Sermon Series:

Know What You Sing

Refuge, Sin, Wisdom, Compassion

This lone psalm/prayer of Moses is also a wilderness song, with sad realities of an Ecclesiastes-type life. Can there be comfort, purpose, and hope out there in the wild places?

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Restoration, Shining, Salvation

This “refugee Psalm” cries out to God with a healthy desperation we’d be wise to emulate. May God give US the life & breath to cry up to Him, that His face may shine on us again, and we will be saved.

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Now To The King Eternal

The seven “enthronement psalms,” and all psalms really, emphasize God’s sovereign glory and universal kingship. Details matter: What kind of royal is God and how does that impact His people & realm?

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God’s Limit on Injustice

This psalm comes across as if written by one going through great duress, which is what betrayal does to us. Is there help and are there solutions for those experiencing this world’s injustice?

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The Holy Zeal of God’s Righteous King

This royal psalm leaves us lamenting that such a zealous, righteous king does not exist “in the real world.” Or does He? King Jesus is THE perfect King, and He empowers humble stewards to work out justice and mercy in their domains.

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Every Knee & Every Tongue

Of course, under the Bible’s careful description, we ARE Christian nationalists (see Psalm 2)! Our word to ourselves, the high, and the low is to cease rebelling against the LORD & His Anointed (Christ), serving Him in all our roles and relations. Blessed are all who ‘kiss’ and hide in the Son.

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Blessed Is THE Man

Psalm 1 with Ps. 2 form the Psalter’s intro, asserting God’s rightful interest in things personal & cosmic. In Ps. 1, the wicked & righteous man are contrasted, but both are revealed in their relationship to God & His word. May you be judged righteous in THE Righteous Man.

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The Sin & the Story, the Song & the Savior, Cont’d

Part 2 of this sermon on Psalm 51 (the Sin, Story, Song, and Savior) emphasized the inside (heart) work which God must do, to make us clean within … and how that impacts joy, witness, & sacrificial service to Him. All this points to the impact of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of atonement.

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The Sin & the Story, the Song & the Savior

Psalm 51 gives us one of those rare worship songs for the church for which we know the precise historic circumstance behind it … in this case, King David’s notorious sins involving Bathsheba & Uriah. Can such a sinner have a truly clean heart? Depends who you ask and the basis for your plea.

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A Praise-the-Lord Sandwich?

The special contribution of this Psalm is to describe the members of God’s universal choir of praise, and also to challenge our highly limited sense of what praise (& worship) really are … ultimately, being & doing precisely what God created us to be & do. Affections follow.

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