Peter Barnes | Psalm 3
SERMON NOTES
Prayer in the Day of Trouble
2 Samuel 15:1-18; Psalm 3
Psalm 3 dates from the rebellion of 2 Sam.15-19.
1. David’s isolation.
– 3:1-2; 2 Sam.15:13, 1-6; 16:5-13; Matt.27:39-43
– a minority, facing hostility and mocking as to whether he was a true believer.
2. David’s faith.
– 3:3-4; 2 Sam.15:30; God still reigns from His holy hill; Spurgeon: Pray out loud
– 3:5; Lev.26:6a; Ps.127:2; Prov.3:21-26; Luke 8:23-25a
– Alexander Duff cites Psalm 3:5-7a during the Indian Mutiny of 1857; Martin Luther on the way to the Diet of Worms in 1521: ‘Go and tell your master, that even should there be as many devils in Worms as tiles upon the housetops, still I would enter it.’
3. David’s assurance
3:7-8; Spurgeon calls verse 8 ‘the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine’
– Rom.15:4