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Text:  Psalm 119:33-40
Date: February 18, 2009
Place: FBCC
 
Introduction
 
 
I.
Pray for DIRECTION (33)
 
     A.
By Seeking God’s Direction - “/Teach me/ O Yahweh”  the way of your statutes
          (decrees)
 
           /The way of your statutes/ (i.e.
precepts – “What the Lord has previously laid down
                                                    from the root word meaning ‘to engrave’.Lit.
“things in-
                                                         scribed)
 
            1.
By recognizing our own Inability  -  Our nature prohibits it.
a)  We are unable to initiate the right direction
 
                 Jeremiah 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately
                 wicked. who can know it?
Romans 7:15   For what I am doing, I do not understand.
For what I will to do,
                 that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
Ephesians 4:22  that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old
                 man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
           
              b)  By coming in Humility  -  “point out to me”  Lit.
“/stretch out the hand.”/
*teach*, instruct, give guidance, direct, i.e., give information in a formal or informal
                       setting, implying authority of the teacher or the content of the teaching [1]
 
          2.
By Seeking God’s Person -  O Lord -  Yahweh
 
              a)  Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools
                   despise wisdom and instruction.
b)  Psalms 111:10  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good
                   understanding have all those who do His commandments.
His praise
                   endures forever.
B.
By Choosing consistent Obedience -  /“I will keep it to the end”/   - Learning
            God’s way demands continual compliance – we know, therefore we must do.
1)  Nezer -  *keep*, observe, comply, i.e., obey a command (Ps 78:7)[2]
 
             2)  *unto the end*, i.e., pertaining to a point of time in a duration of time, so be the end
*                    *point of a duration (Ps 119:33,112+)[3]
 
                   *Matthew 28:19-20*  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing
                   them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  20 */teaching    /*
*/                   them to observe all things that I have commanded you; /*and lo, I am with you
                   always, even to the end of the age."
Amen.
II.
Pray for DISCERNMENT (34)  - Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law…
 
     A.
A Clear Understanding of what God wants  - Give me understanding
 
           1.
A discerning heart led by the Holy Spirit – Illumination
 
                Understanding  “bin”  - The word used here refers to mental comprehension, as
                distinguished from the mere direction asked for in the previous verse.
Here the prayer
                is ‘Make me discern, cause me to perceive’ i.e. with the understanding.
THE OUTER
                SENSES MUST SEE THE WAY, THEN THE MIND MUST UNDERSTAND IT…
 
           2.
A directed heart
 
 
     B.
A Clear Application of what God wants  (34b)
 
          1.
Determination - I shall keep Your law – nezer -  Biblical knowledge requires active
              response
 
          2.
Diligence - I shall observe it with my whole heart –  lit.
“all” of my heart
 
                Shamer - *observe*, keep, i.e., obey a command with diligence and in detail (Lev
                19:30); [4]
     3.
Dependence – Make me to walk in the path of your commandments
 
           1.
Restrict my life to living out the principles of Scripture  -  Psalm 1:1-3
 
           2.
Reject any other way that is not within the confines of Scriptural principles
 
*Pr 2:12-13*/ To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks /
/perverse things,  13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the /
/ways of darkness;/
 
                        *Proverbs **4:19* / The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what /
/                        makes them stumble.
/
 
                       
 
     4.
Delight – for I delight in it (35b)
 
          *delight*, take pleasure in, be eager, i.e., have a fondness or affection for an object or
           experience[5]
 
          *Psalms 1:2*   But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and
                               night.
*                     Psalm  119:47,70,77,92,174*
 
*Read with Tongue*
 
A man in Kansas City was severely injured in an explosion.
Evangelist Robert L. Sumner tells about him in his book/ The Wonders of the Word of God/.
The victim’s face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands.
He was just a new Christian, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no longer read the Bible.
Then he heard about a lady in England who read Braille with her lips.
Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in Braille.
Much to his dismay, however, he discovered that the nerve endings in his lips had been destroyed by the explosion.
One day, as he brought one of the Braille pages to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised characters and he could feel them.
Like a flash he thought, I can read the Bible using my tongue.
At the time Robert Sumner wrote his book, the man had “read” through the entire Bible four times.
/The Wonders of the Word of God/, by Robert L. Sumner.
III.
Pray for Dedication (36-40)
 
     
      A.
Dedication of my Heart – inner man.
(36)
 
                *Incline*  - (Hiphil).
/1c1/ to stretch out.
/1c2/ to spread out.
/1c3/ to turn, incline, influence,
                  bend down, hold out, extend, thrust aside, thrust away.[6]
1.
To the Word of God -   incline my heart to Your testimonies   -
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