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This Psalm praises God for His mighty strength, power, and glory as the Creator. Jesus Christ glorified his Father, and taught others to do the same (Matthew 5:16; John 12:28; 13:32; 16:14; 17:1,5).
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Like so many other of David’s Psalms, this Psalm shows the Messiah’s trust in the Lord’s strength to give him victory. The Lord is his strength and shield, “the saving strength of his anointed” (verses 7,8).
Continuing to follow the True and Living Way through the gospels, we come across these significant prophecies about our Lord Jesus Christ around the time of his birth. Let’s sit awhile and contemplate each occasion, considering the influence on those who initially received these words, and then how they speak to us today about him whom we love.
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As a larger group, Psalms 25—41 are in many ways responses to the previous Psalms 16—24. And Psalms 25—28 contain prayers about the Messiah and what he would suffer and accomplish.
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This Psalm again shows the Messiah’s open and loving heart toward God. It begins with “do me justice” and “examine me” as he walks in his “integrity.” Then it shows how the Messiah walks in his integrity (verses 3-11). Therefore, the Messiah stands steadfast and steady and blesses the Lord in “the great congregation.”
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This is the second of the Psalms that is an acrostic, where sequential Hebrew letters are used to begin verses.
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Like Psalm 15, this Psalm is a “checklist” of what the Messiah would do. Both answer the question, “Who can stand or dwell on God’s holy hill?”
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More books may have been written about this Psalm than any other. David was taken from the sheepfolds to lead God’s people (Psalms 78:70-72). Jesus Christ, the son of David, was the good shepherd for God’s people (John 10:11).
I am a person. I am a man. I am a son. I am a husband. I am a father. I am a brother. I am an uncle. I am a friend. I am a worker. I am a teacher. I am an American. I am a writer. I am an artist. I am a reader. I am a runner. I am a swimmer. I am a retired nursing tech. I am a cook. I am a minister. I am filled with holy spirit. I am a Bible believer. I am a bondslave to Jesus Christ. I am a member of the body of Christ. And all of this works together, because I am a born-again son of God.
Browsing through a small bookstore in Portland, Maine, I found an old book about the ministry of Jesus and asked the clerk, James, how much it cost. That started us on a conversation about the Bible and he said that he believed it was a book full of errors and inconsistencies. I maintained that the Bible was the Word of God without error or apparent contradictions when properly interpreted.