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6.4 Let’s Practice….

1. What does the word “blessed” mean?

2. What are the standards required for “blessedness”?

3. What word forms a “bookend” for Psalms one and two?

4. Who is the righteous person in Psalms one and two?

5. Who does God love most?

6. Psalms one and two indicate that the entire book focuses on whom?

7. How is “faith” described at the end of Psalm 2?

8. What do the wicked meditate on instead of God’s law?

9. What does God give his Son?

10. Give two NT scriptures that quote Psalm 2?

6.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson….

Psalm 1 calls for effort. Meditation is not just casual reading. Meditation involves focused
thought over time to discover the author’s meaning. Dr. Lloyd-Jones expresses the thought
well in connection with scripture in general and the psalms in particular.

The Word of God does not merely give us general comfort, what it gives us always is
an argument. There is nothing I so dislike and abominate as a sentimental way of reading
the Scriptures. There are many people who read the Scriptures in a purely sentimental
manner. They are in trouble and they do not know what to do. They say, ‘I will read a
Psalm. It is so soothing – “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want”.’ They make of it a
kind of incantation and take the Psalms as another person takes a drug…. We must
follow the logic of it and bring intelligence to the Scriptures…They are not merely meant

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