When shall I come and appear before God? This it is for which I am thirsty, to come and to appear before Him. Neither abstractions nor dead things can still its cravings. What then is the abyss that calls, and to what other abyss does it call? Youve learned deeply that its no relief to say that God does not rule the wind and the waves. Psalm 41:3. A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. When we think and feel with God in the Psalms, this is the main result: we come to love God, and we want to see God and be with God and be satisfied in admiring and exulting in God. sermons and saints. They rush upon him, multitudinous and close following; they pour down on him as with the thunder of descending cataracts; they overwhelm him like the breakers and rollers of an angry ocean. So the higher mood conquers at last, and breaks into a burst of joyous petition, which passes swiftly into realisation of the future joys whose coming shines thus far off. Second, in the midst of his discouragement, he affirms God's sovereign love for him. He was blogging and trying to find something to get a girl off his mind. inasmuch as he points with his finger to some stone, and says, Lo, there is my God! aye, let them say it! 17. Spiritual Depression - Psalm 42-43. God Our Refuge And Strength (Audio) Download File. But seeing, brethren, so long as we are at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord; 2Corinthians5:6 and the corruptible body presses down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses on many things; Wisdom9:15 even though we have some way or other dispersed the clouds, by walking as longing leads us on, and for a brief while have come within reach of that sound, so that by an effort we may catch something from that house of God, yet through the burden, so to speak, of our infirmity, we sink back to our usual level, and relapse to our ordinary state. Sharing the love of God with the English speaking community of Calpe, SELECTED PSALMS FOR SUMMER 9. But they are happy in their very yearnings who are conscious of the true direction of these, and can say that it is God for whom they are athirst. Start With Prayer. Romans8:23 When that health (that salvation) is perfected in us, then shall we be living in the house of God for ever, and praising for ever Him to whom it was said, Blessed are they that dwell in Your house, they will be praising You world without end. Psalms 42:5 has the refrain in a form slightly different from that of the other two instances of its occurrence. We will be looking at this Psalm in three parts over the next three weeks. John 4:14). He affirms God's sovereign love. This man was in exile and it depressed him. 2. BOOK 2: CHS. revive us again. Apart from air, water our most basic need. But, considering that lovingkindness is in the Psalter mainly a Divine attribute, and that, when a human excellence, it is regarded as derived from and being the echo of experienced Divine mercy, it is best to take the passive meaning as the principal, though sometimes, as unmistakably here, the active is more suitable. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. In other words, all his crashing and tumultuous and oppressing and discouraging circumstances are the waves of God. Matthew24:12 When we see the strong members of the Church generally giving way to the causes of offense, does not Christ's body say, The enemy breaks my bones? A similar bit of local colour is generally recognised in Psalms 42:7. Furthermore, it is said in a certain passage, Your judgments are a mighty abyss, Scripture meaning to suggest that the judgments of God are incomprehensible. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Psalmist feels cut off from Gods presence in some way possibly in exile from Israel, possibly by illness. The correspondence between mans needs and their true object is involved in that name "the living God"; for a heart can rest only in one all-sufficient Person, and must have a heart to throb against. This is a holiday of such a kind, as neither to be opened by any dawn, nor terminated by any evening. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your God? Dont compromise! Let Him deliver you, if He can. Verse 4: These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.. (Doesnt mean they are bad. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. For there is a depth, a profound, the bottom of which cannot be reached by sounding. And why ask, who it is other than yourself, when it is in your power to be the thing which you are asking about? There are at least three reasons why we can assume psalms 42 and 43 were originally joined together. I think an abyss may not unreasonably be understood of man, of whom it is said elsewhere, Man shall come to a deep heart, and God shall be exalted. It is a faith that has uncertainty in it; it is tinged by shades of doubt. : 42:2-6) The . The effort of faith should be persistent, even if old bitternesses begin again and "break the low beginnings of content"; for, even if the wild waters burst through the dam once and again, they do not utterly wash it away, and there remains a foundation on which it may be built up anew. His dwelling-place is above my soul; from thence He beholds me; from thence He created me; from thence He directs me and provides for me; from thence he appeals to me, and calls me, and directs me; leads me in the way, and to the end of my way.. .. 8. During Ezra and Nehemiahs time (fifth century B.C. Perhaps from Baptism, where the remission of sins is given. Run to the fountain; long for the fountain; but do it not anyhow, be not satisfied with running like any ordinary animal; run thou like the hart. For there are already many things that I admire in the tabernacle. Psalm 41:11. Psalm 42:2. But the victory is not quite won, and therefore Psalms 43:1-5, follows. It was not exactly literary fame which psalmists hungered for. And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. What is going on here? Nevertheless he believed God would remain loyal to him. This morning, I want to quickly offer us (be me, specifically) some hope when dealing with discouragement. From the little hill, and from the land of Jordan. For it is there, in the sanctuary of God, in the house of God, is the fountain of understanding. 3. Thus tremulous, timid, mobile, it is beautifully compared to a hind. No doubt the psalmist connected communion with God and presence in the Temple more closely together than they should do who have heard the great charter, "neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem"; but, however the two things were coupled in his mind, they were sufficiently separate to allow of approach by longing and prayer while distant in body, and the true object of yearning was not access to the Temple, but communion with the God of the Temple. Perhaps the singer had seen, during his exile on the eastern side of Jordan, some gentle creature, with open mouth and heaving flanks, eagerly seeking in dry wadies for a drop of water to cool her outstretched tongue; and the sight had struck on his heart as an image of himself longing for the presence of God in the sanctuary. The kingdom of Israel was first united under David, and it is appropriate that David would write a psalm about living together in unity. 14. The shifting of the initial word of Psalms 42:6 to the end of Psalms 42:5, and the substitution of My for His, bring the three refrains into line, and avoid the harsh expression "help of His countenance." he says, In the voice of joy and praise; the sound of keeping holiday. I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. In the waves that deep calls; in the overhangings is the other deep which it calls to. Learnt to live with disappointment and disillusionment., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 4 God-Centred As we have seen, the immediate cause was his separation from the temple of God. OBJECTIVES:Each listener should be able to understand the story, repeat it, and . It was God whom he addressed, who remembered him from the land of Jordan and Hermon. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God "my salvation and my God.". Longings and tears, remembrances of festal hours passed in the sanctuary melt the singers soul, while taunting enemies hiss continual sarcasms at him as forsaken by his God. But inasmuch as You sit at liberty, I have thus spoken unto my soul. 13. 1. Of that house he speaks in another Psalm, after he had put a certain abstruse and difficult question to himself (viz., why is it that it generally goes well with the wicked on earth, and ill with the good? And this, which is soon in the sight of God, is late to our longing. 42-72 In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. When would my soul attain to that object of its search, which is above my soul, if my soul were not to pour itself out above itself? When I have laughed at the stone, and he who pointed to it has been put to the blush, he raises his eyes from the stone, looks up to heaven, and perhaps says, pointing his finger to the Sun, Behold there my God! So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. The difference between the devout and the worldly man is just that the one can only say, "My soul pants and thirsts," and the other can add "after Thee, O God." PROPOSITION: To study the story of the rich man and Lazarus and notice: 1) The characters, 2) The circumstances, 3) The cries of the rich man, 4) The conclusions of the story. As for your fatigue in hearing, I am not greatly solicitous, since you see me also, who speak, toiling in the heat of these exertions. Indeed the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (John 4:14.). 3-7, NIV) Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! The repeated taunt of his enemies would hopefully move God to deliver him (cf. No, but calls on is equivalent to calls to him. Accept that we may need to make effort. Psalm 27. putting God first. In building the Lord's house. Verse 8: By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God my salvation [or Savior] and my God. And even though he says it looks as if God has forgotten him, he never stops believing in the absolute sovereignty of God over all his adversity. For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. scenes of glory on a sea of gloom. But You are trying me, and I know that Thou dost but put off, not take utterly from me, what You have promised me. 2. Perhaps because expository sermons take much diligence and study, many preachers look for an easier way. 12. Sorrow is shot with trust. But the curb has not been applied quite in vain, for throughout the succeeding verses there is a striking alternation of despondency and hope. Faith may have a long struggle with fear, but it will have the last word, and that word will be "the help of my countenance and my God. 16. If man then is an abyss, in what way does abyss call on abyss? The psalmist was thirsty for God. St. Paul had a blinding revelation on the road to Damascus, an encounter with the risen Lord Jesus that turned his life completely topsy-turvy and started him on a perilous road that would take him all over .read more Scripture: Philippians 1:18-26, Psalm 42:2-5, Luke 14:1-11 Denomination: Catholic The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. However, he came back to the same expression of confidence with which he ended the first stanza. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. This remembrance will encourage us to continue to trust Him while we go through temporarily distressing periods. The unity is vouched by the considerations already noticed, and by the incompleteness of Psalms 42:1-11 without such triumphant close and of Psalms 43:1-5 without such despondent beginning. What should I say, but. He Sings Again, verse 8: "By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life." This is not a song of jubilant hope. The writer suffered at the hands of tormenting enemies. The serpents are your vices, destroy the serpents of iniquity; then will you long yet more for the Fountain of Truth. For were it to rest in itself, it would not see anything else beyond itself; and in seeing itself, would not, for all that, see God. Why sons of Korah? Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. It is God who justifies. This mans longing was intensified by his unwilling exile from the sanctuary, a special privation to a door keeper of the Temple. Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. For it is written in a certain passage, The mercy of the Lord is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought. That lovely metaphor has touched the common heart as few have done, and the solitary singers plaint has fitted all devout lips. A BIT OF BACKGROUND And because he so remembers with humility, he shall earn his exaltation to fruition, for he is not exalted in himself, who glories in the Lord. For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. Feeling has to vindicate its rationality or to suppress itself, and its grounds have often only to be stated to the better self, to be found altogether disproportioned to the storm they have raised. Where, I pray, is your God? Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:11; Psalms 43:5). This is not so yet, because the salvation which is promised, is not as yet in being; but it is in hope that I confess unto God, and say, My God is the saving health of my countenance. The true object of its longings is always God, however little it knows for what it is thirsting. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. I know this is a given but prayer prepares the preacher's heart for the studying of God's word (1 Peter 2:1-2) and it prepares the preacher's mind to receive clarity and insight into God's word (Psalm 119:18). The imagery is so usual that it needs no assumption of having been occasioned by the poets locality. The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. This conflict of opposite emotions is the characteristic of the second part of the psalm, while that of the first part is an all but unrelieved predominance of gloom, and that of the third an all but undisputed victory of sunshine. The Jordan Valley is quite wide north of this sea and the mountains of Hermon rise up to the east from it. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. And assuredly he does but the more thirst for the water-brooks from making his tears his meat.And they daily say unto me, Where is your God? To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Lo, we have just now been gladdened by certain inward delights: with the mind's eye we have been able to behold, though but with a momentary glance, something not susceptible of change: why do you still disquiet me, why are you still cast down? You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. I, who tremble all over, when my soul was disquieted on account of myself, feared greatly on account of Your judgments.Are those judgments slight ones? That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. seeing that deep calls to deep, and after those sufferings severer ones are to be dreaded. To the contrary, it is uncomforted, miserable and unsatisfied. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up. a Levite, led the festal march to the Temple, and in listening in fancy again to the shrill cries of joy which broke from the tumultuous crowd. God is close to us and cares for us as a shepherd cares for his sheep. He may not have asked the question with theological or linguistic precision, but if he proves in time that he didnt mean that God had forgotten him, we will let that be words for the wind. In preparing an article on the above topic the writer is ex-plicitly informed that what is required is t"not an expository sermon," nor " an outline of an expository sermon, but di- It begins with a cluster of seven psalms (reckoning Psalms 42:1-11; Psalms 43:1-5, as one) of which the superscription is most probably regarded as ascribing their authorship to "the sons of Korach." Esther TOP. The writer remembered with great delight the times when he found spiritual refreshment at the sanctuary in Jerusalem, but he was not able to return there yet. Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and Solomon composed Psalms 72. Therefore the psalm must be pre-exilic; and while there is no certainty attainable as to date, it may at least be said that the circumstances of the singer present more points of contact with those of the supposed Korachite follower of Davids fortunes on the uplands across Jordan than with those of any other of the imaginary persons to whom modern criticism has assigned the poem. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99 1. Follow along with me as I read Psalm 42: To the choirmaster. Rich Man and Lazarus Sermon Outline. Notice that the Psalmist responds to his circumstances at one point by asking God, Why? Verse 9: I say to God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? These outlines are eventually posted on this website. 4) Paul's sermon at the synagogue (Acts 13:16-41) involves an exposition of the prophecies of the Old Testament and a revealing of the hearts of his listeners: They are a people who may become scoffers and eventually unbelieving. Translated by J.E. Again, verse 8: By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. This is not a song of jubilant hope. The prayer of Psalms 43:1-2, blends the two elements, which were at war in the second part; and for the moment the darker is the more prominent. To recall past joys adds stings to present grief, but to remember God brings an anodyne for the smart. In Book 2, the titles identify David as the writer of 18 psalms (Psalms 51-65, 68-70). 8. Once more, too, the higher self repeats its half-rebuke, half-encouragement. Is it disquieted on account of God? For when I was pouring out my soul above myself, in order to reach my God, why did I do so? So, at the end of verse 7, he says, All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.. When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. silence is not always golden. For having but the first-fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves; waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary. Would you have me not disquiet you, panting as I am after what is good, thirsting and labouring as I am for it? It had been so far strengthened by the encouragement of the refrain that the reflux of sadness at once rouses it to action. All unrest of longing, all fever of thirst, all outgoings of desire, are feelers put out blindly, and are only stilled when they clasp Him. If even it has been the lot of any, that very calm is more to be dreaded. See how great wonders I admire in the tabernacle! It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. And may He grant our desire through the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Feel guilty about feeling cut-off. God was not providing for his needs just then. For it is there is the house of my God. But that just isnt the way we are. Now Korah may have been, as indeed he was, a certain definite person; and have had sons, who might be called the sons of Korah; let us however search for the secret of which this is the sacrament, that this name may bring to light the mystery with which it is pregnant. Colossians1:24 Such longing indeed is not found in all who enter the Church: let all however who have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and who own in Christ that for which they have a relish, think that they are not the only ones; but that there are such seeds scattered throughout the field of the Lord, this whole earth: and that there is a certain Christian unity, whose voice thus speaks, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God. Naturally this transition strophe is marked by the mingling of both. Esther 6 - Sleepless in Susa and Rain on the Parade. With the alternation of mood already noticed as characteristic, the singer looks forward, even from the midst of overwhelming seas of trouble, to a future day when God will give His angel, Mercy or Lovingkindness, charge concerning him and draw him out of many waters. Therefore follows: The Lord will commend His loving-kindness in the day-time; and in the night-time will He declare it Psalm 41:8. Psalms 42-72 (Reformed Expository Commentary) Hardcover - November 11, 2019 by Richard D. Phillips (Author) 11 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $33.98 4 New from $23.88 In the inspired poems of the Psalms, we find the full range of human emotions laid bare before the heart of God and in settings familiar to our experience. REKINDLE YOUR PASSION (PSALMS 42:1-2 ) INTRO: SKIT: SATAN GOT YOUR JOY AND PASSION (1.) As he walks in this tabernacle, and contemplates God's wonderful works for the redemption of the faithful, the sound of that festivity charms his ears, and bears the hart away to the water-brooks. Psalm 41:5. This psalm is the fourth and last psalm in the Psalms of Ascent that is attributed to King David. A new regime, new management, a new . running for God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Sermon Seeds is a weekly e-mail list featuring brief, expository outlines designed to help preachers and Bible teachers with their preparations. "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. Not many of us can compose songs when were discouraged and weeping day and night. And then once more above this conflict of emotion soars the clear note of the refrain, summoning to self-command, calmness, and unfaltering hope. More deceptive is when weve tried to get our deepest desires met by things that are of themselves good: for example, relationships, careers, serving others. To subscribe send a blank e-mail to: [email protected]. With God is the fountain of Life; a fountain that shall never be dried up: in His Light is a Light that shall never be darkened. The region intended seems to be "the northeastern corner of Palestine, near the lower slopes of Hermons" (Cheyne. If you would also ask the meanings of the names, Jordan means their descent. And on this account, seeing my soul is disquieted on account of myself, what else should I say unto it than those words: Why are you cast down, O my soul; and why do you disquiet me? In this penultimate volume of his series on preaching Christ from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus offers expert guidance for busy pastors on preaching Christ from Psalms. Why go I mourning, while mine enemy troubles me, while he breaks my bones? The psalmist's longing for God 42:1-5 The writer suffered at the hands of tormenting enemies. Has learnt to put up with less. My email address is feedback732 at newadvent.org. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. If they find themselves thirsty they describe the desire as fairy story or suchlike. Hermon means anathematizing. I may perhaps finish the Psalm, aided as I am by your attention, whose fervour I perceive. Oh, how much could be said here about the importance of corporate worship in our lives. And it is principally in the temptations of the Church they say this, Where is your God? Again that voice! Water the key theme in the Psalm. Again the psalmist encouraged himself with the rhetorical refrain (cf. But yet, Why have You forgotten me? My God is the saving health of my countenance. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. WHATS THE PSALM ABOUT? Esther 2:1-18 - The Best Beauty Pageant Ever. Two-person skit: the chained, the Devil (2.) Dont take these times together lightly. For it was said of a certain person, he calls on death; Wisdom1:16 that is, lives in such a way as to be inviting death; for there is no man at all who puts up a prayer, and calls expressly on death: but men by evil-living invite death. Since no reason for the variation is discernible, and the proposed slight change of text improves construction and restores uniformity, it is probably to be adopted. He has found something to point out to the eyes of the flesh; whereas I, on my part, not that I have not a God to show to him, cannot show him what he has no eyes to see. Yet, with the strange but universal love of summoning up remembrance of departed joys, the psalmist finds a certain pleasure in the pain of recalling how he. Others believe the sons of Korah composed them. 7. PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. In Praise Of The King And His City (Audio) Download File. Update: Here is my sermon on Psalm 6 (video and manuscript) This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. It is the prerogative of faith to make pictures drawn by memory pale beside those painted by hope. But isnt it amazing that hes singing his prayer! 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