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Scripture Reading Psalm 5:1-12
Introduction
Good morning, Redemption Church.
My name is Noah Toney; I am the pastor here.
If this is your first time, welcome; if you are watching on the live stream, I am glad you are here with us this morning.
Here at Redemption Church, We Exist to proclaim the gospel and make disciples for the glory of God.
If you have a copy of God's word, please turn to Psalm 5. I want to intentionally show you how the Psalms tell a unified story.
To recap what we have learned already:
Psalm One teaches us about the blessed man who is the perfect citizen of God's kingdom, who walks in the way of the righteous and turns from the way of the wicked.
Psalm Two teaches us about God's Messiah-King, who will reign forever despite the raging nations.
Psalm Three teaches us about God's chosen king, David, who, when the nations are raging against him, responds in faith and trust in God.
Psalm Four teaches us that when God's people are in distress, we should reflect on God's past faithfulness to find future hope.
This week: Psalm Five teaches us that God's people can find comfort in the character of God.
Psalm 5:title-12
To the choirmaster: for the flutes.
A Psalm of David.
Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.
Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house.
I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.
Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Pastoral Prayer
Context
This morning we are in Psalm five.
Before we jump in, I want to recap the history behind Psalms three and four.
Psalm Five opens with the superscription, "To the choirmaster: for the flutes.
A Psalm of David."
This superscription is similar to what we read in Psalm four.
Remember, the word "choirmaster" can be translated as "preeminent one."
I believe this is David's clever way of preparing songs that God's people will sing for generations and one day will be sung by the Messiah King, the Son of David.
As we learned last week, this is ultimately fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ.
He is the preeminent one who will lead God's people in worship forever.
This PsalmPsalm was written for the flutes?
This superscription also tells us that this is a Psalm of David, meaning that it was historical David who wrote this Psalm.
This superscription does not tell us much about the context.
We do not have a clear or perfect understanding of the occasion when this PsalmPsalm was written.
However, I believe that if we slow down and read the Psalms around Psalm Five, we will find some answers to help us better understand its meaning.
By the way, this is a general rule of reading the bible well.
If you are ever perplexed or confused about a passage of scripture and it is not making sense, slow down and look for contextual clues.
The best skill for bible reading is slowing down.
When we slow down, we notice more details, and the gaps are filled in our understanding of God's word.
Psalm five, on the surface, does not tell us much about itself, but when we read it slowly and with the psalms around it, we start to have a greater understanding of its setting and meaning.
There is something special about Psalm five.
It has more connection words to the first four psalms than any of the psalms that we have studied so far.
Think about this in Psalm three, we learned about how Absalom stole the hearts of Israel, and they all rebelled against David.
David is forced to leave into the wilderness, and it is the night while David is in the wilderness on the run that he prays Psalm three, saying, "O Lord, how many are my foes!
Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, "There is no salvation for him in God." Selah But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill.
Selah I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around."
In other words, David is in the wilderness and will not be afraid of his enemies, for he knows that Yahweh will sustain him.
Therefore he will lay down and sleep and find rest in God.
David mentions laying down and sleeping in Psalm three.
We have this nighttime prayer of David in Psalm four, saying, "Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent.
Selah Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord."
Then Psalm four ends with, "In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety."
In other words, Psalms three and four are both nighttime Prayers that occur on the night of David's distress and in his dark hour of need.
David wakes up the next morning.
Enter Psalm Five.
Verses 1-3 A kings cry to the King
Psalm 5:1-3 “Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.
Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.”
David rises in the morning, after he has laid down and slept, without fear of the thousands of enemies plotting to surround him in the night.
David went to bed with confidence in God, and now we see him waking in the morning with this same confidence in God.
David opens his mouth and calls out to God, saying, "O Lord: Consider my groaning."
The ESV renders this word "groaning," but the KJV translates it as "meditations."
This is important.
What does the "blessed man" do in Psalm one?
He meditates upon God's law, day and night.
He is like a tree that has been transplanted from the wilderness next to ever-flowing streams of water.
In the same way, David calls out to God, saying, "Hear me Yahweh, I am meditating upon you and your word.
I am doing what you have asked of me, so i know that you will hear me when I pray to you."
Next, David says, "Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.”
This fascinates me.
Look at the humility of David.
If you ever wonder what genuine faith and humility look like, look at David.
He is God's anointed king of Israel, yet he rises in the morning and sets his plea before a greater king.
Think about how this whole situation started for David.
People would come to see him set their case before David, and it was his job as the king to listen and to give a just ruling for his people.
But as people would come to David, Absalom would steal their pleas and the people's hearts.
But here, David is not the one who people bring their cases; no, David is the one who is going to a different King.
David is looking to Yahweh as the real king of Israel.
David is rising in the morning, and he is going to God.
This time, no one will steal or distort the truth or who will swoop in and steal David's prayer.
He is not going to an earthly king.
No, David is looking to the real king over the whole earth.
Our English Bibles render this "I prepare a sacrifice before you."
There is no mention of a sacrifice in Hebrew, but this is an idiom.
The most literal translation would be, "in the morning, I set it before you, and I will watch."
This is a word picture of the priest before they start their day of sacrifices.
The priest lays out the animals and the tools, and the supplies that are needed for their day before they start.
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