Home | You're Invited | About Trinity | Doctrinal Statement | Services | Directions | Calendar | Ministry Schedules | Lending Library | Gospel | Message Outlines The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines March 22, 2009 Pastor Dana Johnson "Who have said,...'Who is lord over us?'" -Psalm 12:4 Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?" 1. This expression of world opinion is thoroughly humanistic. a. It is an expression of self-will. b. It is rebellion. 2. Notice how they use speech and language to convey the ideas of self-will and rebellion. a. Psalm 12:2 - They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. b. Psalm 12:3 - May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things. c. Psalm 12:4 - Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?" 3. By contrast, notice the reminder of the purity of God's words. Psalm 12:6 - The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 4. These proud and vocal humanists take pleasure in belittling and bullying the poor and humble. a. 1 Samuel 22:6-18 - When Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered; now Saul was staying in Gibeah under a tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants standing about him; 7then Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds? 8All of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is not one of you who is sorry for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day." 9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, "I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10And he inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." 11So the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob. And they all came to the king. 12And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahitub!" And he answered, "Here I am, my lord." 13Then Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day?" 14So Ahimelech answered the king and said, "And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house? 15Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king impute anything to his servant, or to any in the house of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, little or much." 16And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house!" 17Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me." But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the LORD. 18And the king said to Doeg, "You turn and kill the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod. b. Luke 1: 48-53 - For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed. 49For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. 50And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation. 51He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly. 53He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty. 5. This oppression becomes more common and more cruel in a society that is experiencing apostasy. a. In an individual country based on general biblical principles. b. In the world as it draws near to its end. Matthew 24:2 - And Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down." Jude 3-4, 8-10, 16-19 - Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 8Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" 10But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 16These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. 6. What is the solution? a. God will send salvation for the oppressed. Psalm 12:5 - "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in the safety for which he yearns." b. God will send judgment for the ungodly oppressors. Psalm 12:3 - May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things. (All Scripture quoted is from the New King James Version)