September 1 Your Daily Bible Study

September 1 Your Daily Bible Study:

psalm 3

A Psalm of david:  a PRAYER OF CONFIDENCE IN THE lORD

      1 LORD, how are they increased who trouble Me!  many are they who rise up against Me.  (The Holy Spirit put these words into David’s mouth the morning after his flight from Jerusalem because of Absalom’s unnatural rebellion.  David is seen here as a Type of the Messiah rejected by His Own people.  Though surrounded by enemies, he slept in confidence upon the mountainside beneath Jehovah’s sheltering wing, and in the assurance of Faith declared that God would lift up his head and destroy his foes.  So, even though many of these Psalms speak of David, they more so speak of our Greater David, the Lord Jesus Christ.  In other words, David was a Type of Christ.)

      2 Many there be which say of My soul, There is no help for Him in God. Selah.  (As Israel said this of David, likewise, they said it of the Lord Jesus Christ [Mat. 27:43].)

      3 But You, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head (the latter phrase proclaims the fact that it is the Lord Who put David on the throne, and the Lord will keep him on the throne).

      4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and He heard me out of His Holy Hill.  Selah.  (David believed in prayer, and so should we!)

      5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me (even though in the midst of a terrible problem, with Absalom trying to kill him, David knew that the Lord was in control).

      6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who have set themselves against me round about (the Lord, with one man who believes in Him, is a majority [Rom. 8:31]).

      7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God:  for You have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly (a euphemism or allegory portraying the Lord discomfiting our enemies; the idea is, if we are truly right with God, the enemies of the Lord are also our enemies!).

      8 Salvation belongs unto the LORD (He Alone can save):  Your Blessing is upon Your People.  Selah.  (The Blessings surely aren’t on God’s enemies.)

Psalm 4

a pSALM OF DAVID:  aN EVENING PRAYER OF TRUST IN GOD

      1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness:  You have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer (this Psalm was composed by David on the same occasion as Psalm 3, when Absalom rebelled; as David cried to the Lord, likewise, the Lord Jesus cried to God in the same manner when the Scribes and Pharisees, in the spirit of Absalom, came against Him).

      2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame?  how long will you love vanity, and seek after leasing?  Selah.  (Leasing means lying.  The sins listed in this Verse are the reason that Absalom rebelled against his father; the Scribes and Pharisees rebelled against Christ; and all men rebel against God.)

      3 But know that the LORD has set apart him who is Godly for Himself:  the LORD will hear when I call unto Him (the Lord has set aside Christ as His very Own — made Him a special subject of Grace and Providence; He will do the same for all who properly follow Christ).

      4 Stand in awe, and sin not:  commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.  Selah.  (This was perhaps addressed to David’s faithful followers, advising them to check their wrath [II Sam. 16:9; 18:5-15].  As well, when reviled, Jesus did not revile again [I Pet. 2:23].)

      5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD (in effect, Jesus is saying that He counsels the Pharisees to commune with their own hearts, to be silent in true conversion, and to offer righteous sacrifices and not vain oblations).

      6 There be many who say, Who will show us any good?  LORD, lift You up the light of Your Countenance upon us (men are always seeking for good while not actually knowing what their true good is; the true good is to have the light of God’s Countenance shining on us).

      7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased (the greater Blessings are spiritual rather than material).

      8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep:  for You, LORD, only make me dwell in safety (even in the face of acute trouble, David did, and the Lord likewise, lay down in perfect peace, and went immediately to sleep, for He was the Prince and Perfecter of Faith [Lk. 21:37; Heb. 12:2]).