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Psalms 43:1

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Context of Psalm 43

  • Psalm 43 seems to be an appendix to Psalm 42.
  • Psalm 42:3 They continually say unto me, “Where is thy God?”
  • Psalm 42:10 They Say unto me “Daily” “Where is thy God?

Psalm 43 is a prayer of faith not just for help, but for JUSTICE, for LIGHT and TRUTH. It is a prayer that his current circumstances would resolve with him:

  • Vindicated by God, Received of God, Led by God, and Spiritually healthy.

  1. Verse 1 - I Will Make My Appeal to God

1. Jude me O God

  • “Don’t Judge” (“Don’t Play Judge”; “Don’t Pull Fake Rank.”)
  • The Psalmist is “making his appeal to God”.
  • JUDGE:: to vindicate or punish; “rule” my cause
  • Have you prayed about it?

2. Plead my cause against an ungodly nation

3. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

  • God’s Judgements is Unlike mans.

Ps 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Ps 101:1  I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

Isa 30:18 ¶ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

WAIT FOR GOD’S RULING, BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR MOVE.

  1. Verse 2 - I Will not Accept what God has not Ordained

  • Questions:
  • Psalm 43:2 why dost thou cast me off?
  • Psalm 43:2 why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Palms 42:2 when shall I come and appear before God?
  • Ps 42:9 Why hast thou forgotten me?
  • Psalm 42:9 why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • “Cast off” push aside reject
  • This is not how it should be. This is not how it will be. This is going to change!

RELY ON GOD’S PROMISES TO DEFINE WHAT IS NORMAL.

  1. Verse 3 & 4 - I Will Look for the Light

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

  • The Psalmist is prevented from “freely worshiping” God. He cannot find “THAT PLACE” he longs for.
  • 42:1 panting like a deer for water brooks, after God.
  • 42:2,3  To trade in the tears for a refreshing God’s presence.
  • 42:4 ONCE LEAD OTHERS TO SERVE YOU .. now filled with tears … had gone with the multitude,... to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
  • “O Send Out..”
  • As if the LIGHT and TRUTH of God were imprisoned in some way!
  • In Genesis 3, God “sent Adam forth” from the Garden
  • In Genesis 8, Noah “sent forth” a raven and then a dove.
  • IN Exodus 9:1, God gave Moses a message from Pharoah “Let my people go”
  • “Thy Light and Thy Truth: let them lead me”
  • Unto thy Holy Hill, to thy tabernacles (True Worship, God’s Presence)
  • Holy Hill, Tabernacle, Harp, Singing

Verse 4

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

LET GOD DO THE DIRECTING OF YOUR HEART.

  1. Verse 5 - I Will Keep Praying

  • In verse 5, The Psalmist is again praying the same words as in 42:5 and 42:11.

Ps 42:5 …for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Ps 42:11 … for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Ps 43:5 … for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • 43:2 and 42:9 are the same

  • Is it ok to pray the same prayer?
  • Luke 18:1-7 “persistance”

ALWAYS HOPE IN GOD.

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