Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 12 31 2023 The Psalms in Ancient Israel’s Worship

Transcript

12 31 2023 The Psalms in Ancient Israel’s Worship · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
• 0:06
  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
• 0:10
  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
• 0:15
  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
• 0:20
  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
• 0:25
  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
• 0:31
  author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning.
• 0:34
  It is Sunday, December thirty one, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
• 0:39
  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
• 0:42
  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
• 0:46
  no exception. We are in our new lesson study series through the Book of
• 0:52
  Psalms, and our caption for today is the Psalms in Ancient Israel's worship.
• 0:58
  We'll get into that in just the moment, but first I'd like to say
• 1:00
  welcome, welcome, welcome to you, and ask you to go over to
• 1:03
  your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community, and also please please
• 1:08
  please let us know in that space where you are in the world and pick
• 1:12
  up the Your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
• 1:18
  a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
• 1:23
  pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you
• 1:26
  for giving us this new day and for the privilege you've given us to begin
• 1:30
  this work week with you. Please open up our understanding and make us people
• 1:36
  who are full of praise and adoration and worship. Father in Jesus name,
• 1:41
  I pray a man and a man again. Praise for God is key in
• 1:49
  worship. No, no, I just jumped right in there, didn't.
• 1:53
  I didn't even give you any warning. What I'm saying is praise for God
• 1:57
  is key in worship. In fact, in fact, the psalms are were
• 2:04
  an inseparable part of Israel's worship. According to the lesson writer, I'm going
• 2:08
  to give you some good bonus stuff in a moment. For example, they
• 2:13
  were used in temple dedications. Have you ever dedicated a space for God and
• 2:19
  worship? Yes, religious feasts, processions, and during the setting down of
• 2:24
  the arc of the Covenant in Jerusalem. Okay, So what I want to
• 2:30
  do now is go to the Book of Psalms that may be familiar to you,
• 2:32
  and you may not have known where it came from the Book of Psalms,
• 2:36
  chapter twenty two. And I will read beginning at verse one, and
• 2:39
  the Bible reads, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• 2:46
  Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of
• 2:51
  my roaring? Have you heard these words before or some of them before?
• 2:54
  If you have, go ahead and type in the chat where you have heard
• 2:58
  those? Right, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• 3:04
  Okay, let's go to verse two. Oh, my God, I
• 3:07
  cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not in the night season, and
• 3:13
  am not silent, But thou art holy, Oh thou that inhabitants the praises
• 3:21
  of Israel. I want you to focus in on this one. That's verse
• 3:25
  three. But thou art holy. So no matter what trial you're going through,
• 3:30
  it doesn't matter what tribulation you're going through. And for those of you
• 3:34
  who typed it was Jesus while he was on the cross. He was about
• 3:38
  to give his life just like he promised he would, voluntarily, just like
• 3:43
  he said he would. It didn't mean that it was easy. When he
• 3:46
  was experiencing the grossest darkness that he and his humanity had ever experienced. It
• 3:53
  felt like he was separated from his father. I said, it felt like
• 3:57
  he was separated from his father, and he was asking, why have you
• 4:00
  forsaken me? Why does it feel like we are not one like we were
• 4:06
  from before there was a beginning? Yeah, and so he in his darkest
• 4:13
  trial, would have been able to identify that what you aren't holy? If
• 4:20
  he was speaking to his father, Jesus would have said, you aren't you
• 4:26
  are holy. This is how we follow his example as God gives us strength
• 4:30
  when we're going through our deepest, darkest trials and tribulations, the times that
• 4:35
  we do not understand, the times when our relationships seem to be in shambles
• 4:41
  and our children seem to have lost their minds, when our money is not
• 4:45
  stretching out as long and as far as our month, and you got people
• 4:48
  bailiffs and collection agencies calling and contacting and maybe even showing up at your doorstep,
• 4:56
  or even the times that some of our women are going through paramena pause
• 5:00
  or menopause full blown, or PMS, or going through the times postpartum depression,
• 5:06
  and other circumstances, and it feels like everything is closing in on us.
• 5:13
  Yes, the Bible says that thou art holy, Thou that inhabitists the
• 5:18
  praises of Israel. If you want to guarantee the presence of God in your
• 5:24
  space, we understand repentance and confession, Yes, yielding our will to him.
• 5:28
  We understand. Whether two or three are gathered together in His name,
• 5:32
  then He is in the midst of them or us. But this one slips
• 5:36
  by some people. It says that our God, who is holy, actually
• 5:43
  inhabits the praises of his people. So if you want to guarantee the presence
• 5:49
  of God, apart from everything that I have said until this moment, then
• 5:54
  simply praise him. Our fathers trusted in THEE, I said, simply praise
• 5:59
  him. Hah. They trusted Thou didst deliver them. They cried unto THEE
• 6:03
  and were delivered. They trusted in THEE and were not confounded. Hm hmm.
• 6:10
  Okay. So so so this is something very interesting from the Book of
• 6:14
  Psalms, chapter one hundred and fifty. In case you need to learn how
• 6:17
  to praise God. The Bible reads, uh, praise ye the Lord.
• 6:21
  Praise God in his sanctuary, Praise him in the firmament of his power.
• 6:27
  Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.
• 6:32
  Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with the sultry and
• 6:38
  harp. Praise him with the timbre and dance. Praise him with the stringed
• 6:43
  instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud sounding symbols. Praise him upon
• 6:48
  the high sounding symbols. Are you getting this? Let everything that hath breath.
• 6:54
  Let me ask you a question. Do you have breath? Maybe you
• 6:58
  have himphysema, you have se Maybe you have obstructive airway disease. Maybe you
• 7:02
  have to use a CPAP machine. Maybe sometimes you suffer from allergies or extreme
• 7:10
  cases of asthma, But you still have breath in your body. Maybe even
• 7:14
  in this moment you will run a ventilator and it is difficult for you to
• 7:17
  breathe. But if you can hear me, or you can read your artificial
• 7:21
  intelligence, that is using my words across the screen like closed captioning for the
• 7:28
  hearing impaired, if you can draw a breath at all, The Bible says,
• 7:31
  let everything that means you, let everything that means me, everything that
• 7:36
  hath breath, praise the Lord. And in case you missed it, praise
• 7:42
  ye the Lord. If you want to experience the kind of holy worship that
• 7:49
  God's people did anxiously ancient, excuse me anciently, then learn to praise the
• 7:55
  Lord, no matter in what problem or trial you happen to be or in
• 8:00
  those times that you are really literally excited because there is something positive going on
• 8:05
  in your life, regardless of any of those two extremes. Just learn how
• 8:11
  to praise the Lord. And you can always go back to Psalm one hundred
• 8:13
  and fifty and many other places to give you an example of what that looks
• 8:20
  like Isaiah chapter six. Worship in the space and place where God inhabits his
• 8:26
  praises. Now, let me just give a few takeaways, or if you
• 8:31
  want to call it, lessons from today's study. Number one, Private devotion
• 8:37
  and public worship. Right Psalms are meant for both private meditation and public worship.
• 8:43
  In Colossians chapter three, the Bible reads in verse sixteen, Let the
• 8:46
  Word of Christ dwelling you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another
• 8:52
  in what psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts
• 9:00
  unto the Lord. And of course we already talked about praise. Now let's
• 9:03
  add thanksgiving number two. Many psalms are composed as expressions of praise and thanksgiving,
• 9:11
  as seen in Psalm chapter ninety five and verse two. Let us come
• 9:15
  before His presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms,
• 9:22
  and then of course reflections on God's deliverance, and we use them in religious
• 9:26
  gathering spiritual gatherings. Maybe that's a better time. And of course instructive in
• 9:33
  worship. Psalms guide believers in the proper way to worship God. And I'm
• 9:39
  thankful that God has given us just a quick peek and a window into the
• 9:41
  worship of the ancients. And now we can find thanks for joining us listening.
• 9:46
  Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
• 9:50
  word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
• 9:54
  with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,