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Introduction to the Genesis Psalms Book 1

Every emotion of the heart is reflected in the Psalms with words that express our deepest and strongest feelings.

They provide comfort and joy, leading us to the place where worship flows.

Psalms is divided into five books, mirroring the Five Books of Moses that form the first few books of the Old Testament.

Together they convey the depth of our longings and fears, joys and celebrations, becoming a mirror to the heart of God’s people in our quest to experience God’s presence.

Book One of Psalms is the Genesis Psalms, composed of poems and songs of man and creation.

They explore the splendor of our world in all of its glory and grandeur, the way of

righteousness versus the way of the wicked, and the glory and honor of mankind.

You’ll discover more of who our Creator is as our Best Friend, Good Shepherd, and Mighty One.

There are songs of praise for God’s goodness and glory.

There are songs of lament for man’s wickedness and injustice.

And finally, there are prayers

and strongest feelings.

They provide comfort and joy, leading us to the place where worship

flows.

Psalms is divided into five books, mirroring the Five Books of Moses that form the

first few books of the Old Testament.

Together they convey the depth of our longings and

fears, joys and celebrations, becoming a mirror to the heart of God’s people in our quest to

experience God’s presence.

Book One of Psalms is the Genesis Psalms, composed of poems

and songs of man and creation.

They explore the splendor of our world in all of its glory

and grandeur, the way of righteousness versus the way of the wicked, and the glory and

honor of mankind.

You’ll discover more of who our Creator is as our Best Friend, Good

Shepherd, and Mighty One.

There are songs of praise for God’s goodness and glory.

There

are songs of lament for man’s wickedness and injustice.

And finally, there are prayers

reflecting human frailty: the ones for help and healing, protection and provision, and trouble and thanksgiving.

We’ve designed this study to help you explore these praises and prayers placed inside poems that spill out of a fiery, passionate heart.

May the study of this poetry on fire free you to become a passionate, sincere worshiper, and to experience the heart of God anew in faith and worship

trouble and thanksgiving.

We’ve designed this study to help you explore these praises and

prayers placed inside poems that spill out of a fiery, passionate heart.

May the study of this

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poetry on fire free you to become a passionate, sincere worshiper, and to experience the

heart of God anew in faith and worship

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:This Psalm may be regarded as THE PREFACE PSALM, having in it a notification of the contents of the entire Book.

It is the psalmist’s desire to teach us the way to blessedness, and to warn us of the sure destruction of sinners.

When men are living in sin they go from bad to worse.

At first they merely walk in the counsel of the careless and ungodly, who forget God—the evil is rather practical than habitual—but after that, they become habituated to evil, and they stand in the way of open sinners who willfully violate God’s commandments; and if left alone, they go one step further, and become themselves pestilent teachers and tempters of others, and thus they sit in the seat of the scornful.

But the blessed man, the man to whom all the blessings of God belong, can hold no communion with such characters as these.(Note

: The positive character.

“His delight is in the law of the Lord” He is not under the law as a curse and condemnation, but he is in it, and he delights to be in it as his rule of life; he delights, moreover, to meditate in it, to read it by day, and think upon it by night.

)He keeps himself pure from these lepers; he puts away evil things from him as garments spotted by the flesh; he comes out from among the wicked, and goes without the camp, bearing the reproach of Christ.

For grace to be thus separate from sinners.

contents of the entire Book.

It is the psalmist’s desire to teach us the way to blessedness, and

to warn us of the sure destruction of sinners.

3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,

which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither—

whatever they do prospers.

When men are living in sin they go from bad to worse.

At first they merely walk in the

And he shall be like a tree planted;” not a wild tree, but “a tree planted,” chosen, considered as property, cultivated and secured from the last terrible uprooting, for “every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up:” Matthew 15:13.

“By the rivers of water;” so that even if one river should fall, he hath another.

The rivers of pardon and the rivers of grace, the rivers of the promise and the rivers of the communion with Christ, are never-failing sources of supply.

He is “like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;” not unseasonable graces, like untimely figs, which are never full-flavoured.

But the man who delights in God’s Word, being taught by it, bringeth forth patience in the time of suffering, faith in the day of trial, and holy joy in the hour of prosperity.

Fruitfulness is an essential quality of a gracious man, and that fruitfulness should be seasonable.

“His leaf also shall not wither;” his faintest word shall be everlasting; his little deeds of love shall be had in remembrance.

Not simply shall his fruit be preserved, but his leaf also.

He shall neither lose his beauty nor his fruitfulness.

“And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

Blessed is the man who hath such a promise as this.

But we must not always estimate the fulfilment of a promise by our own eye-sight.

How often, my brethren, if we judge by feeble sense, may we come to the mournful conclusion of Jacob, “All these things are against me!”

For though we know our interest in the promise, yet are we so tried and troubled, that sight sees the very reverse of what that promise foretells.

But to the eye of faith this word is sure, and by it we perceive that our works are prospered, even when everything seems to go against us.

It is not outward prosperity which the Christian most desires and values; it is soul prosperity which he longs for.

We often, like Jehoshaphat, make ships to go to Tarshish for gold, but they are broken at Ezion-geber; but even here there is a true prospering, for it is often for the soul’s health that we should be poor, bereaved, and persecuted.

Our worst things are often our best things.

As there is a curse wrapped up in the wicked man’s mercies, so there is a blessing concealed in the righteous man’s crosses, losses, and sorrows.

The trials of the saint are a divine husbandry, by which he grows and brings forth abundant fruit.

counsel of the careless and ungodly, who forget God—the evil is rather practical than

habitual—but after that, they become habituated to evil, and they stand in the way of open

sinners who willfully violate God’s commandments; and if let alone, they go one step further, and become themselves pestilent teachers and tempters of others, and thus they sit in the seat of the scornful.

But the blessed man, the man to whom all the blessings of God belong, can hold no communion with such characters as these.

He keeps himself pure from these lepers; he puts away evil things from him as garments spotted by the flesh; he comes out from among the wicked, and goes without the camp, bearing the reproach of Christ.

For grace to be thus separate from sinners There are two paths in life: one is the pathway of the righteous, the other is of the wicked.

There are two paths in life: one is the pathway of the righteous, the other is of the wicked.

further, and become themselves pestilent teachers and tempters of others, and thus they sit

in the seat of the scornful.

But the blessed man, the man to whom all the blessings of God

belong, can hold no communion with such characters as these.

He keeps himself pure from

Spurgeon, C. H. (n.d.).

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London; Edinburgh; New York: Marshall Brothers.He keeps himself pure from these lepers; he puts away evil things from him as garments spotted by the flesh; he comes out from among the wicked, and goes without the camp, bearing the reproach of Christ.

For grace to be thus separate from sinners There are two paths in life: one is the pathway of the righteous, the other is of the wicked.

these lepers; he puts away evil things from him as garments spotted by the flesh; he comes

out from among the wicked, and goes without the camp, bearing the reproach of Christ.

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for grace to be thus separate from sinners