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What Do You Think?

Discover how God's love, pleasure, and blessings are available to us, no matter our actions. This text explores Psalm 34, inviting readers to praise, experience, and fear God, while reflecting on our responsibility to seek and know Him.

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What Do You Think?

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  1. What Do You Think? • God loves us no matter what we do • God is pleased with us no matter what we do • God blesses us no matter what we do

  2. Experiencing God Psalm 34

  3. Psalm 34 • Invocation to Praise God (1-7) • Invitation to Experience God (8-10) • Instruction to Fear God (11-22)

  4. Invocation to Praise God • Who? • I will … my soul will (1-2a) • The humble will (2b)

  5. Invocation to Praise God • Who? • I will … my soul will (1-2a) • The humble will - “those who have learnt endurance or patience in the school of affliction.”Keil & Delitzsch

  6. Invocation to Praise God • Who? • I will … my soul will (1-2a) • The humble will (2b) • Everybody! (3)

  7. Invocation to Praise God • Why? • Because of what God did (4-6) • Because of what God does (7)

  8. What About Us? • Do you record God’s blessings in your life? • Do you share those stories with others?

  9. Invitation to Experience God • O taste and see (8) • Personal, intimate, experiential • God’s goodness, protection, security (refuge), provision

  10. Invitation to Experience God • How? • Fear the Lord || seek the Lord • Who? • You His saints (9)

  11. Invitation to Experience God • Seek the Lord (10) • To seek with care, in order to know (as opposed to find-v. 14)

  12. Invitation to Experience God • Deut. 4:29 - But from there you will seek [to find] the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

  13. Invitation to Experience God • Seek the Lord (10) • Seek to know God • To have fellowship with God

  14. What About Us? • Do you seek to know God? • “God is a Person to be known, not a power to be used.”

  15. Instruction to Fear God • Who? • “Children” – Prov. 4:1; 1 John 2:1-8 • He who ‘desires life’and good days

  16. Instruction to Fear God • How? • Be careful, little mouth, what you say (James 3:1-12) • Be careful, little hands, what you do (3:13-18) [Put off/on]

  17. Instruction to Fear God • How? • Seek (to find) peace • Pursue – like a hunter • Rom. 14:19; Heb. 12:14; cf. James 4:1-10

  18. Charles Spurgeon Fear the Lord: “Pay to him humble childlike reverence, walk in his laws, have respect to his will, tremble to offend him, hasten to serve him.”

  19. Charles Spurgeon “The fear of the Lord or true piety is not only the duty of those who avow themselves to be saints, … but it is also their path of safety and comfort. Godliness hath the promise of the life which is now.”

  20. Wycliffe Bible Commentary “Enoch lived a righteous life. His goal was to please God at any cost, and he succeeded…. This should still be the goal of every true believer …”

  21. THAT’S LEGALISM!

  22. Piper: The New Legalism • “Thou shalt not use must!” • “Thou shalt not use should!” • “Thou shalt not use ought!” • “Thou shalt not use warnings!”

  23. Instruction to Fear God • Why? (15-22) • God is attentive to those who pursue Him • God fellowships with those who pursue Him

  24. Instruction to Fear God • God keeps those who pursue Him • God blesses those who pursue Him

  25. Instruction to Fear God • New Covenant? • This is the blessed life – 1 Pet. 3:8-14a • This is the grace-based life – Titus 2:11-14

  26. Instruction to Fear God • This describes the poor in spirit – Matt. 5:3 • This describes those who really understand God’s promises – 2 Cor. 7:1

  27. What About Us? • God blesses those who strive to be like Him • God is glorified by those who strive to be like Him

  28. What About Us? • Do I truly desire to walk with God? • Am I willing to make the effort to be like God?

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