The Plea of The Son of Man. Psalm 4

 

Psalm 4- The Plea of the Son of Man

 

Distress indicates pressure. The pressures of life are great.

 

“The Lord is nigh unto all of them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth.” Psalm 145:18

 

“And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” Psalm 50:15.

 

“As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.” Psalm 55:16

 

The cry of the Psalmist is that God be with him. How wonderful it is that God hears our prayers.

 

Stand in awe and do not sin. “Be angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” Eph. 4:26

 

David was like the rest of us, his heart failed in the time of trouble. Around him were unbelievers, his own people, who were mocking him. They said, “God is not going to do anything for him.” But God did do something for him, “Thou has put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and wine increased.” David found that God was good to him. And God is good to us.

 

“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for You, Lord, only make me dwell in safety.” Psalm 4:8

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.

 

 

The Trials of the Godly in Israel. Psalm 3

 

Psalm 3. The Trials of the Godly in Israel

 

Trials and sorrows are shared by all godly people, regardless of who they are or in what period of history they live. The comfort given in these Psalms is for all of God’s children.

This is a Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son. He was in a difficult situation. He had become an outcast and a fugitive from his own city Jerusalem.

Absalom, his son, was in rebellion against David and was seeking his life.

 

As David fled, the enemy was on the sidelines cursing him. In 2 Samuel 12:11 it says, “Nathan said to David, “Thus said the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take your wives and give them to your neighbor.” This was when he was with Bathsheba.

 

God has graciously forgiven David and restored him, but David must reap the results of his sin; and it is in his son’s rebellion that he does it. God did not forsake him. Despite all the problems and troubles that David had, he trusted in the Lord.

 

Even though the whole world was against him, David said he would not be afraid. If you fear God, then you have no man to fear.

 

The Lord is the author of salvation. It is a gift from God. His blessings are upon His people.

 

David believed in the presence of God. We may be down, but God will lift us up.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.

 

Man's Rebellion Against God. Psalm 2

 

Psalm 2 – Man’s Rebellion against God

 

It is an empty futile thing that has brought mankind together. The establishment has joined in with it. Rulers, both religious and political, joining together. “Against the Lord and against the Christ.

Many people are not sure He is God. “…Lord thou art God, which has made heaven; and earth, and by sea, and all that in them is: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?” Acts 4:24-25.

“For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were gathered together.” Acts 4:27 This is a movement against God and Christ.

The wheat is growing, the tares are growing, they are both growing together, and He will do the separating.

The Jesus of the Bible and the Jesus of liberalism are two different individuals. The liberal’s do not believe in the virgin birth, miracles. They believe He died on the cross but not for the world, nor that Jesus rose bodily.

The Jesus we preach is the Jesus of the Bible, and that is the One against whom is opposition in the world today.

God has made marriage for the welfare of mankind, but they say, “Let’s break their bands asunder.” The ten commandments are cords. God gave them and He gave them to protect mankind. They are thrown out the door today, and now we are experiencing lawlessness. “We want to be free and do as we please.” God says we can’t make it that way. It won’t work.

In the political world there is confusion. In the moral realm there is corruption. In the spiritual sphere there is compromise and indifference. And in the social world there is comfort. This is all so ridiculous that God looks down at us puny people and He laughs. Little man putting themselves in opposition to God won’t be around very long.

God is calling out of this world a people to His name. That is His present purpose. The Lord Jesus executes all the decrees of God. He is the One that is yet to rule. He intends to come to this little planet and put down rebellion. And He will break them with the rod of iron. You and I are living in a world that is moving to judgment day, and God is going to judge. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.”

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.

Dr. David Jeremiah.

Two Men, Two Ways, Two Destinies. Psalm 1

 

Psalm 1 – Two Men, Two Ways, Two Destinies                                                                                                                              

Isaiah says that Jesus was a Man of Sorrows. “Surely he has born our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” Isaiah 53:4. It was our griefs, not His own that He was carrying.

“Blessed is the man, or happy is the man, who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.” The person who does these things is not a happy person.

Jesus spent time with His Father and knew what His will was and moved into certain areas on that basis. We are to walk by faith. Listening to the counsel of the ungodly is not walking by faith. People who do, get up in the morning, never turn to God in prayer, never thank Him for the food they eat or for life or health. They leave God out of their life.

The sinner may think he is all right, but he is a sinner. The Father laid on the Lord Jesus all the weight of our guilt. We are sinners.

The scorners are atheists. He denies God, exhibits an antagonism and a hatred of God. God is opposed to the scornful and He will scorn them.

The delight of God’s man is in the law of the Lord. He finds joy in the Word of God. “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not grievous,” I John 5:3. We are to meditate on the Word of God and allow it to shape our lives. God wants His word to come down like rain so that we who are called can give out the Word of God. It is like a garden that needs tended. It takes time and care because fruit comes forth only at the right season. Our leaf is our testimony that we have for the World for Christ. All God’s children are evergreens.

We enter the narrow way by Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life. As you continue, the way becomes broader and broader; and this way leads to life. “.. I am come that they might have life, and they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

 

Job Repents. Job 42

 

Job 42 – Job Repents

 

God always does that which is in the context of His character. He is always true to Himself. So, we cannot tell God to do something that He cannot do. God is not going to jump through any hoop just because you hold it up.

 

Job is not in any position to question God in anything that He does. He is to trust Him. He is in a new relationship. Job repents in dust and ashes. The step of real repentance is First, you must see yourself as vile. Secondly, you must abhor yourself. Then you must turn to the living God.

 

Job recognized the sovereignty of God. He realized the reason God has permitted him to suffer is to bring him to repentance.

 

Job also comes to a new relationship with his friends. Then he prays for them and offers a sacrifice for them. These friends staked him to a new beginning. It shows here that Job was a good businessman. God gave him twice as much as he had at the very beginning. All the animals were doubled.

 

After this Job lived 140 years. He lived to see his sons and his son’s sons, even four generations. When he died, he was old and full of days.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary

 

Jehovah Vs. Job. Job 38-41

 

Job 38 – 41 Jehovah Vs. Job

 

This lesson shows that God begins where we are and teaches and brings us to where God wants us to be.

There is a storm brewing and God answers Job out of the whirlwind. He says, “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?... Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?”

Paul says in Romans, creation speaks of God, the person of God, and the wisdom of God, the power of God. Creation reveals the greatness of our God. How Great He is! This is the impression we are bound to get, as God speaks of the fact that He is the Creator, and He knows much that man does not know.

God is simply making the point to Job that His creation is beyond the understanding of man. That His creation reveals His greatness. One can know about God through His creation, but creation will not bring a man to a saving knowledge of God.

 

Job 40

 

Job had been attempting to instruct God. He has been attempting to tell God something, and he is in no position to do that because he has been speaking words without knowledge.

Job then says, “I should have kept quiet, Now I see I am vile.” If we could see ourselves as God sees us, we couldn’t stand ourselves. When we get into the presence of God, we will acknowledge that we are vile.

 

Job 41

 

No man is in any position to pass judgement on God. Job says, “I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.”

 

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Elihu Continues. Job 36& 37

 

Job 36 -37 – Elihu Continues

 

Elihu is saying that God is removed from us, and we cannot communicate with Him because He is so far from us. Elihu is wrong in that.

 

“But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, that he will not hear.” Isaiah 59:2 “None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.” Isaiah 59:3-4.

 

There is one Mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ, and today we can come to God through Him.

 

Elihu said no one can teach like God. That is a true statement. The teaching of the Lord Jesus is the greatest teaching the world has ever known right down to the present hour.

 

The friends of Job tried to be his counselors. They were trying to take the place of God in this man’s life. Their problem was that their own knowledge was not adequate. No counselor can know all the facts or have all the wisdom that is necessary. Elihu doesn’t know how to approach God, and he is far removed from Him. That is why it is necessary for God to break through.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.