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MATTHEW CANDLER Psalm 133: Overcoming Accusation with the Oil FORERUNNER CHURCH – MATTHEW CANDLER Psalm 133: Overcoming Accusation with the Oil of Intercession I. REVIEW: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ZECHARIAH 3-4 A. On August 30, 2020, Mike Bickle highlighted the great significance of Zechariah 3-4 to our spiritual family and beyond (see message on Aug. 30, 2020 The Black Horse: Zech 3-4 Unto Isaiah 19 and John 17). In these two chapters we discovered the answer to the question: how can a sinful people participate in God's glorious promises? B. Satan’s aim is to keep the people of God from rebuilding the temple in Zechariah 4 and thus forfeit their identity and call as a priestly people. In Zechariah 3 we learn that accusation is the primary strategy Satan employs to persuade us to view ourselves and others through the lens of our deficiencies and failures rather than through the lens of God’s marvelous kindness and His big- picture storyline for us (i.e. “accusation narrative” vs. “God narrative”). C. Overcoming accusation through intercession according to God’s perspective and story (Zechariah 3) is necessary to bring to pass His glorious plans and promises (Zechariah 4). D. The way a sinful people (Zech 3) participate in God’s glorious promises (Zech 4) is by breaking our agreement with the accusation narrative of the enemy that often comes through those closest to us and interceding according to God’s narrative. Therefore, mistreatment at the hands of those closest to us becomes the transformational opportunity to intercede and do good toward them like our Father and His Son have for us (Matt 5:44-45). 44I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good… (Mt. 5:44-45) E. David told us that it was God’s gentleness that made him great. Not great in the eyes of men, but in the eyes of God. God’s gentle dealings with David in his weakness fashioned within him the ability to impart that same gentleness to others in their weakness. Your gentleness has made me great. (Ps 18:35) F. The accusation-strategy of the enemy we see in Zech 3-4 to halt the flourishing of prayer and worship is by no mean limited to the post-exile second-temple days of Zechariah, Joshua, and Zerubbabel. We find the same accusation-strategy and intercession-answer throughout the bible. G. In the same way that Joshua the high priest had apparent failures that should have disqualified him from priestly service, the same was true of another high priest bout 1,000 years earlier, Aaron. H. In fact, the story of Aaron’s potential disqualification from priestly service before the dedication of the Mosaic Tabernacle (~1500 BC) was on the mind of David while making preparations for the dedication of Solomon’s Temple (~1000BC) as is evidenced in Psalm 133:2. IHOPKC Missions Base ihopkc.org FORERUNNER CHURCH–MATTHEW CANDLER Psalm 133: Breaking Accusation with the Oil of Intercession PAGE 2 II. THE BACKGROUND OF PSALM 133 WITHIN THE PSALMS OF ASCENT (PS. 120–134) A. Picture with me King David at the end of his life. His desire was to build God a house, a dwelling place of worship, where He would be worshiped day and night (2 Samuel 7; Psalm 132). Though David’s desire was good, the LORD made it clear that it would be David’s son who would build His house. B. While David honored the LORD, he nevertheless did all that he could do for the house of the Lord that his son would build so that all Solomon had to do when the time came was to begin all that his father David had planned according to the LORD. 1. Blueprints: design and layout. 2. Building materials: David provided the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, onyx, marble, stones and more. In addition his own special treasury or offering of 3,000 talents of (= 3.62 billion), 7,000 talents of silver ($105.7 million) ~ $3.729 billion….in order to overlay the walls of the sanctuary, and for all of the work to be done by the craftsmen... 3. Duties of Service: all of the duties of the priests and Levites were assigned So that all Solomon had to do once David had died, was nod has head and say, alright, you can start. 4. Dedication Songs: even though David was not alive during the building of the Temple or its dedication, we should not be surprised that the man who was filled with zeal for God’s house penned four songs for its dedication in the same spirit of all of his other preparations. These four psalms (Psalms 122, 124, 131, and 133) were part of a larger 15 song collection sung at the dedication of Solomon’s Temple in 959 BC, called the Psalms of Ascent (Pss. 120-134).1 5. Timeline: 966 BC was the 4th year of Solomon’s reign when the temple construction began. Seven years later in 960 BC the Temple was completed. Eleven months following its completion, the Temple was dedicated in 959 BC during the Feast of Tabernacles (1 Chron. 22:5, 14; 29:2; cf. 1 Chr. 21:22-26:32; 28:1-29:9; Ps. 132:1-5). C. God does not only desire a dwelling place of worship on the earth (Ps.132:12, 14), but a dwelling place of worship where His family dwell together in unity toward one another (Ps.133:1) with His heart. The Lord desires to dwell with a people who are like Him as Jesus prays in John 17:23. D. In Psalm 133 David invites us to behold the kind of unity God desires to fashion within our hearts that welcomes His habitation. III. PSALM 133: THREE VERSES, TWO PICTURES, ONE POINT A. The unforeseen vision of unity in worship (v. 1) 1. 1 Kgs. 8, note especially how 2 Chr. 6:41-42 quotes the words from the song of Ps.132:8. IHOPKC Missions Base ihopkc.org FORERUNNER CHURCH–MATTHEW CANDLER Psalm 133: Breaking Accusation with the Oil of Intercession PAGE 3 1Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! (Ps. 133:1) 1. We must not forget the long-standing strife between the tribes of Israel that existed before and after this time. Unity among the twelve tribes of Israel was by no means normal. 2. After becoming a nation under Moses, they stayed together until the death of Joshua, and then waged war against one another for centuries during the period of the Judges. Samuel slightly reunited them, and David more so following Saul’s death. During and after David’s reign the tribes united for about a century until Solomon’s death, however the seeds of tribal animosity were always present. 3. This picture of the tribal unity at the dedication of the temple only lasted for a short time until the death of Solomon when the rival kingdoms of Judah and Ephraim split, never to be reunited. The animosity was so strong between these brothers that the Judahites killed 500,000 of the men of Ephraim in the late 10th century BC (2 Chr. 13:17). All of this serves to show that unity is rare to establish, and rare to keep. B. Visual #1: Two Brothers (Ps. 133:2) It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments. (Ps. 133:2) 1. David looks to the time of Moses to describe what brotherly unity is and how it is reached. 2. David mentions that unity is like the “oil” which ran down Aaron’s beard. How does this portray a unity between brothers? The story that David refers to is when Moses, the brother of Aaron, anointed Aaron to be high priest of the nation of Israel (Ex. 40:13) in context to much heartache, pain, betrayal, and disappointment, set amidst the sin of the gold calf. 3. Recall Moses and Aaron’s brotherly relationship: a. Though both brothers clearly had their flaws, Moses is portrayed as the stronger and more dominant brother. Moses was the star, hero, champion, and valedictorian par excellent. Moses is the deliverer of the nation, teacher of the law (Deut. 1:5), prophet like no other (Deut. 34:10), and miracle-worker of powerful deeds (Deut. 34:12).2 b. Aaron, on the other hand, is only mentioned in the shadow of Moses’ excellence, or his own failures, like leading the nation into idol worship before the gold calf. Aaron not only fails a significant test of leadership, but also betrays his brother Moses.3 4. The setup a. Exodus 28-30: Moses is with the Lord in private on the mountain, when the Lord tells him that He has chosen Aaron to be the high priest of the nation of Israel. 3. Kathleen Rochester, “The Missing Brother in Psalm 133,” The Expository Times 122 (2011): 380-82. 4. Ibid. IHOPKC Missions Base ihopkc.org FORERUNNER CHURCH–MATTHEW CANDLER Psalm 133: Breaking Accusation with the Oil of Intercession PAGE 4 b. As this is happening, the Lord knows that Aaron is failing at the base of the mountain as the people worship the golden calf.
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