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Sermon on Psalm 74
Title: The King of Old
Sermon Theme: The King of Old continues to protect from the days of Old to the ones to come.
Goal: to encourage the congregation to rely fully on the King of Old
Need: At the end of a new year we are in need of the encouragement to rely on the King of Old.
Outline:
Introduction: A time to mourn and wonder why.
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Our questions why
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Our desire of God: Remember
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Our description of what is not right
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Our Questions again.
How Long and Why
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Our description of confidence in God
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Our desire of God: remember and regard
Conclusion: He is the king of old that is faithful to his covenant.
We can rely on him.
People of God,
We can count down the number of hours we have of 2008.
Let me ask you, was it all it was cracked up to be on January 1. How will you remember 2008?
In the global mind it will surely be remembered as the economic meltdown year.
Maybe Canada will remember it as a year of political turmoil and election overload.
Personally, what was it for you.
A year of joys?
A year of new beginnings?
A year where God really used you for something amazing?
Together we celebrate when there are years like that for many of us.
But as years go by, perhaps there are more years for you that you think, I had to say goodbye to too many loved ones.
Maybe it was a year that you felt the burden of life.
Too many friends getting sick.
Too many.
Maybe you mark this year as one more of loneliness and wondering how many more of these God has in store for you.
2008 does not have to be a happy year.
*As we come to the end of year, we together ought to lament with those among us who lament.*
*Lamenting is something we don’t do too quickly*.
We ought to be okay with whatever comes our way, right?
This evening, we will walk through the words of Psalm 74 to remember like Ecclesiastes says, there is a time to mourn, even in our looking back.
Read Psalm 74.
This Psalm is a difficult Psalm.
Different from the Psalms we know and love like Psalm 23 or the Psalms of praise like Psalm 150.
This Psalm is different.
*But it is an important Psalm to make a part of our spiritual relationship with God through Christ.
Life in the Holy Spirit is not always happy go lucky.
Life in the Holy Spirit includes asking the tough questions of God and lamenting.*
The passage brings us through what a lament might be like.
*It includes QUESTIONS.
Corrective Commands.
Complaints.
And Confidence.
* We find these elements interspersed throughout Laments in the Bible.
This Psalm begins with the tough questions.
Maybe they similar to the questions that lay heavy on your soul, just waiting to be expressed.
*Verse 1 says, *
*Why have you rejected us forever, O God? *
*Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?*
A far cry from “the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.”
Questions we might have felt during this past year might sound an awful lot like these.
Why are you tormenting me God.
Maybe we don’t feel punsihed by God.
But I know there have been times in my life where I have thought, well God are you getting back at me for something.
And we want God to do the same as the Psalmist asks for.
Remember… you love me.
You promised that.
I gave my heart to you.
Remember.
I believed.
I was faithful.
Remember that God.
Why the rejection?
Why the anger?
The Psalmist is daring enough to lay out what he would expect to see from God to make things right again.
Verses 2-3 there are some key words for this Psalms*.
The words are part of the next element of this Lament.
The Corrective Commands.
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It begins with the word *remember*.
*Remember your people of old.* *The tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed.
Mount Zion where you dwelt.
Turn you steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.*
Something has this Psalmist crying out in agony aginast God.
Something bitter has him telling commanding him to come back to the people he promised to love.
The commentaries disagree about what event has this Psalmist crying out in lament.
Is it the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC.
Some say it was much later under the Persian ruler Antiochus about 100 years before Christ.
Whatever the situation, the Psalmist experiences such awful things that it makes him lament and cry out that God seems so angry against his people.
What’s going on to bring up these feelings of guilt and lament, this crying out to God. *Verse 4.* First there were Questions, then Corrective Commands.
*Now the Psalmist lays out his specific complaints.*
The evidence is all around.
*4**Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; *
*they set up their standards as signs.
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*5**They behaved like men wielding axes *
*to cut through a thicket of trees.
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*6**They smashed all the carved paneling *
*with their axes and hatchets.
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*7**They burned your sanctuary to the ground; *
*they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
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*8**They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” *
*They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
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*9**We are given no miraculous signs; *
*no prophets are left, *
*and none of us knows how long this will be.
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The pain even thousands of years removed from it can still come bursting off the page.
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