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Hopeless & Helpless
Desertion by God, when overwhelmed by distress, is the climax of the sufferer’s misery.
Have you felt abandoned by God?
A. What is your reaction to abandonment?
Many years ago a young Midwestern lawyer suffered from such deep depression that his friends thought it best to keep all knives and razors out of his reach.
He questioned his life's calling and the prudence of even attempting to follow it through.
During this time he wrote, "I am now the most miserable man living.
Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell.
I awfully forebode I shall not."
But somehow, from somewhere, Abraham Lincoln received the encouragement he needed, and the achievements of his life thoroughly vindicated his bout with discouragement.
Today in the Word, MBI, December, 1989, p. 20, Swindoll, You and Your Problems Transformed by Thorns, p. 58.
B. David's lament is prophetical because of his enduring a painful situation.
(Just as Christ endured later)
A Cry of Loneliness ()
The passage.—The moving lament of this psalm coming from one who has been forsaken, humiliated, and afflicted puts it in sharp contrast to the joyful tones of .
It probably comes from the time of David’s persecution at the hands of King Saul.
Jesus knew this psalm well and his own sufferings were so similar to those David described.
From the cross Jesus used the first verse to express his own painful agony and dereliction, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
The psalm is messianic in that David by inspiration saw his own sufferings as prophesies of the sufferings of the Messiah.
The Gospel writers pointed out these similarities in their accounts of the crucifixion ( = verse 7; = verse 8; = verse 18)
Dilday, R. H., Jr., & Kennedy, J. H. (1972).
Psalms.
In H. F. Paschall & H. H. Hobbs (Eds.),
The teacher’s Bible commentary (p.
302).
Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers.
Dilday, R. H., Jr., & Kennedy, J. H. (1972).
Psalms.
In H. F. Paschall & H. H. Hobbs (Eds.),
The teacher’s Bible commentary (p.
302).
Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers.
C.
And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha!
You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 save Yourself, and come down from the cross!”
31 Likewise the chief priests also, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, “He saved others; Himself He cannot save.
32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.”
Even those who were crucified with Him reviled Him.
33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”
which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
The New King James Version.
(1982).
().
Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
One of England's finest preachers was C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892).
Frequently during his ministry he was plunged into severe depression, due in part to gout but also for other reasons.
In a biography of the "prince of preachers", Arnold Dallimore wrote, "What he suffered in those times of darkness we may not know...even his desperate calling on God brought no relief.
'There are dungeons', he said, 'beneath the castles of despair.'"
Arnold Dallimore.
God may Use Hopelessness and Despair to Upgrade Us to His Expectations
Isaiah Ch 61:1
The Good News of Salvation
61 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me,
Because the LORD has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”
The Good News of Salvation
61 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me,
Because the LORD has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”
A. Isaiah is proclaiming victory for the People of God if they will Believe
1.
We Too Have the Same Victory… We Must Believe Also
2. To Not believe is Sin
A. Do you have faith?
Have it to yourself before God.
Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
The New King James Version.
(1982).
().
Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
There Is a New Day Coming
Our Ashes will Be Turned to Beauty
A. Our Final Victory
Our Final Victory
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”
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