Sermon Discussion Guide: 7/7/24

Sermon Recap

Text: Psalm 28

Big Idea: God hears the righteous and tears down the wicked.

Summary: Psalm 28 is multi-faceted, including expressions of desperation, imprecation, and exultation. In 9 short verses, David provides a picture of what it looks like to cry out to God from the heart. The first 5 verses have a despairing and grave tone, focusing on the wicked. The remainder of the psalm is rejoicing over answered prayer.

The imprecatory themes in the Psalms can make us feel awkward. Nonetheless, these were often the cries of God’s people, and it is not unheard of for modern-day Christians to have similar requests of God in certain situations. The imprecatory aspects aside, studying this psalm can help us deepen our prayer lives, learning to pray passionately, persistently, and prophetically.
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Discussion questions:

1. How have you approached psalms of lament or imprecatory psalms in the past?

2. Have you ever been in a situation that caused you to pray like this?

3. Share about a time that God answered prayer and drove you to worship him.

4. How is your prayer life right now? How can you grow in that area?

5. How can we balance the imprecatory Psalms with the teaching of Jesus to love our enemies?

6. How does it make you feel that God will judge the wicked?

7. How can these realities drive us to share the gospel with others?