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Psalm 101 is a Psalm of commitment from David.
It’s order in the book of Psalms is appropriate, at least to Charles Spurgeon who said,
“After songs of praise a Psalm of practice not only makes variety, but comes in most fittingly.
We never praise the Lord better than when we do those things which are pleasing in his sight.”
And so Psalm 101 is a great Psalm to help us commit to the Lord to live righteously before Him.
The proper process of unsinning sin is to begin well doing.—Robert
Browning
Psalm 101 then is about deciding to live right before God.
And so, first we see David’s,
I. Commitment to the Lord
v. 1-2
A. Focusing on Mercy & Judgement
V.1
Focusing on God’s mercy and judgment gives us a great balance of God.
B. Focusing on the Right Path
v.2
Behave myself wisely in a perfect way
Behave - to act with insight
perfect - blameless
C. Focusing on His Presence
O when wilt thou come unto me?
David was focused on his need for the presence of God.
D. Focusing on Faithfulness
David’s commitment was that he would walk in his household with a perfect heart.
perfect-blameless
II.
Commitment to Righteousness
vs. 3-8
A. Nothing Wicked Before My Eyes
v 3a
O be careful little eyes what you see.
We need to be careful what your eyes see
It’s easy to excuse or belittle influences that we allow in our lives.
But David committed that he would set no wicked thing before his eyes.
B. Unattached from Backsliders
v. 3b
He didn’t say that he hated backsliders, he said he hated the work of those who turn aside.
He didn’t want the work to cleave to him.
cleave - join, stay with, something sticking or clinging to something
If you fellowship with backsliders their ways will cling to you.
C. Remove Immorality
v. 4
froward - crooked, immoral, perverse
David makes a distinction between his own heart and the perverse nature of it and the immorality of a wicked person’s influence.
We need to be on the look out for both!
D. Cut Out Gossipers
v.5a
David new the damage caused by slander
He completely cut them out of their lives.
E. Don’t Waste Time with the Proud
v. 5b
high look - literally an arrogant eye
proud heart
not suffer - not endure or bear
F. Deal with the Faithful
v. 6
eye shall be upon the faithful
they may dwell with me
the blameless (perfect) he shall serve me.
He will be the one I do business with.
I don’t like to do business with those who are underhanded, just by the principle of the matter.
G. Don’t Stay around the Deceitful
v. 7
We should not have anything to do with deceitful people
We should not give them a place to stay.
David had no patience with liars, he didn’t even want them in his sight.
H. Protect Your Domain
v. 8
David wanted to clean out Jerusalem of all these evil doers.
We need to cleanse out our homes of all evil.
Get rid of it.
Don’t give it a place.
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