Notice that the Psalmist responds to his circumstances at one point by asking God, Why? Verse 9: I say to God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? He could not obtain the refreshment he needed yet, but he looked forward to finding it soon. How much was this cast in the teeth of the Martyrs! A. But in the Hebrew Bible, God never gave anyone this blessing nor did God ever use the word when he was speaking. Servanthood What does it mean to be a servant of Christ. He needed to continue to hope in God until then. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (Heb. I. Those men so patient and courageous for the name of Christ, how often was it said to them, Where is your God? 6. Psalm 41:3. The separation, however, is old, since it is found in the LXX. A similar bit of local colour is generally recognised in Psalms 42:7. So bloated with other things hasnt got space for water., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 3 Mountain Hill Church, All rights reserved, Website Created by Digital Design Solutions, New Life in the Spirit (Part 1) Romans 8:1-17. It is likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. Hope thou in God; for I will yet confess unto Him Psalm 41:11. What is going on here? And we are told in answer, that it is some festival. Verse 1 begins: "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His lovingkindness is everlasting." This phrase one of the most famous in the whole Bible. When David came to the throne, one of his first thoughts was how he could show mercy to the household of his adversary Saul ( 2 Sam. 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." (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? "As a deer longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for . In the mean while dwell in hope: for hope that is seen is not hope; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Hope in God. In this Psalm David, who is himself a shepherd, describes the LORD as his own personal shepherd. John 4:14). (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Grief which finds no fresh words is beginning to dry up. For I will go into the place of Your Tabernacle. These outlines are eventually posted on this website. 9. They rush upon him, multitudinous and close following; they pour down on him as with the thunder of descending cataracts; they overwhelm him like the breakers and rollers of an angry ocean. The Place of Refuge and Strength - Psalm 46. + Funeral Homilies So cried our Head also, as if speaking in our name. The true counterpoise to its excess lies in directing it to God and in making Him the object of hope and patient waiting. That lovely metaphor has touched the common heart as few have done, and the solitary singers plaint has fitted all devout lips. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up. All unrest of longing, all fever of thirst, all outgoings of desire, are feelers put out blindly, and are only stilled when they clasp Him. You may see not my flesh merely, but even my bones. He doesn't feel jubilant hope. But the curb has not been applied quite in vain, for throughout the succeeding verses there is a striking alternation of despondency and hope. let me put two sayings of Scripture side by side, 'My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,'-'Father Abraham! If they find themselves thirsty they describe the desire as fairy story or suchlike. DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 1 'The deer that rejects water.' Doesn't believe in it, doesn't long for it, or doesn't know they long for it. Expository Sermons The World's Greatest Undertaking - Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Parenting By The Book - Deuteronomy 6:1-9 The Faithful God - Deuteronomy 7:6-9 This Land Is Your Land - Deuteronomy 11:11-12 The Sacrifice Of Biblical Worship, Part 1 - Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Topical Sermons Back To Top Sermons From Joshua Expository Sermons DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 1 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. LEARNING TO DESIRE Last week's psalm was an unusually long one for the Psalm of Ascents, but this week we are back to a short psalm. 42-72 In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. And since it is said to you, Disregard this or that thing, if you prefer working iniquity to despising some temporal good, you choose to be bitten by a serpent, rather than destroy it. Men may speak, may be seen by the operations of their members, may be heard speaking in conversation: but whose thought is penetrated, whose heart seen into? But When shall I come? 2 16 How to Prepare an Expository Sermon on [April, HOW TO PREPARE AN EXPOSITORY SERMON ON PSALMS XLII. Individual rather than corporate. PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. 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. sermons and saints. But that just isnt the way we are. In this that I suffer are all Your waves; in the severer punishment that Thou threatenest, all Your overhangings have come unto me. It was God whom he addressed, who remembered him from the land of Jordan and Hermon. The prayer of Psalms 43:1-2, blends the two elements, which were at war in the second part; and for the moment the darker is the more prominent. The psalmist encouraged himself rhetorically by reminding himself that he would again praise God. There is with me prayer to the God of my life. PSALM 42 Psalm 42 - Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. When disturbing things happen, when troubling words are said, when certain letters contain ugly words or extremely critical comments are read, the churning starts. To the contrary, it is uncomforted, miserable and unsatisfied. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your God? For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. Youve learned deeply that its no relief to say that God does not rule the wind and the waves. Hes not thirsting mainly for escape. A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. Why then does Korah stand for Christ? My tears (he says) have been not bitterness, but my bread. Because Korah is equivalent to Calvaria.Therefore, the sons of the bridegroom, the sons of His Passion, the sons redeemed by His Blood, the sons of His Cross, who bear on their forehead that which His enemies erected on Calvary, are called the sons of Korah; to them is this Psalm sung as a Psalm for understanding. The bold metaphors are more striking when contrasted with the opposite ones of the first part. Deep calls on deep, then, is, man calls to man. 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. 1Corinthians10:12 Therefore since there is no soundness in me for myself, there is no hope either for me of myself. : 42:2-6) The . Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. If by abyss we understand a great depth, is not man's heart, do you not suppose, an abyss? Just as if his soul was silently replying to him, Why do I disquiet you, but because I am not yet there, where that delight is, to which I was, as it were, rapt for a moment? All of the psalms in Book 2 have a title assigned to them except psalm 43, making it more likely that it . Perhaps from Baptism, where the remission of sins is given. Deep calls unto deep with the voice of your water-spouts. It "pants" and "thirsts," is "cast down" and disquieted; it is "poured out"; it can be bidden to "hope." 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? Emotion varies, but God is the same. Nevertheless, it appears to me, my brethren, that such a longing is not fully satisfied even in the faithful in Baptism: but that haply, if they know where they are sojourning, and whither they have to remove from hence, their longing is kindled in even greater intensity. For you do not doubt of your God. preaching the gospel. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. The first ten verses deal with thanksgiving and praise for deliverance. Sharing the love of God with the English speaking community of Calpe, SELECTED PSALMS FOR SUMMER The enemy is called a "loveless nation." Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed. [Note: Merrill, "Psalms," p. That I may behold (he says) the beauty of the Lord. There is another point to be observed in the hart. For how can it be that in the midst of these tempests of the world, you should pass through the whole of that sea, without suffering? The twofold emotions of Psalms 42:6 recur in Psalms 42:7-8, where we have first renewed despondency and then reaction into hope. He affirms God's sovereign love. . send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . In Praise Of The King And His City (Audio) Download File. Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and Solomon composed Psalms 72. Soul. Mistaking the desire for religion and religious practices for a desire for God. Am I already 'drinking' from this 'fountain' with nothing to fear?Still Hope in God, is his answer to the soul that disquiets him, and would fain account for her disquiet from the evils with which this world abounds. This morning, I want to quickly offer us (be me, specifically) some hope when dealing with discouragement. THE second book of the Psalter is characterised by the use of the Divine name "Elohim" instead of "Jehovah." Has learnt to put up with less. He Sings Again, verse 8: "By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life." This is not a song of jubilant hope. 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. This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. It was not exactly literary fame which psalmists hungered for. For if a Pagan should say this to me, I cannot retort it upon him, saying, Where is yours? A Primer on Prayer - Psalm 28. 334.]. For what is there more profound than that abyss? 1-10 and (2) vv. In Book 2, the titles identify David as the writer of 18 psalms (Psalms 51-65, 68-70). Water the key theme in the Psalm. For it is in hope that we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. 11. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. Beginning with a general introduction on how pastors can interpret and preach from the biblical psalms and why they should Greidanus proceeds by discussing twenty-two psalms in the Revised Common Lectionary, Year . "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. Perhaps because expository sermons take much diligence and study, many preachers look for an easier way. When we think and feel with God in the Psalms, this is the main result: we come to love God, and we want to see God and be with God and be satisfied in admiring and exulting in God. The difference between the devout and the worldly man is just that the one can only say, "My soul pants and thirsts," and the other can add "after Thee, O God." 1. The actual author, as one of a band of kinsmen who worked and sang together, would, not unnaturally, be content to sink his individuality and let his song go forth as that of the band. Verses 1-11 II. The plural "Hermons" is probably used in reference to the group of crests. Longings and tears, remembrances of festal hours passed in the sanctuary melt the singers soul, while taunting enemies hiss continual sarcasms at him as forsaken by his God. The deer will die. And may He grant our desire through the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. During Ezra and Nehemiahs time (fifth century B.C. Korah was a great-grandson of Levi who rebelled against Moses leadership (Numbers 16:1-2). If you would also ask the meanings of the names, Jordan means their descent. The repeated taunt of his enemies would hopefully move God to deliver him (cf. The psalm falls into three parts, each closing with the same refrain. Psalm 41:11. The epithet answers to that of the former part, "the living God," from which it differs by but one additional letter. Yet, with the strange but universal love of summoning up remembrance of departed joys, the psalmist finds a certain pleasure in the pain of recalling how he. The shifting of the initial word of Psalms 42:6 to the end of Psalms 42:5, and the substitution of My for His, bring the three refrains into line, and avoid the harsh expression "help of His countenance." In his prayer, he would also ask God the reason for his continuing physical and emotional distress. Preaching Christ from Psalms: Foundations for Expository Sermons in the Christian Year by SIdney Greidanus Publisher: Eerdmans , 2016 ISBN: 9780802873668 3 ratings Digital $26.99 Digital (Group) $26.99 Overview Romans8:23 When that health (that salvation) is perfected in us, then shall we be living in the house of God for ever, and praising for ever Him to whom it was said, Blessed are they that dwell in Your house, they will be praising You world without end. {Nehemiah 11:19} The ascription of authorship to a group is remarkable, and has led to the suggestion that the superscription does not specify the authors, but the persons for whose use the psalms in question were composed. The two psalms (Psalms 42:1-11, Psalms 43:1-5) are plainly one. Let then our understanding be roused: and if the Psalm be sung to us, let us follow it with our understanding.Run to the brooks; long after the water-brooks. Others believe the sons of Korah composed them. 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