Peter Barnes | Psalm 7
SERMON NOTES
A GOOD CONSCIENCE BEFORE ONE’S ENEMIES
(Psalm 7)
– 7:1-2; possibly written when Cush from Saul’s tribe of Benjamin was accusing David of seizing the throne
1. The blessings of a good conscience.
– 7:3-5; see Acts 24:16; 25:11; Job 31:5-8
– 7:8; this is the righteousness of a good conscience, not righteousness before God (see Ps.143:2)
– the rich young ruler in Mark 10:17-22 has a dead conscience
2. God judges the wicked.
– 7:6-7, 9-13; the Bible makes no sense unless this is true.
3. Wickedness rebounds on the wicked.
– 7:14-16; Haman in the book of Esther is hanged on his own gallows, intended for Mordecai; Prov.26:27; 28:10
– Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men deals with the 160 million girls killed in India and China in sex-selection abortions. Feminism undoes itself.
4. Praise the Lord.
– 7:17