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“You Can Come Home” Sermon Brief Andre Riendeau September 14, 2014 Text: Psalm 120 Title: “Journey to Peace” Subject: The psalmist cries out for vindication. Complement: God will vindicate His people in due time. Textual Idea: We are to cry out for vindication and hopefully wait for God’s answer. Sermon Idea: Peace comes from trusting God in difficult circumstances. Interrogative: Am I trusting in God? Key word/Transitional sentence: I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Key Points: 1. Cry out to God first when in distress. 2. Delight in God and entrust vindication to Him. 3. Believers long for home but seek peace on the journey. What do I want people to know? I want people to know that God will bring about justice in His time and we are to wait confidently in Him in the meantime. What do I want people to do? I want people to rely on God in difficult circumstances. What need am I addressing? I am addressing the need for finding peace in the midst of chaos. 1 “Journey to Peace” Psalm 120 September 14, 2014 Peace comes from trusting God in difficult circumstances. Show 10 Days video and discuss Show “The Challenge Flag” video I don’t know about you but I sure have lots of times when I wish I could throw that flag. Someone accuses me of something I didn’t do – wish I could throw that flag. Someone hits me in the back of my car and takes off – wish I could get the replay of that. A friend gossips about me behind my back – wish I could throw that flag. That is one of the most frustrating parts of living in this world – justice is not always guaranteed. People literally get away with their brother’s candy – and even murder - all the time. So frustrating. Well…we may not have Challenge Flags to throw when injustice shows up, but we can resort to something even better – a greater Referee – the Lord God Almighty. In times of trouble, when we’re being unfairly treated, we can throw ourselves onto Him and find peace in the chaos of this world. And there is no better place to throw ourselves than into His perfect Word. And within that ocean of rest is a particularly great inlet called the Psalms. And within the Psalms is a peaceful cove known as (LCD) the Psalms of Ascent. We’re starting a new sermon series today on these fifteen psalms from Psalm 120 to Psalm 134. My prayer is that as we dive into the cool waters of these sacred songs, we’ll find refreshment for our souls in the midst of a stormy world full of trouble. Now before we get into our opening psalm today, let me first say a few things about the book of Psalms in general. The book of Psalms is by far the largest book in the Bible. If you go ahead and open to the middle of your Bible, you’re bound to hit a Psalm. These are songs. There are 150 of them here ranging all over the map in topics: celebration, distress, praise, angst, laughter, crying – the whole range of human emotions and experience. I think it is why so many love the Psalms – they are relatable. We struggle in real life; the psalmists do too. We get ticked off royally in real life; the psalmists do too. We wonder if God is really there for us; the psalmists do too. We get excited when things go well; the psalmists do too. In the Psalms, we see ourselves. Now the Psalms were written by numerous authors over 900 years. By the time right before Jesus, they appeared as an organized set of 150 songs in (LCD) five books. We read in ancient Jewish writings that they were assigned this way to match the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch – the Law. Same say that the Pentateuch are the five books of Moses and the Psalms are the five books of David. Interesting. Also interesting is how we use the Psalms. Most approach them, I confess I have for the most part, like a big bag of potato chips…reach in and grab one! We all have a favorite psalm, right? We don’t think of the Psalms as having any organization or flow like other books of the Bible. They seem randomly placed and ordered. Some have tried to find order in the arrangement. One scholar, Dr. Gerald Wilson, suggests this (LCD) interesting order: 2 the first three books, Psalms 1-89, speak mostly of the human king of Israel, the Psalms are mostly individualized and the overall tenor of them is lament, sadness. Then the last two books, Psalms 90 -150, focus largely on God as King, the psalms are mostly corporate and their theme is mostly praise ending with the great final five praise Psalms. Wilson observes, (LCD) “Israel is not so much called to obedience in these psalms as to surrender – complete and absolute surrender to the eternal king whom they experience anew as creator and sustainer worthy of praise even in the midst of exile.” I like that. I think Wilson nails it. To a people living in a strange place, exiles in a foreign land, under distress and hard circumstances, Israel is urged to move from trusting in its own human kings who bring only selfish lament and landed them in exile to begin with, to trusting in God as her King, surrendering to Him. If we do, we’ll find ourselves giving praise to a great God – flourishing in His courts even when the worst comes our way. The death of a loved one, horrendous pain, financial difficulty, failed relationships – this is not how God meant things to be, but it is where we find ourselves in this place called earth. We’re pilgrims in a strange land but we don’t have to give in to a life full of lament. There is a joy in the journey, there is thriving instead of surviving, and it is found in one place – joyful surrender to a great King – Jesus. Perhaps that is the flow of Psalms. If so, then we’re on pilgrimage in this world which is not our ultimate home. U2 sang, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” and they’re right. We’re not home yet. Things aren’t as there meant to be just yet. But they will be. And it is with this humble confidence in God’s sovereign purposes that we turn to the Psalms of Ascent. The 15 Psalms of Ascent start in Psalm 120. You can turn there now. This section of the book has been called the “Psalter within the Psalter.” In these 15 Psalms, we find a mini-book of Psalms. The full range of emotions, a journey to wholeness, a call to surrender. I hope you choose to come on this journey to wholeness over the next few months. Just like you see here in Psalm 120, each of these psalms begin with the title, “a song of ascents.” There are (LCD) four different ideas behind this title. One is that within the Hebrew, there is a poetic device whereby each verse picks up and repeats a key idea from the preceding verse – an ‘ascending’ structure. However, this isn’t consistent throughout the fifteen psalms. The second idea is that these psalms were sung as the exiles came out of Babylon and returned to Jerusalem. But these are called a ‘song of ascents’ not ‘ascent.’ The third idea is that these were sung by the Levites on the fifteen steps that go from the Court of the Women to the Court of Israel in the Jewish temple. Perhaps. But most likely and widely held is that these were psalms that were sung when the Jews would make their three annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem. This makes sense in that it would be numerous ascents each year and, going up to Jerusalem, was certainly an ascent. Look at this (LCD) map of the elevation of Israel. You can see that the Dead Sea is way down here and Jerusalem is the highest point. Any pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem would involve a calf workout! Serious elevation here. And so these songs were sung as the people of Israel made their way to worship the Living God in His house. Picture Mary, Joseph and Jesus singing them when they’d come to Jerusalem three times a year. 3 Picture Jesus and His disciples singing them as they made their way into what we call the Triumphal Entry. These are pilgrim songs. They are songs that declare “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” but I’m not giving up and I know where the answer lies with God…in His house, in His presence. Are you ready to go up? Psalm 120. 1 I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me. 2 Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues. 3 What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue? 4 He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush. 5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar! 6 Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. 7 I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war. The psalmist begins by talking about answered prayer.
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