A Jet Tour Through the Psalms #3

Here's what I want you to see for today in this big overview that were doing the subject tour through the Psalms, the righteous life will sometimes lead you through scourge. Sometimes the righteous life is going to take you down the valley for its dry where there's dirt and sand and there's not much sign of life. There are many saw but they all circled around to a recurring theme, praise the for he is great is good and on that Notes you once again to the truth pulpit with Don green founding pastor of truth Community Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. I bill right and as Don continues teaching God's people. God's word will conclude a brief series titled a jet tour through the soft we've learned so far that the five major books within the 150 Psalms each contain an important take away so we are to pursue righteousness, persevere through sorrow and prevail over confusion.

Don will give us the final two points on today's broadcast and it all culminates in the word you heard a few seconds ago. Praise have your Bible open to the Psalms as we join Pastor John Green down in the truth. Pulpit watch this verse 16 Psalm 73.

He said it was troublesome in my side until I came into the sanctuary of God. And then I perceived there and what do you do when you see a wicked world succeeding. What do you do in your private life. When you see things collapsing about you.

How do you get through that with your spiritual course intact, you direct your mind to worship you. Thank you. You step back and you you make a deliberate direction of your mind to go to the worship of God to go to the praise of God to get with the people of God and the word of God and that perspective is going to clarify things.

He says I was confused but then I went to the sanctuary of God and then it all became clear. You go back go back to the realm of Psalm one. Blessed are the righteous. Not so the wicked will be okay. I'll just ride this storm out until the certain conclusion comes to pass, and I will be on deterred. I will not shrink back in fear. I will not collapse in discouragement. I will stay the course. Remember we said make a deliberate, conscious determination, I am going to pursue the righteous path when there are all kinds of exit easy exit ramps bidding me to go off of the path not made you say not not not make everyone else can do that. Everyone else can go away.me I'm in a state right here because I believe that God blesses the righteous, and he will judge the wicked.

I love his word too much to turn away from it.

I love the person, the word reveals too much to be disloyal. You see beloved.

What I want you to see as we go through the subject tour of the songs is when you see the great big picture when you see the landscape from a big perspective. You gotta see that big perspective for to inform the way that you approach day-to-day life.

Don't interpret the big picture through what happens up and down day-to-day, hour to hour that's going to throw you into a tailspin.

It's really hard to get out of. When you step back and see these great principles that Psalms pointing us to. You have the strength, the perspective you need to persevere to be strong to persevere through sorrow to prevail over confusion. What's the outcome of that going to be Psalm 89 the end of book 3 verse 52 Psalm 89 verse 52 as you prevail over confusion. What's the outcome what's the hinge of books to read a book for Blessed be the Lord forever.

Amen and amen. So what you need to be saying is that there's a pattern going on here when I read the songs from start to finish and don't simply pick out one or two Psalm 23 and Psalm 100 is my favorite and other short and I can kinda remember them and need neglect the rest of them.

When you approach the word of God in a serious way and you look through the sweep of what it's saying, it is pointing you bringing you back, circling back again and again the righteous one is one which causes you to praise God. Your personal loyalties your heart affections are reinforced again and again. Blessed be. This God praise God. All he's so good. As we stand here at the end of book 3 about to step into book for what should be impressed on your mind is this is this all of life is a worshipful response to our Redeemer.

The Psalms, the entirety of the Bible calls you to worship God to be faithful to him through every aspect every dimension of the human experience. Death and life, sickness and health, faithful friends, and your personal Judas. Nothing. Nothing distracts the man or the woman of God from that single-minded focus that says my life exists to pursue to worship this great God who has revealed himself in this great book wherein I find my delight day and night, and the more that the heavy waves paled against the lighthouse and the storm. The stronger the more certain the more stable that lighthouse looks when the storm is over the fog of confusion cleared away and the light was still shining. That's what you want your life to be as a believer in Christ.

That's what your life must be as a believer in Christ. That's what Christ is worthy of we see it even clearer on the side of the cross in the Psalms had, we can look back as it were, and we see nails in the hands of our Redeemer. We see our sins placed on his shoulders and the stroke of God coming down on him, interceding on behalf of sinners, so that we might be forgiven are substitute punished the way to maternal punishment collapse in time on his infinite soul and we look at that and say where else would I go.

Of course my loyalty is to him and to his word and the other thing that I wanted to say beloved every manner of Christian everyone of you not just an elder not just a pastor you're meant to drink in these things deeply. You are intended to meditate on these things day and night. These things are to become precious to your soul. It's not just the one who stands on the platform and opens the word.

This is to be the shared common experience of the people of God. The Psalms are not the worship book for the pastor's worship book for the people.

This is your inheritance. This is your birthright. The spiritual experience that is described in the book of Psalms. Hallelujah, it's not for priestly caste. It's not reserved for group with silly hats on their heads for the people of God who know his son in the outcome. Beloved certain you should feel an ever-growing sense of confidence and serenity. As these things from Psalms Dawn on your mind is great God is good. So how do we keep on track was go to the opening of book for the opening of book 4.4.

How do you keep on that track on that righteous path. Point number four. Ponder your God ponder your God book for opens with Psalm 90 a prayer of Moses, the man of God. I think we studied Psalm 90 here from this pulpit. I've taught it in the past. Moses wrote Psalm 90 near the end of the 40 years of wilderness wandering with the people of God. It'd been a dry, dark time and yet here he is still standing as a man of God, Chase, and yes, still standing. Yes, what is it that enables us to prevail over the confusion. Psalm 90 verse one Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting you are God. The Psalms are put together in a way that drives your focus to the eternal character of God you can transcend confusion.

You can transcend persevere through sorrow when you no longer view it from a present earthly dimension figure anchored in the eternal vertical perspective of the fact that the God that you are pursuing the God who gave his word is over time. He transcends time. He knows the end from the beginning because he declared it to be anchor in the greatness, the superlative surpassing magnitude of God and you dwell there you sink your mind into his character and Moses found strength in bleakness and you can to just look just look up words that come out where does that leave us turn to the end of book 48 Psalm 106 verse 47 Psalm 106 verse 47. Again, the way that these books are stitched together are meant to instruct us the end of every book comes back to the praise of God.

That is not an accident. There was a divine and human intention in that structure. Psalm 107 verse 47 save us. Oh Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

Blessed be the got there it is again.

Can you believe it verse 48 Blessed be the Lord Yahweh.

Blessed be the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting and let all the people say amen praise the Lord every one of these books ends on that triumphant note of praise. Everyone so that as you go through your brought back again and again you circle back. Praise the Lord. Psalm 41.

Praise the Lord.

Psalm 72. Praise the Lord. Psalm 89. Praise the Lord.

Psalm 18106. Praise the Lord and now book 5 Brings Us Full Cir. book 5 opening with Psalm 107 let me review points for you whenever one pursue the righteous life that it unfolds what that's gonna look like. Point number two you persevere through sorrow you prevail over confusion.

You ponder your God, where does that leave us worse the outcome of that point number five. Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord focused on this God that Psalms walks us to and through as it were. Psalm 107 verse one. It's the start of book 5. It's establishing a theme for what's left to come. O give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his loving kindness is everlasting. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary and gathered from the lands from the east and from the West from the north and from the south. Every point of the compass.

The people of God, the redeemed of the Lord say amen say thank you, God say, praise be to your name. God delivers his people. God is great and God is good and therefore we will think him. Therefore, we will praise him, not simply in response to favorable circumstances. Can I get a moment of eye contact with all of you right now. Thank you. You don't even need to be a Christian to like favorable circumstances. Everybody wants favorable circumstances. When God gives them to us. That's great, but when he withdraws them for time. Our commitment to love and praise him does not change because his character and his word has not changed. I will praise him in prosperity.

I will praise him in adversity, the commitment of everyone in this room who knows Christ should be wherever you find me and my station of life in the joy of the delivery room and the stench of the deathbed. You will find me praising the Lord for he is good for he is great for he delivers his people. He has been faithful to me from the beginning he will be faithful to me. In the end, and when my eyes open up in heaven that multi-splintered infinite magnitude of how good he is, is only going to be beginning. Of course you'll find me praising the Lord as I just what the pastor should be Sam. 11 to get this right. This is what should be in your heart to focused on God, we give him thanks. Now, the way the book of Psalm ends incredible. It's a really incredible, we seen that theme of praise woven through the way this book is been collected and presented to us and preserved for us through the ages. By the way you want to own a setback. What's cool what's cool is not having good coffee on Sunday morning. That's cool. That's stupid not not that good coffee is stupid Megan that the focus of your Sunday morning. That's really selling, what's cool is the fact that as we go through this word that we are connecting with God's people from 3500 years ago were talking about the same things and animated the greatest men of God moved many go there the same things enduring today. That's what's awesome. Not the fact that somebody put Starbucks in the budget. Why would you why. What kind of earth centered silliness makes that the focus of the way promote your church compared to the grandeur of what we seen from Psalms today.

I reject all of that I condemn it all. Shame on them for trivializing this great God that superficial makes me want to get sick. But I'm not going get sick, you know why because when Psalms and the Psalms and in an explosion of praise picture best fireworks display that you've ever been to the grand finale where it's just exploding one colorful explosion after another. Simultaneously, boom boom boom boom below and you're just overwhelmed by the site and the sound of the chlorine of this majestic explosion of fireworks on the night sky that pales in comparison to what happens at the end of the book of Psalms Psalms ends in a climactic crescendo of praise in the praise of God is so magnificent that one Psalm isn't enough to 34 Psalms aren't enough but Psalm 146, Morgan to go through this really really quickly, just so that you get the feel of it.

Psalm 146 verse one. Be ready to strap in and were going to take off here okay Psalm 146 verse one.

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul, I will praise the Lord while I live I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

Verse 10 the Lord will reign forever, your God, Osama and all generations.

Praise the Lord.

Psalm 147 verse one.

Praise the Lord.

It is good to sing praises to our God, for it is pleasant and praise is becoming verse 20 he is not dealt us with any nation and as for his ordinances. They have not known them praise the Lord. Psalm 148 verse one.

Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord from the heavens praise him in the Heights praise him all he and his angels praise him all is supposed praise him, sun and moon praise him, all stars of light, praise him highest heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord someone 48 verse 13. Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is exalted his glory is above earth and heaven prays for all his godly ones, even the sons of Israel people near him.

Praise the Lord someone 49. Praise the Lord saying to the Lord a new song in his praise in the congregation of the godly ones. Let Israel be glad in his maker. Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their can Let them praise his name with dancing with them, sing praises with temporal and Lyra verse nine.

This is an honor for all his godly ones praise the Lord in Psalm 150 praise Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty expanse. Praise him for his mighty deeds.

Praise him according to his excellent greatness, praise him with trumpet sound, praise him with harp and lyre praise him with temporal and dancing praise him with stringed instruments and pipe praise him with loud cymbals, praise him with resounding symbols. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord boom boom boom boom below everywhere. The whole spiritual sky explodes with the fireworks appraising this great God nature joins with the nation's trumpets sound symbols a chariot of fire carries us to have on God's right. God is good he will bless us and we will praise the goal of the Psalms is seen in its climax. Praise the Lord. The goal of the righteous life is seen in that same climax. Praise the Lord. The blessing is certain, the praise is eternal.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise God (if you are still on the path of the wicked come to Christ right now and if you are a staggering pilgrim, take heart, the way of the righteous always ends in blessing Lord make us a people who pursue the righteous life persevere through sorrow to prevail over confusion, ponder our praise. We honor you and we press pondering God and then praising him. It's your daily to do list boiled down to the simplest terms well. We hope you will return often to the Psalms to get a healthy dose of encouragement and perspective. Pastor Doug Green will start another edifying series.

Next time you're on the truth pulpit. We hope you'll plan now to be with us right now though Don's back here in studio with us and done a solid day may not keep the doctor away as far as physical health goes, but for spiritual well-being.

You couldn't do much better.

Could you, my friend Bill is exactly right.

The Psalms are of immense spiritual value to us in our Christian lives.

That's why were teaching through them systematically on Tuesday nights at our church.

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