print copies of handout Words of Word & 119E response to Word & 119M transistions on slides print out slides with notes

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1 1. Announcement 2. Life Together comments 3. Sing 119E 4. Words for WORD handout 5. Summary of Psalm 119 PowerPoint 6. Activity discuss response to Word & describe Word itself 7. Sing 119M 1. Christ sang the Psalms (Mt 26:30) 2. Sing psalms because we are in Christ print copies of handout Words of Word & 119E response to Word & 119M transistions on slides print out slides with notes Title: Jan 10 8:27 PM (1 of 8)

2 OLD and NEW favorite Quotes regarding Psalm C.T. Studd Psalm 119:63 2. Dietrich Bonheoffer (p.42) "The Scriptures tell us that the first though and the first word of the day belong to God...At the dawn of day the believer thirsts and yearns for God: Psalm 119:147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words." Regarding the Psalter in general Bonheoffer writes: (p.44ff) "From ancient times in the Church a special significance has been attached to the common use of psalms. In many churches to this day the Psalter constitutes the beginning of every service of common worship...these words of the Holy Scirptues which a believing Christian cannot simply dismiss as outworn and obsolute." How can we sing or pray imprecitory psalms, or psalms that speak of innocence or our righteousness, or psalms of unspeakable suffering? (p.48) "In so far as 'Christ's blood and righteousness' has become 'our beauty, our glorious dress,' we can and we shall pray the psalms of innocence as Christ's prayer for us and gift to us...through the Cross of Christ these psalms [of suffering] have been bestowed upon his Body on earth." Christ sang the Psalms As we are in Christ, he continues to sing the Psalms through us. (p.46) "Because Christ prays the prayer of the psalms with the individual and the congregation before the heavenly throne of God, or rather because those who pray the psalms are join in the with prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor." Title: Jan 10 11:10 PM (2 of 8)

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4 10. Truth or faithfulnesshttp://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/spurgeon/psalm.htm 1. Law 2. Way 3. Testimonies 4. Commandments 5. Precepts 6. Word 7. Judgments 8. Righteousness 9. Statutes because they are enacted by Him as our Sovereign because they are the rule both of his providence and of our obedience. because they are solemnly declared to the world, and attested beyond contradiction because given with authority, and (as the word signifies) lodged with us as a trust because prescribed to us, and not left indifferent or saying, because it is the declaration of his mind, and Christ the essential, eternal Word is all in all of it because framed in infinite wisdom, and because by them we must both judge and be judged because it is all holy, just, and good, and the rule and standard of righteousness becuase they are fixed and determined, and a perpetual obligation because the principles upon which divine law is built are eternal truths The above is by Matthew Henry Title: Jan 9 7:11 AM (4 of 8)

5 Words for the Word These [various words for the Word of God] are, doubtless, all designations of the Divine Law; but it were doing a deep injury to the cause of revealed truth to affirm that they are mere synonyms; in other words, that the sentiments of this compendium of heavenly wisdom are little better than a string of tautologies. The fact is, as some critics, both Jewish and Christian, have observed, that each of these terms designates the same law of God, but each under a different aspect, signifying the different modes of its promulgation, and of its reception. 1. (torah 25x) This word is formed from a verb which means to direct, to guide, to aim, to shoot forwards. Its etymological meaning, then, would be a rule of conduct. It means God's law in general, whether it be that universal rule called the law of nature, or that which was revealed to his Church by Moses, and perfected by Christ. In strictness, the law means a plain rule of conduct, rather placed clearly in man's sight, than enforced by any command; that is to say, this word does not necessarily include its sanctions. 2. (occurs 2x in Hebrew) At all events, its meaning is so direct and simple as to require no explanation: a plain rule of conduct; in its higher sense, the assisting grace of God through Christ our Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 3. (edoth, 24x in ESV) are derived from a word which signifies to bear witness, to testify Testimonies are more particularly God's revealed law: the witnesses and confirmation of his promises made to his people, and earnests of his future salvation. The Hebrews understand this word to refer to the doctrine of the law, but with the certain indication, pointing out to us that it is comprehensive of the manner in which God enters into covenant with his people. 4. (mishpatim 20x in ESV), derived from a verb signifying to command or ordain. Such was God's command to Adam about the tree; to Noah about constructing the ark. 5. (phikudim 21x in ESV), from a word which means to place in trust, mean something entrusted to man, that which is committed to thee: appointments of God, which consequently have to do with the conscience, for which man is responsible, as an intelligent being. 6. (29x in ESV) The term here rendered word means the Logos, or Word of God, in its most divine sense; the announcement of God's revealed will; his command; his oracle; at times, the special communication to the prophets. The ten commandments are called by this term in Exodus. In this psalm it may be considered as, (1) God's revealed commandments in general. (2) As a revealed promise of certain blessings to the righteous. (3) As a thing committed to him as the minister of God. (4) As a rule of conduct; a channel of illumination. 7. (chukim ordinances in KJV, rules in ESV 19x), derived from a word signifying to govern, to judge or determine, mean judicial ordinances and decisions: legal sanctions. 8. The precepts of the law are denominated judgments and righteousness, to inform us that God enjoins nothing except what is right and just, and that mankind ought to seek for no other rule for the perfecting of holiness, but what consists in regulating their life by rendering obedience to the law. 9. (chukim 22x in ESV) The verb from which this word is formed means to engrave or inscribe. The word means a definite prescribed written law. The term is applied to Joseph's law about the portion of the priests in Egypt, to the law about the Passover, etc. But in this psalm it has a more internal meaning; that moral law of God, which is engraved on the fleshy tables of the heart; the inmost and spiritual apprehension of his will: not so obvious as the law and testimonies, and a matter of more direct spiritual communication than his precepts: the latter being more elaborated by the efforts of the mind itself, divinely guided indeed, but perhaps more instrumentally, and less passively, employed. 10. or (v.90 only) It is called this because the principles upon which divine law is built are eternal truths. Title: Jan 11 7:41 AM (5 of 8)

6 Psalm 119 How ought we respond to the Word of God? aleph!1 8 bet "9 16 gimel # dalet $ he % vav & zayin ' chet ( tet ) yod * kaf, lamed mem / nun samekh ayin pe tzadhe qof resh shin : tav ; WHY? Describe the Word. What are its attributes? Title: Nov 3 4:22 PM (6 of 8)

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