00:00
00:00
00:01
Transcript
1/0
All right, Psalm 85 is not a
very long psalm. We've got 13 verses here, and
a lot of this is similar. We see references to sin, the
iniquity of the people. We see forgiveness from God. This is more of a positive psalm,
and it's just a high-level overview of the psalm before we dig into
the verses here. the asking of God to bless and
to not be angry with them. And then we see some of the blessings
following through of the Lord and righteousness here. So let's
dig in here to verse number one. The Bible says, Lord, thou hast
been favorable unto thy land. Thou hast brought back the captivity
of Jacob. So the first verse is setting
us up with where we're at right this is after uh children of
israel being brought back out of captivity so uh it doesn't
necessarily say which captivity i don't think that that's necessarily
important it's just referencing a captivity a time when the children
of israel have gone astray and then they're coming back to the
lord and i mean this may be prophetic from that time but I would say
it doesn't really matter because we're, you know, I want to just
dig more into just how God works is a very good summary of how
God works in general. And this is from the vantage
point from the standpoint of having now finished going through
chastening of the Lord as a people. This is, you know, Israel as
a whole is coming out of being captive. They've turned from
the Lord. Now they're being brought back
out of captivity. And verse two says, thou hast
forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou has covered all
their sin, Selah. So they've received the forgiveness
of God. God brought them back. They have
now passed that point of whatever transgression was, God has forgiven
that iniquity. He's covered all of their sin.
Verse 3, thou has taken away all thy wrath. Thou has turned
thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. Verse 4, turn us
O God of our salvation and cause thine anger toward us to cease. We see here three times the first
three verses expressing, look, we've been forgiven, our sins
are covered, you've taken away your wrath, the fierceness of
your anger, that you've kind of crossed that point to where
they're getting back in good standing with the Lord. And as
we go through this, this is referring to, you know, you know, the nation,
the land, the people of God as a collective. And I'm going to
address it that way, but obviously you can still apply most of this
individually as well. So when you go through your own
chastening and your own times where God might have to punish
you for your sins and your disobedience and stiff-neckedness that you
know when when you return to the Lord and you humble yourself
and you seek God then and he forgives you then covers your
sin and then takes away his wrath from you you're gonna be in this
state where you're, one, very thankful because you've received
that forgiveness from the Lord, which is great, and you're starting
to get back in good graces, but at the same time, this is also
a very good place to, you're not far removed from that captivity,
from the punishment, and you're probably gonna be treading very
lightly, going like, like, thank you, like, like, thank you for
not, you know, for, for, for your wrath, you know, toning
that down and taking away your wrath. But, but please don't,
don't be angry with me again. You know, like, turn us, the
Bible says here, turn us, oh God of our salvation, like, like,
you know, get us on the right path is what this is saying.
And I just want to express this real quick in, in verse number
four here, when it says, turn us, oh God of our salvation,
cause an anger toward us to cease. This does not negate any type
of free will. You can look at this statement,
and what I wouldn't do is when it says, turn us, oh God, that's
not saying, like a lot of people, and this is very understandable,
I think, you would like to just be able to let God just run your
life for you, right? Like where you could just be
like, God, like if you just had a switch you could turn right
now and just be like, God, just take over and run my life for me.
I would like to be able to do that, because then you'd just
be guaranteed, like, all right, well, then God's just going to
do everything that is good for me, what's right, what I should
be doing. But that's not how God operates.
We don't believe in the God of John Kelvin. that just everything
happens to what he says it's gonna be, and it's all predetermined,
it's all predestinated, and God's just like a puppet master controlling
the strings of everybody and everything that they do. That
is completely false. We don't subscribe to that, not
even a little bit. So when the Bible says, turn
us, O God of our salvation, Obviously, we want God to direct us. We want God to be with us. We
want God to show us the right way, which is ultimately how
this Psalm ends up. So look at verse number 13. This
is where we get this conclusion of the thought to, hey, look,
we've done wrong. We've sinned. We've gone into
captivity. We've been punished for that.
Now God, turn us back to you, back to serving you. Get our
minds straight. Help us to walk the right path.
Show us the way forward from here. Turn us. We don't want
to go back to where we were before. Turn us the right way. And this
has to do with getting direction, getting guidance from the Lord. Verse number 13 there in Psalm
85, the Bible says, righteousness shall go before him and shall
set us in the way of his steps. This is what they were looking
for. Of course, it concludes with that. But this is the whole
point of saying, turn us, right? Show us the right way. Go back
in our life and give us the guidance that we need. And as I was preparing
for this sermon, there's a couple of passages that came up that
just made me think about other portions of scripture. If you
want to keep your place here, and turn if you go to Amos chapter
number 8, This desire, this request for
God to, hey, turn us back right again, get us in the right way. Verse number five, I'm gonna
read for you in Psalm 85. I meant to read this before we turn to
Amos 8. It says, wilt thou be angry with us forever? Wilt thou
draw out thine anger to all generations? Will thou not revive us again
that thy people may rejoice in thee? And it's still this feeling
of making God, please don't just cast us off forever. Don't be
angry with us forever. They already know that they've
been forgiven. God's brought them back. But
the desire here is to not want to have the anger of the Lord
in their lives anymore. They want to get right. And this
is the right heart that has to be there in order for them to
even be brought back and to receive that forgiveness anyways. It's
that repentant heart and looking for the right way. what and this is this is the
concern i think that that they're worried about is what the bible
says in amos chapter 8 when the people have sinned greatly and
they're being judged look at verse number 10 of amos chapter
8 the bible says and i will turn your feasts into mourning and
all your songs into lamentation. And before I even continue here,
this is just such a basic principle overall, going all the way back
to the law, all the way back to the first five books of Moses,
going back to where God just promises like, hey, here's my
law. You keep my law and I will bless you. And I'm going to multiply
your you know your seed i'm going to multiply the crops i'm going
to you know protect you i'll be your defender you know one
of you shall chase 10 10 of you shall chase a thousand like like
you're going to be blessed and i'll and i'll be there for you
and i'll be your god and you'll be my people but if you disobey
me then things are going to go bad. Then I'm going to allow
you to be brought into captivity. You're not going to be reaping
anything good out of the land. You're going to go into all kinds
of problems. So we see this play out over,
and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over
again throughout scripture. And you see it play out, I'm sure,
just in life in general, whether it be your life or people that
you know. people just having no regard for the Lord and especially
his people and you know Christians that just get out of the will
of God and just have no regard for serving God, no regard for
doing anything for the Lord, they end up not being blessed
just in general and seem to have a lot of problems that that wouldn't
otherwise be there. Look at, let's keep reading your
verse number 10. I will turn your feasts in the
morning and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring
up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head, and
I will make it as the morning of an only sun and the end thereof
as a bitter day. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine
of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the
Lord. And they shall wander from sea
to sea and from the north even to the east. They shall run to
and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it. And
this is, that's a scary place to be. He's not only saying,
you know, I'm going to turn your feasts in the morning, your songs
and lamentation, you're going to be going through these curses.
But then you're going to want to know what the Lord has to
say. You're going to want to get that direction from the Lord.
You want God to be with you. God to answer you. God to hear
your prayers. And God to guide you. And you're not going to
be able to find it. And you're going to be trying to find the
Word of the Lord. And you're going to be running to and fro.
And trying to find who's got a message from the Lord. Who's
got a word from the Lord. And you're not going to find anything.
There's a famine in the land of God communicating, of God
guiding, of God directing the people. And this is a place where
you don't want to be in. And this is the concern. And
this is the request. Hey, turn us, oh God. Be there for us. Guide us. Show us the right way. Because obviously, as we saw
in Amos, turn back if you want to Psalm 85, as you can see in
Amos, you can get to that point. The people can get to that point.
The nation can get to that point to where You know, they've sinned
and sinned and sinned against the Lord, and now he's punishing
them. And now they're not even receiving of the Lord. They're
not receiving the right guidance and the right instruction that
they would need. We saw that in King Saul's life,
right? Remember, he sinned and sinned
and sinned and sinned. He didn't humble himself and thought he
could do everything. And then when he wants to seek the Lord
and he wants counsel from God, he goes and he's trying to ask
counsel. He's like, God doesn't answer. And then he takes it
so far as to go see a witch and try to bring up Samuel to give
him word from the Lord, which is extremely wicked. And he ends
up dying, of course, and getting killed in battle. And they desecrate
his body, his son. Him and his sons die in battle.
as a result of his disobedience, but we see that God will get
to that point to where, you know, if you push things too far that
he just won't be there for you. He won't be there to answer your
requests, to guide you, to give you the instruction that you
need. Now, again, I'll bring this up probably As much as I
feel I need to, I think everyone here already understands this,
but we already believe that there's no way a believer could ever
lose their salvation. Even King Saul didn't lose his salvation.
When he was able to speak with Samuel the day before he died,
Samuel prophesied to him and said, tomorrow you'll be with
me. that you and your sons are going
to be with me. And there is no indication that Samuel wasn't
saved as a prophet of the Lord. We wholeheartedly believe that
Samuel was a prophet, that he was saved, he was a man of God.
And if he was saying, you're going to be with me, then Samuel
wasn't burning in hell. So we can take that as proof. that Samuel prophesied the truth
unto him, and that when he died, he was with him. Not to mention
that the Bible says that, you know, God gave him another heart,
and that Saul prophesied, just like the prophets, and all these
other things. We have plenty of evidence to
show us that King Saul was saved, and we know that salvation is
eternal, and that can never be taken away. Even when you do
bad, you know, God's people, you do bad things, hey, God's
gonna punish you, he's gonna chase in you, he may get to the point
to where he's not gonna listen to you because you've been too
disobedient and you need to be punished some more, but his loving
kindness, his mercy is never fully taken away from you. That
you still have that salvation, you're still a child of God,
and you still have a home in heaven. So the plea here in Psalm 85
is just basically to not be angry forever and to guide them now. And now that they're seeking
him, please show us a way and guide us the way that we ought
to go. verse number six says wilt thou not revive us again
and revive of course means to be brought back to life so like
they in the sense that we were serving you before we were walking
the right way the path of righteousness we fell we transgressed now you've
forgiven us now revive us again bring us back to be able to serve
you again, to be fruitful again, and to be a people that could
bring you honor and glory again, that thy people may rejoice in
thee. And basically be able to be used
again, right, of the Lord. And this should be a concern
if you've got your heart right with the Lord. It's a scary place
to be in, you know, for us, especially once you know, you know, let's
say you're someone who's, you know what it's like to serve
the Lord. You go soul winning, you pray,
you read your Bible, you've served God, you've experienced the blessing
of God in your life, and then something happens and you end
up backsliding and kind of getting out of the things of God, and
maybe you commit some bad sin, some type of grievous sin, and
then you get to the point where you're like, man, what have I
done? and you want to turn back to God, and you find that God
is a merciful God, and there is forgiveness with the Lord,
and then you get back, well, you're going to want God to still
be able to use you again. Right? You're going to want to
not just get out of the fight. And I would just encourage you,
you're all here in church with us tonight. If this ever happens
to you, and I pray that it won't ever happen, but just being in
church long enough, you will see people come and go through
church. It happens. happens. It happens to really good people.
It happens to people that you love. It happens to people that
you care about that have been on fire for the Lord and that
you would never think would ever drop out of church and just kind
of go by the wayside. But it happens. And all I can
do is while you're here, just stress, look, Do your best for
that not to happen, but if you find yourself in that position
where you have backslidden, you have committed sins, you're ashamed,
you're whatever, you're guilty of whatever it
is before God, and God's chasing you, and God's going to go brought
you into captivity, and however that needs to be handled for
your case with the Lord, that you would turn to him, but then
seek to be used of him again, and don't be so proud that you
can't show back up to church. And even if you never go back
to the same church, even if you don't come back to this church,
for example, go back to church and start serving the Lord again.
and don't get the defeated attitude. Look, if you're still alive,
God has something more for you to do. Because if God was done
with you, then he'd be done. As a child of God especially,
if he were done with you in this life, you wouldn't be here. You
wouldn't be here. So there's clearly more for you
to do. So I would just remember that. And as you're thanking
God for his mercy and thanking God for taking away his wrath
and turning himself from his fierce anger on you, when you
get to that point, as the Bible's describing here, that you would
seek to be revived again in the sense of being renewed, being
able to go back now, start fresh, start new, and serve the Lord
again. And I'll tell you this much from
our church, okay, and I can't control how every person behaves,
obviously, but I think I know the people here well enough.
You come back here and no one's going to say anything or question
you or hound you. And you know what? If you were
thinking that way, don't ever do that. Someone you know has
been out of church for a long time. Just welcome them. Hey, it's great to see you. God
bless you. Man, I'm so happy you're here.
And you don't need to bother asking about what all the deal,
oh, well, how could you possibly do that? Where have you been?
Huh? What have you been? No, we don't do that. You want
people to be able to look. If they're already willing to
come back, let's welcome them. Whatever happened, now they're
seeking the Lord again. Great! We're happy about that. We're going to rejoice and just
let whatever that is be, whatever is between them and the Lord
that got them out of serving God, whatever they were doing,
none of our business. Let's just be able to keep moving
forward. And we ought to be able to do
that and allow other people to do that. And I say that here
so that way when, if that ever happens to you, don't think like,
oh, what's everyone going to think? You know what people are
going to think, honestly? At least the righteous people
are going to be thinking, wow, I'm so glad they're back. And
I can think of many people right now, many people right now that
no longer attend our church that could come to our church that
I would be, if they walked through those doors, I would just be
really happy that they're here. And the only people that I would
not be happy about are the ones that got kicked out because they're
perverts. Those guys, no. But that's it. I don't think there's been anyone
kicked out for any other reason. We haven't kicked out that many
people. We're not even that old of a church. But people have
left. Some people have left because whatever, because of me, because
of something that I teach. Other people have left for just
probably their own personal reasons. Who knows? I don't know what
all the reasons are, why people leave. And you know what? I don't
go out of my way to ask people in general If you're going to
leave, and this is just a good opportunity just to cover this
right now anyways. If people are going to leave
here, I'm not going to go and try to run after and chase after
people that leave. But that doesn't mean that I
don't care. I care tremendously. But I may reach out because I
do care, but I'm not gonna bend over backwards to try to get,
if there's a reason why you're leaving and if someone's gonna
leave our church, I would hope that more time or
whatever, something got into that point to where, I don't
know, what's it gonna matter what I say? If it's a matter
of what I'm teaching, well, I'm not gonna change what I teach
in order to get somebody to stay. is one of the ways I look at
that. So I just, you know, if that's a reason for someone departing
from our church, I don't really see much of a point in that.
And if they feel like it's bad enough, then I can't be part
of the church and I have to leave. Well, then that's on you. It
doesn't mean I don't care. It doesn't mean that I want you
to leave or anything like that. But I'm not going to go trying
to run after and chase after people if that's the case. You
come to that conclusion, and then God bless you. That's your
conclusion. But serve the Lord somewhere else, and that's fine.
So that's just my mindset, and I think it's important to understand
that. It's not like a pride issue or
anything. For me, it's I'm not too proud. I try to not get into anybody's
lives too much here at all. I don't want to pry. I don't
want to just get into personal matters a whole lot in general.
I really agree with people being independent and coming up to
your own conclusions. And I've expressed multiple times, if
you have an issue, come and talk to me about it. And I'm happy
to talk about whatever your issue is. Bring it up to me. I'll talk
to you about it. And if I'm wrong about something, then let me
know. But just bring the Bible, bring
facts to the discussion. And I will listen to that. And
no way am I going to guarantee that I'll change my mind, because
I don't know. I have to hear what's. or whatever
it is that people have to say before I would say that. But
in my heart, I'm open to being corrected and changing my mind
about things if I'm wrong, if you can show me that I'm wrong.
And in any case, I don't even know
how I got that far off what I was preaching here. But
what verse were we on for that? Revive us again, being brought
back, right? Going back to following the Lord. That's where this all came from.
You get in that position where if you've been kicked out or
anything like that, or you've just backslidden, you
know, you wanna come back and seek the Lord and ask God for
his help. Hey, bring me back into good
graces, Lord, in good standing and show me the right way again.
And you know what? We'd be happy to receive everybody
back that has fallen out for whatever reason. And yeah, let's
keep reading here. Verse number seven, show us thy
mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. I will hear what God
the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace unto his people and
to his saints. But let them not turn again to
folly. So we see the goodness of God
here at the very beginning, talking about the forgiveness, God turning
from his anger, the reception again, and seeking the Lord,
and looking for that revival. But then we see in verse eight,
this is also part of the process. Okay, I'm going to hear what
the Lord will speak like. And part of your coming back
from being chastened of the Lord, have your ears open to God, right? Probably what got you in trouble
in the first place was not wanting to hear from God. And we see
that happen with the children of Israel, especially, you know,
they don't want to hear the word of the Lord. They want to serve
their idols. They want to do this. They want to do that. They
want to get into this and they want to do what they want to
do. They don't want to hear what God is telling them to do. So
here we see, hey, I'm gonna hear, I will hear what the Lord God
will speak. For he will speak peace unto his people and to
his saints. God brings peace. And look, whatever
the sin is that got you into trouble and whatever that sin
is that may have caused you to stray, I guarantee you your sin
isn't gonna bring you peace. It only brings trouble One, it
brings inherent trouble of sin. Just sin itself never yields
good fruit. It never does, ever. That's just
inherent to sin. If God didn't even get involved
in any chastening, just sinning of itself has its own built-in
ramifications of just curses, of no good fruit coming from
sin. I mean, obviously the Bible says
the wages of sin is death. I mean, that is the end. But on top of that, you have
God who also, as if you're a child of God especially, will chasten
and not hold you guiltless in that regard here on this earth.
And will make sure that you have to face your punishment. But
we ought to listen to God because he's gonna speak peace to his
people and to his saints. He's gonna help us to walk in
the right way. He's gonna show us the right way. And of course
that will be good for us. But then it says there, but let
them not turn again to folly. So you get to the point, okay
God, I'm sorry, I did wrong, please guide me, please show
me a way, I'm ready to hear, I'm ready to listen. When you
get to that point, don't go now back like a dog returns to his
vomit and go back to your foolishness and back to your folly. Hey,
you've already been through a lot. You got back to this point, don't
go back again. Surely his salvation is nigh
them that fear him. And that's key. Look, we want
God to guide us and be with us, then have the right fear of the
Lord. And normally that's why people get back right with God
after he's disciplined, after he's punished, because they start
to realize What was I thinking? I don't want God's anger in my
life. I want God blessing me, and I'm
going to turn back to him. And yeah, his salvation is nigh
them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Verse
10, mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. And of course, this is very poetic
language. It's a psalm, it's a song. But we see mercy and
truth essentially going hand in hand, right? God's mercy and
God's truth. The truth and mercy go hand in
hand. You can't hide from your sin.
You can't lie to God about your sin. You have to be truthful
about it. Confess, forsake, and then you'll
find God's mercy. And similarly, righteousness
and peace go hand in hand. Because if you're walking in
righteousness, you'll know peace. You'll have peace. God will be
with you. Truth shall spring out of the
earth and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the
Lord shall give that which is good and our land shall yield
or increase. Now we're seeing the result of
walking in righteousness and truth is the blessing of the
Lord, the earth yielding or increase. And again, I've been doing a
lot of individual application of this, but the Psalm is about
This is talking about the whole of Israel turning back to the
Lord. And we're seeing the playing
out of the law and what God had said would happen when Moses
gave them the law. And now we're seeing what does
happen and then kind of being in the condition of returning
to the Lord. And then of course, verse 13
says, righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in
the way of his steps. Now turn a few to Ezekiel chapter
37, excuse me. This is one other passage that
came to mind while I was meditating on this passage before preaching
tonight. Specifically there in verse number
six, talking about reviving us again, that that people may rejoice
in the Ezekiel 37, the first half of the passage is that famous
passage about the dry bones. Them bones, them bones, right? So we got the, and we're going
to read this if you don't know the story, but basically, you
know, Ezekiel sees this valley, it's full of dead bones, and
of course God, raises those bones they all come together before
his eyes and then the flesh and the sinews and muscles they all
start to to to like men start being uh animated or or completed
right from the bones now are becoming back like people and
then of course god brings uh the wind and and they they receive
life and the question is here well let's just read the passage
Verse number one, the Bible says, the hand of the Lord was upon
me and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me
down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones and caused
me to pass by them round about and behold, there were very many
in the open valley and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto
me, son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord
God, thou knowest. Again, he said unto me, prophesy
upon these bones and say unto them, oh ye dry bones, hear the
word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto
these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and
ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you
and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and
put breath in you and ye shall live and ye shall know that I
am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded,
and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking,
and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I
beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them. and
the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.
Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son
of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God, come
from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain,
that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded
me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood
up upon their feet. an exceeding great army. Then
he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are
dried and our hope is lost. We are cut off for our parts.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, thus saith the Lord, God,
behold, O my people, I will open your graves and cause you to
come up out of your graves. and bring you into the land of
Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
place you in your own land. Then shall you know that I, the
Lord, have spoken it and performed it, saith the Lord. There is
a lot in that passage, and I'm not going to just go through
and give a verse by verse here on Ezekiel 37, but I think right
off the bat, you could probably see why this popped into my mind
as I'm studying Psalm 85, because one, he's referring to the nation
of Israel, where I was talking about Israel, about his people
in general. Again, I think there's a lot
of applications we can make with Ezekiel 37. I think it's very
prophetic. Obviously, there's a reference to resurrection,
and we could see, you know, that Israel just being resurrected,
that the bones are dry, doesn't matter how long people have been
dead, but when Jesus comes back, there's gonna be a resurrection,
and of course, there's going to be ruling and reigning from
Jerusalem, and that his saints and his people are gonna be ruling
and reigning. So there is definitely that application here. We could
see that prophecy here, but I don't think that that's the only application
we could make with Ezekiel 37. I think as we see here, You know,
well, what about these people? They're dry bones. They're dead.
They're good for nothing, right? They've been out for a long time.
They've been dead. Well, can they live again? Can
they be revived? Can they be revived again? And
the answer is yes. God can use them again. God can
bring them back to life. And here, the nation of Israel,
okay, you've gone into captivity. Yeah, you've been punished. You
could say, we're the laughing stock. We went into captivity
or whatever. Now what can we do as a nation? You can still
turn back to the Lord and he can still use you and he can
breathe life into you again. And you can go forward and continue
to serve the Lord. This is a Psalm of hope, of knowing
that God is a God of mercy, knowing that God is a forgiving God.
He wants you to turn to him. He wants you to have the desire
to listen to him. As we saw that also in Psalm
85, I will hear the word of the Lord. I will listen, right? There's
mercy and truth are bound together. And God can use you again. And
as I mentioned, if you're still alive and breathing breath, God
has a purpose for you. And God can use you and God wants to
use you again. Such a great, This psalm, and
this psalm, I wasn't gonna cover this necessarily tonight because
there's multiple psalms like this, and I think I covered it
quite a while back in our first, somewhere between Psalm 1 and
50, somewhere in the 40s, I think. The title for this psalm, it
says, to the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah.
And there's multiple, and I don't remember the exact number, if
it's six or seven or eight, there's something where there are, like
Psalm 84 also says a psalm for the sons of Korah. Psalm 84,
Psalm 85, and there's a few more, Psalm 87, and Psalm 88, and then in the 40s
there's also some as well. So I covered this once before,
but if you remember Korah, this is that Korah of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram. And Korah, Dathan and Biram were
the ones that withstood Moses. And they're the ones that were
saying, you know, they wanted the priesthood, right? And Korah
was a Levite. There was other, Dathan and Biram
were, I don't know if they were of Judah or some, one of the
other tribes. But Korah was a Levite. It's like, look, you already
have a job serving God. And now you just want to have
the priesthood. And they wanted to just take over. You'd be like,
who is Moses? And who is Aaron? And who are these guys? They're thinking there's something
special over us. And they were wicked, right? And this is the story where God
opens up the earth. and just, they go straight to
hell. Like, they just get consumed, like them and their families,
you know, day's in a buy room, they're standing in their tents,
and they're just kind of standing there with their families and
stuff, and God just opens up the earth, and they just fall straight down
into hell. And Korah dies also, but the Bible's clear, and I
don't have the reference here, you can look it up later, that
the children of Korah, though, did not Go down to hell like
it's the Bible specifically mentions that his children did not die
that way because David and Byron their whole household did die
and they did go straight to hell, but Korah's children did not
go down to hell, and now we see multiple references here, and
I think it makes sense to me, and I don't treat these titles
as the word of God, but I also don't treat them as being untrue
either, right? So when we see here, to the chief
musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah, I don't treat that
on the same level as the word of God, but here's the thing,
it makes sense that this psalm would have that, right, that's
talking about this hope and still being able to serve the Lord,
you know, even as a son of Korah, because Korah does not have a
good name. in scripture but obviously they're being referred to as
the sons of korah so it's more of an inspirational and i think
the last time i brought this up it was a similar saw a similar
type of a song that was giving hope and forgiveness and things
like that uh... within the the text of the song
uh... for as a as a song for the sons
of korah so these are great songs here that this this section and
if you notice to that the songs are um not even though they're
subdivided into five books they're also um the you know the psalms
are next to each other very frequently have very similar themes to them
and that's why we kind of cover some of the same things week
after week just in general the thematic they're grouped together
but each one individually all has its own depth of truth to
it praise the lord
Psalm 85 - Revive Us Again
Series Psalms
| Sermon ID | 11024151544480 |
| Duration | 39:13 |
| Date | |
| Category | Bible Study |
| Bible Text | Psalm 85 |
| Language | English |
Documents
Add a Comment
Comments
No Comments
© Copyright
2026 SermonAudio.