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Psalms - Week 1

SPEAKER: Pastor Charlie Riley
January 8, 2022

Psalms – Week 1
January 8, 2022

My Challenge
Read Though Psalms Over The Next Month
6 Weeks
42 Days
3.57 or 4 Psalms Per Day

Facts About Psalms:
Third Largest Book In The Bible
Covers A 1000 Year Period
Sometimes Called “Tehillim” which means
“Book of Praises” or “Bible within the Bible”
Psalm 90 Is Possibly The Oldest Psalm Written By Moses In 1450 B.C.

Authors Include David At Least 75 That Bear His Name (Jewish Tradition Say’s 88)
Moses, King, Solomon, The Sons of Korah, Asaph, Ethan
Key Word In Psalms is “praise” which appears 211 times
Psalms Is Quoted or Alluded to 103 Times In Revelation
Jesus Quotes From Psalms More than Any Other Book
Jesus Began and Ended His Earthy Ministry by Quoting Psalms

Attributes of God in the Psalms:
Eternality — (90, 102)
Glory — (96, 113)
Goodness — (27, 107)
Holiness — (99)
Justice — (75, 82, 94)
Majesty — (18, 93, 97)
Mercy — (86, 136)
Omnipotence — (18, 33, 76, 146)
Omnipresence — (139)
Omniscience — (139, 147)
Providential care — (65, 104)
Uniqueness — (115, 135)
Unfailing Love — (36)

Psalms 1
Blessed is the man

Blessed
i. “Blessed means supremely happy or fulfilled. In fact, in Hebrew the word is actually a plural, which denotes either a multiplicity of blessings or an intensification of them.” (Boice)
ii. “It is not ‘Blessed is the king, blessed is the scholar, blessed is the rich,’ but, ‘Blessed is the man.’ This blessedness is as attainable by the poor, the forgotten and the obscure, as by those whose names figure in history, and are trumpeted by fame.”
 (Spurgeon)

Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

Progression
Walks – Stands – Sits

Advise From The Wicked
Standing Around With Sinners
Joining In With Mockers

What’s Your Circle Look Like?

2 But his delight (Hebrew: to Bend) is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law (God’s Word) he meditates (Murmurs: Fills His Mind) day and night.

We Delight In, What We Desire

Meditation Is About Focus
My Focus Determines My Future

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee

3 Negative
Walks Stands Sits

2 Positives
Delights and Meditates

He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,

Where You Plant Yourself Matters?

That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

Prosper
To Favor; To Render Successful
To Be Successful; To Succeed
To Be Fortunate or Prosperous
To Thrive; To Make Gain
To Grow; To Increase

The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.