Psalm 124:6-8 " The Trap came with a Testimony "

Psalm 124:6–8 (NKJV)

6 Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

This 124 number of Psalm is apart of a some collect of songs

Known as song of degree or song of ascent

These songs where sung as Hebrew Jewish worshippers

We’re making their way up to Jerusalem

For one of the annual feast of Jews

What’s significant about these 15 songs of degrees

From Psalm 120-Psalm134

What’s significant is

That if you were to ever go back and study

These 15 songs of ascent or songs of degrees

You would discover that each one of them

Was a lyrical reminder of the greatness of God

And his loving kindness that he showed towards his people

Each one of these Psalms was a constant reminder

Of something that God had done or something that God is

For instance when you read

Psalm 125 It’s a reminder that God was Around

Psalm 125:2 KJV

“As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.”

Psalm 126 is a reminder that God is a Restorer

Psalm 126:1-3 KJV

“When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, We were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. The LORD hath done great things for us; Whereof we are glad.”

Psalm 127 is a reminder that God is a Rebuilder

Psalm 127:1 KJV

“Except the LORD build the house, They labour in vain that build it: Except the LORD keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.”

Psalm 128 was a reminder that God was a Rewarder

Psalm 128:1 KJV

“Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; That walketh in his ways.”

Psalm 129 was a reminder that God was Righteous

Psalm 129:4 (ESV)

4 The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

Psalm 130 was a reminder that God was a Retriever

That in our distress that He’ll come rescue us

Psalm 130:1 (ESV)

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

Each one of these Psalms was a reminder of something

That God had done for His people or a reminder of who God was Himself

What excites me about Psalm 124

It’s a reminder that God was a Redeemer

In the mist of what we’re going through

No matter how difficult the Trials

No matter how difficult the Test

We serve a God that’s able to Redeem us

I love this Psalm 124

This Psalm is a blessing because

It’s all throughout the lyrics of this particular Psalm

David, he brags on God

He talks about how good God has been to him

In fact he opens the Psalm in verse one by declaring

Psalm 124:1 (NKJV)

1 “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,” Let Israel now say—

Note: Every now and again you should be accused of bragging on God

No matter how things are in your life

You still gotta talk about the goodness of the Lord

I believe that God has been so good to each and everyone of us

That you should be accused of how God is a Way maker

Brag about how he’s a Healer

Brag about how he’s a Heart Fixer

Brag about how he’s a Mind Regulator

You should be accused of having “ The Can’t Help Myself “

About the great things that God has done

For YOU

David through out this 124 number of Psalm

He brags on God

In fact, David testify about three things specifically

Psalm 124:2-8

David testifies about the Traitors in his life

David testifies about the Trouble in his life

David testifies about the Trap in his life

Psalm 124:2 He testifies about the Traitors in his life

The False Friends and the People that smile in his Face

Talked behind his back

It would have consumed him

David assures us if the Lord had not been on his side the traders

Would have Triumph over him

In fact that’s somebody testimony here today

When you look at the Fake Phony and Fickle people that was in your life

Trying to trap you

But if it had not been for the Lord who was on your side

Psalm 124:2 He testifies about the Traitors in his life

Psalm 124:4-5 He testifies about the Trouble in his life

David don’t get specific about what kind of trouble it was

But he suggested to us that trouble would have overwhelmed him

That it would have Consumed him

That it would have Covered him

That it would have to Concealed him

David suggest to us that the trouble that the Lord delivered him out of

Was at a level to consume him

It was at a level of power to cover him

It was at a level that the trouble could have taken him out

And that’s somebody testimony on today

That the trouble you’ve been through should have taken you out

Psalm 124:2 He testifies about the Traitors in his life

Psalm 124:4-5 He testifies about the Trouble in his life

Psalm 124:6-8 He testifies about the Trap in his life

Can I tell someone that the devil has a trap waiting for you

The Devil has a snare waiting for you

Don’t get it twisted that you’re not to holy

To fall into a trap

You are not so righteous to where you can’t find yourself caught up in a trap

You’re not so erudite in scripture that you can’t find yourself caught up in the mist of a trap

David talks about the snare of the fowler

The first thing that really shouted me about David talking about his trap

Is that David don’t talk about how or what lead him to the trap

He only talks about how he got through the trap

He don’t talk about what landed him in the trap

He talks about how he left the trap

He doesn’t talk about how he got in the trap

He talks about how he got out the trap

That bless me because I don’t need to know how to get in trouble

Because I can get in trouble all by myself

I need to know how when I get in a trap how to get out of the trap

David talks & testifies about his trap

The Trap came with a Testimony

1st God Noticed My Reverence in the Trap ( V. 6 )

Psalm 124:6 (NKJV)

6 Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

” BLESSED be the Lord “ -- is an expression of adoration, to praise, to adore

Note: David gives this expression of reverence in the MIDST of the Trap

David is not waiting until he comes out the trap

David is not waiting until things get better

David is not waiting till his circumstances change

David is not waiting until he get the clear signal

David is not waiting until God steps in and deliver him

In verse 6 in the mist of what he’s going through David says blessed be the Lord

David praises the Lord without a promise from God

Note: The verse says literally that he

“has not given us as a prey to their teeth.”

The metaphor of teeth pictures

painful, destructive injury,

likely an attack by spears and arrows,

in terms of a wild animal sinking its teeth into its prey

Anybody can PRAISE God when things are well

But a REAL PRAISER has a degree in Pit Praise

David says Lord I’m not praising you because I’m a Prisoner in the trap

David says I’m praising you because I’m not PREY-of the trap

Note: In other words David is just praising God because he is still alive

Note: David is praising God not because of Where I AM

David is praising God

Because of HOW I AM

Your could have :

Lost your Mind

Died by Suicide

Through in the towel

“ I’m STILL ALIVE “ --

The last 6 months

Just this year

Statement: Your Demeanor in your Derision says a lot about who you are, how you carry yourself.

Note: Your behavior reflects your belief

Note: Don’t TRIP In the TRAP

The Trap came with a Testimony

1st God Noticed My Reverence in the Trap ( V. 6 )

2nd God Navigated My Release from the Trap ( V. 7 )

Psalm 124:7 (NKJV)

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

David says I made it out

Somebody missed their shout right there that you made it out

Escape – in the Hebrew it connote the thought of a person that had been freed from a burning building or being carried out of a burning building

David is suggesting to us that he was in something that he could not get out of on his own but it was the Lord that carry him out

That word escape don’t mean

that you and I did it on our own

but this word escape means that it was somebody

that was fire proof that rescued you and I

Ran in the mist of our burning situation

and pick us up and carried us out

Example: That movie “ Get Out “ --- Chris & Rod

Psalm 124:7 – “ our soul has escape “

What David is saying in this clause of verse seven

The time he said these words he was still in the snare

He says my “ Soul Escape “

Please note that he uses the word escape twice in verse 7

The first time he uses the word escape it’s suggesting spiritually

The second time he uses the word escape it refers to a physical departure

David is suggesting with the first escape

That God brought him out spiritually before physically

In other words David is saying I was still in it but out of it

I was in the trap but the trap wasn’t in me [ The Situation ]

Note: God can give you liberation while incarceration

Note: In other words God if you don’t bring me OUT I’ll PRAISE YOU RIGHT HERE

Give God a Praise :

1. HALLAL is a primary Hebrew root word for praise. Our word "hallelujah" comes from this base word. It

2. YADAH is a verb with a root meaning, "the extended hand, to throw out the hand, therefore to worship with extended hand, to lift the hands."

3. TOWDAH comes from the same principle root word as yadah, but is used more specifically. Towdah literally means, "an extension of the hand in adoration, avowal, or acceptance."

4. SHABACH means, "to shout, to address in a loud tone, to command, to triumph."

5. BARAK means "to kneel down, to bless God as an act of adoration, to salute."

6. ZAMAR means "to pluck the strings of an instrument, to sing, to praise; a musical word which is largely

7. TEHILLAH is derived from the word halal and means "the singing of halals, to sing or to laud; perceived

Note: Because God knows my trap tendencies thirdly what He done

The Trap came with a Testimony

1st God Noticed My Reverence in the Trap ( V. 6 )

2nd God Navigated My Release from the Trap ( V. 7 )

3rd God Nullified My Return to the Trap ( V. 7b )

Psalm 124:7 (NKJV)

7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Y’all missed it, I bet a quarter this morning y’all was going to miss it and I just won

David says God nullified, He canceled, He made the trap ineffective

He came and He broke the snare

David says I’m not in the trap anymore not because I don’t wanna go back

But because He nullified it

David says because I have trap tendencies

And the truth of the matter is

We all got some trap tendencies

Trap Talk — Trap Thoughts — Trap Music — Trap Ways — Trap Places — Trap People — Trap Problems

And what the Lord hast to do for some of us

He hast to do more than just navigate our release

But He hast to come in nullify the return

Because if He don’t nullify the return

We are going to find ourselves going right back

Into the same trap again

And don’t look at me with that tone of voice [ Be Honest ]

1st God Noticed My Reverence in the Trap ( V. 6 )

2nd God Navigated My Release from the Trap ( V. 7 )

3rd God Nullified My Return to the Trap ( V. 7b )