An application Psalm, an acrostic psalm and a lament Significantly following the cross, the crook and the crown Psalms: 22, 23 and 24

2. Before you go on, would you
give me some background?

4. Selah? Pause… or is there more to it…
Is it one of those ‘so called’ ‘throw
away words’ ?
Psst! No one actually knows…. Pause is a
common way to look at it but Selah is
related to the word lift and it could be
reflect, enrich, a musical key change… or a
combination of all of those.

5. From Discipleship today
see http://www.disciplestoday.org/bible-study/digging-deeper/item-6839-selah-ancient-word-and-the-power-of-
contemplation#.WBS5ajLMx0s

6. OK… what themes led up to this
Psalm… bottom line it for me

10. OK, enough background
let’s jump into the Psalm

15. Shame, guilt …
sounds heavy…
And what’s the
difference?
Psst! One way to look at it is
Guilt is internal, shame is
external…. Another way is Guilt
related to what you have done
and Shame what you are…
here I think beling delivered
from shame relates to your
hope in God being vindicated
whether now or in the future.

16. Tell me more about the big ideas
In the Psalm… or is it a song..
Or both?

17. An application Psalm: Psalm 25
• A ‘misspelled acrostic’ like Psalm 34
– The misspelling remind us of forgivness (a major theme)
– The misspellings (in Ps 25), spell TEACH (another
theme)
• A lament
• A Psalm with two voices, over and over through the
Psalm
– One cries out
– One answers

18. An application Psalm
following Psalms about the
good shepherd and king…
isn’t that like in Book 4?

22. Like Proverbs 3:4,5 ?
God just leads you
As you quiet yourself
He speaks with some
still small voice?
Psst! Even in Proverbs 3, the woman
speaking told her son not to forget her
teachings and hold fast to love and
faithfulness leading into this. So…
God’s leading usually goes along with
disciplines of grace, like understanding his
covenents and word

23. A lament with several themes
• Deliverance
• Forgiveness
• Preservation
• Instruction

29. For ‘goodness sake’ ?
How does that work?

30. Characteristics of God appealed to
• Goodness
• Mercy
• Faithfulness
• Truthfulness

31. From Lifeway
see http://www.lifeway.com/Article/sermon-power-praying-4-for-his-names-sake
Repeatedly we are instructed to live for God's name sake.
• God guides us for his name's sake (Psa. 23:3);
• God forgives our sins for his name sake (Psalm 25:11);
• God leads us for the sake of his name (Psalm 31:3);
• God delivers us from sin for his name's sake (Psalm 79:9);
• God deals with us out of his goodness for his name's sake
(Psalm 109:21);
• God lets us live for his name's sake (Psalm 143:11).

32. That was King David.
But what possible practical application
might there be for me?

33. From The Navigators
see
https://www.navigators.org/Tools/Discipleship%20Resources/Tools/30%20Days%20of%20Praying%20the%20Names%20and%20Attributes%2
0of%20God
• A 30 day prayer list of praying the names of God is available form The Navigators showin in part below but the full
page may be downloaded here
https://www.navigators.org/www_navigators_org/media/navigators/tools/Resources/Praying-the-Names-of-God-
The-Navigators.pdf

35. I guess if you’re the ‘wonderful
councilor’ all your ways would
be good

37. Characteristics of the ‘helped’
• Humility
• Fearing God
• Walking in covenant

54. Why is Israel
Singular
And wasn’t
David talking
About himself?
Psst! Some translations have it in
Singular and some in plural
For now we might think of it as David
broadening the Psalm to include Israel or
believers

55. What comes after
• Next three Psalms are about going to the ‘temple’
• Next group (up to Ps 34) are living with the King
• Psalm 34 is in some ways an answer to Ps 25
– You can ‘taste and see the Lord is good’ even when life is
crazy
• Psalm 37 is in some ways an answer to Ps 25
– The meek shall inherit the earth
– And surrounding this Psalm are Psalms about the betrayal,
arrest and trial of Jesus, the meek one who will inherit the
earth

56. Psalm 22, 23, 24
The cross,
The crook,
The crown
Psalm 25 Psalm 34
Taste and see
that the Lord
is good
Psalm 37
The meek shall
inherit the
earth
The meek shall inherit the earth appears once
in Psalm 25 but three times in Psalm 37
(both acrostic Psalms)
And sprinkled around Psalm 37 are psalms of the
betrayal, arrest, trial, mocking and crucifixion of Jesus who
is the ultimate meek one who will inherit the earth (from 34
to 41)
Both Psalm 25 and 34 are
‘misspelled acrostics’ The cry of 25
for God to act
is answered by a celebration of how
God acted in Psalm 34

57. Can you sum this
All up ?
Bottom line it
for me
Psst! OK Lets think of it as a confluence o
themes looked at in the light of God’s
character working though believers who
Have certain character traits...

58. Psalm 25
FIN
• Deliverance
• Forgiveness
• Guidance
• Protectio
From A to Z….
• Humility
• Fearing God
• Walking in
covenant
• Goodness
• Mercy
• Faithfulness
• Truthfulness

59. Psalm 25 (ESV)
Of David.
1 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I trust;
let me not be put to shame;
let not my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
6 Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
8 Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
9 He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
10 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name's sake, O Lord,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
12 Who is the man who fears the Lord?
Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
13 His soul shall abide in well-being,
and his offspring shall inherit the land.
14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,
and he makes known to them his covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
bring me out of my distresses.
18 Consider my affliction and my trouble,
and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider how many are my foes,
and with what violent hatred they hate me.
20 Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!
Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for I wait for you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God,
out of all his troubles.