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Psalm 5. Continuing on in our summer series in the Psalms.

Hear the word of Our Lord. to the chief musician, with flutes, a Psalm of David Give ear to my words.

Oh Lord.

Consider my meditation.

Give heed to the voice of my cry.

My king and my God for to you, I will pray my voice.

You shall hear in the morning.

O Lord in the morning, I will direct it to you and I will look up for you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, New Rochelle evil dwell with you.

The boastful shall not stand in your sight, you hate all workers of iniquity.

You destroy those who speak falsehood the Lord of whores, the bloodthirsty and deceitful, man.

But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy.

In fear of you, I will worship toward your Holy Temple.

Lead Me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies.

Make your way straight before my face.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouths, their inward part is destruction, their throat is an open Tomb.

They flatter with their tongue pronounced him guilty or God.

Let them fall By Their Own counsels, cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against you Let all those who believe that all those Rejoice who put their trust in you.

Let them ever shout for Joy because you defend them and let those also who love your name be joyful in you for you.

Oh Lord will bless the righteous with favor.

You will surround him as with a shield.

So when's the reading of God's word, may he bless it to our hearts?

Today.

last week we took up some for And we observe that that Psalm is sometimes referred to as a lullaby because of its soothing character, and, and also the way in which it speaks of at the end, being able to lie down in peace and sleep.

And so we might also call some for an evening Psalm or a night time song and Then followed up following up on that.

We get to some five which we could I think fairly call a morning song.

And so children before before we dive, then I have an assignment for you.

I have something I would like you to do.

I want you to draw a picture because Don't love trolling.

I already know that.

I see lots of the messages.

Draw a picture.

Love you.

Praying.

In the morning.

Like right after you you wake up or right after you get out of your bed, draw a picture of prey.

In the morning.

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and show them to me afterwards.

I want to see your pictures.

In case I wasn't clear, I want to see them.

Not as we take up this song.

We're going to divide it into three parts.

because, As a good Presbyterian with Southern Baptist Roots, it just seems like sermon should have three points.

And so we'll do three parts for three points.

And the first is the object of our prayer.

And we see this in verses one through three noticed, that the psalmist says he cries out to the Lord and he says, give ear to my words.

Oh, Lord.

Consider my meditation.

Heed, My Cry, my king, and my God for, I pray to you.

In verse three, further emphasizes the fact that he's praying to the Lord.

He sang My Voice you shall hear in the morning.

In the morning I will direct it to you and I will look up.

But I want you to pay particular attention.

Not just to the fact that that the psalm is David here.

Direct his prayers to God, but I want you to note how he addresses God in doing so, He uses three particular words to names and a title.

First inverse one.

He calls out to God and he calls him.

My Lord.

He says, give ear to my words.

Oh Lord.

And you'll notice that in your Bibles.

This should be an all capitals Lord and all capitals the translators do this for a particular reason.

They are following the tradition of of the Jewish tradition, where since Hebrew doesn't originally have valid points, they would Supply the vowel points for the word Adonai, which means Lord.

And so when the the Jews would read it, they would read the word yokwe, or Jehovah as Lord.

And we carry on that tradition though, not for the same reasons.

And so in our tax anytime Jehovah or Yahweh is used it's typically translated as Lord in all capital letters, now that it's important and that word is important because yokwe Jehovah Lord in all capitals, however, we look at it or say it or, or Interact with this, this word, identifies, God not just as God in a general and vague sense.

But particularly as the Covenant keeping and Covenants making God it's so in calling out to the Lord and and addressing him in this way.

David begins his Prayer by acknowledging that one.

He has a right to go to God because he's in Covenant with him.

And at the same time, he has the right to expect that God will hear his prayer also because he is in Covenant with him.

And we see this in that use of the title Lord.

now, as we get into verse 2, David changes it up a little bit and he addresses the Lord in two more ways, first by crying out and calling him my king.

Now, when Israel will prior to Israel getting a king, the account that we have in the Book of Judges, is that everyone did what was right in their own eyes because there was no king in Israel.

And then as we get to 1st Samuel and a Samuel enters, his prophetic Ministry and Israel comes to the prophet and they say to him give us a king.

They don't just say, give us a king, they say give us a king like everyone else.

We want a king like they all have Kings and so they got a king like the nation in the person of soul and Samuel was very distraught at this and the Lord comforted him by saying they haven't rejected you.

They rejected me as king.

And so what we need to understand is that the Lord Is not just a covenant, making in Covenant, keeping God.

But for those of us who are part of that Covenant Community, the Lord is also our King.

And he is King over Kings.

This is why David both before he is Anointed as king and also afterwards, he regularly addresses and calls God, his King and his Lord because he understood even after the Lord placed him in that position as head of the nation under himself under God, that David was still a servant of the most high.

No, it's significant.

Also that David uses this because what do we expect our leaders to do?

What do we expect our Kings or political leaders to do for us while we expect them to look out for us, right?

We expect them to keep an eye out on those, who would be our enemies, and then to lead us in battle or to defend us.

when Trouble Comes, And Soul by David addressing the Lord as my king.

He's adding to the rationale as to why he should be heard and he's essentially saying Lord, you should hear my prayer and you should answer, and I'm going to call out to you.

Because not only are you, are you?

My covenants, gone.

But you're also my king, which means it's your responsibility to look after me as one of your subjects.

And it's your responsibility to Hear My Cries as one of your subjects.

David understands.

That really the only one who can who can answer his prayers.

The only one that gives him the confidence that his prayers will be hurt or the ones that the one God who already stands in that sort of relationship with him, both, mentally, and as a citizen of God's Kingdom,

You'll notice also. in that same line, the David addresses God, as my God,

and in doing this he is admitting and confessing not only that God is the covenants making and Covenant keeping the Lord that God is the king over all but but that God is the Creator and that David is not Now, this is significant.

because in making this confession, David is not only saying that he has a right to be heard.

because of his Covenant oil and and

citizen sort of relationship with God.

But he also is acknowledging that as Creator.