Sermon Tone Analysis

Call To Worship Scripture:

Sermon Scripture:

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.

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.

Zion is the location of the temple from which God has chosen to make His presence known.

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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.

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.

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:

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.

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:

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.

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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.

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