Admonishing ... in Psalms

Admonishing One Another in Psalms (Eph 5:19, Col 3:16, Psalm 1-2)

Exposition
The book of Psalms doesn't have an explicit purpose statement. It doesn't come right out and tell us why it was given to us. However, we do have a kind of purpose statement in Psalm 1 and 2. They lay out the meaning, and scope, and use of the book to us.

Doctrine
why don't you think these psalms are very popular in worship any longer? I think there are a lot of reasons why these are unpopular. But I think the most important reason is this, they ADMONISH us.

Application

1. This is what good praise songs sound like.
   Spirit-inspired praise throughout the Bible sounds like this. And God wants us to sing things that ADMONISH us. Few hymns do this.

2. It has been a titanic struggle for centuries to keep the church singing psalms.
   Marcion didn't like the God of holiness and justice and righteous wrath. So he has his own songs made. And friends, that heresy is everywhere in the church today. The marcions have landed. We don't like God's songs, and so we reject his and only sing our own. And our songs don't have wrath. They don't have enemies or warnings and threats. They don't have sorrows and sufferings of the righteous at the hand of the wicked, or a plea for deliverance.

3. The Psalms are our God-given means of unity.

Objection: The problem of enemies and threats
A: This is the Lord’s warning against the his enemies (Ps 109, Acts 1)

Objection: Archaic references

Conclusion