This is not so yet, because the salvation which is promised, is not as yet in being; but it is in hope that I confess unto God, and say, My God is the saving health of my countenance. Others believe the sons of Korah composed them. I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. Esther TOP. That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. Justly, because the understanding spoken of is an abyss. Why sons of Korah? 9 ). The house of God is still standing, the poet has been there recently, and hopes soon to return and render praise. The plural "Hermons" is probably used in reference to the group of crests. The angelic choir makes an eternal holiday: the presence of God's face, joy that never fails. 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. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God "my salvation and my God.". This it is for which I am thirsty, to come and to appear before Him. EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) . Apart from air, water our most basic need. The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. Devil "I've got his .read more Scripture: Psalm 42:1-2 About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. A BIT OF BACKGROUND They who trouble me cast me in the teeth, while they say daily unto me, Where is your God? {Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5} But probably the text is faulty. By the Unchangeable it was revived; it is by the changeable it is disquieted. All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. 2. Dont take these times together lightly. The true object of its longings is always God, however little it knows for what it is thirsting. Without it we die. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. Esther 5 - Mission Impossible. 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? They are sons of the bridegroom, sons of Christ. AND XLIII. The imagery is so usual that it needs no assumption of having been occasioned by the poets locality. The prophet Ezekiel lived in a time when the people of Judah did not experience peace. Individual rather than corporate. Devil" I've got it I've stolen his JOY" (4.) In this that I suffer are all Your waves; in the severer punishment that Thou threatenest, all Your overhangings have come unto me. The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night-time will He declare it.There is with me prayer unto the God of my life. I thirst for God, the living God. Deep calls on deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. It would be good if all of us were so composed and careful in the expression of our discouragements that we never said anything amiss. 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. From that everlasting perpetual festivity, a certain sweet and melodious strain strikes on the ears of the heart, provided only the world do not drown the sounds. 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? Original setting not known. 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. He may not have asked the question with theological or linguistic precision, but if he proves in time that he didnt mean that God had forgotten him, we will let that be words for the wind. The more numerous my sufferings, the sweeter will be Your mercy. 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. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. You may see not my flesh merely, but even my bones. What then is the abyss that calls, and to what other abyss does it call? A. 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? For it is there is the house of my God. So once more the wave of emotion rolls over the psalmist, but with a new aspect which makes all the difference. How do you do that pastor?, Listen, self: If God is for you, who can be against you? It has been ingeniously conjectured by Delitzsch that the Korachite psalms originally formed a separate collection entitled "Songs of the Sons of Korach," and that this title afterwards passed over into the superscriptions when they were incorporated in the Psalter. JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE The kingdom of Israel was first united under David, and it is appropriate that David would write a psalm about living together in unity. There are at least three reasons why we can assume psalms 42 and 43 were originally joined together. The break in the clouds is but momentary, and the grey wrack fills the sky once more. For I am suffering here, even as if You had forgotten me. His situation and mood closely resemble those in another Korachite psalm (Psalms 84:1-12), in which, as here, the soul "faints for the courts of the Lord," and as here the panting hind, so there the glancing swallows flitting about the eaves are woven into the song. That I may behold (he says) the beauty of the Lord. The sons of Korah (cf. 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. 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. 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. Has learnt to put up with less. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? The locality thus designated is too far north for the scene of Davids retreat before Absalom, unless we give an unusual southward extension to the names; and this makes a difficulty in the way of accepting the hypothesis of the authors having been in his retinue. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Youve learned deeply that its no relief to say that God does not rule the wind and the waves. St. Paul had a blinding revelation on the road to Damascus, an encounter with the risen Lord Jesus that turned his life completely topsy-turvy and started him on a perilous road that would take him all over .read more Scripture: Philippians 1:18-26, Psalm 42:2-5, Luke 14:1-11 Denomination: Catholic 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. It is God who justifies.
. Indeed the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (John 4:14.). We have undertaken the exposition of a Psalm corresponding to your own longings, on which we propose to speak to you. To see those who were thought to have some stability, giving way under temptations, so that the rest of the weak brethren despair when they see those who are strong succumbing; how great, my brethren, are the dangers! sing unto the . My God is the saving health of my countenance. The psalmist's longing for God 42:1-5 The writer suffered at the hands of tormenting enemies. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Why have You forgotten me? 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? The enemy is called a "loveless nation." (1) There are a number of ancient manuscripts that have both of these psalms as just one continuous psalm. 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.. The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit. Verses 12: As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 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. My tears (he says) have been not bitterness, but my bread. This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. How could it happen? Why have You rejected me? The second part of the psalm takes up the question of the refrain, and first reiterates with bitter emphasis that the soul is bowed down, and then pours out once more the stream of reasons for dejection. Mount Mizar is one of the hills in that area. Assuredly it is from your seeing me labouring, that you labour with me: for I am labouring not for myself, but for you. 9. Translated by J.E. I seek my God in every corporeal nature, terrestrial or celestial, and find Him not: I seek His Substance in my own soul, and I find it not, yet still I have thought on these things, and wishing to see the invisible things of my God, being understood by the things made, Romans1:20 I have poured forth my soul above myself, and there remains no longer any being for me to attain to, save my God. 1-10 and (2) vv. Nevertheless he believed God would remain loyal to him. This mans faith was not so dependent on externals that it could not come close to God while distant from His temple. Thats why a singable psalter is good to keep around or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. And on this account, seeing my soul is disquieted on account of myself, what else should I say unto it than those words: Why are you cast down, O my soul; and why do you disquiet me? It was God whom he addressed, who remembered him from the land of Jordan and Hermon. The word rendered "loveless" is compounded of the negative prefix and the word which is usually found with the meaning of "one whom God favours," or visits with lovingkindness. See how great wonders I admire in the tabernacle! Were probably alert to the fragile desire for things. Hope in God. So, the psalmist affirms God's sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. The deer will die. restoring the joy. Its not wrong to want relief and to pray for it. 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." Start With Prayer. 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. Perhaps from Baptism, where the remission of sins is given. 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? Let this be allowed; and this meaning retain its place in the Church; a place both truthful and sanctioned by usage. 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. But inasmuch as You sit at liberty, I have thus spoken unto my soul. When can I go and stand before him? But yet, Why have You forgotten me? 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. Esther 4 - For Such a Time as This. For there is some great mystery in the matter that the name sons of Korah is given to Christians. send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . Deliver me, O my God! So ends the first of the psalms; but obviously it is no real ending, for the victory over fear is not won, and longing has not become blessed. 5) Finally, at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17:22-34), Paul exposes the gathered worshipers as being ignorant of . Psalm 27. putting God first. Psalms 42:5 has the refrain in a form slightly different from that of the other two instances of its occurrence. He was a captive in Babylonia and preached to the exiles about the fall of Jerusalem, and after having heard. 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. But even these bitter sarcasms are less bitter than the remembrance of "happier things," which is his "sorrows crown of sorrow." 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. Romans6:12-13 I admire the sight of the bodily members warring in the service of the soul that serves God.And wonderful though the tabernacle be, yet when I come to the house of God, I am even struck dumb with astonishment. Those men so patient and courageous for the name of Christ, how often was it said to them, Where is your God? "Mizar" is probably the name of a hill otherwise unknown, and specifies the singers locality more minutely, though not helpfully to us. For there is a depth, a profound, the bottom of which cannot be reached by sounding. Colossians1:24 Such longing indeed is not found in all who enter the Church: let all however who have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and who own in Christ that for which they have a relish, think that they are not the only ones; but that there are such seeds scattered throughout the field of the Lord, this whole earth: and that there is a certain Christian unity, whose voice thus speaks, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God. Mistaking the desire for religion and religious practices for a desire for God. 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. 2. But, considering that lovingkindness is in the Psalter mainly a Divine attribute, and that, when a human excellence, it is regarded as derived from and being the echo of experienced Divine mercy, it is best to take the passive meaning as the principal, though sometimes, as unmistakably here, the active is more suitable. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. ), 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. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99 1. How does he solve it? Hear what else there is in the hart. Descend then, that you may be lifted up: be not lifted up, lest you be cast down. For what is it thirsty? 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- 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 bold metaphors are more striking when contrasted with the opposite ones of the first part. The secret of calm is to dwell in that inner chamber of the secret place of the Most High, which whoso inhabits "heareth not the loud winds when they call," and is neither dejected nor uplifted, neither disturbed by excessive joys nor torn by anxieties. For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. 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). But You are trying me, and I know that Thou dost but put off, not take utterly from me, what You have promised me. Thus one might think of this book as "the book of Elohim.". 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. 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? Psalm 41:5. The repeated taunt of his enemies would hopefully move God to deliver him (cf. (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? For when I was pouring out my soul above myself, in order to reach my God, why did I do so? A Heart for the Lord - Psalm 84. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (Heb. Psalm 42 - "The Yearning of the Exiled, Despairing Soul for Fellowship in God's Presence" Psalm 43 - "The Psalmist's Plea to Rescue Him from Exile and Take Him to Jerusalem to Worship" (Psalm 42 and Psalm 43 are one psalm in the Hebrew text, although the numbering system remains the same.) It is better therefore to translate "hind" than "hart." DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 1 The absence of a title for the second, the identity of tone throughout, the recurrence of several phrases, and especially of the refrain, put this beyond doubt. PROPOSITION: In this sermon we see an 1) unrealized cure, 2) unabashed command, 3) unjustified criticism, 4) unapologetic confirmation. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. 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. So, at the end of verse 7, he says, All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.. Everything We Need - Psalm 23. In building the Lord's house. From the little hill, and from the land of Jordan. Wherefore so? From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. He longed for God, whom he confidently expected to be able to praise in the future when the Lord would deliver him. The separation, however, is old, since it is found in the LXX. REKINDLE YOUR PASSION (PSALMS 42:1-2 ) INTRO: SKIT: SATAN GOT YOUR JOY AND PASSION (1.) 2. 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. 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. In the daytime the Lord would pour out His love to the psalmist, and in the night he would respond by praising God. 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. How does the Psalmist know this? Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? PSALM 42 I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. It is the only psalm, of the 150 psalms, so labeled. The deer that doesnt mind a sip or two of water if it happens to come their way or it isnt too inconvenient to look for it. 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. True Repentance - Psalm 51. He therefore glances back to himself, as if he were coming from that world; and says to himself, now placed in the midst of these sorrows, comparing these with the things, to see which he had entered in there, and after seeing which he had come forth from thence; Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why do you disquiet me? 14. preaching the gospel. The heading above verse one tells us that Psalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks. Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for you. Each swing of the gymnast lifts him higher until he is on a level with a firm platform on which he can spring and stand secure. What should I say, but. BOOK 2: CHS. Perhaps there was something in there for you too. running for God. The Place of Refuge and Strength - Psalm 46. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. 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. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. He doesn't feel jubilant hope. It is useless to speculate on its origin. Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and Solomon composed Psalms 72. I have now had the perception of something that is unchangeable; why do you disquiet me still? But they are happy in their very yearnings who are conscious of the true direction of these, and can say that it is God for whom they are athirst. 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. Download File. This conflict of opposite emotions is the characteristic of the second part of the psalm, while that of the first part is an all but unrelieved predominance of gloom, and that of the third an all but undisputed victory of sunshine. When I have laughed at the stone, and he who pointed to it has been put to the blush, he raises his eyes from the stone, looks up to heaven, and perhaps says, pointing his finger to the Sun, Behold there my God! And just as there we found cause for rejoicing, so here there will not be wanting an occasion for sorrow. He calls past experiences to mind. ), the temple singers were still called the sons of Asaph. In view of the long and continued service of these temple servants, we cannot be absolutely sure when these psalms were composed, but whether they were written in the time of David or as late as Ezra, they are still Davidic associates, and that seems to reinforce the Davidic nature of these collections." What we do at church is a real transaction with the living God. If you would also ask the meanings of the names, Jordan means their descent. Psalm 41:3. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. The name "Elohim" occurs 164 times in this section of the Psalms, and the name "Yahweh" ("LORD") appears only 30 times. For many of us other desires can get in the way of us really desiring God. inasmuch as he points with his finger to some stone, and says, Lo, there is my God! 17. Esther 1 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Foolish. Rejected me, that is to say, from that height of the apprehension of the unchangeable Truth. 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