Psalms 25:1-22 Questions by Stephen Ricker
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Show Me Your Ways, O LORD
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Memory Verse: 25:4
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I. I Lift my Soul to the LORD (25:1-3)

1. What does David, the author lift up to the Lord? What is it? What in confidence does he tell God? (3)

II. Remember Not my Sins (25:4-7)

2. What is David asking for when he asks "show me your ways" and "teach me your paths"? How does God guide his people in his truth? How does he teach us? Why? (5)

3. What does David ask to remember and forget? Is this possible? If so, how?

III. The Troubles of My Heart Have Multiplied (25:8-22)

4. What does it mean to us personally that the Lord is good and upright according to verses 8 and 9?

5. What are the demands of the old and new covenant? (10) What is promised if we keep them? (10, 14) What does it mean and imply "he makes his covenant known to them"? (14)

6. How severe was David's iniquity? What is iniquity? Why does he ask forgiveness? (11)

7. Why might David be asking "Who, then, is the man that fears the Lord?" What must be done to spend our days in prosperity? How else does it benefit?

8. What does David mean by "release my feet from the snare"? What snared him? (15 including 7, 8, 11, & 18) What does he mean by "be gracious to me"? What was the result of his sin? (16-17)

9. How does verse 18 further help us understand the results of sin? What were people's reaction when David's iniquity was exposed? (19)

10. What is David concluding two requests? What David the only person who was affected by his iniquities? (22)