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Psalm 9 - I Will
Recount Your Wonderful Deeds
In Praise of God
Psalm 9:
● A praise psalm
● An acrostic using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
● In the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) Psalms 9 and 10 are one psalm
● Expands on ‘O LORD, our LORD, how majestic is your name in all the earth’ (Psalm 8:1; 9)
Psalm 9 - A Psalm/hymn of praise offered to God:
● In the context of worship - both personal and corporate
● Simply because he is God - there is none more deserving of our praise, the covenant God - our LORD - is worthy of all our praise
● In telling of God’s wonderful deeds - a natural/instinctive response to God, which is inevitably offered:
● whole-heartedly - every part of who we are, nothing held back e.g. David when celebrating the return of the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem: ‘And David danced before the LORD with all his might’ (2 Samuel 6:14)
Such praise arises out of truly knowing God, having experienced the reality of God. Psalm 9 reveals that David understood that God is:
● Sovereign - ‘But the LORD sits enthroned forever’ (9:7)
● Righteous - ‘and he judges the world with righteousness’ (9:8)
● Just - ‘you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment’ (9:4)
● Faithful - ‘And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you’ (9:10)
● Saviour - ‘Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death, that I may recount all your praises … may rejoice in your salvation’ (9:13-14)
● Worthy to be worshipped - ‘Sing praises to the LORD, who sits enthroned in Zion!’ (9:11)
David praises God for in Psalm 9 for:
● Past rescue - from his enemies
● Future salvation - the fulfilment of God’s promise established in Gen. 3:15
As we read Psalm 9, we do so from the place of having seen God’s promise of salvation fulfilled in his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Without Christ we are all:
● Dead in our sin
● Unable to do anything in our own strength to make ourselves right with God
With Christ:
● Our sins are forgiven because he died the death we deserved
● We can stand before God because we are clothed in Christ’s righteousness
Therefore, we too regularly offer our hymn of praise to God:
● In the context of worship - both personal and corporate - the main focus of ALL worship is God's saving work in Christ
● Simply because he is God - there is none more deserving of our praise, the covenant God - our LORD - is worthy of all our praise and is offered despite our circumstances or feelings
● In telling of God’s wonderful deeds - a natural/instinctive response to God - the Bible instructs us to remember and to tell of all God’s wonderful deeds: ‘When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us’ (Deut. 6:20-25) On the day of Pentecost the people heard the disciples, ‘we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God’ (Acts 2:11)
● whole-heartedly - every part of who we are, nothing held back - when the eyes of our heart is focused on Christ and all he has done for us there can only ever be an extravagant overflow of thanksgiving and praise
In our celebration of communion we:
● Gather in the context of corporate worship for God alone is worthy of our praise and worship
● See and hear the wonderful deeds of God though his Son’s willing sacrifice to rescue us from sin
● Respond with wholehearted praise and and a desire to tell others of wonderful deeds of our Father God
11.40am June Lambert's Funeral
Audio recording is available.
Saturday 31 October 2026
Jim Harries - End-October News
In his latest news, Jim writes about:
- missionaries being mediators between donors and recipients;
- a lecture on understanding African languages (available on YouTube - NB This is the correct link);
- a trip to Uganda;
- work on his novels;
- his forthcoming furlough (28 February - 21 April);
- controversial practices to lure new members to a church plant;
- a need for an increase in donors (or increased donations from existing donors).