The Basis Of Our Call - Part 2

Remaining Fellowship

Read: Psalm 5:1-3

1  Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning. 2 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray. 3  O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

David, again, begins this Psalm, with the same moral attitude and value, in that he has determined that without God’s attention and without God having an open ear to his prayers, that all is in vain. He knows that if his heart is not right with God, that he will have struggles with getting God’s attention. (cf. Proverbs 28:9) It could be possible that he also knows that there is a difference between and existing merely as a temple structure, and a structure of a temple where God hears the prayers of his people (cf. 2 Chronicles 7) and where God’s kindnesses and attention is on.

There is a confession here, that David is groaning. It could be a sense of suffering that will give evidence to his petition in the next verses, where he is striving against the evil of the society around him. He establishes that God is his king, and that his prayers are to him.

David makes it a practice and godly routine, that when he rises in the morning, his voice will be heard by God in prayers and the dependence of David enacted by words and faith and establishes that worship, will be his basis of living.

The End Of Evildoers

Read Psalm 5:4-6, “

4  For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. 5  The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. 6  You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.”

To establish a ground and platform to walk in the day, David declares things that are gloriously true about God, to him, as a way to make the lies of those who oppose him and God’s ways unable to alter his life and unable to alter Davids steps.

Sinners are blinded to their own sins. and they think that since God’s judgment on their sins are not happening at the current time, that they deceive themselves and think and tell themselves that God must approve of their actions, and thoughts. But it is actually opposite, and as we see here in Romans, that judgment is now, and current, and immediate., but most times executed after death. (cf. Rm. 2:5, “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.”)

Here we see that:

a. Evildoers cannot dwell with God - nor those who delight in wickedness.

b. The boastful cannot stand before the eyes of God.

c. God hates evildoers.

d. God destroys those who speak lies.

e. God abhors (completely despises) the bloodthirsty(murderer/killer) and deceitful man.

Also contrasted is in verses 9-10, which states, “ 9 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue. 10 Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

The only word that can save their souls, is the counsels of divine righteousness and truth. The very thing that they counsel with, is what will put a sword through their own lives spiritually speaking. They will not counsel people to turn from evil and follow God’s ways. They will not counsel themselves to humble themselves before God. So, even though they think they are wise, God causes that they stumble by their own wisdom. Truth is no in their mouths, their lives are full of a spirit of death, and they try and get people to go along with them and have set themselves against God. David prays that God would make them bear their guilt, and that they would be cast out from involvement and interactions with David and his leadership.

The Humble Few

Read Psalm 5:7-8 and 11-12, “

7  But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,

will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you. 8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.

AND

English Standard Version Psalm 5

11  But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;

let them ever sing for joy,

and spread your protection over them,

that those who love your name may exult in you.

12  For you bless the righteous, O LORD;

you cover him with favor as with a shield.

David approaches God, due to his love for him. He approaches God, knowing that he has won the battle, in faith, and in what he believes, and in his experience with God. He can freely worship his God, fear his God, and love him, and be led in right ways, when all those around him, do not have God, in their life, leading them in right ways. His enemies are many. But God makes a straight way for David to walk in.

The battle against pride. David intercedes for the godly in the land. Acknowledging that they are not exempt from the principles of how to approach God as well, via humility and fear and respect for doctrine. He says, “let them ever sing for joy” has in its meaning that these should, in the believers’ life, never be a time, when ability to praise the Lord and to have a cultivated heart to sing for the internal joy that you have should ever stop. As the Psalm began, so it ends, in that God should be the life-source of believers, and that to gain God’s ear, attention, and interact in relationship with him and experience his grace is the reason to exist.

David continues to strengthen himself in his faith by proclaiming to God - factual truths about his works, and encourages himself, by explaining good truths about God’s ways to Him. He says, You spread your protection over those, who humble themselves, and who are willing to come under the protection of God. God’s divine favor and interactions of doing good to and for David and those who are among this electoral group of persons, who find themselves believing and rejoicing, have eternal comfort, with the knowledge that God is working in them.