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Prayer:
For the past several months I’ve been contemplating where we would head after Easter.
It wasn’t really clear to me where we were going to head until this past Monday.
Up until this point in time, as AFBC, we’ve only gone through an OLD TESTAMENT survey for a particular sermon series regarding the OT...
…and so I wanted to try and get back into the OT.
The Psalms is one of the most popular (probably the most popular) books in the Bible...
What the Psalms is - It’s really a hymnbook of the people of God at worship...
And what it does is:
it takes the basic themes of OT theology and it turns them into song.
And so some of the themes we’ll see as we go thru this series include:
Monotheism: The One true God.
And that every human being must know and LOVE this God.
Creation and the Fall: Even though man was created in the image of God, all people since the fall are saturated in sin and separation FROM God that only God’s grace can heal.
Election and Covenant: That the One true God chose a people for Himself…and BOUND Himself to them through His covenant promise.
Covenant Membership: That in His covenant, God offers His people grace, forgiveness of sins, an opportunity to glorify Him among the people’s of all nations, and a part to play in bringing His sheep into His fold.
Eschatology: That all of this is headed toward a GLORIOUS future...
Now regarding Authorship, I think it’s a common thought that David wrote the Psalms...
That’s partly true...
It seems that David wrote at least half of them.
Other authors include:
the sons of Korah (11 Psalms)
Asaph (12 Psalms)
Solomon (possibly 2 psalms)
Moses (1)
There are other Psalms which do not state the author...
Just so you know, we’re not going to go through each and every Psalm…doing so would take us about 3 years to get through the entire Book...
Instead we’ll jump through the Book, pulling out certain ones as we go.
And so today we’re going to start with the first psalm...
This first psalm is a short one, only 6 verses, but there’s a lot of truth within it.
Let’s go ahead and read through it, and then circle back to dive in.
After reading through this Psalm…what’s really highlighted is the reality that there are really only 2 types of people who walk this earth.
There are 2 different kinds of people - who exist.
the Righteous
the Wicked
Now, i think, EVERYONE, whether you are a church goer or NOT, when you hear the word “WICKED” you think - THAT’S NOT ME!
Right?
I mean, that’s a pretty STRONG WORD, and that’s not me!
I’m not WICKED!
Well - to that statement, I hope we all would know where to direct someone in the Bible...
take them to Romans 3:10-12
We’ve read Genesis 6:5
And so we see that according to GOD - this is reality for us...
And in this Psalm today, we find 2 paths - the way of the Righteous....and the way of the Wicked.
Looking back at verse 1 we see this:
It starts with this phrase - BLESSED is the man...
Happy is the man
It’s like going to a Restaurant, sitting down, and finding out that God is the cook.
The waiter comes and asks - What do you want?
And you say - I want to be HAPPY
And he DOESN’T give you a weird look - INSTEAD he says - Perfect…here you go...
…and he hands you a menu
AND you think - Ok, this is what i need to be TRULY HAPPY
NOW - do we fully grasp the meaning of this word “BLESSED”??
Let’s look elsewhere in Scripture to see:
So Blessedness is the state of heart whose - SINS are forgiven - whose sin is COVERED!
BLESSED is the one whom the LORD counts NO iniquity
if we truly understood this - we’d be unable to speak...
This is the kind of BLESSEDNESS we’re talking about...
Blessed is he who takes REFUGE in the Lord
In this GOOD God - we are ETERNALLY secure!
BLESSED is the man who OWNS this!
Who has tasted this...
BLESSED is the one You CHOOSE and bring NEAR...
BLESSED is the one who DWELLS with the Lord...
We SHALL BE SATISFIED
This BLESSEDNESS is a satisfaction in the presence of God!
Blessed are those who WALK in the LIGHT of the face of the Lord...
There’s a BRIGHTNESS - a deep rooted JOYFUL contentment for those in the Lord...
Who doesn’t WANT to be happy?
Have you been looking for happiness the past several years?
Maybe a loved one broke your heart...
Maybe you LOST a loved one...
The God we serve KNOWS where happiness lies…and he helps us here...
Now, what does this verse say?
The first thing it says is - Hey, YOU want to be happy, then don’t DO THESE THINGS...
“Happy is the man who WALKS NOT in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers.”
There seems to be this progression of compliance here...
from WALKING in the counsel of the wicked (hearing advice (words))
to STANDING in the way (path) of sinners (you stop are now pointing in the direction of evil)
to SITTING in the seat of scoffers (have a seat at the table of those who BRAG about their sin)
And so this really does cover ALL the bases...
You may NOT NOW sit in the seat of scoffers....but this seems to be saying - If you WALK in the counsel in the wicked...
…you WILL one day be SITTING in the SEAT of scoffers...
And this VERY MUCH points to the reality that WHO you choose to spend time with in your life...
the people that you hang out with...
..CAN MOST CERTAINLY affect your walk with the Lord…and as we’ll see from the text…YOUR HAPPINESS!
We’ve seen this - have we not?
We’ve seen our kids, our teens, start hanging out with the wrong crowd, the wrong person...
....and it begins to change our kids...
…they begin to become LIKE those they hang out with!
BUT does this happen ONLY to our kids?
NO -
We see time and time again - the most faithful men in scripture - FALL to sin...
I saw an article this week titled this:
SLIDE:
If They Fell, So Can You: How Sin Seduced the Strongest, Wisest, and Godliest
If They Fell, So Can You
Regarding Samson, sin overpowered the strongest man, and it can take you out too...
Solomon had matchless wisdom, yet was outsmarted by sin’s schemes...
David was a man after God’s own heart, yet David’s heart was lured by the beauty of sin...
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