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Psalm 33: 1 - 3: Introduction:
A Call to Praise
› 2 instruments: represent full orchestra
› “believers need all the help possible to stir their hearts to praise”
Psalm 33: 1 - 3: Introduction:
A Call to Praise
› 2 instruments: represent full orchestra
› “believers need all the help possible to stir their hearts to praise”
› Sing a “new song” –
Something new Yahweh has done
New awareness of Yahweh’s sovereignty
Yahweh always deserves new songs!
Contrasts with “old, worldly” songs
New person sings a new song
Ps 33:4-9: God’s Dominion in Creation
› SING – SHOUT – PRAISE –
› Because of God’s word and God’s work.
These went hand in hand in creation.
› Recognizing the power of God should
bring about fear…. awe… reverence…
praise… and trust.
›
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
The God who had the power to
create the world…..
has the power to be in control over
the world!
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
The God who had the power to
create the world…..
has the power to be in control over
the world!
Genesis 11:7-8 "Come, let Us go down and
there confuse their language, that they
may not understand one another's speech."
So the LORD scattered them abroad from
there over the face of the whole earth; and
they stopped building the city.
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
Isaiah 46:9-13 9 "Remember the former
things long past, For I am God, and there is
no other; I am God, and there is no one like
Me, 10 Declaring the end from the
beginning And from ancient times things
which have not been done, Saying, 'My
purpose will be established, And I will
accomplish all My good pleasure‘.
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
Declaring the End from the Beginning
Genesis 3:15 ( to satan, He said: ) 15 And I will put
enmity Between you and the woman, And
between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise
you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the
heel."
Revelation 20:10 10 And the devil who deceived
them was thrown into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are also; and they will be tormented day and night
forever and ever.
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
Declaring the End from the Beginning
Genesis 12:2-3 (to Abraham, He said) 2 And I will
make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And
make your name great; And so you shall be a
blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And
the one who curses you I will curse.
Genesis 17:4 ". 5 "No longer shall your name be
called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham;
For I will make you the father of a multitude of
nations. 6 "And I will make you exceedingly fruitful,
and I will make nations of you, and kings shall
come forth from you.
Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
Declaring the End from the Beginning
Genesis 49:10 10 "The scepter shall not depart from
Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the
obedience of the peoples.
Revelation 5:5 5 and one of the elders said to me,
"Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the
tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so
as to open the book and its seven seals."
Revelation 11:15 15 And the seventh angel
sounded; and there arose loud voices in heaven,
saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the
kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will
reign forever and ever."
Ps 33:10-17: God’s Dominion Over
History
Psalm 33:12: Blessed is the nation
whose God is the LORD, The people
whom He has chosen for His own
inheritance.
› Israel’s existence as a nation is because
of the Lord’s plan.
› What about the rest of the nations of the
world? They too – have their existence
because of the plan of the Lord.
Ps 33: 18-19: God’s Dominion over
Individuals
Psalm 33:18-22 18 Behold! the eye of
the LORD is on those who fear Him, On
those who hope for His lovingkindness, 19 To deliver their soul from death, And
to keep them alive in famine.
› Even if our nation does not submit to the
Lord, the Lord knows who belongs to HIM.