We'll continue our study in the book of
Psalms.
We now move to the third book of
the Psalms which begins in Psalm 73.
Psalm 73, again I'd just like to quickly
go through some of the really good verses
in the rest of the Psalms.
Psalm 73 deals with this big question, why
do the wicked prosper and why do the
righteous people suffer?
It's a question that many, many people have
asked through the centuries and Esau who wrote
this Psalm, many of the Psalms in this
section are written by Esau, the song leader.
And he's very honest and he says in
verse 2, my feet almost slipped.
There's an honesty in the Psalms which is
why the Psalms are so good to read.
People are absolutely honest, there's no pretense there.
I almost slipped.
I had questions.
I was jealous of the prosperity, verse 3,
of the wicked.
And he says, at one time I thought,
what is the use, verse 13, keeping my
heart clean.
It's a waste of time living a holy
life.
But he says, I kept quiet about it.
I kept these thoughts to myself, verse 15.
I didn't tell anybody.
If I had told anybody, then I would
have offended a lot of other younger believers.
See, a lot of people, sometimes when they
have doubts, they are so foolish.
They go around airing it.
And afterwards, maybe five years later, they get
the answer to that.
But in those five years, they have destroyed
the faith of so many people with their
doubts.
If you have some doubts, keep it to
yourself.
Don't stumble other people.
There is an answer for it.
You know where the answer is?
He says, I couldn't understand it, verse 16,
until I went into God's presence.
Then I understood.
Some of those things that cause you doubt,
there is an answer to it.
You may not know it because you are
so far away from God.
The closer you come to God, the more
you get an answer.
There are many things in my past life,
I never knew what the answer was.
As I've come closer to the Lord, I've
begun to understand the answer to many of
those questions that plagued me.
But when I had those doubts, I didn't
go around talking about it with weaker believers.
And he discovered that God has set these
wicked people in slippery places, verse 18.
Now this beautiful verse in verse 25.
This is one of the finest verses in
all the psalms and perhaps in the entire
Bible.
Psalm 73, 25.
The psalmist says to the Lord at the
end of it, Whom am I in heaven
but Thee?
There is no one and nothing on earth
I desire beside Thee.
If you can keep that before you all
your days, I tell you, you'll be a
worshipper.
And you'll be a most useful servant of
God, man or woman, young or old.
If you can say, Lord, you're the only
person I desire on earth.
I don't desire anything or any person other
than You.
My heart may fail, verse 26.
But God is the strength of my heart.
This is a good verse for those who
have weak hearts or who have heart problems.
To say, God is the strength of my
heart.
My heart may fail.
God is the strength of my heart and
my portion forever.
Remember these verses.
Someday you may be asked to call, asked
to pray for somebody who's got a heart
failure.
And you've got a verse ready for him.
Psalm 74.
The psalmist is concerned about the destruction of
the ruin of God's church.
Lord, verse 4.
Your enemies are roaring in the midst of
your church.
Your enemies have got into your church.
They have put up their ensigns.
They have defiled your holy place, verse 7.
They have burnt up the synagogues.
And here is the mark.
It's very important for you to notice this.
It's the only verse in the Bible that
teaches that.
One mark that God has forsaken a people
is, verse 9.
We don't have a prophet in our midst
anymore.
You don't send us a prophet anymore.
When God doesn't send you a prophet, it's
a pretty bad state you're in.
When God gave up on Israel, he never
sent them a prophet anymore.
For 400 years, from the time of Malachi
to John the Baptist, there's no prophet.
We don't see any prophet.
We don't see any miracles, verse 9.
God is a God who answers prayer.
Does wonderful things.
God is a God who sends you prophets.
So please remember that.
Be thankful when you get answered prayer.
Be thankful if you have a prophet coming
and speaking to you.
Psalm 75.
Don't look for promotion from man, verse 6.
Promotion doesn't come from the east or the
west.
It comes from God, verse 7.
God is the one who exalts and God
is the one who puts down.
Don't look for exaltation in the church to
man.
Don't think a man can give you a
ministry.
God can give you a ministry.
Psalm 76, verse 10.
The wrath of man will praise you, surely.
Which means, O God, even all the anger
that people have, which they show against me
or against others, you will make it to
bring praise to you.
Ultimately it will work for good.
That's why we are not bothered when men
are angry.
Psalm 77, verse 13.
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary.
If you want to find out God's way,
get into the most holy place.
You can't find it hanging around with the
outer court believers.
You know there are some believers, all they
know is forgiveness of sins.
The rest of the time they joke and
they laugh.
And if you spend your time, I want
to say this to you seriously.
There are some believers who are just jokers.
All the time they are making people laugh.
Please don't waste your time with such people.
Because they will ruin you.
These are people in the outer court.
God's way is in the sanctuary.
Spend your time with those who are wholehearted
and not with the jokers in the midst
of the church.
OK.
Psalm 78 is a historical looking back upon
the past.
The way God led them in the past.
Marvelous things.
Verse 12.
God did in Egypt.
And He split the rocks.
Verse 15.
In the wilderness, smote the rock.
Verse 20.
The waters gushed out.
Man ate angel's food.
Verse 25 and so on.
The whole thing.
And only when He slew them.
Verse 34.
Then they sought Him.
Verse 36.
True of many believers today.
They flattered Him with their mouths.
They told lies.
But verse 38.
He was full of compassion.
Verse 39.
He remembered that they were flesh.
But they.
He remembered that they were flesh.
But verse 42.
They did not remember that when He delivered
them from the hand of their enemy.
Verse 53.
He led them on safely.
And He gave them David.
Verse 70.
To be their leader.
Who guided them.
Verse 72.
By the skillfulness of His hands.
It's a good psalm.
Which reminds us that we must often look
back.
And think of the wonderful things.
God has done for us in the past.
And think of the times we have rebelled.
And been unfaithful.
So that we have a spirit of gratitude
to God.
Psalm 79.
Again a concern about the church being destroyed.
Verse 1.
Lord your holy temple has been defiled.
Please do something.
Help us oh God.
Verse 9.
For the glory of your name.
For your namesake.
Verse 11.
Let the sighing of prisoners come before you.
A prayer to God.
Lord by people who are concerned that the
church should be kept pure.
Psalm 80.
A beautiful expression.
Verse 1.
Oh shepherd of Israel.
You who dwell in the midst of the
cherubim.
Shine forth and lead us on.
Verse 17.
Let your hand be upon the man of
your right hand.
Upon the son of man.
Whom thou made a strong for thyself.
Referring to Christ.
And also referring to us.
Say Lord let your hand be upon me.
So that I can be a witness for
you in this generation.
Psalm 81.
Verse 10.
Lovely verse.
Open your mouth wide.
And I will fill it.
Why you do not have.
Because you do not ask.
Open your mouth.
Ask.
Open it wide.
Lord I want this.
Ask for great things.
Like William Carey said.
Expect great things for God.
From God.
So that we can attempt great things for
God.
And the Lord says in verse 13 and
14.
Oh it's one of those few places where
we read.
Oh like we saw in Deuteronomy.
Oh that my people.
Had listened to me.
If only they had listened to me and
walked in my ways.
I would have verse 14.
Quickly subdued all their enemies.
I would have solved their problems.
I would have delivered them.
Oh that they had listened to me.
And trusted me.
Psalm 82.
Verse 6.
Is a verse that Jesus quoted.
In John 10.
34.
I have said that you are gods.
And all of you are children of the
Most High.
Jesus was.
Quoting that verse to the Pharisees.
You know the.
It doesn't mean we are God.
It's showing us the position we have.
As children of God.
Psalm 83.
This is talking about all the people.
Who have tried to destroy Israel.
In past years.
Who have said verse 4.
Let the name of Israel be wiped out.
There are many nations that have tried to
do that.
Even in the last century.
They never succeeded.
Through the years they have not succeeded.
People have tried to wipe out the church.
The Roman Empire tried it.
So many people have tried it.
But it's never succeeded.
The church continues to stand for the Lord.
The Jewish nation survives.
So that verse 18.
All men may know.
That Jehovah is Most High over the earth.
Psalm 84.
The sparrow has found a house.
Swallow a nest.
Verse 3.
Blessed are those like those birds.
Who spend their time in your house.
And those who live in the most holy
place.
Will always be praising God.
Verse 6.
Even when they pass through a time of
weeping.
The valley of Beka.
Is the valley of weeping and sorrow.
They fill it.
They make it a well.
They make it a spring.
In the place of sorrow.
They produce.
Glory to God.
A spring.
That springs up.
They go from strength to strength.
Verse 7.
A lovely verse.
Verse 10.
A psalm of the sons of Korah.
A day in your court standing with Moses.
Is better than a thousand.
I'd rather be a doorkeeper.
Standing with Moses in the house of God.
Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
With our father Korah.
Because the earth is going to swallow them
up right now.
They were very grateful.
For having been delivered.
From the tents of wickedness.
And they say.
Verse 11.
The last part.
A beautiful promise.
Please listen to this.
No good thing will God withhold.
From those who walk uprightly.
You must know these promises.
Of God's word.
These are the promises.
That help us.
That encourage us to follow Jesus.
Psalm 85.
A cry for revival.
Verse 6.
Will thou not revive us again O Lord.
Your people are grumbling and complaining.
Send us a revival of joy.
And praise.
Verse 8.
I will hear what the Lord is saying.
The Lord will speak peace.
To his people.
Verse 10.
Mercy and truth are met together on Calvary.
Righteousness and peace.
Have kissed each other.
On Calvary.
God's mercy and truth.
Met together.
The righteous demands of his law.
And his mercy.
Righteousness and peace.
With God and men.
Speaking of Calvary.
Psalm 86.
Teach me thy way O Lord.
And I will walk in thy truth.
Unite my heart to fear your name.
Here is a prayer.
That my whole heart.
Which is going in different directions.
Will be united.
To have only one desire.
To fear God.
Psalm 87.
Says of Zion.
Verse 5.
This is of the church.
It will be said.
This man and that man was born in
her.
The Lord.
When he counts up the people.
Will say this man.
Was born in Zion.
In the church.
All my springs.
Verse 7.
All my joy comes from the church.
I value God's people.
Psalm 88.
Is another.
Psalm where he says.
Lord you have allowed.
You have made me.
Verse 8.
Like an abomination.
To the people of the earth.
And I am suffering.
Verse 14.
I am afflicted from my youth up.
Speaking about a man.
Who has gone through deep sorrow.
Verse 3.
My soul is full of troubles.
And he says Lord deliver me.
Before I go into the grave.
After I die.
How can I praise you.
Lover and friend.
Verse 18.
You have put far from me.
It's like a messianic psalm about Jesus.
What he suffered.
When he walked through this earth.
And that's the pathway.
That we will have to go also.
Psalm 89.
Is a psalm of God's tremendous faithfulness.
It's talking about Jesus again.
Verse 27.
I will make my firstborn higher.
Than the kings of the earth.
A lovely verse.
Verse 7.
God must be greatly reverenced and feared.
In the church.
And he must be had in reverence.
The church.
Must be a place.
Where God is reverenced.
And that's the end of book 3.
It ends with verse 52.
Blessed be the Lord.
Forever and ever.
This is a psalm written by a man
called.
Ethan the Ezraite.
We really don't know who he is.
It's one of those people who wrote a
psalm.
Inspired by God.
Now psalm 90.
Is the one psalm that's written by Moses.
It's the fourth book.
And I said.
This is some connection with numbers.
The wanderings in the wilderness.
And he's the one who says.
Lord you have been our dwelling place.
In all generations.
The psalm of Moses.
And he's the one who says.
A thousand years verse 4 are like one
day.
It is not Peter who said that first.
It was Moses who said it first.
A thousand years.
Are like one day.
And.
Lord verse 8.
You have set our iniquities.
Before your secrets.
He's talking about all the years in the
wilderness.
And.
Verse 10 is not saying.
It's been misunderstood I think by many people.
As though God will allow people to live.
Only up to the age of 70 or
80.
Because the man who wrote it himself.
Lived up to 120.
But he's thinking of the people in the
wilderness.
Lord these young.
30-40 year old people who came.
Out of Egypt.
Who should be living to a ripe old
age like me.
Of 120.
They're all perishing.
They're 70 years old and they're dying.
They're 80 years old and they're dying in
the wilderness.
Because it was a judgment.
Because they did not enter Canaan.
That's what he's referring to.
So he says Lord a wonderful verse.
Two wonderful verses.
Or three wonderful verses.
Verse 12 first of all.
Teach us to number our days.
To know how few they are.
So that we can spend our days acquiring
wisdom.
Second verse.
Lord.
Let your glory.
Let your work appear to your servants.
And your glory to their children.
Let me see more of the work you
do Lord.
And your glory.
And the third verse is.
Verse 17.
Let the beauty of the Lord.
Be upon us.
Let the beauty of Jesus.
Be seen in me.
That's based on that verse.
Psalm 91 is of course a wonderful psalm.
I wish I could spend a whole session
on it.
Is dwelling in the secret place of the
most high.
You know the most wonderful thing.
Is to dwell in the secret place of
the most high.
The shadow of the almighty means.
God is going in front of me.
And I am just walking in his shadow.
And.
I trust in the Lord.
He will deliver me from all the snares.
That come in the day time.
And in the night time.
I will put my feet.
Verse 13.
Upon the devil.
God will answer me.
Verse 10.
No evil will ever befall me.
People may trouble me.
They may kill me.
But no evil.
No sin.
Need rule me.
He will keep me.
He will put the devil under my feet.
When I call unto him.
He will answer me.
Verse 15 and 16.
I just want to mention something.
Which may be a bit humorous.
But you know nowadays.
A lot of people think that.
They don't understand godliness.
They want shortcuts.
You know like instant coffee and instant tea.
They want instant holiness.
And so they go to a meeting.
And somebody lays hands on them.
And they fall back.
And people think this is the holy spirit.
See in the new testament.
When people fell before god.
They fell with their face down before god.
That's worship.
What is this falling down and showing your
feet to god.
That's not worship.
It's an insult.
Supposing I come here and I show you
my feet.
That's insulting you.
I believe it's an insult to be like
that.
I've seen people when demons are cast out
of them.
They fall down flat.
The holy spirit doesn't do that.
So if ever you go to a meeting
like this.
Don't be scared.
Because there is a promise here.
Verse 7.
A thousand will fall on one side.
And ten thousand on the right hand.
But it will not come near you.
It has never come near me.
All my life.
Psalm 92 is another wonderful psalm.
About people who can be fruitful.
Even when they are old.
Don't think you can serve the lord only
when you are young.
I want to serve the lord.
Even if I am 90 years old.
It says in verse 14.
Even in old age.
They will bring forth fruit.
And they will be flourishing.
When it says they will be fat.
It doesn't mean they will eat a lot
and become fat.
That's not the meaning.
That's not a good thing.
It means they will be full of oil
and anointing.
It's a word connected with anointing.
They will be anointed and flourishing.
Even when they are old.
Psalm 93.
Wonderful verse.
Verse 5.
Holiness is becoming of your house oh lord.
This is what should characterize god's house.
Holiness.
Psalm 94.
Verse 12.
Blessed is the man.
Whom you chasten.
Oh lord.
Whom you teach.
Out of your law.
It's a blessed thing to be disciplined.
And chastened by the lord.
Psalm 95.
Middle of verse.
Last part of verse 7.
Today if you hear his voice.
Harden not your heart.
Quoted in Hebrews chapter 3.
A verse that we must remember everyday.
The bible says.
In Hebrews 3.13. Exhort one another everyday.
That means listen to god's word everyday.
Either you listen it.
Through somebody preaching to you.
Or you listen to it by listening to
a tape.
Or you listen to it by reading a
book.
Or best of all.
You listen to it by reading the word
of god.
And the holy spirit.
Speaking to you everyday.
Because it says in Hebrews 3.13. If
you don't listen to it.
24 hours.
Is enough for you to be a backslider.
Exhort one another daily.
Lest you be hardened.
Through the deceitfulness of sin.
Psalm 96.
Speaks about the coming of the lord and
his judgment.
Verse 13.
Before the lord because he is coming.
He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with righteousness.
And the people with his truth.
He is going to judge the world.
And he is going to judge his people.
Don't forget that.
He is going to judge the unbelievers.
And he is going to judge the believers
to see how they lived.
Psalm 97.
Verse 10.
You who love the lord.
Hate evil.
If you really love the lord.
You must hate evil with all your heart.
You cannot say you love Jesus.
If you don't hate evil.
Now there is a lot of difference between.
Avoiding evil.
And hating evil.
You know here is a man.
I avoid him.
Here is a man.
I hate him.
You know there is a difference.
So some people avoid sin.
Those are the people who very often fall
into it.
The way to overcome sin.
Is to hate it.
The bible says.
The one who hates his brother is a
murderer.
When I hate a sin.
I murder it.
You who love the lord.
Hate evil.
Psalm 98.
Here is a repetition.
Of what we read in verse.
Psalm 96.
Verse 9.
The lord is coming.
The lord has made known his salvation.
Verse 2.
Therefore make a joyful noise.
Unto the lord.
Verse 4.
All the earth.
Make a loud noise.
And rejoice and sing praise.
With trumpets.
Verse 6.
And make a joyful noise.
Let the floods.
Verse 8.
Clap their hands.
Because the lord is coming.
In other words.
There should be a spirit of praise in
our hearts.
Always expecting.
The coming of Jesus Christ.
And when the psalmist wrote it.
He did not understand it so clearly.
As we understand it today.
Psalm 99.
Verse 5.
Worship the lord our god.
At his footstool.
The footstool is the earth.
Worship him.
At his footstool.
Psalm 100.
100 is a psalm which is just full
of praise.
Make a joyful noise unto the lord.
And verse 2 especially.
Serve the lord.
With gladness.
Don't just serve the lord.
A lot of people serve the lord.
But it says here.
Serve the lord with gladness.
Always rejoicing.
In your service for the lord.
I have seen people who serve the lord.
And they are grumpy.
And sad.
I want to say it.
To tell you absolutely honestly.
And I am not pretending.
Every year as time goes on in my
own life.
It has become a greater.
And a greater joy.
To serve the lord.
It's never boring.
It's never a pain.
It's never too much.
To live for god.
To serve him.
It's a joy.
May you be a testimony like that.
Psalm 101.
David says in the last part of verse
2.
I will walk.
I will behave myself he says.
First of all in a perfect way.
And especially in my house.
Verse 2.
I will walk inside my house in a
perfect way.
I believe the lord's servants need to say
that.
I will conduct myself wisely.
Not only outside to get a good testimony.
But in my house.
I will walk.
I will walk with a perfect heart.
That means.
If I hurt my wife.
I won't wait till tomorrow.
To ask her forgiveness.
With a perfect heart I will go and
say.
I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
If I punish my children wrongly.
I will ask their forgiveness.
If I have a servant.
Working in the house.
And I was a bit angry in what
I said.
I will go and ask forgiveness from that
servant.
Please forgive me.
I am sorry the way I spoke to
you.
See to be.
To live in your house.
With a perfect heart.
Your financial dealings.
Your bank accounts.
Your financial transactions.
Walk with a perfect heart there.
That is the secret of ministry.
Psalm 102.
Here is a picture of salvation.
Verse 19 to 21.
God has looked down.
From the height of his sanctuary.
And beheld the earth.
To hear my groaning as a prisoner.
And to lose me.
Those who are appointed to death.
Why did he lose me?
So that I can go around now.
Declaring the name of the Lord.
And his praise.
That is the purpose.
With which he delivered me.
And not only me.
Verse 28.
The children of thy servants.
Shall also continue.
And their seed, grandchildren.
Will also be established before thee.
This should be our goal.
You know to teach our children.
Also the ways of the Lord.
And make them teach their children.
The ways of the Lord.
Psalm 103 is a very well known psalm.
It says about the benefits we have received.
One thing that David could not say was.
He could not say bless the Lord.
Who gives me victory over sin.
He could say bless the Lord who forgives
my sin.
All my sins.
Verse 3 which proves that forgiveness is available.
Under the old covenant.
Who heals all your diseases.
That was also available under the old covenant.
What were the things available under the old
covenant?
Benefits.
First of all forgiveness.
Verse 3.
Second healing.
Third redemption from hell.
Fourth.
His mercies.
Satisfied with good things.
Means material blessings.
Fifth.
Physical health.
Not just healing.
But your youth is renewed like the eagles.
Basically it was forgiveness.
Healing.
And material blessing.
This is old covenant.
Bless the Lord.
And forget not all his benefits.
Now if you got all these things.
And you preach this as a gospel.
Jesus can forgive you.
Jesus can heal you.
Jesus can give you all the good things
in life.
Materially bless you.
What are you preaching?
You are preaching what David preached 1000 years
before Christ.
What is the new covenant gospel?
Jesus can give you victory over sin.
Romans 6.14 Jesus can make you partake
of God's nature.
Second Peter 1.
Verse 3 and 4.
That's the new covenant gospel.
You can have the devil under your feet.
Romans 16.20 But very often we don't
hear this being preached.
You can build a church.
As the body of Christ.
Ephesians chapter 4.
So don't go to this old covenant gospel.
When you go out and preach the gospel.
Preach the new covenant gospel.
There are many wonderful things here which says.
Verse 14 for example.
He pities us as a father.
Pities his children.
He knows our frame.
He remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 104.
Verse 4.
God makes his ministers, his servants.
A flaming fire.
It's a wonderful verse.
God makes his servants.
A flaming fire.
If you are a servant of God.
You must never be cold.
You must not even be hot.
You know you touch a.
A steel tumbler of coffee.
And it's hot.
No.
More than that.
You must be a flaming fire.
And you know like when Moses saw that.
Flaming fire in the bush.
He stopped.
And I said hey this is different from
all the other bushes.
And he listened.
And when you are a servant of God
like that.
Baptized in the Holy Spirit and fire.
And when God has made you a flaming
fire.
You will be different from all the other
bushes.
In the wilderness.
And when you stand there.
As a bush.
A flame.
Somebody will pass by and stop.
And say hey.
This is different.
And God spoke out of that bush.
To Moses.
And God will speak through you.
To.
The people.
Psalm.
105.
Here is another review of Israel's history.
And.
A wonderful verse.
Verse 15.
Don't touch my anointed.
And don't do any harm to my prophets.
Be very careful.
When you speak against God's anointed.
Or God's prophets.
It's better to say.
I don't want to say anything.
People may ask you.
What do you think about this person?
What do you think about that person?
I say I don't know.
I don't want to say anything.
You can say if you like.
That you disagree with his methods.
And the way they are doing.
But don't ever speak against any man.
The Bible says speak evil of no man.
There are many people.
I will tell you honestly.
Many American evangelist and all.
Television evangelist.
I don't agree with their methods at all.
I don't believe they are representing Christ correctly.
But I will not speak evil of them.
Because I am afraid.
That God will not be with my tongue.
If I speak evil of people.
Even people who I cannot understand.
Why they do things differently.
I say I will not speak evil of
them.
But I will say.
I don't agree with their ministry.
And I don't understand the scriptures that way.
That this is the way Jesus wants his
work to be done.
But I will not speak evil of them.
Touch not my anointed.
And don't do any harm to my prophets.
And then he speaks about Joseph.
Joseph.
It says here.
It's a wonderful verse about Joseph.
Verse 17.
He was sold for a servant.
His feet was in irons.
Until the time came.
That the word of the Lord tested him.
And in one.
In the margin of my bible says.
Iron entered into his soul.
That means the purpose.
Why Joseph was put in prison.
Was so that.
Iron may come into his soul.
So that his soul may become as strong
as iron.
Until the time came.
That the word of the Lord tested him.
That was a particular time.
He had to be 30 years old.
When he was 28 years old.
He told his Pharaoh's butler.
You will be freed in a few days.
Please remind Pharaoh about me.
And he forgot about it.
Why?
Because Joseph was only 28 years old.
He waited for 2 years.
Then God reminded him.
So don't complain when people forget to help
you.
God has got a particular time.
Then when the time came.
Verse 19.
The king sent and loosed him.
And made him lord over his house.
So that's a beautiful verse there.
And verse 39.
Tells us why he gave them a cloud.
And a pillar of cloud and fire.
The cloud was to cover them from the
heat of the sun.
And the fire was to give them light
at night.
It had a practical purpose also.
Besides leading them into Canaan.
It was to cover them all.
It was a huge cloud.
That protected them like a shadow from the
heat of the sun during the day.
And lit up the whole way.
During the night.
And Psalm 106.
It says about these people.
It's again a review of history.
Verse 11 and 12.
When the waters covered their enemies.
Then they believed his words.
And they sang his praise.
When did they sing God's praise?
When they saw before them the enemies defeated.
I mentioned that the other day.
But I want to mention one more thing
here.
What is the proof of faith?
According to verse 12.
How do you know that you believe God's
word?
You will praise him.
If you don't praise him.
You don't have faith.
They believed.
How do you know?
They praised.
They believed his words.
They praised him.
They did not sing his praise.
Because they did not believe his words.
Remember this.
Whenever the song of praise goes out of
your mouth.
You can be sure.
Faith has gone out of your heart.
Because out of the abundance of the heart.
The mouth speaks.
The mouth is the overflow valve of the
heart.
You know when a water tank is full.
It's got an overflow valve.
In these water tanks.
The water comes up to there.
It overflows.
That's when you switch off the pump.
And that's how we know that our heart
is full.
How do you know your heart is full?
Out of the fullness of your heart.
Praise comes out of your mouth.
When they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
They began to praise God.
In known tongues and in unknown tongues.
That's what we read in Acts chapter 2.
Psalm 107.
A wonderful verse.
In verse 2.
Let those who are redeemed by the Lord.
Say so.
Don't just keep quiet.
If the Lord has redeemed you from the
hand of the enemy.
And it describes various categories of people here.
Those who are hungry and thirsty.
And wandered in the wilderness.
Verse 4.
This by the way is the beginning of
book 5.
The last book.
We already looked at the 4th book.
90 to 106.
Now this is book 5.
The different types of people who wandered in
the wilderness.
And the Lord led them to the right
city.
People who sat in darkness.
Verse 10.
And the Lord brought them out of the
darkness.
Verse 14.
People who were sick.
Verse 19.
And the Lord healed them.
He sent His word.
Verse 20.
A lovely verse.
He sent His word and healed them.
Those who were in a stormy sea.
Verse 25.
And the Lord stilled the storm.
Verse 29.
And those who let all these people exalt
the Lord.
Because He turns rivers into wilderness.
These are all pictures of our life.
Barrenness.
Darkness.
Stormy seas.
Sickness.
Different pictures of how the Lord delivers us.
Psalm 108.
Verse 1.
Oh God my heart is fixed.
I'm only going to do one thing.
It's fixed.
I'm going to sing.
And I'm going to give praise.
That's what I'm going to keep on doing.
All my life.
It reminds me in the olden days.
They used to have these gramophone records.
And sometimes.
If the gramophone record is not good.
It gets stuck.
And the needle goes round and round and
round.
On the same thing.
I picture this here.
My heart is fixed Lord.
I'm only going to do one thing.
I'm going to keep on praising God.
All my days.
Psalm 109.
Verse 8.
It refers to Judas Iscariot.
Which Peter quoted.
Before the day of Pentecost.
He said let another take his office.
Because he was called by God.
But.
Verse 6.
Satan stood at his right hand.
And he listened to the devil.
Instead of having God at his right hand.
Instead of standing next to God.
He stood next to the devil.
Be careful.
Because when that happens.
One day.
Somebody else verse 8 will take your ministry.
Like Judas Iscariot.
I believe the apostle Paul.
Took the ministry of Judas Iscariot.
And wrote the epistles.
Which perhaps Judas may have written.
Somebody else took his ministry.
Psalm 110.
Refers to the priesthood of Melchizedek.
Verse 4.
Which is quoted in Hebrews 7.
Referring to the Lord.
The priesthood of Melchizedek.
Psalm 111.
Verse 10.
Beautiful verse.
The fear of the Lord.
Is the beginning of wisdom.
That's not Solomon's word.
It's David's word.
He's the first one who said it.
Solomon got it from him.
The fear of the Lord.
Is the beginning of wisdom.
Psalm 112 is a beautiful psalm.
It's one of my favorite psalms.
It says.
Blessed is the man.
Who delights greatly in the Lord.
His children.
Will be blessed.
And.
People will see him.
And they will.
He will not be afraid of evil tidings.
Verse 7.
His heart is fixed trusting the Lord.
Light comes from him in the darkness.
Verse 4.
And other people will see it.
I believe that other people will see.
The way.
God has blessed us.
He will see his desire upon his enemies.
Verse 8.
He is good to others.
And in the living bible it says.
People will see how God has blessed this
man.
And they will be deeply impressed.
How God has blessed this man.
And I believe that.
That's how it should be in our life.
That people around us see how God has
blessed us.
And they are deeply impressed.
Psalm 113.
The song that we sing.
As we come towards the end of the
psalms.
You find many many psalms of praise.
See the earliest psalms are.
Lord I am in trouble.
Please help me.
And the psalms all end with.
Praise.
That's how we should end.
You know as we begin our life.
With many cries for help in our younger
days.
And as we grow older our life should
be full of praise.
Don't be like these old men and women.
Who are all grumpy and always complaining.
They have gone the wrong direction.
I believe that if you are going the
direction of the psalms.
You will be ending your days with praise.
Verse 3.
From the rising of the sun.
To the going down of the same.
The song that we sing.
The Lord's name is to be praised for
a number of things.
God who humbles himself.
To look upon the things on the earth.
The very fact verse 6.
That God humbles himself to even look.
On the earth itself is a great thing.
And to be interested in the details of
my life.
How good God is.
Psalm 114.
Verse 7.
Tremble at the presence of the Lord.
I believe that there needs to be a
far greater reverence.
Among God's people.
In our day.
Psalm 115.
Lord not unto us.
But unto your name.
Let all the glory come to your name
alone.
Psalm 116.
Another beautiful psalm.
I love the Lord.
Verse 1.
Because he has heard my supplications.
Verse 12.
13 and 14 especially.
What shall I do for all the wonderful
things that the Lord has done for me.
I will take the gift God gives me.
Of the cup of salvation.
And verse 14.
I will pay my vows in the church.
In the presence of people.
Verse 18.
I will pay my vows.
Because.
Verse 8.
He has delivered my soul from death.
Psalm 117.
Is the shortest.
Chapter in the bible.
Shortest psalm.
And it's just three times in that psalm.
It says praise, praise, praise.
And that strikes me.
That the shortest chapter in the bible.
Says praise, praise, praise.
It's wonderful.
Psalm 118.
Is the psalm of trusting in the Lord.
Verse 8.
It's better to put your trust in the
Lord.
Than to put confidence in man.
They surrounded me.
Verse 11.
But three times it says these words.
In the name of Jesus I will destroy
them.
Verse 10.
Verse 11.
In the name of Jesus I will destroy
them.
Verse 12.
In the name of Jesus I will destroy
them.
This is the faith we must have.
The stone.
Verse 22.
Which the builders rejected.
Became the head of the corner.
The Lord did that.
People rejected Jesus.
But he is the cornerstone today.
And people may reject us.
But God will exalt us.
Verse 25.
Hosanna.
That's the cry they said on.
When they waved palms.
Save now O Lord.
Hosanna.
I beseech thee.
Blessed is he.
Who comes.
Verse 26.
In the name of the Lord.
This is the psalm they quoted.
When Jesus came.
On what they call Palm Sunday.
Into Jerusalem.
Psalm 119.
Every single one of these.
176 verses.
At least almost every.
There may be one or two.
Every single verse.
There are so many lovely verses here.
Verse 9.
Keeping our way clean as young people.
Verse 11.
Hiding God's word in our heart.
And verse 18.
Open my eyes.
That I may see wondrous things out of
thy law.
I don't have time to show you all
of them.
And It's good for me that I've been
afflicted.
Verse 67.
Now I've kept your word after being afflicted.
Verse 105.
Your word is a lamp to my feet.
And a light to my path.
Verse 130.
Your word gives light.
The unfolding of your word gives light.
That's the NASB translation.
Verse 133.
Lord, this is Romans 6.14 in the
Old Testament.
Don't let sin have dominion over me.
It's anticipating Romans 6.14. Order my steps
in your word.
That's how we overcome sin.
The last verse.
176.
I've gone astray Lord.
Please seek for me as a lost sheep.
And bring me back.
Psalm 120.
From Psalm 120 to 134 are called the
Psalm of Essence.
Psalms that were sung as they went up
for the festivals in Jerusalem.
And they were singing as they went up
to the hill.
Praising God.
Psalm 120.
He speaks about destroying this tongue.
This tongue.
What shall be done to you?
Deliver my soul.
Verse 2 O Lord.
From lying lips.
What shall I give you?
You wretched tongue.
I'll burn you up.
Verse 4.
You who tell lies.
You false tongue.
Sharp arrows.
Coals of juniper.
What an attitude to take towards our tongue.
As we begin this journey up to the
mountain.
And as we journey up.
He says Where shall my help come from?
Psalm 121.
Shall it come from the hills?
Shall it come from across the hills?
From the Egyptians across those hills?
Or from the Assyrians across these hills?
No.
My help comes from the Lord up above.
Who made heaven and earth.
He is the one who will never sleep.
Verse 4.
And he will take care of me.
In day time or night time.
Verse 6.
Nothing will smite me.
And we go one step higher.
And we say in verse 1 of Psalm
122.
I was glad when they said unto me.
Let us go to the church.
My home is in the church.
My home is in the midst of God's
people.
Many people don't value the fellowship of God's
people.
You have to pay a price to be
in the midst of God's people.
You have to deny yourself.
Learn to fellowship with other people who are
different from you.
Psalm 123.
Lord my eyes wait upon you exactly like.
Verse 2.
The eyes of a servant look at the
hands of his master.
We are to sit outside an office like
the office of a director.
A peon sits outside waiting for the director
to push a bell.
And immediately the peon goes inside and says.
Yes sir.
What do you want?
And then he goes and sits outside again.
And then again he pushes the bell and
he goes in.
This is our calling.
To wait on the Lord.
Not to run around.
Peons don't run around the offices doing this
that and the other.
They wait on their master.
Many Christians today don't know how to wait
like that.
Psalm 124.
Verse 1.
If the Lord had not been on our
side.
How defeated we would have been.
But verse 7.
The Lord has broken the snare of death
and brought us through into resurrection.
Our help is in the Lord.
Psalm 125.
Verse 1.
Those who trust in the Lord will be
like a mountain that cannot be shaken.
Imagine being like an unshakable mountain.
Psalm 126.
Verse 5 and 6.
If you sow in tears and prayer.
You can reap in joy.
Psalm 127.
Do you know who wrote this Psalm?
About the house and about children?
Solomon.
Amazing.
Except the Lord build the house.
They labor in vain that build it.
The man didn't keep what he said.
Except the Lord keep the city.
The watchman wakes in vain.
And he says children are a heritage of
the Lord.
Verse 3.
Happy is the man who has his quiver
full of them.
His children will enable him to shut the
mouths of the enemies.
Verse 5.
Our children must grow up in such a
way that the enemies mouths are shut when
they see the way we brought up our
children.
The man who wrote it is in hell
today.
So take heed.
You can understand these things and you can
understand it so well but you may not
practice it.
Psalm 128.
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord
always.
Verse 1.
Psalm 129 speaks about suffering.
Somewhat of the cross.
Verse 3.
The plowers plowed upon my back.
They made long their furrows but the Lord
is righteous and let them all be confounded.
Verse 5.
Psalm 130.
Verse 6.
My soul waits for the Lord more than
the watchman who waits for the morning.
Can you imagine a watchman who has to
stay awake all night looking after a house?
What is he waiting for?
He's waiting for the morning so he can
go to sleep.
And he says, Lord, I'm waiting for you
much more than any watchman in the world
is waiting for the morning.
Psalm 131.
Lord, teach me to be humble so that
I don't exercise myself.
Verse 1.
In things which are too difficult for me.
There are many things which are beyond us,
outside our boundary.
Let's leave it to God.
Psalm 132 speaks about David's tremendous passion to
build a house for God.
Verse 5.
And how he was not given the opportunity,
but he had this tremendous passion, a passion
we should have to build a church.
Psalm 133.
How good it is for brothers to dwell
together in unity.
The anointing flows down where there is such
unity.
They were of one soul and the Holy
Spirit fell upon them.
Verse 3.
The Lord commands the blessing there.
The last of the Song of Ascents or
Degrees.
Psalm 134.
Bless the Lord who stand by day, stand
by night in the house of the Lord.
Lift up your hands and praise the Lord.
Bless the Lord who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 135.
The Lord has made us, verse 4, His
peculiar treasure.
And there's one verse here which says that
those who worship idols, verse 15 to 18,
become like them.
You know, it's true that we become like
the God we worship.
If we worship idols, we become like that.
If we worship a God who's like a
policeman, always trying to catch us, we'll also
become like policemen to others.
But if we worship a loving Heavenly Father
who's merciful and compassionate, we will also be
merciful and compassionate to others.
Psalm 136.
This is a psalm where every line almost
ends with God's mercy endures forever.
Something that we should always proclaim.
Psalm 137 is a psalm about the people
who came back from the exile and says,
there in Babylon, verse 6, I wanted Jerusalem.
And oh God, let my tongue never be
able to speak again if I'm not able
to value Jerusalem above everything else on the
face of this earth.
That's the attitude that we should have towards
the church.
Lord, I detest a system which is a
religious Christian system that dishonors you.
I want a true church.
He says, oh daughter of Babylon, verse 8,
you are to be destroyed.
This is contrast between Babylon and Jerusalem that
we see here.
Psalm 138.
Verse 2, the last part.
You have magnified your word above all your
name.
God's word has been exalted above the name
of God.
That's why I say, take God's word seriously.
Whatever is written here, take it seriously.
It has been exalted by God.
Psalm 139 is a psalm where we could
spend a lot of time.
God knows us.
All the days that we are to live
on the earth have been written down in
His book, verse 16.
He has planned our life.
There's a book in heaven which is given
where the entire plan for your life is
written down.
Ask God what it is and He'll show
it to you page by page, one day
at a time, and when you come to
the end of your life, you'll be able
to look back over a life where you
have fulfilled God's will.
Search me, O God, verse 23 and 24.
Show me if there's any wicked way in
me.
The Living Bible says, Lord, point out anything
in my life that makes you sad.
Psalm 140, Lord, deliver me from the evil
man, verse 13.
The upright alone will dwell in God's presence.
Psalm 141, verse 3, set a watch before
my mouth, Lord, keep the door of my
lips, and to do that, watch my heart.
Don't let my heart turn towards anything that's
evil.
Psalm 142, he says here, this is a
messianic psalm in a sense, in verse 4.
I looked at my right hand, there was
no one to help me.
No man cared for my soul.
We also can say that, but I cried
unto thee, O Lord, and said, You are
my refuge.
Psalm 143, verse 10, teach me to do
thy will, thou art my God.
Your Holy Spirit is good.
Lead me into the land of uprightness.
What a prayer to pray.
Lord, lead me to the land where I
can live upright all my days.
Psalm 144 is a prayer for our sons
and daughters in one verse, verse 12.
Lord, we want our sons to be like
plants that are growing up beautifully.
We want our daughters to be like the
polished cornerstones in a palace, beautifully growing up
for God, like a garden and like a
palace.
Psalm 145, verse 18 to 20, the Lord
is near all who call upon Him.
He will fulfill the desire of those who
fear Him.
He preserves all those who love Him.
Psalm 146, verse 3 and 4, don't be
afraid of princes.
Don't put your trust in them.
Because as soon as they die, what happens
to that influential man who is able to
help you today?
One day he dies, that's the end.
Trust in the Lord.
Psalm 147 tells us what the Lord has
done.
Verse 5, great is our Lord, His understanding
is infinite.
Verse 3, He heals the broken hearted.
Verse 2, He builds the church.
Many wonderful things that He does.
Psalm 148 is about creation, the wonderful things
God has done in creation.
Psalm 148, 13, His glory is above the
earth and heaven.
Psalm 149 is the new song, the Lord,
verse 4, takes pleasure in His people.
He will beautify those who are humble with
salvation.
If you want the Lord to beautify you,
you must be humble.
And let the saints be joyful in glory.
And let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Let the high praises of God be in
their mouth.
And the word of God, a two-edged
sword in their hand.
To execute judgment on the devil.
To bind the principalities and powers.
That's how we praise God.
Praise and binding Satan go together.
And then we come to the grand finale.
Psalm 150, 13 times.
Praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise.
There's only one type of person who is
permitted not to praise God.
You know who that is?
Those who can't breathe.
Verse 6, let everything that hath breath, praise
the Lord.
Are you breathing?
Praise the Lord.
And keep praising the Lord.
Amen.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, make us a people who've got
the devil under our feet.
The word of God in our hearts.
And the praises of God upon our lips.
And help us to build Jerusalem the true
church.
Yes, Lord.
Help us to destroy Babylon spiritually.
First of all in our own flesh.
All confidence in man.
Help us to praise you.
With all of our hearts we seek you.
In Jesus name.