Psalms

Where is Jesus?: looking and hoping for the Messianic kingom

Present Application: that Messianic kingdom is already here, and because of it we no longer have that barrier. We can have a personal relationship with him

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• Last week Pastor Josh talked about the book of Psalms, which is out of order in the Bible, but it helps us see who David is better
• So this week, we will be talking about Psalms
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• There are 150 Psalms, most of them were written by David (73)
  • many of them were musical
  • we see a lot of them in our present day worship
• Psalms is commonly broken up into five books
  • Book 1 (3-41)
  • Book 2 (42-72)
  • Book 3 (73-89)
  • Book 4 (90-106)
  • Book 5 (107-145)
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  • Book 1-3 are mostly Laments
  • Book 4-5 are more praising and have a message of hope
• Psalms is a book of poetry
  • made up of Lament and Praise 
  • Laments
    • prayers of pain, confusion, and anger
    • asks God to do something 
    • it’s okay to have pain and to be sad
    • Psalm 69
  • Praise
    • draw attention to the good
    • thank God
    • praise him
    • Psalm 100

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Messiah predicted in Psalms

http://www.gotquestions.org/Psalms-Jesus-Christ.html

http://www.messiahrevealed.org/psalms.html

• Throughout the Old Testament the Messianic Kingdom is predicted
  • this is the time where the Messiah, or Jesus, will come
• Psalms is full of predictions of the Messiah
• remember that Jesus is from the line of David, who happens to be the author of 73 Psalms
• • The book of Psalms is a series of lament and praise poems with this message of the messianic king weaved throughout it
    • it sends us a message of hope  
    • not to ignore pain, but to look ahead through the pain
    • think about the situations David was going through when he wrote some of these Psalms
      • hiding from Saul
      • Hiding from Absolom
      • these are some difficult situations, but he held onto God’s promise in 2 Samuel 7 (promise of Messianic king to David)
        • he knew that those situations were not the end and he was able to praise God through it
        • even in many of the laments there are praises
        • we need to learn how to do this in our own lives
  • We all are going through some dark things 
    • depression, break ups, divorces, loneliness, not feeling good enough
    • whatever it is, it’s okay to lament
      • the key is not to leave God out of it
      • he wants to hear you!
  • So where is Jesus?
    • he is the message of hope in our lives just like he was for those who read through the Psalms with the hope for the Messianic king