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So grateful you're here this morning. And. I requested that song. It just seemed so appropriate.
Why are we covered with a load of care? And are we discouraged? This was the case of the great king.
The anointed King David and he wrote Psalm 34 as as part of it. So I would like to.
I share my thoughts with you about about this some and let's begin by reading it.
Okay, see, let's begin by reading it.
Okay. Alright. It begins. I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh man
The Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord and he heard me. He delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to him and were radiant. Their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried out.
And the Lord heard him. And save them out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord in camps.
All around those who feared him. And delivers them.
Oh taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who trusts in him.
Oh fear the Lord, you his saints. There is no want to those who feared him.
There is no want to those who fear him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who is the man who desires life?
And loves many days that he may see good. Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. His ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The righteous cry out. And the Lord hears and delivers them. Out of all their troubles.
The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart. And save such is have a contract spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
He guards all his bones. Not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked.
And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
The Lord redeems the souls, the soul of his servants.
And none of those who trust in him shall be and them. May the Lord bless the reading of this word.
So. During the past few months. I have been near to the brokenhearted. And brokenhearted myself.
I have comforted others with the the words of the and they have comforted me.
Through my broken heart. So this morning I am indeed, I am preaching to you from the poem of David.
Some 34 to give you a background on what may have caused David's Brokenness? And to highlight the teaching and wisdom.
Of this wonderful sum. To present the good news.
And to present the good news from this scripture that Jesus Christ can heal your broken heart. One of the themes from the Psalm is the Lord is good.
So a broken heart.
This passage from. Verse 18, the Lord is near to the broken hearted. And saves the crushed in spirit.
This is from the English standard version. So he's near to the brokenhearted and he saves the crushed in spirit.
What is a broken heart? Well, Wikipedia definition is something like this. I'm broken heart is a metaphor.
For the intense emotional stress or pain a person feels after experiencing great loss.
Yes. It's, it can be traumatic, personal and often permanent loss. And sometimes it's unexpected.
And sometimes not.
Sometimes country and western writers may make a lot of songs and money off of a broken heart, but Not so for King David.
So first the background on. I know. King David and what may have caused his broken heart. You can see if you have your Bibles open to some 34 and And I'm going to be reading from the New King James version.
There's a superscript. Above verse one. I didn't read that. I read it now.
It's a sum of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech. Who drove him away.
And he departed. David departed. Across reference is to first Samuel 21 versus 13.
So we changed his behavior before them. That would be David. So David changed his busy behavior before them.
Pretended madness in their hands. Scratched on the doors of the gate. And let his saliva fall down on his beard.
I think that's the reference to this superscript in this. Interesting the same superscript or roughly the same is in Psalm 56 as well.
But we are gonna work on. Understanding some 34 this morning.
So here we have. David, King, God's anointed King. Do you remember? Samuel came to David and and, and was trying to decide among Jesse's sons who would be the future king who was led there by the Lord.
And, and he went through the first, was it 6 or 7 or, and, and here was the number 8, I can't remember.
Was little shepherd boy David he had to call him from the field because Jesse had no thought that Sam, you would wanna annoy.
His youngest son, King. Anointed king. So Samuel, 16. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him, David, in the midst of his brothers.
So, wow, what a shock and what an honor that, that, that David experienced from from that call from the field.
With a bunch of sheep and then having the profit of Israel, Samuel. Anoint him. So what happened was Samuel Lee with David.
He went on to have the most famous victory of one of the Old Testament passages, these stories of David and Goliath were familiar.
It was the first Samuel 17. And David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword.
This is after he slum with the with the stone that one of the 5 stones you picked from the the brook.
And he slung it and he hit him in the forehead and he fell on his face and David took his sword and drew it out of his sheath and killed him.
And cut off. Goliath's head with it. And aside is that. He took Goliath's head and he took it to Jerusalem.
Doesn't say much more about that in the scripture, but he took it to Jerusalem. Well, we know there is a place of a the scholar in Jerusalem and perhaps that's how it got its name.
So who else is in in David's life, Samuel, Goliath? Jonathan, Jonathan was Saul's son.
And, in Samuel, 18 for Samuel, 18. This. Because friendship between the 2 of them was so profound that when Saul started persecuting David.
And and and was insanely jealous of of David and he threw his sword atom in the dining room.
And so David was afraid of Saul and he had this bond with David this covenant with Jonathan.
David did and Jonathan stripped himself of the road. The Royal Rule by suppose he was there apparent and that was on Jonathan and gave it to David and his armor.
And even his sword. And his bow and his belt. So this was the exchange of their covenant vows and the bow was that that David or that Jonathan would honor.
God's choice is the King, David. And that David would remember. John's, Jonathan's posterity and and his his heritage and He did that and each of them kept the covenant.
And then, he was God's anointed king, but what in Saul, a verse later, says Saul set him over the men of war.
So.
David, anointed. Kill the the biggest man on the earth
Friendship with the the king's son. Covenant Forever. And, or at least in their lifetimes.
And also, He was anointed or is set over the men of war.
But as we know the story, the story of the little boy Archer was to get the arrows from Jonathan as he shot them in this code that when David was hiding behind a rock in the field and if the arrows would go.
To the spot then everything was all right but if it went beyond the spot then Jonathan finally would understand or and communicate that.
Saul was indeed. David's mortal enemy. And so this arrows went past the point.
And then David knew that. With respect to Saul.
That the breach was was ruptured and and could no longer be in Saul's company and would have to flee from Saul.
So that's what he, they totally each other there. On the field in Samuel, 20 for Samuel 20 and David said there's there's but a breath between you and me between my life and death.
He was so concerned about his death. So. Together after the exchange these these weapons and so forth.
They kissed one another and they wept together. But David, the morsel. Wept. So I don't know, is that a broken heart?
It certainly is approximating one at that stage. And so David realized all these things and from the anointing.
How can this happen to me? And I'm I'm going to have to flee. So, indeed, he did flee.
Here's a little map of That part of the world? That you might be interested in. This little spot here is called Giblieth of Saul.
And that's where, all that is palace. And I believe that's probably where they shot the arrows and all that.
And then, Samuel was up here in Rama just a little bit north. But, David, when he He fled from from So all he went to knob.
And OB. And then from there, he went. If he went from there to Gath, which is over here, a knob is just a few miles north of Jabbas, which is in fact Jerusalem today.
Under the control of the. To have the sites? I don't know. Let's see, down here is where
Let's see, can't see it.
Anyway, this is about where the battle with Goliath happens. So it's quite a ways away, I believe, from where glass was from.
So this is the, this is the territory. Or Saul. Had his headquarters.
Nab, Jerusalem, Jebus, here's Bethlehem. And then down in here is.
Is where Saul and Goliath had their. Encounter.
David's a fugitive. He's a fugitive from Saul. He goes to knob and what does he do?
He tells, he tells the, The priest there that. Whose name is a Himalayk, not a Bimolec, but a Himalayk.
He tells him I'm on a secret mission from the king. And I need some help. So was the and a secret mission from the king?
No, it was a ball face lie. So here we have the king the future king of Israel, God's choice and chosen one.
Telling a lie to A priest. And at the same time, David says, I need some help.
I need some food. We know the showbread story, I believe. And he also asked for a sword and the only sword that was there was behind wrapped up behind the altar, I think, and, and it was glass sword.
So I want to lie a sword. There's none like it. But David said. And, and here was, here he's dependent on Goliath sword, a lot of good it did Goliath, right?
He went flat on his face and got his head whacked off with his own sword. Now David wants his own sword.
The glass sword. Oh, when probable is that? Anyway, he had a story. He was given a sword by Jonathan.
That's why I read the passage about Jonathan. Giving him a sword, but he wanted Goliath sort.
Yeah, and then what does he do with the sort? He goes to Gath, where Goliath was from.
And can you picture this? I know G is in the area of Gaza right now and the area of the Philistine area that we showed on the map.
But that's Gaza where all this trouble is coming from. But David, he was prepared for gas because he had.
A 10 foot sword hanging off of his belt walking through the downtown of Gaff. The people recognize them and they said, well, this is David who.
Us all through is slew his thousands but David slew 10,000 10,000 of what the Philistines And so King of, G, Quiche was, pretty, perplexed with that.
Well, why are we, why are we having someone like that come through our town even though he's got The biggest sword in the world.
Golias. So David. Would this have been a broken heart for him having to run from? From, Saul to go to knob where he has to tell a lie.
And actually that lie resulted in the death of a Himalayk. Because there was a trader in the camp.
And, and also I think maybe 85. Other men prophets were killed in in that little town of of NOW.
Caused by David. Wouldn't that break your heart if you were a God fearing man, you think so.
And so perhaps this is behind. David's. Concern about the broken heart in verse 18.
So we went from Gibiot to Nab. A. And then to.
To a to a gas. Where he met, Keiche, you know, his other name was, a, a Bimleck.
So, you know, he had to have a different kind of name. They're getting them confused the priest and a Philistine.
So one is the H and one is a B. But, and he calls himself. A quiche that was his probably his real name and the Bimlech was like a name for like a Pharaoh or something like that.
A heritage name.
Finally, he's got the saliva dripping down his face. He's scratching on the door and he does something sensible.
The first sensible thing since really he parted with David, he went to the Cave of Adolo.
Let's go back and look at that. Go back. Please.
A dull long. Is pardon me.
That's, that's a different 10, here's a doll. Mia, right down here.
So, G to a along pretty close. And, And that's where he was able to.
Get some solace from this this trauma that he had been under and how did he get to solace?
His family and friends were there. David had his mother and father come there because they were probably under it Saul's persecution.
It says he had some some warrior friends, some, of the poor people and were debtors and everything else they collected together with David.
And that is. His.
His place probably where he wrote this wonderful song. So I'd like to just go over some of the highlights.
Of, of the, and if you allow me to highlight them. And color codes them just a little bit just to highlight the whole song for you and I'm not sure how systematically I did this, but someone starts off with a resolve.
In the English language. I will. I will bless the Lord. At all times.
And my thought. To myself and to you and I'm sure We've all had heartaches and broken hearts and different traumatic things in our lives.
And I would submit to you this is the way we can. Submit a withstand and. Regain recovery.
Starting with this kind of a. And attitude. I'll bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
So it's just not. A silent thing for David in this cave. But he's blessing the Lord at all times in his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in The Lord. How good is that? Well, people who hear it, the humble shall hear of it and be glad so people can rejoice with you as you Recover as you demonstrate your your resolved to honor the Lord at all times.
My soul shall make its boasting Lord. One of the quote this morning from from Galatians chapter 6.
Where the apostle Paul says.
As for me, I will. Because he was dealing with the Galatians who were boasting that some people had had become circumcised because because they were the Gentiles had become circumcised, they wanted to become circumcised so they could boast in their circumcision, not their conversion to Christ, And, Paul, he said, I will both in the Lord and, and his.
Crucifixion that and that would be my only boast. And here David is bothing in the Lord and The apostle Paul who had more knowledge and over there.
And the New Testament, he boasted in the crucifixion. Or of Jesus Christ and and, bless, plus that.
Alright, verse 30 magnify the Lord. And it's with David. So together, let us exalt his name together.
And how wonderful that is when we have a fellowship of believers where we can magnify the Lord and exalt his name together.
David could say, I sought the Lord and he heard me. Maybe from the Kurik cave. He delivered me from all my fears.
And, the fear of man, he was afraid of Saul. He was afraid of a quiche.
He was afraid of this traitor at the cave at NAB. But the Lord delivered him from all that.
They looked to him and were radiant.
And their faces were not ashamed. And I'm interested in kind of the expressions here. Faces and and looked and just how personalized and how human.
David makes this some, they looked and were radiant. And their faces were not ashamed. Even though they'd had they were deadters in there they were chased by Saul They were harassed.
And yet they look to him the Lord. Apple H. In the new King James. This poor man, this poor man is David.
He cried out and the Lord heard him. And he saved him out of all his troubles. And the angel of the Lord.
In camps all around. Those who fear him. This is an interesting passage. The angel of the Lord.
I took a little liberty here. I capitalized it when I transcribed it in a And in the King James, it's with Smale, but in the Old Testament.
The angel of the Lord is, is present. In a number of occasions and it always comes at a time of danger.
I think the first expression of that might be when the angel of the Lord appeared to Abraham and he was looking over Sodom and and they were going to go and destroy it and Hey, Graham, had that interaction with.
With the angel of the Lord. And we think of that as a.
Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. The that that it would be known as the theologically angel of the Lord so the Lord Jesus in camps all around him who feared him And we know there is a whole host of angels that can provide help to us in our time of need.
And indeed, the angel of the Lord and his Angelic hosting camps around you know the story of Elijah.
How he He was being persecuted by the King of Assyria because It's king in the Syria figured he was he was telling secrets.
He was hearing him in his room. That he was going to what he was going to do and he was going to get a lie ship and his servant was panicked and Elijah said to him, You just open your eyes and see and look around and you'll see chariots of fire around horses and chairs of fire gathered around us, angelic hosts.
Protecting us, which they did the the Syrians were blinded, they took them away. And all that.
So those in fear, and he delivers them.
Oh, taste and see. That the Lord is good. I think these are really invitations of the sum.
Bill McDonald calls this some a gospel, And here's an invitation. Oh, taste and see.
That the Lord is good. A physical thing again and seen. And I'm reminded that passage from First John or John's gospel when When Andrew goes to Nathaniel under the tree and said we found the king of Israel or the Messiah And he said, Well, where is he?
Come and see, he said. Well, taste and see. So those who aren't. That's what we should do.
Taste and see. I'm reading this so. This daily devotional sent out by Upload Ministries and it's got a passage right now he's going through second Samuel every passage and kind of some unique insights into it but he calls his his ministry here.
Haste and see. Cause you can. Really good close to the Lord here. Bless it is a man who trusts in him.
So you're blessed. Oh fear the Lord you his saints. Now he's calling them saints.
So again, an appealer or taste and see, oh fear the Lord. Earlier he said, oh, magnify the Lord with me.
So 3 appeals. There's no want or fear to those. There's no want to those who fear him.
Here's an instruction to those who fear him. And then the young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord.
You seek the Lord shall not lack Any good. Any good thing.
Come, your children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. And I'd like to just also point out that this is a teaching some.
And one of the things that it is I failed to mention is it's an acrostic.
So, and across the with each each, stanza beginning with a letter from the Hebrew alphabet.
There are 22 stanzas, there are 22 letters. Each so the point is this was a sum that David just didn't do every stop spitting on his spitting his saliva off his beard and was running down to to the cave of Dullam.
I think he was in that cave and preparing and working this. In a real, diligent way.
And so he came with an acrostic, which just is like when some 19 and some 119.
Both Acrossix or some others. But it does. Show that it's a teaching sum. The fear of the Lord, how do we?
How do we demonstrate the fear of the Lord? Well, it's a man who desires life.
Any he loves many days, so he wants to live and be. And live fully. So that he can see good.
How do we do that? Keep your tongue from evil. Your lips from speaking deceit. Apart from Eagle.
And do good seek peace and pursue it. I think this is a great thought and we, we often think about, you know, the fear of the Lord. Is it in us?
Is it the lack of the fear of the Lord that possibly causes our heartaches? And if we want to avoid them and and have happy days.
And see good, we have to keep our tongue from evil. This is a theme of James's epistle.
And similarly, without being devious. Now, this is what David did to Ed Knob with Abimelech, a him a leg.
Lips from speaking to see. Cause death of others. Apart from evil, what is what is evil?
Maybe the 10 Commandments could inform us as to what evil is. And do good. Do good.
The Lord is good. Do good. Sikh peace and pursue it. Is there a difference between seeking peace and pursue it?
Pursuing it. You tell me.
Again, we personify this thing with the eyes of the Lord or on the righteous. His ears are open to their cry.
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil. And to cut off their remembrance. The righteous cries out, the Lord hears and delivers.
It's wonderful, personal taste and see thoughts here. And here's our passage. The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart.
And he saves such as of a contrite spirit. No, in this translation, the new King James and most of the translations It does say a contrary spirit.
Not a crush spirit, but a contrary one. What is that? It's a repentance period.
A penitent spirit. And one that, that is responsive to the broken heart.
And, and, and to the extent that. That individual David caused. This brokenness. He has a contrary, itant spirit.
And that is certainly how those of us who have come to the Lord Jesus Christ have come through. The door of repentance.
And with a contract. Spirit. The Lord is near to the broken hearted. You can see the faces, the eyes, the ears.
So the whole world is under the watchful eyes of the Lord. And he's a particular near to those who have a broken.
Spirit and we bless. We bless him for that. That is a loving God. Near to the broken spirit.
Many of the afflictions, Lord delivers. He guards all his bones.
I think this is my last. Sort of point this morning and David got in trouble. The highlights of them some and now an element of the gospel.
He guards all his bones, not one of them is broken.
We know that from. From John chapter. I'll just finish this and he's just evil so slay the wicked they're gonna be condemned The Lord redeems the souls of his servant, none of those who trust in him shall be condemned, who trust in him.
And here we have, he guards all his bones. From some, 2020. Some 34.
Regard all his bronze, not one of them, it's broken and the passage is from John, 19 verse 36.
I quoted here. Or the things that were done. For these things that were done. We're John's Gospel rights.
That the scripture should be fulfilled. Now one of his bones. Shall be broken. So this is And a thousand years from when David lived.
And Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross and we remember the story about how the soldiers were. Supposed to go around and break their bones they hasten their death so they wouldn't hang on the cross on the on the cross on the Sabbath day and they could.
Take them off the cross. But Jesus was already He had already given up his spirit. He relinquished his life.
And therefore they didn't have to break his bones. Because if you ever broken, you can't breathe.
So not one of his bones shall be broken. That fulfills this passage from John from Psalm 34.
You shall see all his bones. And then there's this other scripture they shall look on him whom they pierce.
So instead they pierced him in the side. Where in the side? And what came out? Blood and water.
And why did it come out? Because they pierced him. On the side near as broken heart.
So the Lord Jesus Christ. Expresses his Great love for mankind by demonstrating his own broken heart for the sins of.
Of the world and the lostness of man. When he was with Marion Martha and Lazarus was in the tomb, Jesus wept it.
The prospect of death. He also cried about the prospects for or, Jerusalem with it when he saw the women of Jerusalem.
And so he was compassionate. And he allowed himself. They have. Actually a broken heart physically.
The blood came out in the water.
So here we have.
Some 34. Let's go back here. And shall look on him whom they pierced.
And I hope that we all can see. In our own hearts. Today that we've looked on the Lord Jesus.
When we pierce with our our evil and our sinful ways. And we've come. To realize who he is and what he's done that he was the Promise Messiah.
No, there's This passage goes all the way back. To Exodus that the Lamb of God should have should be without.
A broken bone. Exodus 12 says when the Passover lamb the Pasco lamb was being prepared.
Don't break its bones. And in numbers, it's another reflection of that. That's a thousand years before David.
And here's a thousand years after it. So 2,000 years ago, this was a prophetic.
Word that was fulfilled literally in in Anticross. And, and in David's life, you know, it kind of reflects his wholeness, this.
Yeah, this thought about his his body and And I think that's what the Lord would like to restore for us when we have a broken heart.
He would like to restore. A wholesome relationship with him.
I thought this was an interesting parallel ray preached on James last week. And in the fourth chapter of James, the eighth verse, it says draw near to God.
And he will draw near to you. I was able to relate this to a one of Relative someone who was here many years ago and And I said, well, just draw near to God and he'll draw near to you.
And I believe he got saved and in that process as we explain the gospel to him. So, One, 34 starts with, I will bless the Lord at all times.
David is drawing near to God. And then. It concludes and he will draw near to you.
He redeems the soul of his servants. Praise the Lord for that.
So, that's my. Summary and and injunction to you about the the The Lord redeeming the soul of his servants.
And, healing this broken heart of David. So, so, distraught from coming from being the anointed one.
To the one with some saliva coming down on his mouth onto his beard. And how he could go with his family and friends alone in a cave.
And consider. The Lord Jesus Christ. And, or the God Almighty in his, his saving power.
And so should you and I'm sure all of us have had. Elements of heartache and heartbreak.
Please consider, this Psalm 34 can restore your soul and, redeem the soul others.
Of his servants, which we are.
Great blessing on you all as we close. We're gonna have one more song and why don't we sing the song and then I'll close with prayer.
And that is. Draw me near. Number 11 it is. Alright, thank you.