Psalm 101 Main Point: Love for God motivates radical holiness. Warning this may get long and deep with lots of scripture and a seesaw back and forth showing the struggle and attitude needed to truly be holy. Skip to the conclusion if you are faint of heart ;) As I look at Psalm 101 I ask myself two questions: Is this Psalm prescriptive or descriptive? And /or Is this meant to describe what David thought and did or does it point forward mostly to Jesus, because only Jesus could do this and only Jesus is worthy to do this? Just because someone in the Bible says they do something does not mean that God thinks that is a good idea. I could give examples where someone does something, even something that sounds “righteous,” but God is not suggesting that we do that. Examples of evil people giving wicked advice that is not there for us to emulate are easy enough to find and are good examples of where we need to be careful. Even here I assume some of you may disagree. I ...
Viewing all the Psalms as Messianic, I will read the Psalms consecutively for 150 days and try to write a outline for teaching with thoughts about the day's Psalm's unique contribution to the revelation of Jesus Christ our Messiah the Word of God and King of kings, the eternal Son of David.