19 Psalms 51-60 - Pastor Chuck Smith - C2000 Series

so we turn now in our Bibles to Psalm 51 David is surely one of the most outstanding characters of the Old Testament he was greatly hated and greatly loved he had the capacity to inspire tremendous emotions in people on both ends of the spectrum he's always saw here about his enemies that are trying to do him in but yet there was a great number of people who really followed David with great devotion David was called a man after God's own heart and this appellation was given to David not because he was sinless but because his heart was always open towards God pliable God could work with David God could deal with him when David was wrong God could deal with him in as much as none of us are sinless - it's important that God is able to deal with us when we're in our faults when we're in our sin that we'd be open to the dealings of God the 51st psalm has as its background God's dealing with David concerning his sin for David one day while on his roof which over there they have flat roofs and they have their gardens and and couches and hammocks and all out on their roof as he was walking on his rooftop he spied over on a neighboring roof beautiful lady bathing and the lust of David's flesh got the better of him he sent a message to her to come on over she responded and as the result of their encounter she became pregnant David tried to cover it by having her husband come home from the service for a while but he did not cooperate in that he did not go home to be with his wife during his leave of absence from active duty so David compounded his sin of adultery by ordering Joab to put the fellow in the place of Jeopardy in the battle where he would be sure to be killed and as a result he was put to death by the enemy and at this time Nathan the prophet came to David with a parable in which David was the character only in a different setting David there was a man in your kingdom very wealthy he had all kinds of sheep Goods possessions servants next door to him there lived a very poor man who had only one lamb he loved it like his own daughter it aided his own table the rich man had company come he ordered his servants to by force go to his neighbor's house and take away the lamb by force that they might kill it and feed it to his company David became angry he said to Nathan that man shall surely be put to death Nathan pointed his finger David and said David you are the man the application was very clear David had many wives concubines all that a person could desire and yet he took away the wife the only wife of his neighbor and upon hearing this upon the sense of his own guilt David wrote this fifty first song in which he cries out for mercy mercy is not getting what you deserve justice is getting what you deserve he's got it coming that's justice he hasn't coming he doesn't get it that's mercy and David is crying out now to God for mercy have mercy upon me O God not according to the fact that I'm a good guy and I deserve it but according to thy loving-kindness according to the abundance of the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions David's prayer for forgiveness casting himself upon the mercy of God the Bible teaches us much about God's mercy he declares that he is a merciful God he will abundantly pardon according to the multitude of thy tender mercies David said blot out my transgressions wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me now David was trying to hide his guilt yet you can't hide it from yourself and David speaks about his sin being ever before me I'm ever conscious of my guilt you can't run from guilt you can't hide from guilt it's there David said I acknowledge my transgressions now you're on the road back the Bible says if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness but I have to be honest with God I have to confess my sin I have to acknowledge my transgression if God is going to be able to deal with me as long as I'm trying to hide my sin as long as I'm trying to justify myself and this is one of the things that we are constantly having to deal with in our own lives is that endeavor to justify our actions but there isn't forgiveness in justifying your actions the forgiveness comes when you confess your transgression I acknowledge my transgression good now God can deal with it but as long as you're trying to hide it cover it excuse it God can't deal with it so important that we be totally open and honest with God in order that he might deal with the issues of our lives then David said against thee and the only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight God is the one who has establish the law sin is against the holy law of God the holy nature of God now if we would look at this it would seem to us that he had sinned against Uriah the husband of Bathsheba it would even seem that he sinned against Bathsheba inviting her to this kind of a relationship the David declares against thee and the only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight now if David had been conscious of of God and of the fact that God sees if he had been more conscious of the presence of God it could very well be if he had never gotten into this I think that one of the real problems that we have is our lack of the sense of God's presence with us we forget that he's right there now we oftentimes do things that suddenly we find that you know someone was there and watching and we get so embarrassed because we thought that you know nobody knew us or nobody was watching and when we suddenly find someone there I had occasions in the past to have to make calls on the homes and sometimes as you I would be walking up to the front door I'd hear all kinds of screaming and yelling in the house and then you know you ring the doorbell and you hear a flurry of motion and all and pretty soon the doors open and they see you and they just you know there have been times and I'd never rung the doorbell just gone I was too embarrassed I didn't want to embarrass them you know they said oh you know you know we didn't know and you know start into that kind of stuff but you see Who am I man I know what it is to yell and get angry Who am I what we need to realize is that God is there in him we live and move and have our being Paul said it we need to become more conscious of the fact that God is with us against thee and the only have I done this in and done this evil in thy sight God was watching God knew all about it David thought that he had cleverly covered his guilt after all urias has been killed in battle now so who's gonna object to David taking pretty young widow into his harem you know after all her husband was killed out fighting David's Wars and David thought he had covered his tracks but God saw and when the Prophet came to him and said David you are the man David realized that he had not hid anything from God I've done this evil in your sight in order that you might be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge now David confesses actually the nature of sin behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me behold you desire true than the inward parts and in the hidden part theyself make me to know wisdom purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean the hyssop was a little shrub that grows over there in the Holy Land and in Egypt in those areas and there was the little bush that they used to sprinkle the blood when in Egypt they were to sprinkle the blood upon the lintels of the doorpost of the house they used the hyssop the hyssop bush in the sprinkling of the blood and so because it was the little bush that was used to sprinkle the blood he said purge me with hyssop that would be referring to the blood of the sacrifice and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow David's concept of God's total and complete forgiveness and it is important that we also have that same concept of God's total and complete forgiveness God said in Isaiah come now let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red as crimson they shall be as white as wool wash me and I shall be as white as snow you know there is nothing in all the world that can remove your guilt complex like just confessing to God and receiving the cleansing and the forgiveness from him go complex is a weird thing the guilt complex does create a subconscious desire for punishment that subconscious desire for punishment is manifested in neurotic behavior patterns the not neurotic behavior patterns are designed to bring punishment to you you start doing weird things people say what's wrong with you why are you doing that that's weird man well I don't know why I'm doing it because it's a subconscious thing I'm feeling guilty over something and I need to be punished and so I am going now into an abnormal behavior that is going to bring disapproval and Punishment upon me and I continue with this new rowdy behavior pattern until someone really tells me what a nut I am how weird and how I you know belong ostracized from society or something and I feel great because they have punished me and I feel a relief of my guilt but there is nothing in the world like coming to God and letting him wash you and he takes away completely that guilt complex that has been plaguing you David said make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice hide thy face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities create in me a clean heart O Lord and here's the problem David's getting right down to the issue Oh God create a clean heart within me renew a right spirit within me how easy it is when we feel guilty to start having a wrong spirit a wrong attitude towards the saints of God and towards God himself because I am feeling guilty I start sort of closing myself in and my spirit gets but renew a right spirit within me cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me the wages of sin is death spiritual death separation from God cast me not away from thy presence O Lord reach removed not or take not thy Holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with a free spirit thy free spirit so the prayer for the restoring of the joy of salvation is amazing the way sin can just rob you unconfessed sin can just rob you of God's joy in your life there are so many Christians who are borderline Christians they try to live as close to the world and still be a Christian as they can and they're always just trying to find out how close that is always experimenting just living on the edge flirting with the other side and they have the dilemma of having too much of Christ to be happy in the world but too much of the world to be happy in Christ restoring to me Lord the joy of my salvation and uphold me with your free spirit then will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee in other words once you've experienced the Grace and the goodness of God then you go out and share it with others I'll teach transgressors thy ways deliver me from blood-guiltiness this is no doubt that being guilty of the blood of Uriah actually David was a conspirator in his murder praying now forgiveness from that O God thou God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness Oh Lord open down my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise for you don't desire a sacrifice else I would give it you don't delight in burnt offerings but the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and they broken in a contrite heart O God you will not despise what God really desires is only your being broken over your sin God isn't asking requiring sacrifice God you don't want sacrifice else I would give it but what you really want is just a broken spirit do good in your good pleasure and to Zion build the walls of Jerusalem and then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness with a burnt offering the whole burnt offering and then shall they offer the Bullock's upon your altar Psalm 52 is to the chief musician it's a prayer of David it's a poem or a song that he wrote when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said unto him David has come to the house of ahem alack now David when he was fleeing from Saul went up to Bethel and there he went into the priests and he asked for some food for he and his men and the priests said well I don't have anything but the showbread and only the priest was supposed to eat this show bread it was the bread twelve loaves that they put out on the table each loaf representing one of the tribes of Israel and it was set out on the table in order that the idea was that God might be constantly constantly reminded of each of the twelve tribes that was there within the tabernacle on the hand side is the priest would enter into the tent on the right hand side there was this table with the twelve loaves of bread now we say loaves of bread and you picture you know the white Wonder bread loaf or something but actually what they have was it's a flatbread and it's and it's round Loes about twelve inches in diameter and when they bake it it may rise about an inch or an inch and a half it is good it's got a lot of substance to it it's chewy and you know you really know you're eatin bread when you eat that bread it it is so good over in Bethlehem right near the hokey Church that they say is where Jesus was born in a cave underneath of it tourists it seems always want to see the site of the birth of Jesus and so they've got a hokey tradition that the site is there down in this cave and so they take you in and and it's it's a it's a trip I don't like to go in there the guide always is laughing at me because he says now this year it's your turn to take him and he doesn't like to go in there either and and we're always trying to you know outdo each other so that we don't have to go in there because I like to go up the street up one of the side streets there there is a baker and he has this he's that he's sort of the public Baker in his sins he has this oven they're open fire in it and the ladies come with big pans of dole and they sit there in this little dark room and he's down in a little sort of a dugout place with this oven going and he has a big spoon much like they used in the pizza parlors big flat kind of a shovel thing and these ladies will sit there visiting with each other and each of them have their own pan of dole and every once in a while they'll need their dough and all and then when it's their turn he takes and he has a flour board and he needs it flattens it out and he bakes it and then when they get all of their loaves baked they put them back in the pan cover him with her towel and they take off with the Pens of bread on top of their head and you see the ladies walking up the steps with these pans of dough on top of their head coming to the Baker to have him bake their bread well if you smile at the ladies and look hungry and hold out a little money and I'm not quite sure yet which of the three it is that works but anyhow I always get some of this bread hot right out of the oven Oh is so good but this is the same style of bread that they've baked there for millenniums three thousand years ago when David was around same kind of that's why I like to go in there because man you're stepping back into history that hokey Church has all kinds of gaudy baubles of Christmas tree ornaments and everything else in it it just makes me sick and I I root the bread really makes me feel good so I like to go up the street and watch this baking process I'm getting hungry but all he had now they would change this bread and of course is bread I'll just lasts a long time and they would change it once a week and then the priest could eat the loaves of bread but only he could eat them no one else was to eat them but David came in and he had his men and he was hungry he says you guys need to eat nice and all I've got is this show bread they said well we're so hungry and so he gave him the show bread now it was not really lawful that David eat that but it was an interesting thing that God's laws are flexible in that when a guy is hungry then you know there could be a little overlooking of the rule nobody eats this but the priest it's the law of life and hunger that's superseded and even Jesus in the New Testament acknowledged that it was all right when they were trying to lay some trip on him because he had violated their traditions of the Sabbath he said don't you remember what David did when he was hungry how he went in with his men and ate the bread which was unlawful to eat for anyone anybody but a priest and Jesus was pointing out even in there you know great King David there was this thing where the need of an individual superseded the tradition of the law the idea was here was a guy who was on the Sabbath day and he was sick and they didn't want Jesus to heal him because it was the Sabbath day and Jesus pointed out this thing of David in order to show that human needs supersedes the traditions or the laws of the Sabbath whatever human needs supersedes that jesus said is it lawful on the Sabbath to save a life or to kill a life to do good or to do evil and so the law of human need Sabbath day or not you can help them now when Doeg came to Saul he said David was up there and the priests helped him gave him bread and gave him a Goliath sword and Saul and his stupid blind anger went up and killed the priest and his sons and David now is upset over this dog dog who told Saul that he was up there so this Psalm is directed against this dog why do you boast yourself in your mischief almighty man the goodness of God continues your tongue devised miss just like a sharp razor working deceitfully you love evil more than good and lying rather than to speak the right things you love all devouring words o thou deceitful tongue and God shall likewise destroy thee forever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and route the out of the land of the living the righteousness also shall see the righteous also shall see in fear and shall laugh at him lo this is the man that may not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthen himself in his wickedness but I am like a green olive tree in the house of God I trust in the mercy of God forever I will praise thee forever because thou has done it and I will wait on my name for it is good before thy saying so david's sort of prayer against and concerning this fellow who had caused the death of the priest who helped David Psalm 53 is the same as Psalm 14 these are similar Psalms there are about three places where Psalms repeat themselves not in total such as this is pretty much in total with Psalm 14 in others maybe three or four verses are repeated but this the full song The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God Paul said because they when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were they thankful their foolish hearts were darkened and professing themselves to be wise they became fools The Fool has said in his heart there is no God you meet a person who says I'm an atheist according to God's Word he's a fool corrupt are they they've done abominable iniquity there's none that doeth good and God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and that did seek God and every one of them has gone back they are all together become filthy there is none that doeth good no not one Paul quotes this in Romans chapter 2 have the whicker's workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread they have not called upon God there were they in great fear where no fear was the wicked fear when there's no cause to fear Regatta scattered the bones of him that encamps against thee thou has put them to shame because God hath despised him oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion now this is a prayer actually for the future when Jesus shall come and establish the kingdom the salvation of Israel coming out of Zion is always a reference to the glorious millennial reign of Christ when God brings back the captivity of his people for Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad Psalm 54 is - the chief musician on a stringed instrument a prayer of David when the ZIF ins came and said to Saul David's hiding down in the wilderness of Zipp and so even as he didn't care about dog telling solver he was neither did he care about the Zips and so he has a few choice words for them save me O God by thy name and judge me by thy strength hear my prayer O God and give ear to the words of my mouth for strangers thes if i'ts arisen up against me and the oppressors seek after my soul and they have not set God before them behold God is my helper the Lord is with them that hook up hold my soul he shall reward evil unto my enemies cut them off in thy truth I will freely sacrifice unto thee I will praise thy name o Lord for it is good for he hath delivered me out of all trouble and my I have seen the desire upon my enemy so David's prayer that God would honor him and take care of his enemies Psalm 55 give ear to my prayer O God and hide not thyself from my supplication attending to me and hear me I mourn in my complaint and make a noise because of the voice of the enemy because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me and in Wrath they hate me told you David was capable of inspiring hate or love he either loved the guy or hated the guy and and the the feelings towards David were quite strong and and he was always praying about his enemies and those that were after him and those that were seeking to destroy him for they cast iniquity upon me and in Wrath they hate me my heart is sore pain within me the terrors of death have fallen upon me fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror have overwhelmed me and I said hold that I had the wings of like a dove for I would fly out of this place and be at rest low then I would wander far off and remain in the wilderness I would hasten my escape from the windy storm in the tempest destroy Oh Lord and divide their tongues for I have seen violence and strife in the city day and night they go up on the walls there of a mischief also and the sorrows are in the midst of it wickedness is in the midst thereof deceit and guile depart not from her streets now David evidently wrote this Psalm when he was fleeing from Absalom for David's clothes councillor and friend Etha fell actually revolted against David when Absalom did he went with Absalom and a hiss afem began to counsel Absalom on how to destroy David and this is the thing that really hurt David is that Absalom had turned against him David said for it was not an enemy that reproached me then I could have borne it neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me then I would have hid myself from him but it was you a man my niqua my guide my acquaintances we took sweet counsel together we walked into the house of God in company and so David is is so hurt because it really wasn't an enemy to David that had done such a dirty thing to him but it was a fellow that he had had beautiful fellowship with they talked together they had counseled together they had gone into the house of God and fellowship together and yet he turned himself against David and that's always I think some of the greatest hurts that we experienced are when men that we have trust and put our confidence utmost confidence in and we trusted them unquestionably and they have worked together with us and labored together with us and we have given them great responsibilities and suddenly they turn and they begin to tell vicious lies they violate the trust that you've put in them they turn against you they take from you and that hurts because you put all kinds of confidence in them you've trusted them completely implicitly and suddenly you realize as did David in verse 21 the words of his mouth were smoother than butter but war was in his heart his words were softer than oil yet they were like a drawn sword and that's what really hurts is when someone that you have read he placed complete confidence and trust in and entrusted with a great part of the ministry and then they turn and try to take it that hurts beyond anything that I have ever had hurt as far as the ministry goes and David felt this very hurt himself the hurt of a friend a comrade and associate one that you'd fellowshipped and trusted when they turn against you so David speaks about this the turning of a hiss of felt and David isn't so kind with him after he turned he said let death seize upon them let them go down quick into hell for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them as for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me you know it's not going to destroy me the Lord is going to take care of me but the the tragedies that will befall those evening and morning and that noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice he has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me for there were many with me God shall hear and afflict them even he that abideth of old because they have no changes therefore they fear not God he have put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him he have broken his covenant the broken promises and Covenants the words of his mouth were smoother than butter but war was in his heart his words were softer than oil yet they were like drawn swords David say cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved but our God shall bring them down into the pit of destruction bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days but I will trust in thee that's the only place to move into the Lord and there his comfort and blessing and joy Psalm 56 this is the prayer of David when he heard a moor and mourning dove that is a mourning Emma you are n ing dove out in the distant terebinth trees he no doubt heard these doves moving off in the distance David there started as something soulful and and and mournful about those doves when they're crying he said be merciful unto me O God for man would swallow me up he fighting daily oppress with me my enemies would daily swallow me up for they be many that fight against me old almost high but what time I am afraid I will trust in thee what a good thing to learn whatever time that you might be afraid just put your trust in the Lord in God I will praise His Word in God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh shall do unto me every day they rest my words all of their thoughts are against me for evil they gather themselves together they hide themselves they mark my steps when they wait for my soul so they escaped by iniquity in thine anger cast down the people of God for you tell my wanderings put my tears into thy bottle are they not in thy book now the bible does teach that there is a book of remembrances that God keeps the Bible tells us that at the great Judgment Day the books will be open and people will be judged out of the things that are written in the books now man is able to preserve many interesting records today a lot of you have preserved a lot of interesting records of your past you've got movies of them and every once in a while you get up the movie projector when the family is over and you look at the pictures when they were just kids and you have an interesting evening of of remembrance you know as you're looking at these films now I do believe that if man is able to develop such recording devices that surely God know is able to produce any scene that ever took place in your life at any time so if you want to try to deny before God some accusation that is brought against you God probably has a giant screen up there and suddenly you can watch yourself doing the thing along with all of heaven and I think if they shut it off all okay I confess I'm guilty you know turn it off in the book of remembrances God's book there's the book of life in heaven in which your name has been recorded you who have received Jesus Christ when I cry unto thee David said then shall my enemies turn back this I know for God is with me our God is for me actually and I think that that is one of the most important concepts of God that we need to remember God is for us so many times we picture God as being against us we see God as just waiting for us to do something wrong in order that he might smite us with his Swift end of justice and we think of God so often as being against us opposed to us but in reality God is for us and if God be for us who can be against us so important that we have the right concepts of God in God he said will I praise His Word because I know that God is for me praise fills my heart in the Lord will I praise His Word in God have I put my trust I will not be afraid what man can do unto me my vows are upon me O God I will render praises unto thee for those deliver my soul from death will not thou deliver my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light to the living Psalm 57 to the chief musician and that Alkesh Keith is destroying not it's a prayer of David when he fled from Saul and was hiding in the cave so saul is looking for David he's hiding in the cave and David says be merciful unto me O God be merciful unto me for my soul trust in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge until these calamities are over I will cry unto God most high unto God that performs all things for me he shall send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up God shall send forth his mercy and his truth my soul is among lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire even the sons of men whose teeth are Spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword be thou exalted O God above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth for they have prepared a net for my steps my soul is bowed down they have digged a pit before me and in the midst were up they are fallen themselves remember Saul came in and went to sleep there in the in the cave and David when they were sound asleep went down and he took his sword and cut off Saul's skirt and then he got out of there and he got over a safe distance he cried Saul look what I got you know and so he speaks about him falling in the net that he had prepared for me my soul is bowed down they have digged a pit before me into the midst where they are fallen my heart is fixed till God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise I wake up my glory awake psaltery and harp I myself will awake early for I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing unto thee among the nations for thy mercy is great into the heavens and thy truth under the clouds be thou exalted O God above the heavens and let thy glory be above all the earth Psalm 58 is a prayer of David and I would not want to be one of David's enemies because of his prayers do you indeed speak righteousness o congregation do you judge uprightly or you sons of men yes in heart you work wickedness you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth the wicked are estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they be born speaking lies now Paulus I mean David is talking about the nature the sinful nature of man now I don't think there were any of you that had to teach your children how to tell a lie you had to teach him to tell the truth you don't say well now if you get in trouble and you know just lie about it you know and get out of it they seem to just do that naturally so you have to teach them now you've got to tell the truth at all times so David said they went forth from the womb speaking lies they're estranged from the womb they as soon as they're born speaking lies they're poison is like the poison of a serpent they are like the Death Adder that stoppeth her ear which will not hearken to the voice of charmers charming never so wisely break their teeth Oh God in their mouth David didn't mess around break out the great teeth of the young lions Oh Lord let them melt away as waters which run continually when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows let them be cut in pieces as a snail which melteth let every one of them pass away have you ever toured salt on a snail and what's in milk like the untimely birth of a woman that may not see the Sun before your pots can feel the thorns he shall take them away as the whirlwind both living in in his wrath the righteous shall rejoice when he sees the Vengeance he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked so that a man shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judges in the earth no coming as we do from our Christian ethic from the New Testament we have difficulty with David's prayers because Jesus told us that we are loved are to love those who hate us were to do good to those who despitefully uses bless those that curse you and the ethic that we have learned from Christ in the New Testament is much different now I find David's ethic pretty satisfying for with me and all right I like vengeance I like to see the bad guys get beat you know and the good guys win and and I like I like you know to see the wicked really taken care of but good I must confess that I that I rejoice in such things but I must also confess that such rejoicing is wrong according to the New Testament ethic the Christian ethic and yet there's just something about my own nature that is similar to David's in that when someone has really done something that is truly evil I like to see vengeance come upon them now where I have to be careful is that I so often want to bring vengeance on them myself and that's where I can really get in trouble God said vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord now notice David isn't really seeking to bring vengeance himself he's asking God to knock the teeth out of their mouths asking God to take vengeance on them I don't know that it's much better but we must be careful about trying to take personal vengeance upon people who we feel of wronged us or who have wronged us we must learn to commit ourselves and our ways unto the Lord and let the Lord take care of them it is not mine to become captain Avenger and go out and write all of the evils of the world but David does pray in these Psalms but as I say it is not in keeping with the New Testament ethic and I have to pray not as David pray but I have to pray Lord keep my heart from you know devising vengeance and keep me Lord from wanting to take vengeance and O God helped me to have a forgiving attitude and spirit towards those that I feel this you know I'd like to take vengeance on Psalm 59 is another one of those destroy not prayers of David when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him his wife Michael lit him over though let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped but the men were watching the house of David to kill him David wrote this Psalm on that occasion deliver me from my enemies or God defend me from them that rise up against me deliver me from the workers of iniquity and saved me from the bloody men for lo they lie in wait for my soul the mighty are gathered against me not for my transgressions nor for my sin o Lord but just because of Saul's jealousy it wasn't that David had done anything wrong they run and prepare themselves without my fault a weight to help me and behold now therefore O God O Lord God of hosts the God of Israel a weight to visit all of the heathen and be not merciful to the wicked transgressors just be merciful to me Lord in my wickedness and that the way it goes they return it evening they make a noise like a dog and they go around about the city so here are these guys out there and they were barking like dogs and David knew that neighbors you know who they were and they belch out with their mouths and swords are in their lips for who say they does hear but Thou O Lord shall laugh at them and thou shalt have all of the heathen in derision because of his strength will I wait upon thee for God is my defense the God of my mercy shall prevent me God shall let me see my desires upon my enemies slay them not lest my people forget scatter them by thy power and bring them down Oh Lord our shield for the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride and for cursing and lying which they speak consume them in Wrath consume them that they may not be let them know that the that God ruler in Jacob unto the ends of the earth and that evening let them return and let them make a noise like a dog and go round about the city let them wander up and down for me and grudge if they be not satisfied but I will sing of thy power yay I will sing a lot of thy mercy in the morning for thou has been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble unto thee o my strength will I sing for God is my defence and the God of my mercy so three times over in the psalm God is spoken of as David's defense and is surely neat to have God as our defence now I have discovered that God will be my defense as long as I let him be my defence but if I seek to take up my own defence then God will let me defend myself and I have found that I really can't defend myself adequately and so I have learned not to seek to defend myself but to leave my defence completely in the hands of God now if you want God to defend you then you've got to just commit yourself to God and not seek to defend yourself God is my defence Psalm 6000 God thou has cast us off tower scattered us husband displeased Oh turn thyself to us again for thou has made the earth to tremble thou has broken it heal the breaches thereof for it's shanks you have showed your people hard things you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment you have given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of the truth that your beloved may be delivered save with your right hand and hear me God has spoken in his holiness and I will rejoice I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of suck off Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head juda is my lawgiver Moab is my wash pot over Edom will I cast off my shoe Philistia triumph out because of me this Psalm is these verses actually here in this particular part are repeated verses 5 to 12 are identical to Psalm 108 6 to 13 so we'll get these further on again who will bring me into the strong City who will lead me into Edom will not bow o gog which has cast us off and Thou O God which did not go out with our armies give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies give us helpful God vain is the help of man another place David said it's time for you to work O Lord for vain is the work of man all that we would learn to just trust in God call upon him for our help rather than looking demand looked to God we've always our scheming we're always devising we're always trying to figure out one more angle so many people try to use me in their devices and in their scheming they've tried every game in the book every trick and they finally think well if I can just get Chuck you know they'll listen to him and it's just another one of theirs they're not willing to leave it in God's hands completely they just can't leave it with God they say oh I just turned my life over to God and then they're still scheming still you know conniving still trying to work another angle why don't we just give up and let God take over completely it's a great day when I just yield to God all of the issues of my life and I trust him completely give us help from trouble for vain as the help of man through God we shall do valiantly father we thank you tonight for your word let your spirit planted in our hearts may we grow thereby in Jesus name Amen may the Lord bless and keep and strengthen and guide your life through this week keep looking up we're getting so close keep your eyes on the middle-east it's coming down the day of the Lord is at hand let us lay aside every weight sin which stuff to easily beset us and let's run with patience the race that has been set before us as we look unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith you

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Published: Sun Oct 20 2013