The Path To praise020109

I. Happiness Is Praising Without deceitfulness vv. 7-8
The psalmist has gone from preaching to praying and now to praising.

C.H. Spurgeon said; “Be sure that he who prays for holiness will one day praise with happiness.”

 For the psalmist the shame of sin has vanished, his silence is now broken. Now there is praise.·
 You cannot praise God with sin in your life. Unless your heart is pure you are not praising God.·
 God does not accept the praise that is based on a sinful life.·
 Can I go on to say this; A person who is truly happy doe not have to be blessed in a physical way to praise the Lord.·

· A person that sees the Lord as Holy and himself as forgiven, righteous and justified can say I praise God even if He never does another thing again for me.


We find 4 things which the psalmist praises God

A. With Cleanness v.7 “I will praise You with uprighteousness of heart…” A pure life honors and glorifies God.

B. with Correctness v.7b “When I learn Your righteous judgments…” Praise is learned from the Bible, from the Word of God. Did you realize that when we study the Bible we are praising God.

C. With Conduct v. 8a “I will keep Your statutes…” The praising life is one that obeys the Lord. We praise Him with our obedient lives.

D. With Confidence v. 8b “O do not forsake me utterly.” The commentator William McDonald say of verse 8; “Firm resolve is coupled with humble dependence. The psalmist is determined to follow hard after the Lord. But he realizes his own inadequacy. The prayer do not forsake me is not so much a possible actuality as a statement of what the writer feels he might deserve.

1.PRAISE HIM WITH PURPOSE

2.PRAISE HIM WITH RELATIONSHIP

3.PRAISE HIM WITH THE RIGHT ATTIUDUE

4.PRAISE HIM WITH INTERIGTY

5.PRAISE HIM WITH SURRENDED SPIRT

6.PRAISE HIM WITH EXPENDICTY

7.PRAISE HIM BECAUSE HE IS WROTHY