It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. But When shall I come? (vv. He was blogging and trying to find something to get a girl off his mind. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. A. Why hope? Verse 4: These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.. [Note: VanGemeren, p. But that just isnt the way we are. In the midst of the tumult of emotions, were not always careful with our words. It is the only psalm, of the 150 psalms, so labeled. The psalmist was thirsty for God. Psalms 42 expresses the writers yearning for God. This is not inconsistent with righteousnessit is righteousness. For He who threatens does not let His judgments fall upon us, but keeps them suspended over us. A BIT OF BACKGROUND Korah was a great-grandson of Levi who rebelled against Moses leadership (Numbers 16:1-2). For it is there is the house of my God. Whoever wrote it has given immortal form to the longings of the soul after God. This is a holiday of such a kind, as neither to be opened by any dawn, nor terminated by any evening. And he knows it. The writer viewed his troubles like waves cascading down on him, as if he were standing under a waterfall. Accept that we may need to make effort. 15. AND XLIII. See how great wonders I admire in the tabernacle! In his sorrow he could still think of Him at intervals as the help of his countenance and call Him "my God." It was in wonder and admiration he spoke this: Abyss calls unto abyss with the voice of Your water-spouts. Psalmist feels cut off from Gods presence in some way possibly in exile from Israel, possibly by illness. Not mere bodily presence there, but that joyful outpouring of triumph and gladness, is the object of the psalmists longing. Last week's psalm was an unusually long one for the Psalm of Ascents, but this week we are back to a short psalm. When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. Weve got to preach it to ourselves, and preach diligently and forcefully, or well give way to a downcast and disquieted spirit. In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Emotion varies, but God is the same. May the Lord increase our hunger and our thirst to see the face of God. He needed to continue to hope in God until then. I have within a victim to sacrifice; I have within an incense to place on the altar; I have within a sacrifice wherewith to propitiate my God. For how can it be that in the midst of these tempests of the world, you should pass through the whole of that sea, without suffering? Psalms 42:5). So, at the end of verse 7, he says, All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.. Its not wrong to want relief and to pray for it. Why have You forgotten me? When shall I come and appear before God? He hacked into the Harvard server, downloaded private dormitory ID photos, and posted them on his blog. Rejected me, that is to say, from that height of the apprehension of the unchangeable Truth. For in tribulation every one must be profited by what he heard in the time of security. 8. Since no reason for the variation is discernible, and the proposed slight change of text improves construction and restores uniformity, it is probably to be adopted. Contact information. Tries to ignore thirst. For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. This I make my business here; I who am the hart thirsting and longing for the water-brooks, calling to mind the sweetness of that strain, by which I was led on through the tabernacle even to the house of God; while this corruptible body presses down the soul, Wisdom9:15 there is yet with me prayer unto the God of my life. This is understandable since the same refrain occurs in both of them (cf. running for God. That I may behold (he says) the beauty of the Lord. Has learnt to make do with occasional puddles. Justly, because the understanding spoken of is an abyss. Here, the Psalmist is making an eschatological statement that even in the midst of powerful opposition, God will rule and prevail over that which is unjust in both the short-term as well as the long-term (v. 3-4). I hope it speaks for you in this time of remembering. He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). And, as it seems to answer, Would you not have me disquiet you, placed as I am here in so great evils? Without it we die. My brother! For that hart that made tears its bread day and night, borne along by longing to the water-brooks (that is, to the spiritual delights of God), pouring forth his soul above himself, that he may attain to what is above his own soul, walking towards the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God, and led on by the sweetness of that inward spiritual sound to feel contempt for all outward things, and be borne on to things spiritual, is but a mortal man still; is still groaning here, still bearing about the frailty of flesh, still in peril in the midst of the offenses Matthew18:7 of this world. "Korah, Asaph, Heman, and Ethan are all associated with the service and music of the sanctuary in Davids reign. Deep calls on deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. For I am suffering here, even as if You had forgotten me. He does not show that He is your Helper, unless tribulation come, from whence you must be rescued by Him who promised it to you in the day-time. These outlines are eventually posted on this website. silence is not always golden. No doubt the psalmist connected communion with God and presence in the Temple more closely together than they should do who have heard the great charter, "neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem"; but, however the two things were coupled in his mind, they were sufficiently separate to allow of approach by longing and prayer while distant in body, and the true object of yearning was not access to the Temple, but communion with the God of the Temple. Hebrew word doesnt mean spirit but a persons life; who and what we really are. Of that house he speaks in another Psalm, after he had put a certain abstruse and difficult question to himself (viz., why is it that it generally goes well with the wicked on earth, and ill with the good? In preparing an article on the above topic the writer is ex-plicitly informed that what is required is t"not an expository sermon," nor " an outline of an expository sermon, but di- For I will confess unto Him. With wise resolve he finds in dejection a reason for nestling closer to God. 12. When spiritually dry, we who are believers should remind ourselves that God is sufficient for all our needs. There is with me prayer to the God of my life. Notice that the Psalmist responds to his circumstances at one point by asking God, Why? Verse 9: I say to God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? 1Corinthians10:12 Therefore since there is no soundness in me for myself, there is no hope either for me of myself. Psalms 42:3)." This man was cut off from worship of the living God. His situation and mood closely resemble those in another Korachite psalm (Psalms 84:1-12), in which, as here, the soul "faints for the courts of the Lord," and as here the panting hind, so there the glancing swallows flitting about the eaves are woven into the song. Because He loves us. 2. ), saying, I thought to know this; it is too painful for me, until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand of the last things. . 1:1-. Each swing of the gymnast lifts him higher until he is on a level with a firm platform on which he can spring and stand secure. ), the temple singers were still called the sons of Asaph. In view of the long and continued service of these temple servants, we cannot be absolutely sure when these psalms were composed, but whether they were written in the time of David or as late as Ezra, they are still Davidic associates, and that seems to reinforce the Davidic nature of these collections." The stage of mechanical repetition of complaints is not far from that of cessation of them. refreshing waters from a high hill. The angelic choir makes an eternal holiday: the presence of God's face, joy that never fails. Strip away allow God to strip away all the things that give us temporary satisfaction. Neither abstractions nor dead things can still its cravings. Psalms 43:2 looks back to Psalms 42:9, the former clause in each verse being practically equivalent, and the second in 43 (Psalms 43:2), being a quotation of the second in Psalms 42:9, with a variation in the form of the verb to suggest more vividly the picture of weary, slow, dragging gait, fit for a man clad in mourning garb. For the Psalm itself begins with a certain pious longing; and he who sings so, says, Like as the hart desires the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God Psalm 41:1. Who is it then that says this? If man then is an abyss, in what way does abyss call on abyss? : 42:2-6) The . The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit. And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. As he walks in this tabernacle, and contemplates God's wonderful works for the redemption of the faithful, the sound of that festivity charms his ears, and bears the hart away to the water-brooks. + Funeral Homilies This conflict of opposite emotions is the characteristic of the second part of the psalm, while that of the first part is an all but unrelieved predominance of gloom, and that of the third an all but undisputed victory of sunshine. Deep calls on deep, then, is, man calls to man. I shall not want for strength, "He restoreth my soul." C. Jesus also knew the responsibilities of the Shepherd to the sheep. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is your God? HAVE MERCY ON ME, GOD. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. I know this is a given but prayer prepares the preacher's heart for the studying of God's word (1 Peter 2:1-2) and it prepares the preacher's mind to receive clarity and insight into God's word (Psalm 119:18). It is a faith that has uncertainty in it; it is tinged by shades of doubt. And what is it that the ant does? LEARNING TO DESIRE At our very core we have a desire that only God can meet. Perhaps from Baptism, where the remission of sins is given. True Repentance - Psalm 51. These were Levites, and (according to 1 Chronicles 9:19 seq.) Devil" I've got it I've stolen his JOY" (4.) Why have You rejected me? When we think and feel with God in the Psalms, this is the main result: we come to love God, and we want to see God and be with God and be satisfied in admiring and exulting in God. Objectives: That each would understand the events that occurred at the pool of Bethesda and learn the lessons of appropriate compassion and sinful apathy. Streaks of brightness flash through the gloom. He ends with naming Him "the gladness of my joy." And assuredly he does but the more thirst for the water-brooks from making his tears his meat.And they daily say unto me, Where is your God? It would be good if all of us were so composed and careful in the expression of our discouragements that we never said anything amiss. Run to the fountain; long for the fountain; but do it not anyhow, be not satisfied with running like any ordinary animal; run thou like the hart. Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. For it was said of a certain person, he calls on death; Wisdom1:16 that is, lives in such a way as to be inviting death; for there is no man at all who puts up a prayer, and calls expressly on death: but men by evil-living invite death. The "soul" is feminine in Hebrew, and is here compared to the female deer, for "pants" is the feminine form of the verb, though its noun is masculine. (NLT) Psalm 63: 1-5 - O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. 2 16 How to Prepare an Expository Sermon on [April, HOW TO PREPARE AN EXPOSITORY SERMON ON PSALMS XLII. {Nehemiah 11:19} The ascription of authorship to a group is remarkable, and has led to the suggestion that the superscription does not specify the authors, but the persons for whose use the psalms in question were composed. It is the prerogative of faith to make pictures drawn by memory pale beside those painted by hope. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. For what is it thirsty? preaching the gospel. Inevitably there are times we do feel cut-off from God. When disturbing things happen, when troubling words are said, when certain letters contain ugly words or extremely critical comments are read, the churning starts. All of the psalms in Book 2 have a title assigned to them except psalm 43, making it more likely that it . What sacrifice of a troubled spirit I have within, hear. What I am saying, that as the hart pants after the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God, means this, My soul is thirsty for the living God. 2. Expository Songs Psalm 42:1-2: Chandos Anthem No. From the little hill, and from the land of Jordan. 3-7, NIV) Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! The writer remembered with great delight the times when he found spiritual refreshment at the sanctuary in Jerusalem, but he was not able to return there yet. For having but the first-fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves; waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. But seeing, brethren, so long as we are at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord; 2Corinthians5:6 and the corruptible body presses down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses on many things; Wisdom9:15 even though we have some way or other dispersed the clouds, by walking as longing leads us on, and for a brief while have come within reach of that sound, so that by an effort we may catch something from that house of God, yet through the burden, so to speak, of our infirmity, we sink back to our usual level, and relapse to our ordinary state. Yet we must even now take notice of this title in such a way, that what we have said already should be no prejudice against our saying it again: for all were not present in every place where we said it. So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. The kingdom of Israel was first united under David, and it is appropriate that David would write a psalm about living together in unity. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) It had been so far strengthened by the encouragement of the refrain that the reflux of sadness at once rouses it to action. Scripture: Psalms 42:1-2 Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational Summary: THIRSTING FOR GOD THIRSTING FOR GOD (NLT) Psalm 42: 1-2 - As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. PSALM 42 That which does must be living. 1. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. And it was in the sanctuary of God that he understood this, and understood of the last things.For he tells us of his progress, and of his guidance there; as if we had been saying, You are admiring the tabernacle here on earth; how came you to the sanctuary of the house of God? Everything We Need - Psalm 23. But his truer self silences these lamentations, and cheers the feebler "soul" with clear notes of trust and hope, blown in the refrain, like some trumpet clang rallying dispirited fugitives to the fight. 7. They are sons of the bridegroom, sons of Christ. Then follows a gleam of hope, like a rainbow spanning the waterfall. For you do not doubt of your God. Look at programs man has instituted to build the churches. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God "my salvation and my God.". REKINDLE YOUR PASSION (PSALMS 42:1-2 ) INTRO: SKIT: SATAN GOT YOUR JOY AND PASSION (1.) Hes confirming his faith in the midst of turmoil and discouragement by remembering how real God was in corporate worship. 42-72 In Book 1, all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writer. Clearly the superscriptions rested upon some tradition or knowledge, else defective information would not have been acknowledged as it is in this one; but some name would have been coined to fill the gap. The deer that rejects water. Doesnt believe in it, doesnt long for it, or doesnt know they long for it. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. He has found something to point out to the eyes of the flesh; whereas I, on my part, not that I have not a God to show to him, cannot show him what he has no eyes to see. The secret of calm is to dwell in that inner chamber of the secret place of the Most High, which whoso inhabits "heareth not the loud winds when they call," and is neither dejected nor uplifted, neither disturbed by excessive joys nor torn by anxieties. If by abyss we understand a great depth, is not man's heart, do you not suppose, an abyss? Why sons of Korah? It is on my own account it is disquieted. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. The superscription identifies the sons of Korah as the writers (or recipients) of this psalm. The epithet answers to that of the former part, "the living God," from which it differs by but one additional letter. On which account too this Psalm is ordinarily chanted on those occasions, that they may long for the Fountain of remission of sins, even as the hart for the water-brooks. I think an abyss may not unreasonably be understood of man, of whom it is said elsewhere, Man shall come to a deep heart, and God shall be exalted. the heights of Hermon from Mount Mizar. Some ancient Hebrew manuscripts united Psalms 42, 43 as one. Psalms 42:10 repeats the enemies taunt, which is there represented as like crushing blows which broke the bones. God-Centred As we have seen, the immediate cause was his separation from the temple of God. Some of them were among the faithful adherents of David at Ziklag, {1 Chronicles 12:6} and in the new model of worship inaugurated by him the Korachites were doorkeepers and musicians. Am I already 'drinking' from this 'fountain' with nothing to fear?Still Hope in God, is his answer to the soul that disquiets him, and would fain account for her disquiet from the evils with which this world abounds. The story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah is found in 2 Samuel 11-12. PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. In the daytime the Lord would pour out His love to the psalmist, and in the night he would respond by praising God. We have met with the sons of Korah in other titles of Psalms: and remember to have discussed and stated already the meaning of this name. Psalms 42:5; Psalms 42:11; Psalms 43:5). He prays now; he had only remembered and complained and said that he would pray before. It is sufficiently distinct in tone to explain its separation from the preceding, inasmuch as it is prayer throughout, and the note of joy is dominant, even while an undertone of sadness links it with the previous parts. Start With Prayer. 10. When shall I come and appear before God? The Lord has commended His loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night-time will He declare it.There is with me prayer unto the God of my life. When I have laughed at the stone, and he who pointed to it has been put to the blush, he raises his eyes from the stone, looks up to heaven, and perhaps says, pointing his finger to the Sun, Behold there my God! The actual author, as one of a band of kinsmen who worked and sang together, would, not unnaturally, be content to sink his individuality and let his song go forth as that of the band. How do you do that pastor?, Listen, self: If God is for you, who can be against you? religion or Christ. The higher self arrests this flow of self-pity and lamentation. They keep him from capsizing in the tumult of his emotions. It is a birthday that is being celebrated (say they), there is a marriage here; that those songs may not appear out of place, but the luxurious indulgence may be excused by the festive occasion. Key idea here is longing for God when in a wilderness situation. restoring the joy. For what is there more profound than that abyss? For just as worldly prosperity is signified by the day, adversity by the night, so again in another way worldly prosperity is expressed by the summer, adversity by the winter. Is it disquieted on account of God? Second, in the midst of his discouragement, he affirms God's sovereign love for him. inasmuch as he points with his finger to some stone, and says, Lo, there is my God! Therefore it is from the land of Jordan I have remembered you, and from the hill; observe, not of the great hill, that you may make of the little hill a great one: for whoever exalts himself shall be abased, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. scenes of glory on a sea of gloom. 4. Psalms 42:3). A. Feel guilty about not desiring God more. So the higher mood conquers at last, and breaks into a burst of joyous petition, which passes swiftly into realisation of the future joys whose coming shines thus far off. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE Psalm 41:9. The serpents are your vices, destroy the serpents of iniquity; then will you long yet more for the Fountain of Truth. Numbers 26:10-11) were distinguished musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31-48). This is not so yet, because the salvation which is promised, is not as yet in being; but it is in hope that I confess unto God, and say, My God is the saving health of my countenance. WHATS THE PSALM ABOUT? Long thou for this light: for a certain fountain, a certain light, such as your bodily eyes know not; a light to see which the inward eye must be prepared; a fountain, to drink of which the inward thirst is to be kindled. The same construction is found in Book 1 in Psalms 25:1-22; Psalms 26:1-12; Psalms 27:1-14; Psalms 28:1-9; Psalms 35:1-28; Psalms 37:1-40 where it is obviously the designation of authorship, and it is naturally taken to have the same force in these Korachite psalms. This mans longing was intensified by his unwilling exile from the sanctuary, a special privation to a door keeper of the Temple. The shifting of the initial word of Psalms 42:6 to the end of Psalms 42:5, and the substitution of My for His, bring the three refrains into line, and avoid the harsh expression "help of His countenance." Verses 12: As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. We have undertaken the exposition of a Psalm corresponding to your own longings, on which we propose to speak to you. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . The absence of a title for the second, the identity of tone throughout, the recurrence of several phrases, and especially of the refrain, put this beyond doubt. The refrain is repeated for a third time, and is followed by no relapse into sadness. Why, when already longing for those things, have I been cast down to these, by the weight and burden of my iniquity? It is reported of stagsthat when they either wander in the herds, or when they are swimming to reach some other parts of the earth, that they support the burdens of their heads on each other, in such a manner as that one takes the lead, and others follow, resting their heads upon him, as again others who follow do upon them, and others in succession to the very end of the herd; but the one who took the lead in bearing the burden of their heads, when tired, returns to the rear, and rests himself after his fatigue by supporting his head just as did the others; by thus supporting what is burdensome, each in turn, they both accomplish their journey, and do not abandon each other. They are great ones, severe, hard to bear; but would they were all. How could it happen? Feel guilty about feeling cut-off. Lo, we have just now been gladdened by certain inward delights: with the mind's eye we have been able to behold, though but with a momentary glance, something not susceptible of change: why do you still disquiet me, why are you still cast down? DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEER: 2 Has experienced the joy of long refreshing drinks in a cool mountain stream. Water the key theme in the Psalm. Psalm 42 essentially a lament, with Psalm 43 forming the Psalmist's prayer in response to the lament. But You are trying me, and I know that Thou dost but put off, not take utterly from me, what You have promised me. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. That's what he's seeking - jubilant hope. But they are happy in their very yearnings who are conscious of the true direction of these, and can say that it is God for whom they are athirst. Verse 8: "By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.". Tweed. Psalm 42 - Honest Prayer from a Discouraged Saint This psalm is titled To the Chief Musician. For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. All unrest of longing, all fever of thirst, all outgoings of desire, are feelers put out blindly, and are only stilled when they clasp Him. 118-29.]. They who trouble me cast me in the teeth. settled. 2 Wash away my guilt, and cleanse me from my sin. My tears (he says) have been not bitterness, but my bread. He could not obtain the refreshment he needed yet, but he looked forward to finding it soon. 5) Finally, at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17:22-34), Paul exposes the gathered worshipers as being ignorant of . The house of God is still standing, the poet has been there recently, and hopes soon to return and render praise. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series. Verses 5 and 6 make clear that any strength the Psalmist will have does not reside in self, but in God. When tribulation shall actually come, He will not leave you destitute of His help; He will show you that which He commended to you in the daytime is true. This same voice in another passage said, I said in my trance (i.e., in my rapture, when he had seen some great thing or other), I said in my trance, I am cast out of the sight of Your eyes. Psalm 23 Funeral sermon: A Letter to the Deceased (Molin) I knew there would be many voices heard today, sharing stories and memories; laughter and tears with you who knew and loved Steve. Here goes. Why, that the wicked, when reprieved here, are reserved for punishments without end; and the good when they suffer here, are being tried in order that they may in the end obtain the inheritance. The stimulus serves for a moment; but once more courage fails, and once more, at yet greater length and with yet sadder tones, plaints and longings are wailed forth. 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