Speaks of the Triumphal Entry and the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus
2 Questions Why should we worship God? What is Worship? 1-6 God comforts His People (we should praise Him) 7-11 God rules over all creation (we should thank Him) 12-20 God shows His love (we should worship Him)
PRAISE – The extolling or exaltation of a deity, ruler, or hero. THANK – To express gratitude to; give thanks to. WORSHIP – The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity.
The word comes from an old English word = Worthship Why should we worship God? He cares for us… He rules over us… He loves us… What is worship? Giving our best to God Public worship … Sunday School, Church, Bible Study and Prayer Groups Family worship … Prayer, Pa\ray for meals, Bible Reading Private worship … Prayer, Bible Study
How important is TIME? Time is relevant … Time is man oriented … Seconds — Minute … Minute — Hour … Hour — Day Day —Week … Week — Month … Month — Year GOD/MAN God’s Eternity 1,2,4 ….. Man’s Mortality 3,5,6 ….. Man’s Sin 7-11 …… MAN’S PRAYER Wisdom 12 …. MERCY 13 …. Joy 14,15 … Power 16 …. Effectiveness 17 …. THINK ABOUT GOD, MAN, TIME, ETERNITY GOD is Eternal ….. Always was and will be. MAN is Everlasting … Has a beginning but will never end TIME began with Creation ETERNITY always will and will be Life is short (How Short?) Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PSALM What is taught about God? HE is Eternal and the Creator What is taught about Man? Life is short and full of trouble What is taught about God’s anger? It is powerful and consuming What is taught about avoiding God’s anger? Have Faith in Him (to be saved believe in Christ) What did the Psalmist want God to teach him? To number (use wisely) his days Think about your remaining Days.. A Teen thinks he has lots of time left… A Young Adult also thinks lots of time left… A middle Ager starts to think about what lies ahead …. An Older person starts to think, How Long? How does God satisfy a persons need? By providing his deep needs for forgiveness, for salvation, security, stability, purpose and meaning to life!
David’s Plight His suffering … 1-6 It’s cause … 7-12 David’s Petitions For Deliverance … 13-21 For Vengeance … 22-28 David’s Hope For himself … 29-34 For Judea … 35-36 COMPARE: VS 4 – John 15:25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. Vs 8 – John 7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? Vs 9 –Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Vs 21 – Matthew 27:34They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. Matthew 27:48And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. David prayed for is enemies: 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Revelation 10:4And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. Revelation 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Revelation 22:10And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
God uses His seal during the Tribulation
Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Revelation 10:4And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. Revelation 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Revelation 22:10And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Praise the Lord, our salvation is SEALED by the Holy Spirit!
2 Corinthians 1:22Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit … Ephesians 1:13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Ephesians 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed …
The Lord God makes much use of His seal during the Tribulation:
Revelation 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Revelation 7:3-7 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
A very graphic description of the Crucifixion (which did not come into being until the Romans ruled). (read about the crucifixion as recorded in the four Gospels).
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Words spoken by Christ as He hung on the cross.Mark 15:34 2-6 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7-8 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.Actions, works and words spoken by those around the cross as Christ was being crucified. Matthew 27:43 9-11 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Sufferings of the Lord Jesus at His trial and crucifixion. Matthew 27:27-42, Mark 15:16-28 12-17 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. Prophecy-FulfilledMatthew 27:35, Mark 15:24, John 19:23 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations. 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. The Apostle Paul write his epistles to the SAINTS at …. Romans 1:7, 1 Corinthians 1:2, 2 Corinthians 1:1, Ephesians 1:1, Philippians1:1, Colossians 1:2 4-9 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. This verse speaks of Christ’s three days in the tomb, where he descended into hades and then rise gain three days later, and His body did not see corruption but was changed to a glorious one. Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?Acts 2:31He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.Acts 13:35Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.1 Corinthians 2:9…things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Ephesians 4:10He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Peter preaching to JewsActs 4:12 – Paul wrote to RomansRomans 14:11 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. This was quoted by Christ in Matthew 21:16 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4-6 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: This was quoted by Paul in Hebrews 2:6-8 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. The Lord Jesus created everything. Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:16 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Every knee shall bow to the Lord Jesus. Romans 14:11
A Meditation of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.
When David was under attack from Cush the Benjamite, all he could trust was God.
O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. 1 Peter 4:18 IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGOLDLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?
My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
David’s supposed intention was that it would be for anyone suffering from sickness or distress or for the state of the Kingdom of Israel while suffering through oppression.
O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
The Psalmist gives a clear distinction between the righteous and the wicked.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
The Lord Jesus said: Matthew 7:12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. The Apostle John writes: 3 John 1:2Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. The above speak of while we are living, But, look again at verse 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
See also The Future See also Great White Throne (Final Judgement)
