Title Psalm 85
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Psalm 85
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Today, Psalm 85 is the story of Israel's captivity in Babylon.
After 70 years of long captivity,
I came back to my homeland and saw the ruins of my homeland.
We can guess that it is a written poem.
Verse 1 is written as such a word that strongly supports it.
“You, O LORD, have been gracious to your land, and have brought back the captivity of Jacob.”
He brought them back from captivity....
Then, why were they taken captive by Babylon?
They were God's chosen people, and they firmly believed that they were God's people.
Why did they have to be taken prisoner?...... What made them prisoner?.....
We believers need to pay attention to this.
We also confess the Lord, but we can experience this kind of pain as much as we want. when?
Look at verses 2-5.
If you look there, you know that there was an event that made God angry.
What is it? That you have sinned before God.
God was angry because of sin,
You can see that they were taken captive because of their sins.
What is that sin? .. In verse 8, there is a hint.
Let's not go back to the ghastly places again....There is such a saying.
Where is the haunted place?
Baal is an idol. I'm not going to go to the idol
Taken together, Israel was destroyed and taken into captivity.
We can see that it is a sin to forsake God and serve idols.
There are times when the blessings we receive from God and the grace we receive from God are broken.
When is that? They left God and bowed their knees to idols.
The land of Israel, Canaan, was the promised land.
From Abraham to Moses and Joshua
Wasn't it the land where the blood and sweat of our ancestors was soaked?
Where the holy city Jerusalem was,
The city of Jerusalem was trampled down and desolate by the Gentiles.
The castle collapsed, turning into a land full of grass.
God's people were brutally slaughtered and taken away as captives.
The impossible happened.
What is it?.......It is because I have lost my heart to an idol
God knows nothing else, but our kneeling in front of idols
You will never tolerate it.
I could be wrong. You can make mistakes.
But it is never acceptable for us to kneel before idols.
Being an idol is not just talking about going to a Buddha somewhere and praying.
To lose my heart to anything other than God...that is an idol.
If you love money more than God and put it first, you are an idol.
If you value the things of the world more than the Word of God, you are an idol.
If my thoughts and judgment take precedence over prayer, that is also an idol.
Then you will surely fall into sin, and you will not be able to escape God's judgment.
Israel then fell. Then he was taken prisoner.
And there, he thoroughly repented and restored a life of turning to God.
There he restored the Word, and there he restored prayer.
I restored my faith in God.
So synagogues were created during the Babylonian captivity,
These Psalms and the Pentateuch were collected again during the Babylonian captivity.
A person like Ezekiel cannot be taken captive until
Received the mission to restore the Word through the vision of swallowing the scroll, which is the Word of God,
This is a prophetic journal focused on restoring the Word of God.
At that time, looking at the words God gave to Ezekiel,
How hard were the Israelites
It can be seen that they did not listen to God's word at all and did not want to hear it.
You must find Ezekiel 2 and read this. Let's find it.
No matter how rebellious you are, whether you listen to God's word or not, declare it in my own words.
You say so.
And a man like Daniel will not be taken captive until
Every day towards the temple of Jerusalem
They open the window three times a day and restore the airway.
And finally, after 70 years, he returned to his homeland.
And priests and prophets like Haggai and Ezra and Nehemiah
What did you do first?
He sent all foreign women and husbands back to their own country.
If you practice the rite of purification of faith and see Nehemiah 8
Ezra, the scribe and priest, called all the people together like dawn in the square before the floodgate
I climbed a wooden unit and opened the book of the law,
I listened to all the people of Israel standing up and reading the Book of the Law, and I stood there until noon and listened to it while weeping.
That's in Nehemiah 8.
I was so moved by the words that I went out from dawn until noon.
Will you stand and listen to the word of God and hear it weeping?
Where did that emotion come from?
I wanted to hear but couldn't hear, I wanted to pray, but I couldn't pray
It was after realizing how precious it was during that Babylonian captivity.
We pray to hear God's word when we come out early
We don't know how precious this is.
When you can't pray, when you can't hear the word, you have to go through
You can see how precious this is.
I have to become a prisoner of a disease that I can't do anything about,
I have to become a prisoner of despair that I can do nothing
Everything in the world that made me happy must disappear
It was then that I realized that this time was precious.
When Israel knew and realized that, God had brought them back from captivity.
You have been gracious to your land, O LORD, to bring back the captivity of Jacob.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, and you have covered all their sins (Selah).
You have taken away all your wrath; You have turned away from your wrath.
And today this psalmist hopes like this.
Please restore me back to the pure faith of the past and save me...
That is how I earnestly pray until verses 6-8.
In verse 4, the words “restore” and “revive” mean the same thing.
However, one important prayer of the prayer is found here.
Why, to restore our faith and to restore the land of Israel?
for what reason...........
Gentlemen, when we pray, we must have a clear purpose in prayer.
What is the purpose of that?......To please me, not to please anyone?...
You have to make the Lord happy.
Guys, we can save anything.
Then God promised to give.
However, the thing that makes me satisfied should not be my priority.
What pleases God should be our priority.
When what we seek is pleasing to God,
The Lord will give you something better. Prayer should be like this.
Why should I seek health, why should I seek material,
Why should I get a good job?
Why do I have to do this ministry, and why do I need to give alms?
Why do we have to do the bachelor, why do we have to share the rice of love
Why do we have free lunch every Saturday?
It has to be done to please the Lord.
It's not meant to make me happy.
If it's to make me happy, there's bound to be a lot of dissatisfaction here.
If it's for me, it's not worth giving rice.
If it's for me, it's all worth it. What's wrong with you? . . . . . . .
But this isn't for me
If you think that it is something that pleases God, there can be no complaints.
We make impressions while doing God's work
I feel bad because it's for me.
Why did the psalmist destroy the devastated Jerusalem, this land of Israel? Are you asking to be restored?
What is the ultimate purpose of asking Israel to be restored from this miserable reality?
Yes, because of verse 6.
Will you not raise us up and make your people rejoice in you?
The restoration of Israel is not my joy or the joy of the nation.
Isn't that the joy of God?
What is it? It is to please God.
When we pray about a certain problem, we must follow this example of prayer.
not his selfish prayer,
It is a fact that God-centered prayer is the right prayer.
Such a person has a blessing for the future.
[KJV] (Psalm 85:12) The LORD will give good things, and our land will bring forth its produce.
Everyone, live a life that pleases the Lord for the sake of the Lord.
Then everything will be fine. God gives you something better
Even in a dry and desolate land, He will give you produce.