Series: Psalm
Title: Seven Thou Hast
Text: Psalm 30: 1-12
Date: November 2, 2017
Place: SGBC, New Jersey
Psalm 30: 1: « A Psalm and Song at the
dedication of the house of David. » I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou
hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 2: O LORD my God, I cried unto thee,
and thou hast healed me. 3: O
LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive,
that I should not go down to the pit. 4:
Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness. 5: For his anger endureth
but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning. 6:
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. 7: LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong:
thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 8: I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
9: What profit is there
in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare
thy truth? 10: Hear, O LORD, and
have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. 11: Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast
put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; 12: To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and
not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
The title says this is
« A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of
David. » When David’s temple or house was raised, they held a dedication. The
raising up of David’s house and the dedication with this song praising God,
directs us to the spiritual sense of this Psalm. The temple, or house of David, raised up is a
type of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ raised from the dead and his people
in him. (Turn to John 2)
John
2: 19: Jesus answered and said
unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20: Then said the Jews, Forty and six
years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21: But he spake of the temple of his
body. 22: When therefore he was
risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them;
and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
So when we read this was the
song at the dedication of the house of David—look to Christ raised up as
David’s house was raised.
Hebrews
8: 1: Now of the things which we
have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on
the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2: A minister of the sanctuary, and of
the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
So this Psalm at the
dedication of the house of David—is a song of Christ—the Son of David—raised up
from the dead and his people in him.
Proposition: There are seven uses of the phrase “Thou
Hast” in this Psalm. These are seven things all God’s elect have in and by
Christ.
Subject: Seven Thou Hast
SALVATION
Psalm 30: 1:…I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast
not made my foes to rejoice over me.
When Christ hung on the cross,
every foe of his people, was made his foe: The devil and his self-righteous
seed was his foe; the sin of his people was made his foe; the broken law of God
became his foe; the wrath and justice of God himself became his foe; the
weakness of human flesh became his foe; death and the grave became his foe and
the second death became his foe.
Christ had no help, only the
mighty weight of every foe, as he strove against sin, separated from God on the
cross. Yet, he never ceased looking to God. His last words were, “Father, into thy hands commend I my spirit.”
And then his body was laid in a tomb. What a mighty, conquering Substitute the
Faithful One is!
But having paid all his people
owed to the law and justice of God, as our faithful Father promised, God lifted
him up from the grave and set him on high! “thou hast lifted me up, and hast
not made my foes to rejoice over me.” When God lifted him up, declaring him
triumphant over all his foes, God lifted all his elect up in him and declared
us triumphant in him!
Believer, the devil and his
self-righteous seed, our sin, the broken law of God, the wrath and justice of
God himself, the weakness of our human flesh, death and the grave and the
second death are defeated in Christ.
Believer, you can say, “God hast
lifted me and not made my foes to rejoice over me.”
When will a sinner like me
extol and lift up God? When God made me
believe that when God lifted up Christ, God lifted me up and made me triumph
over all my foes in Christ!
SANCTIFICATION
Psalm 30: 2: O LORD my God, I cried unto
thee, and thou hast healed me.
What did Christ cry to the
LORD his God? He says in verse 8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I
made supplication. 9 What profit is
there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall
it declare thy truth? 10 Hear, O LORD,
and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
What a good plea! The blood of Christ is profitable because
Christ everliveth as High Priest to make intercession for his people. It is Christ
who promised to praise God and declare his truth in the great congregation: in
his life,, in his death, in his resurrection, in his gospel and in his people. And
so God heard him—“thou hast healed me!”
God raised Christ
HEALED—HOLY—WHOLE! Christ our High
Priest did not enter into the holiest bearing sin—but he entered perfectly holy
and sanctified and without sin, with his own blood. We needed such a high
priest to represent us in the holiest of holies in God’s presence.
Hebrews
7:26: For such an high priest became us, who
is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than
the heavens;
Under ceremonial law, the lamb
was brought, made sin and slain. After
that, the high priest went alone into the holy place—not with sin but with the
blood of the lamb who died due to sin.
Hebrews
9: 11: But Christ being come an
high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12: Neither by the blood of goats and
calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us. 13: For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14: How much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Just as Christ entered into
the holy place above and sprinkled his blood, he enters our hearts and heals us
within in sanctification.
Hebrews
10: 14: For by one offering he
hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15: Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for
after that he had said before, 16:
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write
them; 17: And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. 18:
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19: Having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20: By a new and living way, which he
hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21: And having an high priest
over the house of God; 22: Let
us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
When will Christ be made
sanctification unto a sinner—when Christ has entered in and healed him in sanctification and made him know that
Christ is our Sanctifier and our Sanctification—Christ is that holiness without
which no man shall see the LORD.
RESURRECTION
Psalm 30: 3: O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave:
When Christ arose from the
dead, he arose to die no more. And so did all his people in him.
Romans
6: 9: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath
no more dominion over him. 10: For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but
in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11: Likewise reckon ye also yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians
2: 4: But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6:
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
And all who are resurrected in
Christ’s resurrection shall be resurrected in the new birth and in the last
day.
1 Corinthians
15: 20: But now is Christ risen
from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21: For since by man came
death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
When Christ justified and
sanctified his people, he put an end to death for his people.
1
Corinthians 15: 56: The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57: But thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Believer, if someone asks you
what your hope is or what your gospel is, tell them God says to me Colossians 3:3: for ye are dead, and your
life is hid with Christ in God.
PRESERVATION
Psalm 30: 3…thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to
the pit.
Christ Jesus honored God and
his law and therefore holy God had to preserve him alive and not let him go
down to the pit forever!
Psalm
16: 10: For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.
Brethren, God’s holiness and
righteousness demanded the preservation of the holy and righteous Lord Jesus
Christ! It is God’s own holiness and righteousness that is God’s preserving
power. Since we are holy and righteous in Christ, he shall keep all his people
through faith in Christ.
1
Peter 1:5: Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time.
ESATABLISHMENT
Psalm 30: 7: LORD,
by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong.
God the Father is so pleased
with his Son, the LORD Jesus our Righteousness at God’s right hand cannot be
moved!
Ephesians
1: 20…he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the
heavenly places, 21: Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in
that which is to come: 22: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him
to be the head over all things to the church,
Believer, the purpose of that
passage is to declare the power with which God established his people in Christ
at his right hand is the power with which God established Christ. Every
believer can say that in and by Christ our Rock—Ps 40:2: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
WORSHIP
Psalm 30: 11: Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing:
Oh, the mighty price Christ
paid to honor God and save his people—he mourned like none ever mourned.
Lamentaion
1: 12: Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if
there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the
LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
But now his mourning is turned
into dancing. Dancing is praise and joy in God. That is true worship. He says
that in verse 12, “To the end that my glory
may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks
unto thee for ever.”
Ps
27:6: And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I
will sing praises unto the LORD.
Christ is even the preeminent
worshipper of God his Father. The Spirit of God tells us in Hebrews 2 that
these Psalms of praise and joy are Christ worshipping the Father in our midst.
Hebrews
2: 11: For both he that
sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause
he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12: Saying, [from Ps 22 and 40 and throughout the Ps] I will
declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise
unto thee.
Christ our sovereign Savior
commands his people effectually in our hearts and turns our sorrow into joyful
worship. He commands us in verse 4: Sing
unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his
holiness. Worship the Lord! Give him thanks at the remembrance of saving us
by his holiness.
Hosea
14: 2: Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all
iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Psalm
69: 30: I will praise the name
of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31: This also shall please the
LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
STRENGTH
Psalm 30: 11:…thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with
gladness;
When God raised Christ, he put
off the sackcloth of sin, shame and sorrow. Now he is girded with gladness. Girded signifies strength; gladness is strength.
Nehemiah
8:10: Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet,
and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy
unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Christ is our Strength who is
perfectly girded with joy and gladness in the Father—and he girds us with gladness of strength.
Isaiah
61:3: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of
the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Isaiah
61:10: I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with
the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and
as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Ephesians
6:14: Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breastplate of righteousness;
LET ME SEND YOU HOME WITH ONE MORE WORD.
First, let us obey Christ. He
says to his people—Psalm 30: 4: Sing
unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his
holiness. The chief attribute of God
is on display in this Psalm—God’s holiness. Isaiah did not hear the angels cry
“Love, love, love”—he heard them cry, “Holy,
Holy Holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.”So
you who have been sanctified and made holy in and by Christ, “Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and
give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.”
And as we behold Christ’s
suffering on the cross, followed by his eternal exaltation, always remember
this—Psalm 30: 5: For his anger endureth
but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning. Indeed,
our present trials endure but for a
moment. Afterward they yield
peaceable fruit of righteousness—joy cometh
in the morning—once the trial turns us to Christ our Holiness. This is his favor—his grace—and in
his favor is life. But believer,
even better than that, his anger but for
a moment and weeping for a night are a beautiful illustration of the everlasting day of light and joy we have
because Christ endured the darkness of being forsaken in place of his people. Compare verse 5 to what God says to Christ
and what God says to us who are in Christ,
Isaiah
54: 7: For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I
gather thee. 8: In a little
wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will
I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Amen!