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Songs of Degrees, Part 12
Weaning Process
Songs of Degrees: This is a sermon
series about Psalms 120 through 134. The Songs of Degrees, or the
Songs of Ascents, are meant to teach us about our upward journey
toward what God wills for His church. There are 15 of these songs
and there were 1,500 years between the ministry of Moses and the
earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. When God gave Moses the plan for
the Tabernacle, it was the beginning of His plan to restore man, to
rescue man. This plan, we know, was fulfilled by the death,
resurrection, and ascension of our Lord and Savior.
Psalm 131 gives
us a picture of the maturing process that God accomplishes in those
He calls into ministry so that they can provide His form of
leadership to His people. We can look at the life of Moses and
the life of David as examples of the way God weans us from the ways
of the flesh.
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Psalm 131
| A Song of degrees of David.
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes
lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great
matters, or in things too high for me. |
| Surely I have behaved and
quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his
mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. |
| Let Israel hope in the LORD
from henceforth and for ever. |
Psalm 131 |
Isaiah 11
| And there shall come forth
a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots: |
| And the spirit of the LORD
shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the
LORD; |
| And shall make him of quick
understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: |
| But with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite
the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with
the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. |
| And righteousness shall be
the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the
girdle of his reins. |
| The wolf also shall dwell
with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child
shall lead them. |
| And the cow and the bear
shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the
ox. |
| And the sucking child shall
play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. |
| They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as
the waters cover the sea. |
| And in that day there shall
be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an
ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek: and his rest shall be glorious. |
Isaiah 11:1-10 |
1 Corinthians 2
| Now we have received, not
the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is
of God; that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of God. |
| Which things also we speak,
not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. |
| But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can
he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. |
| But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of
no man. |
| For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ. |
1 Corinthians 3
| And I, brethren, could not
speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. |
| I have fed you with milk,
and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able
to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. |
| For ye are yet carnal: for
whereas there is among you envying, and strife,
and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as
men? |
1 Corinthians 2:12-3:3 |
Zephaniah 3
| Woe to her that is filthy
and polluted, to the oppressing city! |
| She obeyed not the voice;
she received not correction; she trusted not in
the LORD; she drew not near to her God. |
| Her princes within her are
roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves;
they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. |
| Her prophets are light and
treacherous persons: her priests have polluted
the sanctuary, they have done violence to the
law. |
| The just LORD is in the
midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every
morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he
faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. |
| I have cut off the nations:
their towers are desolate; I made their streets
waste, that none passeth by: their cities are
destroyed, so that there is no man, that there
is none inhabitant. |
| I said, Surely thou wilt
fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their
dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I
punished them: but they rose early, and
corrupted all their doings. |
| Therefore wait ye upon me,
saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to
the prey: for my determination is to gather the
nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to
pour upon them mine indignation, even all my
fierce anger: for all the earth shall be
devoured with the fire of my jealousy. |
| For then will I turn to the
people a pure language, that they may all call
upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one
consent. |
Zephaniah 3:1-9 |
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