Sermon Notes for: 5/25/2008
 “Judgment and Deliverance” – Psalm 7
-- Jeffrey C. Evans --
 

I. Introduction
a. Injustice naturally troubles us, and we intuitively want wrongs to be righted. Psalm 7 shows us how essential it is to plead before the Lord and place our trust in Him. If we do not, then we will have no rest from our woes.
b. Context:
i. A righteous complaint against some particular adversary within Saul’s tribe
ii. Arguably a “chiastic poem” with attention drawn to the middle

II. Prelude (vv. 1-2)
a. My God: trust for salvation while in trouble
b. Real stakes: a soul torn as by a lion

III. David’s Threefold Judicial Vow (vv. 3-5)
a. A list of three representative offenses
i. “If I have done this…”
ii. “If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me…”
iii. “If I have plundered my enemy without cause…”
b. A list of three representative judgments
i.  “Then let him persecute my soul…”
ii. “Then let him tread down my life…”
iii. “Then let him lay my honor in the dust..”

IV. Confidence in the High Judge (vv. 6-8a)
a. Wicked anger is surpassed by God’s righteous anger
b. God gathers the people to hear His verdict

V. Who is Righteous and Who is Wicked? (vv. 8b-10)
a. David the Righteous
b. God the Righteous
c. Cush and the rest of the his wicked kind

VI. The Judging King’s Pursuit of the Wicked (vv. 11-16)
a. Unrelenting anger at the refusal to repent
b. A whetted sword and bent bow
c. Ordained instruments of death
d. God’s sense of irony in His judgment

VII.  Postlude (v. 17)
a. Sense of rest and praise in my God who has heard the cry for judgment and deliverance
b. Singing to the Lord most high

VIII. Application

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