I Will Judge With Equity

Monday, June 1, 2015
Psalm 75:1-10 KJV

1 [[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.]] Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. 2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. 4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck. 6 For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. 8 For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them]. 9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Who was the psalmist giving thanks to and why? (v.1)
2) What does the Lord declare concerning the congregation (His people)? (v.2)
3) When the earth and its inhabitants are dissolved (consumed), what does the Lord do? (v.3)
4) What does the Lord say to the foolish and to the wicked? Why? (v.4-7)
5) What is in the Lord's hand and what does He do with it in judgment? (v.8a-b)
6) What will become of the dregs? (v.8c)
7) What will the psalmist do? (v.9)
8) What final declaration does the Lord make concerning the "horns of the wicked'? What does He proclaim about the "horns of the righteous"? 

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
9) Are your deeds typically done in wickedness or in righteousness?

LIFE LESSONS
10) The Lord will only exalt the upright in heart, but He will judge the wicked.