DUPAGE AME CHURCH STUDY – JUNE 2021

A STUDY OF THE BOOK OF

PSALMS

WEEK 3 – Wednesday, June 16, 2021 Pastor James F. Miller & Rev. Morgan E. Dixon God Is All Around! Book III (Psalm 73-89)

Review: : The prayer book of God’s people who are striving to be faithful to the Torah, and waiting for the Messianic Kingdom • Types of Psalms • Authorship • Psalms = “New” Torah • Four Themes: Temple, Torah, Messiah & Kingdom of God • Book I and II share the complicated story of King David & Family

DUPAGE AME CHURCH BIBLE STUDY – JUNE 2021 Book III

• Opens with a claim and followed by a crisis of faith

• Book 3 is about crisis of faith and the other psalms and books revolve around that to resolve the crisis.

• The third book (Psalms 73–89) reminds us that God is all around us. Asaph recounts the history of God's people in Psalm 78, showing us that God has been at work the whole time. He admonishes the children of Israel to tell the next generation, even the children yet to be born, the great and mighty deeds of the Lord.

Psalm 80 – Communal Lament

1 Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, 10 The mountains were covered with its

You who lead Joseph like a flock. shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. You who sit enthroned between the 11 Its branches reached as far as the Sea, 2 cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim, its shoots as far as the River. Benjamin and Manasseh. 12 Why have You broken down its walls

Awaken Your might; come and save us. so that all who pass by pick its grapes? 3 Restore us, O God; 13 Boars from the forest ravage it,

make Your face shine on us, and insects from the fields feed on it. 14 that we may be saved. Return to us, God Almighty! 4 How long, LORD God Almighty, Look down from heaven and see!

will Your anger smolder Watch over this vine, 15 against the prayers of Your people? the root your right hand has planted, 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears; the son You have raised up for Yourself. 16 You have made them drink tears by the Your vine is cut down, it is burned with bowlful. fire; at Your rebuke your people perish. 6 17 You have made us an object of derision] to Let Your hand rest on the man at Your our neighbors, and our enemies mock us. right hand, the son of man You have raised 7 Restore us, God Almighty; up for Yourself. 18 make Your face shine on us, Then we will not turn away from You;

that we may be saved. revive us, and we will call on Your name. 8 You transplanted a vine from Egypt; 19 Restore us, LORD God Almighty;

You drove out the nations and planted it. make Your face shine on us, 9 You cleared the ground for it, that we may be saved.

and it took root and filled the land.

DUPAGE AME CHURCH BIBLE STUDY – JUNE 2021 Psalm 81 – Liturgical Sermon

1Sing for joy to God our strength; 9 You shall have no foreign god among you;

shout aloud to the God of Jacob! you shall not worship any god other than 2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel, Me. 10 play the melodious harp and lyre. I am the LORD your God, 3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, who brought you up out of Egypt.

and when the moon is full, on the day of Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. our festival; 11 “But my people would not listen to Me; 4 this is a decree for Israel, Israel would not submit to Me. 12 an ordinance of the God of Jacob. So I gave them over to their stubborn 5 When God went out against Egypt, hearts to follow their own devices. 13 God established it as a statute for Joseph. “If My people would only listen to Me,

I heard an unknown voice say: if Israel would only follow my ways, 6 “I removed the burden from their 14 how quickly I would subdue their enemies shoulders; their hands were set free from the and turn my hand against their foes! basket. 15 Those who hate the LORD would 7 In your distress you called and I rescued cringe before God, and their punishment you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; would last forever. 16 I tested you at the waters of Meribah. But you would be fed with the finest of 8 Hear Me, My people, and I will warn you— wheat; with honey from the rock I would

if you would only listen to Me, Israel! satisfy you.”

Psalm 89:51 – Never forget God’s promise to David

PSALM CHALLENGE

June 17 Psalm 88 June 24 Psalm 121 June 18 Psalm 90 June 25 Psalm 135 June 19 Psalm 103 June 26 June 20 Psalm 91 June 27 Psalm 137 June 21 June 28 Psalm 139 June 22 Psalm 107 June 29 June 23 Psalm 111 June 30