Life-Study of Psalms

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An Introductory Word _{Msg. 1}

I. The Psalms being:
A. Not a book of doctrines or any kind of teachings
B. But a book of the expressions of the sentiments, feelings, impressions, and experiences of godly men
II. The Psalms were written according to two kinds of concepts
A. The human concept of the holy writers
B. The divine concept of God
C. The human concept of the holy writers uplifting the law as their central emphasis
D. The divine concept of the unveiling God exalting Christ as His central stress
III. The contents of this book
A. The book of Psalms, composed of one hundred fifty psalms, being divided into five books
B. The contents of the Psalms according to the human concept
C. The contents of the Psalms according to the divine concept
1. Book one
2. Book two
3. Book three
4. Book four
5. Book five

Christ in God's Economy Versus the Law in Man's Appreciation (1) _{Msg. 2}

I. The law in man's appreciation
A. Its position
1. Entering in alongside the main line of God's economy
2. As a concubine, symbolized by Hagar
B. Its nature
1. Holy, righteous, and good
2. Spiritual
C. Its content
1. The Ten Commandments
2. A portrait of God, hence, the testimony of God
D. Its function
1. To expose men in their sinful nature and evil deeds
2. To guard the chosen people of God and escort them to Christ
3. To subdue men as sinners under God's judgment
E. Its weakness
1. Not able to give life
2. Not able to do that which God wants because it is weak through the flesh
F. Being the center and requirement of the old covenant
G. To be performed by men's work
H. Concerning the personal benefit of the saints, such as being blessed in prosperity
I. Appreciated and uplifted by godly men according to their human, ethical concept
1. The concept of a tree absorbing the water of the streams not being as high as the concept of drinking of the river of God's pleasures in Psalm 36:8
2. The New Testament having both the concept of plants absorbing water and the concept of drinking the living water of the divine river to flow rivers of living water
3. The concept of likening the saints to a tree not being as high as the concept of unveiling the New Testament believers as branches of the true vine — Christ — in John 15
4. The human concept in Psalm 1 being that the man who delights in the law of God prospers in everything, but the experience of the psalmist in Psalm 73 being the opposite
5. The Lord's teaching in the New Testament Being "Blessed are those who are persecuted [not prosperous] for the sake of righteousness"
J. People to whom the law was given will be judged according to the law
K. Ended by Christ
L. The New Testament believers not being under the law

Christ in God's Economy Versus the Law in Man's Appreciation (2) _{Msg. 3}

II. Christ in God's economy
A. A Declaration of God according to His divine concept
B. Exalting Christ as the center of the economy of God
1. Anointed in His divinity in eternity by God to be the Messiah — Christ — the Anointed One
2. Anointed in His humanity in time at His baptism
3. Cut off — crucified
4. Resurrected to be begotten as the firstborn Son of God
5. Installed as God's King in the heavens in His ascension
6. Having been given the nations as His inheritance and the limits of the earth as His possession for His kingdom
7. To rule the nations in His kingdom with an iron rod
8. Opposed by the rulers of the world
C. A warning to the world
1. God and His Christ being in wrath to the world
2. Repent
3. Take refuge in the Son — believe into the Son, Christ
4. Kiss the Son — Love Christ, the Son of God
D. Concerning the accomplishment of the economy of God

David's Concepts Concerning a Godly Life in Comparison with His Inspired Praise of the Excellency of Christ (1) _{Msg. 4}

I. David's concepts concerning a godly life in Psalms 3—7
A. These five psalms being written by David in his flight from his son Absalom's rebellion
B. David, who appreciated the law with its keeper in Psalm 1, murdering Uriah and robbing him of his wife
C. David repenting and being forgiven by God
D. The five psalms being composed according to David's concepts of a godly life
1. Asking God to deal with his adversaries and be a shield around him, his glory and the one who lifted up his head
2. Calling out to Jehovah and believing that He would answer him from His holy mountain
3. Praying in the night for Jehovah's sustaining
4. Asking God to vindicate his righteousness
5. Advising others to offer sacrifices of righteousness and trust in Jehovah
6. Asking God to lift up upon him the light of His countenance
7. Praying in the morning and watching
8. Knowing that God does not delight in wickedness but hates iniquity
9. Coming into God's house in the abundance of His lovingkindness
10. Asking God to let all who take refuge in Him rejoice and shout for joy forever
11. In God's chastisement asking God to be gracious to him
12. Believing that Jehovah had heard the sound of his weeping and that all his enemies would be ashamed and greatly dismayed
13. Taking refuge in God and asking God to deliver him from all who pursued him, for he had done no wrong
14. Asking Jehovah to arise in His anger against the overflowing wrath of his enemies
15. Asking God to establish the righteous man
16. Believing that the evil man travails in iniquity and digs a pit
17. Giving thanks to Jehovah according to His righteousness and singing praise to the name of Jehovah the Most High

David's Concepts Concerning a Godly Life in Comparison with His Inspired Praise of the Excellency of Christ (2) _{Msg. 5}

II. David's inspired praise of the excellency of Christ
A. The Lord's name being excellent (majestic) in all the earth, and his splendor (glory) having been set above the heavens
B. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings the Lord having established strength (praise) because of His adversaries, to stop the enemy and the avenger
C. David seeing the heavens, the works of the Lord's fingers, the moon and the stars, which the Lord has ordained
D. What is man, that the Lord remembers him, and the son of man, that he visits him?
E. The Lord having made man somewhat lower than the angels
F. God having crowned man (Christ) with glory and honor
G. God having caused man (Christ) to rule over the works of God's hands and having put all things under his feet
H. O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent (majestic) is your name in all the earth
I. An additional word on Psalm 8:2-5

David's Concept Concerning God's Judgment on David's Enemies Among the Nations and Concerning Man's Condition Before God _{Msg. 6}

I. According to the law given by God alongside the central line of His economy
II. Based on the principle of good and evil — the principle of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
III. Concerning God's judgment on David's enemies among the nations
A. God sitting upon the throne as the King to judge the world in righteousness and with equity
B. God having rebuked the nations, destroyed the wicked, and uprooted their cities
C. God having upheld David's right and his cause
D. For this, David giving thanks to God and telling out all God's wonders and praises
E. God being a high refuge for the oppressed
F. David advising others to put their trust in God
G. The nations having sunk in the pit that they made
H. The needy not always being forgotten
I. David asking God to look on his affliction and not let mortal man prevail
IV. Concerning man's condition before God
A. David challenging God
B. The wicked man's sin against people and arrogance toward God
C. David's request of God
D. David's praise to God
E. God being in His holy temple, His throne being in heaven, and His eyes discerning the righteous man and the wicked man
F. David's request and Jehovah's willingness to deal with the wicked in their tongue and lips
G. David taking counsel with God that he might overcome his enemy
H. God's dealing with the corrupt fool and His salvation to His people

What Kind of Man May Dwell with God for His Heart's Desire and Good Pleasure? _{Msg. 7}

I. David's concept — Psalm 15
A. According to the law given by God at Sinai alongside the central line of God's economy
B. The perfect man according to the law
II. The divine revelation — Psalm 16
A. According to the economy of God
B. The God-man, Christ
1. In His human living
a. Implying His incarnation
b. Taking refuge in God and trusting in God's preservation
c. Taking God as His Lord and having no good beyond God
d. Having delight in the saints, the excellent on the earth
e. Having nothing to do with other gods and their offerings, nor taking up their names upon his lips
f. Taking God as the portion of His inheritance and of His cup, and trusting in God to maintain His lot
g. Appreciating the possession given by God to Him under the measuring lines on pleasant places and the beautiful inheritance given to Him by God
h. Blessing God who counsels Him, and being instructed by His inward parts in the nights (through His contact with God)
i. Setting God before Him continually and not being shaken because God is at his right hand
2. In His death
a. His heart rejoicing and His spirit with His tongue exulting
b. His flesh (His physical body) dwelling securely
c. His soul having gone to Sheol (Hades) and remaining there for three days
d. Not to see corruption (decay) in His physical body
3. In His resurrection
a. God not to abandon Christ's soul to Sheol
b. God to make known to Christ the path of life — resurrection
4. In His ascension
a. In God's presence participating in fullness of joy
b. In God's right hand enjoying pleasures forever
III. The history of Psalms 1—16

The Lines, the Principles, and the Spirit of the Bible Concerning Christ and the Law _{Msg. 8}

I. The two lines concerning God's eternal economy in the Psalms as in the entire Scriptures
A. The line of life versus the line of the knowledge of good and evil
B. The main line as the central line of God's economy concerning Christ and the church
C. The side line concerning the law
II. The principles
A. The principles in the Old Testament
B. The principles in the New Testament
III. The spirit of the Bible

David's Concept Concerning a Man and Concerning David's Kingship Before God Based Upon the Keeping of the Law and the Principle of Good and Evil _{Msg. 9}

I. David's concept concerning a man before God
A. The improvement of David's concept
B. A psalm of David expressing his concept
C. David's praise of the testimony of the speaking of the universe and his appraisal of the law leading him to a deeper seeking after perfection before Jehovah
II. David's concept concerning his kingship before God
A. David's blessing in his kingship
B. David's praise to Jehovah for his kingship and God's furious dealing with his enemies

The Christ Who has Passed Through the Redeeming Death and Entered Into the Church-Producing Resurrection _{Msg. 10}

I. The hind of the dawn being a type of Christ in resurrection
II. Christ passing through the redeeming death
A. David's groaning cry to God
B. The suffering David typifying Christ passing through His death
1. Through men's reproach, despising, deriding, sneering, head shaking, and mocking
2. Trusting in God for deliverance
3. Through the suffering of crucifixion
4. Asking God to deliver Him from death
5. Forsaken by God
III. Christ entering into the church-producing resurrection
A. In resurrection, Christ calling His disciples His brothers
B. His brothers constituting the church
C. Declaring the Father's name to His brothers and praising the Father in the church
D. His church ushering in His kingdom for Him to rule over the nations
E. Following Christ's praise to God in the church, David advising God's people to praise Jehovah and all the earth to worship Him

Christ as the Shepherd in His Resurrection and Christ as the King in God's Kingdom _{Msg. 11}

I. Christ as the shepherd in His resurrection
A. The initial stage of the enjoyment in green pastures and at waters of rest
B. The second stage of revival and transformation on the paths of righteousness
C. The third stage of the experience of the presence of the resurrected pneumatic Christ through the valley of the shadow of death
D. The fourth stage of the deeper and higher enjoyment of the resurrected Christ
E. The fifth stage of the lifelong enjoyment of the divine goodness and kindness in the house of Jehovah
II. Christ as the King in God's kingdom
A. The realization of the earth and the fullness thereof as God's kingdom
B. The mixtures of David's concept
C. The victorious Christ to be the coming King in God's eternal kingdom

The Enjoyment of God in the House of God _{Msg. 12}

I. The revelation of the Psalms beginning with the psalmist stressing the law and with the Spirit turning the psalmist to Christ
II. The enjoyment of Christ leading the psalmist to the enjoyment of God in the house of God
A. The universal God being located in His house — His dwelling place
1. The incarnated Christ being God's tabernacle and God's temple
2. The church as the enlargement of Christ being God's enlarged temple — His dwelling place
3. In the ultimate consummation, the New Jerusalem being God's redeemed people to be the tabernacle to God for Him to enjoy His redeemed people, and the redeeming Triune God to be the temple to God's redeemed people for them to enjoy their redeeming Triune God in eternity
B. The psalmist's initial experience of the enjoyment of God's house
1. Worshipping toward God's holy temple in fear of Him
2. Entering into God's house in the abundance of His lovingkindness
3. Realizing that God is in His holy temple on His throne in heaven
4. Appreciating that God from His temple heard his cry in his distress
5. Blessing others with God's sending them His help from His sanctuary and His strengthening from Zion
6. With the wrong concept concerning who may be in God's holy sanctuary on His holy mountain
C. The psalmist's improved experience of the enjoyment of God's House with the Enjoyment of God
1. Dwelling in the house of God for the length of his days
2. Loving the habitation of God's house and the place where God's glory abides (is manifested)
3. Seeking to dwell in the house of God all the days of his life
a. To behold the beauty (loveliness, pleasantness, delightfulness) of God
b. To inquire of God
c. To be concealed in God's shelter
d. To hide himself in the hiding place of God's tent
e. To be raised up and have His head lifted up by God
f. To offer sacrifices of shouts of joy with singing and psalming to God
4. Lifting up his hands unto the innermost sanctuary
5. Praising God in his temple by saying, "glory"
6. Tasting and seeing that God is good
7. Enjoying the riches in God's house
a. Taking refuge in the shadow of God's wings under His lovingkindness
b. Saturated with the fatness (the abundance, the riches) of God's house
c. Drinking of the river of God's pleasures
d. Sharing of the fountain of the life of God
e. Seeing light in God's light

The Mixed Expressions of the Psalmist's Sentiment in His Enjoyment of God in God's House (1) _{Msg. 13}

I. In seeking God's guidance and teaching in His ways and paths
A. Begging God not to let him be put to shame and not to let his enemies exult over him, but to let the treacherous ones be ashamed because of his lifting up his soul to God, his trusting (confiding) in God, and his waiting on God
B. Asking God, as the God of his salvation, to teach and guide him through his compassions and acts of kindness
C. Asking God not to remember but to forgive his sins, transgressions, and great iniquity
D. Being assured that God, being Good and upright, instructs sinners concerning the way
E. Turning his eyes continually to God
F. Asking God to look on his many enemies, who hate him with a violent hatred
G. Asking God to redeem Israel out of all his troubles
II. In asking God to judge him, examine him, try him, and test him
A. Standing on his walk in integrity and in truth to be in the favor of God's lovingkindness
B. Standing on his not being in company with the wicked
C. Washing his hands in innocence to go around God's altar, giving thanks to God and telling out His wonderful deeds
D. Walking in his integrity and asking God to redeem him and be gracious to him
III. In trusting in God for His protection and deliverance from his enemies
A. Taking God as his light, his salvation, and the strength and stronghold of his life, so that he does not dread his adversaries and enemies
B. Seeking the face of God and asking God not to abandon or forsake him
C. Asking God to teach him his way and lead him on a level path because of his enemies who lie in wait for him
D. Advising and encouraging others to wait on God and to be strong and encouraged in their heart
A further word on the enjoyment of God in the house of God

The Mixed Expressions of the Psalmist's Sentiment in His Enjoyment of God in God's House (2) _{Msg. 14}

IV. In calling God to hear the voice of his supplications
A. Asking God, his rock, not to be deaf and silent to him when he cried out to him
B. Asking God not to drag him away with the wicked, but to repay them according to their evildoings
C. Blessing God as his strength and his shield
D. Asking God, as the strength of His people and the stronghold of salvation to His anointed, to save His people, bless His inheritance, shepherd them, and carry them forever
V. In praising God for His glory and majesty
A. Exhorting the sons of God, the Mighty One, to ascribe to God glory and strength and worship Him in holy splendor
B. The powerful and majestic voice of God — the thunder of the God of glory
C. Admiring God as the One enthroned at the Flood and sitting as King forever
D. Blessing the people of God with God's giving strength to them and his blessing them in peace
VI. In his song at the dedication of the house of God
A. Extolling God for His lifting him up over his enemies, for His healing, and for His deliverance of His soul from Sheol
B. Exhorting God's saints to Psalm to Him and praise His holy name
C. Prospering and never being shaken
D. Calling out to God and making supplication to Him
E. Asking God to hear him and be gracious to him to be his help

The Mixed Expressions of the Psalmist's Sentiment in His Enjoyment of God in God's House (3) _{Msg. 15}

VII. In experiencing and enjoying God's salvation from his distress
A. Taking refuge in God as a rock of protection and a fortress to save him out of the net secretly laid for him by his enemies
B. Enumerating to God his afflictions and distresses
C. Trusting in God for his saving and shining upon him
D. Blessing God and exhorting His godly ones to love Him and to be strong and encouraged
VIII. In experiencing God's forgiveness
A. Experiencing His confession and God's forgiveness of sin
B. Exhorting the godly ones to pray with confession at a time when God may be found
C. God's instruction and teaching
IX. In praising and giving thanks to God
A. Encouraging the righteous to praise God and give thanks to God
B. Praising God in His restoring of the heavens and the earth
C. Praising God in His relationship with the sons of men on earth
D. Praising God in His deliverance and preservation
E. Waiting on God as his help and his shield, trusting in His holy name, and having hoped in Him
The difference between Christ and the law

The Mixed Expressions of the Psalmist's Sentiment in His Enjoyment of God in God's House (4) _{Msg. 16}

X. In blessing and praising God
A. Written after David disguised himself as being insane before Abimelech
B. Because of God's answer and deliverance
C. Advising and teaching others to fear God and take refuge in Him
1. The goodness of fearing God and taking refuge in Him
2. The way to fear God
XI. In asking God to deal with his enemies
A. Begging God to fight His enemies with weapons
B. Boasting in his trusting in God and in his well-dealing with those who mistreated him
C. Urging God to deliver him by instructing God according to his natural knowledge of good and evil
XII. In asking God to deal with the wicked
A. His accusation of the wicked
B. His praising of God's lovingkindness, faithfulness, and righteousness mixed with the enjoyment of God in His house
C. Entreating God to deal with the wicked according to his way
Our need to be released from our human concept and to be brought into the central line of God's economy

The Mixed Expressions of the Psalmist's Sentiment in His Enjoyment of God in God's House (5) _{Msg. 17}

XIII. In his logic concerning God's dealing with the righteous and with the wicked based upon the principle of law-keeping
A. Not being incensed because of evildoers, for they soon wither like grass and fade away like green herbage
B. Trusting in Jehovah, doing good, feeding on His faithfulness, delighting yourself in Jehovah, and committing your way to Jehovah
C. The evildoers being cut off but those who wait on Jehovah possessing the land
XIV. In his suffering of God's dealing
A. David's concept in this Psalm contradicting his logic in Psalm 37
B. God's chastening forcing him to confess his sins and iniquities
C. His environment compelling him to groan before God and declare his iniquity and sin
D. Begging God Not to abandon him but to hasten to help and save him
XV. In his realizing the vanity of his life
A. Keeping his ways by muzzling his mouth
B. Realizing the nothingness and vanity of his life

The Mixed Expressions of the Psalmist's Sentiment in His Enjoyment of God in God's House (8) _{Msg. 18}

XVI. In his suffering of his enemies and the recompense which he expected for them
A. Waiting on Jehovah for His deliverance
B. Appreciating God's care for him — sustaining him on his sickbed and making all his bed in his illness
C. Referring to his righteousness and integrity again
D. Realizing and confessing his iniquities and sins
E. Referring to God the mistreatment of his enemies
F. Expecting That His Enemies Would Be Desolate and Put to Shame
G. Prophesying concerning Christ in such mixed expressions of his sentiment
1. In Psalm 40:6-8
2. In Psalm 41:9
H. Blessing God for eternity
XVII. Another three points of the prophecies concerning Christ
A. Taking counsel together against him and scheming to take his life
B. Committing His spirit into God's hand
C. God keeping all his bones and not one of them being broken
XVIII. A concluding word concerning Christ in the divine revelation in the first book of the Psalms
A. In the mixed expressions of the sentiment of God's lovers and seekers, Christ being revealed as the centrality and universality of God's economy
1. Having been anointed to Be God's Messiah
2. Bringing God into man in His incarnation and man into God in His resurrection
3. As the God-man, mingled with divinity and humanity
4. Dying an all-inclusive vicarious death and entering into the church-producing resurrection
5. Coming to do the will of God to fulfill and replace all the Old Testament sacrifices and offerings
B. Bringing God's chosen people into the enjoyment of God firstly in the church and ultimately in the New Jerusalem

The Psalmist's Intensified Enjoyment of God in His House and City Through the Suffering, Exalted, and Reigning Christ (1) _{Msg. 19}

The Psalmist's Panting After God
I. Book two of the Psalms unveiling the psalmists' intensified enjoyment of God in His house, and even the more in His city, through the suffering, exalted, and reigning Christ
II. Psalms 42—49, 84, 85, 87, and 88 being the holy writings of the sons of Korah
III. Panting after God
A. After being stripped by God
B. As the hart panting after the streams of water
C. Under the adversaries' reproaching and oppression
D. Recalling the glorious and pleasant past in the leading of the festal multitude to enjoy God in His house with His people
E. Encouraged by the hope in God for the salvation of His countenance
F. Remembering God from a distance
G. Recognizing God's sovereignty in their environment
H. The mixed expressions of the psalmists' sentiment in their enjoyment of God in His house and city
I. Asking God to give them light and truth that will lead them and bring them to God's holy mountain
J. The mixed expressions of the psalmists' sentiment in their enjoyment of God in His house and city
1. Treasuring the past
2. Sighing for the present

The Psalmist's Intensified Enjoyment of God in His House and City Through the Suffering, Exalted, and Reigning Christ (2) _{Msg. 20}

Praising Christ as the King (1)
I. A song of love according to the melody of lilies
II. A psalm overflowing with a good matter concerning the King by the tongue as the pen of a ready writer
III. Praising the King in His fairness
A. Fairer than the sons of men
B. Grace being poured upon his lips
C. God having blessed Him forever
IV. Praising the King in His victory
A. As the mighty One girding His sword upon His thigh in His majesty and splendor
B. In His splendor riding on victoriously because of truth, meekness, and righteousness
C. His right hand performing awesome deeds
D. His arrows being sharp in the heart of His enemies
V. Praising the King in His kingdom
A. As God His throne being forever and ever
B. The scepter of His kingdom being upright
C. Loving righteousness and hating wickedness
D. God, His God, having anointed Him with the oil of gladness above His companions
VI. Praising the King in the sweetness of His virtues
A. All His garments smelling of myrrh and aloes and of cassia
B. From palaces of ivory harpstrings having made Him glad

The Psalmist's Intensified Enjoyment of God in His House and City Through the Suffering, Exalted, and Reigning Christ (3) _{Msg. 21}

Praising Christ as the King (2)
VII. Praising the king in the praising of the queen with the daughters of kings among the king's most honorable women and the virgins, the queen's companions
A. The daughters of kings being among the king's most honorable women
B. The queen standing at the king's right hand in the gold of Ophir
C. The daughter hearing and seeing and forgetting her people and her father's house, and the King desiring her beauty
D. Worshipping the Lord
E. The daughter of tyre coming with a gift, and the rich among the people entreating her favor
F. The king's daughter being all glorious within the royal abode
G. Her garment being of woven work inwrought with gold
H. She being led to the king in embroidered clothing
I. The virgins behind her, her friends, being led to the King
J. The virgins being led with rejoicing and exultation and entering the king's palace
VIII. Praising the king in the praising of his sons
A. The king's sons being in the palace of his fathers, and the King making them princes in all the earth
B. His name being remembered in all generations, and the peoples praising Him forever and ever

The Psalmist's Intensified Enjoyment of God in His House and City Through the Suffering, Exalted, and Reigning Christ (4) _{Msg. 22}

Praising God in His Greatness and Exaltation Particularly in His City
I. A river gladdening the city oF God
A. God being our refuge, strength, and help
B. There being a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High
C. God being in the midst of the city to be our high retreat
D. God making desolations on earth
E. God being exalted among the nations on earth
II. A great King over all the earth
A. The peoples clapping their hands and shouting to God with the voice of a triumphant sound
B. God subduing peoples under Israel and choosing an inheritance for them
C. God arising amidst shouting at the sound of a trumpet
D. Singing psalms to our King
E. Those who are noble among the peoples being gathered with the people of the God of Abraham
III. The city of the great King
A. Jehovah being great and much to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain
B. Mount Zion being beautiful in elevation
C. The kings, having assembled themselves to pass by the city together, seeing it and being astounded and dismayed
D. God establishing the city forever
E. Considering God's lovingkindness in the midst of His temple
F. God being our God forever and being our guide even unto death

Three Categories of Persons Regarding the Enjoyment of God in Christ _{Msg. 23}

I. THOSE TRUSTING IN THEIR WEALTH
A. A Word of Wisdom
B. Unable to Redeem Their Brothers
C. Appointed to die and perish
D. Not trusting in Christ for their redemption
E. Having no share in the enjoyment of God in His house and in His city
II. Those calling upon the Lord according to His covenant
A. As the saints of God, who have made a covenant with God by sacrifice
B. Redeemed by God in Christ
C. Enjoying God in His shining forth out of His house in Zion, the perfection of beauty
III. A person repenting, confessing his sins to God, and asking God for His purging
A. David, after committing his great sin and being rebuked by the prophet Nathan
B. Repenting and confessing his sins to God
C. Begging God
1. To blot out his transgressions, wash him thoroughly from his iniquity, cleanse him from his sin, and purge his sin with hyssop
2. To create in him a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within him
3. To not cast him from his presence and not take the Spirit of His holiness away from him
4. To restore to Him the gladness of His salvation and sustain Him with a willing spirit
5. To deliver him from the guilt of bloodshed
D. Participating in the enjoyment of God in his house and in his city through the offerings on the altar

The Pious Expressions of the Psalmists Uttered Out of Their Complex Sentiments While Enjoying God in His House - Psalms 52—67 (1) _{Msg. 24}

I. The psalmist's condemnation of the evil man and the psalmist's enjoyment of God in His house
A. The psalmist's condemnation on the evil man
B. The psalmist's enjoyment of God in His house
II. None among all the sons of men doing good, but the psalmist wanting to enjoy God in His salvation from His house
A. None among all the sons of men doing good
B. The psalmist wanting to enjoy God in His salvation from His house
III. The psalmist asking God to annihilate his enemies, while seeking to participate in God in his help, sustenance, and salvation
IV. The psalmist seeking to experience God's salvation while, under the oppression of his enemy, asking God to deal with his enemy
A. The psalmist seeking to experience God's salvation
B. The psalmist, under the oppression of his enemy, asking God to deal with his enemy based on the principle of good and evil
C. Prophesying concerning Judas' betraying of Christ
D. The psalmist, under the persecution of his enemy, recalling his enjoyment with others in the house of God
V. The psalmist asking God to cast down his enemies, while trusting in God and enjoying God in His deliverance of him from death and stumbling
A. The psalmist asking God to cast down his enemies
B. The psalmist trusting in God and enjoying God in His deliverance of him from death and stumbling
VI. The psalmist rejoicing at the misfortune of his enemies, while trusting in God and enjoying God in His salvation, lovingkindness, and faithfulness

The Pious Expressions of the Psalmists Uttered Out of Their Complex Sentiments While Enjoying God in His House - Psalms 52—67 (2) _{Msg. 25}

VII. The psalmist's condemnation on the sons of men and his prayer for their destruction
A. The psalmist's condemnation on the sons of men
B. The psalmist's prayer for the destruction of the wicked
VIII. The psalmist's prayer for God's salvation from his enemies
A. The psalmist's prayer for God's salvation by watching for God
B. Asking God to punish the nations
C. The psalmist's praise to God
IX. The psalmist's prayer to God for His restoration
A. The psalmist's prayer for God's restoration
B. God's exultation in His promise to His people for the possession of the land
C. The psalmist's prayer for God's Deliverance from the adversary
X. The psalmist's enjoyment of God in His house
A. Enjoying God as his refuge by dwelling in the tent of God
B. Asking God to add days to his days
XI. The psalmist's enjoyment of God as his high retreat
A. The psalmist's enjoyment of God
B. The psalmist's advice to the people

The Pious Expressions of the Psalmists Uttered Out of Their Complex Sentiments While Enjoying God in His House - Psalms 52—67 (3) _{Msg. 26}

XII. The psalmist comparing his enjoyment of God in His house with the punishment of his enemies
A. The psalmist's seeking after God
B. The psalmist's enjoyment of God
C. The punishment of the psalmist's enemies
XIII. The psalmist's complaint of his enemy's evil plan and God's judgment on the evildoers
A. The psalmist's complaint of his enemy's evil plan
B. God's judgment on the evildoers
C. The righteous man's rejoicing in Jehovah and taking refuge in Him
XIV. The psalmist's praise to God for his enjoyment of God in His house and for God's goodness to the earth for man
A. The psalmist's praise to God for his enjoyment of God in His house
B. The psalmist's praise to God for His goodness to the earth for man
XV. The psalmist's advice to all the earth for praising God, his gratitude to God for the past, and his recounting of God's gracious doings to him
A. The psalmist's advice to all the earth for praising God
B. The psalmist's gratitude to God for the past
C. The psalmist's recounting of God's gracious doings to him
XVI. The psalmist entreating God for more grace and blessing and advising all the nations to praise God
A. The psalmist entreating God for more grace and blessing
B. The psalmist advising the nations to praise God for His equitable judgment and kind guidance

Christ as the Center of God's Move on the Earth (1) _{Msg. 27}

I. God's move within the tabernacle as His dwelling place with the ark as the center
A. After the decree of the law for the exposing, convincing, and condemning of Israel
B. After the rearing up of the tabernacle of the ark
C. In the midst of Israel, His elect
D. From Sinai through the wilderness to Mount Zion
E. Israel, God's elect, triumphing in God
II. God's victory in Christ as the center, typified by the ark
A. Moses' prayer for Jehovah to arise
1. The kings of his enemies' armies fleeing
2. A great host of women of Israel bearing glad tidings
3. She who abides at home dividing the spoil
a. Though they lie among the sheepfolds
b. There being four items
1) Dove wings
2) White silver
3) Pinions
4) Greenish yellow, glittering gold
5) The contents of the four items actually being the Triune God with all the items of His complete, full, and all-inclusive salvation
6) God's elect enjoying these items as their portion in Christ and announcing them to others as the glad tidings
B. Christ leading those taken captive
III. Christ's ascension
A. Ascending on high
B. Leading captive those taken captive, included in the train of vanquished foes
IV. Christ receiving the gifts
A. Taking the gifts among men, even the rebellious ones
B. The gifts becoming the gifted believers
V. The building up of the dwelling place for God
A. The gifts as the gifted persons builded together to be the dwelling place for God
B. This dwelling place being also the habitation of the believers
C. This dwelling place of God being built on Mount Zion

Christ as the Center of God's Move on the Earth (2) _{Msg. 28}

VI. The enjoyment of God in His house
A. After the building up of God's dwelling place
B. Enjoying God loading us with good
C. Enjoying God as our salvation and deliverance
D. Enjoying God's victory over the enemies
VII. Praising God
A. Praising God that his enemies have seen his goings in the sanctuary
B. By the virgins sounding the tambourines
C. Blessing God in the congregations by men who are of the fountain of Israel
D. Portraying a scenery in typology concerning God's New Testament economy
1. Little Benjamin
a. As the son of sorrows, Benoni
b. As the son of the right hand, Benjamin
2. The princes of Judah
a. Typifying Christ as the victory for God's people and the peace to God's people
b. As the kingly tribe, accompanied always by Benjamin, as a warrior tribe
3. The princes of Zebulun
4. The princes of Naphtali
a. Typifying Christ as the one who is released from death in resurrection and gives goodly words for the preaching of His gospel
b. People of both Zebulun and Naphtali being men of Galilee
c. Zebulun and Naphtali forming a group in typology
VIII. The spreading into the city of God
A. Following God's Strengthening of what he has done for His elect
B. The house of God signifying the local church and the city of Jerusalem signifying the kingdom
IX. The gaining of the earth for God
A. The influence of the enjoyment of God gaining the whole earth for God
1. Kings of the nations bringing a gift to God
2. God dealing with the Egyptians
3. God dealing with the nations
4. Nobles coming out of Egypt to visit Jerusalem and cush quickly stretching out its hand to God
5. This scenery consummating in the coming age of restoration
B. The kingdoms of the earth being charged to praise God
C. The psalmist praising and blessing God

The Suffering Christ and the Reigning Christ _{Msg. 29}

I. The suffering Christ
A. Typified by the suffering David
B. The sufferings of Christ
1. Hated by many without cause
2. Bearing reproaches for God's sake
3. Devoured by the zeal of God's house
4. Suffering much and no one taking pity upon Him
5. Weeping and entreating God to deliver Him out of the waters of death
6. Being given gall as His food while suffering on the cross
7. Being given vinegar to drink in His thirst on the cross
8. Stricken and wounded by God
9. Betrayed by one of His disciples
C. The psalmist's expression from his complex sentiments concerning his enemies
II. A prayer of the psalmist
A. The psalmist's seeking for God's deliverance
B. The psalmist's expression from his complex sentiments concerning his enemies
III. The psalmist's trust in God and his praise to God
A. The psalmist's trust in God
B. The psalmist's praise to God
C. The psalmist's expression from His complex sentiments concerning his enemies
IV. The reigning Christ
A. Typified by the reigning Solomon, the son of David, in his prosperous and flourishing time
B. The reigning of Christ
1. In the millennium in the age of restoration
2. In righteousness and in justice for peace
3. Dropping like rain upon mown grass and like showers dripping on the earth
4. Having dominion from sea to sea and from the River unto the ends of the earth
5. His favor to the needy and their response to Him
6. A blessing to all the earth in prosperity and their response to Him
C. The psalmist's blessing to God as the closing word of Book 2

The Desolation of God's House and Christ as the Solution - Psalms 73—76 _{Msg. 30}

I. The problem of desolation
A. Due to God's people's negligence of the experience of Christ
B. Solved by Christ properly appreciated and exalted by God's people
II. The sufferings of the seeking saints
A. God being good to those who are pure in heart
B. The sufferings and the puzzles of the God-seeking psalmist
C. The solution obtained in the sanctuary of God
1. The wicked being set in slippery places to be cast down into ruins
2. God to be his pure seeker's only possession in heaven and his unique desire on earth
III. The desolation of the house of God
A. A painful presentation of the perpetual ruins and damages in the sanctuary of God
B. A desperate cry for God's interest according to His power and based on His covenant
IV. The judgment of Christ upon the desolators
A. At the time appointed by Him
B. Cutting off the uplifted horns of the wicked to vindicate that exaltation comes from Him in the north
V. The victory of God in His dwelling place
A. The victory of God, as the glorious and excellent One, in His tabernacle
B. The praise of the psalmist concerning the wrath and fearfulness of God

The Way of Restoration — Exalting Christ - Psalms 77—83 _{Msg. 31}

I. God's way being in the sanctuary and His way being in the sea and His paths in the great waters
A. It being the psalmist's infirmity that he was puzzled and complained to God because God had cast off His people for awhile
B. The psalmist recalling the past and musing on God's wondrous doings for His people
C. God's way being hidden in the sea but revealed in his sanctuary
II. Man's failure and God's restoration
A. The recall of Israel's failure in the past
B. The issue of Israel's failure
C. God's restoration of Israel
III. Restoration by exalting Christ
A. The devastation of God's temple
B. The psalmist's cry to God for the people
C. The psalmist's prayer for Israel as God's flock
D. God's dealing with Israel as His vine
E. The psalmist asking God to visit His vine for the sake of Christ as the Man of His right hand
IV. God's intention being to get the earth for Christ's inheritance and Satan's plot being to take God's habitation in possession
A. Israel charged to shout joyfully to God
B. Israel listening to God and walking in His ways, and God subduing their enemies
C. God judging in the midst of the judges because of their unjust judgment over the poor and the orphan
D. The aspiration of the psalmist for Christ to judge the earth and to inherit the nations
E. Satan's plot being to take God's habitation in possession through the nations who conspire against God's hidden ones
F. The psalmist's prayer for God to deal with the nations

The Psalmist's Love for the House of God with Christ _{Msg. 32}

I. After God's dealing and stripping
II. Blessed being those who dwell in God's house
A. The psalmist longing, even fainting, for God's habitations
B. The sparrow finding a home and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young at the two altars
1. The brass altar in the outer court where all negative things have been dealt with by the offerings
2. The golden altar in front of the Holy of Holies where God's people are accepted by God in peace
3. Through these two altars God's redeemed finding their home with God in rest
C. Those being blessed who dwell in God's house, praising Him
D. A day to dwell in God's courts being better than a thousand
III. Blessed being the man whose heart is on the highways to Zion
A. Having strength in God
B. Passing through the valley of Baca
C. Making the valley of weeping a spring
D. The early rain covering the valley of weeping with blessings
E. Going from strength to strength
F. To appear before God in Zion
IV. The psalmist's prayer
A. Praying that God will behold their shield and look upon the face of His anointed
B. To enjoy Jehovah our God in Christ as a sun, a shield, grace, and glory, lacking nothing

A Supplement to Msg. Thirty-Two on Psalm 84 _{Msg. 33}

I. A secret revelation concerning the enjoyment of the incarnated Triune God
A. The center of this secret revelation — the house of God
B. A diagram of the layout of the house of God
C. Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God being the fulfillment of the types of the tabernacle and the temple
II. The main consummations of the incarnated Triune God
A. The first altar
B. The second altar
III. The blessed highways — the highways to Zion
A. Having strength in God
B. Passing through the valley of Baca
C. Making the valley of weeping a spring
D. The early rain covering the valley of weeping with blessings
E. Going from strength to strength
IV. Some further matters
A. Our shield and God's anointed
B. Standing at the threshold of the house of God
C. Those who walk uprightly and the man who trusts in Jehovah

Christ Versus Restoration of God's People, Personal Salvation, and Release from Sufferings _{Msg. 34}

I. The seeking of the sons of Korah for the restoration of Israel
II. The seeking of David for His personal salvation
III. The desire of God for Zion with Christ
IV. The seeking of Heman, a son of Korah, for his release from sufferings
V. The intention of God for Christ, His Anointed, to possess the entire earth
VI. Five outstanding psalms out of the seventeen in Psalms Book 3
A. Psalm 73 unveiling God as our unique portion
B. Psalm 80 unveiling Christ as the one in the place of preeminence
C. Psalm 84 unveiling Christ as the house of God with the two altars for the "sparrows" and the "swallows"
D. Psalm 87 unveiling Zion with Christ loved by God
E. Psalm 89 unveiling Christ as God's anointed to possess the entire earth
F. Indicating the processed and consummated Triune God to be the all-inclusive enjoyment of His chosen people in the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, and exalted Christ

The Saints' Deeper Experience of God in the Identification with Christ _{Msg. 35}

I. Psalms Book 4 unveiling the saints' deeper experience of God in the identification with Christ and God's recovery of His title and right over the earth
A. Psalms Book 1 unveiling Christ, and Books 2 and 3 unveiling Christ with the house and the city of God
B. Books 2 and 3 ending with the extension of God's kingdom to the whole earth
II. The saints' deeper experience of God in the identification with Christ
A. The saints' deeper experience of God
1. Taking God from eternity to eternity as their dwelling place
2. Realizing the short span of human life and its sins and afflictions
3. Asking God to teach them to number their days
B. In the identification with Christ
1. Making Jehovah the Most High their habitation, dwelling in the secret place and abiding in His shadow under His wings
2. Being under the keeping care of the angels and treading upon the enemy Satan
3. Setting their love upon God, being set on high by Him, and seeing His salvation in the extension of their days
C. The issue
1. Rejoicing in the great works of Jehovah
2. Their horns being exalted by Jehovah, and they being mingled with fresh oil
3. Flourishing like the palm tree and growing like a cedar in Lebanon

God's Recovery of His Title and Right Over the Whole Earth Through the Reign of Christ _{Msg. 36}

I. God having given the earth to Christ as His possession and the nations as His inheritance
II. Christ coming to take possession of the earth by putting His right foot on the sea and the left on the land
III. The kingdom of the world to become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and he to reign forever and ever
IV. Christ reigning and the world established
V. Christ executing His judgment over the world
VI. Christ as a great King possessing the earth
VII. Christ coming to judge the earth, the world, and the peoples with righteousness and truth and reigning over the nations
VIII. Christ reigning, and the earth being glad and rejoicing
IX. All the ends of the earth having seen the salvation of God
X. Christ reigning in Zion and the peoples trembling
XI. All the earth making a joyful noise to Christ
XII. Lovingkindness and justice to be the base of the reign and judgment of Christ

The Earth Turning to the Lord Through Zion _{Msg. 37}

I. Psalm 102 being a prayer of an afflicted one
II. Christ being the key that turns the earth to the Lord
A. Based upon His suffering
B. Through Zion
1. Zion as the center of the city Jerusalem
2. Zion's stones as the pleasure of the Lord's servants and her dust in which is their favor
3. Bringing the peoples and the kingdoms of the earth into the praise and worship of Jehovah
C. Because of His eternal and unchanging existence
III. Praising Jehovah who has recovered the title and the right over the whole earth through the reign of Christ
A. A narration of God's history
1. In His lovingkindness and compassions in His forgiving of sins, healing, redeeming, and caring of His people
2. In His greatness in the creation of the universe and its fullness
3. In His dealing with Abraham and his descendants according to His covenant
4. In His dealing with Israel in the wilderness and in the promised land with His favor according to His covenant
B. Issuing in hallelujahs

The Highest Revelation of Christ _{Msg. 38}

I. God's care and deliverance of His redeemed in Christ
A. The thanks of God's redeemed, gathered from the east, west, north, and south
B. God's care and deliverance of the wanderers
C. God's care and deliverance of the prisoners in darkness and the shadow of death
D. God's care and deliverance of the ones sick because of their way of transgression
E. God's care and deliverance of the seafarers
F. God's adjusting of the environment to deal with the wicked and haughty ones and to take care of the needy ones
II. God's victory in Christ over the enemies
A. God's lovingkindness and his truth
B. God's victory in Christ over the enemies
III. A prayer of David, typifying Christ, in his sufferings
A. Referring to Judas, who betrayed Christ
B. Answered in the next psalm, Psalm 110
IV. The highest revelation of Christ
A. God making Christ sit at His right hand
1. In His ascension
2. Until God makes His enemies His footstool
3. God sending forth from Zion the scepter of Christ's power to rule over all the nations
4. Christ's people offering themselves willingly in the days of His forces (army) in the splendor of their consecration
5. Christ's young men being to him like the dew from the womb of the morning
B. God swearing without repenting to ordain Christ a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedec
C. Christ, who is the Lord (Adonai) and who is at God's right hand, to shatter kings in the day of His anger at His coming back and to execute judgment among the nations
D. Christ to drink from the brook by the way and to lift up His head triumphantly

The Praise of God's Elect Consummating in the Particular Position of Christ _{Msg. 39}

I. The praise of GOd's elect for God's great works according to His covenant
II. The praise of God's elect for God's blessing due to their fear of Him and their virtues thereof
III. The praise of God's elect for God's exaltation and humility in taking care of the lowly and needy ones
IV. The praise of God's elect for God's marvelous deeds to them in Egypt and in the wilderness and their becoming God's sanctuary and dominion
V. The praise of God's elect for God's being real, trustworthy, and full of blessing to His elect and to all those who fear Him, unlike the idols
VI. The praise and thanksgiving of God's elect, in the presence of all God's people, in the courts of His house, and in the midst of Jerusalem, for God's salvation, deliverance, preservation, bountiful dealing, and abundant benefits
VII. The exhortation of God's elect to all the nations to praise Jehovah for His great lovingkindness and everlasting faithfulness
VIII. The thanksgiving of God's elect for God's bountiful goodness and everlasting lovingkindness leading to Christ as the cornerstone for God's building
A. The thanksgiving of God's elect for God's bountiful goodness and everlasting lovingkindness
B. Leading to Christ as the cornerstone for God's building
1. Christ rejected by Israel, the builders of God
2. Christ becoming the chief cornerstone for God's building
3. This being from Jehovah and being wonderful in our sight
4. This taking place in the day that Jehovah has made
5. We being charged to exult and rejoice in this day
6. God's salvation and the prosperity sent by God coming from Christ as the chief cornerstone
7. Christ as the chief cornerstone coming in the name of Jehovah
a. The first time
b. The second time
8. The psalmists blessing Israel with all the nations from the praising house of Jehovah

Christ—the Reality of the Law as the Testimony and the Word of God _{Msg. 40}

I. Christ being the reality of the law, signified by:
A. The testimony of God, signifying Christ as the living portrait of what God is
B. The word of God, signifying Christ as the living word of God breathed out by Him
II. The two aspects of the law
III. The two aspects of the function of the law
A. The negative aspect
1. As God's commandments to expose man's sin
2. As God's regulations with statutes, ordinances, and rituals to guard God's chosen people in its custody that they might be conducted to Christ
B. The positive aspect
1. As God's living testimony to minister the living God to His seekers
2. As God's living word to dispense God's life and light to its lovers
IV. Two kinds of people in relation to the law
A. The letter-keepers, illustrated by the Judaizers and Saul of Tarsus
B. The God-seekers, illustrated by the psalmists
1. Seeking God
2. Loving His name and remembering it
3. Entreating His countenance
4. Asking for his face to shine upon them
5. Walking in His presence
6. Considering God's law to be His word
7. God's word being sweeter than honey to their mouth
8. God's word being more precious than fine gold to them
9. God's word being a lamp to their feet and a light to their path
V. The God-seekers' attitude toward God's law as God's testimony and God's word
A. Choosing it
B. Believing it
C. Lifting up their hand unto it
D. Loving it
E. Delighting in it
F. Tasting it
G. Rejoicing in it
H. Singing of it
I. Regarding it
J. Having a sound heart in it
K. Inclining their heart unto it
L. Seeking it, longing for it, and hoping in it with prayer
M. Trusting in it
N. Musing on it
O. Considering it
P. Esteeming it right concerning all things
Q. Learning it
R. Treasuring it
S. Treasuring it up in their heart
T. Remembering it and not forgetting it
U. Standing in awe of it
V. Clinging to it
W. Not forsaking it, not swerving from it, not turning aside from it, and not going astray from it
X. Turning their feet toward it
Y. Keeping, observing, and doing it
Z. Walking in it and running the way of it

The Preciousness of Zion and Jerusalem in the Experiences and Praises of the Saints (1) _{Msg. 41}

The Preciousness of Zion and Jerusalem in the Experiences and Praises of the Saints (2) _{Msg. 42}

IX. The praise of the saint in His going up to Zion concerning Jehovah's blessing to Israel from Zion and the prosperity of Jerusalem in their enjoyment
A. They eating the labor of their hands, and it going well with them
B. Their wives being like fruitful vines, and their children being like olive shoots
C. Jehovah blessing them from Zion, and they seeing the prosperity of Jerusalem
X. The praise of the saint in his going up to Zion concerning the persecutors of Israel and the haters of Zion
A. Many times the persecutors having afflicted the believers since the beginning of their christian life
B. All the haters of Zion being put to shame
XI. The praise of the saint in his going up to Zion concerning God's forgiveness to Israel and His redeeming of Israel from all their iniquity
A. No one standing if Jehovah marked iniquities
B. There being forgiveness with Jehovah, that he would be feared
C. Waiting for the Lord and hoping in Him and in His word
XII. The praise of the saint in his going up to Zion concerning his humbled heart and quieted soul before Jehovah
A. His heart not being proud, nor his eyes being haughty
B. He having calmed and quieted his soul within him
C. Advising Israel, God's chosen people, to hope in Jehovah
XIII. The praise of the saint in his going up to Zion concerning Jehovah's habitation and rest in Zion through David His anointed
A. Asking Jehovah to remember all of David's afflictions
B. David's desire for the habitation of God
C. David's seeking for the ark of Jehovah
D. Jehovah's speaking concerning Zion
XIV. The praise of the saint in his going up to Zion concerning Jehovah's commanded blessing for brothers to dwell in unity
A. It being good and pleasant for brothers to dwell in unity
B. It being like the fine oil upon the head
C. It being like the dew of hermon that came down upon the mountains of Zion
D. There Jehovah commanding the blessing, even life forever
XV. The praise of the saint in His going up to Zion concerning the charge and the blessing of the children of Israel to the serving priests in the house of God
A. The charge to the servants of Jehovah
B. The blessing to the servants of Jehovah

The Expressions of the Saints Before Jehovah in Different Directions _{Msg. 43}

I. Charging the priests who serve Jehovah in His house, in the courts of His house, to praise Him
A. In His goodness
B. In choosing Jacob for Himself, Israel for His personal treasure
C. In His greatness above all gods
D. In His being mighty to do as he pleases in heaven, on earth, and in the seas
E. In His marvelous deeds in Egypt, upon its firstborn, of man and of beast, and unto Pharaoh and all his servants
F. In His striking of great nations and His slaying of all the kings of Canaan, especially king Sihon and king Og
G. In His executing of judgment for His people and in His repenting concerning His servants for the sake of His name
H. Charging the house of Israel, the house of Aaron, and the house of Levi to bless Jehovah
I. Blessing Jehovah from Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem
II. Charging the people to give thanks to Jehovah for His everlasting lovingkindness
A. In being good
B. In being the God of gods and the Lord of lords
C. In creating the heavens, the earth over the waters, and the great lights
D. In bringing forth Israel from Egypt and marching them through the wilderness
E. In slaying great and majestic kings of Canaan that he might give their land to Israel as an inheritance
F. In remembering Israel in their low estate and rescuing them from their adversaries
G. In giving food to all flesh
H. In being the God of heaven
III. The remembrance of Zion and the non-forgetting of Jerusalem in captivity
A. Weeping when they remembered Zion
B. Hanging their harps on the willows
C. They asking how they can sing the song of Jehovah in a foreign land
D. Asking Jehovah to remember the evil of Edom against Jerusalem and punish it
E. Cursing Babylon
IV. Thanking Jehovah in the worship of His holy temple
A. For His lovingkindness and truth in magnifying His word of promise above all in His great glory
B. For His regarding the lowly, preserving him alive in trouble, and saving him from his enemies
V. Asking Jehovah for His searching and trying
A. God being omniscient
B. God being omnipresent
C. Appreciating being created by God
D. Hating and loathing the wickedness of the wicked according to the principle of good and evil
E. Seeking to be led by God on the eternal way

Final Prayers of David to Jehovah _{Msg. 44}

I. Asking for Jehovah's deliverance and preservation
II. With the following precious points:
A. Saying that Jehovah is his God and the strength of his salvation
B. Asking that his prayer be set before Jehovah as incense
C. Praying that Jehovah would set a watch before his mouth
D. His prayer being against evil deeds
E. Jehovah knowing his path when his spirit fainted within him
F. Saying that Jehovah is his refuge
G. Saying that no one alive is righteous in God's sight
H. Saying that he spread out his hands to Jehovah and that his soul thirsts for him like a parched land
I. Asking Jehovah to cause him to hear His lovingkindness in the morning
J. Saying that he hides himself in Jehovah
K. Blessing Jehovah
L. Praying that Jehovah would bow His heavens down and descend
M. Declaring that the people are blessed whose God is Jehovah
III. Asking for prosperity in material things
A. Praying that their sons would be like plants
B. Praying that their daughters would be like pillars
C. Praying that their barns would be full
D. Praying that their sheep would bring forth thousands
E. Praying that their oxen would be fully laden
F. Praying that there would be no breaking in to rob or going forth to fight
G. Saying that blessed are the people who are so
IV. Based upon the principle of good and evil
V. Issuing in extolling and praising God
A. For His unsearchable greatness in His goodness
B. For His grace and compassion
C. For the glory of His kingdom
D. For His rich supply to the needy ones, His nearness to all who call upon Him, and His preservation of all who love Him
VI. His concluding word

The Consummate Praise _{Msg. 45}

I. This consummate praising corresponding with that at the end of revelation
II. Praising Jehovah for His reigning from Zion
A. He being the help of His saints
B. He having created heaven, earth, and all things
C. He taking care of the needy ones
D. He reigning forever and ever
III. Praising Jehovah for the rebuilding of Jerusalem
A. He gathering the outcasts of Israel
B. He providing food for the beast and the birds and taking pleasure in those who fear Him and hope in His lovingkindness
C. He having restored Jerusalem
D. He declaring His word to Jacob, His statutes and ordinances to Israel
IV. Praising Jehovah for His exalted name and for His transcending glory
A. All the heavenly things and persons to praise Him from the heavens
B. All the earthly things and persons to praise Him from the earth
C. All His people to praise Him
V. Praising Jehovah for His pleasure in His people, Israel, and His adornment of the lowly with salvation
A. With a new song in the congregation of His saints
B. Israel rejoicing in his Maker, the children of Zion being glad in their King
C. Executing vengeance on the nations and punishment among the peoples
VI. Praising Jehovah God
A. In:
B. For:
C. With:
D. By everything that has breath
VII. The spirit, the reality, the characteristic, of the divine revelation in the book of Psalms

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