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Because when Isaiah 53 is being read, if you remember, obviously Philip came up and said understand this without reason, he said how can someone should guide you, right? And he's reading this passage and he'd be with Eunuch and he'd say is he speaking of himself or some other man? Right? Because even in that passage it's not even used for a person, it's just the idea that sometimes obviously the prophets can be talking about themselves or they can be talking about someone else and obviously Philip preached up in Jesus. So in this we see that the burial and resurrection, obviously the resurrection is in question, not in production but also that his soul was in health for three days, three nights as the Bible teaches there and so we see that. Now in Psalm 22, and obviously Psalm 22, very famous prophecy of the crucifixion of Jesus. I just want to show you some pieces there because really when you read Psalm 22 it's like you're reading Matthew 27. I mean just the stuff you're saying, it's almost uncanny that they were saying that the cross went in with written Psalms at that time, right? I mean the stuff that's stated there, they were just almost like quoting off Psalms. Psalm 22 verse 1, this is my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me and from the word of my board? And we know that Jesus obviously said this on the cross. And it goes on in verse 16, and obviously I'm skipping over a lot of stuff that's being processed. For sake of time going through this, in verse 16 it says, For dogs have come to me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierced my hands and my feet. So obviously we know that Jesus was crucified, and even he tells Thomas later, you know, if we hold my hands and my feet. And then Thomas said that he wanted to put his finger in the print of the nails. You know, his hands and his feet, right? And so obviously Jesus was crucified, we see that here in Psalm 22. Go to Psalm 110, Psalm 110. So again, prophetic psalms. So we have psalms of wisdom and learning, admonition, and then we have prophetic psalms. And again, like I said, it's not like you can't learn from these psalms. There's not a lot of stuff in there that's more wisdom. But there's definitely prophecy that's in there. Psalm 110, in verse 1 it says, And this is brought up because Jesus specifically brings this up to point out a point here that he's the root and offspring of David. Because he states, how can David, how is David calling the Christ Lord? Because everybody knows that this is talking about self-practice. Basically, how can he be calling the son of David the Lord if he's his son? It's like the idea there is that calling your son Lord is kind of out of place. But the idea there is that Jesus is both the root and the offspring of David. He's both the son of David, but he also created David. Because he's God in the world. So that's what that's getting into. And they were just stumbling that they weren't getting that. We go to verse 4, it says, And obviously he persists this far on the fact that Jesus is the high priest of the New Testament. But it's not after the order of Aaron and the Levites. It's actually after the fact of Judah that he came forth. And that the priesthood is actually after the order of Melchizedek, not after Aaron. And Melchizedek, I believe, is an Old Testament or pre-Old Testament appearance of the Lord Jesus, before he even had Moses in the law, to where he was God, but he wasn't flesh and blood. And that's the difference between Melchizedek and Jesus, is the fact that Jesus, when he was born, the birth of Mary, took on flesh and blood. He had partaken the flesh and blood. And that's how he was able to die a part in, to become a faithful and merciful high priest. For his people. And so, we go to Psalm 132, the last one I'll show you here is part of the prophetic passage here. This might be a really short sermon. Surprisingly, considering it's the book of Psalms, it's 150 Psalms and the third largest book in the Bible. But, this is an overview. And really, there's just so many different Psalms you can go into. But I really just want to show you the different types of Psalms. Psalm 132, verse 11 says this. The Lord has sworn in truth unto David, he will not turn from it. Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. And this is quoted in Acts chapter 2. Dealing with the fact that of the fruit of his body, it talks about the fruit of his loins, Christ shall set upon his throne. Here we see that the Lord, in all capsular therapy, we're talking about Jehovah, like the Lord, is going to sit on David's throne through the fruit of his body. Which shows you that God is going to be manifest in the flesh, but specifically through David. And that's something that's brought up many times in the New Testament. But the book of Psalms, when it comes to prophecy and when it comes to being quoted, I mean, if you read the book of Hebrews, the first chapter is pretty much all quotations of Psalms. That's pretty much what it is. It's like quotation with a little bit of narration to it, right? And you can just go down the line and just put that Psalm 110, that Psalm here, going down the line. And throughout the book of Hebrews, it's just basically quoting it. And really the New Testament is a lot like that in the fact that it's just quotation, quotation, quotation. And a lot of times it's a quotation, explanation. And really the New Testament in a lot of cases is just a commentary of the Old Testament, of passages in the Old Testament, and obviously clarifying what it's about and all that. So a lot of prophetic Psalms, obviously just touching the surface there when it comes to that. Obvious one when it comes to Psalms is Psalms of praise. I mean, the last five Psalms, I think, is like just all about praising the Lord. Go to Psalm 150, Psalm 150, the last Psalm. Psalm 150, verse 1. I'm not going to sing for you. We're going to read the whole Psalm here. He's the person here. Praise Him upon the highest sounding symbols, but everything that hath breath, praise the Lord, praise ye the Lord. I don't know if you caught that, but we are to praise the Lord, obviously. And throughout the Psalms we'll see, you know, praise ye the Lord, all that. And so when it comes to the Psalms, obviously the intent of a lot of cases is to praise the Lord. When it comes to singing in general, right? Because the Psalms are Psalms, right? So, singing in general is to praise the Lord. So, obviously that makes sense. There's a lot of Psalms to be able to praise. Psalms is just thanksgiving. Go to Psalm 136. Psalm 136. And specifically giving thanks to the Lord for His mercy. And that's this whole chapter. His mercy is there forever, His mercy is there forever. And, uh, Psalm 136. Psalm 136. Psalm 136. It says, And I'm not going to read the whole Psalm there. But obviously giving thanks unto the Lord, giving thanksgiving, you'll see this throughout the Psalm. Giving thanks unto the Lord for what He has done for us. And specifically, when you think about His mercy enduring forever, is that, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us. And obviously, we should be constantly giving thanks to the Lord, in Psalms, for His mercy. For His grace, right? And so, obviously we have a lot of hymns that are about that. Amazing, right? Right? But there's a lot of Psalms. You know, some of the songs aren't necessarily all about the blood or about salvation. You know, pressing on the upward way, obviously, you know, higher ground. That's not necessarily just hitting on salvation, right? So, songs are going to have different types of themes to them. But obviously giving thanks is one of those when it comes to that. Psalm 147 verse 7 says, Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving, sing praise upon the heart of your God. So, there's another instrument there, the harp. Really, you may ask yourself, like, why do you have to bring that up about the instrument? Because there are people out there that will say it's wrong to have instruments, you know, playing in church in New Testament. So, there's nowhere in New Testament that condemns it. But like I said, when it comes to the Psalms, you just see constantly, hymns, stringed instruments, harps, like different things like that, to where it's obvious that we are to use instruments. And you say, well, what instruments are off limits when it comes to that? Well, the thing is, I'm not inherently against any type of instrument. When I say that, it's percussion. I think that's what a lot of people, when it comes to the Baptist church, are against percussion instruments, like drums and stuff like that. But listen, there are a lot of classical type of percussion instruments. Even playing a xylophone is a percussion instrument. There's nothing wrong with this. I mean, you think a xylophone is that rolling, or we can't have that in here. I think about timpanis, right? You ever see those big, giant drums that have a constant, and they're hitting that thing and it makes a big, booming sound? Like, that's a drum. But we're not against this worldly. And it's obvious what the worldly instruments are. An electric guitar with distortion? I don't even need to tell you that that's worldly, right? Everybody knows that's worldly. Do you think that we're going to be listening to an electric guitar with distortion when we go into heaven? I don't think for a second that we're going to be listening to it. And when it comes to music in general, sometimes it's not even the instrument as much as it's the tone and the key that it's in and everything. A lot of worldly music has a certain key that it's in, to where it's more impressive. Or just more sensual and everything like that. So when it comes to that, I'm not against professional instruments. If we had certain types of drums or something like that, then they're not going to be like a trap set. And a trap set is obviously the typical rock band set of drums where you're just like busting everybody's ear drums and you're just out there going crazy on it, like an animal from like the muffins or something. It does not fit for the church or god, okay? And so, when it comes to music, obviously instruments are allowed, but we need to be in common sense to tell you what is appropriate and what's not. Now, go to Psalm 55. Another type of psalm, which it seems like most pastors just want to forget about, is imprecatory psalm, which is basically a calling for judgment on somebody or something. Think about imprecatory prayer, right? But this is an imprecatory psalm meaning that you're singing about asking god for judgment on somebody. And when we're talking about asking for judgment, we're talking about condemnation on that person. And there are a lot of imprecatory type of psalms, but I'm going to show you a couple here, a couple portions of it anyway. And you know, for example, Psalm 139, I don't believe, is really an imprecatory psalm. I think it's just stating a fact. When you think about do not I hate them over the AV? He's not really casting a curse upon somebody. He's just stating a fact. Does that make sense? That's just facts. I hate those that hate you, Lord, and just stating that to the Lord. What we're talking about with imprecatory is really that you are saying, Lord, destroy that person. And that is in the psalm. And when people will come at preachers or calling down hellfire on somebody or saying, hey, that person should die, or I hope that the Lord takes them out and they call them wicked, it's like, well, we should be singing that. We should put that to a melody. Start on the piano, you know. Get the drum set up. But we should be putting that to the psalm. Psalm 55, verse 15. I would say this, if you want to know what an imprecatory psalm is, right here, Psalm 55, verse 15 says, Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them. So that's an imprecatory, right? You're saying, let that, basically it's imperative, right? You're basically stating, maybe like if I said to someone here, I said, brother, hey, go close the door over there, right? That's an imperative statement that you're stating there. It's an imperative saying, let death seize upon them, like you're wasting that upon them. You're telling God, hey, kill them. Go to Psalm 58, Psalm 58, verse 6. It's not limited to psalms, right? Obviously they have imprecatory type of stuff, right? Statements and things like that. But obviously psalms, the interesting thing about that is that you're singing about it. And I feel like, you know, a lot of people come into our church when we're singing Psalm 139, it's like, whoa. It's funny because my girls are downstairs in the basement playing with their Barbies and Ninja Turtles, and they're singing, you know how I hate them, or the 80s. And it's just this innocent, like, and here's the thing, they don't think anything of it. But like, Christians, they've been so desensitized to the Bible, to what the language of the Bible is, to the point where I hear Christians saying, like, we shouldn't say hell. It's like, I get it, okay, obviously, don't just throw hell out there for whatever you're saying, right? Don't overuse the word where it doesn't have the weight it should. But in the end, like, there's nothing wrong with talking about hell and using the word hell. Or the word damn. Damnation. All that, it's not like that's a curse word. Again, when it comes to any type of crass language that the Bible uses, don't overuse it. If I was just saying that all the time, Christians would be like, well, there goes pastor again, just using that word again. And it just kind of loses its weight. You can just use it all the time. So I think that as much as the Bible a lot of times, you know, will wait for a certain page to use the term, to really bring home the point, that's what we should do as well. But Psalm 58 verse 6 says, Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. Let them melt away as waters which run continually. When he bended his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces, as a snail which melted, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Before your paws can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living and in his wrath, the righteous shall rejoice when he seeeth the vengeance, he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, so that a man shall say, verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God that judges in Europe. That's a hard saying right there. That is definitely an imprecatory psalm against the wicked, and to be put to psalm. So if you're going, and again, the point of these sermons is really giving you an overview of what you're getting into, right? When you're reading through a book, what is this book about? What's in this book? If you were to just go out into the world and ask them what Psalms is about, like what am I going to find in Psalms? Do you think they're going to bring this up? Do you think they're going to look at Psalm 5 and say, let me bring up the fact that the Lord hated all workers of iniquity? Or that, you know, in Psalm 11, where it says that the Lord tried the righteous, and to him that loveth violence, his soul hated. You're not going to hear people say that. You're going to get the typical Psalms, like Psalm 23, and I'm not against those Psalms, okay? Obviously, I love it all. But you're going to have this one-sided picture of Psalms, aren't you? And really, when you read through Psalms, it doesn't have to go very far. Like I said, Psalm 5, I mean, even before that, I think Psalm 3 is already talking about it. Psalm 2 is saying, Kiss the sun lest he be angry, and thou perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. I mean, Psalm 2. Psalm 1 is already talking about the story about Godly as a chap. So, going into Psalms, Psalms is that there is a great balance when it comes to what you should know about God, what you should know about reality. And, you know, Psalms is not this just basically just a bed of roses, and just sweetness and goodness and light, right? I mean, the idea there is that, obviously, every word of God is pure, okay? And these are the wholesome words of our world, okay? But there are hard, crass sayings, there are calls for condemnation, for death, all of that in the book of Psalms. Go to Psalm 6, Psalm 6. Psalm 6. So, we have the imprecatory portion of Psalms. So, what do we see? We have wisdom, so obviously there's a lot to learn in Psalms. Then there's the idea of the prophetic, and there's a lot of prophecies. So, when it comes to just seeing, okay, where did this prophecy come from that Jesus would be born of David, right? Or that, you know, that God was going to come to the flesh. Well, we have a lot of that, we have the resurrection, we have even where Jesus was for three days and three nights in the book of Psalms. And we have imprecatory Psalms. When it comes to basically cursing, you want to just think of an easy way to remember what an imprecatory is. It's basically a psalm of person. But in Psalm 6 here, what I want to point out is that there's a lot of psalms dealing with lamentation, and more so dealing with sadness. When it comes to this, you know, sadness, you know, dealing with sadness and dealing with, let's find out, see, hopefully it's going to be a short one. It's the idea that when you're going through a really hard time, Psalms is a great place to go. If you're just like, I need to read something in the Bible that's really going to help me with that. And the reason for that is, is that there's psalms that are written in the perspective of someone that's going through grief. When you're in grief or you're dealing with something, what you really need is to be like, hey, this person knows where I'm coming from, you know, basically finding that parallel to what you're going through. And in Psalms, there's a lot of psalms like that where you're just like, the date is down and out, and he's like, you know, let me just read Psalm 6 just to see an example. Psalm 6, verse 6. It says, I am weary with my groaning. All the night make I my bed to swim. Now what that's not, I'm not talking about actually swimming, but more so the idea of he's crying so much. Like he's weeping so much that his bed is just basically like just swimming with tears. Because then it goes on to say, I water my couch with my tears. So basically my bed is soaked with tears, my couch is soaked with tears. And I don't believe that they, I don't believe that he's being hyperbolic. I don't believe he's basically just going overboard. Obviously I don't think that he's saying that it's like literally flowing off his bed with water from his tears. But I think he literally, his sheets are probably wet because of his tears. That his couch is literally wet from his tears because of the weeping that he's doing. This verse 7 here says, Mine eye is consumed because of grief. It waxes old because of all mine enemies. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. For the Lord hath heard the voice of mine weeping. The Lord hath heard my supplication. The Lord will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore at rest. Let them return and be ashamed suddenly. So what's nice about these psalms that are dealing with grief or turmoil is that there's usually a light at the end of the tunnel. It's kind of like this idea of like I'm swimming in these tears. You know basically, you think about David and he's the one that said I'm a step between, they're about a step between me and dad. David obviously had cases where people were trying to kill him. All these different problems that he had. Not all the psalms were written by David obviously. But the idea is that when you're reading the psalms you kind of see this relation there where yeah they went through a really hard time but the Lord is bringing them out of that. And you kind of see that light at the end of the tunnel and it'll help you through those times. Which leads me to my last one here is comfort. Going to psalms for comfort. And you know you may think that you may think you know ought to be but you know what I can comfort even hard passages in life. The word of God is just the sacred voice in the word of God is just comfort in general. And I don't care what I'm reading. I can be reading through numbers and talking about sacrifices and talking about like this tribe brought this and everything else and then just something comforting about it. There's something about just like I'm at home. I'm safe with the Lord. There's just some kind of, there's just this psalm that says there in the word of God and it doesn't really matter where you're reading it at. But there are obviously passages that are more comforting than that. If I'm really wanting comfort I'm not necessarily going to Genesis 19 or Judges 19. I'd be like let me get some real comfort here. But I'll say this. I still love Genesis 19 or Judges 19. I still feel like I'm at home reading that. Like that's my, that's the word of God. But Psalm 23, Psalm 23 is definitely a very comforting psalm. Very famous psalm obviously, obviously. We'll just read that really quick here. It says in Psalm 23 verse 1 it says, The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restored my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness. For his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For thou art with me. Thy rod and my staff they comfort me. Thou prepareth the table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. So what you have to say is that this psalm is intended, and obviously the Lord is my shepherd, Jesus isn't. I am the good shepherd, right? And I lay down my life as sheep. And what you have to say is that the comforting thing about this is that the Lord is with you. Wherever you're at, whatever you're going through, you can be walking through the valley of the shadow of death, and the Lord is with you there. And even Jesus, when he's going through a cross, and he's talking about everybody's going to forsake him, but he says, but I'm not alone. Because the Father's with us, right? And this idea of not being alone, this idea that the Lord is with you, this comfort that's there no matter what you're going through in life, and notice how it ends with the fact that I'm going to be with the Lord forever. I mean, if there's any type of comfort to have in this life, knowing that you're saved, you have eternal life, whatever happens, our end game is heaven. And that is a comfort that no one can, that's a joy that no one can ever take away. And Psalms will really kind of let you dive into that and just think about that for a second. But also just knowing that you're not alone. The devil wants you to think that you're alone. He wants you to think that you're alone. You know, the Bible talks about how the devil, the adversary of the devil, is a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he made the battle. So you need to be diligent and be sober. But it says, you know, which your brethren in the world, it says, whom resist said fast the bait, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. And throughout your life, what the devil's constantly wanting to do is make it seem like you're alone. No one else is going through this. No one else has these hard times. No one else is down and out. The devil wants you to think that you're alone. But what the Bible's teaching is that you're not alone. You're not alone now. And back 2,000 years ago, all the way back to even in Adam's day, these same things were being done and these same things were going through and God was with his children even back then. And there's this comfort there when it comes to God. So when it comes to Psalms, Psalms is a great, it's a fantastic book just to study. I mean, you're just thinking about like, I want to just learn some doctrine. Well, what's a Psalm's place to be? I want to learn about some prophecies. What's a Psalm's? I want to, you know, what's the Bible teach about automation? Like who should we love and who should we hate? What's a Psalm's? We'll teach you a lot of that. I mean, how do we know who we should hate? Psalm 139. And when you think about comfort, I think about the book of Psalms. I think about you're going through a hard time dealing with lamentation. You're dealing with, let's say, a funeral. Precious and the silent Lord are the deaths of the saints. That's a Psalm. And so when it comes to funerals, when it comes to anything you might be going through in life, heaviness, which is, you know, the Bible doesn't have the word depression, but it uses the term heaviness, right? That's a real thing. We'll deal with that. I'd say everybody deals with that to a certain extent. And the book of Psalms is a great place to go to with that. And, you know, I'll probably stop there. Just because I don't want to go there. There's so many different types, again, of Psalms to get into, but I don't want to really nitpick it now. It really kind of comes down to those. And then you can kind of take it into another avenue. Like, when you think about praise, you can think about, like, getting into different avenues of praise and different things like that. And when you get into prophecy, you get into different avenues of that. So I don't want to nitpick it. Really, that's kind of like the big picture there as far as where you get into the Psalms. And again, the Psalms are pretty short except for Psalm 119. One thing I was going to mention is it's interesting that some of the Psalms, you'll see like a duplication. So Psalm 14 and Psalm 53, there's a duplication. And it's just interesting when you see that. Same thing with Proverbs. Proverbs will have duplications and verses. Now, there's a little difference between Psalm 14 and Psalm 53. It's not the same exact, verbatim word for word. But it's pretty much the same. Maybe a little different wording here and there. But any time you see things double in the Bible or mentioned multiple times in the Bible, and you'll see that. I mean, read the last five Psalms and you'll just see praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Or Psalm 136 where it's just like, and it's mercy and thirst forever, and it's mercy and thirst forever, right? And different things like that that are obviously poetic, and obviously for songs, repetition, you know, makes sense. But when I think of, you know, once I've heard, once was it spoken, twice have I heard it, and I know I've heard you talk about that, but the idea there is that duplication there that sometimes happens in Psalms. Is that what we're prior? You're probably thinking for today, for the book of Psalms, will it help us to read a book of Psalms on a daily basis and then just learn from it, but also to praise you on a daily basis? Thank you for the music team here in person has been incorporating the Psalms into our singing, into our creation singing, and praise you to help us continue that. But also just with all of the Psalms that we sing, everything will be glorified to you and we'll be able to praise your name here in the house of God. But I'm in parallel to Jesus Christ. When they come singing the Psalm, it'll be this Christ. All right, take your psalm books and turn to Psalm 155. Psalm 155 in your psalm books. We'll sing Dossology if you would stand. We'll begin. Psalm 155. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him who returns here behold. Praise Him above me and behold. Praise Mother, Son, and Holy Ghost.