Psalm 20 Trust in the LORD

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Our trust rests in the LORD alone who saves.

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Trust in the LORD
Chair Bible: p. 456
Main Point: Our trust rests in the LORD alone who saves.
Danger of eisegesis--interpreting one verse or a series of verses in isolation from the whole of the Psalm or the whole of the Bible.
Example...v. 1 and v. 4
How can we avoid wrong treatment of the text? Consider the language, the immediate context and the overall context of the Bible.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
Flow of the Psalms-- (The LORD saves the king, his annointed and will save his offspring)
Glory of God v. 1, the perfect truth of God’s word...see
& 21 share the same purpose as the LORD saves the king and his offspring. is prior to battle, is after battle.
What shaped David praying/writing this Psalm? An event in his past or an event in the future? Yes.
, With this promise in mind, David prays.

David prays trusting the LORD to save according to his character and promises

Is this a prayer from David or a prayer on behalf of David before battle? “You” is second person singular. The confusion comes in v. 5 and 6. Move from we to I. Are the we(Israel) praying or is David praying with Israel? I will present the Psalm as prayer of David...the you is someone David is referring to.
1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble!
May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
LORD-the covenant keeping God--because of his self-revelation, David, Israel, and his people of any age can call on the One who is ready to work.
What does the “name of” mean? The reputation of…”the God of Jacob” who promised to deliver Jacob--He keeps his promises.
Genesis 28:13–15 ESV
13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14 Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
delivered Jacob’s descendants from Egypt. His name is Yahweh-the LORD.
delivered Jacob’s descendants from Egypt. His name is Yahweh-the LORD.
He will protect you(end of v. 1). Same word as in “The LORD is my rock and my fortress literally my high fortress.
He will deliver the coming One from his trouble (Spurgeon “All the days of Christ were days of trouble.” (Spurgeon, 304)--
2 May he send you help from the sanctuary
and give you support from Zion!
The presence of God is symbolized in the sanctuary on Mt. Zion. The presence of God is all that is needed in the day of trouble.
Spurgeon “The sanctuary to us is the person of our blessed Lord, who was typified by the temple, and is the true sanctuary which God has pitched, and not man: let us fly to the cross for shelter in all times of need, and help will be sent to us” (Spurgeon, 301).
3 May he remember all your offerings
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah
The Israelite practice of presenting sacrifices and offerings before a military campaign was an active devotion and submission to the Lord. Their purpose was not primarily to atone for sin but to see God‘s favor and to consecrate oneself from war. (Longman, 226)
What is the sacrifice that the anointed one will offer? Himself
What did Jesus do prior to the Cross? He prayed in gethsemane… compare to v. 4
4 May he grant you your heart’s desire
and fulfill all your plans!
Acts 13:22 ESV
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Acts 13:22 ESV
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Why was David a man after God’s own heart? He believed God and acted accordingly.
Why was David a man after God’s own heart? He believed God and acted accordingly.
Why was David a man after God’s own heart? He believed God and acted accordingly.
What did Jesus pray in the garden? Not my will, but your will be done.
What is God’s will?...that He be glorified and that his gospel go the nations…to the glory of God.
Jesus has faced the day of trouble and accomplished God’s will...it is finished.
“So, unlike the prayers in , we do not pray for Jesus to be victorious; we pray because He has been victorious. That has altered everything” (Davis, 126). “We still celebrate His victory (cf. v. 5), but we do not pray for it. We pray He would manifest, display, make open and public His victory, that He would impose it on those who flatter themselves that they can resist it, that He would indeed allow His people to see the days of the Son of Man (cf. ). We pray, but on the basis of the victory already achieved” (Davis, 126).
David bases his prayer on the LORD...as a result...

David prays trusting the LORD to save with assured confidence

6 Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed;
he will answer him from his holy heaven
with the saving might of his right hand.
What does David mean? Based on his experience, based on the promise of God? Who is he talking about? The anointed...the Messiah... “He will answer him…”right hand” emblem of strength and power. Drawing from foundational Psalm....
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7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Israel’s kings were prohibited to acquire great numbers of horses but were required to revere the Lord. (Longman, 227)
Deuteronomy 17:14–20 ESV
14 “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold. 18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
The comparison the Holy Spirit sets forth is between the faithful, whose confidence is in God alone, and the rest of the world, whose trust is almost always in riches, power, and military strength. (Calvin, 110)
The comparison the Holy Spirit sets forth is between the faithful, whose confidence is in God alone, and the rest of the world, whose trust is almost always in riches, power, and military strength. (Calvin, 110)
Trusting in chariots and horse was confronted at the tomb…
“...Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”
David draws another comparison
8 They collapse and fall,
but we rise and stand upright.
Those who do not trust the LORD will drop and bow down. Those who trust in the LORD rise and stand up right. (Possible illus Napoleon...‘God is on the side that has the heaviest artillery.’ Later this diminutive dictator boasted, ‘I make circumstances.’
9 O LORD, save the king!
May he answer us when we call.
“But: ‘Yahweh, save! The king will answer us in the day when we call’” (Davis, 131). David the king appeals to someone greater, a greater king.
“That Jesus might himself be delivered, and might then, as our King, hear us, is the two-fold desire of the Psalm” (Spurgeon, 303).

David prays trusting the LORD to save with joyful anticipation

5 May we shout for joy over your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!
When the King wins, all of his people win.
Who is the source of the salvation are they anticipating shouting for joy over? “Your salvation” salvation is from Christ alone.
The joy of the church is in the salvation of Christ, and the joy of every individual is in the application of that salvation to himself, and all around him. (Horne 106)
“To set up banners is to display signs of victory, to hold up signals of triumph already effected or confidently expected” (Plumer, 269).
“May the LORD fulfill all your petitions! Where is Jesus now? Seated at the right hand(v. 6) of the father where he is interceding for his own.
Romans 8:34 ESV
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

So What?

So What?
Am I joyfully trusting in the salvation of the LORD?
Hebrews 12:1–2 ESV
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Illus: Dwight Johnson, joyful confidence in the salvation of the LORD through Christ.
Illus: Dwight Johnson, joyful confidence in the salvation of the LORD through Christ.
Response: No One Higher
Response: No One Higher
Who shall ascend?
Comfort
Resurrection
Deliverance for David and his seed
The Glory of God
The King
Death and Resurrection
Comfort
Who shall ascend?
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