Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 92 Main Point: When you look for Jesus/God you will find Him, and He will thrill your heart. Have you ever lost something and you tried to explain what it was to someone so they could help you search for it? Like a child? But you don’t remember what they were wearing and in your panic you can’t seem to adequately produce a distinguishing description of your lost child that will set them apart from the other 300 small people running around in the playground. Psalm 92 does not suffer from this problem. But maybe we are overwhelmed with details, amazing and distinguishing details, but nonetheless there is a description of God here and we want to know, is this telling us about Jesus?   “If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!" John 14:7 NLT Jesus turns this question around and says if you look at Jesus, you will have seen the Father. So isn’t any description of God at least in part Christological? Of...

  Psalm 82 “God presides over heaven’s court; he pronounces judgment on the heavenly beings:” Psalm 82:1 MAIN POINT: Jesus sits above everyone and He determines the priorities of the universe. And His priorities are the care of the poor, the widow, the foreigner, the orphan and the oppressed. We know this is Jesus in Psalm 82 sitting in judgement over all things because Jesus has position but He also has the priorities of God’s heavenly court. How do I know I have the heart of God? How do I know if I am singing off the same song sheet as Jesus? Imagine for a moment I have been called into the office to have a conversation with Jesus. There we are saying hi, getting comfortable and Jesus asks if I want a coffee and I say, yes please. And then after a little bit of small talk. Jesus askes, well how do you like your position in my kingdom? And I say, “Oh Jesus it’s great, thanks, I love it.” And then He says, then I am just wondering, William, do you know what my kingdom priorities ...

  Psalm 80 MAIN POINT: Jesus is the Shepherd who can hear our cry and rescue our hearts so that we turn to God and are saved. Aspah has been on a roll and he uses imagery that Jesus also uses many times to refer to Himself. As this Psalm talks about a grapevine and then links it to the chosen son, we see where Jesus got His references to describe Himself in John 15 . And so it is the desire to be restored and to be attached to the person, power and plan of God that brings Asaph to cry out: 3“Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. “ 7“Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven's Armies.  Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. “ 19“Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven's Armies.  Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.” Psalm 80:3, 7, 19 NLT Three times Asaph asks God to change the focus of the people. But how? Psalm 80 is the 4th Shepherd Psalm in a row from A...