A Plea for God's Return (Psalm #79)

A plea for God’s return

God abandons His house

This song begins with the sad state of God’s inheritance. The LORD has abandoned His house and the consequences are deadly.
How long? Will God’s jealousy burn like fire? A few times in history it has.
- Under Nebuchadnezzar
- Under Titus, 40 years after Jesus Christ’s ministry. In 70 AD Emperor Titus came to Jerusalem and burned the temple down completely. As those Jews that watched from outside the city, their tear stained faces reflecting the amber glow of flames. And to think, this isn’t the work of Titus or the Roman army, this is the jealousy of God destroying His own house because it is uninhabitable.
Hell and then the Lake of Fire is God’s fiery jealousy for creatures that turned from Him.

Sin caused God to leave

Someone would only leave their home if it’s become uninhabitable. Hoarding, filth, things aren’t working properly, these are all reasons a place becomes unlivable.
Verses 8-9
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- Christians are the temple of God and here is the application to Christians: Romans 8:9-13, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
- House cleaning is in order-
John 2:13-17 And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

The basis for God to return

God’s house (vs 1)
- Strangers are in your home LORD. They are unwanted tenants. LORD, please evict them from your house because your house is our house.
God’s people (vss 2-5)
God’s reputation (vss 6-10)
- Plea for God’s mercy because there is nothing this soul can do to eliminate a sinful past. I can’t change what I’ve done, I can only ask that the LORD not hold it against me. This man’s nation, Israel, is at the mercy of God.
God’s avenging (vss 11-13)
How many times have your prayers had this motivation? We’re motivated by our pain, loss, troubles, and cares. But how often are your prayers motivated by the same things god is motivated by?
This truly is prayer in Jesus name. John 14:13-14, 15:16.