We Wept, When We Remebered Zion

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We Wept, When We Remebered Zion

Psalm 137 is not for the faint of heart. It's a sobering lament and it's a song of resolve and it's a song of curse. It's set in the context of I think what is fair to say the most traumatic event that the Old Testament church ever experienced. The exile to Babylon simply sucked the air out of the life of the Old Testament people of God when it happened. They were utterly unprepared for it. They’d been warned by God's prophets for a century that judgment for their sin was coming, but when it came and how it came simply took their breath away. And you feel that in this psalm. This is a Hebrew lamenting the exile that the people of God now experience, apart from the temple, apart from Zion, the city of David, the capital of the worship of God in this world, the place…

O God, Speak Up!

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 109. Psalm 109 is a hard psalm. It is the last of the imprecatory psalms. That is, it is a psalm of imprecation of curse. It calls down God's curse on the wicked. And it is well that it is the last of the imprecatory psalms because it is perhaps the strongest and certainly the most sustained of the songs of curse. There are something like twenty-four curses called down in verses 6 to 20 in the middle section of the psalm in the portion of imprecation. The curses in this psalm are so strong that even writers like C.S. Lewis, when looking at this passage, said that “it strikes us in the face like heat from the mouth of a furnace.” And if you've looked over these words before now, you’ll know exactly what Lewis…

Up to my Neck: The Christian Experience of Pleading for…

Psalm 69 is a great Psalm. What hymn comes to mind that you would sing when you are experiencing reproach and shame and discouragement? I can think of a few but not many that speak as frankly as this Psalm speaks. When you’re searching for the words to say, when you feel like you’re drowning and you can't feel the bottom and you can't come up for air, where do you go? Well, one place would be right here in Psalm 69. Before we read and hear God's word, let's pray and ask for His blessing on the reading and preaching of that word. Heavenly Father, this is Your word. It is a blunt word. It expresses the heart of a choice servant, David, when he felt overwhelmed in the very depths of his soul, when he felt abandoned, when he felt shamed beyond the capacity to survive. And…

The Flood (The Life of Noah) (6): The Cursing of Canaan

Genesis 9:18-29 The Cursing of Canaan If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 9. We’ll begin in verse 18 tonight. As we have studied the book of Genesis together, we've seen the creation account in Genesis, chapter 1. We have seen God's special favor towards man highlighted in Genesis, chapter 2 and Genesis, chapter 3. We have gone through in some detail the account of the fall of man into sin and the consequences of that. In Genesis, chapter 4 we saw an…

The Blessings of the Curses

Please turn with me to Genesis, chapter 3. We’re continuing our study in the book of Genesis, those foundations of the faith that are set forth there. And last week we looked specifically at the account of Adam's fall in Genesis 3, verses 1 through 13, and we saw there in that account several important things about the nature of sin. For one thing we saw that sin in its essence is rebellion. It is lawlessness. It is rejection of and rebellion against God's good law. The order that He…

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