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Expressions of a Troubled Heart

Text: Psalm 10
14 August 2017

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EXPRESSIONS OF A TROUBLED HEART

1. Why do You stand afar off, O LORD?   (Psalm 10:1a)

2. Why do you hide in times of trouble?   (Psalm 10:1b)

COMMON PROBLEMS

1. The Psalmist of Psalm 10

2. Habakkuk the prophet

THE PREVALENCE OF WICKEDNESS

1. The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor   (Psalm 10:2a)

2. The wicked boasts of his heart’s desire   (Psalm 10:3a)

3. He blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord   (Psalm 10:3b)

4. The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God   (Psalm 10:4a)

5. God is in none of his thoughts   (Psalm 10:4b)

6. He sneers at all his enemies   (Psalm 10:5b)

7. He says in his heart
“I shall not be moved:
I shall never be in adversity”   (Psalm 10:6)

8. His mouth is full of cursing
And deceit and oppression   (Psalm 10:7a)

9. Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity   (Psalm10:7b)

10. He sits in the lurking places   (Psalm 10:8a )

11. He murders the innocent   (Psalm 10:8b)

12. His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless   (Psalm 10:8c)

13. He is like a lion in his den   (Psalm 10:9a)

14. He is like a hunter- he catches the poor in his net   (Psalm 10:9b)

15. He has said in his heart
“God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see”   (Psalm 10:11 )

THE PECULIAR THAT PUZZLES AND IRKS

1. His ways are always prospering   (Psalm 10:5a)

2. Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account”   (Psalm 10:13)

2. Why had God not judged him?

PRAYERS OFFERED

1. Let the wicked be caught in the plots which they devised   (Psalm 10:2b)
(Cf. Psalm 9:15-16)

2. Arise, O LORD,
O God, lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the humble.   (Psalm 10:12)

3. Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man   (Psalm 10:15a)

4. Seek out his wickedness until You find none   (Psalm10:15b)

FAITH IN GOD

1. But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief
To repay it by Your hand.   (Psalm 10:14a)

2. You are the Helper of the fatherless
The helpless commits himself to You   (Psalm 10:14b)

3.The LORD is King forever   (Psalm 10:16)

4. You have heard the desire of the humble   (Psalm 10:17a)

5. To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed
That the man of the earth may oppress no more   (Psalm10:18)