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.

Well, before we begin our study today, let me just tell you, I cannot cover all of this Psalm.

It's impossible.

So I want to encourage you to read it on your own.

We've come to Psalm 18.

It's 50 verses long.

And it is an amazing song.

There's so many wonderful things in it I would love to speak to you about. For example,

there's an expression in it where David says, thy gentleness hath made me great. I think it's

one of the great expressions of scripture about God's gentleness towards us and the connection

between gentleness and greatness. So there's lots of nuggets like this all through this particular Psalm.

But I want to limit myself to how the Psalm begins.

Because in the opening part of Psalm 18, we learned something about David,

something about God, and certainly something for ourselves.

This is one of the Psalms that gives a very, very specific historical context.

As a matter of fact, there is a title connected to this Psalm that is detailed. Listen to it.

Psalm 18 to the chief musician, a Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake into the Lord

the words of this song in the day that the

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