
Are you tired of being the poor, are you tired of being put through the refiners fire? Take heart Child of God you are the object of his affections! IT is not that God has forgotten you or that God is not there, rather it is in his allowance of the difficulties in your life that you will be blessed!
1Sa 2:8-10 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Mt 5:3 ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Here in our text we find 2 types of people mentioned.
A. The Haughty aka the wicked (vs 2-11)
1.In his pride he persecutes the poor (vs 2)
2.Boasteth of his heart's desire (vs 3)
3.Blesseth the covetous (vs 3) =to show respect, praise, salute
4.Through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God (vs 5)
5.God is not in all his thoughts (vs 5)
Thoughts = specifically purposes, wicked intents, witty inventions
6.I shall never be moved for I will have no adversity (vs 6)
7.His mouth is full of cursing and deceit, and fraud Under his tongue is mischief and vanity (vs 7)
8.He sneaks and waits to devour the poor (vs 8-10)
9.He dismisses his accountability to God for his actions. (vs 11)
Here we find the reason why the psalmist believes that God is hiding from him. The Wicked prosper by devouring the poor.
B. The Humble (vs 12-15)
1.Seeks the help of God (vs 12)
2.Does not understand the wicked attitude toward God (vs 13)
3.Realizes by faith the justice and power of God. (vs 14)
committeth = abandon, depart, leave behind, forsake
4.Trusts God with the recompense of evil. (vs 15)
II. The Lord Hears (vs 16-18)
A. His Kingdom (vs 16)
1.Is eternal
2.Is preserved
B. His Compassion (vs 17)
prepare = to stablish firmly, fix, to be settled.
C. His Judgment (vs 18)
judge = to hear the controversy, govern, act as a law giver.
Proverbs 29:14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
The Word of God declares the omnipresence of God. (Psalm 139) (Pro 15:3) (Jer 23:23-24)
When man has the thought process that the Lord is afar off or that God is hiding himself, it is not that God is not there but rather that either God has chosen to withdraw the tangible evidence of his presence from man, or man has circumstantially been brought to a place of not being able experience his presence.
When God has withdrawn the tangible evidence of his presence from man it is an effort of God's part to repair man's relationship to him, or strenghten his relationship.
Sin causes a breech between God and man causing God to hide his face.
Ge 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Ge 4:6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Ps 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Isaiah 1:15-20, Isaiah 30:9- ff , Is 59:1-8
Jer 7:16, Jer 13:17 secret places – hiding places (Ezk 39:29)
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Satisfaction in Spiritual condition can lead to God hiding his face.
Job 23, 42:1-7 / 1Peter 1:3-9, / Phil 3:10-15
Ps 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Soverign will of God can cause it to seem that God is hiding his face
Joseph (Gen 37-50) / Hannah (1Sam 1-3) James 1:1-12 / 1Pet 1:1-9)
Here in our text there is no indication of chastening of sin, rather it appears that God would strengthen the poor and the humble!
Are you tired of being the poor, are you tired of being put through the refiners fire? Take heart Child of God you are the object of his affections! IT is not that God has forgotten you or that God is not there, rather it is in his allowance of the difficulties in your life that you will be blessed!
1Sa 2:8-10 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Mt 5:3 ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Here in our text we find 2 types of people mentioned.
A. The Haughty aka the wicked (vs 2-11)
1.In his pride he persecutes the poor (vs 2)
2.Boasteth of his heart's desire (vs 3)
3.Blesseth the covetous (vs 3) =to show respect, praise, salute
4.Through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God (vs 5)
5.God is not in all his thoughts (vs 5)
Thoughts = specifically purposes, wicked intents, witty inventions
6.I shall never be moved for I will have no adversity (vs 6)
7.His mouth is full of cursing and deceit, and fraud Under his tongue is mischief and vanity (vs 7)
8.He sneaks and waits to devour the poor (vs 8-10)
9.He dismisses his accountability to God for his actions. (vs 11)
Here we find the reason why the psalmist believes that God is hiding from him. The Wicked prosper by devouring the poor.
B. The Humble (vs 12-15)
1.Seeks the help of God (vs 12)
2.Does not understand the wicked attitude toward God (vs 13)
3.Realizes by faith the justice and power of God. (vs 14)
committeth = abandon, depart, leave behind, forsake
4.Trusts God with the recompense of evil. (vs 15)
II. The Lord Hears (vs 16-18)
A. His Kingdom (vs 16)
1.Is eternal
2.Is preserved
B. His Compassion (vs 17)
prepare = to stablish firmly, fix, to be settled.
C. His Judgment (vs 18)
judge = to hear the controversy, govern, act as a law giver.
Proverbs 29:14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Psalm 9
God created Israel for a purpose (Dut 7:7)
Ezk 36:16-38
Isaiah 43:1-7
Rom 9:14-26 – be called the children of God
Psalm 9 is written in the nationalistic sense of God working with his people to show his glory to all the world.
This Psalm can be applied three ways
1)Historic
2)Present
3)Messianic
I.Praise with the Whole heart (vs 1-2)
II.Perception of God's throne (vs 3-14)
A. Destruction of the wicked (vs 3-8)
B. Preservation of the Righteous (vs 9-14)
III.Perishing Man examined (vs vs 15-18) cf John 3:16
IV.Prayer Offered to God (vs 19-20)
Ezk 36:16-38
Isaiah 43:1-7
Rom 9:14-26 – be called the children of God
Psalm 9 is written in the nationalistic sense of God working with his people to show his glory to all the world.
This Psalm can be applied three ways
1)Historic
2)Present
3)Messianic
I.Praise with the Whole heart (vs 1-2)
II.Perception of God's throne (vs 3-14)
A. Destruction of the wicked (vs 3-8)
B. Preservation of the Righteous (vs 9-14)
III.Perishing Man examined (vs vs 15-18) cf John 3:16
IV.Prayer Offered to God (vs 19-20)
Psalm 8
I.The excellence of the name of the Lord (vs1)
excellent = Great, majestic
Ex 15:10; Judges 5:25; 1Sam 4:8
Several times in Scripture it is seen as the word noble/s
name of the LORD / Lord
LORD = the proper name of the one true God
= the self existent one. - the creator, not created one
Lord = firm one, concerning men master of the house, concerning Christ, - king
See Psalm 110:1
above the heavens
II.The exposure of the place of man (vs 2-6)
A. Conquest (vs 2) cf Mt 21:12-17
B. Consideration (vs 3) ordained = established
C. Condition (vs 4)
mindful = call to remembrance
visitest = attend to, care for, punish
D. Crowning (vs 5)
bestowed upon –
1.made in the image of God (Gen 1:26)
2.made for the use of God
E. Control (vs 6)
Dominion = rule
under his feet = authority, victory
1Cor 6:3 – ye shall judge angels
Heb 2:6-8 / 1Cor 15:27 – fulfillment is only fully realized in the millennial kingdom.
Is 11:1-8 / Rev 19:14 /
Psalm 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
III.The examination of God's creation (vs 7-8)
Understanding God's dominion over creation is the realization of a stewardship unto God!
Ps 50:7 ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Mt 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Job 38:25-41 !!!!!!!!
IV.The expanse of God's excellent name (vs 9) - in all the earth
excellent = Great, majestic
Ex 15:10; Judges 5:25; 1Sam 4:8
Several times in Scripture it is seen as the word noble/s
name of the LORD / Lord
LORD = the proper name of the one true God
= the self existent one. - the creator, not created one
Lord = firm one, concerning men master of the house, concerning Christ, - king
See Psalm 110:1
above the heavens
II.The exposure of the place of man (vs 2-6)
A. Conquest (vs 2) cf Mt 21:12-17
B. Consideration (vs 3) ordained = established
C. Condition (vs 4)
mindful = call to remembrance
visitest = attend to, care for, punish
D. Crowning (vs 5)
bestowed upon –
1.made in the image of God (Gen 1:26)
2.made for the use of God
E. Control (vs 6)
Dominion = rule
under his feet = authority, victory
1Cor 6:3 – ye shall judge angels
Heb 2:6-8 / 1Cor 15:27 – fulfillment is only fully realized in the millennial kingdom.
Is 11:1-8 / Rev 19:14 /
Psalm 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
III.The examination of God's creation (vs 7-8)
Understanding God's dominion over creation is the realization of a stewardship unto God!
Ps 50:7 ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Mt 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Job 38:25-41 !!!!!!!!
IV.The expanse of God's excellent name (vs 9) - in all the earth
Psalm 7
I.The Circumstances of the Psalm - ???????????????
A. The Term - Shiggaion
Many are uncertain, was Shiggaion a musical term? Only other associated word is in Hab 3:1 "upon Shigionoth. Some see it as identified with the idea of a wondering or variable psalm, where the music would demonstrate the emotion/path of the psalm writer.
B. The Person – Cush the Benjamite
This is the only time he is mentioned in the Bible. The word Cush is mentioned in the scriptures 27 times. It is translated Ethiopia 19 times and 8 times is the name of the son of Ham the grandson of Noah.
C. The Situation - Concerning the words of Cush.
False accusation of David – (vs 3-4) All of these things are somewhat obscure to the reader. God would have us all perceive the lesson more than the history!
II.The Contents of the Psalm
A. A Persecuted Saint(vs 1-5)
1. Persecuted by many (vs 1)
2. Persecuted harshly (vs 2)
3. Persecuted falsely (vs 3-5)
Ps 119:161 ¶ Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
1Th 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1Co 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Mt 9:5-12
2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Rom 8:35
B. A Patient Saint(vs 6-16) Long suffering – Gal 5:22-23 / Col 1:9-13 / Col 3:12
1. The Lord's anger is timed correctly (vs 6-7)
2. The Lord's judgment is timed correctly (vs 8-9)
3. The Lord's longsuffering is timed correctly (vs 10-16) see vs 12- if he turn not.
Some day David, you will be glad that God is long suffering! You will commit adultery with Bathsheba, and kill her husband Uriah (one more righteous than you) to cover up your sin. You will cause the sword to never depart from your house, Yes you will be glad for the longsuffering of our God.
Christian, before you get angry with God because of his failure to act on your behalf, remember that it is the same long suffering of God that waited for you to be saved, and waits for you to get right with him, that waits for the one that is persecuting you unjustly to get right!
Acts 22:3-10 / 1Tim 1:16
C. A Praising Saint (vs 17)
Having a right view of God coupled with a trust in God allows you to have joy and praise in the midst of unwanted circumstances.
Wanted! - Psalm 22:22 Christians
A. The Term - Shiggaion
Many are uncertain, was Shiggaion a musical term? Only other associated word is in Hab 3:1 "upon Shigionoth. Some see it as identified with the idea of a wondering or variable psalm, where the music would demonstrate the emotion/path of the psalm writer.
B. The Person – Cush the Benjamite
This is the only time he is mentioned in the Bible. The word Cush is mentioned in the scriptures 27 times. It is translated Ethiopia 19 times and 8 times is the name of the son of Ham the grandson of Noah.
C. The Situation - Concerning the words of Cush.
False accusation of David – (vs 3-4) All of these things are somewhat obscure to the reader. God would have us all perceive the lesson more than the history!
II.The Contents of the Psalm
A. A Persecuted Saint(vs 1-5)
1. Persecuted by many (vs 1)
2. Persecuted harshly (vs 2)
3. Persecuted falsely (vs 3-5)
Ps 119:161 ¶ Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
1Th 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1Co 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Mt 9:5-12
2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Rom 8:35
B. A Patient Saint(vs 6-16) Long suffering – Gal 5:22-23 / Col 1:9-13 / Col 3:12
1. The Lord's anger is timed correctly (vs 6-7)
2. The Lord's judgment is timed correctly (vs 8-9)
3. The Lord's longsuffering is timed correctly (vs 10-16) see vs 12- if he turn not.
Some day David, you will be glad that God is long suffering! You will commit adultery with Bathsheba, and kill her husband Uriah (one more righteous than you) to cover up your sin. You will cause the sword to never depart from your house, Yes you will be glad for the longsuffering of our God.
Christian, before you get angry with God because of his failure to act on your behalf, remember that it is the same long suffering of God that waited for you to be saved, and waits for you to get right with him, that waits for the one that is persecuting you unjustly to get right!
Acts 22:3-10 / 1Tim 1:16
C. A Praising Saint (vs 17)
Having a right view of God coupled with a trust in God allows you to have joy and praise in the midst of unwanted circumstances.
Wanted! - Psalm 22:22 Christians
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Psalm 6
Psalm 6 – A psalm concerning sin
Last week we considered Psalm 5 one of David's imprecatory psalms. Tonight we will look at one of his penitential psalms. Some would attribute this to the time of sin with Bathsheba. However, there is nothing to indicate this. The believer often receives chastening of the Lord throughout his life.
I.The Lord's Rebuke – (vs 1-3)
Rebuke = prove, reprove, judge, chide, correct, convince, convict, plead
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Micah 6:2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
A. The Chastening of the Lord (vs 1)
A. Deliver (vs4)
C. Depression (vs 6-7) eye – mental and spiritual qualities
D. Departure (vs 8)
God did not need the wicked to destroy him in his sin for he had made himself clean before the Lord.
III.The Lord's Reception (vs 9-10)
The Holy Spirit had wrought into the Psalmist's mind the confidence that his prayer was heard. This is frequently the privilege of the saints. Praying the prayer of faith, they are often infallibly assured that they have prevailed with God.
1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
A. His confidence in God's Forgiveness
B. His confidence in God's Faithfulness
Last week we considered Psalm 5 one of David's imprecatory psalms. Tonight we will look at one of his penitential psalms. Some would attribute this to the time of sin with Bathsheba. However, there is nothing to indicate this. The believer often receives chastening of the Lord throughout his life.
I.The Lord's Rebuke – (vs 1-3)
Rebuke = prove, reprove, judge, chide, correct, convince, convict, plead
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Micah 6:2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
A. The Chastening of the Lord (vs 1)
- anger – from Heb. nostril
- chasten – instruction through discipline (Lev 26:28)
- hot displeasure – rage (Gen 27:44)(Dan 9:16)
- Mercy needed – to show favor
- Weak – feeble, whole strength abated
- vexed - terrified, disturbed, alarmed, afraid,
- Soul – inner man
- how long?
A. Deliver (vs4)
- Return – his lack of presence was the punishment!
- Deliver – remove, draw out – (Psalm 40)
- Save – liberate, deliver
C. Depression (vs 6-7) eye – mental and spiritual qualities
D. Departure (vs 8)
God did not need the wicked to destroy him in his sin for he had made himself clean before the Lord.
III.The Lord's Reception (vs 9-10)
The Holy Spirit had wrought into the Psalmist's mind the confidence that his prayer was heard. This is frequently the privilege of the saints. Praying the prayer of faith, they are often infallibly assured that they have prevailed with God.
1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
A. His confidence in God's Forgiveness
B. His confidence in God's Faithfulness
Psalm 5
Here in this psalm, David requests for God to be a righteous judge between the words of his mouth and the words of the wicked.
I. David's Voice (vs 1-3)
A. My words - communion
B. My meditation – from the soul
C. My cry - intensity
II. David's Vision (vs 4-10)
A. His view of God
1. God is holy (vs 4)
2. God is helpful (vs 8)
B. His view of the Wicked
1. Foolish (vs 5)
2. Lying (vs 6)
3. Bloody (vs 6)
4. Deceitful (vs 6)
5. Unfaithful mouth (vs 9)
C. His view of Himself
1. A worshipper of God (vs 7)
2. A follower of God (vs 8)
III. David's Victory (vs 10-12)
A. His expectation concerning the wicked (vs 10)
B. His expectation concerning the righteous (vs 11-12)
Psalm 4
- David's Cry unto God (1)A. His Confidence in prayerB. His Consideration of past help.C. His Cry for mercy and audience.
- David's Confession to the sons of men (2-5)A. His question concerning their ungodliness (vs 2)Turn glory to shame – God's favor on him was shunned by the wickedlove vanity – empty life with no profitPs 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.seek after leasing – lying
B. His Comment concerning the godly (vs 3)
- The Lord will set apart the godly unto himself
- The Lord will hear when I call
- Ps 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
C. David's Commands to the sons of men (vs 4-5)
- Stand in awe cf Joel 2:1 tremble
- sin not – Hos 4:7
- commune with your own heart upon your bed
- be still – grow silent Job 29:21 / Amos 5:13
- offer the sacrifices of righteousness – offer = kill
- put your trust in the lord -confidence in, be fearless
- David's Contentment in God (6-8)A. In spite of the lack of faith by others! (vs 6)many that say – the many vs the fewwho – where is your focus?Any good – that which is agreeable, pleasant or pleasingpsalm 23 – the voice of a wondering sheep!Psalm 84:11 – no good thing will heB. In contrast to the values of others! (vs 7)Gladness in my heart - glad
1 archaic : having a cheerful or happy disposition by nature
2 a : experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight : made happy b : made pleased, satisfied, or grateful —often used with of <was glad of their help
3 a : marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness and joy <a glad shout> b : causing happiness and joy : pleasant <glad tidings>
4 : full of brightness and cheerfulness <a glad spring morning>
2 a : experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight : made happy b : made pleased, satisfied, or grateful —often used with of <was glad of their help
3 a : marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness and joy <a glad shout> b : causing happiness and joy : pleasant <glad tidings>
4 : full of brightness and cheerfulness <a glad spring morning>
- Ps 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
- Ps 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad
- Ps 21:6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
- Ps 32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
- Ps 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
- Ps 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
- Ps 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
- Ps 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
- Ps 70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
- Ps 104:34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
- Ps 122:1 ¶ I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
- Ps 126:3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
More than in the time that their wine and corn increased.
Isa 9:3 ....they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Ps 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
C. In exclusion of all other sources of help. (vs 8)
Peace and rest is in the Lord
Psalm 3
I. A Time of Trouble (vs 1-2)
A. The increase of those that trouble (vs 1)
B. The insistence of those that trouble (vs 2)
II. A Time of Trust (vs 3-8)
A. Acknowledging God's Person (vs 3)
B. Accessing God's Throne (vs 4)
C. Awaking in God's Protection (vs 5)
D. Abiding in God's Strength (vs 6-8)
A. The increase of those that trouble (vs 1)
B. The insistence of those that trouble (vs 2)
II. A Time of Trust (vs 3-8)
A. Acknowledging God's Person (vs 3)
B. Accessing God's Throne (vs 4)
C. Awaking in God's Protection (vs 5)
D. Abiding in God's Strength (vs 6-8)
Psalm 2
Psalm 2
Historical Perspective -
Josh 15:63/ 18:28 -
Judges 1:8, 21
Judges 19:9-12
2Sam 5:1-10
- The Raging of the Heathen (vs 1-3)vs 1Rage = in a state of agitation and tumultVain = It is vain to fight against the Lord and his will!2Sam 5:6
Acts 4:23-30
vs 2-3
cf Luke 19:11-15
cf Rev 19:19
- The Response of the LORD (vs 4-6)2Sam 5:7vs 4Ps 115:1 ¶ Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Ps 37:1-13
vs 5-6
Isa 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Zec 2:10 ¶ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
Zec 8:2-3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
III. The Repeating of the King (vs 7-9)
Da 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Psalm 89:1-4
Psalm 132
Isaiah 9:6-7
Heb 1:5-9
IV. The Recommendation of the Psalmist (vs 10-12)
A. Be wise
B. Serve the Lord
C. Kiss the Son Mt 25:31 -
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