Today’s Sermon: Psalms 9-10, “Thanksgiving For God’s Justice / Prayer For Overthrow Of Wicked” by Pastor Jim Bomkamp

Outline of last study: Ps 8 4. We also saw how that Psalm 8 is a Messianic Psalm. 3. We discussed how great God’s grace is to us humble creatures. 1. King David gazed out into the night sky and observed the stars and the moon & recognized the greatness and majesty of the Lord. 2. We considered some that we know from the field of modern astronomy that illustrated just how accurate King David’s assessment is.

Background for Psalm 9 1. In this Psalm David looks at God’s just dealings with men and is brought to worship the Lord. 2. There is a time for us to rest our hearts and minds on the fact that our God is a just God. 3. If people will not repent and believe the gospel when the word of God is preached and exposed to them, then God will in time bring about condemnation and judgment to them. 4. The Psalms are songs, and songs are the fitting mechanism for us to express our thankfulness to Him.

Background for Psalm 10: We see King David asking the Lord to deal with the wicked, those who oppress the weak and helpless, and overthrow them and remove them from the earth.

Psalms 9:1: King David determines he will give thanks to the Lord

Psalms 9:2: King David has chosen that he will be glad in the Lord and sing praise

Psalms 9:3-6: King David speaks of God’s judgment and destruction of his enemies, and really all of God’s enemies, as being a completed fact

Psalms 9:7-9: The Lord abides forever and has established His throne for judgment, and will judge the world in righteousness with equity

Psalms 9:10: For those who know the Lord’s Name He will prove Himself to be a stronghold and deliverer

Psalms 9:13-14: King David asks the Lord to be gracious to him and to see his affliction from those who hated him

Psalms 9:15-16: The nations have sunk down in the very pit that they have made, in the net which they hid their own foot has been caught

Psalms 9:17-18: The wicked will return to the place of the dead, including all the nations who forget God

Psalms 9:19-20: King David asks the lord to arise and not let man prevail, but to let the nations be judged before the Lord

Psalms 10:1: King David asks the Lord why He stands afar off and hides Himself

Psalms 10:2: It is in pride that the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted

Psalms 10:3: The wicked man boasts of his heart’s desire

Psalms 10:4: The countenance of the wicked man is haughty

Psalms 10:5-10: David describes the wicked man

Psalms 10:11: The wicked man says to himself that God has forgotten and hidden His face

Psalms 10:12: Lord lift up Your hand and do not forget the afflicted

Psalms 10:13-15: King David answers the question of why the wicked spurn God

Psalms 10:16: The Lord is king forever, and nations have perished from His land

Psalms 10:17-18: The Lord has heard the desire of the humble and has strengthened their hearts, and, He will incline His ear to vindicate the orphan and oppressed