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The host of the amazingbible.bookclub discusses the final three Psalms in Book 2 of the Psalms, titled "The King's Commitment to God's Kingdom" and "Commitment to God our Deliverer." Psalm 70 is a cry for deliverance from David's enemies, while Psalm 71 is a prayer for an aged man. Psalm 72, attributed to Solomon, celebrates God's blessings on the king and his people. The promises in this psalm reflect those made to Abraham and his descendants, ultimately leading to Jesus Christ. The host encourages listeners to have a strong commitment to God and to pray and obey like King David. Hi ladies and welcome to the amazingbible.bookclub I'm Julie Caleo your host and thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedules to tune in with me today if by chance you want to contact me you can do that at zab.bc.pc at gmail.com So today we are finishing up book 2 of the Psalms with Psalms 70, 71, and 72. The Bible itself does not give a title to the five books of the Psalms but in W. Robert Godfrey's book Learning to Love the Psalms he does that and he gives book 2 the title The King's Commitment to God's Kingdom and then these last three Psalms he sees as Commitment to God our Deliverer. Psalm 70 says it is a Psalm of David for a memorial it is almost identical to Psalm 40 verses 13 through 17 this Psalm is a cry of imprecatory against those who seek David's life he cries out for deliverance and help then verse 2 and 3 we see let those who seek David's life and let them be ashamed, humiliated, turned back, dishonored, and shamed. Then we see in contrast in verse 4 let all who seek you meaning God and those people that seek will rejoice and they're glad and they praise and they cry out let God be magnified. Then verse 5 we see David who is afflicted and needy and he cries out to God for help and for deliverance just like in verse 1 then it ends with O Lord do not delay. Now Psalm 71 is an anonymous Psalm many Bibles describe this Psalm as a prayer for an aged man in my Bible when trying to categorize this Psalm I put wisdom question mark lament question mark praise question mark like many Psalms this seems to touch many emotions and I don't know about you but that reflects me so much as a Christian theologian named Richard Foster wrote a book called Celebration of Discipline which talks about the different spiritual disciplines like prayer, fasting, meditation on the Word of God, and others. I love that book mainly because it transformed my Christian walk. He has written other books as well but then he wrote a prayer from the heart which is a book of prayers some he wrote and some are classics like the serenity prayer. One of my favorites I think of often and I want to share it with you today it's called a simple prayer and it's found in page 4 of the book and it goes like this a simple prayer by Richard Foster I am oh God a jumbled mass of motives one moment I'm adoring you and the next I'm shaking my fist at you I vacillate between mounting hope and deepening despair I am full of faith and full of doubt I want the best for others and I'm jealous when they get it even so God I will not run from your presence nor will I pretend to be what I am not thank you for accepting me with all my contradictions amen this is what so many of the Psalms display this displays humanity the writer of Psalm 71 starts off confessing his trust in the Lord he prays for deliverance escape salvation and a place to stay with God his rock and fortress verse 3 the writer also confesses that his hope is in the Lord we then get a glimpse of his life using terms of today he grew up in church he knew God at an early age and even from birth he was thought to be blessed now that he's older he asked the Lord to not forsake him as his strength fails now that he's weaker his enemies are rising up against him and he cries out for God to be near and for help oh Lord please fight for me but I will hope he says continually I will praise you more and more my mouth will declare your righteousness and your salvation and your wondrous works all my days also we see in verse 20 that even though this aging man has been so blessed he also has had great and sore troubles which the Lord has shown him we live in a sinful and broken world and all people have heartache it may be from sin of our own doing or sin from others upon us or as in Job's case hard times from Satan himself but Jesus was not spared the sorrow either actually he took the sin of the whole world on his shoulders and I can barely handle my own so if Jesus the Son of God and the Son of Man was not spared pain why do people think they can escape it one of my favorite movie lines comes from my favorite movie Princess Bride the dread pirate Roberts tells Princess Buttercup life is pain highness anyone who says differently is selling something the thing is for a Christian we never suffer alone the Lord is there with us and the writer of Psalm 71 knew that this is why he can end his psalm with praise and singing and can talk of the righteousness of the Holy One of Israel the second book of Psalms ends with Psalm 72 a psalm of Solomon now if you remember the preposition could mean of Solomon to Solomon or for Solomon just like with King David in this instance I lean more toward for Solomon or to Solomon because of the last verse verse 20 says the prayers of David son of Jesse are ended so it to me that David wrote this psalm maybe as he is passing the baton or the crown over to his son Solomon before David dies this psalm seems to be a combination of a celebration and a wisdom psalm we see how God has blessed the king and also how God has blessed his people through the king according to Godfrey's book learning to love the Psalms the blessings that God brings to the king are justice righteousness long life wealth and universal rule for the people through the king they receive justice security peace prosperity and provision for the poor and then through verse 17 we see that all nations shall call the king blessed then the psalm ends with a praise as all of the five books of the Psalms ends with a praise verses 18 and 19 say blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only does wondrous things and blessed be his glorious name forever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory amen and amen and amen means so be it one thing that is interesting is that the promises found in this psalm reflect the same promises that God promised Abraham in Genesis 17 God promised through Abraham's seed which came Isaac and then Jacob in Genesis 35 and then through Judah Genesis 49 verses 8 through 10 and then through Judah to King David we see Psalm 72 which will proceed through Solomon to Jesus Christ and this is retold us in the gospel of Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 through 17 the Apostle Paul also mentions it in Galatians 3 15 it says now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed he does not say and to seeds as referring to many but rather to one and to your seed that is Christ Christ Jesus is the promised one one other thing I want to point out about this psalm is in verses 10 and 11 about kings of other nations bringing gifts to the king we know that happened with Solomon because we have like the Queen of Sheba who came and visited and she brought gifts and there were others to him the river in verse 8 is the Euphrates River which is to the east of Jerusalem and it is thought that Tarshish and the Isles may be to the east and then up to the north of Israel well in Matthew chapter 1 again we get the genealogy of Jesus from the line of King David and then in chapter 2 we get wise men from the east bringing gifts to the newborn king of the Jews we get a glimpse of that in Psalm 72 remember Matthew is trying to teach the Jews that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah he is the king of all kings Paul in his letter to Timothy his son in the faith says and this is found in 1st Timothy chapter 6 verses 13 through 16 I charge you in the presence of God who gives life to all things and of Christ Jesus who testifies the good confession before Pontius Pilate that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ which he will bring about at the proper time he who is the blessed and only sovereign the king of kings and the Lord of lords who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light whom no man has seen or can see to him be honor and eternal dominion amen ladies we know that King David died we know that King Solomon died Jesus died but he rose again and he is the seed who has the eternal dominion so let me ask you how is your commitment to God our deliverer he's always ready for you with arms wide open cry out to him in honesty he can handle whatever emotion just like with the Psalms so if you hear his voice today ladies don't harden your hearts instead let's be women who pray and obey like King David until next time and thanks so much for listening