(Ps. "I shall have enough there.". "How great is Thy goodness, which Thou hast laid up for the children of men. Try it for 30 days … ", The Hebrew word that David uses here, translated as "follow", is a word that is often translated as "pursue". Text Psalm 23:6… "And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. What evil is on my hands?". "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity," etc. Two individuals that have both been described as the "luckiest person in the world". What does David mean when he talks about "the house of the Lord"? If they wander off they can't find their way home. — they smothered him with flowers and killed him with fame — and it came to this! If it did, then this psalm would be a waste of our time...unless, of course, we were one of the lucky ones...like David must have been. You see, away from God's flock, we live in a barren land. © 2021 Way of Grace Church: Buckeye, AZ All Rights Reserved, The Shepherd's Provision (Psalm 23:1-3a) 8-7-11, Way of Grace Church | P.O. How many of us are truly [convinced] that no matter what occurs in our lives we are being followed by goodness and mercy? The days are coming when God Himself will measure the temple, His house, to see who are His, and who shall dwell in His tabernacle. But I have no doubt that David endured that kind of persecution by reminding himself that "goodness and mercy", that God's "goodness and mercy" would also pursue him all the days of his life. By daily habits of devotion, by the culture of a child-like faith, by holy familiarity with Divine things, I will seem to myself to be constantly engaged in God's service. But apart from these considerations, let us come to the revelation of the Bible. An abundance of protection! Would David describe himself as blessed? STRENGTH FOR LIFE'S WORK. Abundant "life". III. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. Under the Old Covenant, the temple was where God's special presence dwelt among His people. (Ps. We don't have to imagine how David felt. So David moves seamlessly from describing God as a Shepherd, to describing Him as the Host of a banquet. "Good" and "God" in Anglo-Saxon are the same word. Enlarge it towards the east, where we look for our Saviour's coming. Surely goodness and mercy shall … What is He saying? David writes, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. He not only wants to stress that God gives us His plenty, His abundance, for today, but also for the days to come. "I will dwell in the house of the Lord." David was well fed. It is when "the hoary head is a crown of glory, being found in the way of righteousness" — when there are no marks upon the countenance of extinct volcanoes, dark shadows from wrought-out passions, impressions of darkness and crime, but when the life has been spent for God. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. If you have the pledge that "goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life," should not those days be spent for the glory of Him — whose you are, and whom you serve? Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. Clarke's Psalms 23:6 Bible Commentary Goodness and mercy shall follow me - As I pass on through the vale of life, thy goodness and mercy shall follow my every step; as I proceed, so … The same Shepherd David spoke about is the same Shepherd speaking these words in John 10. Because it is the scene of His familiar glory. Read verse in New International Version "There is none good but One," said Jesus, "that is God." 1. There may be loss of health, of property, of friends; there may be unknown trials. Psalm 23:6 ) Dr. Nicolas Ellen. More than 200 million to 1. In … Those are the very things David wanted to highlight using the image of a shepherd caring for his sheep. We can know this same blessing today, through faith. And notice that the "still waters" of verse 2 have now become a "cup". Do you see that? 3. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. By Marni Montanez. Keep your eyes on the Shepherd. In one interview, he said this: "I know God was watching over me all these years.". "Green pastures". These are the sort of times that test a person's confidence in the care of Christ....When my little world is falling apart and the dream castles of my ambitions and hopes crumble into ruins can I honestly declare, "Surely—yes—surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life"? It is your hops and desire, and, please God, it will be your privilege, to dwell much in the house of the Lord. "Shall follow me." III. Of course he would. He could not else be good. Mercy. Number two, Jesus is the door to THE pasture, the pasture of abundant life. "I thank God," says the one, "that ever I was born," because he can take the 23rd Psalm, and in the 23rd Psalm he can read the history of his inward life. "I shall not want." I carry within myself, in my own religious consciousness, a prophecy, an earnest of something greater than the life that now is.". But we have been given the whole cup. There is only one door. But where you are grazing is another question. He turned in the Bible to Psalm 23:6 and showed her, “Surely goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life.” She was relieved and exclaimed: “That is wonderful. III. FULFILMENT OF LIFE'S GREAT HOPES. He only sojourned in it here. The wasteland of this world is a terrible place. He is still passing through it, isn't he? It is this "sin" that produces the kinds of "sins" we often think of. THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD (part two)-Psalm 23:4-6 Last week I talked about some of the dynamics of shepherding sheep. He took God's judgment against our waywardness and stubbornness. Is that where you are this morning? II. "THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER." Before, then, any person is entitled to assert, with reference to his own afflictions, that God does everything for the best, and to apply this as a ground of comfort and consolation to himself, he must not only love God, but know and be convinced that God loves him. A place of fear and worry and selfishness and confusion and restlessness and despair; a place of danger; a place where ultimately, our waywardness; our stubbornness...leads us straight to the valley of God's justice. Come. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES, OR BY WHAT PERSONS, THIS STATEMENT MAY BE PROPERLY MADE. For what have I done? If you are not a follower of Jesus Christ this morning, listen again to His words: I am the door [or the gate]. A good man’s thoughts in his old age. Psalm 23:6 Goodness and Mercy Food for Thought An all-creatures.org Guide to Kingdom Living. It is, if I am not mistaken, Scougal — the author of that little book The Life of God in the Soul of Man — takes a review of life, looks back upon its prominent events, its afflictions and its trials, and upon his inward experience, and ends all by saying, "I am this day such and such an age, and I bless God that ever I was born." It is a "prepared" table; a table prepared with great love and great attention to detail; a table prepared for a great feast. You will have frequently to go there, to plead the great Sacrifice. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. The wasteland of sin is a place of spiritual hunger. ", 1. Luck has nothing to do with it. But look at how that confidence expresses itself in the last half of verse 6. (Philippians 4:19), And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. There will be changes. But it's also a picture of God's abundant protection. Ill will or bad purpose on His part is inconceivable. Jesus taught immortality: no one taught it as He did; no one preached it as He preached it. David knows the way God takes care of him, and because God is faithful, and not fickle, that kind of care will continue. The door to where? "Goodness". Pardoning mercy. But He also rose again. 5 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Amid holy enterprises, spiritual conflicts, arduous duties, severe afflictions, trying bereavements, God has sustained His saints. (I think if I keep talking about this food and drink long enough, as we get closer to lunchtime, this passage is going to seem better and better, right?). It is really astonishing to see how very seldom, in a professing Christian country, this question is seriously entertained, and on what slight and trivial grounds men are contented to take it for granted that all is safe with them. You may remember in Luke 7 when Jesus was comparing the so-called hospitality of one "Simon the Pharisee" to the honor given him by a sinful woman, he said, "You [Simon] did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment." But not just any table. The Psalmist's strong confidence of dwelling there "forever." Where are you this morning? In 1970, he managed to escape before a faulty fuel pump engulfed his car into flames. Isn't he really saying: The Lord is my shepherd...forever. In fact, as He himself said, He is the gate. In 1993, she won $5.4 million dollars in the Texas lottery. Enlarge it towards the west, where the sun of our life is gently dipping towards the grave, in a life of preparedness. Read verse in King James Version Protecting mercy. It is simply impossible for Him ever to decree or wish to do anything evil. "The house of the Lord.". Now, in context, the sheep here is apparently returning to the shepherd’s house. In Psalm 23 David writes "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life" (Psalm 23:6 NIV). The perfection of manhood; the "rest that remaineth;" the "fulness of joy;" the glorious fellowships that know no break, and that bring no pain, are in our Father's house. We need to live the well-fed live, and stop acting like we're starving, stop looking through the fence at the wasteland, thinking there is something better out there. In … How many Christians actually feel this way about Christ? Who is your Shepherd? "Surely," etc. Sermon on Psalm 23 – The Lord is My Shepherd. ", 2. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. In the first four verses of Ps. But more is promised. Desolate. In a sense, the way David ends this psalm adds a new fullness to the beginning of this psalm. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." Man is never satisfied here. He says, "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Cancel. The continuance of it. In verse 5, the metaphor has changed. How do we access this Psalm 23 kind of abundance? Voltaire does just the same thing as to the review, but with a totally different result. It shall follow incessantly, supply fully, solace richly, sustain powerfully, pass with him through the Jordan, and enter with him the bright portals of glory. It will be yours to kindle the lamp of a never-ceasing devotion, to place the Eucharistic Shewbread before the Lord. Learn to be active. But although it may seem like it at first, it isn't a drastic shift. Like some chemical characters, in certain temperatures they are illegible; but raise the temperature and they appear in all their reality. No wonder, then, that David felt so secure when thinking of the future. Bible … Find Psalm 23:6 Sermon Illustrations, browse preaching ideas and sermon stories on Psalm 23:6 Its certainty is founded upon the Divine existence; its communication upon Divine veracity; its possession is the fruit of immutable, unwavering, undying love. We've also talked about the reality that if we embrace the fact that God is our divine Shepherd, it means we are also embracing our own 'sheep-ness'. An abundance of provision! The querulous old man puts together all that he had gone through, finds it dark and disappointing, and concludes by saying, "I am this day so and so, and I wish that I had never been born." Psalm 23:6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. We will dwell in the place where there is fellowship with and worship of the Lord for eternity.7 B. THE CHURCH IN HEAVEN. Listen to these words: "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. (John 10). Are you wandering aimlessly, or are you resting securely? All the days of my life — that is, all my life long — even to the last. Then, in 2006 and 2008, she won again with two winning scratch off tickets that totaled $5 million dollars. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. But not so man: man is a rational being. It's the place His people came to be forgiven and to worship. Work while it is day. It was extraordinary abundance! Poor man! The certainty of it. He leads me beside still waters...forever. Consider Frane Selak, a Croatian music teacher. But right there, when we would expect David to feel most abandoned, he tells us here that he was enjoying a banquet of God's blessings: comfort, encouragement, hope, perspective, courage, joy, faith. "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The imagery of the shepherd is no longer used. Hence it is said, "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to," etc. This time it comes from the life of David. Psalm 22 Psalm 24 ... Advance your knowledge of Scripture with this resource library of over 40 reference books, including commentaries and Study Bible notes. Psalms 23:6 KJV. ...What do I say when suddenly, without good grounds, friends prove false and turn against me? Beware of sinking into the vortex of selfishness, and burying your mercies in the grave of forgetfulness. He was afraid and worried to go back into bed on his own. Sustaining mercy. Yet … Day by day you will have to go into the Holy Place to offer the incense. Because verse 5 tells us that this lavish feast, this amazing table has been prepared "in the presence of [David's] enemies". Age is a thing that may be very beautiful. 11 I am the good shepherd. God does not skimp, does He? Observe the beautifulness and the blessedness of a Christian old age. In January, 1962, he was traveling on a train that suddenly derailed and plunged into an icy river, killing seventeen passengers. Psalm 23:1-6 The Lord Is My Shepherd Dr. Philip W. McLarty I’d like to take a few moments this morning to think about the 23rd Psalm. "AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER." In both of those passages, I believe David is using terms like "house of the Lord", and "temple" and "the courts of our God" to refer, not ultimately to a physical location, but to refer to fellowship with God in God's presence. He laid down His life. Take a look at verse 5 again. I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The Pilgrim's Rearguard, Goodness and Mercy, David's Confidence in the Prospect of the Future, Religious Conceptions Coloured by Secular Vocation, The pilgrim's rearguard, goodness and mercy. And the last thought is, that the best way to be able to end life with an utterance like this is to begin it well. Now here is where a shift takes place in this psalm. A cup full of endless refreshment. It is an abiding place, a mansion. ", 2. He came to me almost in tears and said he had a nightmare. But here the "green pastures" of verse 2 have become "a table". He leads me beside still waters...forever. He took our place. Let this prospect reconcile us in the midst of all affliction, if we be Christians, and let us prepare for that dwelling in the house of the Lord forever. II. We can be a part of His flock. Psalm 23 6 Commentary: Heaven. If are a follower of Jesus Christ this morning, if you have entered that gate through faith, then you need to remember God's plenty this morning. ◄ Psalm 23:6 ► Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. 1. Jesus is the Shepherd of Psalm 23 in human flesh. III. God wants you to know the extent to which and the regularity with which you can experience abundance, abundance that just doesn't seem possible. These capacities and affections of mine, the stirring of a spiritual life within me, were never made to find their perfection here. Well, in most cases when that phrase is used in the Old Testament it simply refers to either the portable Israelite temple (called the Tent of Meeting), or it refers to the brick-and-mortar temple in Jerusalem. According to the Bible we are not soaring eagles or lone wolves or teddy bears...no, we are stubborn and wayward sheep; we are sheep who desperately need a shepherd. He leads me beside still waters. It is a fearful doctrine, but clearly stated in Scripture with regard to many individuals of the human race, that, so far from "goodness and mercy following them all the days of their life," everything that He gives them seems only the more to estrange them from God and goodness. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. - Garland, TX 75040: Great Sermons and Devotions Daily on Gospel Web: Surely! The best is to come. He takes care of us! In light of what God had done for Him, David speaks confidently here of what God will do for Him. THE ASSURANCE EXPRESSED BY THE PSALMIST. That's clear because he is still talking about the abundance of God's provision and protection. CONCLUSION —. There is no restoring there, no troubling there; no dark misty shade of death to chill the sunlight of the road. And not just a full cup, but a cup that is "overflowing"; a cup that we might describe today as having "unlimited refills". The good man has his difficulties and dangers. Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance," etc. (Luke 7:46). "Still waters." Do you have that same confidence? And then the last line of verse 6 reminds us of heaven. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. I shall not want...forever. "Shall follow me." A "cup overflowing". 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. I. This language implies the assurance, on his part, of the existence of a state of future blessedness. 2. David knew what it felt like to be pursued by evil men; to be pursued by wickedness and wrath. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. He makes me lie down in green pastures...forever. 3. There will be the going in and out, and finding pasture - all through; but the end is not here, but above. Psalm … "A prepared table". Let it be a life of patient witness for God. 3 He restores my soul. Thank Him! No one can expect goodness and mercy to follow him save in virtue of God's promises. 9 I am the door. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Goodness to creatures; mercy to sinful creatures. I have always … "Goodness and mercy." And the other man, though he had great ability and great genius, and had a long and wonderful life, which, however, nobody would say, or pretend to say, that he spent it in walking with God, he says, "I wish that I had never been born." "My God shall supply all your need out of His riches in glory by Jesus Christ." This should be our aim, to attain to the realisation of the life hid with Christ in God; and to this God is separating us off, that our sojourn with Him may be eternal. Because of the extent to which and the regularity with which he experienced abundance. So David's confidence is that He will dwell in the fullness of what the Temple represents; that He will dwell in God's presence forever, in that place of forgiveness and worship. Firm faith. Learn to be grateful. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. These are just the two things into which God's beneficence, generally considered, naturally divides itself. In 1996 he survived when he drove off a cliff to escape an oncoming truck. And this morning I want to wrap things up by focusing on the final two verses of this Psalm: verses 5 and 6. Instead, David switches to the imagery of a banquet. Understanding this fact about us, about himself, David wrote Psalm 23 in order to proclaim just how well God took care of him. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. They need a shepherd … Jesus was nailed to a Roman cross for us. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out [that's freedom] and find pasture. The most amazing thing is that anyone...anyone can know now the same kind of care that David experienced then. Why did they receive that title? What does that mean? A. Sheep obviously cannot voice out their needs. He makes me lie down in green pastures...forever. But what I want you to see here is that the metaphors go hand in hand. And that's what he continues to do in verse 5. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. In fact, the abundance that David experienced then was itself just a foretaste of what was to come. No, he is going smoothly from "first" gear into "second" gear. Psalm 23:6. We will dwell … Let's turn this morning back to Psalm 23. II. An angel is the object of one; man of both. Young's Literal Translation Only -- goodness and … The "green pastures" may give place to the dark valley. Hence men often lull their conscience; but there it is — they cannot destroy it, and ever and anon conscience speaks like thunder. "Thou art with me.". There is also the idea of settled purpose. It is a great thing to be one of Christ's flock, ever under the Shepherd's tender care. Sin is being a wayward and stubborn sheep. Here we have —. Make your life all temple, all part of the τεμένος, the sacred enclosure. It has nothing do with luck. 92). "I will dwell in it. Friends, all of us are sheep. In a sense, the way David ends this psalm adds a new fullness to the beginning of this psalm. I. As the mother's eye and hand follow her little one as he makes his first wobbling attempt to toddle alone; as the needle follows the lodestone; as the water out of the rock followed the Israelites through the desert; as the pillar of glory went with them by night and by day: so goodness and mercy shall follow the faithful, in the closet, in the family, in the church, in the world. A place of spiritual thirst. After talking with him, I asked him to read Psalm … Box 1671, Buckeye, Arizona. Supplying mercy. There's no escaping that fact. Well, like all the great questions of life, Scripture affords us an answer. Then comes the assurance of expectation and hope. Only God can take care of us like this. But let me read those two verses in the context of the entire Psalm. We need to walk with that confidence that goodness and mercy will folllow us all the days of our life. The good man says, "I have needed both; I have had both all my days, and surely they shall follow me all my days.". 2. There is the difference! Although nineteen others were killed in the accident, he suffered only minor injuries, landing in a haystack. It just doesn't seem possible when you hear these stories for the first time. MERCY. He's saying, number 1, "I am the door". Dry. II. What a picture of abundance David paints for us here. 2. THE MANNER OF ITS CONVEYANCE. 4. Version. And in 2003 he won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery. "Mercy". Psalm 23:6 New King James Version. "Hath He promised, and shall He not bring it to pass?" He has bound Himself by His own promise to be merciful and forgiving. How do we know? Goodness or Goriness, an element of God's nature. Preached 1/28/2009. 1. 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