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Psalm 3:0 (MESSAGE)
A David Psalm, When He Escaped For His Life From Absalom, His Son.

Psalm 3:1-8 (ESV)
O LORD, how many are my foes!
Many are rising against me;
2 many are saying of my soul,
“There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah
Psa. 3:3 But you, O LORD, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
4 I cried aloud to the LORD,
and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah
Psa. 3:5 I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.
Psa. 3:7 Arise, O LORD!
Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.
Psa. 3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD;
your blessing be on your people! Selah

Point 1: To Overcome Fear…Do Not Listen to it’s Voice (Vv. 1-2)

Psalm 3:1-2 (ESV)
O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; 2 many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God. Selah

Point 2: To Overcome Fear…Remember God’s Faithfulness In the Past (Vv. 3-6)

“Pride is the preference for man over God—the man in the mirror, the man who knows better than God where pleasure and significance are to be found, the man with power who can provide better security than God. Pride is every form of self-exaltation, preferred above joyful God-exaltation. Therefore, pride is the destruction of the glad-hearted praise of the glory of God’s grace — which is the ultimate goal of the rightful ruler of the universe. Therefore, pride is the height of treason and the end of human happiness.” - John Piper, Providence

Psalm 3:4-5 (ESV)
I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah 5 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.

The change from present tense to the past tense brings out how the psalmist had habitually trusted in the Lord. The patterns he had set, over years of experience with the Lord, had led him to rest quietly. - Expositor’s Bible Commentary Revised

Psalm 3:6 (ESV)
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.

Point 3: To Overcome Fear…Call Out For God’s Help, Expecting Him To Act (Vv. 7-8)

Psalm 3:7 (ESV)
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 3:8 (ESV)
Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing be on your people! Selah

There is no evil that anyone can do to disrupt the blessings of those who love God and are predestined to salvation and then effectually called by him to adoption as sons and daughters of his kingdom (Rom. 8:29-30; Eph. 1:4-6). All the ill-treatment, injustice, and cursed adversity that slam us on the cold, hard floor of this life have already been ordained by God so that his atoning grace in Christ will redeem them [those acts] for our good (Rom. 8:28). Our present redemption does not relieve all the burdens of the evils we suffer in this life. But it points to the consummation of redemption in Christ’s glorious kingdom when our merciful Father “will wipe away every tear from” our weary eyes, ‘and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away” (Rev. 21:4). There is more than enough hope for us, in the present along with a down payment of hope for the future, contained in the riches of Christ’s treasury of grace. - Scott Christensen, What About Evil?

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (NLT)
For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.