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March 5, 2012
By John Barnett
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As we open to Psalm 18, we are entering the last days of David.
No one else in Scripture has more space devoted to their life other than the Lord Himself.
David is God’s object lesson to each of us on: how hard life can be, how much we can struggle, how greatly we can fail—and how incredibly God can use us.
As we will see in these 50 verses of David’s longest Psalm, David extolled the Lord as his Master and King.
*Psalm 18* shows us so clearly how David made it through a very long and difficult life, and then how he went on to overcome feelings of loneliness and uselessness in the waning years of life.
The words of this Psalm are recorded in God's Word twice.
Once here in Psalm 18; and then again in II Samuel 22:2-51—it was like doubly saying that he wanted to end well for the Lord!
*Learning to See All of Life From God’s Perspective*
First, before we jump into these verses, let me show you a quick map of what we’ll be seeing.
We find David summarizing his entire life in the context of triumphing over all enemies!
Why did David use that context?
Because, David had learned the habit from his youth, of seeing life from GOD’S PERSPECTIVE.
Psalm 18 tells us the eight elements of how David saw God everywhere:
1. v.1-3 God was the greatest attraction of David’s life;
2. v. 4-6 David was often in desperate condition;
3. v. 7-15 God’s Power was awesome to David;
4. v. 16-24 God alone can rescue us;
5. v. 25-29 God is just in all He does;
6. v. 30-36 God reveals Himself to those who Trust Him;
7. v. 37-45 God Has conquered all our enemies;
8. v. 46-50 God is Worthy of our Life-Long Praise.
This Psalm is in God's Word twice.
Let’s read this powerfully personal declaration of David’s love for the Lord, and as we listen, may we share in his love and also seek the Lord so completely!
Psalm 18:1-50 (NKJV) To the Chief Musician.
A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
And he said:
*Part One: God was the Greatest attraction of David’s life *
1 I will love You, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.
*Part Two: David was Often in desperate condition*
4 The pangs of death surrounded me,
And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD,
And cried out to my God;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.
*Part Three: God’s Power was Awesome to David*
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And devouring fire from His mouth;
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With darkness under His feet.
10 And He rode upon a cherub, and flew;
He flew upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His secret place;
His canopy around Him was dark waters
And thick clouds of the skies.
12 From the brightness before Him,
His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.[a]
14 He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe,
Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen,
The foundations of the world were uncovered
At Your rebuke, O LORD,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
*Part Four: God alone Can rescue us*
16 He sent from above, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me,
For they were too strong for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the LORD was my support.
19 He also brought me out into a broad place;
He delivered me because He delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands
He has recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me,
And I did not put away His statutes from me.
23 I was also blameless before Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
*Part Five: God is just In all He does*
25 With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful;
With a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless;
26 With the pure You will show Yourself pure;
And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.
27 For You will save the humble people,
But will bring down haughty looks.
28 For You will light my lamp;
The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
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