expository sermon on psalm 42

As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. Oh, how many of you have learned this more deeply than me because of the waves that have broken over your lives. When disturbing things happen, when troubling words are said, when certain letters contain ugly words or extremely critical comments are read, the churning starts. Therefore the refrain comes for a third time; and this time the longing, trembling soul continues at the height to which the better self has lifted it, and silently acknowledges that it need not have been cast down. Hebrew word doesnt mean spirit but a persons life; who and what we really are. The insufficiency of the circumstances described to warrant the vehement emotions expressed is implied in the summons. Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. 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. Important that we dont respond inappropriately. That which does must be living. The word rendered "loveless" is compounded of the negative prefix and the word which is usually found with the meaning of "one whom God favours," or visits with lovingkindness. Verses 5 and 6 make clear that any strength the Psalmist will have does not reside in self, but in God. Perhaps there was one "man" of special mischief prominent among them, but it is not safe to treat that expression as anything but a collective. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) You see, hoping in God doesnt come naturally for sinners like us. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. But more important than any of that is God Himself. It was God whom he addressed, who remembered him from the land of Jordan and Hermon. The two psalms (Psalms 42:1-11, Psalms 43:1-5) are plainly one. And since it is said to you, Disregard this or that thing, if you prefer working iniquity to despising some temporal good, you choose to be bitten by a serpent, rather than destroy it. revival. MATTHEW HENRY Psalm 42 Commentary WILLIAM HESLOP Psalms 40-49 Sermon Seeds from the Psalms WILLIAM HOLWICK Psalm 42:1-11 When You Are Really Down (see OT > Psalms) HOMILETICS - Pulpit Commentary Multiple Homilies GEORGE HORNE Psalm 42 Commentary JAMIESON, F, B Psalm 42 Commentary KEIL AND DELITZSCH Psalm 42 Commentary A F KIRKPATRICK For whosoever of the body of Christ considers this, does he not exclaim, with the voice of Christ's Body, Why have You rejected me? sermons and saints. Tries to ignore thirst. Psalm 41:5. Each of us must walk in the light we have. 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. 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. Feel guilty about not desiring God more. "Gods continual love is a comfort for the soul continually beset by questions and mourning (cf. Key idea here is longing for God when in a wilderness situation. I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. The imagery of floods lifting up their voices, and cataracts sounding as they fall, and breaking waves rolling over the half-drowned psalmist has been supposed to be suggested by the scenery in which he was; but the rushing noise of Jordan in its rocky bed seems scarcely enough to deserve being described as "flood calling to flood," and "breakers and rollers" is an exaggeration if applied to any commotion possible on such a stream. In the former part, memory was the handmaid of sorrow, and came involuntarily, and increased the singers pain; but in this part he makes an effort of will to remember, and in remembrance finds an antidote to sorrow. For now you are not without somewhat to say to yourself, in answer to those who say, Where is your God? They are great ones, severe, hard to bear; but would they were all. The feminine soul has to give account of her moods to calmer judgment, and to be lifted and steadied by the strong spirit. (NLT) Psalm 63: 1-5 - O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. 1. Psalms 42 expresses the writers yearning for God. Hope in God. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God "my salvation and my God.". 63.]. 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." What is meant by like the hart? There is no necessity to conclude that these were heathens, though the taunt is usually put into heathen lips {Psalms 79:10; Psalms 52:2} but it would be quite as natural from co-religionists, flouting his fervour and personal grasp of God and taking his sorrows as tokens of Gods abandonment of him. Am I already 'drinking' from this 'fountain' with nothing to fear?Still Hope in God, is his answer to the soul that disquiets him, and would fain account for her disquiet from the evils with which this world abounds. The type of deer that knows and recognises what thirst is. Psalms 42:10 repeats the enemies taunt, which is there represented as like crushing blows which broke the bones. For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. He who has life in Himself is the Giver and Rescuer of our lives, and to Him they are to be rendered in thankful sacrifice. The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. 8. 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. (1) There are a number of ancient manuscripts that have both of these psalms as just one continuous psalm. Look at programs man has instituted to build the churches. Once more the contending currents meet in Psalms 42:9 and Psalms 42:10, in the former of which confidence and hope utter themselves in the resolve to appeal to God and in the name given to Him as "my Rock"; while another surge of despondency breaks, in the question in which the soul interrogates God, as the better self had interrogated her, and contrasts almost reproachfully Gods apparent forgetfulness, manifested by His delay in deliverance with her remembrance of Him. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. God being what He is, no longing soul can ever remain unsatisfied. I will be preaching on Psalm 6 to the saints and friends of the Bethany Baptist Church in Bellflower, Southeast LA, California, this Sunday, April 26, 2020, Lord-willing. 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. It is a birthday that is being celebrated (say they), there is a marriage here; that those songs may not appear out of place, but the luxurious indulgence may be excused by the festive occasion. Has experienced the joy of long refreshing drinks in a cool mountain stream. PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. 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. He states the very words of that confession; he repeats the grounds on which he fortifies his hope. Are they not a kind of harts that the Apostle addresses, saying, Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Law of Christ? Beginning with a general introduction on how pastors can interpret and preach from the biblical psalms and why they should Greidanus proceeds by discussing twenty-two psalms in the Revised Common Lectionary, Year . For what is it thirsty? JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE The more numerous my sufferings, the sweeter will be Your mercy. Thus is it wisdom is learned, and thus faith, when man calls to man. Can think of it as a combination of our body, mind and emotions. 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. 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. In his sorrow he could still think of Him at intervals as the help of his countenance and call Him "my God." (Psalm 42:2-4) Maclaren notes, "The whole psalm reads like the sob of a wounded heart." What was its cause? They retained the former office in the second Temple. In the mean while dwell in hope: for hope that is seen is not hope; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. 1:1-. It suggests that the psalmists faith will bridge over the interval between himself and the sanctuary: I can send my thoughts to Thee from the distant frontier" (in loc.). By the Unchangeable it was revived; it is by the changeable it is disquieted. running 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 So ends the first of the psalms; but obviously it is no real ending, for the victory over fear is not won, and longing has not become blessed. Where, I pray, is your God? Again the psalmist encouraged himself with the rhetorical refrain (cf. To subscribe send a blank e-mail to: sermonseeds-subscribe@associate.com. All my sufferings are Your waves; all Your denouncements of judgments are Your overhangings. * By Rev. All of the psalms in Book 2 have a title assigned to them except psalm 43, making it more likely that it . How does he solve it? A. If it is, the second part of the psalm is also conformed to the other two in regard to its not beginning with the Divine name. But no finite being can still them; and after all sweetnesses of human loves and helps of human strengths the souls thirst remains unslaked, and the Person who is enough must be the living God. Scripture ref: Luke 16:19-23. It is useless to speculate on its origin. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. Light and Troth-i.e., Lovingkindness and Faithfulness in fulfilling promises-are like two angels, despatched from the presence-chamber of God, to guide with gentleness the exiles steps. [Note: VanGemeren, p. 6, HWV 251b, "As pants the Hart for cooling streams": As pants the hart for cooling streams, so longs my soul for thee O God (George Frideric Handel; lyrics based off of Tate and Brady) Psalm 42:1-2: When shall I come and appear before God? (2) Psalm 43 has no title for it. Psalm 42 essentially a lament, with Psalm 43 forming the Psalmist's prayer in response to the lament. "Mizar" is probably the name of a hill otherwise unknown, and specifies the singers locality more minutely, though not helpfully to us. Understand that God may use suffering to refocus our deepest desires on Him. It is better therefore to translate "hind" than "hart." I thirst for God, the living God. Is it disquieted on account of God? 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. In reference to the description of the psalmists locality, Cheyne beautifully says, "The preposition from is chosen (rather than in) with a subtle purpose. Deep calls unto deep with the voice of your water-spouts. That lovely metaphor has touched the common heart as few have done, and the solitary singers plaint has fitted all devout lips. I will not fear . The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. The stimulus serves for a moment; but once more courage fails, and once more, at yet greater length and with yet sadder tones, plaints and longings are wailed forth. For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. {Psalms 42:11 and Psalms 43:5} But probably the text is faulty. This mans longing was intensified by his unwilling exile from the sanctuary, a special privation to a door keeper of the Temple. It may have been so, but the supposition is unnecessary. And the little hill of Hermon. 2. REKINDLE YOUR PASSION (PSALMS 42:1-2 ) INTRO: SKIT: SATAN GOT YOUR JOY AND PASSION (1.) 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. If you would also ask the meanings of the names, Jordan means their descent. There is another point to be observed in the hart. What I am saying, that as the hart pants after the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God, means this, My soul is thirsty for the living God. 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? [Note: See Swindoll, pp. 2. PSALM 51:1-2. Hes not thirsting mainly for escape. It has been ingeniously conjectured by Delitzsch that the Korachite psalms originally formed a separate collection entitled "Songs of the Sons of Korach," and that this title afterwards passed over into the superscriptions when they were incorporated in the Psalter. Psalms 42:3)." Source. 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. Here, the Psalmist is making an eschatological statement that even in the midst of powerful opposition, God will rule and prevail over that which is unjust in both the short-term as well as the long-term (v. 3-4). Mount Mizar is one of the hills in that area. Emotion varies, but God is the same. Everything We Need - Psalm 23. This I make my business here; I who am the hart thirsting and longing for the water-brooks, calling to mind the sweetness of that strain, by which I was led on through the tabernacle even to the house of God; while this corruptible body presses down the soul, Wisdom9:15 there is yet with me prayer unto the God of my life. I may perhaps finish the Psalm, aided as I am by your attention, whose fervour I perceive. 1-10 and (2) vv. That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. Methods devised to proclaim gospel. Rich Man and Lazarus Sermon Outline. And just as there we found cause for rejoicing, so here there will not be wanting an occasion for sorrow. Naturally this transition strophe is marked by the mingling of both. These outlines are eventually posted on this website. So bloated with other things hasnt got space for water., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 3 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. I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! Scripture: Psalms 42:1-2 Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational Summary: THIRSTING FOR GOD THIRSTING FOR GOD (NLT) Psalm 42: 1-2 - As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. (vv. (Doesnt mean they are bad. Esther 1 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Foolish. The actual return to the Temple is desired because thereby new praise will be occasioned. Take all the parts of a sermon and put them together into a whole, and that whole is the central idea-the big idea-in the sermon. Just as if his soul was silently replying to him, Why do I disquiet you, but because I am not yet there, where that delight is, to which I was, as it were, rapt for a moment? That is the worlds way with the calamities of a devout man, whose humble cry, "My God," it resents as presumption or hypocrisy. Whoever begins as he did will finish where he climbed. Some of them were among the faithful adherents of David at Ziklag, {1 Chronicles 12:6} and in the new model of worship inaugurated by him the Korachites were doorkeepers and musicians. He affirms God's sovereign love. What abyss is this that calls, and to what other abyss? 15. Soul. Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for you. There is with me prayer to the God of my life. Deep calls on deep, then, is, man calls to man. 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. It is sometimes right to pray for the defeat of enemies. settled. With wise resolve he finds in dejection a reason for nestling closer to God. Dont take these times together lightly. What should I say, but. Devil "I've got his .read more Scripture: Psalm 42:1-2 AS THE DEER PANTS FOR STREAMS OF WATER. A Psalm Of The Have-Nots (Audio) Download File. 2. LEARNING TO DESIRE It is likely that he wrote these four as well, even though they do not bear his name (cf. sheep dogs. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. And why ask, who it is other than yourself, when it is in your power to be the thing which you are asking about? Let Him deliver you, if He can. The name "Elohim" occurs 164 times in this section of the Psalms, and the name "Yahweh" ("LORD") appears only 30 times. HAVE MERCY ON ME, GOD. Others believe the sons of Korah composed them. But inasmuch as You sit at liberty, I have thus spoken unto my soul. religion or Christ. My email address is feedback732 at newadvent.org. He compared the noise of the waves to his troubles, that he personified as calling to one another to come and overwhelm him. 9 ). For how can it be that in the midst of these tempests of the world, you should pass through the whole of that sea, without suffering? According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. AND XLIII. Deep calls on deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. From the little hill, and from the land of Jordan. Psalm 42 STROPHE DIVISIONS OF MODERN TRANSLATIONS READING CYCLE THREE (see "Guide to Good Bible Reading") FOLLOWING THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR'S INTENT AT PARAGRAPH LEVEL This is a study guide commentary which means that you are responsible for your own interpretation of the Bible. 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? Finally, the psalmist thirsts for God like a deer pants for the stream. To recall past joys adds stings to present grief, but to remember God brings an anodyne for the smart. Verses 1-11 II. Translated by J.E. 5) Finally, at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17:22-34), Paul exposes the gathered worshipers as being ignorant of . Yet we must even now take notice of this title in such a way, that what we have said already should be no prejudice against our saying it again: for all were not present in every place where we said it. And we are told in answer, that it is some festival. Expository Sermons on Psalm 6. The psalmists lamentation because of his enemies 42:6-11. At our very core we have a desire that only God can meet. I have now had the perception of something that is unchangeable; why do you disquiet me still? Those men so patient and courageous for the name of Christ, how often was it said to them, Where is your God? Hear what else there is in the hart. Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. It's as if the writer is saying, "If you want to know how to thank God, let . We will be looking at this Psalm in three parts over the next three weeks. For in prosperity God commends to you His mercy, in case thou serve Him faithfully, for He frees you from tribulation; but it is in the night only that He declares His mercy to you, which He commended to you by day. 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. Psalm 42 - Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. 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? But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. In Praise Of The King And His City (Audio) Download File. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up; why have You forgotten me? 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. 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. 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? revive us again. When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. This man was cut off from worship of the living God. Galatians6:2 5. The epithet answers to that of the former part, "the living God," from which it differs by but one additional letter. God guides till we reach heaven - Psalm 73:24 C. God's guidance is by faith - Isaiah 42:16 3. Learnt to live with disappointment and disillusionment., DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 4 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? The first time we see it in Bible history is in I Chronicles 16, when King David is bringing up the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. 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. "Korah, Asaph, Heman, and Ethan are all associated with the service and music of the sanctuary in Davids reign. Does man call on man as God is called upon? Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary. 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. Not mere bodily presence there, but that joyful outpouring of triumph and gladness, is the object of the psalmists longing. Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. 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! 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. Why hope? In this Psalm David, who is himself a shepherd, describes the LORD as his own personal shepherd. 42-72 In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. Therefore we are warned to be like the ant. So, let me invite you to take your copy of Gods Word and turn to Psalm 42. All Your overhangings and Your waves have come upon me. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. He called his book The Souls Conflict with Itself, because in Psalm 42:5 thats exactly what you have; the soul arguing with itself, preaching to itself. 12. His situation and mood closely resemble those in another Korachite psalm (Psalms 84:1-12), in which, as here, the soul "faints for the courts of the Lord," and as here the panting hind, so there the glancing swallows flitting about the eaves are woven into the song. Water the key theme in the Psalm. 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