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The Person of Praise, Part 2 · CCC West Covina

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We are right in the middle of a series called The Pathway to
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Praise, and there's no better time to praise the Lord than
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during the Christmas season when our hearts are fixed on the
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arrival of the Messiah. But for the believer, praise is
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not something that's that's seasonal.
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Praise is something that's that's continual.
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For the believer, praise is not something that's optional.
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Praise is that which is essential.
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Why? Because praise is habitual to
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our our nature. Praise is critical to us as
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believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Praise is to be that which is perpetual.
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Praise is that which is essential to our nature.
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For the Bible says in Isaiah 4321 that the people that I have
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formed for myself, they will declare my praise.
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So praise is not something that happens just once a year or
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during a certain period of the year.
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It happens all throughout our lives because that's who we are.
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And as we journey along the pathway of of praise, we realize
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that that it's the person that we praise is what enriches our
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praise. It's that person that encourages
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us to praise all the more. It's that person that enhances
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our praise, that enables our praise because of who he is and
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what he's done. And so our focus on the pathway
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of praise this week and last week is the person of praise.
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To get to know the person of Christ is is essential and
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everything that involves Him is, is absolutely critical to us as
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believers. So let's begin today by looking
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at Psalm 34. If you got your Bible, turn
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there with me if you would please.
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Psalm verse number or chapter 34 verse #1 it reads this way.
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I will bless the Lord at all times.
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His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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You see, the psalmist knew that praise wasn't optional.
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He knew the praise wasn't seasonal.
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He knew it was continual. It was perpetual.
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It was something that had to happen all the time.
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His praise will be continually in my mouth.
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And then he says this. My soul will make its boast in
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the Lord. The humble will hear it and
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rejoice. But my soul is about boasting in
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the Lord, not myself. My my soul is about bragging
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about the Lord, not bragging about myself.
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The psalmist knew that and that enabled him to praise his God
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even all the more. And then when you come to verse
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#3 he says, Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his
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name together. He cries out for for others to,
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to magnify the name of the Lord. And when you magnify something,
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you enlarge it. You make it bigger than life.
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It's not that you you make God any bigger than he is.
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You can't do that. He's all-encompassing, but, but
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the magnifying is that he becomes larger in your life and
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mine. He becomes a larger influence in
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our life. He becomes a, a bigger part of
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our lives. So Psalmist is saying, I want
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you to magnify the Lord with me. I, I want the Lord to be big and
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huge in your life. That we might lift his name
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together, that we might exalt his name, that we, we may raise
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the name of the Lord forever. And of course the name is his
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character. It's His attributes, it's who He
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is. In fact, the psalmist said in in
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Psalm 69 verse #30 these words I will praise the name of God with
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song. I will praise the character of
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God, the attributes of God with song and magnify Him with
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Thanksgiving. My life will be enlarged as I
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give thanks and praise to God for who He is.
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This is so important but read on what the psalmist says in verse
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#4. He says I sought the Lord and he
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answered me and he delivered me from all my fears.
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If you take good notes just just circle the word deliver.
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He delivered me from all my fears because he knew that the
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God he extolled was a a deliverer.
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He knew that the God that was to be magnified in his life was his
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deliverer. And then know what it says in
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verse #5 they look to Him and were radiant.
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But literally it says those who look to Him are radiant.
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In other words, when you boast in the Lord, and when you
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magnify His name, when you exalt Him, there's something about
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your external being that radiates the glory of the Lord.
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It's like when you walk into a room.
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I hope that when you walk into a room, you light up the room.
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I don't want you to walk into a room and make it dark.
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I don't want you to walk into a room and make it gloomy.
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I don't want you to walk into a room and everybody says, oh,
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look who's here. I want you to walk into a room
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and just light it up. Why?
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Because your, your face is radiant with the beauty of the
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Lord. That's what the psalmist meant
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when he said these words in Psalm 147.
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Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God, for
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it is pleasant and praise is beautiful.
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Praise is fitting. Praise is becoming.
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Praise changes the whole scenery for those whose lives are
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radiant with His glory. And so the psalmist knows that
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once you exalt his name, once you magnify the Lord with him,
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you'll call upon him. He will deliver you and those
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who look to him. Everything about their external
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being will radiate the beauty and the comeliness of our God.
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And then it says this in verse #6 this poor man cried, and the
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Lord heard him and saved him. Out of all his troubles.
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He heard him and he saved him. If you got your pen still, just
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look with the word saved because he knew his God was a deliverer.
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He knew his God was a savior. And then you read on.
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It says the Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear
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him and rescues them. So again, just take your your
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pen or pencil and circle the word rescue.
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So the psalmist knew that the Lord was a rescuer, a deliverer,
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and the Savior. Remember, he said, I want you to
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magnify Yahweh with me and extol that name, the name of Yahweh,
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elevate that name with me. Why?
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Because this God is a Savior, A deliverer, a rescuer of man.
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This is so important, this is so crucial to understand.
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Notice he says, the Angel of the Lord encamps around those who
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fear him. The Angel of the Lord is a, is a
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phrase that describes A Christophany, an appearance of
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Christ in the Old Testament before the incarnation.
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Very important to understand. Last week I told you where when
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things are mentioned first in the Bible.
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You should take note of that because there's a reason for
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that. And the very first time the
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phrase the Angel of the Lord appears in the Bible, the very
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first time the pre Incarnate Christ appears in the Bible,
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listen carefully, is not to a Jew, it's to an Egyptian
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handmaid named Hagar in Genesis chapter 16.
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That's the first time the phrase the Angel of the Lord appears.
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And remember, if you will, that Hagar was booted out of her
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house by by Sarah. Remember, Sarah wanted a child
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and she was barren. And Abraham was promised that
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his seed would, would, would bless the the nations of the
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world. But she had no seed.
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She had no son. So she offered Hagar, the
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Egyptian handmaid to her husband Abraham, because you could do
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that legally in those days and the, the the air would continue
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on the line of the of the name of the man would continue on.
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And so she offered up Hagar. Well, Hagar, I got pregnant.
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Sarah's not happy about that. Sarah's like, whoa, man, you got
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to go. So she goes to Abraham, say
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Abraham, what should I do? Abraham, being the non leader
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that he was said, I don't know. You do with what you want with
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her. Instead of stepping in and
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leading his wife, he let his wife take the lead.
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Not a good choice. So she booted Hagar out of the
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house. So Hagar goes on this journey.
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She comes to a, A, a, a a a little spring in the wilderness.
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And there the Angel of the Lord appears and speaks to her and
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says you're going to have a son. His name is Ishmael, which means
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God hears or the God. Yeah, yeah, God hears.
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And so she, she names him Ishmael.
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But at that place she names that place Elroy, which means the God
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who sees me. And then she named that spring
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beer Hala Roy, which means the well of the living God who has
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seen me. Very important to realize this
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because the Angel of the Lord sees everything.
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And so now the the psalmist picks up in that phrase and says
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the Angel Lord encamps around those who fear him and what does
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he do? He rescues them like he rescued
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Hagar, sent Hagar back to Abraham and Sarah.
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And that's how Abraham knew that she really had an encounter with
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the living God because God had told her to go back to them.
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Very important to realize this. So the psalmist says, I want you
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to make God so big in your life that others see Him and not you.
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So you brag about him and boast about Him, not yourself.
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And so when they see God in you, they realize that He actually is
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a deliverer, A savior, and a rescuer.
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Now why is that important? Because that is the meaning of
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His name. Go back to me with Exodus
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chapter 3. Exodus chapter 3 and it says
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this. This is the third time the
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phrase the Angel of the Lord is mentioned in the scriptures.
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OK Exodus chapter 3. Now Moses was pressuring the
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flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of
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Midian, and he led the flock to the West side of the wilderness
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and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from
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the midst of a Bush, and he looked, and behold, the Bush was
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burning with fire. Yet the Bush was not consumed.
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And God speaks to Moses from the burning Bush.
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In fact, it says that it says God called to him from the midst
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of the Bush. So whoever the Angel of the Lord
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is, is God. God speaks to him from the
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burning Bush, and then it begins to describe to to Moses what it
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is he's going to do based on what he has heard and what he
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has seen. Very important.
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So in verse #7 he says. Then the Lord said, I have
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surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and
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I've given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters.
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For I am aware of the sufferings.
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For I have come down to deliver them from the power of the
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Egyptians, and to bring them up from the land to a good and
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spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
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That describes to us the name of God.
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He says I'm coming down to deliver.
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My people. Remember, God comes down for one
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of three reasons. He comes down to destroy.
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He comes down to discipline, or he comes down to deliver.
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Those are the only three times God comes down.
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When he came down the first time, he came down to deliver.
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When he comes, when he comes again, he comes to destroy.
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But here he says, I'm coming down to deliver my people
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because I've seen their affliction, I've heard their
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cry. Remember, this is the God who
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sees me, Elroy. This is the God who hears.
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Ishmael, This is the God who sees and hears.
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And so he says, look, I I'm coming down and what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to demonstrate my power.
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I'm going to display my provision and I'm going to
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deliver my people, and in so doing I'm going to declare my
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preeminence. That's what the name Yave means.
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So he goes on, because Moses asked him.
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He says, what, what? What?
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Who should I say? Send me, He says, tell them I am
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sent you. And the phrase I am are those
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four Hebrew consonants that make up the name of God, yave.
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And so he says these words to Moses.
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He says, verse #20 I will stretch out my hand and strike
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Egypt with all my miracles, which I shall do in the midst of
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it. After that, he will let you go.
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I'm going to demonstrate my power.
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And in demonstrating my power, I'm going to deliver my people
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and I'm going to display my provision.
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Look what he says. He says I will grant this people
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favor in the sight of the Egyptians and it should be that
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when you go, you will not go empty handed, but every woman
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shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her
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house, articles of silver, articles of gold and clothing,
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and you will put them on your sons and daughters.
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Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.
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God says this is who I am, this is what I do.
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I am a deliverer, I'm a rescuer, I'm a Savior, I'm a Redeemer.
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So in Psalm 34, the psalmist says I will, I will call upon
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the Lord. I will call upon him because he
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saves me, because he delivers me, because he rescues me.
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That's why he says, O magnify the Lord Yahweh with me and let
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us exalt that name of God, which is his memorial name, because
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that's what he says in Exodus 315.
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This is my memorial name that's to be remembered from generation
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to generation. So the psalmist of Psalm 34 says
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this, this is memorial name. He's a savior, a rescue, a
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deliverer. That's who he is.
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That's what he does. That's the person of praise.
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And that's what the psalmist is trying to help us understand.
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This is the name that needs to be large in our lives, seen more
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so than ourselves, because we boast in his name.
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We extol his name. And so he begins to describe
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himself all throughout the Old Testament.
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That's why the person of praise is critical as you journey along
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the pathway of praise. Because we saw last week where
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he was Yave Hassinu, the Lord my Maker.
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The Lord my Maker is the one who forms me.
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He fashions me. Psalm 95 verse #6 And then we
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saw Yave Sabeoth, the Lord of armies.
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So important. Why?
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Because not only is he the one who forms me and fashions me,
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he's the one who fights for me. And that's why the Book of
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Malachi concludes with 25 different references to Yave
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Sabayov. And then everything goes silent
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for 400 years until that Lord of armies, that Lord is birthed in
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a Manger in Bethlehem, and his armies make the announcement,
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the glory of the Lord shown all around them.
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And the host of his of his armies declared glory to God in
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the highest, because he's still Yabeh Sabeoth.
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So the Lord who forms me and fashions me is the Lord of
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fights for me. And the Lord who fights for me
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is Yave Rohi, the Lord my shepherd.
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The one who fashions me and forms me is the one who fights
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for me, and the one who fights for me is the one who feeds me.
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Because Rohi, the Lord, my shepherd, is best defined as one
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who feeds or one who leads to a pasture.
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Again, when is it mentioned? 1st Psalm 23.
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You know the Psalm very well. The Lord is my shepherd.
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I shall not want. Why?
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Because the Lord, who is a shepherd is the one who feeds
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me. So when I'm hungry, I'm fed.
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When I'm thirsty, I'm giving something to drink.
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I'm satisfied, David says as he looks back over his life.
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Of all the sin and sorrow that David faced, of all the hearts
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should be faced. When Saul would, would, would,
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would search after him, David would write Psalm 23.
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He'd reflect back on his life and realize that the Lord was a
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shepherd. The Lord was guiding him,
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leading him, feeding him, protecting him, so that when he
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walked to the valley of the shadow of death, he would fear
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no evil, for that shepherd was with him, to guide him, to
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protect him, to feed him. So this is David's testimony as
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to how his life went under the direction of the great Shepherd
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of Israel. And of course, David was a
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shepherd. And David knew about
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shepherding, and yet he realized that the Lord was his shepherd.
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That's probably the most endearing term to describe our
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God. It's warm, it's tender, it
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explains to us the nurturing responsibility that our Lord has
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to feed His people. Not not just feed them food
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physically, but to feed them spiritually and lead them in the
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way that honors the name of God. The Bible says these words in
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Isaiah 41st #10 Behold, the Lord.
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God will come with might. With his arm ruling for him,
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behold, his reward is with him and his recompense before him.
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Like a shepherd, he will tend his flock in his arm.
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He will gather the lambs and carry them in his bosom.
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He will gently lead the nursing ewes.
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What a testimony as to what's going to happen when our Lord
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comes again. But if you read the the book of
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Jeremiah, as Jeremiah prophesied right before Israel goes into
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Babylonian captivity, remember Isaiah prophesied some 100 years
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before that. Jeremiah prophesied right on the
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cusp of them going into captivity.
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He condemns Israel's shepherds, Israel's leaders.
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They were called shepherds because they were to tend to the
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flock of God, but he condemns them.
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And then when you come to the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel is
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written during their captivity, during the Babylonian captivity,
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and Ezekiel has this indictment to say to the nation.
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Thus says the Lord God. Ezekiel 34 verse #2 woe
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shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves, should
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not the shepherds feed the flock?
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That's why, that's where why the word rohi means to feed because
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that's how it's used most in the scriptures.
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And yet he indicts the the religious establishment because
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they were feeding themselves, they weren't feeding the flock.
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Verse 4 Those who are sickly, you have not strengthened the
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disease, you have not healed the broken, you have not bound up
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the scattered. You have not brought back, nor
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have you sought for the loss, but with force and with severity
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you have dominated them. They were scattered for lack of
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a shepherd. They became food for every beast
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of the field and were scattered. My flock wondered, my flock was
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scattered. And he goes on and talks about
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my flock and my flock this and my flock that.
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You did not care for my flock. And then in verse 11.
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For thus says the Lord God, behold, I myself will search for
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my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd cares for the herd
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in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care
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for my sheep, and will deliver them from all the places to
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which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
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And then he says in verse #13 I will feed them.
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Verse #14 I will feed them. Verse #15 I will feed my flock.
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I will lead them to rest. Verse 16.
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I will seek the loss. Verse 16, at the end I will feed
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them. Verse 23.
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Then I will set over them one shepherd, my servant David, and
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he will feed them. He will feed them himself and be
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their shepherd. And I the Lord will be their
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God, and my servant David will be Prince among them.
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I, the Lord have spoken. God says I'm going to send my
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servant David. He's not talking about King
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David. King David died some 400 plus
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years before, after before this. Excuse me.
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So who's he talking about? He's talking about the Messiah
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who's called my servant. Read the book of Isaiah.
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They are called the servant songs, especially Isaiah 53
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which talks about the servant of the Lord.
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The shepherd is my servant David.
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He's the son of David. He says I will send my shepherd,
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and my shepherd will feed them. My shepherd will lead them.
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So what does Jesus say? And in John 10, he says, I am
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the Good Shepherd. I'm the Good Shepherd.
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I know my sheep and they know me.
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The shepherd speaks, they listen and they follow.
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Christ said I am the Good Shepherd.
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And so Christ declared himself as the shepherd, the servant of
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David, the shepherd of Israel. He was the one who will will
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feed us and lead us and guide us.
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This is so important. Remember when the Magi came
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right into Jerusalem in Matthew chapter 2, they came looking for
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who the king of the Jews where? Where was he who was born king
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of the Jews? And Herod and Idiomian believed
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that he was the proper king of the Jews, although he wasn't.
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He declared himself as the king of the Jews.
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He didn't want any rivalry come into his life, and so he wanted
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to know where this king was to be born.
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So he gathers the scribes together, and the scribes tell
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him where this king will be born.
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And what do they do? They quote Micah chapter 5,
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verse #2 which says, And you Bethlehem Ephrathah.
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For out of you shall come forth a ruler who will shepherd my
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people. From you.
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Bethlehem Ephrathah will come. A ruler will come, a king, and
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he will be the shepherd of my people.
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Now why is that important? Why is that statement important?
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It's a prophecy, right? Micah 5 verse #2 But why is it
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called Bethlehem Ephrathah? That's a good question.
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And that's because the ancient name for Bethlehem was
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Ephrathah. And Ephrathah means to be
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fruitful. Bethlehem is the House of bread.
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And Jesus says I am the bread of life.
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And so the bread of life was born in the House of bread.
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But the House of bread is that which fulfills us to such an
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extent that we then can be fruitful.
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That's why it's called Bethlehem Ephrathah.
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But it goes even further beyond that, because before Micah 5
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verse #2 is Micah of chapter 4 verse #8, Micah 4 verse #8 and
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the Micah 4 verse #8's a prophecy, A prophecy about the
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tower of the flock. In Hebrew it's called Migdal
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Adair. He says to you, Tower of the
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flock, it will come. You are the daughter of Zion,
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you will have one come who will have dominion and rule.
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Now why is that important? Why does it say that on the
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South side of Bethlehem it's called Migdal, a dare.
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Well, you for that you got to go all the way back to the book of
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Genesis, the 35th chapter, when Rachel's about to give birth to
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her second son and she's going to die.
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And she, she's so afraid that, that, that she's going to die
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and not live that she wants to call her son Ben Oni, which
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means son of my sorrow. But Jacob intercedes and says,
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no, he will not be called Ben Oni, but he would call Ben
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Hamin, which means son of my right hand or son of my
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strength. Why is that important?
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Because Benjamin became a type of Christ.
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Why? Because Rachel was buried at
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Migdal Adair Ephrathah, which is Bethlehem.
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Her grave is still there today. Why is that important?
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Because the tower of the flock was a two-story tower, and on
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the top of the story would stand the shepherd as he would
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overlook the shepherd's fields and watch over his flock and
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make sure they were taken care of.
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But underneath on the 1st floor was the birthing place for all
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the lambs that would be prepared for Passover in Jerusalem.
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So Bethlehem Ephrathah became the place of birth for all the
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sacrificial lambs that would be slaughtered at Passover.
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Why is that important? Because in the the birthing
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experience when the the lamb came out it had to be quickly
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wrapped in swaddling clothes. Why?
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Because the lamb would kick and flail and maybe cut himself or
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run up against something and injure himself.
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They then would be an they would be a blemish lamb, not an
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unblemished lamb. And so they would wrap the
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little lamb in, in cloth to protect it from becoming
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blemished. So it would be an unblemished
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lamb that would qualify for sacrifice at Passover.
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Why is that important? Well, look what it says in the
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book of Zechariah in Zechariah chapter 13 verse #7 it says
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awake, O sword against my shepherd.
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Who's that? That's that's the Messiah.
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That's a servant of David and against the man my associate,
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and the word associate means equal, equal in nature, equal in
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character. And this man is not a normal
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man. He is gay bear, a supernatural
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man. So awake, O sword, against the
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man, not just a normal man, but an extraordinary man who is my
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equal, meaning that the shepherd is equal in nature to God
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himself. He says, declares the Lord of
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hosts, strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered, The
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shepherd's going to be slain, the shepherd's going to die.
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That was all prophesied. And so Christ says in John 10, I
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am the Good Shepherd, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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He told them that He came to die.
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He came to fulfill Zechariah chapter 13, verses 7 and eight.
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He came to die. Why?
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Because you see, He was the lamb that was slain from the
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foundation of the world. Where was he born?
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Bethlehem, Ephrathah. He was born in the place where
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all the sacrificial lambs were prepared.
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And when he was born, what did Mary do?
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She wrapped him in what? Swaddling clothes.
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And she lied him in a Manger, a feeding through.
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Why? Because everything about the
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birth of the Messiah foreshadowed all that was going
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to take place at Passover when the shepherd, the Lamb, would be
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slain. So listen to what it says in the
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Book of Revelation in the 5th chapter.
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I'm sorry the 7th chapter of Revelation with these words.
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For the Lamb is in the center of the throne, and the Lamb in the
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center of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide
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them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe every
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tear from their eyes. John sees a vision of the
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glorified Son of God, sees him as a Lamb in the center of the
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throne. And that Lamb is the shepherd
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that will continue to guide God's people throughout all
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eternity. And that shepherd is the God who
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wipes away every tear from people's eyes.
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That's why Yave Rohi is so important to understand that we
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can actually say the Lord is my shepherd.
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I shall not once. Why?
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Because he's the one who feeds. He's the one who leads to
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greener pastures. He's the one who causes my soul
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to lie down by quiet waters. He's the one that is with me
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when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
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I don't have to fear any evil. I've got my shepherd.
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He's with me. The one who feeds me.
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The one who feeds me. He's the one who fights for me.
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He's Jabe Sabea. The one who fights for me is the
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one who formed me and fashioned me.
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He's Jabe Haseenu. Ah, but know this, The Lord that
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is the one who formed me and fashioned me.
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The Lord who fights for me, the Lord who feeds me, is the Lord
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who foresees everything. Because he's called Yawei Yuri,
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the Lord who foresees everything.
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And because he foresees it, he knows how to fashion me.
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Because he foresees it, he knows how to feed me.
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Because he foresees it. He knows how to feed me.
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It's all been foreseen. He is yave Yure, but to
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understand that you're going to have to come back next week that
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we might explain it to you. Let's pray together.
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Father God, we thank you for today.
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We thank you for all that you've done for truly you are a great
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God. Your name is scripture is is
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critical to us. Understanding our praise of you
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and our prayer today, Lord, is that you would cause us to see
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you all the more for who you are, that our praise would not
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just be seasonal, but continual. Praise for us would not be
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optional but essential because praise truly is habitual to our
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nature. It's to be perpetual in our
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lives because it's critical to how we live.
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For the glory and honor of our King, we thank you in Jesus
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name, Amen.