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returning your copy of guns word to Psalm, The Book of Psalms.

Chapter 4.

We are now in our summer series, we're going to be camping out in the Psalms for the rest of the summer, taking a little bit of a break from the Gospel of Luke and we will get back to that in September.

And we're picking up where we left off.

I guess about a year-and-a-half ago now when I started preaching in the Psalms upon arriving here and so we are in Psalm 4 hear the word of the Lord. to the chief musician with stringed instruments, a Psalm of David Hear me.

When I call a god of my righteousness, you have relieved me in my distress.

Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

How long do you sons of men?

Will you turn my glory to Shane?

How long will you love worthlessness and seek.

So long?

But know that the Lord has set apart for himself him.

Who is Godly?

The Lord will hear when I call to him be angry and do not send meditate within your heart on your bed and be still Offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in the Lord.

There are many who say who will show us any good?

Lord lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

You have put gladness in my heart more than in the season that their grain and wine increased.

I will both lie down in peace and sleep.

For you alone.

Oh, Lord, Make Me dwell.

In safety.

This song has at times been described as a lullaby for God's people.

And lullabies as we know art songs that are intended either through there.

Contents there, lyrics or through the tomb.

To soothe our children and to help them get to sleep.

But have you ever have you ever spend some time thinking about some of these lullabies that's while they may have a catchy and soothing tune the lyrics or anything, but soothing if we paid attention to them.

So let me give you one example, you're familiar with the song.

Rockabye Baby.

Rockabye baby in the treetop.

When the wind blows the cradle will rock.

when the when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby cradle and all

That's one of our lullabies.

very soothing to when we sing it, but but if we spend time thinking about what we are singing, then the Comfort seems to vanish I'm sure that none of us find Comfort at the thought of our babies rocking in a tree, the branch breaking and sending the baby crashing to the ground.

And so, unlike this popular lullaby song for Psalm 4 provides us with a bedtime song that is both Pleasant to sing and encouraging to us when we consider The words.

now, you'll notice that I started with reading the title, some of the Psalms have titles.

And those titles, tell us something about why they were written, or who they were written by.

Sometimes the Psalms tell us like in Psalm 3, the historical setting.

For the writing of that song.

So I'm 3 tells us that it is a Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.

So it's situated in a historical point in time.

And because of that.

And because of some for following Psalm 3, Many have concluded that this song also falls within the time period and the historical setting of Absalom rebellion and David being forced into Exile and that may be the case.

But the reality is we are not told when this song was written.

and I think the vagueness of the psalm with regard to Win, It Was Written highlights for us, that David himself was no stranger to trial to distress and to Hard Times if we look at the book of 1st Samuel, After he slays Goliath, it is not very long from that point that he goes from being in favor with King Saul to King, Saul pursuing him all around the countryside trying to kill him.

As we get into 2nd Samuel, we find that David is still tainted with sin and his sin affects those around him and wrecks, his family.

David was no stranger whatsoever to hardship.

I'm so in this song, David lays out for us, a pathway to finding comfort in the midst of the various hardships and trials that we face in life.

So, we will have three points.

The first one being that David Directions to find personal comfort in this song.

Notice how he addresses the Lord.

In versus one.

And to do, I guess direct addresses, the Lord in verse 1. Hear me when I call.

O, God of my righteousness.

Notice the David addresses god with that phrase, God of my righteousness.

And this is a title for God, that is not found anywhere else in scripture.

And so, then it's important for us to understand what it means.

Righteousness is a theme that runs throughout the Psalms however, righteousness are the characteristic of the psalmist only occurs in book.

One book, one of the Psalms and the first instance of this personal righteousness occurs in Psalm 4, But I also want you to notice then that's David says he calls God God of mine righteousness.

Which means contextually.

Then he is saying that this righteousness, which now, belongs to him is not found within him, but it comes from without and specifically it comes from God himself until the righteousness of God, gets extended and applied to God's people.

In calling God, the god of his righteousness, David recognizes his own lack of righteousness, within himself, and he appeals to God on the basis of the righteousness.

That has been supplied to him through, faith in God.

Steve Bradley pastor of the Providence.

R p Church in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

He's pointed out.

that while the stain of sin remains our prayers, Will not be heard.

so notice notice, then the movement hear David goes from saying, hear me when I call, so then saying you have relieved me in my distress and have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

It is important for us to understand.

The wind scripture speaks of the stain of sin remaining or God.

Not hearing those, not Hearing Centers, when they pray, The contacts is not hearing those who are hardened in their sin, or unrepentant, sin, their sin, those who are contrite, who are humble, those who recognize that they have no righteousness in themselves that they are guilty of sin before God and need God's mercy.

God hears, their prayers.

Because it is only by God's righteousness, the righteousness of Christ, that our sin, and the filth of our sin can be removed.

And it's only Through Christ, that our prayers can be heard and will be heard.

Which then?

You know what a hard times.

Sometimes people ask.

Raid cigar, they make the same, and I prayed to God in and he didn't hear me.

He didn't answer my prayer.

as if God is obligated to answer the prayers of all people, so, the first question that we need to be asking, Is not why did God not answer my prayer?

But it needs to be have I trusted in Christ.

Have you trusted in crimes?

Have you bound your knee and submitted yourself to his kingship and authority?

And if the answer is no will then it's no wonder that our prayers go unanswered.

God is not obligated to answer the prayers of unrepentant, sinful people.

And even those among his Covenant Community, who are unrepentant in their sin, their unrepentant.

Results of God not hearing their prayers.

So it's very important.

It's very important that if our sins, or if our prayers will be heard that our sins must be covered in the blood of Christ.

And if we are holding on to it, if we are prideful in our sin then in a certain sense,

We are not letting that Sim go and in a certain sense, it hasn't been covered in the blood of Christ.

Tell David continues.

He continues saying.

Again that God has relieved him in his distress and he calls out for Mercy, not want you to know that end in this statement.

David is recalling God's past faithfulness to him in his appeal for current and future answer to his prayer.

David is looking back at the fact that God has delivered him in the past and that is what provide some comfort that God will listen now and in the future, when he calls out to him.

In this David acknowledges, what the Illusions call the immutability of our God, which is the unchangeable nests of argon?

Our God is not one who is fickle.

And he will change his mind for no reason whatsoever and choose to hear us one day and not to hear us the next day.

Even if the circumstances are are exactly the same.

He is unchangeable and David applies, this Doctrine to his situation.