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Specific Genre: Individual Lament Psalm: The Persecuted!
This makes up the largest group if the entire Psalter.
In the Lament Psalms, the Psalmist opens up his heart to God, pours out the emotional pressure, cries out loud, holds nothing back on God.
These emotionally charged Psalms cry out in desperation for God’s help.
Often the Lament turns to God in confidence.
These are prayers of help!
Systematic Flow of Lament Psalms: The Persecuted!
Problem Stated, Psalms 3:1-2.
God Trusted, Psalms 3:3-6.
God is Petitioned, Psalms 3:7.
God is Praised, Psalms 3:8.
Statement
People are dragging me down, I feel unsettled, unappreciated, unloved, unnoticed, betrayed, abandoned, I’m alone!
I’m worried!
I’m anxious!
I’m angry, I’m hurting, the pain is too much to bear! I’m tired, I’ve cried, I’ve screamed!
Is there any help out there?
I want to run, but where do I go?
I have a problem with people!
Setting/Context
David is running from his son, 1 Samuel 15-18; 15:12-13; 16:7-8; 17:11; 18:7.
There is a coup forming against the King, and the forerunner is Absalom David’s son.
“A lie can be halfway around the world before truth has got its boots on.”
—James Callaghan.
Absalom wasting over the thrown, David and few of his close attendants have evacuated the palace in Jerusalem and are on the run.
They have crossed the Jordan river, and now they are camped out at Mahanaim.
David went to bed with a lot on his mind, he wakes with a fresh perspective, this is a morning Psalms.
While David was preoccupied with governmental affairs, Absalom, his son, was stealing the hearts of the people.
A coup was birthed in the neighboring town of Hebron.
This is the first Psalm with an historical title.
It possibly was written the first morning David woke from being on the run from Absalom.
The first Psalms entitled, “Psalm.”
“Psalms” is the Hebrew word “mizmor," meaning, “running or cutting off the superfluous twigs.”
David gets rid of the wordy phrases and gets down to business.
There is not right way or pretty way of saying it when life becomes full of problems.
Psalms 3 is made up of short sentences.
When a person finds themselves in trouble, they will not waste time with words, David’s in trouble and there is no other way of saying it.
Serious Problem, Psalms 3:1-3.
People cause us more problems than any other problems we encounter in life, Psalms 3:1-3 may are my foes…many are rising against me…many are saying.
Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
Family problems, friendship problems, co-worker problems, church people problems, just people problems.
People are problematic.
People are hard to deal with, hard to stomach, hard to get along with.
People are insensitive, mean, rude, crude, unloving, unforgiving, hostile, jealous, envious, angry.
People say hurtful things, make unjustified accusations, spiteful, manipulative, point fingers, talk behind your back.
People will turn on you in a moments time.
People will throw you under a bus and throw the bus in reverse.
Selfish, egotistical, arrogant, and will leave you high and dry for the betterment of their own lives.
They don’t forget and they never truly forgive.
It feels like people problems never end.
Is there no limit?
C H Spurgeon, “Troubles always come in flocks, and sorrows have big families.”
How many people does it take to make life miserable; just one!
Life never feels more hopeless than when it feels that not even God cares about the problems you are dealing with, Psalms 3:2 Many are saying of my soul, “there is no salvation for him in God.”
To paraphrase, “Hah!
No help for you in God!”
“It is the most bitter of all afflictions to be led to fear that there is no help for us in God.” —C H Spurgeon.
Thank God!
If you have a few good friends… David had a few good friends!
Thank God!
If you have some good friends!
David had Joab, dependable, he would be there no matter what!
David had Benaiah, fearless, courageous, he will be brave for the both of you.
David had Abishai, been there and done that kind of guy, he has walked in your shoes.
Abishai had once killed 300 man with one spear, he knew what it felt like to have the whole world against you.
“Sela,” here is something to think about.
“Sela,” means, “to lift up” it is thought to be a crescendo mark in music; Boom it out!
Pull out all the stops!
A roar of music to draw the attention.
Another meaning, “there, what do you think about that!” or “Print that in italics!
Print that in all capital letters!”
Too often we can only blame the person we see in the mirror.
David was dealing with family problems because he had made some very bad choices in life, 2 Samuel 11; 2 Samuel 12:1-12.
David was reaping the harvest of bad choices and self-gratification, 2 Samuel 12:11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house.
Supposition
The Psalms gives a three-fold proposition to dealing with people problems.
Study Outline
Get your Eyes Off People and on God, Psalms 3:3-4.
How many people does it take to make life miserable; ONE.
It only takes One God to change it all.
Psalms 3:1-2, David is not ignoring his problems, downplaying his problem, denying his problem, David is getting a new perspective on his problem.
Instead of becoming reactive, David had to become proactive.
David could not allow his problem to grow to a disproportionate size, to control his life, and set the trajectory.
Psalms 3:3 But you… The change came when David refocused his attention.
David had to come to the place where he is fully aware of what he had in God.
God is bigger than my problems!
In comparison to God, our problems shrink to a manageable proportions; God can fix this! God is always bigger than my problems.
But it is hard for me to see this when I am always looking at my problems!
God would Protect David, Psalms 3:3 But you, O LORD, are a shield about me.
Often God has to protect us from ourselves when it comes to dealing with people problems; attitudes, reactions, our tendency to retaliate with hurtful words, the impulse to do wrong.
God can Put it back together, Psalms 3:3 my glory… God can fix crumbling and broken relationships.
God can fix it, God restores!
God would help David maintain Perspective, Psalms 3:4 the lifter of my head.
God will keep my head above the water!
God would Provide the answers David is looking for, Psalms 4:4 I cried aloud…he answered.
God has all the answers to my problems.
I have to stop trying to fix it, figure it out, formulate a plan.
Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
1st proposition: Get your eyes off of people and on God.
Give it God and Leave it!
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