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 93 1 The Lord is king ! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken. 2 Your throne , O Lord, has stood from time immemorial. You yourself are from the everlasting past. 3 The floods have risen up, O Lord. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves. 4 But mightier than the violent raging of the seas, mightier than the breakers on the shore— the Lord above is mightier than these! 5 Your royal laws cannot be changed. Your reign, O Lord, is holy forever and ever . Two of the clearest themes of the Psalms are the King who is God and the Word of God or His law. Both the word of God and the King who is God point us unmistakably to Jesus Christ whom we learn is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords, and who is the Word of God. So when we read at the beginning of verse 1 it is the Lord who is king, we have no further to look to see this is a Messianic Psalm....