Trumpet Blast Calling for More Prayer

"Trumpet Blast Calling for More Prayer" - Psalm 12:1-2 It is necessary to understand this Psalm, to remove from our lives the great hidden lakes of evil that drown us purity and holy life in God. We must hate ourselves, reject what has not allowed Christ to be in our lives. Then we think that we are in Him, so much that we should hate ourselves. Don't give yourself so much joy, acceptance and big applause. Look at yourself and examine yourself in the purification of God, by the blood of the Lamb.

I. Help, Lord.

A. The Psalmist sees the extreme danger of his position.

1. For a man it is better to be "among lions than among liars", "he feels his own inability" to deal with these sons of Belial, because he who touches them must be surrounded by iron".

2. Therefore, he turns to his all-sufficient "Helper": the Lord.

3. His help is never withheld from His servants and His help "is sufficient for all needs."

4. It was time to pray to heaven when Saul had said, "Go, kill me, the priests of the Lord" (which is supposed to be the occasion on which this Psalm was written), and thereby "committed the sin against the Holy Spirit," in the opinion of some solemn theologians.

5. For the godly (compassionate) are gone.

6. The death, departure, or decline of godly men should be a trumpet blast "calling for more prayer."

7. "For the loyal among the sons of men have disappeared."

8. When piety (tender devotion to holy things) is seen, loyalty inevitably follows (it cannot be helped); "without the fear of God" men do not love the truth.

9. David, in the midst of the general disorder, did not set up plots (conspiracy between two or more people against another or others) and rebellion, but presented solemn petitions (majestic); nor did he gather with the multitude to do evil, "but took hold of the weapons of prayer" to resist their attacks on virtue (a permanent disposition that inclines in a strong and firm way, a power to act according to right "reason" (thinking, reaching the conclusion, judgments, reasoning).

10. (Psalm 12:2) Each one speaks lies to his neighbor.

11. Compliments and flattery are hateful to sincere people; they know that "if they accept them, they must return them", and they despise both things; Let's be honest and they will not be deceived to whom you lend your ears.

12. They speak with flattering lips (pleasing) and with duplicity (falsehood, pretense, dissimulation, hypocrisy) of heart.

13. He who swells the heart of another has "nothing but wind" in his own. (Beware of the wind of the heart that speaks what is in one) C.H.S.

14. There is nothing more appropriate to make a cloak of it than religion", there is nothing more fashionable, nothing so profitable; it is a pound (they parade in uniform disguise) with which the prudent (cautious = guard against risks) can serve two masters, "God and the world" and gain in the service of both.

15. "I serve both and with it myself", prevaricating (failing in his duties, acting unjustly knowingly, to favor someone or himself) to both.

16. Evil man's thought: Before man, there is no one who serves God with a more severe devotion; therefore, among the best of men, I seek and attain my objectives (goals or end-actions), "and serve myself."

17. In private I serve the world: not with such strict devotion, but with more delight; When I fulfill His servant's wishes, I seek "my own goals" and "serve myself."

18. Who frequents the House of Prayer more than I do?

19. In all Christian duties, who is nearer to Christ than I?

20. I fast with those who fast and eat with those who eat.

21. I grieve with those who mourn.

22. There is no hand more open to the cause than mine and in their families, there is no one who prays longer and louder.

23. Thus, when the opinion of a holy life "has proclaimed the goodness of my conscience," "my tent is frequented by those of my congregation," my merchandise has a good price, "my words deserve credit," "my actions are not without praise." (mediocre believer).

24. I am miserly, but it is interpreted that I am provident; (who cares, watches) I am mean and despicable, this is temperate (restrained, moderate); if melancholic, I am interpreted as pious (compassionate); if I love revelry, it is said that it is spiritual joy; if I am rich, there are blessings; if I am poor, it is supposed to be the fruit of a strict conscience in dealings; if I am spoken of well, I deserve it for my holy conduct; if bad, it is the malice of envious people.

25. So, I sail with all the winds and achieve my ends in all conditions.

26. "This cape" in summer keeps me cool, warm in winter and hides the sack of all my secret carnal desires.

27. Under this cloak I walk in public amidst frequent applause, and "privately I sin without fear of offense"; I acted shrewdly without being discovered.

28. I seek heaven and earth to make a proselyte (faithful follower, disciple, unconditional); And once I do, he makes me (one just like you).

29. If I am poor, I show abundance, to safeguard (defend, save) my credit; if I am rich, I hide it and present poverty so that they do not burden me.

30. The most schismatic opinions (which depart from religious authority, discord sows) are the ones that I find most profitable because from them I learn to disseminate and "maintain new doctrines; they support me with dinner three days a week."

31. I make use of a lie sometimes, as a new stratagem (cunning, trickery, astuteness, pretense, deception) to defend the gospel; and execrate (condemn, curse) oppression with the judgments of God executed on the wicked.

32. I consider charity to be an extraordinary duty; therefore, I do not execute it ordinarily (usual, habitual).

33. What I reprove (not approve, take for granted) in the eyes of the public, for my own benefit, I do secretly at home, for my own pleasure.

34. But stop, I see a writing in my heart that makes my soul faint! The words of this are Woe to you, hypocrites!" (Matthew 23:13) Francis Quarles in Soliloquy of the Hypocrite. Amen.