The Help We Need
Psalm 3
1Lord, how they have increased who trouble me!
Many are they who rise up against me.
2Many are they who say of me,
“There is no help for him in God.”
Selah
3But You, O Lord, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
4I cried to the Lord with my voice,
And He heard me from His holy hill.
Selah
5I lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the Lord sustained me.
6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set themselves against me all around.
7Arise, O Lord;
Save me, O my God!
For You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone;
You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
8Salvation belongs to the Lord.
Your blessing is upon Your people.
1. As Christians, We Have Enemies
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- vs 1
- Psalm 34:19 – “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
- John 15:18-20 – ““If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.”
- Ephesians 6:12 – “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
2. Turn to the Right Source for Help
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- vs. 3
- Romans 8:31 – “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
- Psalm 34:7 – “The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them.”
- Psalm 125:2 – “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.”
- vs. 4
- Psalm 119:71 – “It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.”
- Psalm 34:19-20 – “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken.
3. Trust God With the Results
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- vs. 5-8
- 2 Samuel 22:47-49 ” The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock of my salvation!
It is God who avenges me, And subdues the peoples under me; He delivers me from my enemies.You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.”
- Psalm 18:1-3 – “I will love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.”
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