Click here to read PSALM 118 in poetic form.
Background
Psalm 118 is in the Deuteronomy Book of the Psalms (Psalms 107-150). These 44 Psalms, like the Book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, show God’s Word as the source of salvation, deliverance, and healing. This would be fully carried out in the life of the coming Messiah, the living Word, Jesus Christ. Psalm 118 declares that the Messiah would trust in the Lord and not fear man. Jesus Christ fulfilled this Psalm as the “stone which the builders refused” that is “become the head stone of the corner.” He also fulfills it as “he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
I was raised in the Roman Catholic church. Within that church, we had local churches called parishes within a diocese. I was very involved, and the same basic families in our local community were a part of my church upbringing.
Let’s take up our walk again, following Jesus in the area of Capernaum where he had just publicly launched God’s call to the world that the kingdom of God had come. 