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We should not underestimate the number of psalms about the Messiah as has been the custom for
many years. In turn with the early church, we should see many of the royal psalms, those about the king,
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and psalms of lament also about the anointed one, the Messiah. We should expect this if our Lord
spent a good part of his last days on earth (Like 24:44-49). Amen.

8.4 Let’s Practice….

1. Book I mostly uses the name “Yahweh.” True False

2. Psalm 72 is mostly about Solomon. True False

3. Psalms 14 and 53 are useless repetitions of the same material. True False

4. A “benchmark” is a fixed point used to compare other points. True False

5. The main speaker in Book III is an average believer in God. True False

6. Psalm 89 is mostly about God’s Son. True False

7. The name “Elohim” refers to God’s majesty as creator and savior. True False

8. Later Psalms rarely refer back to Psalms one and two. True False

8.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson….

Perhaps more modern illustrations need not be given, yet we might be tempted to think
this theology belongs exclusively to the OT. We of the abundant life should expect better.
Yet the psalms speak of praising God and singing to him among the nations, those same
nations that conspired together against the LORD and against his Messiah in Psalm 2:1-2
(108:3; 57:9). The challenge is great.

Field-preaching was punishable with death [in Scotland], and the sentence had to be
carried out within three hours after judgment… On 23 January 1685, James Dun and five
other men of the parish of Minnigraff, about eight miles, from Wigtown, were surprised
by a party of soldiers whilst engaged in prayer and shot out of hand. Less than four
months later, ‘Margaret McLachland of Kirkinner paroch, a woman of sixty-three years of
age… was taken off her knees in prayer and carried to prison.’ A young girl of eighteen,
Margaret Wilson, who had been hiding in the mountains with her younger brother and
sister, was also taken at the same time. The judges ‘sentenced them to be tyed to

127127 Jamie A. Grant, The King as Exemplar (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004),24.

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