Worship in
WORD
A psalm. A song. For the
dedication of the temple. Of David.
4 Sing to the Lord, you
saints of his;
praise his holy name.
5 For his anger lasts only
a moment,
but his favor lasts a
lifetime;
weeping may remain for a
night,
but rejoicing comes in the
morning.
NIV
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A
psalm of David. A song for the dedication of the Temple.
Praise his holy name.
5 For his anger lasts only a
moment,
but
his favor lasts a lifetime!
Weeping
may last through the night,
but
joy comes with the morning.
New
Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.
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A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house
of David.
5
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure
for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
KJV
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Joy Comes with the
Morning
A Psalm of David. A song
at the dedication of the temple.
4 Sing
praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. 5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may
tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
ESV
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II. Personal Praise: vs. 1- 3
III. Public Exhortation: vs. 4 - 5
IV. Personal Plea: vs. 6 - 10
V. Personal/Public Praise: vs. 11 – 12
1. Humbling – position, awe-inspire
2. Clarifying – focus, illuminate, purify
3. Unifying – community, encourage, embolden
4. Glorifying – adore, magnify
5. Disseminating – witness, worship
Not only should
our confession of who God result in praise and thanksgiving, but it should also
lay us low and lift Him high. Furthermore, it should also adjust our focus,
illumine our understanding of God and ourselves, and lead to purity in our
lives.
2. Clarifying – focus, illuminate, purify
In some sense, this word
precedes the previous effect. For it clarifies our position before the Lord as
we recognize our low standing before our God Most High! On the other hand,
as we look up at Him, it helps us to focus on the One before whom we bow. When
we do this, we see more clearly the One we adore (see number 4 - Glorifying).
The Spirit illuminates our spirit to see the LORD for who He is.
It also reveals to us who we are as ones who are sinful and in need of His grace and mercy and cleansing. With a clarity born of confessing who God is and praising Him for it, we see our faults and failures. As we enter into His presence, His presence purifies us.
It also reveals to us who we are as ones who are sinful and in need of His grace and mercy and cleansing. With a clarity born of confessing who God is and praising Him for it, we see our faults and failures. As we enter into His presence, His presence purifies us.
We see this illustrated in the passage I quoted in Isaiah.
1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on
a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2
Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their
faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And
they were calling to one another:
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory."
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds
shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am
a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes
have seen the King, the Lord Almighty."
6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he
touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is
taken away and your sin atoned for."
Isa 6:1-7 NIV
Praise in His presence leads
not only to the confession of who God is but confession concerning ourselves.
Isaiah went to the Temple to worship and inquire of the Lord when Uzziah, the
greatest king since Solomon, had just died. There he experienced the presence
of the Lord, the true king, in a vision which led to his confession before the
Lord:
“Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man
of unclean lips.” (v. 5)
When David committed adultery
and murder, the prophet Nathan confronted him for his egregious acts of sin. However, we
know the Holy Spirit was working inwardly on him as well. We see this in the
two psalms he wrote as a result of his sinful actions.
In the presence of the Lord, David confesses
his transgressions.
3 When I kept silent,
my
bones wasted away
through
my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night
your
hand was heavy upon me;
my
strength was sapped
as
in the heat of summer.
Ps
32:3-4 NIV
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Ps 51:4-5 NIV
Praise in His presence should
lead us then to repentance and pleading for cleansing, renewal, and restoration.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Ps 51:7-12 NIV
Then we must be ready for Him
to lift us up to confess Him before others and give Him praise in the presence
of others.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will turn back to you.
14 Save me from bloodguilt, O God,
the God who saves me,
and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.
Ps 51:13-17 NIV
With focused minds and purified
hearts, we enter into His presence with praise and thanksgiving.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
Ps 100:4 ESV
And confess:
For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.
100:5 ESV
And lest we forget, we have a great high priest that has
gone before us, and intercedes on our behalf and opens the way for us to come
before the throne of God for mercy and provision.
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone
through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we
profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every
way, just as we are — yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach
the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find
grace to help us in our time of need.
Heb 4:14-16 NIV
Who then can condemn? No one.
Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right
hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Rom 8:34-35 TNIV
23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death
prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives
forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to
save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to
intercede for them.
Heb 7:23-25 NIV
The Scripture passage was inserted into the image by me.
Worship in Witness:
Life hasn’t gotten any easier for me these last five years
plus of separation from my wife. Daily I fight against false and sinful
thoughts. Fatigue has not abated. I still struggle for adequate sleep. Yet God
is good. His “goodness and mercy” are continually following me all along the
way. My praise will continue to flow towards Him who saved me and raised me to
sit with my Lord Jesus in “heavenly realms.” (Eph. 2:6) In this world, we will
face troubles. Our Lord promises this will happen to His followers.
John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."NIV
Here we have a dual promise:
trouble and peace.
·
Peace
1.
with God (Rom. 5:1),
2.
with each other (Ephesians
2:14-18)
3.
in our circumstance (John 14:27, 16:33).
We will face trouble because we
live in a fallen world:
People are born for troubleas readily as sparks fly up from a fire.Job 5:7 NLT
We will face trouble because
the world hates us:
18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: 'Servants are not greater than their master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.John 15:18-20 TNIV
We will face trouble because we
have become the enemy of the devil:
8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
1 Peter 5:8-9 NIV
We will have peace because of
His promises as enumerated above. But peace will not be experienced
existentially by us, if we don’t appropriate it and chose instead to wallow in
doubt, fear, and self-pity.
Look at these exhortations from God’s Word:
Turn from evil and do good;seek peace and pursue it.
Ps 34:14 NIV
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.Rom 12:18 NIV
Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Rom 14:19 NIV
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.Rom 15:13 NIV
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.Phil 4:4-9 TNIV
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Col 3:15-16 NIV
You keep him in perfect peacewhose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you.Isa 26:3 ESV
Trouble is basically passive.
By that, I mean we don’t usually look for trouble, but it certainly will find
us. However, peace is to be pursued by us with faith towards God and good
towards others. But lest we think that we are left to ourselves to bring peace
to ourselves and others, let us remember that it is God who ultimately brings
us peace. It is in the strength and comfort of that peace that we are able to pursue
peace with others and experience the “peace that passes all understanding”
(Phil. 4:7). We learned this in our study of the last verse of Psalm 29.
The Lord gives strength to his people;
the Lord blesses his people with peace.
Ps 29:11 NIV
Worship
in Song: Afflicted Saint, to Christ Draw Near - by
Sovereign Grace
VERSE 1
Afflicted saint, to Christ draw near,
Your Savior’s gracious promise hear;
His faithful Word you can believe:
That as your days your strength shall be.
VERSE 2
Your faith is weak, your foes are strong,
And if the conflict should be long,
The Lord will make the tempter flee
That as your days your strength shall be.
REFRAIN
So, sing with joy, afflicted one;
The battle’s fierce, but the victory’s won!
God shall supply all that you need;
Yes, as your days your strength shall be.
VERSE 3
Should persecution rage and flame,
Still trust in your Redeemer’s name.
In fiery trials you shall see
That as your days your strength shall be.
VERSE 4
When called to bear your weighty cross
Or sore affliction, pain, or loss,
Or deep distress or poverty,
Still as your days your strength shall be.
Original
words: John Fawcett (1782), additional words: Constance Dever. Music: Constance
Dever. © 2018 Praise Factory Music (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)
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