Psalm 27
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Introduction
Introduction
Here David is writing this Psalm which reflects a man who through battles knows of the Lord. Like some of the Psalm we have examined in our mini series, this Psalm does not have a penned down date.
In this Davidic Song there is the life of David, it certainly resonates as an older man whose come to know the trials of life so perhaps the Jewish scholars are corrected to pin this song late in Davids life.
Neither the case, this Psalm presents profound truth of a trust a man can have with God, but a trust that only comes from knowing God.
I want us today to see how through the promises kept in Christ, we can know the trust of God that only comes with a relationship with the living God.
Verse 1 Protector of Life
Verse 1 Protector of Life
This week I shared with you through out text mail prayer chain, of the battle for life a young boy who was facing. Here in that battle are two parent’s whose other son goes to the school I presently teach with. I imagine this prayer is their song today; as their sons’s life appears to have been delivered.
David was no stranger to the looming deaths, Matthew Henry notes this Psalm could have been pinned at Abishai delivering David from death. 2 Samuel 21:16,17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
David while aware of his sin, as we we see very clearly in Psalm 51. There is a greater death than the physical that David would have known at least in his more mature years; the death of the soul the Lord delivers.
While David experience great salvation from physical death from his enemies as we see in verse 3. David would escape his son Absalom, he would escape Saul and even offer Saul relief from his own death. The great wars against the Philistines.
It is the death of the soul that is truly delivered, where the pains in this world counts as mercy to the sufferings that experienced in the pits of God’s wrath for all eternity.
Indeed through Christ are things delivered by the atonement, and indeed God still delivers His people from the pains and sufferings this world has.
We spoke on suffering in our sermon on the 42nd Psalm.
What we must know from this verse alone is the Lord is your salvation, perhaps God will not heal you or deliver you in this world from the sufferings you have, but if He has delivered you praise God.
Yet if your cross that will you carry for your sanctification and the glory of God, upon entering His Kingdom, where God gives you the salvation of the soul, there will you gazing upon Christ know as David knows Salvation is the Lord.
Your Enemies at the Hand of God Verse 2-3
Your Enemies at the Hand of God Verse 2-3
My Grandfather served in the United States Army, my Great Grandfather the Navy, My great Uncle a Marine. In these war stories there is a clear enemy and through their called masculinity no matter the war, the United States entered to defeat the enemy.
David himself had great enemies, the Philistines who were and depending on your eschatology still at war with Israel. David knew what it was like to have an enemy and understood greatly his duty as King was to use the office of the sword. Romans 13:1 expressly teaches that civil authority is the office of the sword to destroy the enemy of God’s people. This is a sermon for another day.
David’s wars were not easy, there were losses and during one of those war times David flesh grew weak which lead his great sin. None the less David in the midst of war had complete confidence in the Lord. That God would deliver his enemies over to their death.
This is odd to us to celebrate this; because we don’t understand the use of imprectatory Psalms (this one of those) nor are evangelicals comfortable with the thought of war in a woke generation of the modern church.
Yet enemies are a reality, spiritual warfare is real, and we must know how to go to war. First I am not calling you to take up your swords and slaughter. That is the office of the sword which is ordained by God for the punishment of evil and the protector of good.
The war you will face as Christian living in Winston-Salem NC is not the enemy at your door step, but is the enemy of darkness that permits LGBTQ+, that has a community raised without fathers, a community that heavily intoxicated with drugs and alcohol, and women desiring to murder their child in the womb.
This is a real war that must look to Christ who will and is conquering His enemies. The offer of salvation is given first and foremost. The call of repentance is for the enemies of God, to which you and I at one point were enemies of God. Really think on that before you get trigger happy with self-righteousness.
The duty of the Christian unless called to the office of the sword, is to preach to the lost, chase the one sheep, offer the gift of Christ, and also have that confidence that Christ chased you when you were a rebellious child of wrath.
Through Christ enemies of God can become children of God. David had a different calling, his calling was the physical warfare and there was nothing wrong in going to war, despite what today’s woke want people to believe.
Life is not all rainbows and one love. There are clear enemies, and Christ upon His second return will defeat all enemies of God to which there will be a final judgement. It is far best to repent of sin and turn to Christ for deliverance.
Only in Christ can we trust that He will deal with His enemies. He will either deal with them through His own providence of election, through the use of the sword and famine. I am not God, but like David we can trust God at His word that all enemies will be defeated.
The greatest enemy being death, this is defeated by the salvation of your soul, by the shedding of the King’s blood upon Calvary. The atonement of sinners can be yours, upon receiving the salvation that only comes through Christ alone.
Trusting God through relationship with Him: Verses 4- 14
Trusting God through relationship with Him: Verses 4- 14
We have seen David at war with the physical and indeed our own souls have been through war in some fashion or another. So hows does David gains this security of trust in the Almighty God?
By seeking the Lord’s face and entering the Tabernacle. Or better put seeking the Lord through praise.
First if you are not in Christ, this message further condemns your soul but also leaves a great calling for you to repent, to to come to Christ who is the salvation you need. To be able to seek God’s face because He sought you.
If your hearing this words and are not in Christ, are not a Christian this is the Lord’s grace to you. So receive this calling of salvation. Stop being an enemy of God.
For those of you that know the Lord, seek the Lord praise the Lord in times of war, in times of peace, and in times of great hope.
You do this through praising Him, offering sacrifices which is your life unto the calling of God which is to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
It is to cry out to God to teach you the ways of Christ, to meditate on His law day and night.
To believe the Lord will deliver you from whomever your enemies are.
I want to tell you the beauty of what David knew, he had God but he had his fellow soldiers to walk with him in the war, he had Samuel to guide him spiritually, he had Nathan to call him to repentance, and he had Jonathan to be his best friend.
The walk of any servant of God, any disciple of Christ is one you can not do alone. Christianity is not God and me on the Goff course, it is not a private faith. I encourage you to join the local church, worship Christ together, and wait on the Lord.
Convulsion:
Seek the face of God; you can trust Him. God kept his promise of salvation to Adam who at the fall became an enemy of God, to Abraham to which God promised a people, to David to which He promised His throne would last through His seed, to the New Covenant to which today and forever Christ is Lord, Christ is King.
It is God we can and do trust over all the affairs in our life, be it war, health, or the deep yearnings of our soul to cry out for the living waters of salvation. We can trust God.