Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the hymn book of Israel as we pick up in Psalms chapter 1 verse 1 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn to the songs and beginning tonight with the first Psalm?

The Psalms are actually divided into five books. it was really the hymn book for the nation of Israel.

They were sung in their original forms.

In the Psalms there is much prophecy because we are told by Peter

that David was a prophet and that he spake by the Holy Spirit and much of what he

spake was prophecy in regards to the coming Messiah and did have its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

There are many Psalms that are known as Messianic Psalms, that is Psalms that refer directly to Jesus Christ. We'll get one of those tonight as we get into second

Psalm. Each of the five books of the Psalms end in a doxology the first of the books is from Psalm 1 to 41

the second is 42 to 72 the third is 73 to 89 the fourth is 90 to 106 and the fifth book of the Psalms is

107 to 150 the majority of them were written by David.

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