Your Sacrifice
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Psalms 42–89, Volume 2 Interpretation
Like Ps. 49, the psalm addresses Israel rather than addressing God, though the claims in vv. 1–6 make one inclined to call it a prophecy rather than a homily.13 If Ps. 49 came anywhere else than in the Psalter, it might be Proverbs; if Ps. 50 came anywhere else, it would be one of the prophetic books.
John Goldingay
Gerald Wilson
50. A prophetic liturgy of divine judgment. In the tradition of the prophets, the psalmist stresses the futility of sacrifice divorced from true morality.
Michell Danhood
1-6 Call for Judgment
1-6 Call for Judgment
He summons all the earth as witnesses of what he will do
He Beauty will shine as He comes
But He comes in Judgment as a devouring fire - not refining fire
He calls the defendenants “my faithful ones”
He is coming to judge His people
Covenant Lawsuit
God’s Charges 7-21
God’s Charges 7-21
7- God is the Prosicutor and the witness (as well as judge)
Charge 1 (8-15)
Charge 1 (8-15)
Their view of sacrifice - they were not giving anything to God - all that they offered already belonged to him
What is God that he should eat - He is not dependent
They should give thank offerings as they promised in their vows (14)
The “sacrifice of thanksgiving” was in response to who God is and what God does.
Charge 2 (16-21) How they view their lives
Charge 2 (16-21) How they view their lives
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God’s Call 22-23
God’s Call 22-23
“Understand” “consider” nasb, kjv)
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
It is this failure of understanding regarding the true nature of sacrifice that dominates Psalm 50. Israel is condemned not because they fail to offer sacrifices and offerings (50:8), but because they seek to exploit in their abundant sacrifices a supposed need of God. Because she believes God needs her sacrifices, Israel believes he can be manipulated by abundant gifts with no regard for the spiritual condition or intent of the offerer. Not so, rejoins God. Sacrifice fills no lack in the creator of the world, to whom all belongs. Sacrifice is for the benefit of the offerer. It is a reflection of the attitude of the offerer and, rightly given, “honors” God (50:23a) while opening the door for God’s gift of salvation. Clearly it is not the sacrifice that accomplishes salvation but God, in response to the offerer’s attitude of thanksgiving and praise.
22 I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel! 24 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him. 25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him. 26 The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever!
10 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” 13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”
1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 2 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.