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Psalm 92.

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We don't know exactly who wrote this psalm.

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It's not crucial that we know who wrote it.

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It's pretty general.

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A psalm of praise for God's faithfulness.

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The superscription of the psalm says, a psalm, a song for the Sabbath day.

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So this psalm would have likely been sung on the Sabbath day.

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Let's pray and we'll go through the psalm and talk about it.

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God, we come to you.

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We thank you for your good word.

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I pray dear Lord that you be with us tonight, that we would be focused on you.

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We thank you for the rain that you've given us in the last few days.

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We thank you for the freedom to come here tonight.

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I pray God that you would hide me behind the cross, that I would be able to preach and

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teach in a way that brings glory and honor to you.

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Take away any pride or nerves that I may have tonight, dear Lord, that I would do a good

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job to present your word.

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I pray that we would listen to it and that we would be those, God, who don't forget to

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praise you, that we would be those who are firmly planted in your word and in your commands

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and just live for you, dear Lord.

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I ask these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Psalm 92 verse 1, it is good to praise Yahweh.

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Now we can stop there for a second before we go any further.

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We could really just stop there.

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That's a powerful thing.

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That's a powerful reminder to us.

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It is good to praise God.

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Hopefully we do praise God.

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Maybe sometimes we have to be reminded to praise God.

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Maybe you're like me sometimes, and sometimes your prayer life is more about asking God

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for something than it is about just praising who God is and being thankful to God for something.

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Now we have a lot of requests, and we make those requests known to God, and we should.

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That's not a bad thing.

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God wants us to bring our requests to him, and we want to pray to God and ask him to

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heal us and ask him for the things that we need and that we desire.

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But we need to remember to praise God for all that he's done for us, for all the good

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that he does for us, for the ways that he blesses us, ways that we may sometimes overlook.

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We have so much.

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We are blessed in so many ways that sometimes perhaps we're not as grateful as we should

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be for the things that we have.

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I think that we take them for granted.

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Things like air conditioning and things like cars and simple things that we all have and

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we all get up every day and we crank our car and we drive to our job and we eat food at

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some point during the day and we come home and have heaters in the winter and air in

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the summer.

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These things, we've had them for all of our life pretty much for most of us, and we just

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kind of take them for granted.

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Sometimes we forget how blessed we are and how good God is that he is taking care of

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us and blessed us in the ways that he has.

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That's not to say that God has answered every prayer that we've ever prayed.

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Some might not have been his will, but perhaps God has done more for us than we realize.

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Sometimes maybe we have memory loss there.

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God does something we prayed for and we're soon to forget about it and we're quick to

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move on to the next thing.

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But maybe we just need to take time and praise God, not just for what he's done for us, but

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just for the fact that he is God, that he is good, that he is the creator of the heavens

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and the earth.

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That is worthy of our praise regardless of what he has done for us or what he will do

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for us if he does nothing else for us for the rest of our life.

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He is a God who is good and he is a God who is worthy of our praise.

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And so the psalmist says, it is good to praise God.

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To sing praise to your name, most high, to declare your faithful love in the morning

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and your faithfulness at night with a 10-string harp and the music of a lyre.

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For you have made me rejoice, Lord, by what you have done.

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I will shout for joy because of the work of your hands.

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And so here we see the psalmist pointing out, in the morning, remember God's love.

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In the night, remember God's faithfulness.

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Rejoice in the Lord.

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Shout for joy for what the Lord has done for the works of God's hands.

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And so there is certainly a lot to praise God for.

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And sometimes we forget that.

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Sometimes people get hung up on the few things that God didn't do for them, the few things

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that didn't work out the way they want.

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And they hold those few things against God all the while overlooking and forgetting just

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how good God is.

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And the psalmist here starts off on the right note.

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This is a good psalm for us to look at, that we need to remember that we want to be those

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who offer a good praise to God because he is a good God.

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Now something we see here in this psalm in verse 3 is he mentions these instruments here

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with 10-string harp and the music of a lyre.

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We see that language in the Old Testament.

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We see it in the Psalms, this idea of using instruments to praise God.

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We used a string instrument tonight.

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We don't think about the piano as a string instrument, but you open up the back of it

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and it's a bunch of strings that get hit that make these noises.

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And so we're certainly aware of praising God with the string instruments.

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And we see here the mention of a 10-string harp or a lyre.

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Now those things are pretty similar, harps and lyres.

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There's some difference there.

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They're not the same, but they're a string instrument nonetheless that you kind of hold

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up and you kind of play.

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Now one thing maybe that we forget or don't think about too much when we read these psalms

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is they were songs.

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So these were things that would have been sung.

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And you can do a quick Google, I mean a YouTube search, and you can find a lot of people that

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have written music to sing some of these psalms and it's beautiful when you hear some of these

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psalms put to words.

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So what I wanted to do tonight, since so many of these psalms are sung, and in particularly

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here the mention of the lyre and the harp, is I wanted us to listen to what that kind

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of would have sounded like maybe back in the days when this psalm would have been written.

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So I got this video that I found.

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It's a few minutes long, it's not very long, where this guy sings through Psalm 23, which

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we're probably all familiar with, and he plays a 10-string lyre and he sings the 23rd psalm

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in Hebrew.

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So we'll check that out and it'll kind of give us an idea of maybe how that would have

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been sung back years ago when David wrote that psalm.

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I wonder, dayum Great

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So that might kind of give you guys an idea when you read through these Psalms of how

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they were, how they would have been performed when they were written, it kind of, kind of

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puts it in a whole different perspective.

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You know, we just read through it and they're beautiful, but when you hear it, you know,

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accompanied by music and somebody singing it, it's certainly more beautiful.

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And some of that gets lost when we, when we, when we don't sing them and we don't, because

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we don't really know how they were written and how they were sung, but perhaps very similar

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to what we just saw there.

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So anyway, hopefully that was something that was, that it was, it was fun for us to consider.

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All right.

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Verse five.

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How magnificent are your works, Lord?

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How profound your thoughts.

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A stupid person does not know.

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A fool does not understand this.

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Though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be eternally

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destroyed.

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But you Lord are exalted forever.

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For indeed Lord, your enemies, indeed your enemies will perish.

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All evildoers will be scattered.

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So here we see at the beginning of this Psalm, just a praise to God for his goodness and

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the fact that God is magnificent.

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But then we see a brief section here about the evildoers and those that come against

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God or those that come against God's people, people that, that even today there are people

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that come against God.

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They're, they're, they're people we encounter.

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We face opposition to the truth of God's word.

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And even though it appears as though those evildoers are flourishing, they sprout up

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like grass, but they don't, they don't last long.

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They are soon destroyed.

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They're not eternal.

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The author makes that point here in this part of the passage.

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But as for those who trust in God, he says in verse 10, you have lifted up my horn like

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that of a wild ox.

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I have been anointed with oil.

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My eyes look down on my enemies.

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My ears hear evildoers when they attack me.

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Now we talked about this a few months ago, we had a, had a reference to horn.

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That's a, that's a symbolic language for strength.

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When he says you have lifted my horn, that is you have strengthened me.

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You have, you have given me the power to overcome my enemies.

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And so our strength comes from God.

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So the enemies, they rise up quickly, but they're not well rooted in anything.

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They're only rooted in evil.

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And so even though our enemies may rise up quickly and God's enemies may rise up quickly,

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they will soon be destroyed by, by the power and the goodness of God.

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But what of the righteous person?

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Well, that's what we see here in the next verse.

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The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

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Planted in the house of the Lord, they thrive in the courts of our God.

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Now I've got here a couple of pictures.

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On the left, you see a cedar of Lebanon and on the right you see a palm trees.

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These are trees that are mentioned on occasion in the old Testament and particularly the,

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the cedars of Lebanon.

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If you go back and you read about Solomon's temple, you will see that the wood of the

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cedars of Lebanon was, was the main wood that was used there in the temple.

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You'll also see when you read about the temple that inscribed, engraved into the walls of

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the temple were palm trees and the palm trees were symbolic too.

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They were tall, they were strong, they were beautiful, they were, they were, they were

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straight up and down.

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They produce fruit, they produce dates.

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And so when we, when we see these references to trees, which sometimes we do in the old

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Testament, symbolic for, for people saying that people are like trees.

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Well, these trees are used for a purpose because these are strong and beautiful trees, especially

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the cedar of Lebanon.

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Now those are predominantly found natively in that area of the Middle East.

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However, they do grow here in the United States.

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They had, there have been some that have been brought here and in certain parts of the United

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States, they grow really well.

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Hot Springs, Arkansas being one of those.

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And there are several spots around the U S which they grow these cedars of Lebanon and

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they're good trees for several reasons.

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One, there's no knots in them.

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Two, they're not affected by insects and they're, they're very resistant to decay.

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So it's a wood that will last a long, long time.

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So these trees can get old, they can get big and they are very strong.

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And that's the illustration here.

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That's the symbolism.

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He talks about the righteous.

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He says the righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

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And so he uses that symbolic language to say, look, those who trust in the Lord are going

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to be strong.

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They're going to be beautiful.

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They're going to be mature.

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They're not easily going to be going to be affected by the things around them, but only

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if they are well-rooted.

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Now those evil people, they're like grass that shoots up, but it's not going to last.

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But you look at a cedar of Lebanon or palm tree, these are trees that can grow old.

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These are trees that can grow big.

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These are trees that are beautiful and that are strong and that are not easily destroyed.

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And so it is for those who trust in the Lord.

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He says those who are planted in the house of the Lord, they thrive in the courts of

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the Lord.

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So, so what are we rooted in?

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What are we planted in?

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Are we planted in the, in the house of the Lord?

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Are we planted in the word of God?

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Are we planted in obedience to the commands of God?

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Because if we are planted in the Lord, then we will be like that.

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But if we're not planted in the Lord, then we're not going to be any better than those

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evil doers.

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We're going to be like that grass that it shoots up quick, but it doesn't last a long

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time.

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So do you want to be grass or do you want to be a cedar of Lebanon?

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Well, you look at these trees, these are, these are beautiful, majestic trees.

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And these are the illustrations that are used by the Psalmist here to say, Hey, look, this

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is what, this is what you want to be like.

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And these would have been trees that the people in the middle East, in this part of the world

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would have certainly known about the goodness of these trees.

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Verse 14, they will still bear fruit in old age, healthy and green.

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So isn't that a beautiful thing that they still bear fruit in their old age?

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And perhaps that's a good reminder to us that as we begin to age, that we are still useful

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to God, that if we trust God, if we are planted in God, if we are rooted in God, that God

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can still use us, that we can still produce fruit.

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And that's a good thing for us to always be checking when we're young, as we get older,

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even if we're near the end of life, we need to be those who ask ourselves and say, is

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there some fruit that I'm producing for the Lord?

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Now maybe when you're younger, you can do a lot more things physically, but that doesn't

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mean that the things we do when we get older are any less important.

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They may be just as important, if not more important.

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So the fruit that we produce might change the things that we do when we're younger may

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may look different than the things that we do with, then we're older, but one's not better

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than the other.

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That's just the cycle of life.

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But those who are, who are rooted in the Lord are those who are going to continue to produce

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good fruit, even in their old age, to declare the Lord is just, he is my rock and there

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is no unrighteousness in him.

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And so he closes here on a beautiful note with similar language that we see throughout

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the scripture and that is God is our rock.

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And so we have to answer that question tonight, is God our rock?

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Well, hopefully he is our rock.

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If he's not our rock, then we're in trouble because everything else is like quicksand.

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Everything else that we could stand on is just going to suck us down with it.

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But when we stand on the rock, Jesus Christ, it is unmovable and that's where our strength

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needs to come from.

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So we need to be rooted in Jesus Christ.

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We need to be those who praise God because he is good.

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And that's what this Psalm tells us tonight.

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Let's pray.

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God of God, we come to you, we thank you for your good word.

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I pray God that we would not just be those who always ask and ask and ask you for things.

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Dear Lord, we want to do that and that's good.

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But God, let us not overlook and forget about the good things that you've already done,

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the things that you continue to do, the blessings that you bless us with, the prayers that you've

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answered God.

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And regardless of what you do, you're worthy of praise because you are God, dear Lord.

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And so I pray, dear Lord, that we would stand in fear and in reverence to you, dear Lord,

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that we would be those who worship you and thank you for your goodness and thank you

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for your faithfulness and thank you for your love, dear Lord.

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Just as this Psalm calls us to, let us praise you, dear Lord.

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Let us be those who are planted in you.

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Let us be like that cedar of Lebanon and like that palm, dear Lord, those strong and mature

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trees that can withstand whatever comes at them.

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God, let us be those people in our life.

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That we'd be rooted in you, that we'd withstand the sin and the temptations and the struggles

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of this world, that we would praise you.

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And I ask these things in Jesus' name, amen.