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R u ready for some Psalms? # 1 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: And we thank you for what Jesus Christ did at
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  Speaker 1: the cross the Calvary for each one of us. Because
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  Speaker 1: the entering the message, we actually allow your Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to take it and make it real, make it real
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  Speaker 1: into the listener, and continue to make it real for
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  Speaker 1: my life. In Jesus's name, we ask him. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program.
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  Speaker 1: I am Gary McCants. Thank you for joining. We're living
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  Speaker 1: in the day of the Ministry of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the Day of Grace, and that's when the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God takes the things of Christ and reveals them to
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  Speaker 1: you and to me as believers of the House of
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  Speaker 1: the Faith. And as we enter His word, his word,
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  Speaker 1: not mine, not your pastors, few members, not your professor,
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  Speaker 1: But as you study, read the Bible passages first, and
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  Speaker 1: then ask God to open your eyes and deepen your
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  Speaker 1: understanding of his word, his word, his word. Ask the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit of God to help you to take the
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  Speaker 1: heart what He wants to show you, not what you
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  Speaker 1: want to be shown, what others want you to see.
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  Speaker 1: And then let the work of Christ, his word, his word,
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  Speaker 1: his words dwell in you richly, and all wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: teaching you can see that in Colossians chapter three, verse sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: And now I know you're writing it all down. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at the book of Psalm, get a
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  Speaker 1: chance opening it to get verse one. Let me know
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  Speaker 1: when you finish. I know you have. Do you notice
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  Speaker 1: the key word in the book of Psalms is hallelujah,
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  Speaker 1: which means praise the Lord. And I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: the way in which is done. You know, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: your place of worship for yours or yours you know,
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  Speaker 1: like some type of cliche, but I'm talking about one
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  Speaker 1: that you know. You know it causes a powerful emotion
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  Speaker 1: in your soul. And the Psalm is going to show
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  Speaker 1: you and I what it means for us to connect
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  Speaker 1: with God, whether it be in praise, whether it be
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  Speaker 1: in thanksgiving, whether it be sorrow every single day. And
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  Speaker 1: when we get into Psalms, you don't see how it's
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  Speaker 1: going to show you that deep devotion, that intense feeling,
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  Speaker 1: the exalted emotion and dark dejection. And if you're familiar
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  Speaker 1: with Psalms, and I know you are, do you notice
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  Speaker 1: how He has blessed the hearts of multitude throughout the ages,
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  Speaker 1: including today in your heart and mind. And when the
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  Speaker 1: challenges to our faith occur, it's only natural it should
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  Speaker 1: be to turn the Psalms because it's going to bless
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  Speaker 1: our heart in our lives. You notice when you're reading it,
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  Speaker 1: it're full of references to Jesus Christ. You say, what
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  Speaker 1: did you know that we obtain a more complete picture
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  Speaker 1: of him and the Psalms than in the Gospels. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the Gospels, it tells us he
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  Speaker 1: went to the mountain to pray, but the Psalm gives
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  Speaker 1: us his prayer. The Gospel tells us that he was crucified,
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  Speaker 1: but you know how the Psalm tells us what went
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  Speaker 1: on in his own heart during the crucifixion. The Gospel
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  Speaker 1: lets you and I know how he went back to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But the Psalms, the Psalms, the Psalms, it begins where
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel leaves off, and it shows us Christ, a
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  Speaker 1: redeemer seated in heaven. And the most important thing that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to learn is that Jesus Christ is a messiah.
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  Speaker 1: He's the subject of the Psalms, he's the object of
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  Speaker 1: praise and every one of them. You notice how our
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  Speaker 1: Lord himself, when he appeared after his resurrection to those
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  Speaker 1: who were his own. You notice what he said in
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter twenty four, verse forty four. I know you
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  Speaker 1: wrote it down. These are the words was I spoke
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  Speaker 1: to you while I was still with you, that all
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  Speaker 1: things must be fulfilled, which was written in the Law
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  Speaker 1: of Moses, than the Psalms concerning me. You notice how
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  Speaker 1: the Psalms specifically describe how Jesus Christ belongs to Israel
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  Speaker 1: and Israel belongs to Christ. You notice there's no blessing
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  Speaker 1: to this erp until Israel and Christ are brought together.
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice that looked at what's going around, do
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  Speaker 1: you notice that the Psalms are Jewish in expectation and hope?
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice that? Do you notice that the worship
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  Speaker 1: in Psalms is Jewish as they are sung in the
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  Speaker 1: Temple and the Tabernacle. The psalm still apply to you
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  Speaker 1: and I today, even more than any other portion of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God. But we have to be factual
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  Speaker 1: in our interpretation of the Psalms. You notice while reading it,
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  Speaker 1: I know y'all that God, it's not spoken of as
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  Speaker 1: a father in the Psalms. That you notice that you
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  Speaker 1: notice he's called God the Father but not the Father God,
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  Speaker 1: because the psalms know nothing of the abiding presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. The saints. If you're not a saint,
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  Speaker 1: you're in a are not called sons. You're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: find a blessed hope of the New Testament in the psalms.
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  Speaker 1: But the psalms are full of references to the second
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  Speaker 1: coming of Christ. And you have some psalms that are
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  Speaker 1: technically called Messianic, and they record the birth life, that resurrection, glory, priesthood, kinship,
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  Speaker 1: and return of Christ. And while you're in the psalms
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  Speaker 1: studying applying it to your life, you're gonna see the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen psalms speak specifically about Christ, but all one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty of them are about him. Think about the
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  Speaker 1: book of Psalms is a hymn book, and a hymn book.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about Him. And not only that as relates
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  Speaker 1: to the messianicthum. You're gonna see the pilgrim songs, the
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  Speaker 1: penitential psalms, the historic nature, missionary s, puritan and the
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  Speaker 1: acoustic psalms, and then praise of God's words. Let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you a question. You don't mind, do you? It's
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  Speaker 1: a test. What's the longest chapter in the Bible? And
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  Speaker 1: in that chapter, every verse in it focuses on God's words.
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  Speaker 1: I don't forget to find out which chapter it is.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have those them precatory psalms. That's caused
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  Speaker 1: the most criticism because you know why their Christ for judgment.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at these psalms you don't see
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  Speaker 1: how they were written in a time of war and
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  Speaker 1: from the people who are looking for justice and peace
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, the household of faith. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: peace without putting down unrighteousness and rebellion. But are loving
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  Speaker 1: and merciful God. He tends to do just that, and
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  Speaker 1: guess what, he makes no apology for it. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you and as believers of the household of faith, do
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  Speaker 1: you notice how we're told to love our enemies, but
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  Speaker 1: in precatory psalms that ask for justis to be meeted
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  Speaker 1: out on the earth. And these songs are looking to
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  Speaker 1: a time coming on the earth when the anti Christ
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be in power. Think about it. Living today,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have no basis to say how people
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  Speaker 1: should act under these circumstances. There's judgment in the songs,
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  Speaker 1: but that judgment doesn't apply to Christians under grace or
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  Speaker 1: the God's people whom he has redeemed. And we'll get
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  Speaker 1: a chance in the Book of Songs to look at
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  Speaker 1: all the one hundred and fifty spiritual songs, which at
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  Speaker 1: one time we're all set to music for templing, tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: workship services. And while we're studying the psalms, guess what
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  Speaker 1: we'll see about all the writers that contributed one or
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  Speaker 1: more psalms. Remember David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel, he
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  Speaker 1: had the most. Seventy three psalms were assigned to him.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm two is ascribed to him Acts chapter four twenty
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  Speaker 1: five and Psalm ninety five, and Hebrews chapter four, verse seven.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, he can also be the author of some
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  Speaker 1: of the what they called the orphan thom, since it
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  Speaker 1: was his pattern to write songs from his experience. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have other writers like Moses Psalm ninety. You
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  Speaker 1: have Solomon, you have the Sons of Kor you know
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  Speaker 1: over in Psalm eleven and Solomon Psalm two, and Moses
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  Speaker 1: Psalm one. Didn't you had a Saptain chapter twelve and
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  Speaker 1: heman over in Psalm eighty eight and Ethan Psalm eighty nine,
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  Speaker 1: and Hezekiah, who wrote ten of them rather than Ethan,
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  Speaker 1: wrote one. Heman wrote one, twelve, Core wrote eleven of them,
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  Speaker 1: and Stalmen wrote two, and Moses wrote one. And when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the contrary to what many believe, Psalm
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  Speaker 1: is not arranged haphazardly, do you notice that it follows
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  Speaker 1: several Psalms the states of principle. When you look at
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  Speaker 1: Psalms Chapter one through eight, you know the example. You
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  Speaker 1: notice how the sections of the Psalms are also arranged
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  Speaker 1: orally corresponding to the penitition of Moses. You got Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: exsues of Viticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy sections. And the first
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  Speaker 1: forty one Psalms are the Genesis section. The Exodus section
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  Speaker 1: begins with Psalm forty two and goes all the way
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  Speaker 1: through the Psalm seventy two. And then you have the
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  Speaker 1: Leviticus section, which begins with Psalm seventy three and goes
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  Speaker 1: through eighty nine. Then you have the number section, which
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  Speaker 1: begins in Psalm ninety it goes through one hundred and six.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have the Deuteronomy section. It begins with some
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  Speaker 1: one oh seven, goes through one fifty and as you
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  Speaker 1: study in I know you're you'll see that in the
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  Speaker 1: Genesis section you'll see man in the state of blessedness
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  Speaker 1: that Psalm won the perfect man. And then you have
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  Speaker 1: the rebellion and the recovery of man in view that's
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  Speaker 1: representing the Psalm two. And then by the time you
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  Speaker 1: get the Psalm III, it's going to show the perfect
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  Speaker 1: man that was rejected. Psalm ford you got the conflict
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  Speaker 1: between the seed of the woman and the serpent. Psalm
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  Speaker 1: five you got the perfect man in the midst of enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and Psalm six you got the perfect man in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of discipline, the bruising of his heel. And Psalm
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  Speaker 1: seven you got the perfect man in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: false witnesses. And then Salm eight you got to repair
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  Speaker 1: a man comes through man, the bruising of the head.
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  Speaker 1: In Psalm nine, nine through fifteen, we'll get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to see the enemy and anti Christ conflict and the
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  Speaker 1: final deliverance. Then in Psalm sixteen through forty one, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see Christ in the midst of his people, sanctifying them
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  Speaker 1: to God. And we see all these playouts that go
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  Speaker 1: through the book of Psalms I know you're ready for it,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you excited? We're talking about an inspired book of
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  Speaker 1: prayer and praise. Think about it. It's the Garden of Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this. Of two hundred and eighteen quotations of
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament and the New Testament, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixteen of them are from the Psalms. Here you got God,
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  Speaker 1: our loving God, initiating our worship through our life situation,
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  Speaker 1: through our challenges of our trials, the challenges of our faith.
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  Speaker 1: And then we respond by acknowledging Him in every situation,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's good times, needs all we need, and when
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  Speaker 1: our excuse me, when our soul is laid bare, He's
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  Speaker 1: all we need. Faithful, and He's truly dealings with us
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  Speaker 1: are faithful and true. And you notice all he wants
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  Speaker 1: us to do is worship Him in spirited and truth.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we're going to find out is we
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  Speaker 1: study this book. The next time, we'll continue looking at
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  Speaker 1: the Psalms, especially as you study what we're discussing today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was looking for my water and I
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  Speaker 1: left it out of arms and length reach. But it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: We made it with this dry voice, and that's not important.
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  Speaker 1: What's important is what you read and learn and study
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  Speaker 1: and apply out of the Book of Songs.