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Psalm 46- An Anchor For Our Souls! Series
Contributed by Thomas Fortini on Jan 19, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: It is apparent that we are living in troublesome, turbulent times! If we look “horizontally” for hope, we may not find it! If we look “vertically” specifically to Psalm 46, we can find a hope that only heaven can afford!
II. His Ethos ?
A) Ethos - the character, or disposition of a community, group, or person.
1. There are many characteristics of God marked out in the bible:
a) New Testaments for example:
John 4:24a God is spirit
1 John 1:5b God is light
1 John 4:16b God is love.
i. And He is all that, but so much more!
ii. He is not some disinterested Deity out in the stratosphere somewhere!
Psalm 46:1a God is - our refuge….
2. Refuge – ???????- makh·as·eh'
a) Shelter from rain or storm, from danger
b) A refuge is a strong fortress.
c) A structure that protects you from enemies.
Psalm 9:9 The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Psalm 61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.-KJV
Psalm 91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. .-KJV
Isaiah 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat.-KJV
Psalm 121: 5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.-KJV
3. Our response?
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe
B) Context of Psalm is helpful:
1. Many Historians believe it was written during the time of Hezekiah:
2 Kings 18:1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.
2 Kings 18: 13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
16 At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17 The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem.
2. Hezekiah tried appeasement, it didn’t work!
2 Kings 18: 19 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 20 You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?
