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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

How the Psalms Point to Jesus | The Writings | Psalm 41

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Mental Health

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Where do you see Jesus in the Old Testament? Why did Jesus quote the Psalms so much? In today's episode, Keith uses Psalm 41 to discuss how you can see Jesus throughout the Psalms. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 41

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0:00.0

Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

0:10.7

I'm Keith Simon.

0:17.4

All right, today we're diving into Psalm 41 and before we get into the Psalm itself I think one thing you might find interesting is that if

0:21.5

you turn your Bible to Psalm 41 at the end of it you're going to see bold letters that say book 2.

0:28.0

So Psalm 41 marks the end of book 1 and Psalm 42 marks the beginning of book two. Now that title book two it wasn't

0:36.6

added by the people who translated your Bible into English. Now that title was

0:41.5

included by the ancient Israelites themselves when they were putting the Psalms together into one scroll.

0:47.0

The Israelites divided the Psalms into five different books.

0:51.0

You might remember from our year-long Torah series that the Torah

0:55.2

is divided into five books. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.

1:00.8

The Torah and the Psalms are both five books and that's not a coincidence.

1:05.6

See the Torah which just means teaching or instruction was thought of as the revealed

1:10.5

wisdom of God so the Psalms are the prayers and reflections

1:14.6

of the Israelites who are trying to use God's Torah,

1:17.9

God's wisdom, God's instruction

1:19.5

to navigate their way in a hostile and messy world. So a Psalm 41 we finally reached the last

1:25.4

Psalm in book one, but before we celebrate we have to go backwards a little bit.

1:30.4

Actually we need to take a second and go all the way back to the very first

1:34.2

song we looked at at Psalm 1. Do you remember how Psalm 1 starts? Psalm 1 kicks off the book of Psalms

1:41.2

by showing us two different types of people, the Blessed and the Wicked.

1:45.0

That's a theme that has shown up a lot in the first 40 chapters of the Psalms,

1:50.0

and will continue to show up in the rest of the

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