An overview of the Book of Psalms
In this summary view of Psalms, we feature a video from “The Bible Project.” I strongly recommend this website. The authors and artists have done a fabulous job with the videos they have created. But, they’re just an overview, which is a skill in itself. And a valuable one. Please take a look when you have a chance.
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Psalm 1:1
Charles Spurgeon discusses Psalm One
Here the gracious man is described both negatively (verse 1) and positively (verse 2).
He is a man who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly. He takes wiser counsel, and walks in the commandments of the Lord his God.
To him the ways of piety are paths of peace and pleasantness. His footsteps are ordered by the Word of God, and not by the cunning and wicked devices of carnal men.
It is a rich sign of inward grace when the outward walk is changed, and when ungodliness is put far from our actions.
Note next, he standeth not in the way of sinners. His company is of a choicer sort than it was. Although a sinner himself, he is now a blood-washed sinner, quickened by the Holy Spirit, and renewed in heart.
Standing by the rich grace of God in the congregation of the righteous, he dares not herd with the multitude that do evil.
Again it is said, “nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” He finds no rest in the atheist’s scoffings.
Let others make a mock of sin, of eternity, of hell and heaven, and of the Eternal God.
This man has learned better philosophy than that of the infidel, and has too much sense of God’s presence to endure to hear His name blasphemed.
The seat of the scorner may be very lofty, but it is very near to the gate of hell; let us flee from it, for it shall soon be empty, and destruction shall swallow up the man who sits therein.
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