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Psalm 33:12-22 The Blessed Nation
I think many of us understand that music is a big part of the celebrations we have in America.
On special holidays we always have music, both secular and sacred.
I can remember riding in the car with the radio playing as a kid to go see fireworks with my family.
One of those songs, that I am reminded of, is the song introduced by Lee Greenwood in 1984.
Remember these words?
“I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I’ll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land.
God bless the USA.”
During times of celebration in Israel, Jewish people would make a journey to Jerusalem.
And on their way, they would sing.
Remember, they didn’t have a radio.
And they would sing songs found in the book of Psalms.
One of those songs is here in Psalm 33.
Listen to what it has to say.
[Read Scripture & Prayer]
Lyrics in a song tell a story, a desire, a want.
We sing, “God bless America, land that I love.”
Don’t we want that today?
Well, the only way that the Lord is going to bless this nation, to bless this people, is for us to make Jesus our Lord.
Without Christ guiding our nation, it is bound to fail.
Yes, as great as our nation is, and with all the strength that she has, America will fail if our eyes turn away from God.
But this doesn’t have to happen.
If we would listen to what the psalmist says, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, then we can see the Lord still move on these lands.
Now a nation is made up of people.
And people, we need Jesus.
Now when the Lord is no longer your God, then the blessings will stop.
Just think how terrible life will be, when the Lord is not blessing our lands and our people.
The psalmist writes a song, but it is a song with great meaning, because the Lord is the one who gave this song.
And there are several things that we should pay attention too.
He speaks about a…
Promise (12a)
· I am so grateful that the Lord keeps His promises.
· Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.”
· This song is much more than a Psalm, it is a promise.
Now what is the promise that we see in this verse?
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
· This is a conditional promise.
Meaning “if” we do something, “then” God will respond.
· Where does this promise start?
It starts with you and I.
It starts with us, making the choice who it is we are going to serve.
· Each day, you make a choice.
A choice that you are either going to follow the Lord or you are going to follow the flesh.
One leads to blessing the other to affliction.
· Now we live in the land of the free, and we have the free choice of who it is we will serve.
But the Lord promises to bless us if we serve him.
· Now we are blessed in America, we have many freedoms.
We can choose what we become, we can own nice things, we can go to other places freely.
We can speak freely.
We look around and we have many opportunities.
This is not the case in much of the world.
· We often take for grant it, how blessed we are.
We look at the blessings as rights.
But listen God can take away those blessings.
· I believe we are seeing that to a degree.
With shortages of goods, longer wait times, higher prices, and lack of help, we are seeing the blessings that God has given us in times past fade away.
· If we are to see the blessings return, we have to return to God.
And that starts with you and I.
People (12b-15)
· Now this song speaks of a promise, but it also speaks of a people.
· Now understand this, because this is important, God has chosen you.
This isn’t a scam like you read in an email.
God has truly chosen you, and what is it that you have been chosen you for?
· He has chosen you to receive an inheritance.
· That’s right, God is going to give to you what is His.
He is going to give heaven to you.
He is going to give you a place there with him.
· Now you might be here right now, thinking, well that might be true for others, but God doesn’t even see me.
How wrong you are.
· Look at verse 13 & 14. – Friend God sees you.
· You know I get up some days, and I go the whole day and I feel unnoticed.
That no one has seen me, knows how I feel, that I’m just a nobody.
Have you ever felt like that?
· Well, when those times come, when nobody here sees you, let me tell you God sees you.
He has never stopped looking at you.
· There are times we get so depressed, and we think that no one sees what we are doing, friend, the good Lord sees.
· There was a missionary who had been serving in Africa for many years.
He was returning home, and was on the same ship as President Roosevelt.
The President had been on a hunting trip and people were flocking just to catch a glimpse of him.
When the shipped docked in New York, a band was waiting to greet the President.
The mayor and dignitaries were there.
The papers were full of the President’s arrival, but no one noticed the missionary.
That night the missionary’s spirit was broken.
He felt that God was not treating him fairly.
So, he went to the Lord in a prayer.
He shared with the Lord how he faithfully served him, how many had come to know the Lord while in Africa, and the great work that was accomplished there.
Why Lord, did the President receive a tremendous homecoming, when no one met me as I returned home.
It was then that the Lord came and placed his hand on the missionary and said to him, “Son, you’re not home yet.”
· Listen, God sees you, even when no one else does.
“For his eye is on the sparrow, and I know, He watches over me.”
Protection (16-19)
· Now there is a third thing that we see in this song, and that is protection.
Look at verses 16-19.
· We feel protected in this land, we have a strong military, we have sophisticated radar and satellite surveillance, we have nuclear weapons, no one is going to mess with us.
Right?
· Do you realize, it doesn’t matter how much money we put into our army, how big we make it, none of that is what saves us.
· It is not how strong we are, it is not about how much muscle we have, how fast we can run, how smart we think we are, none of those things will save us.
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