Psalm 29

Sermon Notes

“Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re said to be schizophrenic?”
Lily Tomlin

Psalm 29

1. The glory of the LORD (v. 1-2)
2. The voice of the LORD (v. 3-10)
3. The peace of the LORD (v. 11)

Psalm 29: A Psalm of David

1. Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
3. The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters.
4. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
5. The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6. He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
7. The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.
8. The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9. The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
10. The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever.
11. May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace!

What is the voice of the LORD saying to us in Psalm 29?

1. God wants us to witness & experience His glory & splendor.

“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
Romans 10:17

“The (written) Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”
F. B. Meyer
The Secret of Guidance

2. God has spoken and is speaking to His people.

“The facts are that God is not silent, has never been silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second Person of the Holy Trinity is called the Word. The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind for us put into our familiar human words.”
A. W. Tozer
The Pursuit of God

3. God’s majesty, power & authority are demonstrated through His voice.

“God the Father is both far away and near at hand; his voice is, at once, deafening in its thunderousness, and too still and small to be easily audible.”
Malcolm Muggeridge

4. God’s peace is realized by trusting God & what God has said.

“It seems to be assumed by some that the chief evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit is noise. Have we forgotten that a dove is as much an emblem of the Holy Spirit as are wind and fire? When he visits his people in power, he sometimes brings quietness, silence, reverence and awe. His still small voice is heard. Men bow down in wonder before the majesty of the living God and worship. ‘The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him’ (Habakuk 2:20).”
John Stott

“Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.”
Elisabeth Elliot