We are having a Women's Bible Study at 6:30 on Wed Nights starting September 16th, 2009.
The Bridge Church/Rio Vista Center
1431 E. Southern Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85009
E-mail me at mindsonstrike@hotmail.com if you have questions.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Psalms
We are starting with the Psalms.
The word "Psalms" in its original form connotates praises, prayers, and also stringed instruments and their accompanied songs.
There are 150 Psalms which are divided into 5 Books: 1-41, 42-72, 73-89, 90-106 and 107-150.
34 of the Psalms are referred to as the "Orphan Psalms" because they have no superscription.
The word Selah appears 39 times in the Psalms. The meaning however is unknown but it may indicate a brief musical or litergical interlude.
The word "Psalms" in its original form connotates praises, prayers, and also stringed instruments and their accompanied songs.
There are 150 Psalms which are divided into 5 Books: 1-41, 42-72, 73-89, 90-106 and 107-150.
34 of the Psalms are referred to as the "Orphan Psalms" because they have no superscription.
The word Selah appears 39 times in the Psalms. The meaning however is unknown but it may indicate a brief musical or litergical interlude.
- Prayers of the Individual
- Praise from the Individual for Go's saving Help
- prayers of the community
- Praise from the community for God's Saving help
- confessions of confidence in the Lord
- hymns in praise of God's majest and virtues
- Hymns celebrating God's universal reign
- Songs of Zion
- Royal Psalms by for or concerning the Lord's anointed
- Plgrimage songs
- Liturgical songs
- Didactic (instructional songs
Psalm 1
Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Matthew Henry Concise Commentaryon the Whole Bible
Chapter 1
David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; and no part of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted or referred to in the New. Every psalm either points directly to Christ, in his person, his character, and offices; or may lead the believer's thoughts to Him. And the psalms are the language of the believer's heart, whether mourning for sin, thirsting after God, or rejoicing in Him. Whether burdened with affliction, struggling with temptation, or triumphing in the hope or enjoyment of deliverance; whether admiring the Divine perfections, thanking God for his mercies, mediating on his truths, or delighting in his service; they form a Divinely appointed standard of experience, by which we may judge ourselves. Their value, in this view, is very great, and the use of them will increase with the growth of the power of true religion in the heart. By the psalmist's expressions, the Spirit helps us to pray. If we make the psalms familiar to us, whatever we have to ask at the throne of grace, by way of confession, petition, or thanksgiving, we may be assisted from thence. Whatever devout affection is working in us, holy desire or hope, sorrow or joy, we may here find words to clothe it; sound speech which cannot be condemned. In the language of this Divine book, the prayers and praises of the church have been offered up to the throne of grace from age to age.
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Matthew Henry Concise Commentaryon the Whole Bible
Chapter 1
David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; and no part of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted or referred to in the New. Every psalm either points directly to Christ, in his person, his character, and offices; or may lead the believer's thoughts to Him. And the psalms are the language of the believer's heart, whether mourning for sin, thirsting after God, or rejoicing in Him. Whether burdened with affliction, struggling with temptation, or triumphing in the hope or enjoyment of deliverance; whether admiring the Divine perfections, thanking God for his mercies, mediating on his truths, or delighting in his service; they form a Divinely appointed standard of experience, by which we may judge ourselves. Their value, in this view, is very great, and the use of them will increase with the growth of the power of true religion in the heart. By the psalmist's expressions, the Spirit helps us to pray. If we make the psalms familiar to us, whatever we have to ask at the throne of grace, by way of confession, petition, or thanksgiving, we may be assisted from thence. Whatever devout affection is working in us, holy desire or hope, sorrow or joy, we may here find words to clothe it; sound speech which cannot be condemned. In the language of this Divine book, the prayers and praises of the church have been offered up to the throne of grace from age to age.
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