The first section of Psalms has been called the Genesis Psalms.

They help us to realize that every good thing begins with God.

The Psalms provide a roadmap for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and experience of life into the presence of God.

Join Scott Pauley now as we study God's Word together.

The Bible is a living book. It is the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever, and it's alive because God's alive.

The Spirit of truth uses the Word of God. We are turning our attention in our study of

Scripture to this most powerful and beautiful book, one of the most deeply spiritual and profoundly

practical books in the whole Bible, and that's the Psalms.

And here's what I've come to believe about the Psalms.

The Psalms speak.

Now, certainly, God speaks to us through the Psalms.

We hear God's voice through His Word, so all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.

Man should not live by bread alone,

but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Every word of God is pure. I believe

that every word of scripture comes from God and is essential for us. But when I say the Psalms speak,

I mean literally God intended that we take the Psalms and we verbalize them, that we use them.

They were written down so that we could use them in every generation.

Now, the Psalms, of course, was a sacred songbook for the nation of Israel.

The old-time Hebrews used them in their temple worship,

the Christians of the New Testament, times sang them. James 513 is evidence of that. The Jews today

still use them in the synagogues. It is a hymn book. It is a worship book, if you will,

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