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PSALM 36
LESSON #28
THE ORACLES OF SATAN AND THE ORACLES OF GOD
MEMORY VERSE: PSALMS 36:11
“A PSALM OF DAVID, THE SERVANT OF JEHOVAH” IS THE INSCRIPTION OF
PSALM 36. AS WE STUDY THIS PSALM, YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS ABOUT THE WICKED. DAVID ISREJOICING THAT HE IS NOT ONE OF THE WICKED, BUT A SERVANT OF GOD. HE TELLS US IN THISPSALM WHAT HE HAS LEARNED ABOUT THE WICKED (THE NON-BELIEVER WHO IS UNSAVED) AND THERIGHTEOUS (THE BELIEVER WHO IS SAVED).
WE CAN GIVE THIS PSALM A TITLE: “ORACLES OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT”
WHAT ARE “ORACLES”?
READ ROM 3:1-4
ORACLES ARE SUPERNATURAL WISDOM, MANIFESTATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, REVELATIONS, ORMESSAGES OF EITHER GOOD OR EVIL, FROM EITHER GOD OR SATAN.
PRIMARY INTERPRETATION AND PERSONAL APPLICATION:
READ PSA 36:1-4 THE HEART OF THE WICKED (ORACLES OF SATAN)
A DEFINITION OF THE PERSON WHO IS WICKED IS THE PERSON WHO SAYS IN HIS HEART THAT THERE ISNO GOD. (1)
WHEN A NEW BABY IS BORN, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE CONDITION OF HIS HEART? (JER 17:9 MAT15:19) WHY?
SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT THE HUMAN HEART IS WICKED. THAT DOES NOT JUST REFER TO ADULTS, BUT ALLHUMAN HEARTS.
WHY? BECAUSE ALL MEN ARE BORN INTO SIN WITH A FLESH NATURE. THEREFORE, ACCORDING TOSCRIPTURE WE ALL START IN UNBELIEF.
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS?
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TEACH A BABY TO BE SELFISH. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TEACH A CHILD TO LIE. ACHILD WILL AUTOMATICALLY EXHIBIT THIS EVIL NATURE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
THIS IS THE BIBLICAL CONCEPT OF “ORIGINAL SIN” THAT CAME TO ALL MEN AND WOMENBECAUSE OF THE SIN OF ADAM AND EVE.
READ ROM 3:9-18, 21-24
ROMANS TELLS US THAT WE ARE ALL GUILTY BECAUSE:
1. NO ONE IS RIGHTEOUS
2. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS GOD
3. NO ONE SEEKS GOD
4. EVERYONE IS SEPARATED FROM GOD BECAUSE OF SIN
5. EVERYONE IS UNPROFITABLE IN PRODUCING GOODNESS
6. NO ONE DOES GOOD
7. EVERYONE SPEAKS EVIL
8. EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE PATH OF VIOLENCE
9. NO ONE KNOWS THE WAY OF PEACE
10. NO ONE FEARS GODS JUDGMENT
NOTICE THAT DAVID HAS TOLD US THE SAME THINGS WE FIND HERE IN ROMANS.
READ PSA 36:5-9 THE HEART OF GOD BY CONTRAST (ORACLES OF GOD)
DAVID LOOKS FROM THE HOPELESS CONDITION OF MANS SINFUL HEART TO FOCUS UPON GOD. WHATDOES DAVID TELL US ABOUT GODS HEART?
1. GODS HEART IS FILLED WITH MERCY (5)
2. GOD IS FAITHFUL (5)
3. GOD IS RIGHTEOUS (6)
4. GODS HEART IS FILLED WITH WISDOM (6)
5. GOD IS CARING (6)
6. GODS HEART IS FILLED WITH LOVING KINDNESS (7)
“THE SHADOW OF THY WINGS” (7)
DOES GOD HAVE WINGS? NO. THE BIBLE TELLS US GOD IS A SPIRIT. (JOH 4:24) THIS IS SYMBOLICLANGUAGE THAT TELLS US SOMETHING ABOUT GOD.
THIS SAME SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE IS USED AT VARIOUS TIMES IN THE BIBLE AND OTHER PLACES IN THEPSALMS.. EXO 19:4 RUT 2:12 PSA 17:8 PSA 91:4
IN MAT 23:37 JESUS USED IT TO GIVE US THE PICTURE OF THE LOVE AND PROTECTION OF APARENT; THE SECURE REST AND PEACE OF HIS PROTECTION.
WHAT IS DAVIDS SOLUTION TO MANS HEART PROBLEM?
DAVID GIVES US THE ONLY POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO MANS SINFUL HEART.
SINFUL (WICKED) MAN NEEDS TO HAVE FAITH (TRUST) IN GOD (7)
GOD IS THE SOLUTION TO MANS WICKED (SINFUL) HEART. HE SENT HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, TOSOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
THE RESULTS OF FAITH IN GOD:
1. ABUNDANT SATISFACTION (8)
“THE FATNESS OF THY HOUSE”
RICH DELICACIES
“DRINK OF THE RIVER OF THY PLEASURES”
OVERFLOWING, NEVER-ENDING SUPPLY OF GODS BLESSINGS
2. ETERNAL LIFE AND TRUTH (9)
READ PSA 36:10-11 DAVIDS PRAYER
1. DAVID PRAYS THAT GOD WOULD CONTINUE TO EXHIBIT TO ALL BELIEVERS THE CHARACTERISTICS ANDQUALITIES HE TALKED ABOUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PSALM. (10)
2. DAVID PRAYS THAT THE “FOOT OF PRIDE” WILL NOT COME AGAINST HIM.
WHAT DOES DAVID MEAN?
ITS LIKE A SALESMAN WHO GETS HIS FOOT IN YOUR DOOR SO YOU CANNOT CLOSE IT. ONCE HISFOOT IS IN THE DOOR, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIS SALES PITCH. WHEN YOU HEAR IT, YOU ARETEMPTED TO BUY HIS PRODUCT.
MANY PEOPLE HATED DAVID AND WERE HIS ENEMIES. HOWEVER, MANY PEOPLE LOVED DAVID ANDCONTINUALLY PRAISED HIM.
READ 1SAM 18:7
IT IS WHEN PEOPLE PRAISE YOU AND FLATTER YOU THAT THE “FOOT OF PRIDE” IS AT YOURDOOR. IF YOU KEEP THE DOOR OPEN, PRIDE WILL COME IN. REMEMBER THAT PRIDE IS A SIN BECAUSEIT REPLACES GOD WITH THE HUMAN EGO. INSTEAD OF GIVING THE GLORY TO GOD, YOU TAKE THE GLORYFOR YOURSELF.
WHEN THE “FOOT OF PRIDE” GETS INTO YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LETTING EVILREMOVE YOU FROM GODS FELLOWSHIP. (11)
READ PRO 16:18
REMEMBER THAT PRIDE IS A SIN AND UNREPENTANT SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD.
READ PSA 36:12 THE END RESULT OF THE ORACLES OF SATAN
DAVID ENDS THIS PSALM WITH A LAST LOOK AT THE WICKED (THE NON-BELIEVER) WHO LISTENS TO THEORACLES OF SATAN. THEY ARE FALLEN AND CAST DOWN.
APPLICATION:
GOD HAS GIVEN EVERY HUMAN BEING WHO HAS EVER LIVED A CHOICE OF EITHER LIVING YOUR LIFE BYTHE ORACLES OF SATAN IN SPIRITUAL DARKNESS OR BY LIVING IN THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT OF THEORACLES OF GOD. DAVID CHOSE TO LIVE BY THE ORACLES OF GOD IN SPIRITUAL LIGHT. THAT IS WHYHE SAYS HE IS SERVANT OF THE LORD. UNFORTUNATELY, PEOPLE EVALUATE A LIFESTYLE BASEDON TEMPORAL WORLD VALUES. AN UNBELIEVER MAY LIVE HIS WHOLE LIFE AND APPEAR TO BESUCCESSFUL.
NOTICE THAT PSA 36:2 SAYS, “HE FLAUNTETH HIMSELF IN HIS OWN EYES.”
IN OTHER WORDS, HE DOES THAT WHICH HE THINKS IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. THIS IS ASELF-DECEPTION. (JDG 17:6)
PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION:
MAN DOES NOT SEE THE REWARD OF THE WICKED IN ONE LIFETIME. BECAUSE OF THAT, MANY PEOPLEMAKE THE WRONG CHOICE OF LIFESTYLE. THAT IS WHY JESUS SPOKE MORE ABOUT ETERNALDAMNATION AS A WARNING THAN HE DID ABOUT HEAVEN. (MAT 8:11-12 MAT 25:30)
THE FINAL JUDGEMENT FOR NON-BELIEVERS FROM ALL OF HISTORY WILL BE AFTER THE MILLENNIUM(THE 1,000 YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST ON THIS EARTH).
READ REV 20:11-15
WHAT WE MUST KEEP IN MIND IS THAT GOD TELLS US IT WILL PAY IN ETERNITY TO CHOOSE HISORACLES FOR OUR LIFESTYLE INSTEAD OF THE ORACLES OF SATAN.
READ 1JOH 5:13
HOMEWORK
PSALM 37
THIS IS A SELF-STUDY. PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER FORCORRECTION.
APPLICATION OF PSA 36
DO THE LIFE CHOICES YOU ARE MAKING CONFORM TO THE TRUTH OF GOD
(GODS ORACLES)? IN WHAT WAY?
WHAT LIFE CHOICES DO YOU NEED TO CHANGE TO MAKE THEM CONFORM TO GODS ORACLES?
PREPARATION FOR PSA 37
READ PSA 37:1-8
MAKE A LIST OF THE 7 WORDS OF COMMAND YOU FIND IN THESE VERSES. (DO NOT REPEAT ANY OF THEWORDS MORE THAN ONCE)
1. “FRET NOT” (1) (FOR EXAMPLE)
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READ PSA 37:9-40
DOES THE PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED TROUBLE YOU?
WHAT WISDOM DO YOU GAIN FROM THIS PSALM THAT HELPS YOU SOLVE THIS PERSISTENT PROBLEM?
MEMORY VERSE: PSALMS 37:18