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919. Bible Study: Psalm 5 (Morning Prayer of David- Outlined) · Faith by annm2705

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  Today we'll read Psalm 5 from from the book of Psalms.
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  First, let's pray. Dear Lord, please speak to us
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  through these words in Jesus name, Amen.
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  This is says it's from or for the director of music for pipes,
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  a Psalm of David. So David's the one who
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  contributed this one. Here's what he says.
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  Listen to my words, Lord, Consider my lament, Hear my cry
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  for help. My king and my God, for you, I
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  pray in the morning. Lord, you hear my voice in the
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  morning. I lay my request before you and
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  wait expectantly, for you are not a God who is pleased with
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  wickedness. With you, evil people are not
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  welcome, The arrogant cannot stand in your presence.
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  You hate all who do wrong. You destroy those who tell lies.
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  The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, Lord, detest.
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  But I, by your great love, can come into your house.
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  In reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.
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  Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness.
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  Because of my enemies, make your way straight before me.
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  Not a word from their mouth can be trusted.
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  Their heart is filled with malice.
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  Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they tell
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  lies. Declare them guilty.
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  O God, let their intrigues be their downfall.
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  Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against
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  You. But let all who take refuge in
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  you be glad. Let them ever sing for joy.
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  Spread your protection over them, that those who love Your
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  name may rejoice in you. Surely, Lord, you bless the
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  righteous you, surround them with your favour as with a
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  shield. And that ends Psalm 5.
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  There's a few questions and answers in the study Bible and
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  then I'll go through some things that I noticed in this.
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  So are there sometimes of the day better than are sometimes of
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  the day better for prayer than others?
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  David likely prayed at scheduled hours of the day because there
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  was a clear rhythm to worship life in Jerusalem, which was
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  shaped by temple activities. In this case, David's reference
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  to morning prayers most likely stressed the urgency of a
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  particular matter. He couldn't do anything else
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  until he had asked God to resolve a troubling problem.
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  Thus, it is unlikely that this text was meant to teach that the
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  morning is the best time for prayer.
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  Any time is an appropriate time for prayer.
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  Who were these bloodthirsty and deceitful people?
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  Though we do not know the historical context for this
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  Psalm, David could have been thinking of one, King Saul who
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  repeatedly tried to kill him. Two, Saul's family who
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  challenged David's rule. Or three, David's own sons who
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  tried to steal the Kingdom from him.
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  What is certain is that David equated lying, murder, and
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  rebellion against God's appointed leader with conspiracy
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  against God himself. Were David's enemies really as
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  evil as he said they were? They certainly could have been.
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  However, the Psalms expressed the feelings of their authors,
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  so they may not be. They may not necessarily offer
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  objective analysis. David felt so repulsed by his
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  enemies that only that only such graphic words could describe
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  what their speech was like to him.
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  So there's other things that I noticed when I was reading this.
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  And obviously it was a morning prayer.
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  So it's starting out in the very morning to speak to God about
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  everything. And there is a pattern that we
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  see here when we look at the words that David uses.
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  And the pattern that I noticed was he's requesting from God.
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  He's crying out. He, he has a request before God
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  that he's doing first thing in the morning and then the next
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  thing it says in verse 3, it says he waits, he waits for God
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  to respond. And I know that's a question of
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  many of us who want to hear from God and, and just waiting.
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  And then if we wait and we don't hear anything, and I actually
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  heard something today that was I think is very helpful and, and
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  true. Like if we are making decisions,
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  the 1st place we should go is the word of God to be led by the
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  Spirit to answer the question. And we can find other examples
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  of the Bible where situations were similar.
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  And it's applying the knowledge of the Bible to our own lives.
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  And that's where we can get advice from God from the Spirit.
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  When the the stories in the Bible, the detailed accounts of
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  multiple people's lives, when we can see a similar event
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  happening and how it was resolved, how God felt about it,
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  what God did, what God said, then we can use that as
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  direction in our life. So and that we are guided by the
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  Holy Spirit in that application of it.
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  Then the next another resource for this is there are people
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  within the what they what is called in Christianity as the
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  body of Christ. These are people who have the
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  Holy Spirit who have that personal relationship with God,
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  who are living in obedience to God because of the Holy Spirit
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  that is in their life. And these are the people that we
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  can go to for godly counsel. They would not, you know, we
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  always have to test everything from a person because people are
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  not infallible. So only God is infallible.
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  But when it's someone who is filled with the Holy Spirit,
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  they may point something out to us from Scripture that maybe we
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  passed by, we didn't pay attention to.
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  And then it can help us in our decision making by relying on
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  scripture through spoken through other people who are also in
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  Scripture. And then the other question for
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  a decision is, does this bring us closer to God or further from
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  God what we're thinking about doing?
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  And, and so that would be another way to look at a
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  decision. And then silence.
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  This is what I just heard today. And I just thought it was good.
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  So I was repeating this. It was from a pastor out of
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  Texas. But silence may mean that we are
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  on the right path. So if we don't hear anything and
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  it doesn't contradict his word and we're not having, you know,
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  fellow believers who are filled with the Holy Spirit telling us,
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  no, you're on the wrong path. You know, if we don't have
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  resistance like that. And it is bringing us closer to
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  God, not further from God. Then the silence just may mean
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  that you know God, you know it's he will work with however we do
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  it, like he lets us have our free will.
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  And, and it may be a prayer and something that I say is like God
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  make it obvious if I'm on the wrong path, if I'm doing the
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  wrong thing, if I'm not hearing correctly.
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  And, and I believe God will do that because he wants us to be
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  within his will. He wants us to be protected and
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  he wants us to reflect him. So I think those are all things
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  that are really good. I didn't come up with that.
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  I heard it today, but I just thought it was very relevant.
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  And then within the Scripture in verse 5 of Psalm 5, it talks
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  about the arrogant cannot stand. So what is the opposite of an
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  arrogant person and say humble person?
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  So we need to humble ourselves before God and I think that we
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  have that we we, you know, know it all or anything like humble
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  ourselves and honestly look at ourselves.
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  So the next thing in verse 6, it's it's basically a reflection
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  on our lives. I mean, he's reflecting on
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  others lives. But first, I think we need to
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  look at our own lives and just reflect about what we are doing.
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  And if there are these things that he's talking about that
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  David's talking about that about his enemies are those things in
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  our lives and we need to humble ourselves and then be
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  accountable for the things that are in our lives.
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  And then in verse 7, David's showing respect for God.
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  He says in reverence, I bow down.
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  And because of his respect for God, then he's able to come into
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  the house. That's that's you know, it's
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  like this. You know, David's son of God,
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  you know, it's an adopted child of God.
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  And when we believe and when we are filled with the Holy Spirit,
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  then we become a child of God and we respect the Father and we
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  respect Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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  And then it says in verse 8 to basically lead me and make your
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  way straight before me. So give me guidance.
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  And then verse 9, it talks about the heart of someone.
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  So we have to the examination of the heart, the heart condition
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  like not the physical heart, but where, where are the desires of
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  the person? Is it to please people or to
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  please God? And so we have to look at our
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  heart condition like are we are we submitted to Christ?
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  Is Jesus our Lord? Do we are we abiding in his law?
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  And the next part it talks about banish them for their sins for
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  they have rebelled against you. So sin is rebellion.
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  And so if if we have sin in our life, that's rebellion to God.
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  And that's something that needs to be dealt with.
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  But then it also says, but let all who take refuge in you.
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  So just God refuge in God is our protection.
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  It says spread your protection over them.
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  Those who love your name and then it says you bless the
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  righteous, you surround them with your favor as a shield.
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  So there there are blessings and it just the format was basically
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  request wait, humble ourselves, reflect on our lives, respect
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  God. He will lead us, examine our
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  heart condition, examine sin because sin is rebellion, take
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  refuge in God. God is our protection and God
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  gives us blessings and Shields us when we do this.
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  So I think it was a beautiful prayer, beautiful Psalm, and
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  just a way to to look at communicating with God and what
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  it was like with David. He was known as a man after
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  God's own heart. So this is showing us, you know
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  what that looks like. Anyway, that's the end of Psalm
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