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Psalm seventy two. This listen,
for this is the word of the Lord
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of Solomon. Give the king your
justice, O God, and your righteousness
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to the Royal Sun. May He
Judge Your people with righteousness and your poor
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with justice. Let the mountains bear
prosperity for the people and the hills in
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righteousness. May he defend the cause
of the poor, of the people,
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give deliverance to the children of the
needy and crush the oppressor. May they
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fear you while the sun endures and
as long as the moon, throughout all
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generations. May He be like rain
that falls on the Moan Grass, like
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showers that water the earth. In
his day, may the righteous flourish and
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peace abound till the moon be no
more. May He have dominion from sea
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to sea and from the river to
the ends of the Earth. May Desert
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tribes bow down before him and his
enemies lick the dust. May the kings
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of tarshish and the coast lands render
him tribute, May the Kings of Sheba
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and Seba bring gifts, may all
kings fall down before him. All nations
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serve him, for he delivers the
needy. When he calls the poor in
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him, who has no helper.
He has pity on the weak and the
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needy and saves the lives of the
needy from oppression and violence. He redeems
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their life and precious as their blood
in his sight. Long may he live.
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May Gold of Sheba be given to
him, may prayer be made for
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him continually and blessings invoked for him
all the day. May there be abundance
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of grain in the land, on
the tops of the mountains. May it
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wave, may its fruit be like
Lebanon, may people blossom in the cities
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like the grass of the field.
May His name endure forever, his fame
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continue as long as the sun.
May people be blessed in him. All
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nations call him blessed. Blessed be
the Lord, the God of Israel,
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who alone does wondrous things. Blessed
be his glorious name forever. May the
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whole Earth be filled with his glory. Men and on men, the prayers
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of David, the son of Jesse
are ended a's for the reading of God's
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word. May He blessed to us. Please be seated. What's evening.
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I want to do something that's perhaps
a bit difference, may be a bit
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unusual, as we look to the
seventy two psalm. I want us to
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begin not at the beginning, but
here, at the end, with these
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words that we just heard. Rather
than beginning at verse one, let's look
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at verses eighteen and nineteen. Blessed
be the Lord, the God of Israel,
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who will alone does wondrous things.
Blessed be his glorious name forever,
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may the whole Earth be filled with
his glory. Men and men. The
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reason I want to look at this
concluding line here first is because these verses
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here serve as something of a divider, a divider between the books that we
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find in the Book of Psalms.
For what do you see in your bibles?
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Just below Psalm Seventy two, says
book three. This is the final
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lines to the second book of the
PSALTER. Imagine the Book of Psalms laid
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out on a bookshelf, and each
book of the Psalms carries with it its
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own row. As you will well, the end of each book you find
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these book ends. Listen how book
one concludes in Psalm Forty one. Blessed
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be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Men and
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a men, both book three and
book for when they conclude, they end
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in this similar phrasing of of blessed
be the Lord, Amen and a men.
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And how does book five conclude?
Not just with one line, but
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with five psalms of praise the Lord, praise the Lord. The reason I
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want to point this out to you
here, first and foremost, it's not
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just because it's interesting. Perhaps not
many of you think it is all that
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interesting. The reason I want to
take note of these book ends is because
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not only do they divide the psalter
into these five books, but they also
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unite these five books into one book. Here they serve as various way more
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away points, like on a map, and they direct us to this intentional
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direction that the each and every psalm
follows. These books are organized in a
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specific way, that each book ends
with this blessing to the Lord, that
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the entire Psalter ends with five psalms
of praising to the Lord. Through these
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five books, the Lord is directing
us to a goal, a singular goal,
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a singular purpose, for within the
psalms you find many different emotions,
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many different expressions, but the reason
that we're given us alters not just so
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that we would know how these people
used to pray, how David used to
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pray, the things he used to
say, how the priests used to pray
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to God, that we see many
things in these psalms that are foreign to
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us, that we see much of
the Old Testament Israel within its pages.
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We're also shown that our God is
the same, so we can praise him
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with these words along with Old Testament
believers. In fact, notice how similar
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these final verses, first nineteen is
to the Lord's prayer. When Jesus taught
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US disciples to pray, he began
his prayer saying, our father in heaven,
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hollow would be your name. Let's
first nineteen say bless it be Your
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glory, his glorious name, forever
and in Matthew Ten, your kingdom come,
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your will be done on earth as
is in heaven. What does Verse
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Nineteen say? May the whole Earth
be filled with his glory. Amen and
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Amen. That Jesus his own prayers, his own prayers, were shaped by
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the Psalms. I mean Christis at
the center of all of these psalms,
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and yet he himself prayed these psalms. Like was in these psalms. We
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two are being taught when to pray, how to pray and and why to
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pray. And next thing I want
to notice here at the end of Psalm
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seventy two is this final line in
verse twenty. The prayers of David,
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the son of Jesse are ended.
Now let's brings up another interesting question.
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Who wrote this psalm? If you
don'tice how this Psalm begins, whose name
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appears at the beginning of Psalm Seventy
two to say of Solomon, and you
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here at the end. It seems
to indicate that the prayers of David,
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the son of Jesse are here ended
with this psalm. So who wrote it?
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Perhaps a straightforward solution is to see
that in the Hebrew the preposition translated
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as of Solomon could also be translated
as for Solomon. Does it make sense
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that David would be praying for Solomon, especially in light of the finality that
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we hear in verse twenty. The
prayers of David the son of Jesse are
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ended. If this is David's final
psalm, I mean David has more psalms
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throughout the rest of the PSALTER,
but this is the last one he wrote
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in his life. Makes Sense.
On his deathbed, nearing the end of
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his life, where are his thoughts. Where are his prayers that therefore his
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son? If you're a parent,
you can relate to David's concern. If
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you're a child, she'll you can
relate to this fatherly care. Are My
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children going to be okay after I'm
gone? Will my children be taken care
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of? Will they make the right
choices if I'm not around to counsel them
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in it? Here in David's prayer
we find a concern that's much more specific.
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He's not just praying for his son's
health, financial decisions for his family.
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He's praying for a king. And
Throughout these twenty verses, David's prayer
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can be summarized as these two main
requests. First and verse one. Give
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the King Your Justice, Oh God, and your righteousness to the Royal Son.
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May He Judge Your people with righteousness
and your pure poor with justice.
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And a second request is found in
verse Ey. May He have dominion from
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sea to see, from the river
to the ends of the Earth. As
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a reading verse eleven, May all
kings fall down before him, all nations
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serve him. And throughout the Psalm, then we see this intersection between these
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two requests. David prayers praise for
a king who would rule with justice,
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a king who would rule with righteousness
over all the nations. And he defines
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this kind of rule, this kind
of justice and this kind of righteousness as
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compassion. The King's righteousness, the
king's justice, is not determined by the
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size of his military it's just not
determined by the architecture of his palace,
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determined by his compassion and had by
his love. He's to be a compassionate
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king who looks out for the poor, who looks out for the oppressed.
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May he defend the cause of the
poor, of the people, give deliverance
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to the children of the needy and
crush the oppressor. And again in verse
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twelve. For he delivers the needy, when he calls the poor and him
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who has no helper. He has
pity on the weak and the needy,
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saves the lives of the needy from
oppression and violence. He redeems their life
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and precious is their blood on his
sight. When you look back on Israel's
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history, you'll see that this is
the purpose for which the Lord first gave
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judges and first gave kings to Israel. Judges were raised up to deliver and
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to defend God's people. From oppression. Kings were given to rescue and save
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from the hands of their enemies.
And his Justice and this righteousness is further
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connected to this king's universal kingdom.
There's a connection in which the way in
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which this king rules and reigns is
delivering to him in endless kingdom. May
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His name endure forever, verse Seventeen. His fame, what kind of fame?
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The fame of his justice, the
fame of his righteousness. May His
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fame continue as long as the sun. May people be blessed in him and
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all nations call him blessed. The
blessing that this king brings is to extend
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beyond the borders of Israel. And
in these two basic requests, don't you
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see how this is a response to
the dividict covenant, that the promise God
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gave to David and Second Samuel Chapter
Seven, God gave Damis David a promise
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concerning a son who would be a
king. God said, when your days
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are fulfilled and you lie down with
your father's, I will raise up your
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offspring after you, who shall come
from your body, and I will establish
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his kingdom. He shall build a
house for my name and I will establish
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the throne of his kingdom for short
time, no forever. And in the
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life of Solomon, in the life
of David's son, you actually get a
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picture of these events. After all, wasn't Solomon who prayed for wisdom,
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but wisdom in order to do what, to judge the people with justice.
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God blessed him with insight and blessed
him with understanding. David praise that the
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king's reign would bring peace and blessing. And First Kings, for tells us
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that Judah and Israel were as many
as the sands by the sea. They
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ate and drank and were happy.
And not only that, but didn't Solomon
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extend the boundaries of the Promised Land
and his influence extended even to nations and
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kings and Queens? Solomon ruled over
the kingdoms of the Euphrates, to the
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land of the Philistines, the border
of Egypt. They brought tribute and served
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Solomon all the days of his life. An example of this is the queen
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of she but, who came to
Jerusalem because of the reports she had heard
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about the wisdom of Solomon, about
the prosperity of the land, and didn't
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she bring much gold as tribute to
the king. So, in light of
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the Lord's promise of a son,
a king who would reign forever, David
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here seems to be praying for this
son who would be greater than himself.
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WHO said David isn't anticipating this greater
son, this greater promised one? He
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sees that this is a promise that
needs to be fulfilled at the end of
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his own life, at the end
of his own reign, at the end
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of his rule, at the end
of David's ministry, in his life.
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What is his hope here? What
is his expectation? It's in the Christ
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it's in the anointed promised one.
It's not inappropriate to envision David here on
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his deathbed, with these being his
final words, that these are his final
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prayers. And where is his hope? Where is his expectation? Where is
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his confidence? It's in this reign
of a perfect king. David is anticipating
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the reign of a king who reflects
the very character of God. But as
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David is relying up pawn the promise
of his God, you kind of have
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to wonder, what about the temple? Wasn't that integral to the promise God
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gave to David. Why doesn't David
Pray for the building of the Temple?
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He prays for an Eternal Kingdom.
And if that in fact that there's one
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thing you can say that Solomon literally
fulfilled, shouldn't that be it? Solomon
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did build the temple. Wasn't the
Divi? Wasn't God's promise to David that
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this son will build a house for
my name and I will establish his throne
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forever? Is David only talking about
the established throne that exdures forever? Why
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would David leave out the temple building
of the Royal Sun? Well, he
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didn't. If David is describing the
building of a temple, but it's not
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a temple with stones. The temple
in Jerusalem was never meant to be the
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final or ultimate temple of the Lord. What David is concerned with is what
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the Lord was concerned with. Not
Stones, but a temple of living stones.
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Notice David's concern for the people,
that the people would be blessed by
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the rule of a faithful king.
And as much as this prayer then points
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us to the life of Solomon,
also points us away from Solomon just as
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quickly. So He is, though, he typified this righteous ruler in many
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ways, he also failed in many
ways. Later in his life, Solomon
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turned from the Lord, following after
the many idols of his concubines. After
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Solomon's death, his kingdom did not
last. Rather, it was divided.
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Solomon could never be the one to
fulfill what David is here requesting. In
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fact, look at how the prayer
begins. Give your righteousness, give your
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justice to the king. David praise
that the king would exhibit divine qualities.
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After all, it's the Lord himself
who delivered captive Israel out of slavery in
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Egypt, the Lord who ultimately rules
all of creation in true righteousness through his
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true justice. So it's perhaps once
again return to that first question. Who
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is the human author here? Who
wrote this? Was it David or was
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it Solomon? It's a very simplistic
answer. I gave at the beginning that
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the Hebrew word could mean could go
to dud it for two different ways,
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that this would be a prayer for
Solomon or a prayer of Solomon. But
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all of David's other psalms have his
name at the beginning. This one doesn't
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have David's name in it at all. It hence said it does Solomon's name
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at the front, so I think
we should see that Solomon himself did have
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a hand in arranging this psalm.
In fact, he's probably the one who
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added Verse Twenty to it. It's
unlikely that David himself would know that this
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is his last psalm. Is An
appropriate that his son would say the prayers
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of David the son of Jesse are
ended, as it also describe why there's
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no mention and reference to a physical
temple. If it's through Solomon, the
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temple's already been built when he'd have
written this. So we can see this
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not simply as a prayer for Solomon
himself but also a prayer of Solomon,
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not just David's prayer for his son, but also a Solomon's prayer for his
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son. And if we're directed to
look to David's greater son, and even
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though we find some fulfillment in Solomon, as we see this as a further
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repetition by Solomon himself, aren't we
expecting that future greater fulfillment? Isn't?
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It doesn't give it that much further
anticipation, for he's the only when we
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see this psalm is directing us to
both David and to Solomon's greater son do
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we see the true fulfillment that we
find in Christ, as Zachariah announces this
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king who would rule in righteousness.
Zachariah nine, verse nine, says,
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rejoice greatly, O, Daughter of
Zion, shout aloud, O, daughter
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of Jerusalem. Behold, your king
is coming to you righteous and having salvation,
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as he humble and mounted on a
donkey, on a cult the foal
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of a donkey, I will cut
out the off the chariot from Ephriam and
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the war horse from Jerusalem, and
the battle bow shall be cut off,
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and he shall speak peace to the
nation's his rule shall be from sea to
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sea, from the river to the
ends of the Earth. The same kind
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of request you see here is told
to us to in the coming of Jesus
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Christ. We see in Christ first
coming that the king who rules in righteousness
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and injustice. The Gospel of Christ
is good news to the poor because of
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how he delivers from oppression. In
Matthew Eleven, Jesus answered them. Go
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Tell John what you see and hear. The blind received their sight, the
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lame walk lepers are cleansed. The
deaf here and the dead are raised up
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and the poor have the good news
preached to them. For in Christ's life
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we see the true righteousness of our
true king, who declares, after his
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resurrection, All Authority in Heaven and
on Earth has been given to me.
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So Christ is the answer to this
psalm. Christ is the answer to David's
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anticipation, to Solomon's anticipation. This
is a prayer of the king, then,
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for the reign of the future king. How can this be a prayer
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for us as we stand in light
of the victory of this king, the
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arrival of his eternal kingdom? Can't
we sing and pray this psalm with that
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much more confidence, with that much
more assurance? For Look at what we're
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doing today, look what we're doing
here and now, in Tucson of all
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places. What is verse seventeen say? May His name endure forever, his
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fame continue as long as the sun, may people be blessed in him.
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All nations call him blest. Here
we are in the desert, blessing the
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name of the Lord. So not
only is Christ and his life and death
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and resurrection and answer to David and
Solomon's kingly prayer, but as our Lord
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continues to gather a people for himself, from among the nations. You too
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are an answer to David's prayer,
to Solomon's prayer, for ultimately, this
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is not just the prayer of David, nor is it ultimately just the prayer
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of Solomon. This is ultimately the
prayer of your king, Jesus, the
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final royal son. For this reveals
not only his desire for you and I
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to bless his name, it reveals
his purpose. It reveals his very plan
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to gather worshippers through his own righteous
life, through his own defense of the
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poor and needy, by paying the
price that we could never pray, by
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paying the price for our sin,
by earning an eternal kingdom. So that
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is verse Nineteen says. Blessed be
his glorious name forever, may the whole
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Earth be filled with his glory.
Men and men, Lord is faithful.
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Your Lord desires the fulfillment of this
psalm far greater than you or I ever
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could, and he is at work
bringing it about. So let us continue
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to sing his praises forever. Man
and man, let's pray
