summer inthepsalms psalm119_7.26.15
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FACTS ABOUT PSALM 119- Authorship is unknown…might be several
- Longest chapter in Scripture (176vv)
- 22 stanzas, 8 verses each
- Massive acrostic; each section starts with the next progressive letter in the Hebrew alphabet; each line in that section starts w/that specific letter
FACTS ABOUT PSALM 119- Eight different words re: “God’s Word”
1. Dabar (24x) God’s spoken/revealed word
2. Imrah (19x) Anything God spoke/promised, etc.
3. Chuqqim (21x) God’s laws for Israel
4. Mishpatim (23x) Statutes, judgments, rulings
5. Torah (25x) Law, teaching, revelation
6. Misvah/Misvot (22x) Commands w/Gods’ authority
7. Piqqudim (21x) Helpful guidelines/instructions
8. Eduth (23x) Loyalty to God’s covenant promises
PSALM 119:1-3Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk
in the law of the Lord!Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,who seek Him with their whole heart,who also do no wrong,but walk in His ways!
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INTRODUCTION
The only versesin this Psalm that
aren’t spoken directlyto the LORD
PSALM 119:33-34Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law and observe it with my whole heart.
JOHN 8:12I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness,
but will have the light of life.
MATTHEW 7:24-27Everyone then who hears these words of Mine and
does them will be like a wise man who built his house on
the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that
house, but it did not fall, because it
had been founded on the rock.
JOHN 5:39-40You search the Scriptures
because you think that in them you have eternal life;
and it is they that bear witness about Me,yet you refuse to come
to Me that you may have life.
DANGER of RELIGIOUS IDOLATRYThere’s a demonic self-reinforcing quality about idolatry that can be discerned in (the Pharisees). By trying to derive false life from their confident knowledge of Scripture instead of the One Scripture points to, these leaders had made an idol of their knowledge of Scripture. But the river also flowed in the other direction. Precisely because these leaders had made an idol of their knowledge of Scripture, they would not come to the true source of life to which Scripture points.
DANGER of RELIGIOUS IDOLATRY…These leaders were not hungry for the true bread of life…because they had already stuffed themselves with the false life of their idol. And they had to stuff themselves with this false life of their idol because they would not come to the true bread of life. It’s a vicious, idolatrous, self-reinforcing cycle…