Psalm 81

Gathering God’s people: Praise, Remembering, Warning

1. Make Music in Praise

   1. To sing to God as our strength

   2. To sing a psalm and play a tambourine or a harp

   3. To blow the trumpet on a new moon on a day of feast

2. Recognizing God’s Works

   1. Remembering how Joseph was directed into Egypt, a land he did not know well

   2. God delivered Joseph out of his misery

      1. Delivered from prison and burden

   3. His people called to him for help and he delivered and tested them

3. Hear and Listen to God

   1. Listen to God as he speaks

   2. There will be no other gods among them

   3. He is the Lord of them

      1. Ask and they shall receive if they listen

      2. “Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it”

   4. The others did not listen to him so he let lust fill their hearts and do their own thing

   5. If they had listened to him, Israel’s enemies would have fallen by his hand

   6. The Lord’s enemies would have submitted themselves to him but now they live on in rebellion

   7. He would have fed his people with the finest wheat and honey for their satisfaction if they listened. But they didn’t