The Righteous One Follows God, Not The Unrighteous ( Vv )

This paper provides a summary and an assessment of the approach for determining the relationship of a psalm to Jesus the Messiah proposed by Richard P. Belcher Jr. in his book The Messiah and the Psalms: Preaching Christ from all the Psalms . This paper also provides an analysis of Psalm 45 and whether Psalm 45 should be used to teach on the church as the bride of Christ. Lastly, this paper provides an analysis of Psalm 22 and whether Psalm 22 speaks of the Messiah.

My translation of Psalm 126:1-3 goes like this; “It was like a daydream, too good to be true, when God delivered us from our shame and captivity. We laughed again, we sang joyful songs again, and we couldn’t believe our good fortune. We were the talk of the town—‘God was wonderful to them!’ they said. Yes, God was most definitely wonderful to us; we are beyond

The term “Righteous Gentile” or “Righteous among the Nations” is used to name those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The title is used informally as referring to anyone considered to be a savior of Jews, but it has an official role in the Israeli program of Holocaust remembrance, administered by Yad Vashem. The criteria established by Yad Vashem include the following: — “The rescuer ensured the survival of a Jew or Jews by extending aid to them when they were in danger of being killed or sent to a concentration camp; — The rescuer knew that he was risking his own life, freedom, and safety by acting to save the Jewish life; — The rescuer did not receive and did not expect any

‘I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.—Psalm 193’ Olson

The essay I read, “The Science of Righteousness” is written by Michael Shermer. The essay vocalizes the work of psychologist Johnathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Haidt argues that both liberals and conservatives are wrong. He states that a great majority of people fall on the left-right spectrum. In other words, if one reads a article about gun violence and that person leans more to the left side, the conservative side. Therefore, since you lean that way you inevitably lean the same direction on everything. The problem with politics is that it does not let us make up our own mind.

Webster defines joy as “a very glad feeling.” But The Holman Bible Dictionary defines joy as, “the happy state that results from knowing

God can redeem people from their fallen state. The Lord is a deliverer, and restorer of life, spirit and joy (vs.11,12 & 14). The Psalmist now wants to operate on a level of bearing witness for the Lord

Psalm one begins with the first word blessed. It is a word that describes the state of a righteous man. The word is first used as a negative statement; “Blessed is the man who walks not…” In it’s original Hebrew the word is ʾashrê, and functions as an adjective and affirms the blessed state of all those who submit themselves to God in obedient devotion to him. It occurs around forty times in the Old Testament . The word can also function as ‘happy’ or ‘The happiness of…!’ It is a word also found in 1Kings 10:8 as the Queen of Sheba visits Solomon, "Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!" The Psalmist reveals that a man is blessed when he takes certain actions that are a process in his endeavor to make progress in the study of God’s law.

Genre: The genre of Psalm 139 is Hebrew poetry, simply because the psalms were written in Hebrew and are a collection of poems and laments. The first principle of interoperation is that the psalms blend experience, emotion, and theology. This should be taken into account while reading the poem in order that the reader does not simply skip over the theology by only focusing on experience and emotion. The second interoperation principle is that each psalm should be read as a whole. Verses of psalms should not be taken out of context, in doing this the reader may distort the meaning of the psalm. Another interpretation principle to take into consideration is the different genres of psalms such as: laments, thanksgiving, hymns of praise, wisdom, and songs of trust. With that being said, Psalm 139 not only falls under the Hebrew poetry genre, but is also classified as a psalm of trust. Lastly, the fourth interpretation principle is that parallelisms are used. In other words, ideas correlate in many different ways such as: synonymously, antithesis, intensifying, specifying, and synthetically.

This psalm is a difficult psalm to break down due to differences in structure but also in it’s nature. This psalm is about the creator of the

The psalm begins with a cry that was uttered by Jesus on the cross (Mt

To be worthy of Salvational Grace, is to give unto the Lord the Glory due unto His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness. {Psalm, 29:-2}

God is addressed directly in the psalm as the speaker declares that his soul “longs for you, O God,” (Ps.42.1).

Mays Interpretations of Psalm types: Hymns: Many of the psalms are simple hymns or songs of praise. For example, “Great is the Lord and Greatly to be praised! 145:3 Psalm. 8 is a hymn that begins, “Lord, our Lord, / how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (verse 1)”. (Mays, 1994. 26).

Theology has a direct association with faith aligned and relative to God. An adversary to faith is fear and doubt. The two antagonists discredit ones’ acceptance that God is faithful and can do all things but fail. Learning the process to achieve the best results possible is essential because it is a personal asset. One must be attentive to explanation, conscious to personal experiences, and applied to the educational material to increase strength in the development of achievement.