Psalm Night on Psalm 65

Lets Open with Prayer

Father we now call upon you to be with us and be in our presence.

And illuminate our minds by your Spirit and Word.

We thank you Father in all things in Christ name Amen.

Lets rise to Sing Psalm 65A

Psalm Sing Psalm 65A Praise Waits for You in Zion

Reading of Psalm Psalm 65

English Standard Version Psalm 65

65 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.

1  Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion,

and to you shall vows be performed.

2  O you who hear prayer,

to you shall all flesh come.

3  When iniquities prevail against me,

you atone for our transgressions.

4  Blessed is the one you choose and bring near,

to dwell in your courts!

We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,

the holiness of your temple!

5  By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,

O God of our salvation,

the hope of all the ends of the earth

and of the farthest seas;

6  the one who by his strength established the mountains,

being girded with might;

7  who stills the roaring of the seas,

the roaring of their waves,

the tumult of the peoples,

8  so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.

You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

9  You visit the earth and water it;

you greatly enrich it;

the river of God is full of water;

you provide their grain,

for so you have prepared it.

10  You water its furrows abundantly,

settling its ridges,

softening it with showers,

and blessing its growth.

11  You crown the year with your bounty;

your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.

12  The pastures of the wilderness overflow,

the hills gird themselves with joy,

13  the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,

the valleys deck themselves with grain,

they shout and sing together for joy.

Psalm 65 provides the reader with three scenes that tell of God’s goodness and power.

The 3 sections we see in this Psalm are Gods

Gods Acts of forgiveness (vv. 1–4)

Gods Acts of power (vv. 5–8)

Gods Acts of grace (vv. 9–13)

The Book of Psalms (Psalm 65: God’s Great Gifts)

Unlike the other songs of Zion, the center of this stanza is not God’s care or blessing from Zion, but is God’s forgiveness and restoration.

God is praised and vows are brought because God forgives

This is an attribute THAT IS CRIED for in the penitential psalms

A PENTENTIAL PSALM IS A PSALM THAT IS RELATING TO OR EXPRESSING REPENTANCE.

BUT Repentance is NOT USUALLY IN THE SONGS OF ZION

SO THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS PSALM 65 IS UNIQUE

WE SEE THIS IN VERSES 1-4 Gods Acts of Forgiveness

Can someone read verse 1-4

Psalm 65:1–4 ESV

Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!

THE PEOPLE OF GOD WILL PERFORM VOWS OR MAKE PROMISES

This opening suggests a throng of worshippers at the temple according to verse 4

They are celebrating a renewal of God’s mercy and the answer to their prayers.

Perhaps from the way the psalm ends with abundance

Maybe Gods displeasure had been shown by drought and the people of God may have had lean times.

So perhaps a special vow was made during a season of drought or political danger

Nations and churches must be honest and prompt in redeeming their promises to the Lord, who cannot be mocked.

And So whatever vows were made to the Lord the Psalmist is expressing that the people of God are going to do what they promised.

Next in verse 2 the Psalmist says

O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.

So they are praising God for this answered Prayer.

God not only has heard, but is now hearing prayer, and always must hear prayer, since he is an immutable being,

God never changes

In verse 3 we see that God forgives

God forgives even though terrible things happen to us in this life.

And have happened to David in his Life, since this is a Psalm of David.

We can think of many instances that David sinned against the Lord but the Lord forgave his sin.

But God atones.

God Forgives or transgressions against the Lord.

So we should be encouraged from these words

Becasue God atones for our sins as well through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Last in verse 4 Blessed is the one you choose and bring near to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple

We see God is the one who acts

God is the one who chooses us

Who brings us near.

So the Doctrine of Election is echoing in Psalm 65 as well.

And the people of God are happy when they get this opportunity to draw near to the Lord in His Temple in the Old Testament.

And we can be happy today in the New Testament Church when we draw near to God in his church on the Lords Day.

Can Someone Read Verses 5-8

Next we look at Gods Acts of Power in verses Psalm 65:5-8

English Standard Version Psalm 65

By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,

O God of our salvation,

the hope of all the ends of the earth

and of the farthest seas;

6  the one who by his strength established the mountains,

being girded with might;

7  who stills the roaring of the seas,

the roaring of their waves,

the tumult of the peoples,

8  so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.

You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

This second stanza introduces a global perspective to God’s activities. It takes the images of the first stanza and expands them to the ends of the earth.

God is the controller of the world and the container of chaos.

The one who forgives is the one who plants the mountains

and the one who through might controls the seas and the people.

If the first stanza represents the personal God of grace, in Gods Acts of Forgivness vs 1-4

this stanza focuses on the power of the divine warrior and controller of creation in Gods Acts of power (vv. 5–8)

This is a God who chooses to dwell in Zion, but that is hardly the scope of God’s reach.

Becasue God is all Powerful

Lastly we will look at vs 9-13

Can someone read vs 9-13

Acts of grace (vv. 9–13)

English Standard Version Psalm 65

9  You visit the earth and water it;

you greatly enrich it;

the river of God is full of water;

you provide their grain,

for so you have prepared it.

10  You water its furrows abundantly,

settling its ridges,

softening it with showers,

and blessing its growth.

11  You crown the year with your bounty;

your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.

12  The pastures of the wilderness overflow,

the hills gird themselves with joy,

13  the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,

the valleys deck themselves with grain,

they shout and sing together for joy.

in this final stanza, God provides the necessities of physical life.

This final scene is pastoral,15 and the humans disappear, reaping only derivative rewards from God’s blessing of the creation.

The humans are called to praise because the great God of Zion offers forgiveness (vv. 1–4).

In contrast,in verse 9-13 the creation shouts and sings for joy because God is the giver of rain and grain and goodness.

The three stanzas function to teach those listening that God provides all things needed for life, and at the same time it also offers praise to God who reigns as the Supreme Ruler of everything.

The King Of Kings

And the Lord of Lords

Together the stanzas work at expanding the vision of God’s greatness and goodness.

God’s reign is not only within the confines of Zion.

Here one finds forgiveness and contentment and a home, but one should not stop there.

Forgiveness, the act praised by the humans, is placed in its proper context.

The direction of the psalm suggests that forgiveness and contentment in Zion is the first step in seeing beyond one’s self and beyond the walls of Zion.

God’s work extends well beyond human restoration.

God’s work is greater than what any of us can see with earthly sight.

The psalm serves to open up the horizons to other people and other lands.

All of God’s kingdom should be in sight from Zion.

This prayer can function in the same way today.

We as people of an industrial world are even farther removed from creation than our ancestors.

But we still may mow our lawns and pull weeds in our yards.

But most of us are not growing our food.

Or butchering our meat.

So that is the sence in which we are farther removed.

This psalm praises God for all of God’s great gifts and reminds all to lift their heads and look around and see all that God does to maintain the delicate balance of life.

Even if we don’t see it as much as those who live in an agricultural setting.

It invites all to praise God for what is seen and unseen.

Psalm 65 Shows us

Gods Acts of forgiveness (vv. 1–4)

Gods Acts of power (vv. 5–8)

Gods Acts of grace (vv. 9–13)

LETS RISE TO SING PSALM 65A ONE MORE TIME

PSALM 65A Praise Waits for You in Zion

Closing Prayer

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LET US PRAY

Congregational Prayer

Grant, Almighty God, that since you daily exhort us,

and though you see us often turning aside from the the right path,

You are kind Father because you do not cease to stretch forth your hand to us,

and you also continue to wake us up us by many reproofs,

that we may repent—

Father grant that we may not be permitted

to reject your Word with perverseness;

But rule us by your Spirit,

That we may meekly and obediently submit to you,

Help us to be teachable, so that if we have not been willing to submit to your correction,

That we may not continue in our sins.

Father help us to heed your spirits correction.

Heal our diseases so that we may truly repent,

Help us to be so wholly given to obey you,

as never to attempt anything beyond the rule of your Word,

and help us to heed the wisdom which you have revealed to us,

not only by Moses and your prophets,

but also by your only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Father we ask for all these things in the powerful, glorious, majestic, and wonderful name of Jesus Christ Amen.

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