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Psalm 130 - Prayers From The Depths Of Chaos · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. Hope that you are doing well
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  today. We are in Psalm 130, Psalm 130
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  and this is another one of the song of a sense.
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  These are the road trip songs for as the children of Israel 3
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  * a year are going up to Jerusalem for the various feasts
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  that God has for them. And this one is actually one of
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  the more well known song of a sense.
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  There's a old classic hymn that goes something like out of the
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  temps. I cry to you, Lord, hear my
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  desperate cry more than the watchman waits for in time.
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  And then I don't remember how the end of that goes.
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  If you're like, oh, the first part of that sounded kind of
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  good, You can look it up. It's the titles just out of the
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  depths. I cry to you, and I've heard
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  some beautiful renditions of that.
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  And so I encourage you to go listen to that.
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  There's also a great song by Keith and Kristen Getty called I
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  Will Wait for You from Psalm 130 that you can find on, you know,
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  anywhere you listen to music. I've attached it in the show
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  notes. Shane and Shane actually have a
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  tremendous version of it. So want to encourage you be
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  listening to those. And those will help you to get
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  to know and embody and really feel the truth of God's Word
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  even as we are learning about it today.
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  So let's read through Psalm 130 and see what the Lord has.
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  Verse #1 Out of the depths I call to you, Yahweh.
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  Lord, listen to my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my
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  cry for help. Yahweh, if you kept an account
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  of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
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  But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be
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  revered. I will wait for Yahweh.
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  I wait and put my hope in His Word.
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  I wait for the Lord more than Watchmen for the morning, more
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  than Watchmen for the morning. Israel, put your hope in Yahweh,
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  for there is faithful love with Yahweh, and with Him is
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  redemption in abundance, and He will redeem Israel from all its
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  iniquities. We're going to look beginning in
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  verse #1 at some kind of intricacies that it has and
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  maybe some recurring themes that you might have already noticed
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  if you've been following along with Tabernacle talk for a
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  while. So in verse #1 he says, out of
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  the depths. I call to you Yahweh.
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  And here are the depths. This is the, if you will, the
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  chaos waters. It's out of the misery and
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  turbulence and craziness of my life.
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  I am calling out to God. I'm really thankful that God
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  doesn't just listen to us when we feel like, you know, we're
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  doing great and we're on solid ground, but he is truly, really
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  there for us in times when everything has just kind of gone
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  to heck, if you will. And what a joy that here I
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  can't, I can't think of out of the depths.
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  I call to you Yahweh, without thinking of Jonah, you know,
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  there in the belly of the fish, and he's, you know, literally
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  there in the depths. And he cries out to God and God
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  hears him. And hopefully, Lord willing,
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  none of us will ever find ourselves in as hopeless of a
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  situation as that. And if God can hear him, then
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  certainly God can hear us. And one random thing that I
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  wanted to know all the way through up until the very end.
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  So there's kind of four sections of this Psalm.
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  So there's verses 1 and 2, verses 3 and 4, verses 5:00 and
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  6:00, and then verses 7:00 and 8:00.
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  Every single pairing all the way through has one mention of
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  Yahweh and then the other mention of Adonai.
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  So as you guys here, maybe if you're reading along as I'm
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  doing Tabernacle talk, you'll notice every time that the Old
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  Testament uses the Tetragrammaton, that's the Lord
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  all in lowercase capital letters.
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  If you're looking at basically any Bible over the last 500
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  years in English, that's how they put it.
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  So I always just, if you will, I'm transliterating or I'm
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  having what the Hebrew name would have been there.
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  It's Yahweh. Lord is it's fine, but it's,
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  it's not the proper name of God, which is what that's given to us
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  in Scripture as that God tells Moses when Moses is like, Hey,
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  what do I tell Israel when they ask me who sent you and God says
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  you tell them I am Yahweh. Yahweh has sent me to you.
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  And so I, I love being able to to speak that name of God.
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  But all the way through here, there's a pairing of both Yahweh
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  and the word Adonai, which is the the Master, the ruler, the
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  Lord. And so you have both Yahweh and
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  Lord. So out of the depths I call to
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  you Yahweh. And then Adonai, Listen to my
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  voice, ruler, master, listen to my voice.
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  Same there in verse #3 Yahweh. If you kept an account of
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  iniquities, Adonai, who could stand?
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  Same there in in verses 5 and 6. But then in verse 7, the kind of
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  last of the four pairings, there's a switch where instead
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  of it saying Yahweh this, that or the other and then add an eye
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  and this and that, it says Israel put your hope in Yahweh
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  for there is faithful love with. And then you'd expect because
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  all the way through the rest of the Psalm, you have add an eye
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  Lord. But that last time it goes back
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  to Yahweh and I'm sure that there's #1 you would have a fun
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  kind of memory device as I've talked before and I've, you
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  know, kind of turned this road trip songs.
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  I can almost imagine that it's intentionally put there so that,
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  you know, you kind of get in the, in the rhythm of things and
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  you know how the song goes. And so you've been singing all
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  of these lines and you know, you're saying Yahweh, you're
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  saying Adonai, Yahweh, Adonai, Yahweh, Adonai.
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  And then all of a sudden on the very last one, unless you're
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  paying attention, you might, you know, slip back into doing
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  Yahweh and Adonai one more time. But it's actually Yahweh both
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  times. I'm sure there's also a
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  spiritual significance that is the that God is not just our
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  ruler, not just our master, our Lord, but he is also the self
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  existent one, the one who wants a personal relationship with us,
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  the one who needs nothing from us, but who is everything for
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  us. And so that's just kind of a
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  random, cool original language thing that if you were just kind
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  of reading this casually, you might not see.
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  Like you would notice one version of Lord is in all small
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  capital letters, and then the other one just looks like a
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  regular word. But wanted to just highlight
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  that for you. So verse #1 out of the depths,
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  chaos waters, when our life is going to heck, I'm so thankful
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  that God hears us. Verse 2, He says, Lord, listen
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  to my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my
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  cry for help. And I think about Jesus that
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  because when he prayed, Father, if it's possible, let this cup
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  pass from me like don't allow this judgment, this cup of
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  judgment to hit me that I have to go through all of this
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  suffering. He says nevertheless, not my
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  will, but your will be done. And if you will, God, while
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  attentive to Jesus, he did not give Jesus in that moment what
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  Jesus was praying for. Other than that, Jesus prayed
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  for the will of the Father to be done.
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  But he didn't. He didn't have the cup of
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  judgment pass from Jesus. And because Jesus's cry for help
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  was met with a no, you need to go through this, our cries can
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  be heard that we have this relationship with God where we
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  cry out to him, ABBA Father, that God who is always there for
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  us, the one who loves us, the one who died for us, the one who
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  rose again for us. And So what a welcome thought
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  that is. And it also means that in times
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  when God tells me no, I can know.
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  It's not that God hates me or that he wants me to pointlessly
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  suffer, but it might be that he has me to go through something,
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  like he had Jesus to go through something.
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  And that ennobles my hard times. That it's not pointless that I
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  have been given a mission by God himself.
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  And so I can feel like I can actually attack whatever this
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  hard time is and I can go through it because I know that
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  God has a point in it. So I, I just love that.
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  I don't know if that's encouraging for any other person
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  or if it makes sense for any other person, but for my soul
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  that's a comfort. Verse #3 Yahweh if you kept an
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  account of iniquities, add an eye who could stand?
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  But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be
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  revered. I love, I love this.
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  Verse three if you kept an account of iniquities.
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  This is God. If you were keeping watch over,
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  like if you were, this word is somewhat tied in verse #6 to the
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  watchman that waits for morning. It's someone that is looking out
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  to see if there's going to be, you know, any bad guys that come
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  and try to attack the city that because there's a watchman
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  that's keeping everyone safe, He's guarding the city.
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  He's not going to fight everything himself, but he'll,
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  you know, sound the alarm if there is an invading force or
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  something that's coming towards the city.
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  And so here the psalmist says, God, if you were keeping an eye
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  out for all of my sins or all of anyone's sins, he says, who in
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  the world could stand, who can live?
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  This is like to stand in position.
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  Who would be able to stand before God and not experience
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  judgment and condemnation and punishment?
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  If God was vengeful, if He was not forgiving, if He was not
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  eager to sympathize with us and to care for us, we would all be
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  toast. But I love that He says they're
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  with you. There is forgiveness so that you
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  may be revered. Because of God's forgiveness, we
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  are able to worship Him and be in awe of him.
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  He would be right and good to punish every single one of us
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  for our transgressions, but He is not out there looking for the
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  minutest failures that you and I have.
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  Instead, He is looking out for us.
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  He cares for us. He forgives us and everyone that
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  turns to Him in faith and in a humility to go God, I'm messing
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  this whole thing up. I'm not doing what's right.
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  I need your forgiveness because I know what I have earned.
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  Every person that, if you will, owns up to that Jesus forgives.
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  And what a glorious God that is. That is the one that we must
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  Revere because He is entirely worthy of it.
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  Verses 5 and 6. Then I wait for Yahweh.
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  I wait and put my hope in His word.
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  Let me check real quick on what this word is.
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  So it is to await, to hope, to wait for.
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  Let me pull up my fancy dictionary here real quick.
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  I love being able to see, especially because the Hebrew
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  lexicon, like the Hebrew language, it has so many rich
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  intricacies to it. All right here we have kind of a
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  larger definition. It is to look forward with
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  confidence to that which is good and beneficial, often with a
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  focus of anticipation in a future event.
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  This is I am waiting for God. I am confidently expecting God
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  to work for him, to forgive for him, to overcome my
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  difficulties, where right now I'm in the crazy waters, but I
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  know that God will come through for me.
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  He says, I wait for the Lord more than Watchmen for the
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  morning, more attentively than someone is looking out for an
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  invading force. I am looking for God.
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  Are you confidently expecting God to work in your life?
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  Do you believe that as you pray to Him, as you ask for wisdom,
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  as you ask for daily comfort and strength, as you ask for Him to
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  help you overcome sin and wickedness in your life, as
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  you're asking for Him to save those that you share the gospel
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  with, are you confidently expecting that He will work?
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  This is the posture that we should assume.
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  Whom, because we know who our God is and we know what He's
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  capable of. And so certainly let us wait
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  confidently hoping for and anticipating what our God can
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  do. Then here is the cry at the end.
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  Israel, put your hope in Yahweh, for there is faithful love with
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  Yahweh that has said that steadfast, loyal, covenant love
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  with God. He made a promise and He will
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  follow through on that. And so you can trust in Him.
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  And then they say, and with him is redemption in abundance, and
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  he will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
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  Here you have the you have the expression of atonement that
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  there were wrongs that had been done by Israel that earned them
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  a, if you will, a place of slavery, that they were enslaved
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  to sin and they needed to be bought back by God.
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  Now, we don't really have this exact same economic format, so
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  I'll try and give just a brief thing here as we end today.
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  So redemption and we went over this a little bit in Leviticus
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  as we walked through that in ancient Israel when you ran out
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  of money, you were penniless. Maybe you had a large debt that
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  you could not pay. You would go into scripture
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  would call it slavery totally different slavery than you know
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  was practiced in America. The Chatelle race based slavery
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  that we had here in America. Instead it was I am working for
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  a specific amount of time and then after that specific amount
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  of time the debt has been paid. I can go back.
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  I get all of my like life, my land, my possessions back.
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  My work redeemed me from that bond service from that slavery.
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  And someone in your family could buy you back out from that debt
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  and they would redeem you. This is the word Padah in in
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  Hebrew. And so someone could buy you
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  back. And so here Israel is framed as
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  being in slavery to sin. And so God needed to purchase
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  them back. They were in deep debt and God
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  needed to buy them out of it so that they could be free and that
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  they could be his people. And certainly as we think about
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  Jesus, that's what he did for us.
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  He was the one that redeemed us, that bought us back by his blood
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  so that we would be able to have everything that God designed for
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  us. That relationship with him,
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  eternal life, joy and A and a future and an ability to share
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  that same love and kindness and affection towards everyone else
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  in our life, towards other humans and being able to rule
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  over this world that God intended for us to be a part of.
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  So I love this, this Psalm and I hope that it was an
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  encouragement to you today. I really do encourage you listen
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  to that Psalm 130. I will wait for you by either
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  Keith and Kristen Getty, Shane and Shane, I'm sure several
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  other people have recorded different covers or versions of
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  that, and so I encourage you to do that.
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  See you next time with Psalm 131.