Title Psalm 46:1-11 Be still, ye
Contents
Psalm 46:1-11 Thou shalt be still Topic: 46, Refuge. 2008. 5. 18.
◎ Introduction
: The conviction that God alone is a concrete help and protection from all the practical difficulties that a believer may face in the life of a believer.
※ The content of this text is God who has taken refuge.
1. God as a help in tribulation (1~3)
2. God who protects us from the threats of the Gentiles (4-7)
3. God is exalted in the world (8~11)
1. God as a help in tribulation (1~3)
※ Declare your conviction that God is a help in tribulation and apply your conviction in your life.
One). Declaring Confidence (1)
※ The poet declares his conviction that he has gained empirically. (Experience gives a strong impression)
※ The poet is convinced by experience that God is always with him in tribulation.
※ By explaining with “refuge” and “strength”, you can trust the perfect help of God who protects and gives strength to those who believe.
leading the rock
2). Applying certainty (2-3)
※ “Therefore, even if the earth changes...” Let's assume an extreme situation based on our confidence in God's help.
That is, even in the greatest difficulties imaginable, I will not be afraid of myself.
※ It is the humble faith that fully trusts in God that gave him such confidence.
※ First, the tribulation of the natural world is described.
※ The source of peace is God. God has greater power than all natural chaos and tribulation,
He is a person who can exert “power” to put him to sleep.
(Psalm 24:19~20, Isaiah 54:10, Hag 2:6)
2. God who protects us from the threats of the Gentiles (4-7)
※ The God who helps us in tribulation also helps us from the threats of the Gentiles.
One). The city where God dwells is safe. (4-5)
※ The city where the poet resides is described as “the city of God, the sanctuary of the Most High.”
※ “There is a brook, and it flows” There is no need to worry about this city because it is supplied with sufficient water through the brook.
It is because it is the city of God where the presence of God exists.
※ Joy overflows because it is the sanctuary where God dwells.
※ In contrast to lands and mountains that cannot be moved, crumbling down in the ferocious, raging seawater,
On the contrary, a small castle with a small stream is not shaken and there is a feeling of full satisfaction.
2). Protection from the threat of war (6-7)
※ The past is being recalled when strangers and foreign kingdoms threatened with great power.
※ It is called “Jehovah of Armies”. Because he is the king of all armies in heaven and in the party.
※ The reason why God's people are not shaken when the world fluctuates, that is, when all kinds of disasters strike
Because there is certainty in the presence of the Almighty God.
(Psalm 20:1 127:1)
3. God is exalted in the world (8~11)
※ The God of hosts will silence all the worlds and will be exalted in them. That God is our eternal refuge.
One). Invited as a witness of God. (8~9)
※ The poet invites people with deep emotion that he felt through God's act of calming the forces of nature and human beings.
※ “Come and see the deeds of the Lord” The desolation of the land. God's deeds in war. Etc
All of God's works are visible.
※ All of this was not done in secret. God has revealed the evidence to be evident in public places and times.
(Num 17:10, De 31:26)
2). Becoming God to the nations and the world. (10-11)
※ The poet who invites us to examine the deeds of God declares that God will be exalted among the nations.
※ Those who have experienced that all the powers that caused various chaos enough to bring tribulation to the world disappear under the power of God's control will meditate deeply on the power of God.
※ The powers that caused all the tribulation tried to reveal their glory, but unexpectedly, their existence is only an instrument to glorify God. (Phil 2:10-11)
※ The whole world finally came to know that the God of Israel is the God of all nations, the world, and the universe.
In the end, God was “to be exalted among the nations and among the worlds.”
The conclusion of this poem can be seen as a statement summarizing the history of the Old Testament in one word.
It also shows the meaning of world history at a glance.
The true historical prospect is that the God of Israel becomes the God of the world.
That fact will happen in history.
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