Exam Time!
Psalm 26
Intro: Notice the level of David’s desire to be right:
- Judge me
- Examine me
- Prove me
- Try my heart and my reins.
I. Examine my Course – vs. 1, 3, 11
Multiple times, David referred to his walk.
He referred to walking in integrity and walking in truth.
- 3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
II. Examine my Company – vs. 4, 8, 9, 10, 12
- DISSEMBLERS: to conceal, hide, be hidden, be concealed, be secret
David said he wouldn’t go in with the cover-up crowd.
What would your grade be on this exam?
III. Examine my Consecration – vs. 6
I will wash mine hands in innocency.
I will compass thine altar.
- COMPASS: to march or walk around, go partly around, circle about, skirt, make a round, make a circuit, go about to, surround, encompass
This was not a touch and go; this was not a casual encounter.
This was a life of consecration.
David was familiar with the altar of God.
What would your grade be on this exam?
IV. Examine my Conversation – vs. 7
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving.
And tell of thy wondrous works.
What would your grade be on this exam?
V. Examine my Commitment – vs. 11, 12
- David said in verse 1 I HAVE walked.
- He said in verse 3 I HAVE walked.
- He said in verse 4 I HAVE NOT sat with…
- He said in verse 5 I HAVE hated the congregation of evil doers…
- He said in verse 8 I HAVE LOVED…
But there was a few times where David was dogmatic about what he WOULD do…
- He said in verse 4 …neither will I go in with the dissemblers.
- He said in verse 5 …I WILL NOT sit with the wicked…
- He said in 6 I WILL wash mine hands…
- He said in verse 6 I WILL compass thine altar…
- He said in verse 7 THAT I MAY PUBLISH…AND TELL…
- He said in verse 11 BUT AS FOR ME…I WILL WALK IN MINE INTEGRITY.
- He said in verse 12 in the congregations WILL I BLESS THE LORD.
Conclusion:
David was asking God to judge him; to examine him; to prove him and to try him.
Can you ask God to do that tonight?