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12 December 9, 2012 Psalm 103 Yahweh Our Father

This document contains the text of a sermon given at First Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi on Psalm 103:1-18. The sermon discusses how David praised God for His faithful love and mercy towards His people. It describes God as forgiving sins, healing diseases, redeeming lives from destruction, and renewing strength like an eagle. The sermon emphasizes that God shows undeserved love, unequaled love, and unceasing love for those who fear Him.

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YAHWEH OUR FATHER PSALM 103:1-18 DECEMBER 9, 2012 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI USA
The most widely accepted pronunciation of Yahweh is: YOH vah = LORD Similar to: ye HO vah (Jehovah)
December 16 YAHWEH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Jeremiah 23:5-6 Romans 3:1-26 Romans 10:1-13
December 23 DR. BILL ASHFORD The Real Christmas
December 30 No Sunday School One Worship Service at 10:30 am
Focal Passages Psalm 103: *Yahweh Gives Undeserved Love vv. 1-6 *Yahweh Displays Unequaled Love vv. 8-12 *Yahweh Extends Unceasing Love vv.13,17-18
What This Lesson Is About: David praised God for the benefits we receive from Him as a result of His faithful love to His children.
David compared God with a compassionate father, and we see God as the loving Father He is toward His children.
This lesson can help us rejoice and rely on the Father’s love.
How deep the Father’s love for us How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His
treasure!
We need to discover and experience the love of God our Father.
Psalm 103:1-18 HCSB 1  “My soul, praise Yahweh, and all that is within me, praise His holy name.
2 My soul, praise the Lord, and do not forget all His benefits. 3 He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.
4 He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.
5 He satisfies you with goodness; your youth is renewed like the eagle. 6 The Lord executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He revealed His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and rich in faithful love.
9 He will not always accuse us or be angry forever. 10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our offenses.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His faithful love toward those who fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
14 For He knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
16 when the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known. 17 But from eternity to eternity the Lord’s faithful love is toward
those who fear Him, and His righteousness toward the grandchildren 18 of those who keep His covenant,who remember to observe His precepts.” Psalm 103:1-18
*Psalms has been described has humanity’s hymnbook because the songs came out of the life experiences of people as human as we are.
The beautiful poems of praise, thanksgiving, and petition echo our approaches to God and often serve as expressions of our worship.
The psalmists faced many of the crises, problems, and doubts we face. *They had many of the same fears we have, and they hurt as deeply as we sometimes do.
*They asked many of the questions we ask about life and God’s involvement in it.
Through their varied experiences runs the strong, sustained note of faith in their covenant God.
Their stubborn trust in Him offers inspiration and encouragement to us as we continue our pilgrimage of faith.
Focal Passages Psalm 103: *Yahweh Gives Undeserved Love vv. 1-6 *Yahweh Displays Unequaled Love vv. 8-12 *Yahweh Extends Unceasing Love vv.13,17-18
Yahweh Gives Undeserved Love Psalm 103:1-6 HCSB 1  “My soul, praise Yahweh, and all that is within me, praise His holy name.
2 My soul, praise the Lord, and do not forget all His benefits.   3 He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.
4 He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion. 5 He satisfies you with goodness;
your youth is renewed like the eagle. 6 The Lord executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.” Psalm 103:1-6
In verse 1, King David called on himself (his “soul”) to praise Yahweh: 1“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” Psalm 103:1 KJV
In poetic parallelism, he repeated the summons to himself in different words.
*The phrase “all that is within me” referred to his total self, and the words “His holy name” referred to God in His separateness from humans, His exaltation.
*In verse 2, David continued to encourage himself to praise the Lord. 2 “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:”
*The repetition of the words my soul in verses 1 and 2 mark the psalm as deeply personal and has prompted the view that David designed it for people’s personal worship.
*The Hebrew term rendered benefits means “deeds” or “dealings” and refers to God’s gracious, merciful acts (deeds of undeserved love) on His people’s behalf.
*David knew the danger of taking God’s provisions for granted or of willfully disregarding them and wanted to retain a keen awareness of the undeserved blessings he
and his people enjoyed.
*In verses 3-5, David recounted some of God’s gracious acts for him and his people. 3“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases;”
*David began listing God’s merciful acts with His forgiveness. *With the statement, He forgives all your sin, David continued to address himself.
*Did he have in mind his committing adultery with Bathsheba and having her husband Uriah killed (see 2 Sam. 11:1-27)?
Psalm 51 is his agonized prayer for forgiveness:
Psalm 32 is his joyous celebration of being forgiven: 1 “How joyful is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!
2 How joyful is the man the Lord does not charge with sin and in whose spirit is no deceit! 5 You took away the guilt of my sin.
7 You are my hiding place; You protect me from trouble. You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.
11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.” Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 7 & 11 HCSB
David wrote from his experience of being forgiven for horrible things he did against God and he celebrated God’s incredible mercy.
The Hebrew word translated forgives means: to let go, to pardon, to send away, (a continuous action).
Leviticus 16:8 - *the escape goat* *“the sender away of sins” William Tyndale dropped the “e” and translated it scapegoat in his 1530 Bible, which the KJV kept.
Jesus Christ is seen to have fulfilled both of the Biblical "types" - the Lord's goat that deals with the pollution of sin and the scapegoat that removes the "burden of
sin". Christians believe that sinners who own their guilt and confess their sins, exercising faith and trust in the person and sacrifice of Jesus, are forgiven of their sins.
3 “He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases.” Psalm 103:3
*The term translated sin means “moral crookedness,” “going astray,” or “guilt.”
*David declared that God is ready to forgive people’s wrongdoing with the implication that they repent as a condition of pardon.
*Because of God’s love, you do not need to be afraid to approach Him in repentance. *To the contrary, you need to embrace His forgiveness.
Our Great High Priest Hebrews 4:14-16 HCSB 14 “Therefore, since we have a great high priest Who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold
fast to the confession.  15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One Who has been tested in every way as we are, yet
without sin.  16 Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.”
*You can experience God’s forgiveness because He loves you, not because you have made up for the wrong you have done.
*Next, David reminded himself that God healed all his diseases. *Most likely David had physical, mental, and emotional healing in mind.
*Yet in a real sense, no matter the cause of physical, mental, or emotional difficulties, God is the Source of healing.
*Researchers, physicians, medications, and treatments can assist the process, but ultimately God brings physical wholeness.
*He gives peace of mind and serene confidence in His loving care.
*The surgeon can cut but only the Lord can heal!
4 “He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.” Psalm 103:4
*God acted as David’s kinsman-redeemer, his Next-of-Kin Who rescued him from bondage. *The term redeems could convey the senses of protection and
restoration.
*Redemption has the idea of liberating someone through payment of a price. *The Israelites were redeemed from slavery in Egypt through God’s
mighty acts. *To celebrate this truth, they redeemed their firstborn sons by offering sacrifices, reflecting their sons’ being spared during the tenth plague.
*God had delivered (rescued) David from the Pit in verse 4. *The phrase the Pit was a designation for Sheol, the place of the departed dead.
The Hebrew term rendered Pit can also mean “destruction”— anything that could have taken David’s life.
*Either way, David stressed that God had pulled him back from the brink of death so that he continued to live. *The emphasis is on God’s granting recovery.