BREATHE | Wk 1: “Introduction to the Psalms”
Pastor Scott Martin | 10.09.2022
Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3
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Selah
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God does not pre-prescribe to the Jews, or to us, how to worship. The Psalms allow us to engage already completed worship that is holistic.
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10/23: Joy in Psalms
10/16: Sadness in Psalms
10/30: Individual and communal history in Psalms
11/7: Help in battling enemies
11/13: Psalms of penance
11/20: Messianic Psalms
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Psalm 1 (NIV)
1 Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do 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 leads to destruction.
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1. This Psalm (and all Psalms) are written in a very different time and place for a very different worship style.
2. Psalms use language, instruments, and geography that are no longer fully understood.
3. Psalms are still powerful lyric to worship and true theology.
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When we worship, we ascribe praise to the One who is worthy. Worship is meant to connect us to God. To shape our soul to its original intent.
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Worship is a posture, not a preference.