Thank you. In our current study in Psalm 1, Alistair Begg is showing us that the Bible says the righteous will prosper and the wicked will perish.

But when we look around, it sometimes seems like the opposite is true.

Why does it seem like the wicked are flourishing and the righteous are struggling?

We hear the answer today on Truth for Life.

We began by thinking about the three negatives, and then we were to come to the two positives.

We are now describing what is there in verse two.

This blessed one, it ultimately is Christ himself who fulfills this, but the one who walks in Christ and follows the law of God, finds that his delight is in

the law of the Lord. It's important that we keep in mind that when we find the word law here,

we ought not to think simply in terms of legality or even in terms of the specifics of the law of God itself.

All of the church fathers recognize the fact that it is the law,

but since if you like the scripture is ultimately an exposition of the law,

then under the heading we're dealing with God's instruction in its entirety.

And so this man, this woman, this person, instead of their mind being filled with the

counsel of the wicked, with a worldview that starts and ends with self, they find that each

part of their life is being brought into harmony with the

word and with the will of God. That's essentially what it means to delight in it. There's something

more than simply having a knowledge of it that is cursory, but a genuine desire for it and a delight

in it.

Now, we delight in the things that we desire,

and the things that we desire most fill us with that sense of contentment and satisfaction.

And the importance of the distinction is clearly made not only in this Psalm,

but in the entirety of Scripture. Do not let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold don't get sucked in by the counsel of the wicked but instead be

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