Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 125 A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. 1 Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion; they will not be defeated but will endure forever. 2 Just as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, both now and forever. 3 The wicked will not rule the land of the godly, for then the godly might be tempted to do wrong. 4 O Lord, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are in tune with you. 5 But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O Lord. Take them away with those who do evil. May Israel have peace! Psalm 125:1-5 S ecures v1 S urrounds v2 S overeigns v3 S anctifies v4 S eparates v5 MAIN POINT: Our S overeign King the Lord Jesus Christ s aves His people who s erve Him. If you haven’t noticed, I decided to try and alliterate for today’s Psalm. And I’ll try to show why I choose these words and how I see Jesus in Psalm 125. It is no leap of logic to look and learn; language lovers listen to the lilt of lines in lyric. So I saw a c...

  Psalm 89 How can this be anyone but Jesus? Really folks, did you read it? There is a dilemma in Psalm 89. On one hand it speaks often of forever and in such sure and stable terms you think this is unshakeable and unbreakable and then wallop it is all a mess and 180° turned around. For our puny minds is this a problem but for an eternal God with an eternal Son who becomes a God/Man, it is no problem at all. And here we can see the power of the hypostatic union at work. All at once Jesus is perfect and eternal and also bearer of sin and shame. Isn’t it great? I think people probably gave up pondering how this could all work out and choose to ignore the inconsistencies.  I want to take you into a realm you may not have spent much time thinking about. Light. What is light? Is it something tangible or is it  energy in movement and intangible? Scientists discuss it by asking is it a particle or a wave? Well it is both.  Around the year 1900 it was understood that light ...

  Psalm 52 “Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?” Psalm 52:1b “But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living.” Psalm 52:5 Got an enemy of the truth? Got an enemy that will profit from your misfortune? Trust God to deal with them. David fears God. David knows God’s justice is eternal and that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). But Jesus elevates God’s vengeance even a step higher and Paul expounds on this recognition of God’s justice. Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, “I will take revenge; I will pay them back,” says the LORD. Instead, “If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads.” Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing goo d . Romans 12:19-21 MAIN POINT: Righteous people look to God for justice Ri...