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Psalm 50 Commentary

Useless Rituals

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KEY THOUGHT: “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine, and all its fullness. [Psalm 50:12 NKJV]

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Psalm 50 NKJV

God the Righteous Judge

A Psalm of Asaph.

50 The Mighty One, God the Lord,
Has spoken and called the earth
From the rising of the sun to its going down.
²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God will shine forth.
³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;
A fire shall devour before Him,
And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

⁴He shall call to the heavens from above,
And to the earth, that He may judge His people:
⁵“Gather My saints together to Me,
Those who have ^[a]made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
⁶Let the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is Judge. Selah

⁷“Hear, O My people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you;
I am God, your God!
⁸I will not ^[b]rebuke you for your sacrifices
Or your burnt offerings,
Which are continually before Me.
⁹I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
¹⁰For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

¹²“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴Offer to God thanksgiving,
And pay your vows to the Most High.
¹⁵Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in your mouth,
¹⁷Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words behind you?
¹⁸When you saw a thief, you consented^[c] with him,
And have been a partaker with adulterers.
¹⁹You give your mouth to evil,
And your tongue frames deceit.
²⁰You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
²¹These things you have done, and I kept silent;
You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And set them in order before your eyes.

²²“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces,
And there be none to deliver:
²³Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;
And to him who orders his conduct aright
I will show the salvation of God.”

Footnotes

a. Psalm 50:5 Lit. cut
b. Psalm 50:8 reprove
c. Psalm 50:18 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. ran

New King James Version (NKJV)

Psalm 50 Commentary

Another courtroom session. The saint goes in first. The ungodly will have their own turn. But first, we have introductory remarks from the Judge.

His name is the Mighty One, God, and the LORD. His name is described at length. It relates to the task at hand, judging the people.

He summons the earth and the heavens. He also summons individuals. God’s creation is called to account. Specifically, the Creator God checks His creation.

Coming up first is the saint. God is fed up with men’s make-believe religion. Rituals are the means to an end. Saints have settled down and concluded that they have worshipped the LORD by merely performing a couple of cold rituals.

What makes them feel God needs a meal? Even if He did, would the Creator God depend on man’s generosity?

This chapter discredits the religion of works. It’s salvation by faith, not by works!

What lies behind my action, or lack of it?

Believers can miss God in the process of cleaning the church, painting it, or arranging the chairs. The LORD requires the person and not necessarily his services. Services should come as a consequence of fellowship with Heaven.

The saint stands in the dock for offering services to the LORD without prioritizing the relationship.

Up next is the ungodly. Why all the noise? God. God. God. Why talk about the God you don’t even know? Why pretend knowledge of the Almighty when you have no interest in obedience?

And when the LORD keeps quiet, you think all is well, and your behavior is after all just right. A blatant lack of faith!

We are observers. We hear the Judge say these things about the saint and about the ungodly. We know the saint has to do better. And the ungodly? Well, we can see a couple of things from the Creator’s judgment.

Silence from the Creator’s throne doesn’t mean acceptance. The misconception that the LORD is fine with the sinner’s wrongdoing leads to more sin. Lack of faith is atheism – concluding that lack of action is proof of God’s absence.

The chapter ends with an important statement of hope to the saint.

The blameless will see God’s salvation. Attached to this statement of hope is a naked warning that the Creator God will tear to pieces the ungodly. There will be no one to rescue them.

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It has been exciting learning how God can make things happen to his choosen one, God workout something wonderful and fulfils the promises he made to the father of Joseph.

God’s words remains true so are his promises and indeed it has been God working out the salvation of man Kind by Grace through Faith alone.

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Quite thought provoking. Thank you for the passage of scripture.