For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. The feminine soul has to give account of her moods to calmer judgment, and to be lifted and steadied by the strong spirit. 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. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. 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." They retained the former office in the second Temple. But seeing, brethren, so long as we are at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord; 2Corinthians5:6 and the corruptible body presses down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses on many things; Wisdom9:15 even though we have some way or other dispersed the clouds, by walking as longing leads us on, and for a brief while have come within reach of that sound, so that by an effort we may catch something from that house of God, yet through the burden, so to speak, of our infirmity, we sink back to our usual level, and relapse to our ordinary state. The deer that knows its thirsty but has given up on trying to find a nice, cool stream thats always full of running water. 1. A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. Long thou for this light: for a certain fountain, a certain light, such as your bodily eyes know not; a light to see which the inward eye must be prepared; a fountain, to drink of which the inward thirst is to be kindled. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. There is much in the psalms which favours the hypothesis that the author was a Korachite companion of Davids in his flight before Absalom; but the locality, described as that of the singer, does not entirely correspond to that of the kings retreat, and the description of the enemies is not easily capable of application in all points to his foes. Psalms 42 expresses the writers yearning for God. What will you confess? If they find themselves thirsty they describe the desire as fairy story or suchlike. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) So cried our Head also, as if speaking in our name. I have now had the perception of something that is unchangeable; why do you disquiet me still? Faith may have a long struggle with fear, but it will have the last word, and that word will be "the help of my countenance and my God. Acts 4:25). Perhaps there was something in there for you too. preaching the gospel. And it was in the sanctuary of God that he understood this, and understood of the last things.For he tells us of his progress, and of his guidance there; as if we had been saying, You are admiring the tabernacle here on earth; how came you to the sanctuary of the house of God? We have undertaken the exposition of a Psalm corresponding to your own longings, on which we propose to speak to you. For I will confess unto Him. Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. The two psalms (Psalms 42:1-11, Psalms 43:1-5) are plainly one. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. 63.]. God means for these encounters with Him in corporate worship to preserve your faith now and in the way you remember them later. Hebrew word doesnt mean spirit but a persons life; who and what we really are. John 4:14). Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. When Fear Grips Your Life - Psalm 27. sheep dogs. Faithbook (Psalm 133) On October 28, 2003, a Harvard student by the name of Mark Zuckerberg was bored. And why ask, who it is other than yourself, when it is in your power to be the thing which you are asking about? 1-10 and (2) vv. And what is it that the ant does? Neither abstractions nor dead things can still its cravings. God Our Refuge And Strength (Audio) Download File. Psalms 42:3). For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. Nature reflects the poets moods, and overmastering emotion sees its own analogues everywhere. The true object of its longings is always God, however little it knows for what it is thirsting. The deer that rejects water. Doesnt believe in it, doesnt long for it, or doesnt know they long for it. He then forwarded these photos to several university e-mail lists. No doubt the psalmist connected communion with God and presence in the Temple more closely together than they should do who have heard the great charter, "neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem"; but, however the two things were coupled in his mind, they were sufficiently separate to allow of approach by longing and prayer while distant in body, and the true object of yearning was not access to the Temple, but communion with the God of the Temple. Therefore the refrain comes for a third time; and this time the longing, trembling soul continues at the height to which the better self has lifted it, and silently acknowledges that it need not have been cast down. But in the Hebrew Bible, God never gave anyone this blessing nor did God ever use the word when he was speaking. Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night will He declare it. For I will go into the place of Your wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God. He called his book The Souls Conflict with Itself, because in Psalm 42:5 thats exactly what you have; the soul arguing with itself, preaching to itself. 1. Scripture (Psalm 32:1-5) verses 1-2: The one who has his sins covered is "blessed." The Hebrews used two different words to describe being "blessed." One word meant God bestowed the blessing. This man was in exile and it depressed him. In tribulation no man has leisure to hear: attend, when it is well with you; hear, when it is well with you; learn, when you are in tranquillity, the discipline of wisdom, and store up the word of God as you do food. 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. Hear what else there is in the hart. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your God? I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! My health (my salvation) cannot be from myself; this it is that I will say, that I will confess. 8. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. The house of God is still standing, the poet has been there recently, and hopes soon to return and render praise. The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. Thats why a singable psalter is good to keep around or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions. What he is inwardly engaged on, what he is inwardly capable of, what he is inwardly doing or what purposing, what he is inwardly wishing to happen, or not to happen, who shall comprehend? This too proceeds from that longing, of which in another place comes that cry, One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. The insufficiency of the circumstances described to warrant the vehement emotions expressed is implied in the summons. Key idea here is longing for God when in a wilderness situation. 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. God is close to us and cares for us as a shepherd cares for his sheep. To the Lord I cry aloud and He answers me from His holy hill. Are they not a kind of harts that the Apostle addresses, saying, Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Law of Christ? The effort of faith should be persistent, even if old bitternesses begin again and "break the low beginnings of content"; for, even if the wild waters burst through the dam once and again, they do not utterly wash it away, and there remains a foundation on which it may be built up anew. Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. God was not providing for his needs just then. The psalmist is far from the sanctuary, but distance does not hinder thought. Because then God gives us all good things, because He Himself is good, not because we are worthy of it; because He is merciful, not because we have in anything deserved it; it is from the land of Jordan, and from Hermon, that I remember you. the heights of Hermon from Mount Mizar. Verse 5: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? For just as worldly prosperity is signified by the day, adversity by the night, so again in another way worldly prosperity is expressed by the summer, adversity by the winter. Therefore follows: The Lord will commend His loving-kindness in the day-time; and in the night-time will He declare it Psalm 41:8. Why then does Korah stand for Christ? Devil "I've got his .read more Scripture: Psalm 42:1-2 Is it disquieted on account of God? 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. For were it to rest in itself, it would not see anything else beyond itself; and in seeing itself, would not, for all that, see God. He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). The deer will die. I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. True Repentance - Psalm 51. For that hart that made tears its bread day and night, borne along by longing to the water-brooks (that is, to the spiritual delights of God), pouring forth his soul above himself, that he may attain to what is above his own soul, walking towards the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God, and led on by the sweetness of that inward spiritual sound to feel contempt for all outward things, and be borne on to things spiritual, is but a mortal man still; is still groaning here, still bearing about the frailty of flesh, still in peril in the midst of the offenses Matthew18:7 of this world. The psalmist paints his calamities as storming on him in dismal continuity, each "flood" seeming to summon its successor. Chained " whoooa is me I'm miserable " (5.) In this stanza the writer focused on his enemies rather than on God. Apr 24, 2020. Has experienced the joy of long refreshing drinks in a cool mountain stream. My soul is disquieted on account of myself Psalm 41:6. (2) Psalm 43 has no title for it. 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. For many of us other desires can get in the way of us really desiring God. "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. 3-7, NIV) Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! a Levite, led the festal march to the Temple, and in listening in fancy again to the shrill cries of joy which broke from the tumultuous crowd. A similar bit of local colour is generally recognised in Psalms 42:7. Does man call on man as God is called upon? PROPOSITION: To study the story of the rich man and Lazarus and notice: 1) The characters, 2) The circumstances, 3) The cries of the rich man, 4) The conclusions of the story. Let Him deliver you, if He can. A Heart for the Lord - Psalm 84. Verses 5 and 6 make clear that any strength the Psalmist will have does not reside in self, but in God. The title then of it is, On the end: a Psalm for understanding for the sons of Korah. The superscription identifies the sons of Korah as the writers (or recipients) of this psalm. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. she must be up to something. If it is, the second part of the psalm is also conformed to the other two in regard to its not beginning with the Divine name. 6. When spiritually dry, we who are believers should remind ourselves that God is sufficient for all our needs. "Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other" ( Psalm 85:10 ). Psalms 42:5 has the refrain in a form slightly different from that of the other two instances of its occurrence. So bloated with other things hasnt got space for water., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 3 These loveless people are not further defined, and may either have been Israelites or aliens. Once more the contending currents meet in Psalms 42:9 and Psalms 42:10, in the former of which confidence and hope utter themselves in the resolve to appeal to God and in the name given to Him as "my Rock"; while another surge of despondency breaks, in the question in which the soul interrogates God, as the better self had interrogated her, and contrasts almost reproachfully Gods apparent forgetfulness, manifested by His delay in deliverance with her remembrance of Him. The serpents are your vices, destroy the serpents of iniquity; then will you long yet more for the Fountain of Truth. Psalmist feels cut off from Gods presence in some way possibly in exile from Israel, possibly by illness. PROPOSITION: In this sermon we see an 1) unrealized cure, 2) unabashed command, 3) unjustified criticism, 4) unapologetic confirmation. Matthew24:12 When we see the strong members of the Church generally giving way to the causes of offense, does not Christ's body say, The enemy breaks my bones? What is going on here? That I may behold (he says) the beauty of the Lord. 10. But isnt it amazing that hes singing his prayer! Deep calls unto deep with the voice of your water-spouts. Some of them were among the faithful adherents of David at Ziklag, {1 Chronicles 12:6} and in the new model of worship inaugurated by him the Korachites were doorkeepers and musicians. All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. Scripture: Psalms 42:1-2 Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational Summary: THIRSTING FOR GOD THIRSTING FOR GOD (NLT) Psalm 42: 1-2 - As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. It is a faith that has uncertainty in it; it is tinged by shades of doubt. A second purpose is that you want to leave something lasting in the minds of the congregation when a sermon is over. What I am saying, that as the hart pants after the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God, means this, My soul is thirsty for the living God. he says, In the voice of joy and praise; the sound of keeping holiday. 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. But his truer self silences these lamentations, and cheers the feebler "soul" with clear notes of trust and hope, blown in the refrain, like some trumpet clang rallying dispirited fugitives to the fight. That lovely metaphor has touched the common heart as few have done, and the solitary singers plaint has fitted all devout lips. The sons of Korah (cf. Light and Troth-i.e., Lovingkindness and Faithfulness in fulfilling promises-are like two angels, despatched from the presence-chamber of God, to guide with gentleness the exiles steps. When would my soul attain to that object of its search, which is above my soul, if my soul were not to pour itself out above itself? While they say daily unto me, Where is your God? Psalms 43, 66, 67, , 71 are anonymous. The "soul" is the seat of emotions and desires. Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. Oh, how many of you have learned this more deeply than me because of the waves that have broken over your lives. In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. Verse 4: These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.. They who trouble me cast me in the teeth. 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 41:11. The prophet Ezekiel lived in a time when the people of Judah did not experience peace. let me put two sayings of Scripture side by side, 'My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,'-'Father Abraham! Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. We will be looking at this Psalm in three parts over the next three weeks. 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. Were probably alert to the fragile desire for things. God guides till we reach heaven - Psalm 73:24 C. God's guidance is by faith - Isaiah 42:16 3. 17. You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. For there are already many things that I admire in the tabernacle. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. 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. Hope thou in God; for I will yet confess unto Him Psalm 41:11. Download File. The form of the verbs "remember" and "pour out" in Psalms 42:4 indicates set purpose. 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 Original setting not known. Mistaking the desire for religion and religious practices for a desire for God. Perhaps from Baptism, where the remission of sins is given. When the Rumors are Not True - Psalm 26. The enemy is called a "loveless nation." 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. Learnt to live with disappointment and disillusionment., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 4 He just said in verse 8, By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me.. THE VANITY OF SELF EFFORT. He could not obtain the refreshment he needed yet, but he looked forward to finding it soon. Again the psalmist encouraged himself with the rhetorical refrain (cf. During Ezra and Nehemiahs time (fifth century B.C. (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? Psalm 27. putting God first. But the gloomier mood has shot its last bolt. I may perhaps finish the Psalm, aided as I am by your attention, whose fervour I perceive. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. So thats a sermon for me, today. As he walks in this tabernacle, and contemplates God's wonderful works for the redemption of the faithful, the sound of that festivity charms his ears, and bears the hart away to the water-brooks. THE second book of the Psalter is characterised by the use of the Divine name "Elohim" instead of "Jehovah." But You are trying me, and I know that Thou dost but put off, not take utterly from me, what You have promised me. HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY DESIRE GOD? The plural "Hermons" is probably used in reference to the group of crests. He states the very words of that confession; he repeats the grounds on which he fortifies his hope. Can think of it as a combination of our body, mind and emotions. 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. In the house of God there is a never-ending festival: for there it is not an occasion celebrated once, and then to pass away. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. For when I was pouring out my soul above myself, in order to reach my God, why did I do so? Fourth, the psalmist preaches to his own soul. Feel guilty about feeling cut-off. 6, HWV 251b, "As pants the Hart for cooling streams": As pants the hart for cooling streams, so longs my soul for thee O God (George Frideric Handel; lyrics based off of Tate and Brady) Psalm 42:1-2: When shall I come and appear before God? Rejected me, that is to say, from that height of the apprehension of the unchangeable Truth. The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. Thus tremulous, timid, mobile, it is beautifully compared to a hind. JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE Hope and trust hold the field. These outlines are eventually posted on this website. Why sons of Korah? And when these are heard, what do we passers by say? From whence did I remember you? Of that house he speaks in another Psalm, after he had put a certain abstruse and difficult question to himself (viz., why is it that it generally goes well with the wicked on earth, and ill with the good? This man was cut off from worship of the living God. And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. For what is there more profound than that abyss? For I am suffering here, even as if You had forgotten me. For I will go into the place of Your Tabernacle. 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