Lessons From the Psalms - Psalm 69

[00:00:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Lessons From The Psalms. This is Bill Kelley and I'll be your host. On this podcast we will be going over the book of Psalms.

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's open and prayer. Father God, I thank you for anyone listening to this song today.

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray that you would reveal to everyone listening how much you truly love each and every one of them.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Friends, I'm going to be going over Psalm 69 today. And what I ask is if you have the opportunity,

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I would like for you to get comfortable. I'd like for you to get like an easy chair, maybe lay down on the couch.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I want you really to meditate as I read this Psalm.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Because this is a rather lengthy Psalm and there are 36 verses, and it will probably take 5-6 minutes for me to read.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So what I'd like to do is for you just to close your eyes and meditate on the goodness of this Psalm, knowing and advance that this Psalm was written by King David.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But this Psalm isn't about King David and talking about what he is going through in his life.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: This actually is a prophetic Psalm, and we're actually talking about Jesus Christ and the emotional anguish that he went through on his last days.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: What he was going to have to go through on that cross. Now Psalm 22 talks about the physical aspects of what Jesus had to endure.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 69 talks about the emotional distress. So as I begin reading this Psalm simply relax, close your eyes and meditate.

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep my ear where there is no standing.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail when I wait for my God.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. They are mighty who would destroy me.

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Being my enemies wrongfully, though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: O God, you know my foolishness and my sins are not hidden from you. Let not those who wait for you, O Lord.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: God of hosts be ashamed because of me. Let not those who seek you be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Because for your sake I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's children.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Because zeal for your house has eaten me up and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_00]: When I went and chasant my soul with fasting, that became my reproach. I also made sackcloth my garment. I became a byword to them.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Those who sit in the gate speak against me and I am the song of the drunkards.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But as for me my prayer is to you, O Lord, in the acceptable time. O God, in the multitude of your mercy. Hear me in the truth of your salvation.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Deliver me out of the myer and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Let not the flood water overflow me. Nor let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut its mouth on me. Hear me, O Lord, for your loving kindness is good.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Turn to me, according to the multitude of your tender mercies and do not hide your face from your servant for I am in trouble. Hear me speedily, draw near to my soul and redeem it.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Deliver me because of my enemies. You know my reproach, my shame and my dishonor, my adversaries are all before you. Reproach has broken my heart and I am full of heaviness.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none. And for computers, but I found none. They also gave me gall for my food and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Let their table become a snare before them and they're well-being a trap. Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see and make their loins shake continually.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Pour out your indignation upon them and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. Let their dwelling place be desolate. Let no one live in their tents, for they persecute the ones you have struck and talk of the grief of those you have wounded.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Add iniquity to their iniquity and let them not come into your righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be ridden with the righteous, but I am poor and sorrowful. Let your salvation o God set me up on high.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bow which has horns and hooves.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The humble shall see this and be glad, and you who seek God your hearts shall live. For the Lord hears the poor and does not despise his prisoners. Let heaven and earth praise him to seize and everything that moves in them.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there and possess it. Also the descendants of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Friends, what I'd like to do with this song is since it is so lengthy, what I'm going to do is simply go over three points that I would like for anyone to consider.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So first of all I would like to go over the first three verses of Psalm 69.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep myr where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I am weary with my crying, my throat is dry, my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Now friends the first point I'd like to make in today's lesson is when it seems like we are drowning in life. We must seek God.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And friends sometimes in life it seems like everything is coming against us and we see no avenue of escape. We don't see any way that we can get out of the predicament that we are currently in.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times when things are fine in our life and everything seems to be going the way we would like for it to go. We don't sometimes feel we have a need for God.

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But when things start going haywire in our life that is when we cry out to God and that is what David is doing in this particular Psalm.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at verse 4.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. They are mighty who would destroy me being my enemies wrongfully though I have stolen nothing. I still must restore it.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Now friends sometimes in life it seems like every one is against us. It might even be our spouse, our best friends, our employer, the people that we hold in confidence and expect to always be on our side.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And so my second point today is when it seems like everyone is against us we must put our trust in God. It tells us in proper three verses five and six trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path.

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And the third portion of scripture I'd like to go over our verses 14 through 18 listen carefully to these deliver me out of the myr and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters. Let not the flood water overflow me nor let the deep swallow me up and let not the king.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Hit shut its mouth on me hear me, O Lord for your loving kindness is good turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies and do not hide your face from your servant for I am in trouble hear me speedily drawn near to my soul and redeem it.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Deliver me because of my enemies and friends my third point today very simply is Jesus is our salvation. If you are going through anything in your life today and if you have a need invite him into your heart he will lead you and guide you out of the deep waters.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_00]: What you are currently in friends please join me again soon as we take a closer look at Psalm 7.8