Identifying With The Psalmist, Part 2

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this second message of Identifying with the Psalmist, Dr. Michael Youssef reveals the prophetic message of Psalm 45—a royal wedding song that foreshadows the return of our Bridegroom King, Jesus Christ. Through the lens of ancient Jewish wedding customs, Dr. Youssef draws a clear parallel between the wedding feast and Christ’s Second Coming. The Church, purified and prepared, must long for His return with holy expectation. This message is a clarion call to repentance, faithfulness, and readiness. The Psalm testifies to the majesty of Christ, whose throne is eternal and whose love is unmatched. For those who reject Him, the celebration will be only a distant sound. But for His bride, it will be everlasting joy.

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0:00.0	The psalmist tells us how the bride is going to be escorted by the bridegroom to his father's house.
0:10.0	I'm getting ready to shout because soon and very soon, and maybe sooner than you think,
0:16.0	whether we go to him first or he comes back to us first. You're going to hear those words from his lips.
0:23.6	Welcome home.
0:24.6	Now enter into your father's glory.
0:29.6	Girls often dream about their wedding from the time they're in preschool.
0:34.6	As young men grow up, they too envision their wedding and a beautiful bride walking
0:39.4	down the aisle to greet them. But the truth is, the wedding is so much more than a ceremony.
0:45.8	It is a picture of Jesus and his church. Thank you for joining Dr. Michael Youssef for leaving
0:52.8	the way. And up next, a look into Psalm 45 and the powerful heavenly wedding picture that it provides.
1:01.0	Please do remember that leading the way is listener supported, made possible by the generosity of people like you.
1:09.1	Learn more at l.tw.org or give us a call 866-626-4356. Listen now as Dr. Michael
1:21.8	Youssef begins today's teaching. Everybody loves a wedding with some exceptions.
1:33.8	I'm telling you, take it from me.
1:36.7	The weddings have become so expensive now that it is the father of the bride who cries at weddings.
1:47.0	Back in 2004, I was speaking in very large meetings in the Middle East.
1:55.4	I was preaching from the parable, Jesus' parable, on the wedding feast.
2:02.5	And I explained to them that in the West, it's the father of the bride who cries at weddings.
2:12.4	Well, they really looked at me like a calf looking at a new gate.
2:17.1	And I knew that. I was hooking them in. I knew what I was
2:21.1	doing because I know the culture. And so I went on to say, it is because in the West, it's the
2:29.5	father of the bride who pays for the wedding. Who they laughed and they got it. Because in the Middle East, it's the father of the bride who pays for the wedding. Who they laughed and they got it.
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