Psalm 127: The Lord's Beloved
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Can you find Jesus in the book of Psalms? Today, W. Robert Godfrey examines how Psalm 127 points forward to Christ, God's promised King.
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W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California.
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| 0:00.0 | In the Psalms, we learned to praise, lament, and to express our awe and wonder at God's greatness. |
| 0:07.0 | But did you know that many of the Psalms are prophetic? |
| 0:10.0 | The Psalter is at every point full of Jesus. |
| 0:15.0 | Jesus is the God who loves us and protects us, and Jesus is the king who represents us and brings us to the Father. |
| 0:22.8 | And so it's just a glorious blessing at every point. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello and welcome to renewing your mind. I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:35.6 | grateful that you're with us today. The book of Psalms is a treasure. |
| 0:39.3 | Its beautiful poetry gives us language to express our emotions to God. |
| 0:44.3 | But many Psalms also point us to Christ. |
| 0:47.3 | Today, W. Robert Gottfried, the chairman of Ligdier Ministries shows us how Psalm 127 looks ahead to Jesus as the fulfillment of Israel. |
| 0:57.9 | But before we hear from Dr. Godfrey, be sure to request the entire DVD series and the companion |
| 1:03.7 | hardcover book Learning to Love the Psalms when you donate before midnight tomorrow at |
| 1:09.4 | renewingyour Mind.org. |
| 1:11.3 | If you have your Bible handy, you may want to open it to Psalm 127 now as we join Dr. Godfrey |
| 1:17.2 | for today's lesson. |
| 1:21.0 | We come now to the fifth book of the Psalter, where all is revealed and all is resolved, or at least all is recapitulated. |
| 1:29.9 | It's a wonderful book that intrigued me for a long time, and I feel at last I've got something |
| 1:37.5 | on a hold on what's going on in the fifth book of the Psalter. |
| 1:41.6 | We've had the kingdom and the king in books one and two. We've had |
| 1:46.2 | the crisis of the king and kingdom in book three. Then we've had something of a resolution and |
| 1:52.2 | comfort in book four. And now it's as if the editor of the Psalter, we haven't really talked |
| 1:58.6 | about the editor. We don't know much about the editor, but somebody put all these Psalms together in their final form, and I believe has a real |
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