Deliverance

Theme: What a Morning!
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
After Psalms 1 and 2, which are foundational psalms—the first stressing the importance of the law of God in one’s life, and the second the ultimate triumph of the Messiah—there are a number of psalms dealing with various circumstances that come into the godly man’s life in which he

Theme: A World of Foes
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
A second reason for taking the title of the psalm literally is that the images of the psalm are military, which fits the situation in 2 Samuel well.4 Both the examples of military language as well as the general correspondence between the psalm and the condition of David described in 2 Samuel

Theme: The Psalmist’s Confidence in God
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8 
 
Much happens in this psalm in the space between the first two stanzas, marked out by selah. The first stanza is an expression of the crisis that has come into the psalmist’s life because of the enemies who have risen up against him.

Theme: “Though This World with Devils Filled”
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
To many people the most appealing part of this psalm is the third stanza, the part in which David tells how he was able to lie down and sleep even in the midst of the sudden great danger occasioned by Absalom’s rebellion (vv. 5-6).

Theme: A Confident Cry for Deliverance
 
In this week’s studies we learn how David overcame his adversaries by committing himself into the Lord’s protection.
 
Scripture: Psalm 3:1-8
 
The last section of the psalm is a confident cry for God’s deliverance, because the psalmist knows that God has heard him and will provide deliverance. 
 
David’s words are actually a war cry, as I suggested earlier.