God's Got Your Back

Scripture: Psalm 3

Theme: Victory

Title: God’s Got Your Back

INTRO:

Grace and peace this morning from God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

I hope you have enjoyed an incredible week! I hope that it has been a week of great joy, love and peace. And I hope it has been a week that you have experienced the LORD in some new and amazing ways.

Lately, it seems like our weather has been all over the map. One day it will look like it almost spring and then another day it feels like we are still in the grips of winter. It is not always easy to know how to dress or how to prepare for each new morning.

Take the other morning for example. Where we live it was a little cold but not really anything to complain about – around 32° F. That’s normal for this time of year. But what was not quite so normal was the fog. We experienced a heavy fog from around 5 am until it was finally gone around 10 am.

There were times it was hard to see anything at all. You could hardly make out any of the trees in the distance. It was the right time to use your car lights and especially your fog lights if you have them.

Now, if you have driven in the fog you know that there are some people that seem to think that they don’t need to have any lights on; either their regular beams or their fog lights. I don’t know what they are thinking about, but personally, I don’t see how they can see to drive. But there are those people that no matter how foggy it is they refuse to turn on their lights.

Thankfully, though there are more people who do take advantage of their lights and their fog lights. I like those people. You can see them coming and you can see them in front of you. It is hard enough at times to see anything but you don’t want to find yourself suddenly on someone’s back bumper or them coming into your lane without their lights on. When it is fog time it is light time. That’s just good common sense.

King David as he wrote Psalm 3, I believe would agree with us. He was going through a very difficult time. You could say it was a very foggy time. It was a time when his vision was clouded and his future was anything but certain.

I would like for us to look at Psalm 3 this morning. While David was uncertain about some things he was confident that in the end he and his people would experience victory. Things may look foggy and uncertain in the natural, but David knew who to call on, who to put his trust in and how to navigate through the fog of uncertainty.

I believe that David’s insight into the supernatural can help anyone here this morning discover their own path toward victory. I believe David can help us and enable us to help our friends successfully navigate through any foggy or uncertain time that they may be experiencing.

I. David paints for us His Struggle – v. 1-2

To get the full story of Psalm 3 we need to go back and read 2 Samuel 13 – 18. They are some of the saddest chapters in the life of King David.

+His eldest son Ammon had raped his half-sister Tamar who was the full sister of one of David’s other sons; Absolom.

+Absalom retaliates by getting his half-brother Ammon drunk and then has him murdered. Absalom could not tolerate Ammon getting away with such a horrendous crime. He also could believe that his own father, King David would allow Ammon to get away with such behavior.

+ Absalom then flees to Talmai, who was the king of Geshur and Absalom's maternal grandfather. He knows that as long as he stays in Geshur he is safe.

+After three years go by, King David sends for Absalom and brings him back to Jerusalem. He is not charged with murder but he is also not allowed to come to the palace or see King David. In essence Absalom is exiled.

+After another two years and at the strong request of one of David’s Generals; Joab, King David and Absalom finally reconcile. Absalom is allowed to see David, travel around Jerusalem and be a part of the royal court. It has been a long five years but now everything seems to be forgiven and back to normal.

However, that was far from the case. For the next four years, Absalom methodically plotted against his father, King David. He slowly began to do anything he could to undermine him and get the people to follow him rather than his father.