Day 41 in the Book of Psalms

We are going to jump right into the reading today on this the Lord's Sabbath Day; I thank God for bring us to this point and I pray quickly to the Father to open our understanding in the name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Psalm 46 is where we will begin today!

The Lord will be exalted in the earth soon; but there is a quote in this chapter that my dad use to really mention a great deal.  "Be still and know that I am God."  When things look harsh don't panic, be still, calm down and know that God is God and that He can handle that situation easily.

A friend of mine is writing an excellent natural health book and he got real excited and panic in one moment when talking about finding a publisher and how to go about the publishing.  I told him not to worry about that, God will bring the answer to him as in Job, God communes with us in dreams, or through other men.  So he calmed down and continued to write.  He called me about 6 hours later to tell me a friend of his from high school called him and got him in touch with another friend who has been published and who's book is in book stores as we speak.

He talked with the friend and got easy answers on the publishing methods.  He called me praising God.  Be still and know that I am God; that is what God tells you.

Psalm 47

We are to clap our hands and shout with triumph; for we serve a terrible God, and a great King over all the earth.  Jesus is that terrible God and Great King.  As I mentioned earlier, it is not terrible as we humans use the word; it is because this same God, Jesus, will bless you beyond measure.  You'll wonder how you are being blessed so well and you'll wonder why.

Then if you sin against Him; Jesus can and will deal with you so bad; you can literally cry for days straight with no breaks.  That is terrible.  It's like the movie, Trading Places, with Eddie Murphy.

Jesus will subdue the people under Israel, and all the nations at the end of the day will have to follow the ways of the true nation of Israel.

⁷For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

And this is the very reason why we are reading the Bible with understanding.  I met a young Korean girl once who told me she read the Bible 6 times through and it was a shame that she still haver very little understanding.  Uzza served the Lord with happiness, but with limited understanding; because if he understood the Lord well, he would have never touched the Ark of God knowing he was not a Levite.

Psalm 48

The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.  What city is this?  When the Bible speaks about going back to Zion; sometimes it is confusion that Zion is Heaven.  However, according to verse two below, that Zion is beautiful for all situations, it's the joy of the entire earth, and it is the city of the great King.  And this great King is not speaking of David, it is speaking of Jesus.

 ²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

This great city with the great King is Jerusalem where Jesus will reign.  The confusion of going to heaven is somewhat decided upon here in verse two.  I thought this last verse was pretty important: ¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.  God is the one who guides us; even into death.  We all know this but sometimes we take death as a negative thing.  At most it is only sad because the loved one was taken away from us; but if they were guided by God, even unto death, then we should praise the Lord.

Psalm 49

 ¹Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
At times people believe the bible was written only for the Jewish people or for Israel, especially the Old Testament; but here we see that the author addressed the entire world, rich and poor.  Tell them that God is speaking wisdom to everyone, His mind is of understanding; listen to Him as He opens up His dark sayings (hard to understand scriptures).

This is what the Lord wants the entire world to understand that if you are rich and trust in your wealth, and boast yourself in the multitude of your riches (you know the MTV Cribs type of boasting); you may not have noticed that none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.

No one, with all this money, can live forever on their own biologically.  Also, no matter how rich you are, it it impossible to pay God any money to bring back your soul or the soul of your deceased brother or mother or loved one.  So why boast about how much riches you have if you cannot do that little thing?  Why boast about how great a doctor you are if you cannot save every life?  Be humble my friends and allow God to lift you up.

¹⁰For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.  I've been on the earth a short while; and this is one thing I've seen everywhere; that all kinds of men die all kinds of deaths.  It does not matter how wealthy, poor, wise, foolish, or cool you are and everything thing you've worked for will be distributed to others when you die.  That is so wrong.  But we asked for it in the garden of Eden.

The last verse in this chapter is amazing - ²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. - Honorable men in the earth who do not have the understanding of God (as we are reading and learning) are no better than the animals that are on farms and in their houses as pets.  We are in a good place here.

God lets us know He is the judge of the people, here in Psalm 50, and He requires no sacrifices because all the animals are His anyway.  People of old liked to bring sacrifices to God like they were feeding the Lord.  But God says, "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee..."  He wouldn't tell you if He was hungry.  Just like you do not go to your 4 year old son and say, "gee I'm hungry son and you buy me a happy meal?"  No; you simple go and buy your food or fix your food because you are the father and the care taker.

 ²²Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
 ²³Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

This is Jesus speaking through the mind of David who wrote it.  Rarely do people ever think of Jesus as the God that will tear you into pieces.  This is why understanding is so important in your reading and learning from God.  Do not offer sacrifices of meat; offer praise and good conversation that keeps the Law, and then God will show you salvation.  In other words, OBEY!

Psalm 51 is a beautiful prayer asking to be cleaned by God through His Word so that we can share the greatness of God with understanding.

¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
 ¹⁹Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,

Then the Lord will do good to Zion, which is Jerusalem and they will build the walls of the city in peace.  Also we can give sacrifices of righteousness to God first, then offer animals.  But we must do right and be clean first; and the Word of God cleans us.

Psalm 52

No need to boast sinners because your days will be over soon and the saints of God will laugh at you because you did not put your trust in God.  ⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
 ⁹I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

Psalm 53

The fool has said in his mind, "There is no God."  People like this are corrupt and there is no good in them, no matter who it is. ²God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
 ³Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

When God was trying to see if there was a man clean enough to die for the people; He could not find one.  This chapter ends with us knowing that Israel, the entire nation, will be glad when their captivity is over because for one they will be back in the land with God.

Psalm 54 is a powerful prayer for protection.  You can certainly read this when you feel you need protection by God because of enemies rising up against you in any situation.

In Psalm 55 it is the similar prayer as in the previous chapter however, this speaks of Jesus situation of betrayl more.  God will put them to death who are against Him.  How do you make sure you are not against God?  You find out what His commandments are and you do them, you walk in them.

Psalm 56

⁴In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.  We are not to be fearful of man and what they can do to us.  Jesus told us in the gospels that we should fear God; not man who can only kill you and do nothing more than that.

¹¹Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.  I've heard a popular song made out of this verse.  God is who our trust should lay with and we should cover ourselves under His wings as the opening verse says in Psalm 57.

Psalm 58 is a detailed prayers for evil to come upon them that have been wicked.  We know that we should pray for our enemies and hope no evil for our enemies; so I know this is the Lord praying this prayer to the Father.  I have run into people who were tired of the wicked not being punished; and the last verse gives us rest on this:

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
 ¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

God will soon return to the earth and take harsh judgment on all unrighteous men and women.  That is the day to rejoice and the destruction of the evil.

Psalm 59 takes the same tone as 58.  Evil will be rooted out and since Psalm is a prophetic book, we know this is future when the destruction of evil will come; because that is at the return of the Lord.

Psalm 60

 ¹O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.  This is certainly a prayer from an Israelite seeking the return of the Lord to bring them back into their land, which they have been scattered in other nations even until this day.

The writer did not want the help of man; for it is vain.  Instead he wanted His God; God is the only one who can redeem Israel and return them back to their resting place.

Psalm 61 is a draggy change of pace psalm but the last verse we know to be certain that we pay our vows as we read in Leviticus.  ⁸So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.  If you make a vow; keep it.  Men and women, that includes marriage vows!  We need to be accountable and people of our word if we are to become like God.

Psalm 62

 ¹Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.  ⁵My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.  ⁸Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
¹⁰Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Trust and wait on the Lord; this psalm was so beautiful I had to put all the wise words in.  Salvation comes from the Lord; then it is wise to wait on Him; trusting Him at all times.  Also if you get rich; do not do as in the popular song in the early 90s where you keep your mind on your money and your money is on your mind.

Be wealthy and enjoy your gain from the Lord; but distribute it to the less fortunate to and lend to the Lord.  ¹²Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.  We are to live by faith; but God will render also according to our works as well.

Psalm 63, help from the Lord, trust in Him delivering you.

Psalm chapter 64

⁹And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
 ¹⁰The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

There will be a day where all men will fear the Lord and declare His good because after some of the signs and wonders He shows, people will wisely consider it.  And from there will they trust in the Lord.

Psalm 65

 ¹Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
 ²O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.  In Leviticus 23 we read about the feast of the Lord and in Deuteronomy 16 we read how all men shall appear before the Lord 3 times a year.  This is when all flesh will come to Jerusalem to appear before the Lord.  It is praise to wait patiently on the Lord.

Psalm 66

 ¹Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:²Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
 ³Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.  

I watched the discovery channel, the travel channel, history channel, and some survivor shows and I see places on the earth that nothing can live there.  I see places where the weird insects that can kill a human with one bit.  And I said God is terribly awesome in His creations.  ⁵Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

He dried up the river, parted the sea, that's a great work, but He closed it up on the Egyptians attempting to cross after His people, that's a terrible work towards the children of men.

Psalm 67

 ¹God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.  We want mercy from GOD so we need to pray for it continuously.  ⁷God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.  When GOD again blesses Israel, all the ends of the earth will fear Him because the way Israel will be blessed is going to be news abroad.

Psalm 68

 ¹Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.  ⁴Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

We do want God to arise now but with understanding we want Him to arise at His appointed time (which is close soon); and His enemies will be scattered and flee from Him.  In verse 4 we learn of another name that God went by.  In Exodus, Moses knew His name to be Jehovah.  We know in Genesis that He gave Jacob His name when He adopted him.  That name is Israel.  And here we get another name Jah. 

Many will say there was no 'J' in the Hebrew language so this should be Yah, for Yahweh, which means the Eternal One.  However we will just go with what we read in verse four that is Jah.

God has done a lot of great things for Israel and for the earth that we all take for granted at times.

¹¹The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Even today when the Lord gives the Word; many people have gone forth and published it.  I'll publish this blog in a moment.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

Praise God who loads us with benefits.  We are not speaking of benefits on our job either; but benefits such as having sight, hearing, mobility, air to breath, sun shining on us, water to drink, food to eat, and I can go on and on.  We are loaded with benefits.

²¹But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.  This sounds like Genesis 3 v15!

Psalm 69

This entire chapter is Jesus speaking to the Father; listen to the words written here and see the importance of reading the bible Old and New Testaments.  

³I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
 ⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Weary of crying, His throat dry from crying that night before He was killed.  He really did not want to die; and He prayed and prayed waiting for God to deliver Him.

 ⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
 ⁹For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. 

Jesus became a stranger to his brothers and his mother's children.  His brothers were the children of Israel because Jesus came from the tribe of Judah.  And their zeal and want to follow God made them eat Jesus up like a platter of food in a hungry village.

¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
This is how you get details on what was going on in Jerusalem in Jesus day; all kinds of people were talking against Him, "wine-o's" and drunkards made mocking songs about Him.

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
When they arrested Jesus, His disciples fled from Him and when He was being interrogated no one stepped up to come to His defense or speak up with Him.  Nobody took pity, He was truly all alone and by himself.

²¹They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
When Jesus was on the cross after He was beaten and thrashed; He asked for simply something to drink; and they gave Him vinegar and gall.  All this was prophesied before His time.

²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.  
²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Jesus began to pray against some of these evil doers, for the Father to add sin to their sin so they don't come to righteousness and be saved; because they knew better (the Pharisees) and the Romans who took part were foolish and didn't consider anything.

He prayed that they  be blotted out of the book of the living.  If that happens to anyone, they are going to die, even the second death.

How can someone do something like this to another innocent man and find so much pleasure in doing so.  That is why Jesus prayed against them.
³²The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
 ³³For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

But He focused on serving the Father, and tells that the humble will one day see this and be glad, and those that seek God will live because the Lord hears the poor and He does not despise His prisoners.

³⁵For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
 ³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

God will still save Jerusalem and rebuild all the cities in Judah and Samaria, all who serve Jesus will inherit it (this includes Gentiles, Hamites, and other Semitic groups who are not Israelites physically).  The bottom line is that if you love the name of Jesus to serve Him diligently, you will dwell in Jerusalem.

This concludes today's reading.  Thank you for joining today and I'll see you tomorrow.
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