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Introduction
I hope that you have enjoyed the time that we have spent together this summer walking through the Psalter.
Of course all we have been able to do this summer is to get a sampling from this book of the Bible, there is much that we left untouched.
But as we come to the end of this time together in the Psalter I think that it is only right to finish with one of the Hallelujah Psalms.
The last five Psalms in the Psalter are referred to as the hallelujah psalms and I think that it is apparent why this is the case.
Look at v.1 in all the psalms.
The psalter takes us through the trials and the difficulties of life.
We saw the raging of the nations in psalm 2
There is the cry of psalm 13, how long O LORD will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
There is the difficulty of , My God, My God why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me?
There is the peace of , the Lord is my Shepherd and the hope that the Lord will Shepherd us safely home at the end of , shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
We could go on and on of the journey that we take as we walk through the psalter
There are enemies out to destroy the anointed of the LORD, to destroy the people of the Lord
And then there is the difficulty of personal sin so that David cries out to God
Remember not the sins of my youth
Have mercy on me oh God, Wash me throughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from me sin!
There is the cry of the Psalmist
How can a young man keep his way pure?
My soul clings to the dust!
Give me life according to your word!
Lead me in the path of your commandments
Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to selfish gain
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things
And Look on my affliction and deliver me!
And maybe one of the lowest places in the psalter
And then there is the Psalm that we looked at the week before last
And then finally we get to the end of the Psalter and all is Praise!!!
Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord
It is almost as if we have made it safely home and now we are on the shores of glory.
We hear nothing but the praises of our God in these last 5 Psalms
It is a reminder to us that all of life is headed to the Glory of Jehovah, that at the end of the day Jehovah will be glorified and His people will enjoy His eternal glory
It is like we get a taste of what John points us to in the eternal state!
Revelation 19.
In this Psalm we have a call to praise the Lord, a call to trust the Lord and I hope that we will see at the end that the trustworthiness of Jehovah is the fuel that feeds the fires of our praise.
A call to praise (v.1-2, 10b)
begins will a general call to praise the Lord just like the other hallelujah psalms.
Hallelujah is simply a transliteration of the Hebrew text
Halal is the verb used here and this verb can mean:
to sing one’s praises, to praise, to celebrate
We see this call again and again all throughout the end of the psalter
Beginning with this phrase is used 23 times
, , , , , 113
So this call to all to praise the Lord
And then here in the Psalmist exhorts himself to praise the Lord
Praise the Lord oh my soul
It is the hypocrite that exhorts us to praise the Lord but does not stir up his own soul to praise the Lord.
And then there is the commitment of the Psalmist in v.2
I will praise the LORD as long as I live
Literally this phrase can be translated with my living, or in my living, or even by means of my living
It is hard to know if the psalmist is talking about the length of his praise or the thoroughness of his praise
The LXX seems to support the later
In other words it may be the Psalmists commitment to make all of life a life of praise
And then again in v.2 I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
My understanding of v.2 is that the Psalmist is committing to praise the LORD in every part of his life an all of his life.
In other words the Psalm is calling us to let our praise to the Lord
Permeate all of life
and
Be permanent in our life
Permeate all of life
Christian, all of your life is to be lived making much of Yahweh,
If you are only praising the LORD on Sunday mornings then you are missing what we are called to
Your life as a student, as a business owner, as an employee, as a parent, as a child, as a spouse
All of it is to be lived in a way where you are making much of our God
The LORD and His glory is to be central in all that we do
Paul says
1 Cor.
10.
What is the chief end of man?
To enjoy God and glorify Him forever!
Believer, are you intentional in living to the glory of God?
Believer, do you live to praise God?
Does your life make much of God?
Do you celebrate who God and what He has done for you in Christ in all that you do?
Do you live in such a way that people recognize that your life is a life of praise to our God?
And again notice the psalmist does not say I will praise God when i feel like it or when things are going my way or when i am not going through a difficult time
But I will praise God while I have my being, that is in every season of life
In the good times and in the bad times
Notice that the last line is a line again calling us to praise the Lord
And in the middle is this call for us to trust in the Lord, to hope in Him, to look to Him for help and then we are given the reasons why
I point that out now and we will come back to this, because I think one of the points of the Psalm is that praise naturally rises out of heart when the heart trust in, treasures, or hopes in something.
Listen brothers and sisters we are built in such a way where the heart naturally sings the praises of that which it treasures.
Have you ever been around a new parent or a new grandparent?
Have you ever been around someone who is newly in love?
Have you ever been around someone who is a huge fan of a ball team before the beginning of the season?
The heart naturally praises that which it has set its hopes upon, that which it looks to with adoration.
A call to trust (v.3-10a)
This is more than a call to trust, it is a call to treasure, to look to for help and for hope.
A call to turn one’s hopes and affections away from one thing and to set one’s affections where they belong.
Who we should not trust (v.3-4)
How many times do you reckon that someone has put their hopes in a political leader or a religious leader only to be disappointed?
The reality is that everyone of us in here have been disappointed by someone that we looked up to at some time in our life.
Parents disappoint
One of the biggest marriage problems that i have had to deal with when counseling couples is this romantized idea of love when one expects their spouse to be everything for them.
The reality is that the best of men or just that they are men and there is no salvation in man.
The best of men is simply a dependent being and one day his breath will depart he will return to the earth and all of his plans will perish.
Listen to me,
When you put all of your hopes in a person that person will let you down
The greatest of men cannot be trusted
Do not trust in anything in all of creation, anything in creation can and will let you down
Who we should trust (v.5-10a)
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