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Background
We are wrapping up our series, Summer in the Psalms.
Up to this point, we have looked at three Psalms that David wrote.
First, we started in looking recognizing the Lord’s goodness, knowing Him as our shepherd/guide as well as our host.
In our second week, we were in gazing through the lens of David’s sole desire to dwell in God’s house, to gaze upon His beauty, and seek Him in His temple.
We specifically looked at three different areas we could apply the One Thing.
We looked at how we can seek first His kingdom () in our THOUGHTS, our EMOTIONS, and how it effects what we DO.
HEAD, HEART, HANDS
Last week was a little out of the ordinary for Sunday morning sermon topics, as we looked at a Psalm of repentance.
We went behind the scenes to , understanding the circumstances that setup this deep lament from David.
We asked how could Scripture testify of David as a man after God’s own heart.
giving us David’s heartfelt response to the prophet Nathan confronting him for his sin with Bathsheba and her husband Uriah.
We saw that even in some of David’s greatest moral failings, he was deeply remorseful that despising God’s word could mean exclusion from God’s presence.
David’s One Thing was still driving him back to the good God he had experienced throughout his life.
From shepherding sheep to sacrificing for his sins, David had encountered the Lord in a powerful and deeply meaningful way.
This created in David a heart that was quick to REPENT.
This created a heart within David that was infatuated with God and His presence, and above everything else wanted Him.
Today, we will build on these three weeks of Summer in Psalms and land this plane to wrap up our series.
We will end with a short Psalm.
One with only five verses.
This Psalms as well, like , is commonly quoted.
It is quoted before worship services, in prayer gatherings, and many other occasions.
When I was a kid there was a Christian show for children that made the Psalms famous, so to speak.
It was a traveling show that taught lessons from the Bible and answered key questions with verses ALL SET TO SONGS.
It was Psalty the Singing Songbook.
Psalty the Singing Storybook made all of this come alive.
He was big.
He was blue.
And he was just for you (as a kid).
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Without dressing up like Psalty today, I want us to travel further into the Psalms and look at a Psalm of praise, .
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In this Psalm, we are reminded that the Lord is God and He is Good.
How many of us already recognize that what the world need more of is genuine gladness.
There is just a lack of real joy. is telling us to make the decision bring joy when we come to worship God, and to choose joy when we serve Him.
This isn’t a phony, ignore real problems, and pretend like nothing bad never happens in life kind of joy.
It is a recognition of someone greater than ourselves being in control and in charge.
He is the Sovereign Lord.
This particular Psalm is most likely ending the Psalms prior that declared God’s (Yahweh’s) kingship ().
acts more as a hymnic conclusion to this collection.
The structure is rather simple:
A. Call to Give Thanks (vs.
1-2)
B. Celebration of the Covenant (vs. 3)
A’ Call to Give Thanks (vs.
4)
B’ Celebration of the Covenant (vs.
5)
A Call to Give Thanks (vv.
1–2)
B Celebration of the Covenant (v. 3)
A′ Call to Give Thanks (v. 4)
B′ Celebration of the Covenant (v. 5)
In short this Psalm is telling us to make some noise for the Lord, come into His presence with celebration and singing.
Have you ever been around folks that it didn’t matter what was going on in life they would never be happy ENOUGH.
You go out to eat…the food is not hot enough, enough portions, enough ice, fast enough.
The kids…never quiet enough, grateful enough, clean enough, smart enough.
(this one is most true in my experience)
Their bank account…just NEVER ENOUGH.
But in God’s family, we have the opportunity to focus on something different.
We can choose to make our noise around what He has done.
We are all making noise, but it is a matter of what we decide to make noise about.
Will you decide with me to let you noise matter?
Because if you and I won’t the rocks will begin to make the noise for us.
Things not created, not designed to give God glory that way will have no other option.
He will be glorified.
Will you be a part?
Will you let your noise matter?
Know God.
He created us.
We are His.
His people.
We are His sheep; He is our Shepherd.
vs. 4 The Psalm transitions from the general to the specific.
Make some noise.
Serve with joy.
Get into His presence through song.
Recognize Him as Lord, as God.
Find your identity in Him, as His.
Now a request a prescription even of what He desires us to bring is given.
STORY: Have you attended a wedding recently?
In June, I went to see a friend, Kevin Tucker, who I met as a volunteer with me at KICKO when I was working with the middle/high school students.
Kevin was one of those easy to like kind of guys.
Great personality, great heart, kind, gentle, teachable.
He found a great wife, and I was honored to attend their wedding.
But before the wedding he text me to make sure I was coming.
I had the card on the fridge, but I had forgotten to RSVP.
But on that card was their tie-the-knot website, their registry locations, etc.
ELABORATE on today’s weddings.
COFFEE BAR THOUGH.
My wedding barely cost $2,000.
Not because it was two centuries ago but because we were broke.
My parents helped us out with that 2k but we didn’t have much to add to it.
ELABORATE.
One of the things I didn’t realize that my wife was going to make us do at our wedding was open EVERY SINGLE gift that folks brought to our wedding.
Who does this?
We do…apparently.
REGISTRY ELABORATE (WEDDING/BABY)
Just give them what they ask for.
Don’t get them what you think they really need or know they really wanted but didn’t ask for.
Just give them what they ask for.
In this verse, verse 4, God gives us His registry list.
Bring me THANKSGIVING.
Bring me GRATITUDE & PRAISE.
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