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<El Paso>
This Psalm is a song of lamentation.
If you wonder what lamentation is, I could explain it.
Or, we could just read it.
You’ll understand at a deeper level than my words could ever say.
This Psalm is a song of lamentation.
If you wonder what lamentation is, I could explain it.
Or, we could just read it.
You’ll understand at a deeper level than my words could ever say.
Story of Leticia.
This Psalm is a song of lamentation.
If you wonder what lamentation is, I could explain it.
Or, we could just read it.
You’ll understand at a deeper level than my words could ever say.
El Paso
<story of Leticia>
1 LORD,,C why do you stand so far away?
Why do you hide in times of trouble?
2 In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue their victims;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
3 For the wicked one boasts about his own cravings;
the one who is greedy curses and despises the LORD.
4 In all his scheming,
the wicked person arrogantly thinks,
“There’s no accountability,
since there’s no God.”
5 His ways are always secure;
your lofty judgments have no effect on him;
he scoffs at all his adversaries.
6 He says to himself, “I will never be moved—
from generation to generation without calamity.”
7 Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;
trouble and malice are under his tongue.
8 He waits in ambush near settlements;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;
9 he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket.
He lurks in order to seize a victim;
he seizes a victim and drags him in his net.
10 So he is oppressed and beaten down;
helpless people fall because of the wicked one’s strength.
11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
he hides his face and will never see.”
12 Rise up, LORD God! Lift up your hand.
Do not forget the oppressed.
13 Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”
14 But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.
The helpless one entrusts himself to you;
you are a helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked, evil person,
until you look for his wickedness,
but it can’t be found.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble;
you will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,
18 doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed
so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.
We begin with the question the Psalmist begins with: “Where is the Lord?”
The question is asked two different ways in this Psalm.
The first one we look at is:
If you haven't grappled with the evil in this world, then this Psalm will make you really uncomfortable.
Often we have to work to make sure the Old Testament is applicable to us, today.
I don’t have to with this Psalm.
It reaches across the ages.
If you haven't grappled with the evil in this world, then this Psalm will make you really uncomfortable.
The point of the psalmist is not to make you uncomfortable.
The point is to find true comfort when confronted with evil.
We begin with the question the Psalmist begins with: “Where is the Lord?”
The question is asked two different ways in this Psalm.
The first one we look at is:
What is our response meant to be when we see such things?
We begin with the question the Psalmist begins with: “Where is the Lord?”
The question is asked two different ways in this Psalm.
The first one we look at is:
The Oppressor’s Boast
This is the mark of the wicked, right there in verse 2: arrogance.
They are arrogant towards God, and arrogant towards man.
This is the flow of verses 2-11.
In arrogance, believing in his own strength, this man makes internal choices that lead to actions, actions that progressively grow worse and worse over the Psalm.
Let’s look how it flows:
This is the mark of the wicked, right there in verse 2: arrogance.
They are arrogant towards God, and arrogant towards man.
Begins in verse 3: regards his self to the exclusion of God.
He, in essence, asks a scornful question: “Where is the Lord?”
Read
This is the flow of verses 2-11.
In arrogance, believing in his own strength, this man makes internal choices that lead to actions, actions that progressively grow worse and worse over the Psalm.
Verse 4, the arrogant thoughts begin to flow into choices (schemes)
Pray.
Intensely.
He begins to transfer that inward arrogance outward in verse 5
The Oppressor’s Boast.
Let’s look how it flows:
Arrogant boast
By verse 7 his tongue is inflamed: cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth.
The great preacher Charles Spurgeon, contemplating this psalm, said “Where the God of heaven is not, the Lord of hell is reigning and raging”
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