Psalm 127: The Lord’s Beloved
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
One of only two psalms attributed to Solomon, Psalm 127 points to Christ, our King. Today, W. Robert Godfrey expounds on this psalm, showing that we can find true rest and peace in the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | In the Psalms, we learn to praise, to lament, to express our awe and wonder at God's |
| 0:06.4 | greatness. |
| 0:07.4 | The Psalms contain God's word to us, teaching us how to respond to Him. |
| 0:11.8 | Join us today for renewing your mind as we learn to love the Psalms. |
| 0:22.3 | The Book of Psalms is a treasure. |
| 0:24.4 | Its beautiful poetry gives us language to express our emotions to God. |
| 0:29.1 | But many Psalms also point us to Christ. |
| 0:32.3 | Today, Dr. Robert Godfrey shows us how Psalm 127 looks ahead to Jesus as the fulfillment |
| 0:38.6 | of Israel. |
| 0:42.6 | We come now to the fifth book of the Psalter, where all is revealed and all is resolved, |
| 0:48.4 | or at least all is recapitulated. |
| 0:51.2 | It's a wonderful book that intrigued me for a long time and I feel at last I've got |
| 0:57.7 | something on hold on what's going on in the fifth book of the Psalter. |
| 1:02.7 | We've had the kingdom and the king in books one and two. |
| 1:06.7 | We've had the crisis of the king and kingdom in book three. |
| 1:10.8 | Then we've had something of a resolution and comfort in book four. |
| 1:15.1 | And now it's as if the editor of the Psalter, I haven't really talked about the editor, |
| 1:20.0 | we don't know much about the editor, but somebody put all these Psalms together in their |
| 1:24.7 | final form and I believe has a real intention of how they're laid out. |
| 1:31.1 | And the editor in this book, Five of the Psalter, begins by saying God restores his people |
| 1:40.4 | and his king. |
| 1:42.0 | And we see that in Psalm 105, a wonderful Psalm of the restoration of the people. |
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