October 5, 2022
Powerful Words #
Psalm 12
Introduction
Psalm 12 is a tremendous chapter. Many messages have been written and preached on verses 6-7. I love studying a passage with the whole context, and especially when there are verses so familiar and used. It is refreshing to see them in context. Sometimes it is enlightening to find out they don’t mean what people have used them for.
I. Fallible Words(1-5) #
A. Hurt (1) #
i.Godly people fall/fail. Faithful people fall. #
ii.Does not mean they were always wicked, or fake, or false intentioned. #
iii.It is disappointing & hurts #
B. Hinderance (2) #
i.Gossip (2a) #
ii.Good favor (2b) “double heart” #
iii.Goals in their speech – “double heart do they speak” #
C. Help (3-5) #
i.Who will Help (3) – the LORD! #
Psa. 121:1 ¶ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
ii.Who will be judged (4) #
1Cor. 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
iii.Why (5) #
II. Faithful Words (6-7) #
- Contrasted with mans words! (1-5)
A. Pure words (6) #
- God’s Words are not corrupt! They are without error, or mixture of impurities.
B. Purified words (6) #
i.Silver, tried in a furnace of earth… #
C. Preserved Word (7) #
i.God is the One doing the keeping! #
ii.God promised to preserve His Words, because they are important to HIM! #
III. Flourishing Wickedness (8) #
A. Increase of wickedness #
i.There is a great deal of wickedness in the world #
B. Increase failure of faithful #
Matt. 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
C. Intensity of God’s Promise #
- Jeremiah 36:22- The king was unaffected by the Word of God, and furthermore, didn’t like it, cut it up, and burned it! - Wicked…
- Jeremiah 36:27-28 Wicked men may burn it, God will preserve it!