Encouragements to bolster our hope in the Triune God!
Psalm 78
This is one of my favorite Psalms. The words contained in this Psalm are a healing balm and for many weary pilgrims has been a blessed assurance to their hope in God for mnay generations! In his Psalm the Gospel is laid out before us clearly and very convincingly. This Psalm was written as a reminder to God’s chosen people and to those throughout every generation to place the full weight of their hope in the God Jacob, the God whose mercies are from ever lasting to everlasting!
It’s an encouragement to bolster our hope in The God whose covenant love will triumph thru all generations because; He is the God of Jacob! It’s and encouragement to bolster our hope in the omnipotent hand of Sovereign God whose power has no limits, in order that we should never; never for one moment forget His works. It’s and encouragement to place our hope steadfastly on the display of the enormous love and longsuffering of God toward His people. For, He is full of compassion and in spite of all our floundering and sometimes week embarrassing faith; He remembers that we are but flesh.
This Psalm is like a musical instrument with a hundred strings ready to play a thousand sermons from its beautiful text but my purpose is to just pluck a few strings from this Psalm to help encourage and bolster our hope and faith. Today we will just pluck one string.
1. Let’s be encouraged in our commitment to the gospel of God which is our hope.
Psalm 78:1-8
Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. 5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children, 7 That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments; 8 And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
In verses 1-8 God sets before us a gracious command. We are commanded to take those things which we have heard and known and declare it to our children and to the coming generation.
We should be encouraged for what God has commanded He is committed to bless. Oh! how this should strengthen our love for the gospel! The commandments of God should never be grievous to us, but are given to us for our greater good! When God instructed Adam and Eve not to partake of tree of knowledge of good and evil it wasn’t that God was withholding something from them but it was the exact opposite. His command was for there ultimate and eternal good.
Psalm 78
This is one of my favorite Psalms. The words contained in this Psalm are a healing balm and for many weary pilgrims has been a blessed assurance to their hope in God for mnay generations! In his Psalm the Gospel is laid out before us clearly and very convincingly. This Psalm was written as a reminder to God’s chosen people and to those throughout every generation to place the full weight of their hope in the God Jacob, the God whose mercies are from ever lasting to everlasting!
It’s an encouragement to bolster our hope in The God whose covenant love will triumph thru all generations because; He is the God of Jacob! It’s and encouragement to bolster our hope in the omnipotent hand of Sovereign God whose power has no limits, in order that we should never; never for one moment forget His works. It’s and encouragement to place our hope steadfastly on the display of the enormous love and longsuffering of God toward His people. For, He is full of compassion and in spite of all our floundering and sometimes week embarrassing faith; He remembers that we are but flesh.
This Psalm is like a musical instrument with a hundred strings ready to play a thousand sermons from its beautiful text but my purpose is to just pluck a few strings from this Psalm to help encourage and bolster our hope and faith. Today we will just pluck one string.
1. Let’s be encouraged in our commitment to the gospel of God which is our hope.
Psalm 78:1-8
Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. 5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children, 7 That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments; 8 And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
In verses 1-8 God sets before us a gracious command. We are commanded to take those things which we have heard and known and declare it to our children and to the coming generation.
We should be encouraged for what God has commanded He is committed to bless. Oh! how this should strengthen our love for the gospel! The commandments of God should never be grievous to us, but are given to us for our greater good! When God instructed Adam and Eve not to partake of tree of knowledge of good and evil it wasn’t that God was withholding something from them but it was the exact opposite. His command was for there ultimate and eternal good.
How much despair and anguish could we be free of if the commandments of God would become to as us as they were to the Psalmist in Psalm 119:26-32 "My soul clings to the dust;give me life according to your word!26 When I told of my ways, you answered me;teach me your statutes! Make me understand the way of your precepts,and I will meditate on your wondrous works. My soul melts away for sorrow;strengthen me according to your word! Put false ways far from meand graciously teach me your law!30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness;I set your rules before me. I cling to your testimonies, O Lord;let me not be put to shame! I will run in the way of your commandmentswhen you enlarge my heart!
May the exhortation from Moses the man of God in Deuteronomy be used in union with
Psalm 78.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 " And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Family worship can be difficult at times, but let’s not lose heart for the God Jacob knows our hearts! Brothers, let this gracious command fuel our hearts toward the conversion of our children and pray Proverbs 22:6 daily for our children. “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 " And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Family worship can be difficult at times, but let’s not lose heart for the God Jacob knows our hearts! Brothers, let this gracious command fuel our hearts toward the conversion of our children and pray Proverbs 22:6 daily for our children. “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”
May our heavenly Father be pleased to use our children and our childrens childrens for genertions come to until the clounds are rolled back as a scroll
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