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Call To Worship Scripture:
Call To Worship Scripture:
The Mighty One, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
Sermon Scripture:
Sermon Scripture:
“Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!”
Proclamation Of The Word of God:
A Psalm of Asaph:
Section 1:
Selah: Give pause, weigh in the balances. Thus verse 1-6 is to be heavily considered before advancing to the remainder of this Psalm.
The Mighty One, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
So we begin with what tips the scales or rather with what all must be brought under. It is God Himslef, impressivley introduced with three divine names.
So we begin with what tips the scales or rather with what all must be brought under. It is God Himslef, impressivley introduced with three divine names.
The Mighty One - Describes stregnth and power
God - 'elohiym - The divine ruler and judge. In the first telling of creation this is the name used for God. He is the creator of all and as such is the righteous judge. (The second telling of creation ‘’) uses YAWEH…which is the same word that follows elohiym here...
Thus verse 1-6 is to be heavily considered before advancing to the remainder of this Psalm.
The LORD - YAWEH - This is called the “Tetragrammaton” - it is the four constants in Hebrew spelling “Yaweh”. This is the covenant name for God
It is the all powerful, divine ruler and judge of all creation who has full legal covenantal standing that speaks to the whole earth.
The God whom all of the powers and rulers of the earth must bow to.
The God who has power over the wind, the sea and the sky...
The God who tells the sun to rise and set
The God who spoke and all creation came into being
The God who banished Adam and Eve from the garden
The God whom all Angelic being bow to and the God by whom 1/3 were cast down in a single day
The God who is the law…This God speaks.
He summons the earth. He calls her out by name to hear, listen and know.
He calls out the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting…that is from east to west, God is moving about that all of the earth may hear and know.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
Zion is the location of the temple from which God has chosen to make His presence known. (). A proclamation coming forth from God Himself through the order which He Himself has chosen is how God makes Himself known. He speaks from that glorious place which He himself has established.
Our God comes; he does not keep silence;
before him is a devouring fire,
around him a mighty tempest.
God is not a silent statue, a pagan piece of stone. Our God, the living God speaks. The people of God are not left guessing about God’s pleasure or displeasure with them.
God comes forth…speaking… and before Him is a devouring fire and around Him a mighty tempest (a raging storm of horror). This is the theophany or visible manifestation of God. God is as is often noted, accompanied or made known by dangerous, terrifying and powerful forces. This is espesially true when speaking of jugment.
He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
“Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge! Selah
Psalm 5
Calling out to all from angelic relms to earthly dwelling He summons His people.
In the summons of the court of God are found His faithful ones, identified by those who made a covenant with God by sacrifice.
Covenant is a solemn agreement between two, here it is a bond between God and His people with sacrifice being accompnied and representing punishment for sin.
This court opens as the heavens declare the righteousness of God and God righteously sits as judge.
Section 2:
Section 2:
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
First to give testimony is God. The legal term testify is used here because covenants like contracts and treaties are legal instruments.
God is now giving a righteous, legal testimony as judge against His people.
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.
For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and its fullness are mine.
Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and perform your vows to the Most High,
and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
Psalm 50:8-!5
In the judgment of His own God seperates Himself from all of the idolotouraous gods surrounding His people.
In pagan practice if it seemed as though the pagan idols were angry with a people then it must mean that they were hungry and so you would offer them sacrifices of bulls and goats in order to satisfy their hunger and appease them.
This is not how God works. God does not need the sacrifice of animals…It is not required because God is hungry.
The right perspective is that it is actually all Gods. You can give God nothing because as He states it is all His. If he needed anything He would not aquire it from man, He would simply take care of it because all is His.
But God does give a sacrifice proper:
A Sacrifice of thanksgiving - if all belongs to God then what must first be given is all that can be given: thanksgiving. We enter His courts with praise!
A Sacrifice of faithfulness - Secondly as all belongs to God and God is the divine, the righteous judge, the second thing that we give to God is obedience, faithfulness to that which He has commanded. We live as a people faithful to our vows to the Most High.
A Sacrifice of dependance - Third we pray, we demonstrate our thankful, faithful dependance upon Him. If you wonder in the start of sacrifice as to how you can be thankful, because you are in a time of such trouble, be thankful for this: that as God’s child, in times of trouble you can and must worship God through a sacrifice of crying out to God for deliverance...
And friends He will deliver and when He does deliver then be thankful, be faithful and be joyful to be dependant upon the Lord your God. Give Him glory!
In the judgment of the faithful is the renewing of the mind. It is clarity as to what they are doing and why they are doing it. The faithful are to remember who their God is and in remembering God properly, only then, can a true sacrifice be offered to God from the people of God. The sacrifice is not based upon ones abilities but upon the proper placement of God in ones life.
This is what we do in Christ. We do not recieve a sin covering by a sacrifice that we have created (just as the Jews didn’t offer an animal that belonged to them but rather gave something to God which was actually already God’s) but rather/and so God has created the sacrifice for us. As such, we come before Him offering thanksgiving (our sacrifice is in gratitude to God for providing the sacrifice), faithfulness and dependance/trust.
Now God in the next section turns to from the faithful to the wicked. These are still those speak to the law of God and claim His covenant, but even in this they only increase in transgression:
Section 3:
But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.
Psalm 50:
The wicked in attempting to claim or speak to the things of God have no legal ground to stand upon. They have no right. They have no right to take the covenant of God, no right to excape the judgment. Why?
The hate of discipline: This is the hate of instruction or correction. It is when the way of God steps on how someone wants to live their life and they become frustrated or embittered by it rather than rejoicing in the live found in the correction of God.
The casting aside of God’s Words: In despising discipline the wicked rather than hearing the words of God, simple cast them aside. They disreguard it and give it no merit or place in their lives. They put it behind themselves and move forward with life as they want it and see it.
If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
and you keep company with adulterers.
Psalm 50:
3. Bad Company: Misery loves company. A thief is seen as righteous in the eyes of the wicked and an adulterer is seen as acceptable company. Two things which attack the very basis of who God is.
Righteous: God is righteous in that all rightly belongs to him. It belongs to God to give to whom He pleased and take from whom He pleases. The thief has no right and in his theft he transgresses the rights of God.
Faithful: God is faithful to His Word and Covenant. God act not on lust or impurity, but from perfect love and truth. The adulterer is the opposite. The adulterer mocks covenant.
How can one be pleased by that which defines a thief or take pleasure in the company of adultry and yet claim covenant with God? Simple…they cannot.
“You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.
Psalm 50:19-
Can you imagine how wickedness works? Our mouths become her favorite instrument, her weapon of choice.
How?
The speak the deception of the heart. The tongue frames what is evil as righteous. The tongue justifies ones own sinful actions by speaking against a brother in slander.
Slander is the spreading of propaganda. It is the uttering of false tales for the defemation of another.
Look at the line up of litegation against the wicked thus far:
The hate of discipline
The casting aside of God’s Word
Pleasure In Evil
Keeping of Bad company
Speaking of evil freely
Slander of a Brother
These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
Psalm 50:
And here lies the greatest and deepest piercing of all of the charges. All of these things have been done thinking that God was one like yourself. What is it that can cause one to despise the discipline of the Lord and cast aside the Word of God....it is pride. Somewhere down the line one convinces themselves that they don’t need God, and because God does not immedietly judge them they assume that judgment for such an assumption will never come. Perhaps even going so far as to think that God is on their side or at least being comfortable in that they are a “religious” person.
None the less, at the gathering the silence of God is broken and the righteous, judicial, charge is laid out and the statutes and covenant that went no deeper than the wickeds lips cannot spare them from the charge of wickedness before them. Notice that with the faithful God said cry out and be delivered, but with the wicked God said charged.
The faithful, though their sights may have gotten blurred and in need of sanctification, the wicked sought to set God (in the living practical details of God) out of their sights.
It is a wicked thing to forget God in any area of life.
However in the conclusion their is hope for all. Right now while God has spoken, we have opportunity. Whether you have been living trying to remember God in all that you do, or wether you have been setting aside the Word of God for your own pursuits, there is hope should you hear the Word of God today and turn. There is hope for those who seek to remember God and even those who forget God…A hope that those who remember my rejoice in God’s provision and a hope that those who have forgotten may forget no more:
Section 4:
“Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!”
If you continue to put off, to forget God in your life then you will be found without a deliverer.
How one remembers God is just as one gives sacrifice to God:
Thanksgiving - as his sacrifice glorifies God (the sacrifice provided by God)
Faithfulness - the one who orders his way rightly (by the Word of God…no longer setting it behind him)
Dependance - God will show the “salvation of God”
Friends I pray that you see that this all leads us to Jesus and how we live today in light of HIm.
Jesus is the sacrifice - Praise God!
Jesus is the faithful Word of God - order your life by it
Jesus is the salvation of God - Trust in Christ Alone
Amen.