Psalm 144:12-15 Preached Backwards (Part 2)

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Psalm 144:12-15 Preached Backwards (Part 2) 1. When a people’s God is the LORD, He blesses them to be stable: nor going out. A. God’s obedient people will dwell in peaceable habitations, sure dwellings, and quiet resting places (Isa 32:17-18). B. When they do go out, they will be kept safe (Psa 121:8). C. They will not have to flee their homes or communities because of crime, violence, or social unrest. 2. When a people’s God is the LORD, He blesses them to be content: that there be no complaining in our streets. A. The wicked are murmurers and complainers (Jud 1:16). B. God’s faithful people will not be murmuring and complaining (Php 2:14). C. God will provide them with what they need (Php 4:19), and they will be content with such things as they have (Heb 13:5; Php 4:11; 1Ti 6:6). II. Psa 144:13 - That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: 1. When a people’s God is the LORD, He blesses them to be wealthy and well provided for: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store. A. God’s faithful people will be blessed with wealth (Deut 28:8; Pro 10:22). B. God will give them power to get wealth (Deut 8:18) and strength and wisdom to retain it (Pro 11:16). C. He will give them good sense to be savers and not fools with money (Pro 21:17, 20). D. There will be riches in their houses (Pro 15:6; Psa 112:3), but not in their hearts (Psa 62:10). 2. When a people’s God is the LORD, He blesses them to be fruitful and industrious: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets. A. God’s faithful people will be blessed with fruitfulness (Deut 28:4). B. Their investments will prosper and their wealth will increase (Deut 28:11-12). III. Psa 144:12 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: 1. When a people’s God is the LORD, He blesses them to have strong, healthy, mature sons: That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth. A. A people whose God is the LORD will be blessed and have many children (Psa 127:3-5). B. They will train up their sons in the ways of the LORD by teaching them the scriptures (Eph 6:4). C. Their sons will grow up to be godly men who will do the same for their sons (Psa 78:4-8). 2. When a people’s God is the LORD, He blesses them to have chaste, honorable, and beautiful daughters: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. A. A godly people will train up their daughters to be godly women. B. Their mothers and aged women in the church will teach them “to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,  obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (Tit 2:4- 5). C. They will be like beautiful polished cornerstones, not uncivilized jagged rocks. IV. Why are we as a people today unproductive, unsafe, unstable, discontent, covetous, broke, in debt, and have steeply falling fertility rates and lazy, zombified, uneducated, and ill-mannered children? 1. It’s because our God is not the LORD, but our own bellies (Php 3:19). 2. If this terrible trend is ever going to reverse, it will only be by national repentance (2Ch 7:14; Jer 18:7-8). 3. But repentance must first begin in the church (2Ch 7:15; 1Pe 4:17).