WEBVTT 00:00:00.500 --> 00:00:02.740 So we're on Psalm 80. 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:11.080 We'll read through it first. 00:00:13.339 --> 00:00:15.060 Psalm 80, verse 1. 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:22.780 Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:29.000 You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.320 Stir up your might and come to save us. 00:00:32.979 --> 00:00:34.159 Restore us, O God. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.719 Let your face shine that we may be saved. 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.280 O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:46.840 You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. 00:00:47.539 --> 00:00:54.179 You make us an object of contention for our neighbors and our enemies laugh among themselves. 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:56.820 Restore us, O God of hosts. 00:00:56.820 --> 00:00:59.240 Let your face shine that we may be saved. 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.520 You brought a vine out of Egypt. 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.680 You drove out the nations and planted it. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.540 You cleared the ground for it. 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:09.099 It took deep root and filled the land. 00:01:09.739 --> 00:01:13.500 The mountains were covered with its shade and the mighty cedars with its branches. 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:17.560 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the river. 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.859 Why then have you broken down its walls so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? 00:01:23.540 --> 00:01:28.240 The boar from the forest ravages it and all that move in the field feed on it. 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.500 Turn again, O God of hosts. 00:01:30.659 --> 00:01:32.180 Look down from heaven and see. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:34.219 Have regard for this vine. 00:01:34.219 --> 00:01:40.219 The stock that your right hand planted and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.239 They have burned it with fire. 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:43.359 They have cut it down. 00:01:43.859 --> 00:01:46.180 May they perish at the rebuke of your face. 00:01:46.739 --> 00:01:49.719 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.120 The son of man whom you have made strong for yourself. 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.079 Then we shall not turn back from you. 00:01:56.460 --> 00:01:58.740 Give us life and we will call upon your name. 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:02.760 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.480 Let your face shine that we may be saved. 00:02:09.500 --> 00:02:12.159 Last Friday you guys covered Psalm 79. 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:23.099 And tonight we do chapter 80, which is similar in that both of these are community laments. 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:29.759 That is, they were written out of a great trial or disaster that Jerusalem is going through. 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:40.620 When we go through trials, how do we express our grief and our struggles, our depression, what we're going through? 00:02:41.219 --> 00:02:48.560 In this case here in chapter 80, we see that we have a lament that was written by Israel's worship leader. 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:52.980 And they use this as a people to express what they're going through. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:54.780 To call out to God. 00:02:55.780 --> 00:02:58.080 To ask him for what they need. 00:02:58.300 --> 00:02:59.480 To ask him for salvation. 00:03:00.180 --> 00:03:02.500 So as we go through this, we're going to be looking at three different things. 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:04.200 We see that they're crying out to God. 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:05.960 For their sins. 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:08.659 They're confirming what God has done for them. 00:03:08.939 --> 00:03:10.980 And they're committing themselves to follow him. 00:03:12.219 --> 00:03:15.140 So those are the three things we're going to walk through. 00:03:15.139 --> 00:03:19.239 And while we're doing that, we can see how that also applies to us. 00:03:19.359 --> 00:03:25.099 It's really a pattern that we don't really move away from as we walk our Christian life. 00:03:25.099 --> 00:03:36.299 See, as they're singing this lament, the people of God expect to be treated than other nations. 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.500 Because they have this covenant between themselves and their creator. 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:44.740 But what that means is they're called to something on their side, right? 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:46.800 They're not just a people that can do whatever they want. 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:49.560 They're expected to live differently than others. 00:03:49.819 --> 00:03:51.139 They're to live by faith. 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.060 Faith in God and faithfully committed to him. 00:03:54.740 --> 00:03:56.599 But we know that they didn't do that. 00:03:57.060 --> 00:03:57.719 They failed. 00:03:58.460 --> 00:04:01.680 And that comes out in this lament as we go through it. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.920 So beginning in verse 1, it says, 00:04:04.180 --> 00:04:08.340 Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:16.060 God being the shepherd, the true shepherd for his people. 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:19.480 He leads his people like he led Joseph. 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:23.780 So if we think of Joseph, Joseph was led from his home. 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:25.600 He was led into a pit. 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:26.960 He was led into slavery. 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:28.960 He was led into Potiphar's house. 00:04:29.139 --> 00:04:31.439 He was led into a place of high command. 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.340 And he was led into jail. 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:36.699 He was led into Pharaoh's house. 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.740 And he was then moved into second in command of Egypt. 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:47.639 Where, if you look at all that, the Lord led him to a place where he could save his family and he could save his people. 00:04:48.540 --> 00:04:54.460 So they start out by looking to their shepherd. 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.500 And then the second half of the verse, it says, 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:02.319 You who are enthroned upon the cherubim shine forth. 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.959 And this is speaking of, if you remember, the Ark of the Covenant. 00:05:07.379 --> 00:05:09.800 There's two cherubims that sit on either side. 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:17.960 And the presence of God comes down in between the cherubims and dwells there. 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:22.379 And that place was called the mercy seat. 00:05:22.460 --> 00:05:24.879 And that became a central part of their worship. 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:31.839 Where God would come down and he's actually dwelling in the presence of his people. 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:38.719 So, you know, if we look past this, we're looking forward past the cross. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.199 We get to see that Jesus is our true mercy seat. 00:05:42.339 --> 00:05:48.419 So while the Israelites have the Ark of the Covenant and God that comes down on occasion to be with his people. 00:05:48.420 --> 00:05:52.720 We have Jesus who is our constant mercy seat. 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:57.100 And we're able to come to God and come boldly to him because of Jesus Christ. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:08.780 And then as we look to verse 2, there's something I think we can pick up from what the psalmist is teaching us about prayer. 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:10.900 And we see that in verse 2 it says, 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:29.699 The interesting thing to note here is we've seen this in other places where actions that God has done is brought out in remembrance. 00:06:30.539 --> 00:06:33.799 But here the psalmist is bringing out people's names. 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:40.099 And so we kind of ask the question is why is he bringing out people's names? 00:06:40.100 --> 00:06:47.080 I think what's important for us or helpful to us is God's children are special to him. 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:57.420 So by bringing out names, specific names of his children, it's not to remind God as if he forgets. 00:06:57.540 --> 00:07:03.680 But it's that God provides to people who are special to him. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:10.240 The mention of a child's name has power with a father, right? 00:07:10.540 --> 00:07:18.079 So I can relate to that because my children's names when they're brought up, there's something special about that. 00:07:18.139 --> 00:07:22.560 If they're in need and someone brings up their name, there's a certain power that comes with that. 00:07:22.660 --> 00:07:25.259 And the same is true with our Heavenly Father. 00:07:25.259 --> 00:07:30.500 It's almost like an invoking of a special right. 00:07:32.039 --> 00:07:37.060 So that's what we have happening here where they bring out the names of his people. 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:42.360 Exodus 28, 29 says, 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:54.280 So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart when he goes into the holy place to bring them to regular remembrance before the Lord. 00:07:54.819 --> 00:08:05.600 So here we have Aaron, the high priest, going into the holy place and he's bringing the names of the sons of Israel before the Lord to bring them in remembrance before the Lord. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.780 So we see kind of the same thing happening with the psalmist here. 00:08:10.379 --> 00:08:12.060 But why these names? 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.720 Why Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh? 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:22.920 And it's interesting, as I dug into that, Ephraim and Manasseh were sons of Joseph, right? 00:08:26.180 --> 00:08:32.060 Joseph and Benjamin, which are listed, are two of Jacob's sons. 00:08:32.059 --> 00:08:36.919 So he had 12, but if we look, he had 12 by four different women. 00:08:38.699 --> 00:08:44.159 Joseph and Benjamin were the only ones that were from Rachel, which was the wife that he truly loved. 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:48.099 That was the wife that he wanted but got tricked into marrying somebody else. 00:08:48.619 --> 00:08:55.759 So it's interesting that there's something special about Joseph and Benjamin, and those are the names brought out. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:05.240 But there's actually more, because if we look at the tribes of Israel, as they went through the wilderness, 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:11.500 they would travel in their families, in their tribes. 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:17.159 And we find that Joseph and Benjamin would have been following right behind the Ark of the Covenant. 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:23.079 So not only were they two special sons, but they were two special tribes following in the front. 00:09:23.079 --> 00:09:31.419 So as they came to a land or a trouble spot, and the Lord was in front of them in the Ark of the Covenant, 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:33.480 the Lord's power was there. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.480 The Lord conquered and saved them. 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.539 So they're calling out on that, remembering who these guys are, 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:45.480 and that the power and the presence of the Lord went before them as they went through the wilderness. 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:56.579 And next we come to verse 3, which is a refrain that's repeated all through this chapter. 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:01.019 And I know we're kind of going a little slow for these first few verses. 00:10:01.179 --> 00:10:01.980 We'll go a little faster. 00:10:02.100 --> 00:10:07.159 But there was just some good things to pull out of these verses that I think are helpful as we work through them. 00:10:07.819 --> 00:10:08.579 But verse 3 says, 00:10:08.719 --> 00:10:09.899 Restore us, O God. 00:10:12.220 --> 00:10:12.839 Restore us. 00:10:12.980 --> 00:10:15.639 I was thinking of Sean's message from Sunday. 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:20.620 This restore us is turn us, is to turn us back to him. 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:29.699 They're not asking to be restored out of their captivity or to be turned from their captivity, but to turn them. 00:10:30.199 --> 00:10:33.039 It's not the circumstance that's the problem. 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:34.299 It's their character. 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.120 It's their heart that needs to be turned and changed. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:45.100 And when our hearts are changed and turned to God, then that affects our condition, our environment changes, 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:51.279 because now we are in a different place and we have a God that then is behind us. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:11:00.019 But if we think of that turning, that heart change, that's God's work, right? 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:05.339 Hearts change not because of something we did, but because of what God does. 00:11:05.340 --> 00:11:13.200 Whether that's initially in our salvation or like Sunday's message when we talked about backsliding, 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:15.660 that's work that the Lord does. 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:17.160 It's not work that we do ourselves. 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:19.420 We have faith. 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:20.259 We follow God. 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:22.740 But the power to do those things comes from him. 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:25.980 So they pray in verse 3, 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:30.919 Restore us, O God, that your, let your face shine that we may be saved. 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:37.419 This was, this was the high priest's blessing on the people of Israel that they would be favorable, 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:40.519 that the Lord would smile upon them. 00:11:41.060 --> 00:11:43.019 And his favor was their salvation. 00:11:43.680 --> 00:11:47.440 When the favor wasn't there, then the salvation wasn't there. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:53.100 And they found themselves, whether they were being destroyed or taken into captivity. 00:11:54.220 --> 00:11:59.040 Numbers 6, 24 through 26, verses 24 through 26, 00:11:59.620 --> 00:12:02.260 what you guys will find sound familiar, says, 00:12:02.380 --> 00:12:03.980 The Lord bless you and keep you. 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.680 The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. 00:12:08.060 --> 00:12:11.420 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 00:12:12.780 --> 00:12:17.340 So there's favor, there's salvation that comes from God when he's looking at us. 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:18.440 Favorably. 00:12:19.640 --> 00:12:21.720 And now as we jump down to verse 4, 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:26.300 the psalmist is moving on to crying out to God, 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:29.660 which is more in line to what a lament is. 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:30.540 Verse 4, 00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:33.220 How long will you be angry with your people's prayers? 00:12:35.220 --> 00:12:37.960 I think of, most recently, Lexi, 00:12:38.040 --> 00:12:38.980 because when she gets punished, 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.780 she wants to know how long the punishment is for. 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:42.480 Right? 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:43.600 And that's normal, 00:12:43.780 --> 00:12:46.580 because she wants to either do that thing that's fun, 00:12:46.580 --> 00:12:48.780 or she wants to feel like we're not mad at her anymore. 00:12:49.620 --> 00:12:54.240 And the Lord is angry with his people because they've been unfaithful. 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:56.139 So they're asking, 00:12:56.300 --> 00:12:58.620 How long will you be angry with our prayers? 00:12:58.620 --> 00:13:00.820 They know they've sinned. 00:13:00.940 --> 00:13:03.220 They know there's this division between them and God, 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:04.500 and they want to put that back. 00:13:06.779 --> 00:13:07.580 Verse 5, 00:13:07.700 --> 00:13:11.539 You have fed them with the bread of tears, 00:13:11.659 --> 00:13:14.320 and given them tears to drink in full measure. 00:13:15.019 --> 00:13:16.860 So that's just saying that they basically, 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:18.179 they're eating tears, 00:13:18.299 --> 00:13:19.299 they're drinking tears. 00:13:19.299 --> 00:13:20.599 The idea being that they, 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.000 basically all they consume is sorrow and misery. 00:13:25.500 --> 00:13:26.319 Verse 6, 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.879 You make us an object of contention for our neighbors. 00:13:29.500 --> 00:13:31.299 Our enemies laugh among themselves. 00:13:32.339 --> 00:13:37.339 The purpose of the people of Israel was to be a light to the rest of the world. 00:13:37.719 --> 00:13:42.120 They were to be an envious example of all things good, right? 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:44.179 In the midst of an evil world. 00:13:44.179 --> 00:13:46.979 But here we find a total opposite of that. 00:13:47.419 --> 00:13:48.139 Instead of that, 00:13:48.219 --> 00:13:51.239 we find that they're a source of contentiousness, 00:13:51.439 --> 00:13:54.199 and they're anything but envious. 00:13:56.459 --> 00:14:00.659 Verse 7 returns back to that refrain that's repeated. 00:14:01.199 --> 00:14:02.899 Restore us, O God of hosts. 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.679 Let your face shine that we may be saved. 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.699 And notice you pick up when he's saying this, 00:14:08.859 --> 00:14:13.279 that there's a turning that the people are doing, 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.519 but there's a faith in realizing that God's the one that has to do it. 00:14:16.659 --> 00:14:18.939 God is the one that has to save. 00:14:21.019 --> 00:14:21.799 So it gets, 00:14:22.079 --> 00:14:24.019 it just pulls out again that, 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:25.879 that part that we can't do it ourselves. 00:14:26.139 --> 00:14:26.600 We need, 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:27.659 we need God to, 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:28.919 to save us. 00:14:30.819 --> 00:14:34.779 And now we see that the lament moves to a confirming of what God has done. 00:14:34.839 --> 00:14:36.679 So we did crying out to God, 00:14:36.740 --> 00:14:39.000 and now we have confirming for what he's done. 00:14:39.299 --> 00:14:41.319 So as we look at the next few verses, 00:14:41.319 --> 00:14:43.079 we're going to jump through them kind of quickly. 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:50.259 It's this imagery of a vine to describe how God's people were set apart and made special. 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:55.779 But then we see that that vine is ruined because of their unfaithfulness. 00:14:56.439 --> 00:14:57.459 So starting in verse 8, 00:14:58.100 --> 00:14:59.879 you brought a vine out of Egypt. 00:15:00.220 --> 00:15:02.259 You drove out the nations and planted it. 00:15:02.699 --> 00:15:06.139 A picture of the Israelites being pulled out of Egypt. 00:15:06.819 --> 00:15:10.779 And then what happened is God drove out the nations and planted that vine. 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:12.580 He cleared the ground for it. 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.740 So he like leveled other nations. 00:15:14.860 --> 00:15:15.980 He leveled other cities. 00:15:17.139 --> 00:15:19.919 And it took deep root and filled the lands. 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:20.840 Verse 10, 00:15:20.899 --> 00:15:22.699 the mountains were covered with its shade, 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:24.879 the mighty cedars with its branches. 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:29.179 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the root, 00:15:29.179 --> 00:15:30.899 or its shoots to the river. 00:15:31.939 --> 00:15:35.579 Shoots being another name for, in some cases, the roots. 00:15:35.899 --> 00:15:40.059 So the roots are spreading out to the river, 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:44.079 which is a source of strength for a vine or for any plant. 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:49.060 And also, its branches to the sea, 00:15:49.580 --> 00:15:53.180 the idea being the Red Sea or the Mediterranean Sea, 00:15:53.580 --> 00:15:55.780 and then also the shoots to the river, 00:15:55.860 --> 00:15:57.220 the river being Euphrates. 00:15:57.700 --> 00:16:01.920 This makes the borders of what the promised land would be. 00:16:02.060 --> 00:16:06.680 So we have a picture of the promised land being part of that as well. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:08.960 Verse 12, 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.240 Why then have you broken down its walls, 00:16:11.780 --> 00:16:14.460 so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? 00:16:15.580 --> 00:16:16.840 Did I finish all that? 00:16:17.040 --> 00:16:17.460 Yeah, okay. 00:16:18.740 --> 00:16:22.000 The boar from the forest ravages it, 00:16:22.100 --> 00:16:24.320 and all that move in the field feed on it. 00:16:25.780 --> 00:16:28.480 So here we have this vine that's growing 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:32.940 and giving protection and spreading out all over the place, 00:16:33.040 --> 00:16:36.580 but then it starts to come against destruction, 00:16:36.580 --> 00:16:38.500 and people come and pluck its fruit. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.200 The boar, which is a wild animal, 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.940 come and just ravages it, 00:16:45.460 --> 00:16:47.259 and all that move in the field. 00:16:47.400 --> 00:16:50.220 So here it could be insects from the field. 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:52.900 It could be foxes or rodents. 00:16:53.100 --> 00:16:55.139 Basically, they're coming and feeding on this thing 00:16:55.139 --> 00:16:56.080 because there's no protection. 00:16:56.259 --> 00:16:58.160 It's just being destroyed. 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.259 And then we come up against verse 14, 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:04.519 which is that refrain again, 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.259 but we find that it's a little bit different. 00:17:07.259 --> 00:17:09.400 Turn again, O God of hosts. 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.259 Look down from heaven and see. 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:13.240 Have regard on this vine. 00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:17.619 So again, similar to restore us and save us 00:17:17.619 --> 00:17:19.039 and let your face shine, 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:22.559 but more related to this vine 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:24.599 and how God has raised it up 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.119 and now God is letting it fall. 00:17:27.619 --> 00:17:28.919 So that brings out a question. 00:17:30.779 --> 00:17:34.740 If God has shown so much care for this vine 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:35.839 and creating it, 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:41.719 then would he allow it to just lightly be destroyed? 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.880 And I think we know from how God works 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:47.539 that the answer to that is no. 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:49.759 God is patient, slow to anger. 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:52.920 But if we look at verse 4, 00:17:53.460 --> 00:17:54.140 it says, 00:17:54.600 --> 00:17:57.420 how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:03.100 So he has allowed sin and unfaithfulness 00:18:03.100 --> 00:18:04.480 to go on so long, 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:08.060 and then he allows this destruction 00:18:08.060 --> 00:18:09.960 to come among its people 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:14.759 and this vine that he has allowed to become strong. 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:19.860 Isaiah 59 verses 1 through 3 says, 00:18:19.980 --> 00:18:22.180 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened 00:18:22.180 --> 00:18:23.860 that it cannot save, 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:26.620 or his ear dull that it cannot hear. 00:18:26.619 --> 00:18:29.559 But your iniquities have made a separation 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:31.239 between you and your God, 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:33.500 and your sins have hidden his face from you 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:35.359 so that he does not hear. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.419 So we see that there comes a time 00:18:38.419 --> 00:18:40.619 where God stops hearing our prayers 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:42.359 because of sin, 00:18:42.899 --> 00:18:45.259 because of our unfaithfulness to him. 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:48.619 So they're praying, 00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:50.819 they're pleading with God 00:18:50.819 --> 00:18:52.279 that he would restore them 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:53.459 to the place they once were, 00:18:53.739 --> 00:18:55.839 restore them to being that vine 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.619 that choice vine 00:18:58.619 --> 00:19:00.240 that was such a shade 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:01.799 and a strength to so much. 00:19:02.879 --> 00:19:04.379 And as a side note here, 00:19:04.819 --> 00:19:06.220 speaking of the vine, 00:19:06.699 --> 00:19:10.000 we're reminded that Jesus is the true vine, right? 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:10.899 So in all the ways 00:19:10.899 --> 00:19:12.359 that the people of Israel 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:13.539 couldn't be a vine 00:19:13.539 --> 00:19:14.779 and that they failed, 00:19:15.199 --> 00:19:17.279 Jesus Christ is that true vine. 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.740 Verse 15, 00:19:21.740 --> 00:19:24.759 the stock that your right hand planted, 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:26.160 and for the son, 00:19:26.940 --> 00:19:29.240 which is a reference to Israel as a whole, 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:31.740 whom you made strong for yourselves. 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:32.980 It's talking about how the Lord 00:19:32.980 --> 00:19:36.519 has planted Israel and made it strong. 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:41.839 that's the stock or the vine 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:43.819 or the people that they have burned with fire, 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:44.900 that they've cut down. 00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:46.039 Verse 16, 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:56.099 So this sorrowful song that they're singing 00:19:56.099 --> 00:19:57.759 now turns to a call to God 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:00.819 that he would make them faithful once again. 00:20:02.819 --> 00:20:03.819 Verse 17, 00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:06.759 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand. 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:09.879 It's interesting that Benjamin's name 00:20:09.879 --> 00:20:11.460 means son of the right hand. 00:20:11.940 --> 00:20:12.279 So again, 00:20:12.339 --> 00:20:14.799 a reference back to a tribe of Benjamin 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:16.200 and Benjamin himself. 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:17.740 The son of man, 00:20:17.859 --> 00:20:19.720 whom you have made strong for yourself. 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:23.640 Jesus being the true son of man. 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:24.619 So there's a lot of, 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:26.259 there's several places in this psalm 00:20:26.259 --> 00:20:29.920 where we see Jesus being the ultimate fruition 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:32.819 of what man couldn't be. 00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:35.500 So when it talks about son of man here, 00:20:35.500 --> 00:20:37.400 it's referring to Israel. 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:39.960 But we get a glimpse of the son of man 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:43.119 who is going to be fulfilling the purpose 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:44.839 for all that Israel couldn't do. 00:20:47.059 --> 00:20:50.380 And then as we get to the last two verses in this, 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:54.599 we see that the people are committing to follow God. 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:55.740 Right? 00:20:55.900 --> 00:20:57.339 So we've gone from 00:20:57.339 --> 00:21:01.900 them crying out, 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.119 which includes their confessing of their sins, 00:21:05.500 --> 00:21:07.019 we've gone to confirming 00:21:07.019 --> 00:21:08.859 what God has done for them 00:21:08.859 --> 00:21:09.960 and how he's built them up 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:12.059 in times past. 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:13.240 And then we've come to 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:16.539 them committing themselves to follow God, 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:19.519 promising to exercise their true faithfulness, 00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:21.180 which they have not done. 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:22.880 Verse 18, 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:25.180 then we shall not turn back from you. 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:26.940 Give us life 00:21:26.940 --> 00:21:28.559 and we will call upon your name. 00:21:29.339 --> 00:21:30.519 And then verse 19 is that, 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:32.279 the refrain that repeats again, 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:33.180 restore us, 00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:34.779 O Lord God of hosts. 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:36.099 Let your face shine 00:21:36.099 --> 00:21:37.740 that we may be saved. 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:39.480 Again, 00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:40.660 wanting to be restored, 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:43.899 knowing that they need to make things right, 00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:45.879 but that comes from power from God. 00:21:46.539 --> 00:21:49.059 They want God's face to shine on them. 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:50.460 They want to be saved. 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:51.039 Salvation, 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:51.480 again, 00:21:51.619 --> 00:21:52.639 comes from God, 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:54.279 whether it's in the beginning 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:57.059 or whether it's as we're backslidden in life. 00:21:57.980 --> 00:21:59.559 There's nothing that's too great 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:00.839 for the power of God. 00:22:01.980 --> 00:22:03.059 Charles Spurgeon says, 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.539 men can do little with their arm, 00:22:05.639 --> 00:22:07.119 but God can do all things 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:08.339 with just a glance. 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:09.519 So the glance, 00:22:10.179 --> 00:22:11.500 referring back to this, 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:13.019 let your face shine 00:22:13.019 --> 00:22:13.940 that we would be saved. 00:22:14.379 --> 00:22:17.000 The only thing that God needs to do 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.960 is to look favorably on his people. 00:22:19.539 --> 00:22:20.599 And through that, 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.139 we're saved from whatever is around us. 00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:23.519 Through that, 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:26.619 we have the power to be his children 00:22:26.619 --> 00:22:30.319 and to take us out of any difficulty 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:31.500 that we're dealing with. 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:34.720 So those three things, 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:36.839 crying out to God for sins, 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:38.379 confirming what he's done, 00:22:38.619 --> 00:22:40.019 and committing ourselves. 00:22:40.420 --> 00:22:45.240 It's what the Israelites did many times, 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:47.779 and we get to see that here. 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:50.259 It's also what we practice 00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:52.059 just as part of our Christian life, right? 00:22:52.059 --> 00:22:55.099 So we cry out to God for our sins, 00:22:55.379 --> 00:22:56.879 we confirm what he's done, 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.740 and we commit ourselves to following him.