Sermon Tone Analysis

Trust in the LORD

Chair Bible: p. 456

Main Point: Our trust rests in the LORD alone who saves.

Danger of eisegesis--interpreting one verse or a series of verses in isolation from the whole of the Psalm or the whole of the Bible.

Example...v. 1 and v. 4

How can we avoid wrong treatment of the text?

Consider the language, the immediate context and the overall context of the Bible.

To the choirmaster.

A Psalm of David.

Flow of the Psalms-- (The LORD saves the king, his annointed and will save his offspring)

Glory of God v. 1, the perfect truth of God’s word...see

& 21 share the same purpose as the LORD saves the king and his offspring.

is prior to battle, is after battle.

What shaped David praying/writing this Psalm?

An event in his past or an event in the future?

Yes.

, With this promise in mind, David prays.

David prays trusting the LORD to save according to his character and promises

Is this a prayer from David or a prayer on behalf of David before battle?

“You” is second person singular.

The confusion comes in v. 5 and 6.

Move from we to I. Are the we(Israel) praying or is David praying with Israel?

I will present the Psalm as prayer of David...the you is someone David is referring to.

1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble!

May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!

LORD-the covenant keeping God--because of his self-revelation, David, Israel, and his people of any age can call on the One who is ready to work.

What does the “name of” mean?

The reputation of…”the God of Jacob” who promised to deliver Jacob--He keeps his promises.

delivered Jacob’s descendants from Egypt.

His name is Yahweh-the LORD.

delivered Jacob’s descendants from Egypt.

His name is Yahweh-the LORD.

He will protect you(end of v. 1).

Same word as in “The LORD is my rock and my fortress literally my high fortress.

He will deliver the coming One from his trouble (Spurgeon “All the days of Christ were days of trouble.”

(Spurgeon, 304)--

2 May he send you help from the sanctuary

and give you support from Zion!

The presence of God is symbolized in the sanctuary on Mt.

Zion.

The presence of God is all that is needed in the day of trouble.

Spurgeon “The sanctuary to us is the person of our blessed Lord, who was typified by the temple, and is the true sanctuary which God has pitched, and not man: let us fly to the cross for shelter in all times of need, and help will be sent to us” (Spurgeon, 301).

3 May he remember all your offerings

and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices!

Selah

The Israelite practice of presenting sacrifices and offerings before a military campaign was an active devotion and submission to the Lord.

Their purpose was not primarily to atone for sin but to see God‘s favor and to consecrate oneself from war.

(Longman, 226)

What is the sacrifice that the anointed one will offer?

Himself

What did Jesus do prior to the Cross?

He prayed in gethsemane… compare to v. 4

4 May he grant you your heart’s desire

and fulfill all your plans!

Why was David a man after God’s own heart?

He believed God and acted accordingly.

Why was David a man after God’s own heart?

He believed God and acted accordingly.

Why was David a man after God’s own heart?

He believed God and acted accordingly.

What did Jesus pray in the garden?

Not my will, but your will be done.

What is God’s will?...that

He be glorified and that his gospel go the nations…to the glory of God.

Jesus has faced the day of trouble and accomplished God’s will...it is finished.

“So, unlike the prayers in , we do not pray for Jesus to be victorious; we pray because He has been victorious.

That has altered everything” (Davis, 126).

“We still celebrate His victory (cf.

v. 5), but we do not pray for it.

We pray He would manifest, display, make open and public His victory, that He would impose it on those who flatter themselves that they can resist it, that He would indeed allow His people to see the days of the Son of Man (cf. ).

We pray, but on the basis of the victory already achieved” (Davis, 126).

David bases his prayer on the LORD...as a result...

David prays trusting the LORD to save with assured confidence

6 Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed;

he will answer him from his holy heaven

with the saving might of his right hand.

What does David mean?

Based on his experience, based on the promise of God? Who is he talking about?

The anointed...the Messiah... “He will answer him…”right hand” emblem of strength and power.

Drawing from foundational Psalm....

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7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

Israel’s kings were prohibited to acquire great numbers of horses but were required to revere the Lord.

(Longman, 227)

The comparison the Holy Spirit sets forth is between the faithful, whose confidence is in God alone, and the rest of the world, whose trust is almost always in riches, power, and military strength.

(Calvin, 110)

The comparison the Holy Spirit sets forth is between the faithful, whose confidence is in God alone, and the rest of the world, whose trust is almost always in riches, power, and military strength.

(Calvin, 110)

Trusting in chariots and horse was confronted at the tomb…

“...Why do you seek the living among the dead?

6 He is not here, but has risen.

Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”

David draws another comparison

8 They collapse and fall,

but we rise and stand upright.

Those who do not trust the LORD will drop and bow down.

Those who trust in the LORD rise and stand up right.

(Possible illus Napoleon...‘God is on the side that has the heaviest artillery.’

Later this diminutive dictator boasted, ‘I make circumstances.’

9 O LORD, save the king!