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Last time,
We asked the question -
In our World – what do we perceive as the greatest threat to our happiness?
We might be able to say many things, but in many ways it can be summed as threats to our fortune and threats to our life.
- What is the first goal of at least 90% of high-school students?
To find a good paying job.
- What is one of the most talked about political issues today?
The state of medical insurance in the United States.
For many,
Happiness is bound up in fortune and in a long life.
Yet, we see in where true happiness, fortune, and protection come from.
Now,
Last time we looked at the first 4 verses.
1. Plea for Protection.
(v. 1)
The biggest clue we have to when and why this Psalm was written
2. Confession.
(v.
2-3)
a. Yahweh is my master.
b.
Goodness only comes from Yahweh.
c.
His delight is in the people of God.
The most notable aspect of his confession was
- the Lord is his master.
- Goodness comes from God.
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He then,
Sorta of confesses is Worship God alone
by declaring his:
3. Refusal to Worship Idols (v. 4)
a. Idolater’s Sorrows will multiply.
c.
Refusal to Practice Idolatry
d.
Refusal to Praise Idol’s.
We now find ourselves us picking up in v. 5.
David contrasts the emptiness of vain Idols by declaring the wealth a believer receives from God.
4. Yahweh is the Possession of the Godly.
(v.
5-10)
a. Possessing God is to Possess Fortune.
(v.
5-6)
David describes running after God with wonderful metaphor of inheriting wonderful land.
v. 5 is translated in a more rigid form, by saying ““the LORD [is] the portion of my possession and my cup.”
- In Israel,
Land was everything.
And David’s possession - his land - was God.
What greater property, more valuable property could you have than - God as your property.
Illustration:
Many of you have sold and bought houses.
And location and location and location is what drives the value of homes.
How Good is your location, if your house is God?
There is no property more valuable than God.
- Further,
The Lord being David’s cup was to picture a “full cup of juice”.
Israel was a agricultural economy.
If you had an overflowing cup - you were the wealthy and blessed of the nation of Israel
Again, David’s cup was the Lord.
ILLUSTRATION:
Consider, our cup, with the song - “fill my cup Lord”
Considering ours is filled with the living water of the Words and work of Christ -
do we not have a cup that overflows with wealth?
- David accents this imagery with the Lord being his Lot.
In other word’s,
when the Lot was performed for deciding land possession -
EXPLANATION:
Lot was a set of rocks that was used to divide up the land.
Lot like drawing the shortest stick in our culture.
Or flipping a coin.
David was lotted with God.
His lotted property was God.
Now notice the parallel of v. 6.
“the LORD [is] the portion of my possession and my cup.”
What kind of land, cup, and lot does one have when your Lot is God?
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Application:
When we consider the earthly Goodness that comes from God alone, and especially, when we consider that we as his church will spend eternity in His Holy City -
Rev 21:1-22:5
Has not our God cast us a beautiful inheritance in our lot in life.
CLARIFICAITON:
We will end here tonight - with that thought.
Partly because what a wonderful thought to consider this prayer night.
Partly because I want to give the rest of this Psalm the time it deserves.
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