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*Psalm 44 *
(Psa 44:1) *For the director of music.
Of the Sons of Korah.
A /maskil./*
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.
(Psa 44:2) With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.
(Psa 44:3) It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
(Psa 44:4) You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.
(Psa 44:5) Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.
(Psa 44:6) I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
(Psa 44:7) but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.
(Psa 44:8) In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.
/Selah/
(Psa 44:9) But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
(Psa 44:10) You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
(Psa 44:11) You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
(Psa 44:12) You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
(Psa 44:13) You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
(Psa 44:14) You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
(Psa 44:15) My disgrace is before me all day long, and my face is covered with shame
(Psa 44:16) at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
(Psa 44:17) All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant.
(Psa 44:18) Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
(Psa 44:19) But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness.
(Psa 44:20) If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
(Psa 44:21) would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
(Psa 44:22) Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
(Psa 44:23) Awake, O Lord!
Why do you sleep?
Rouse yourself!
Do not reject us forever.
(Psa 44:24) Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
(Psa 44:25) We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
(Psa 44:26) Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love.
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Introduction
How do you respond when awful things happen to God’s people?
NB : NOT Why do awful things happen to God’s people
BUT:
How do you respond when awful things happen to God’s people?
2 funerals recently
1 x 57 lady – sad enough, but her mother is still alive, and to see her daughter go through the agonies of ovarian cancer was just devastating.
How was she to think, to respond , when something like this happened to one of God’s people?
The other funeral was gut-wrenching
Story of Nathaniel
Rejoicing
18 weeks!
Then 31 weeks. .
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How do you respond when awful things happen to God’s people?
Think of Job in OT. . .
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Much of Job is about how to get it wrong in responding to the times when awful things happen to God’s people – his wife,
- Curse God and turn over and die!
- his so-called friends:
You must have done something terribly bad!
How to respond when awful things happen to God’s people.
You may not yet be . . . .
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But – the Bible . .
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And here in Psalm 44, as in many other places in the Bible , is a model of how God’s people ought to and are able to respond in such times.
Quite straightforward
Listen to this:
1 We have heard with our ears, O God;
our fathers have told us
what you did in their days,
in days long ago.
2 With your hand you drove out the nations
and planted our fathers;
you crushed the peoples
and made our fathers flourish.
3 It was not by their sword that they won the land,
nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
and the light of your face, for you loved them.
4 You are my King and my God,
who decreesb victories for Jacob.
5 Through you we push back our enemies;
through your name we trample our foes.
6 I do not trust in my bow,
my sword does not bring me victory;
7 but you give us victory over our enemies,
you put our adversaries to shame.
8 In God we make our boast all day long,
and we will praise your name forever.
/Selah/
Notice:
What God did.
Handed down.
God’s mighty acts in Exodus
We have even more reason to remember the past:
God’s mighty acts in Jesus – HE won, not us!
SO: \\ trusts in God
He boasts in God
He praises God – it is GOD who is his King, and his God!
Stop there???
Older might remember the Litany
And on its own – very important for our humility, our growth as believers
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This Psalm and the pattern of this psalm shows us praise is the place to start.
In thinking about how to respond when awful things happen to God’s people – need to remember that God has acted and we can praise him for even greater things than what we may be experiencing or hearing about.
How are we to respond when awful things happen to God’s people?
PRAISE
We knew on Wednesday that the doctors were going to act to ensure delivery and from the moment we woke we were full of sorrow with uncertainty about what lay ahead.
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