God Hear! We Have Access to God - Psalms 27-29

 God Hears. We have Access to God!

Psalms 28:1-2 (ESV)

1 To you, O LORD, I call;

my rock, be not deaf to me,

lest, if you be silent to me,

I become like those who go down to the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,

when I cry to you for help,

when I lift up my hands

toward your most holy sanctuary.

Psalms 28:6 (ESV)

6 Blessed be the LORD!

For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.

In the above verses we have the song of King David crying out to God to hear him when he prays.   His fear is that he will be like those who go down to the pit.  This is a word picture for the wicked who cannot approach God.  David is speaking about entering the “holy sanctuary.”  This is the Temple.   Remember, under Jewish ceremonial law, only the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies.   He could only do that once per year.   God, through that system, set up a shadow of what the reality would be. Note what the writer of Hebrews states:

Hebrews 10:11-12 (ESV)

11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

The shadowy ceremonial law could not take away sins.  It could only cover sins, once per year.   What David is seeking in the above verse is access to God.  That is what our Hebrews 10:12 passage states.  After Christ’s sacrifice, we can now approach God.  Hebrews goes on to say:

Hebrews 10:19-21 (ESV)

19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

This is what David is writing about in this psalm.  He is writing about having access to God, through faith in a better sacrifice.   Toward the end of the verse he rejoices that God has “heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.”   David looked forward to Christ’s sacrifice in faith, as we look back on Christ’s sacrifice in faith.   God hears through the sacrifice of His Son, who gives us access to Christ.