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March 5, 2012
By John Barnett
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As we open to Psalm 71, we have already seen how the whole Psalm is a portrait about how David looked at life through the lens of Scripture.
But today, as we come to the ending of David’s life we are looking at another aspect of His life reflected in this Psalm.
David declares that he is going to speak out about the goodness of God to the end.
*David Decided to Talk About God’s Goodness*
David has learned to never stop talking about the goodness of God.
Please listen to God speaking through David.
Psalm 71:6, 8, 15, 17-18 (NKJV)
v. 6 By You I have been upheld from birth;
You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.
My praise shall be continually of You.
v. 8 Let my mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your glory all the day
v. 15 My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.
v. 17 O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
v. 18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.
If we could summarize what David was doing in Psalm 71 it would be something like:
I’m going to be thankful about everything and pray about everything.
Look back at what he says, and underscore them in your hearts, your minds, and your Bibles.
*David is: Rejoicing*
First of all, David is rejoicing in the Lord.
You, You, You: the Lord fills David’s mind, David’s words, David’s future plans.
That is what rejoicing is about: the Lord.
Rejoicing is not about good times, it finds it source in the Lord.
If the Lord fills our minds and lives, we are rejoicing, there is no way around it.
So *David is rejoicing.*
*David is: Praying*
Secondly, David is talking to the Lord.
All the way through this Psalm we see David talking to the Lord.
In fact almost all of David’s 71 Psalms look either partially or entirely like prayers.
They reflect David’s heart.
David loved to talk to the Lord.
What do we call “talking to the Lord”?
We call it prayer, right?
So *David is praying*.
*David is: Thankful*
Finally, David is clearly thankful.
He is talking about all the good things his God has done for him.
David says everything since my birth has Your Handiwork stamped upon it.
David was thankful for God’s wondrous works, for God’s salvation, for God’s righteousness, for God’s power.
In other words David saw God everywhere in life, and in everything that happened.
*So David is thankful.*
With those three truths in mind, as I read back over those five key verses in Psalm 71, notice for yourself these three amazing elements of David’s life:
David is rejoicing.
David is praying.
David is thankful.
Psalm 71:6, 8, 15, 17-18 (NKJV)
v. 6 *By You* I have been upheld from birth;
*You are He* who took me out of my mother’s womb.
*My praise shall be continually of You.
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v. 8 Let my *mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your glory* all the day
v. 15 My mouth shall* tell of Your righteousness and
*Your salvation all the day*, For I do not know their limits.
v. 17 O God, *You have taught me* from my youth; and to this day
*I declare Your wondrous works.*
v. 18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, do not forsake me,
Until *I declare Your strength* to this generation,
*Your power to everyone who is to come.*
*David’s Life: Summarized*
We could almost summarize David’s life, recorded in the Psalms by these same three amazing elements:
*David is rejoicing.
David is praying.
David is thankful.*
Those three choices, habits, characteristics: whatever you want to call them, those three sound like a great way to live life.
They are what reflect David’s love for God and David’s passion for God’s supremacy in his life.
Today, those same elements are to be in our lives.
Listen to them again:
*David is rejoicing.
David is praying.
David is thankful.*
We could say David seems to want to always rejoice, always pray, and always express gratitude or thankfulness.
That kind of sounds like a NT passage that says something like: rejoice always, be prayerful at all time, and be thankful in everything.
*David’s Life: Reflecting God’s Will*
Why not turn with me to I Thessalonians 5 and there we will see that David was reflecting God’s will for us.
God has revealed His will, and if He wants us to do something, He gives us the grace to accomplish it, right?
I Thessalonians 5:16-18.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NKJV) Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
We could almost summarize David’s life, recorded in the Psalms by these same three amazing elements, which are imperatives or commands in Paul’s letter from God to the Thessalonians:
*David is rejoicing.
David is praying.
David is thankful.*
Those three choices, habits, characteristics: whatever you want to call them, those three sound like a great way to live life.
They are what reflect David’s love for God and David’s passion for God’s supremacy in his life.
And God commands us to allow Him to bring about those same elements in our lives.
Listen to them again:
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NKJV) /"Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; *for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.*"/
God’s will for us is vital.
God has stated that will clearly.
Which leads us to another huge reality: this lifestyle of praise, prayer, and thanksgiving is God’s Will for each of us.
And it is just one element of several clearly recorded declarations of God’s will.
For just a moment let me share what I was taught in the five years that I was mentored in pastoral ministry at Grace Community Church.
I had just graduated from three years of University and five years of Graduate school.
I was full of facts and books, but needed to be trained in how to apply all that I had learned.
God placed me on staff with John MacArthur.
It was totally God’s doing.
I met John once over lunch, and at the end of that lunch he stood up and shook my hand and asked me to come on staff and serve with him.
That was something only the Lord could do.
For five years as I traveled with John and stood with him in the visitor reception line at Grace, much like ours here each Sunday, I watched him give each person the same advice as they sought direction from him.
It was a sermon he had preached that was so powerful, the church printed it up as a small booklet to hand out to every single person that visited Grace.
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