We have a dance in us. It can't be that all dance is perverse because a nine-month-old holding on to the edge of a table that hears music will bend his little knees to the beat because he knows you're supposed to dance to that.

The love of song, road trip song. In Jesus' name, everybody say, hallelujah, amen.

All right, you are at Psalm 126. Be seated.

I'm going to read it to you, and then we're going to study the context of it.

But let me read it to you for now.'re going to study the context of it. But let me read it to you for

now. I'm reading out of Psalm 126 verse 1 through 6. And I'm reading out of the CSB to you tonight

in this translation. And it says, when the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Our mouths were filled with

laughter then and in our tongues with shouts of joy. Then they said among the nations,

the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us. and we were joyful. Restore our fortunes, Lord,

like watercourses in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

The one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy carrying his sheaves.

I want you to look in a little larger context so that we can place it within the book of Psalms that we'd find it in this songbook right in the middle of our canon and then an

even smaller grouping that's going to become very very important to us the psalms are divided

into five books book one book two book three book four book five and this is part of book five that would have begun in Psalm

107, all the way to Psalm 150. There are 150 Psalms in this songbook in the middle of our canon.

We don't know exactly why they were divided into five parts, but probably so that they could correspond in some liturgy to the five first

books of the Bible, so the Pentateuch or the Torah, Genesis through Deuteronomy. So probably

for liturgical reasons in their worship, that's the way it was grouped together. This is the first

book. This is the second,

third, fourth, fifth. So, Psalm 126 falls in the fifth book of the Psalms, but it is in a smaller

grouping that is very fascinating. So I want you to get your hand, if you would please. I want you

get your hand on Psalm 120, and then I want you to get your hand on Psalm 120, and then I want you to

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