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Before we begin … I want give you some Psalm-formation --- Each week I will … also remember to bring your Psalm Chart I gave you last week:
Psalm Headings (also Called Superscriptions)
–Of the 150 have titles
What do you do when faced with life’s troubles?
–Often helpful in seeing Psalm in Context
–Most included after the exile period (probably)
–The scribes addition of these headings demonstrate “devout and serious study”
–The headings contain 5 different types of info:
1.Psalms identified with person or group (i.e.
author) – , ,
2.Historical information – , .Musical Information – ,
4.Liturgical Information – , .Type of Psalm – i.e.
Hymn, Lament – , ,
SELAH?
•SELAH?
•Used 71 times in Psalms (3x in )
•Precise meaning of word is uncertain
What do you do when faced with life’s troubles?
•May mean:
–Mark of strophes or stanzas
–Point in song when congregation bowed to the ground in reverence before God
–A Musical mark of some kind …
•Pause
•Instrumental Interlude
•Louder ... Crank it up!
•“For ever” (Jerome) – Like an “Amen”
* Point of reflection ... Think about this
Now Psalm 3
What do you do when faced with life’s troubles?
Where do you go/to whom to you go when faced with life’s troubles?
calls us to pray …
There are some who would say that prayer is a believer’s way of escapism.
Prayer is no anemic exercise engaged in by pale - hide their heads in the sand people who can’t cope with challenges.
Prayer is the way we slug through our troubles.
In His book “Answering God” Eugene Peterson states that “Trouble Triggers Prayer.”
Let’s set up - In His great book “The Flow of the Psalms” - O. Palmer Robertson writes:
The Psalter opens with and 2 serving as pillars marking the entrance to the temple of the Psalter.”
God’s Law -
God’s Messiah -
- I spoke on last Christmas - WE read:
There is rebellion and rejection:
Robertson goes on to say introducing :
“As it fares with the messianic king, so it fares with each member of the messsianic kingdom.”
Or as Jesus said:
John 15:
Or again:
So we come to … and see trouble
“Trouble triggers Prayer”
Prayer is the way we slug through troubles.
The Setting of the Psalm
One word … Rebellion (Political insurrection)
Primarily the account is found in (Other texts involved … Let me walk you through the setting)
Look at the Psalm title or superscription:
A PSALM OF DAVID, WHEN HE FLED FROM ABSALOM HIS SON.
We need to go bak in Israel’s history a bit:
2 Sam 11:1-
David had an adulterous relationship with a married woman … step two
He calls for Uriah to come back from battle and spend time with his wife … to cover up David’s sin … Uriah wouldn't do it out of loyalty to the other soldiers and His country.
Then David got Uriah Drunk and thought that would work () - It didn’t
So David sent Uriah back to the battle with a letter for General Joab …
2 Sam 11:
It Worked …
David thought he was free and clear …
iN David is confronted and rebuked by Nathan the Prophet …
2 Sam 11:26-27
Skip to the judgment on David …
2 Sam.
12:9-
Pay special note to
2 Sam 12:
The account of David’s Family is sad …
The baby of Bathsheba’s dies
David’s one son Amnon rapes his sister Tamar (2 sam 13)
David’s other son Absalom takes revenge himself and Kills Amnon
Storms on Absalom
Absalom was David’s third son.
His second son, Chileab, is never mentioned after reference to his birth, and the assumption is that he died early on.
David’s firstborn son was Amnon.
The story of how Amnon died is a sordid one.
Amnon raped his half-sister, Tamar, and Absalom, Tamar’s brother, swore revenge.
It took two years but finally Absalom arranged for Amnon to be killed.
Fearing punishment, Absalom went into exile for three years.
When he finally returned to Jerusalem, David refused to see him.
Two more years passed before David and his son were reunited, although even then they weren’t reconciled.
Absalom’s plot to take the throne from his father probably emerged gradually.
He began by currying favor with the people (2 Sam.
15:1–6).
He portrayed himself as one who was interested in people by telling them he was far more capable of helping them with their troubles and securing justice for their complaints than was David.
According to 2 Samuel 15:6, “Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.”
Once Absalom felt secure in his position, he made his move.
He went to Hebron, assembled his followers, and had himself anointed king (2 Sam.
15:7–12).
With a considerable army behind him, he marched against his father in Jerusalem and forced David to flee (2 Sam.
15:13–17).
Following a shameful period of absence from his throne, the armies of David eventually prevailed.
Absalom was killed, contrary to his father’s express wishes, serving only to intensify the latter’s pain.
What an amazing scene: David, driven from his throne, subjected to indescribable humiliation, not by a pagan Gentile king but by his own son!
Absalom’s treachery and rebellion must have crushed David’s heart.
Here is the important point: it was while David was fleeing the armies of Absalom, broken by the spiteful betrayal of his own child, that he sat down and wrote the words of Psalm 3.
David was pretty passive in the whole event
The David and Absalom rift grew … as did Absalom’s popularity …
Listen to Absalom’s reviews:
is the account of Absalom’s conspiracy against David and His rule
He was handsome … he was also cunning
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