Hideness of God
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Some tie this psalm into psalm 9 making 9 and 10 one complete psalm.
This psalm has no designated title .
Spurgeon calls it “The Cry of The Oppressed.”
1 Why do You stand afar off, O Lord? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
To the oppressed, to the tearful eye of the sufferer it seems if God has stood still.
Why are you so distant.
Its no longer God you are a present help in time of trouble.
But now He is an inaccessible mountain that no man is able to climb.
Its like you can see the mountain you know that its there you just do have access to it.
Its interesting Adam hid from God in the time of trouble, now David thinks that God is hiding from him in the time of trouble.
You know we tend to relate to God how we see ourselves. WE think God is a man.
19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
We think God is hiding when we are the ones indeed hiding .
He’s hiding behind his accomplishments, his false sense of security .
Hiding behind my kids, hiding behind , how tired I am.
Jesus came to get men/women out of hiding. He exposed the many complexed and multilayer matters of the heart.
Jesus came so we don’t have to hid any more. The little more or the little girl thats been trapped inside afraid to be him or herself.
Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost.
24 for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
Vs 2-11 give a descriptions of the wicked.
vs 2 - The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor.
vs 3- the wicked boast of his heart’s desire, He blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord.
vs 4 - the wicked in his proud countenance doesn’t seek God. God is in none of his thoughts.
5 His ways are always prospering; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
Some translations say his ways are always strong. Or his ways are always grievous .
This is someone who looks high but he doesn’t look high enough.
A man that exalts himself above the knowledge of God.
The son of perdition (The son doom for destruction) (who is satan) exalts “himself” above God
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
The opposition to salvation is everlasting torment.