1. DISTRESS THAT WAS PERSONAL
A. Desperation – “I cried”
1. distress – tight spot that produces anguis/tribulation
2. cried – call out to a personw/expectation of response
B. Direction – ‘to the Lord
1. Not to my neighbor; not to my friend
2. YHWH – I am that I am – was, is and will be one
Psalms 18:6 (KJV)
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:
Psalms 30:8 (KJV)
I cried to You, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
Psalms 50:15 (KJV)
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
C. Declaration – ‘and he heard me’
1. Not a word of surprise – STRENGTH
2. God Hears those who pray in faith
Psalms 34:15 (KJV)
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms 34:17-18 (KJV)
The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.
2. DANGER THAT WAS POWERFUL
A. Distance
1. Ps. 120 - 134 Song or Degrees or Ascents
a. going to Jerusalem & worship God in Temple
2. Do not love Church of God- love the God of Church?
a. Boy Scout & never attend meeting?
b. Football player never attended practice?
B. Destruction
1. Deliver – snatch out of dangers way;
a. If no deliver destruction will result
2. lying lips & deceitful tongue
C. Defection – Deliver my soul (being) from
James 3:3-12
Don’t Do it!
Defend the Absent
Don’t Encourage It!
Don’t Repeat It!
to anyone but God! Why drag anyone else into it??
3. DISCOMFORT THAT WAS PAINFUL
A. Don’t Belong Where I am v. 6
B. Don’t Understand the Language they speak vs. 7
Psalms 34:14 (KJV)
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 35:20 (KJV)
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Matthew 5:9 - Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Hebrews 12:14 (KJV)
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
