Word of God Purified 7 Times

(3) Who is lord over us (Psalm 12:4)
3. Pharoah questioned God's authority
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD
4. The wicked in Job's day questioned God's authority
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
5. Nebuchadnezzar questioned God's authority
Daniel 3:15 who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
6. The Jewish leaders in Jesus' day questioned God's authority
Luke 19:14 , We will not have this man to reign over us.
Luke 19:27 which would not that I should reign over them
7. God plainly tells the Christian that his body and spirit are God's property
1 Corinthians 6:19 and ye are not your own
C. The Justification for God's Indignation (Psalm 12:5)

1. The man threatened
   a. The oppression of the poor
   b. The sighing of the needy
2. The promise given
   a. Now will I arise, saith the LORD.
3. I will set him (the poor and needy) in safety from him (the oppressor) that puffeth at him (the poor and needy).

IV. THE ASSURANCE OF GOD'S HELP (Psalm 12:6-8)

A. In comparison to these lying, false and vain words, we have the Certainty of God's Word (Psalm 12:6-7)

1. The purity of God's WORDS (Psalm 12:6)
   a. The statement of their purity—"The words of the LORD ARE pure words."
   Pure: "Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy."
   b. God's words does not say that the words WERE pure in the original writings.
   c. The likeness of their purity—"as silver tried in a furnace of EARTH, purified seven times"
   • Nebuchadnezzar heated the furnace seven times hotter to kill God's servants and it eliminated the impure, not the pure.
   Daniel 3:19-22
2. The preservation of God's words (Ps