Lecture 1: Expository Preaching of the Psalms - Dr. Steven Lawson The Master's Seminary 104K subscribers Subscribe 598 Share Save 45K views 10 years ago TMS Archives: Expository Preaching. He never loses this grip on the great truths about God. In preparing an article on the above topic the writer is ex-plicitly informed that what is required is t"not an expository sermon," nor " an outline of an expository sermon, but di- EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) . Whoever wrote it has given immortal form to the longings of the soul after God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. How does the Psalmist know this? Expository sermons allow the preacher, rather, to bridge the gap between an ancient culture and our own to make appropriate applications to those who hear him. The more numerous my sufferings, the sweeter will be Your mercy. Psalms 42:5). Because He loves us. And He may give us them back if they no longer get in the way of allowing Him to meet our desires.) He has fixed forever and made melodious a sigh. I shall not want for nourishment, "He makes me to lie down in green pastures." 2. It's as if the writer is saying, "If you want to know how to thank God, let . It was in wonder and admiration he spoke this: Abyss calls unto abyss with the voice of Your water-spouts. For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. When spiritually dry, we who are believers should remind ourselves that God is sufficient for all our needs. So, at the end of verse 7, he says, All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.. Esther 1 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Foolish. A. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. He began with yearning after the living God. But the victory is not quite won, and therefore Psalms 43:1-5, follows. And assuredly he does but the more thirst for the water-brooks from making his tears his meat.And they daily say unto me, Where is your God? I know this is a given but prayer prepares the preacher's heart for the studying of God's word (1 Peter 2:1-2) and it prepares the preacher's mind to receive clarity and insight into God's word (Psalm 119:18). The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. A quick reading of this Psalm suggests there are two divisions: (1) vv. Here, when men keep festival simply for their own indulgence, it is their custom to place musical instruments, or to station a chorus of singers, before their houses, or any kind of music that serves and allures to wantonness. The story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah is found in 2 Samuel 11-12. That which does must be living. They are the ballast in his little boat of faith. 3-7, NIV) Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Esther 6 - Sleepless in Susa and Rain on the Parade. Acts 4:25). Hebrew word doesnt mean spirit but a persons life; who and what we really are. Does man call on man as God is called upon? In the former part, memory was the handmaid of sorrow, and came involuntarily, and increased the singers pain; but in this part he makes an effort of will to remember, and in remembrance finds an antidote to sorrow. The psalmists lamentation because of his enemies 42:6-11. Psalms 43:2 looks back to Psalms 42:9, the former clause in each verse being practically equivalent, and the second in 43 (Psalms 43:2), being a quotation of the second in Psalms 42:9, with a variation in the form of the verb to suggest more vividly the picture of weary, slow, dragging gait, fit for a man clad in mourning garb. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts, in that Thou threatenest, You say, that there is another condemnation in store even after those sufferings. For he compared these things in which he found himself, to those toward which he had been raised; and saw himself cast out far from the sight of God's eyes, as he speaks even here, Why have You rejected me? He who has life in Himself is the Giver and Rescuer of our lives, and to Him they are to be rendered in thankful sacrifice. Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. The stimulus serves for a moment; but once more courage fails, and once more, at yet greater length and with yet sadder tones, plaints and longings are wailed forth. . ), saying, I thought to know this; it is too painful for me, until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand of the last things. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 3. For he said not, My tears became my drink, lest he should seem to have longed for them, as for the water-brooks: but, still retaining that thirst wherewith I burn, and by which I am hurried away towards the water-brooks, My tears became my meat, while I am not yet there. It has been much disputed whether its proper signification is active (one who shows lovingkindness) or passive (one who receives it). Would you have me not disquiet you, panting as I am after what is good, thirsting and labouring as I am for it? AND XLIII. The unity is vouched by the considerations already noticed, and by the incompleteness of Psalms 42:1-11 without such triumphant close and of Psalms 43:1-5 without such despondent beginning. (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. For there are already many things that I admire in the tabernacle. In Praise Of The King And His City (Audio) Download File. I am thirsty in my pilgrimage, in my running; I shall be filled on my arrival. Run to the fountain; long for the fountain; but do it not anyhow, be not satisfied with running like any ordinary animal; run thou like the hart. All of the psalms in Book 2 have a title assigned to them except psalm 43, making it more likely that it . It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. BOOK 2: CHS. Numbers 26:10-11) were distinguished musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31-48). Inevitably there are times we do feel cut-off from God. And what is it that the ant does? He does not show that He is your Helper, unless tribulation come, from whence you must be rescued by Him who promised it to you in the day-time. Furthermore, it is said in a certain passage, Your judgments are a mighty abyss, Scripture meaning to suggest that the judgments of God are incomprehensible. Here goes. Since no reason for the variation is discernible, and the proposed slight change of text improves construction and restores uniformity, it is probably to be adopted. For no one runs to the remission of sins, except he who is dissatisfied with himself; no one runs to the remission of sins, but he who confesses himself a sinner; no one confesses himself a sinner, except by humbling himself before God. The psalmist is far from the sanctuary, but distance does not hinder thought. For the Psalm itself begins with a certain pious longing; and he who sings so, says, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God Psalm 41:1. Who is it then that says this? (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) That is the worlds way with the calamities of a devout man, whose humble cry, "My God," it resents as presumption or hypocrisy. The epithet answers to that of the former part, "the living God," from which it differs by but one additional letter. Psalm 22 is an excellent choice for a sermon on Good Friday because, according to Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34, Jesus, "the man of sorrows" (Is 53:3), voiced the haunting opening words of this magnificent psalm, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" in his dying moment on the cross of Golgotha. I, who tremble all over, when my soul was disquieted on account of myself, feared greatly on account of Your judgments.Are those judgments slight ones? let me put two sayings of Scripture side by side, 'My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,'-'Father Abraham! So the higher mood conquers at last, and breaks into a burst of joyous petition, which passes swiftly into realisation of the future joys whose coming shines thus far off. Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? It was not exactly literary fame which psalmists hungered for. LEARNING TO DESIRE 15. sheep dogs. It suggests that the psalmists faith will bridge over the interval between himself and the sanctuary: I can send my thoughts to Thee from the distant frontier" (in loc.). The region intended seems to be "the northeastern corner of Palestine, near the lower slopes of Hermons" (Cheyne. [Note: For the meaning of Maskil, see my note on Psalms 32.] We don't know when the psalms were gathered into five books, but the separation dates back to before our oldest manuscripts, compiled in the Masoretic Text. 9 ). I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. Why have You rejected me? 3. So, the psalmist affirms God's sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. It is the only psalm, of the 150 psalms, so labeled. But inasmuch as You sit at liberty, I have thus spoken unto my soul. They rush upon him, multitudinous and close following; they pour down on him as with the thunder of descending cataracts; they overwhelm him like the breakers and rollers of an angry ocean. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Yet we must even now take notice of this title in such a way, that what we have said already should be no prejudice against our saying it again: for all were not present in every place where we said it. Why hope? I think an abyss may not unreasonably be understood of man, of whom it is said elsewhere, Man shall come to a deep heart, and God shall be exalted. Psalm 42:2. Devil" I've got it I've stolen his JOY" (4.) It is useless to speculate on its origin. WHATS THE PSALM ABOUT? Because Korah is equivalent to Calvaria.Therefore, the sons of the bridegroom, the sons of His Passion, the sons redeemed by His Blood, the sons of His Cross, who bear on their forehead that which His enemies erected on Calvary, are called the sons of Korah; to them is this Psalm sung as a Psalm for understanding. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. What should I say, but. Has learnt to make do with occasional puddles. Has experienced the joy of long refreshing drinks in a cool mountain stream. Rather than drinking from God, he had to drink the water of his own tears. It destroys serpents, and after the killing of serpents, it is inflamed with thirst yet more violent; having destroyed serpents, it runs to the water-brooks, with thirst more keen than before. That day of extrication will surely be followed by a night of music and of thankful prayer (for supplication is not the only element in prayer) to Him who by His deliverance has shown Himself to be the "God of" the rescued mans "life." 14. In the waves that deep calls; in the overhangings is the other deep which it calls to. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. Perhaps there was something in there for you too. I thought on these things, and poured out my soul above myself Psalm 41:4. God was not providing for his needs just then. He doesn't feel jubilant hope. And it is principally in the temptations of the Church they say this, Where is your God? Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed. Rich Man and Lazarus Sermon Outline. God-Centred As we have seen, the immediate cause was his separation from the temple of God. That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. Devil "I've got his .read more Scripture: Psalm 42:1-2 Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. Take all the parts of a sermon and put them together into a whole, and that whole is the central idea-the big idea-in the sermon. I shall not want for refreshment, "He leadeth me beside the still waters." 3. 4. For whosoever of the body of Christ considers this, does he not exclaim, with the voice of Christ's Body, Why have You rejected me? See how great wonders I admire in the tabernacle! PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. What abyss is this that calls, and to what other abyss? Therefore it is from the land of Jordan I have remembered you, and from the hill; observe, not of the great hill, that you may make of the little hill a great one: for whoever exalts himself shall be abased, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. For if a Pagan should say this to me, I cannot retort it upon him, saying, Where is yours? Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. But more important than any of that is God Himself. For God's tabernacle on earth is the faithful; I admire in them the obedience of even their bodily members: that in them Sin does not reign so that they should obey its lusts; neither do they yield their members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but unto the living God in good works. Nature reflects the poets moods, and overmastering emotion sees its own analogues everywhere. Without it we die. There is no necessity to conclude that these were heathens, though the taunt is usually put into heathen lips {Psalms 79:10; Psalms 52:2} but it would be quite as natural from co-religionists, flouting his fervour and personal grasp of God and taking his sorrows as tokens of Gods abandonment of him. 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