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Being Blessed
Psalms 1:1-3
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
“Blessed is the One”
Imagine for a moment that the Lord appears and gives
you the option of either door #1 or door #2.
He explains that
behind door number one is the ultimate freedom to live your
life in any manner you
choose.
You have the
freedom to create your own
morality and change it based
on your circumstances.
You
will feel pleasure living
behind door #1 from
indulging in the broad path of
self-gratification but it will be
Tony Evans, “Scripture Gives Spiritual Blessing,” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony
Evans, 2015), Ps 1:1–3.
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Tony Evans, “Scripture Gives Spiritual Blessing,” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony
Evans, 2015), Ps 1:1–3.
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Robert G. Bratcher and William David Reyburn, A Translator’s Handbook on the Book of
Psalms, UBS Handbook Series (New York: United Bible Societies, 1991), 16.
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fleeting, forever leaving you an ache in your soul for something
more that you cannot define, nor can you satisfy!
Jesus then
tells you that behind door #2 you will have to choose to forfeit
your freedom to live your life your way and submit to His word
as the lamp unto your feet.
Your morality will be defined the
narrow path of His word and as such will be known and
unchangeable.
You will feel unspeakable joy because you will
be blessed beyond all measure and the ache within your soul
will be filled with the Lord’s presence who is your Rock,
Salvation, and portion forever.
Which door would you choose?
Those who are born again and have chosen door #2 do
you feel blessed beyond all measure?1 Being blessed is not
about the accumulation of money, fame or power; for those
things are worldly, here today and gone tomorrow (Luke 12:2234).2
Nor is being blessed a product of being in good
circumstances3 for many a believer has “suffered pain, or pine
in sickness, endured losses and crosses, and yet in it all has
been a blessed person.”4
Nor is being blessed a feeling of joy
that merely comes from doing philanthropic deeds.5 Being
blessed is not only being content in all situations (Philippian
4:11-13)6 but being in a state of overwhelming, indescribable
peace and joy that can only come from being in God’s presence
and basking in His glory!
C. H. Spurgeon, “The Truly Blessed Man,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons,
vol.
57 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1911), 469.
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Willem A. VanGemeren, “Psalms,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Psalms, Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, ed.
Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 5 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1991), 53.
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Tony Evans, “Scripture Gives Spiritual Blessing,” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony
Evans, 2015), Ps 1:1–3.
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Being blessed is a “sense of well-being” that
comes from having the living waters (John
4:14) flow within one’s soul and the Good
Shepherd to guide one’s every footstep (John
10:1-21)!
It is the security of knowing one’s
life is unshakeable because one is standing
upon the Rock (Psalms 18:1-2) of one’s
salvation or being under His wings of divine
protection (Psalms 91).
“Blessedness is not deserved but a gift from God.”7
While
access to blessedness is offered unto all those who believe it is
only received when one continually rejects door #1, the ways of
this world,8 and has one’s mind renewed by meditating and
following God’s commands as given in His holy word (Romans
12:1-2)!
The following sermon is going to explore the steps we
as believers need to take to be truly blessed as given in Psalms
1:1-3.
Willem A. VanGemeren, “Psalms,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Psalms, Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, ed.
Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 5 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1991), 53.
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C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Psalms 1-26, vol. 1 (London; Edinburgh; New York:
Marshall Brothers, n.d.), 1.
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Tony Evans, “Scripture Gives Spiritual Blessing,” in Tony Evans Sermon Archive (Tony
Evans, 2015), Ps 1:1–3.
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Does not Walk with Sinners
To become truly blessed by God king David begins by
stating what we must not do,9 follow the ways of this world.
David says believers are “not to walk in step with the wicked or
stand in their way that
sinners take or sit in the
company of mockers” (verse
1).
While we are called to
let our light shine (Matthew
5:16) and become all things
to win some to Christ (1
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