Psalm 119 Revelation Happy Sunday Praise
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Psalm 119 is a Sabbath praise song (Judaism). It is so for me, too, though I'm a Christ - follower, saved by Jesus Christ.
This Psalm or song, about a thousand years in use before Jesus walked on earth, is 176 verses long, and it's 22 sections (divisions) parallel the letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Each verse celebrates God's way
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I'm getting to the revelation i had by grace in meditating Ps.119. We, Jesus The Christ- followers, look back with the Cross at CENTER. We say & think we only do good because of Jesus/Yeshua who paid with His precious blood for the sins of all humans & for THE CURSE ON THE EARTH because of Adam & Eve's "despising their birthright" (as Esau, Isaac's firstborn?) & giving dominion to satan (Genesis 3).
Looking at Ps. 119 from the finished work of Jesus (Calvary), it jars when the Psalmists intimate, "Thy word I love more than gold, my life; it is my meditation all day; forever will I heed thy statutes." Teens may ask, "Really?"
We agree with Isaiah and missionary PAUL, that our good deeds & intentions are "filthy rags," & "the good i ought to do, I don't, yet I do the very opposite. O wretched man that I am ..." Yet Paul & Isaiah also asserted, "I can do all things through Christ/God's power." This is the golden mean Christianity models.
Now, to Ps.119 Revelation:
Although pre-Jesus Christ believers write & think SELF EFFORT & good works to Salvation ... they had hints of Calvary (as in psalms 22, 23, 37,91 &119) that grace (CHESED, God's loving kindness, Mercy) is what qualifies us. Compare King Saul, & successor King David, once a shepherd, despised by his father and brothers. David had God's favor /CHESED & is beloved by Jewish people through time, whether religious, spiritual, non-conforming, or agnostic, while Saul is hardly remembered.
Read Ps.119 or sections thereof & look at each verse for this pattern: dejection at the successes of evildoers & "how long" should believers wait upon Law/God (for justice ?) See Pe & Tzaddl sections of Ps.119 or verses 129-144:
1. Human trouble, arrogance, or threat
2. Psalmist turns to God's Word (or its substitutes: Law, precepts, testimonies, truth, enduring love or faithfulness).
Yes, the self-confidence in our works jar on us who know Jesus as the PERFECT sacrificial Lamb. He's the only Hebrew historical person who fulfilled ALL OLD TESTAMENT laws; Noah, Abraham, Moses, David failed & God punished/chastized them. Google this but enjoy the great parralelisms in Ps.119. PTL
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