Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

I'll confess to me, the big challenge of all this is just to get out of my own head,

because I can totally walk right by a crying need and be absolutely oblivious to it.

I'm thinking about this or that or the other thing, and so I'm not really seeing what's right

there in front of me. In terms of modern jargon, I'm not fully present to the moment unfolding.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the Book of Psalms, chapters 1 through 41.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

Today we begin our study of Psalm 41, which is the last Psalm in the first book of this altar.

It will take us two shows, though, to walk through its richness. Remember that last time we finished up Psalm 40, where David insisted that he had told the glad news of righteousness, I called foul on the ESV's rendering deliverance.

Jesus, indeed, announces to his congregation the glad news of a complete and perfect righteousness,

his achievement in human flesh,

having lived a perfect and unbroken yes to the will of his heavenly father. In this, he reveals God's steadfast love and faithfulness to us. He gives us a salvation we could never achieve on our own.

Jesus knows as he is preparing to finish this righteousness by his passion and death,

that his father's mercy is not going to fail him, but will ever preserve him.

He knows this even as evils encompass him beyond number and the entire weight of all human sin is offloaded onto his shoulders.

As he bears this burden, he begs for deliverance and help.

He prays for the disappointment of Satan and the demons who desire his hope to be put to shame

and for his dishonor to be perpetual. But while he prays that they

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