Southern Heights Baptist Church

David Waited on the LORD (Ps. 27:1-14)

We must learn how to wait on Jesus. He delivered David & Others.

David in Psalm 27:1-14 David’s experience with trouble.

“The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear.”

Fear is one of our basic emotions. Be afraid. There are six ways of comfort that David found when he was in trouble.

This psalm speaks of Jesus Christ and some of the things Christ suffered as our redeemer. In a broader context it referred to the trials and trouble that David faced. It also refers to the trials and trouble that believers face today. This psalm divides itself into two parts. The first six verses speaks of the faith that is necessary to live for Christ in these days; secondly, verses 7-14 addressed the fear that is common to believers as they live for the Jesus.

"The LORD is Light, Salvation, and Fortress; there is, therefore, no need to fear or tremble." W. Graham Scroggie, A Guide to the Psalms.

(1) Saul persecuted David. Saul’s army was large and David many times had to flee from Saul’s Army. David found a hiding placed in the Lord (4). V. 6 He found security in the Lord in his temple.

(2) He learned how to praise God with the Sacrifice of Joy in the Lord.

(3) He learned how to sing praises to the Lord when trouble came upon him.

(4) He learned how to pray, by listening to God who heard his prayers.

(5) David discovered salvation v. 9 in the Lord and

(6) David sought for help in the Lord by waiting on the LORD (14). Many saints have found comfort in Christ through all of their trials.

Let me explain the text of Scripture for us this morning. My Hebrew Bible is clear on some of the points we wish to stress this morning. This term “wait” (27:14) is used two times in this verse in the Hebrew text as an imperative. It is a Pi'el imperative in fact. The definition for the word “wait” means to have “hope, await, look eagerly for something,”- [ARHB A. Philip Brown II, 1124] (Ps. 27:14) kauh., NEHC, 1096. Pi'el stem is an intense stem. Let me help you understand this that imperatives are commands from God for the believer to do something. It is stated in such a way that it means, “to busy oneself with the action that is found in the verb”. [Bruce Waltke, M. O’Connor, IBHS, 397 and & M. Greenberg, ITH pg. 58].

Not only is it a command, but it says, now you get busy doing this.” It appeals to one’s volition, to one's will to do something. Plus it is in the imperative mood. Do this and keep on doing it. We live in a day when everything is to be done right-a-way. The pi'el is used three times in this Psalms: once in 27:6, "I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD" and it is used twice in verse 27:14. It means to be intense with what you do for the LORD, yea to busy yourself in doing so.

Subject: "A Mother Who Waited on the LORD!"

I remember when I left Mississippi, I thought that the world ended on the other side of the trees, but we rode all night on our way to Cleveland, Ohio. That was the longest trip I had ever made. I thought we would never arrive in Cleveland. But we did arrive! Hebrew has stems and every stem indicates a different attitude or a different manner of operation. The Qal stem is the simple action. The Hif'il stem is causative in nature, it is another way of stressing how God causes things to happen a life. God does not cause evil, all God does it to take his protection from you and permit Satan to do his job in us. The hithpa’el basicly emphasizes "self effort" and it gives one another shade of understanding and stressing what God wants the reader to remember.

The Hebrew Language is different from our English language. The languge is built on three letter consonants originally and vowels were latter added to the scripture. “Wait” for us means to just stand there. In the Hebrew Language as stated in this passage, it means “to busy oneself with waiting,” or with singing praises to the LORD and in addition to busying yourself with waiting, or singing. This is an imperative command to wait. That is so different from what we love to do today. We have to get everything now! We think, if you don’t hurry up I will be angry with you. We need to learn how to wait on the LORD. David was in a situation where he couldn’t change things.

Charles H. Spurgeon wrote, “Wait at His door with prayer; wait at His foot with humility; wait at His table with service; wait at His window with expectancy.” --The Treasury of David, pg. 138.

We love to quote the Bible and brag about

“I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). I recently purchased the book, Foxe: Voices of the Martyrs 33 A.D. to Today, 2007 Bridge-Logos, Alachua, Fl.
There I looked at the saints who have suffered for Christ through the centuries.

We are reminded of the crucifixion of Christ: "Calvary, Covers it All," the songwriter wrote! We see Stephen, was martyred and James the Great was killed, and Philip and St. Matthew suffered. We look at what God has done through the “Blood of the Martyr's has become to seed of the church.” People have been willing to suffer for what they believed. Suffering will help us to grow! We need to learn how to live Christianity! Most of us know nothing about “turning the other cheek,” or “going the second mile with those who need our help.” If you cross our path, we will get angry with you! I must continue to ask myself, "What did God mean when He said, "It is given unto you, not only to believe but alos to suffer on behald of Christ." I think of Christ and Calvary. Am I really crucified with Christ? I must ask the question? God said, "vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the LORD, Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shlt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." (Rom. 12:19-21).

I don't know how long David waited for the LORD to deliver him. I had a friend who waited for 13 years, but God delivered.
God said, you have waited long enough! I am coming to take you home to be with me. God did not send Gabriel or Michael or one of the angels who ministers to the saints. I believe that Jesus came to get that saint. You have waited long enough. Come on home to be with your LORD. The bus that Christ drives is far better than anything that Michael Jackson or some big celebrity drives. In fact, “eyes have not seen nor ear heart, the things that the Father has in store for those who love him.” So don’t try to imagine what heaven is like.

Pi'el Infinitive Psalm 40:1, 2; Jer. 8:15; Jer. 14:19

Pi'el imperative Ps. 27:14 “Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”

Ps. 37:34 “And keep his ways, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land….”

Pro. 20:22 “Say not in thou, I will recompense evil’; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.”

Hos. 12:7 “And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for time, times, and an half, and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”

Pi'el future: Job 3:9; 7:2; 17:13; Ps. 52:9, (1); Ps. 69:20 “I looked for some one to take pity,”

“A Mother Who Waited on The LORD!
Some people know how to encourage others in the work of the ministry. She encouraged me in the work of the LORD’S. She encouraged her husband, she encouraged her children and her pastor. She taught me lessons in patience; she taught me how to wait on the Lord. I never heard her criticize her husband. She told the young women in this church what they needed to do to please God! She was a professional woman who was a hairdresser. Many of the women who are in this church, she pointed them to her church. Both of them would fight you about their church family. She would rebuke the younger women for criticizing God’s Word.

1. David had a big heart

2. David had a sharp mind, drilled in God’s Word. David loved God's Word.

3. David obeyed God’s Word, cared for his wife and children . David supported the desires and plans of his family.

4. David loved the church or the temple where he worshipped.

5. David loved the priests who ministered unto him God's Word.

I. David loved his God:

A. “The LORD is my light

B. The LORD is my Salvation

C. The LORD is my strength

II. David loved his enemies (He never sought to do Saul harm, even when he could have killed him.)

A. Whom shall I fear? When God is on your side, why fear when you can pray?

B. When the wicked? (Notice, it did not say “IF” the wicked but when the wicked (Ps. 27:2).

C. The Armies, the Host, Warriors War (Saul was well equipped to fight), but David was not concerned about his weapons(27:3).

III. David’s Worship

A. One thing have I desired (Worship was the longing of David’s heart.) (Ps. 27:4)

B. David loved to Behold the Beauty of the LORD (Ps. 27:4). He beheld the "kindness, beauty;" he "delighted" in the LORD!

C. David love to pray, to talk with Jesus. We need to learn how to steal away to Jesus and Pray.

D. David knew about trouble. He knew where to go in the Time of trouble

E. David knew how to sing!

F. David had a personal experience with the LORD “I Will Sing, yea I will sing praises to the LORD!” Pi'el "busy yourself with singing praise to the LORD," (27:6).

G. It may be ok to listen to the great singers. Andrae’ Crouch, Kirt Franklin, Shirley Caesar, Vickie Winans are all talented people: But there is nothing like your personal and private worship! When did you last sing praises to the Lord? Jet, Aug. 14, 2006.

H. David had the fear of God upon his life! Solomon wrote, “a woman or a man who “Fears the LORD” she or he shall be praised” (Prov. 31:30-31).

The following verses address the "fear of the Lord" in the Old Testament.

A. “Neh. 5:9 “Ought ye not to walk in the fear of the Lord.”

B. Ex. 20:20 “That his fear may be before your face.”

C. Prov. 31:30 “A Woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

D. Prov. 13:13 “Fear the commandments”

E. Prov. 1:7 “The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.”

F. Prov. 2:5 “Then thou shall understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.”

G. Prov. 8:13 “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the forward mouth, do I hate.”

H. Prov. 9:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.”

I. Prov. 10:27 “The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shorten.”

J. Prov. 14:26-27 “The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.”

Salvation: “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourself: it is the gift of God; not of works: lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9).

WAIT ON THE LORD, AND BE OF GOOD COURAGE.

Isaiah 40:28-31 “Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He gives power to the faint; and them that have no might he increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

The songwriter wrote, "They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength: they shall mount up on wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, Oh teach us LORD! How to wait.

"There is nothing for you and me but spiritual collapse unless we can believe to see, in this life, the goodness of the LORD"- Scroggie, Ps. 27:13).

Love ye one another, for Love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He that loves not, knows not God: For God is LOVE!

We accept the Bible as the infallible Word of God. It is without any error or mistakes. Our belief in the deity of Jesus Christ is based on what the Bible says about him in the scriptures.
We believed in the deity of Christ Jesus as the Son of God.

I encourage you to open your Bible and read the following information about who is Jesus Christ.

1. Jesus claimed equality with God (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23) “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.” Jesus is God with us! His name is the same as the name Joshua in the Old Testament, which name means, Yahweh [LORD] is Salvation” (Joshua 1:1-2).

2. Jesus is called God, “But unto the Son he said, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.” (Heb. 1:8).

3. Jesus never had a beginning (Micah 5:2) “But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose going forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”

“In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. All things were created by him and without him nothing was created. (John 1:1-2, 14) “And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

4. Jesus is called the creator (Col. 1:16-17), “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, of dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

5. John 5:17-18, Jesus claimed equality with God. “But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father works hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”

6. Jesus claimed equality with God (Ex. 3:14; John 8:58), “And God said unto Moses, “I Am that I Am: and he said. Thus thou may say to Israel, I Am has sent you.” Jehovah, Yahweh LORD. “Before Abraham was, I AM.

7. Jesus claimed to be the “I AM in the New Testament, “The Door” John 10:7 and the Good shepherd, the Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep (John 10:11); the Way the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6); The Resurrection and the Life” (John 11:25); the Bread of Life (John 6:35).

8. Jesus claimed equality with the Father by, saying if you don’t honor the Son, you do not honor the Father (John 5:23).

9. Jesus did what God does : Raised the dead (John 11:25) “the resurrection and the life.”

10. Jesus healed the sick (Matt. 8:16-17); The wind and the sea obey him (Matt. 8:27); Jesus had power over demons (Matt 8:28-32).

11. Jesus forgives sin (John 9:1-6).

We believe in the deity of the Holy Spirit.

1. The Holy Spirit is equal to God and is called God in the Scripture (Acts 5:2-3), “You have not lied to a man, you lied to the Holy Spirit, and you lied to God.”

2. The Holy Spirit is equal to the Father and the Son (Matt. 28:19-20), “Baptize them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.”

3. The Holy Spirit is the one who created all things (Psalm 104:30), "thou send forth thy Spirit, and they are created.”

“By the Word of the Lord wee the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” (Psalm 33:6).

4. The Holy Spirit is the author of the scriptures (2 Tim. 3:16-17), “All scripture is given by inspiration of God; and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (17) that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

2 Peter 1:20-21 “Knowing this that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation, for the prophecy came not in old time b y the will of men; but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

5. The Holy Spirit produces regeneration in the heart: (I Peter 1:23-25) “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.”

6. The Holy Spirit gives gifts to the body (I Cor. 12:13; Rom. 12:1-8) these are gifts that God gives to his church for its edification (Eph. 4:11-16).

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