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Psalms:9

To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben , A Psalm of David.

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Today's Text:

Today's Audio Commentary: "The LORD is Known by the Judgment Which He Executeth"

Today's Commentary Outline:

1. "The LORD is Known by the Judgment Which He Executeth" (Introduction): 9:16
• We live in a day and age where the LORD is not known because we choose not to think of the LORD in terms of HIS judgment and HIS need for judgment to be executed.


• If one refuses to know the LORD on these specific terms one is refusing to know the LORD on any terms.


• Some might respond "well that's your LORD not mine".


• What is it about the human heart that looks down on any notion of God that includes HIM having reason for, being capable of, and willingly executing judgment?


• How can I better explain to you the less hostile compassionate view of judgment?


• "I will shew forth all thy marvellous works": 9:1 (small scale/grand scale)


• List of potential marvelous works to consider:


• "Thou hast maintained my right and my cause" 9:4 (small scale vs grand scale)


• "Thou satest in the throne judging right" 9:4 (small scale vs grand scale)


• "Thou hast rebuked the heathen" 9:5 (small scale vs grand scale)


• "Thou hast destroyed the wicked" 9:5 (small scale vs grand scale)


• "Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever" 9:5 (small scale vs grand scale)


• Indication 9:6 etc.. of these works meaning something so much more (grand scale):


• "destructions are come to a perpetual end" 9:6


• Reconsider question:


• What judgments had the LORD already excuted?


• What works has HE already performed?


• What judgments remain to be executed?


• On what basis will those final judgments be made?


• How will these final judgments be executed?


• Ultimate question: What will we know about the LORD after these final judgments are executed?


• "The LORD is known by the judgment which He executeth" 9:16 / "I will shew forth all thy marvellous works" 9:1






2. "He hath Prepared his Throne for Judgment". 9:7 (HIS marvelous works up to now)
• "He hath prepared (erected) his throne for judgment (verdict/sentencing)" 9:7 (step by step/in plain sight)


• Establishing promise to Adam/Eve (kjv@Genesis:3) and picture of eventual means.


• Establishing unconditional covenant. (Abrahamic - faith)


• Establishing conditional covenant law (Mosiac - establishing a broad long term metrics of proving man's rebellious behavior)


• Establishing direct dealings with a nation (establishment, provision, protection, deliverance, forbearence, revival etc...) despite their frequent rebellion


• Establishment of prophecy leading to Christ.


• Establishment of Christ (through fulfillment of prophecies, miracles, wonders, teachings, verbal confirmations).


• Glorification of Christ (through resurrection, accension, gathering of believers, indwelling presence of Spirit, placing enemies at footstool)


• Testimony of followers (verbal, actions, individual/church) and reaction to.


• How man has reacted to each pillar erected is the basis for how man is to be judged (pillar and whole).


• "He shall judge the world in righteousness" 9:8


Quoted resource: strongs 'H8199'

H8199 @ שׁפט shâphaţ shaw-fat' A primitive root; to {judge} that {is} pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication to vindicate or punish; by extension to govern; passively to litigate (literally or figuratively): - + {avenge} X that {condemn} {contend} {defend} execute ({judgment}) (be a) judge ({-ment}) X {needs} {plead} {reason} rule.




Quoted resource: strongs 'H8398'


H8398 @ תּבל têbêl tay-bale' From H2986; the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension the globe; by implication its inhabitants; specifically a particular {land} as Babylonia or kjv@Palestine: - habitable {part} world.




Quoted resource: strongs 'H6664'


H6664 @ צדק tsedeq tseh'-dek From H6663; the right ({natural} moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity: - X {even} (X that which is altogether) just ({-ice}) ([un-]) right (-eous) ({cause} {-ly} -ness).


• Father has commited all judgement to Son and the power to execute it:



kjv@John:5:22 @ For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:


kjv@John:5:27 @ And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

• "He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness" 9:8


Quoted resource: strongs 'H1777'

H1777 @ דּוּן דּין dîyn dûn {deen} doon A primitive root (compare H113); to rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law): - {contend} execute ({judgment}) {judge} minister {judgment} plead (the {cause}) at {strife} strive.




Quoted resource: strongs 'H4339'


H4339 @ מישׁר mêyshâr may-shawr' From H3474; {evenness} that {is} (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also {straightness} that {is} (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially): - {agreement} {aright} that are {equal} {equity} (things that are) right ({-eously} {things}) {sweetly} upright ({-ly} -ness).



kjv@John:5:42 @ But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

kjv@John:5:43 @ I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

kjv@John:5:44 @ How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

kjv@John:5:45 @ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

kjv@John:5:46 @ For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

kjv@John:5:47 @ But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?





3. "When HE Maketh Inquisition for Blood" 9:12 (The means of satisfying judgment deserved):
• Inquisition


Quoted resource: strongs 'H1875'

H1875 @ דּרשׁ dârash daw-rash' A primitive root; properly to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication to seek or ask; specifically to worship: - {ask} X at {all} care {for} X {diligently} {inquire} make {inquisition} [necro-] {mancer} {question} {require} {search} seek {[for} {out]} X surely.


• Atonement: "without shedding of blood is no remission" kjv@Hebrews:9:22



kjv@Leviticus:17:11 @ For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

• Innocent blood:



kjv@Hebrews:2:14 @ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

• Purifying/Purging in order to serve:



kjv@Hebrews:9:12 @ Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

kjv@Hebrews:9:13 @ For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

kjv@Hebrews:9:14 @ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

• Redeeming/Forgiving (from riches of Grace)



kjv@Ephesians:1:7 @ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

• Made nigh by:



kjv@Ephesians:2:13 @ But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

• Determining factor of salvation:



kjv@Hebrews:10:29 @ Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

• "He hath prepared his throne for judgment" 9:7 / "I will shew forth all thy marvellous works" 9:1






4. "The LORD also will be a Refuge for the Oppressed" 9:9 (The compassionate side of judgment):
• Refuge


Quoted resource: strongs 'H4869'

H4869 @ משׂגּב miώgâb mis-gawb' From H7682; properly a cliff (or other lofty or inaccessible place); abstractly altitude; figuratively a refuge; misgab; a place in kjv@Moab: - {defence} high fort ({tower}) refuge. H4869; {Misgab} a place in kjv@Moab: - Misgab.


• Oppressed (as was Jesus)




Quoted resource: strongs 'H1790'


H1790 @ דּך dak dak From an unused root (compare H1794); {crushed} that {is} (figuratively) injured: - {afflicted} oppressed.



kjv@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.


kjv@Hebrews:4:15 @ For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

• "A refuge in times of trouble" kjv@9:9 (for Jesus?)


Quoted resource: strongs 'H6869'

H6869 @ צרה tsârâh tsaw-raw' Feminine of H6862; tightness (that {is} figuratively trouble); transitively a female rival: - {adversary} {adversity} {affliction} {anguish} {distress} {tribulation} trouble.


• Not even his followers/friends/family would be there for him in His greatest trouble:



kjv@John:16:29 @ His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.

kjv@John:16:30 @ Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

kjv@John:16:31 @ Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

kjv@John:16:32 @ Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

• "They that know thy name will put their trust in thee" 9:10 (for Jesus?)



kjv@Luke:10:22 @ All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

• "Thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee" 9:10



kjv@Psalms:14:2 @ The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

kjv@Psalms:14:3 @ They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

• (for Jesus?)



kjv@John:5:30 @ I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

• "He remembereth them" 9:12 (for Jesus?)


Quoted resource: strongs 'H2142'

H2142 @ זכר zâkar zaw-kar' A primitive root; properly to mark (so as to be {recognized}) that {is} to remember; by implication to mention; also (as denominative from H2145) to be male: - X burn {[incense]} X {earnestly} be {male} (make) mention ({of}) be {mindful} {recount} record ({-er}) {remember} make to be {remembered} bring ({call} {come} {keep} put) to (in) {remembrance} X {still} think {on} X well.


• "He forgetteth not the cry of the humble" 9:12 (for Jesus?)



kjv@Philippians:2:8 @ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

• "Have mercy upon me, O LORD" 9:13 (Jesus?)


• "Consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me" 9:13 (Jesus?)


• "Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death" 9:13 (Jesus?)


• "That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion" 9:14 (Jesus?)


• "I will rejoice in thy salvation" 9:14 (Jesus?)


• "For the needy shall not alway be forgotten" 9:18 (Jesus?)


• "The expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever" 9:18 (Jesus?)


• "Destructions are come to a perpetual end" 9:6 (Jesus?) (result of judgment)






5. "Arise, O LORD": 9:19
• "let not man prevail" 9:19


• "let the heathen be judged in thy sight" 9:19



kjv@Psalms:2:1 @ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

kjv@Psalms:2:2 @ The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

kjv@Psalms:2:3 @ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

• "Put them in fear" 9:20



kjv@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

kjv@Proverbs:1:25 @ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

kjv@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

kjv@Proverbs:1:27 @ When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

kjv@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

kjv@Proverbs:1:29 @ For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

kjv@Proverbs:1:30 @ They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

kjv@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

kjv@Proverbs:1:32 @ For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

kjv@Proverbs:1:33 @ But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.


kjv@Luke:21:25 @ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

kjv@Luke:21:26 @ Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

kjv@Luke:21:27 @ And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

kjv@Luke:21:28 @ And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.


kjv@Jeremiah:32:40 @ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

• "that the nations may know themselves to be but men" 9:20


• "The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made" 9:15


• "In the net which they hid is their own foot taken" 9:15


• "the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands" 9:16


• "The wicked shall be turned into hell" 9:17


• "All the nations that forget God" 9:17


• "Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail" 9:19


Quoted resource: stongs 'H5810'


kjv@Psalms:52:7 @ Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.





6. "The LORD is Known by the Judgment Which He Executeth" (Conclusion): 9:16
• How is God known? (Change language temporarily to more contemporary - the decisions that He has made - the way He governs Himself/Others)


• Man is best known by similar means


• In God's case many of these decisions we're talking about go back before the foundations of the Heavens and Earth.


• As things have progressed since the fall, God continues to conuct Himself according to these very etarnal decrees.


• There can be no doubt that man has indeed fallen


• though man persistantly attempts to convince himself otherwise


• though man persistantly attempts to cover his shame and guilt behind aprons of good works and religiosties


• though some men attempt rather to bring God either down to their own level or do away with Him all together.


• Even still God goes about His dealings with man even handedly/with only one bias regarding the blood of His only begotten Son in whom and by whom HE created and now saved all things


• So what has God been doing all this time since the fall?


• The erection of His throne/step by step/plain sight (being quite merciful and gracious to all mankind all along the way)


• promise/covenant/metrics/prophecy/establishment of Christ/glorification of/testimony of followers regarding/adverse reaction to.


• a light come into the world/men chosing darkness rather than be exposed.


• pit they dug and have fallen in/destroyed by the turning away.


• Because of the marvelous works leading up to Christ/because of the works of Christ/because of the future judgment and execution by Jesus bestowing upon us the very riches of HIS grace:


• (many will think God an oppressive ogor) (more like oppressive to the self willed and rebellious)


• "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart" 9:1 (whole not partial/humbled/purified/redeemed)


• "I will be glad and rejoice in thee" 9:2 (will/even in present troubles)


• "I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High" 9:2 (will/no matter what outcome is bestowed to me)


• "When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence" 9:3 (as it should be - shouldn't it)


• "Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion" 9:11


• "Declare among the people his doings" 9:11 (all His doings)


• "The LORD is Known by the Judgment Which He Executeth" 9:16 (ultimately compassionate/ultimately upright/inquiring for blood)


• "I will shew forth all thy marvellous works": 9:1 (compassionately)



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