Well, good morning. It's great to see all of you here. today, thank you for choosing to worship. with us today.
Let me invite you to, turn in your Bibles to Psalm 139. Psalm 139 for our time of study in, in God's word this morning. We're doing a series worship in the Psalms, and we find ourselves in Psalm 139 for the third Sunday, in a row. My goal this morning is to look at verses 19 through 22, and if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be The Psalmist at War.
The psalmist at war. Part of the purpose, of our purpose in having this brief series. On some of the Psalms is to encourage you to give the Psalter, the Book of Psalms, a more meaningful, place in your life. But that encouragement actually should come with a warning.
From the very moment you open the Book of Psalms, you quickly realize that there is a war that is raging between Jehovah and his Messiah, and the peoples of the earth who are fighting against them. In the very first verse of the Psalter, Psalm 11, you encounter the fact that there are people who are ungodly, who are sinners, and who are scornful, and you are told that the blessed man does not walk. After the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. Psalm 2 opens with the psalmist asking the question, oh Lord, why are the nations in an uproar?...