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- Psalm 22:1 is a poignant verse from the first-person psalms. Christians will recognize these words as being our Lord’s words from the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
- In Psalm 45:4, the writer of the psalm praises the Messiah’s character, calling upon Him to “ride forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice,” and the verse also reminds us that the Messiah will “achieve awesome deeds.”
- Psalm 118 is a powerful reminder of who Jesus is in relation to the church. The psalm says, in verses 22-23, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.”
Jan 4, 2022 · The book of Psalms is a collection of inspired songs used in worship of God, and many of them foretell the coming of the Messiah and predict events that were fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ. In total, twenty-five different psalms (one out of every six psalms) include at least one messianic prophecy. Messianic psalms are quoted in eleven ...
The Evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John almost certainly had the Psalms in mind when composing their narratives of the life and ministry of Jesus. A reader thoroughly versed in the Psalms can see long before the disciples do that Jesus isn’t just a great Rabbi, and he isn’t simply the promised Messiah—he’s God Almighty in the flesh.
Apr 11, 2011 · In the upper room, when he declared his betrayer was the “one who is dipping bread into the dish with me,” adding that the Son of Man “goes as it is written of him” (Mark 14:20–21), Jesus likely had Psalm 41 in mind, verse 9 of which paints more fully the pangs of his soul: “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.” (Peter, in Acts ...
This is all clear from how Jesus and New testament writers interpreted the book of The Psalms. Of the 283 New Testament citations of the 66 books of the Old Testament, 116 of them are from one book, The Psalms. That means that New Testament writers—and Jesus—believed the book of The Psalms to be about
The psalmist is stating a fact here. Some people may see wicked people as blessed. They have material wealth. They get what they want. They are in power. So, in a sense, they are the light of the righteous who are prosperous. That’s why, the psalmist needs to say, “the ungodly are not so” in our Psalm 1 commentary.
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Dr. J. Clinton McCann, in his book A Theological Introduction to the Psalms: Psalms as Torah, makes a compelling argument that the book of Psalms is the fifth book of wisdom literature in the Bible (the others being Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes). In his paradigm, each book is meant to teach us something about living the ...
