314: Leen Ritmeyer - Hidden Treasures in the Titles of the Psalms

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1. 0:13

   Welcome to good Chris Selfian talks. I’m Levi. I’m Chris. I’m Jason. And I’m Brian, thank you for joining us this week on this podcast. We select one talk a week to help us get the Bible in our Daily News feed. Each week we post talk that we previewed from suggestions sent in by listeners from around the world. Then we record a short intro beforehand as a personalized recommendation to you on why we are sharing the talk. And now let’s talk more about this week’s talk. Hey everyone, it’s Jason Hensley and this week we are going to be listening to a talk by brother Lane Rittmeyer given in 2013 at the New Zealand Family Winter Bible School. The overarching topic is using the Psalms for overcoming, so I think that’s a pretty relevant thing for a lot of us. We want to consider how do we have victory over our own flesh and over all the struggles that we have. So that’s great as the overarching topic. And then the specific topic here is a little bit different. It’s called Hidden Treasures in the Psalm titles. And one of the reasons I am so excited to share this with you is not only because multiple people have recommended it, but specifically because this is the kind of thing where if you were to just look at the topic of the class, you might think, really, we have a whole class about the titles of the Psalms. But trust me, this is exciting.

2. 1:48

   I think you’re really going to like it. There’s a lot of depth here in the Hebrew. And Brother Lane really brings that out. And not only so, but I think he shows us that these Psalms are much more than what we often take them to be. Now, this is class #1 and I purposely did that because this class lays the foundation for all the rest of what comes in the series. So we’re going to post the whole series. I hope you have a chance to listen to the whole thing, but if you don’t, Class 1 is a great way to start. All right, here we go.

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   This is class #1 Hidden Treasures in the Psalm titles by Bethelane Rittmeyer. The title of this study is Using the Psalms for overcoming. We should know all individually what we need to overcome. We turn to Romans chapter 12.

4. 2:49

   These words are very familiar to us. That says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is you reasonable or you’re intelligent service, and may not conform to this will, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

5. 3:21

   The possible exhort us to renew our mind or our spirit. And he sums up this chapter with the last verse, Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. So how then can we renew our minds so that we may be able to overcome evil with good? The apostle John has a very similar message. I read this out to you one John 5 verse four and five. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

6. 4:03

   Who is he that overcomes the world? But he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus, of course, was the first to overcome the world in himself, as he says in John 16 and 33. The things have I spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer.

7. 4:25

   I have overcome the world and in overcoming the world in Himself, Jesus set an example for us to follow for we also need to overcome the devil or the adversary. If you turn to one Peter 5 South one Peter 5 and starting reading a few verses at verse 8, it says be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walk us about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

8. 5:17

   But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus. After that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. The adversary or the devil is described as a lion, and that reminds us of the story of Samson. Through death Jesus destroyed him. That has the power of death.

9. 5:49

   That is the devil. The question is how did Jesus overcome the world in himself? We’re looking at Samson in Judges 14 and verse 5 and 6. We read. Then Samson went down, and his father and his mother to Timnath, and they came to the vineyard of Timnath. And behold, the young lion roared against him, and the spirit of Yawa came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent the kid. He had nothing in his hand, but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

10. 6:26

    The lion in this case is a type of the adversary and devil. Samson did not overcome the line by his own strength. He had nothing in his hand but by the Spirit and the power of God’s Word. We too need the power of the Spirit to overcome. But as we don’t believe that we have the Holy Spirit as many evangelicals claim, how then can we be helped by the Spirit of God?

11. 6:57

    Brother John Thomas told us plainly that we can only have the Holy Spirit in as far as we read the Word of God, absorb it, and act on it. We are even told in the Epistle of Jude in verse 20 that you must pray in the Holy Spirit. But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

12. 7:31

    So how can we then develop a Holy Spirit in ourselves? It’s imperative that we do. If you go to Romans chapter 8, we read that first nine, but ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if many any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

13. 8:08

    And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness, and the verse 11. If the Spirit of him that raised of Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwell us in you.

14. 8:35

    So how can a spirit dwell in US? How can we pray in the Holy Spirit as we are commanded to do? Speaking for myself, and I know I’m not alone. We often feel inadequate in our prayers. We don’t always know what to pray for as we ought, in other words, how to pray in an acceptable way.

15. 9:02

    Even the preacher and Ecclesiastes sought to find acceptable words, written upright words of truth. And in this study, we ought to show the pivotal role which is Psalms played in the life of Jesus and how they can help us develop the mind of Christ. And we hope that you will go away from this study better equipped to approach God in prayer, to overcome the old man, to develop a sound mind, and to go on to perfection. Scripture tell us that Jesus used the Psalms many, many times.

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    There’s several recorders. For example, when he was hanging on the cross, he shouted out Psalm 22, My ail, my ail, wise thou forsaken me. Psalm 316970 and many more.

17. 9:59

    After Jesus was raised from the dead and he was talking to those two disciples on the way to Emmaus, he explained to them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which you are written in the law of Moses. They’ve been talking about that and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning me, says Jesus, it’s about him, they’re written for him.

18. 10:29

    In the Psalms we have a record of the mind of Christ as you just read in Colossians chapter 3 and 16 that the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. How? By teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

19. 10:55

    Please turn to Ephesians that we’ve got a parallel passage in Ephesians chapter 5. Read the verse 18. Be not drunk with wine. It’s interesting actually that if call hard drinks spirits, don’t they So be not drunk with wine wearing his excess, but be filled with the spirit. How? Speaking yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody that is actually psalming. Making melody is sallow in the in the Greek psalming in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things, and to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The brother who instructed us in in Israel on the kibbutz always used psalms in his prayers.

20. 11:59

    He said they were our instruments for overcoming, and he got the idea from the Hebrew titles of the Psalms. He apparently relied on the work of a certain George Fennick, who I’ve got a copy here. In 1749 I wrote a little treatise called Thoughts on the Hebrew titles of the Psalms and on some of those in the Septuagint, endeavouring to discover the meaning and point out the use of them.

21. 12:31

    What we’ve been studying for the last 20 years I found almost encapsulated in this book, which I only found two months ago. And this man rightly pointed out that the titles are an integral part of the sounds and therefore they’re part of the inspired words of God. And the literal translation of the Hebrew first verses was quite a revelation.

22. 12:58

    It gives an insight into the spiritual meaning of the sounds. So many scholars believe that those some titles contain merely musical directives. And this book, which is the only publication that I know of that endeavours to give a direct translation of the titles of the sounds. He’s actually frequently referred to in the Hebrew Lexicon written by Parkhurst. That was a lexicon that was always used by John Thomas with Phoenix.

23. 13:33

    I believe that the Hebrew titles have a spiritual meaning and therefore rightly belong. They’re not titles. They’re the first verse of the Psalm. And in the recent discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many copies, as I told you in the introduction of the Psalm scrolls, were found. A new Psalm was always indicated by a new paragraph. Here’s part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and here is the end of It’s cold in New Zealand, because this thing only works when it is warm.

24. 14:10

    It’s coming, I hope. But you see that the line break is on the right. There’s the end of one thumb and the next Psalm begins in the middle of the next line. That’s the beginning of a new Psalm, and what we call the title is the beginning of a new Psalm. So there’s always a break in between the Psalms in the this Hebrew Bible, which is more than 2000 years old.

25. 14:41

    What is presented in the King James Bible as a title is always the first verse of the Psalm in many translations. I want to show you just a few. Hope you can read it. This is the beginning of Psalm 22 in Dutch. I can read that because I am Dutch. It says first one Psalm of David for the oppen song Master of Ayerta Shacham is Dutch, but we call the title in King James is first one in Dutch. In French Psalm 22, first one is of Chef de Sante Schuebis de la Roer, Psalm de David, our title is first one in the French. In German, just the same, our title is first one in German and Lee David, Dr. Milo D and Hirschu and Morgan, and in the Hebrew by which you can buy, you get their first one lemonade SE al Ayerta Saha Miss Morla David, the title is first one. You can of course, in the Spanish as well. O musical principals Sobra ayerta Saha Samo de David, first one of the Sam.

26. 15:58

    When you use a computer, you get into trouble because you must put first zero, yes, and the first but is actually first one is first two. My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? And here’s our King James to the chief musician on ayat Shahran, the Sam of David. First one, my God, my God, why is thou forsaken me?

27. 16:27

    Out of sync with the Hebrew Bible and most other translations. And then you get, of course, the good news translation, which leaves out the title altogether. It’s the bad news translation because they leave out about 120 Holy Spirit inspired words from the Bible just because you don’t understand them. If you go to Psalm 22 for example, or many many Psalms, it starts with to the chief musician. We just look at several examples written as a title which is wrong to the chief musician upon Ayeletta Shahar, a Psalm of David.

28. 17:21

    This usually translate or understood As for the conductor upon a certain tune like the Yellow Submarine or Ayeletta Shahar, a Psalm of David. But that is not what Hebrew means. First of all, I’d like to concentrate on that title to the chief musician. It’s Le Manatsea in Hebrew, and then the chief musician would be Manatsea. It comes from a three letter word, which is this word here. I’m very fortunate to have a Hebrew scholar in our midst, one of my Hebrew students from Adelaide, and she can read it, I’m quite sure.

29. 18:05

    So you read Hebrew from right to left? What’s this? Like a Alexander, the no and then the Saudi. And the last one is. So in Hebrew, all the words, nouns or verbs are derived from a three letter root. That’s the basic meaning of that word. Nazar doesn’t mean chief musician. It means to overcome.

30. 18:35

    See, David wrote the Psalms during a time when he was persecuted by his soul. And they give an insight into the mind of David in his tribulations, but also in the joy of the salvation that God has promised him. And so reading through the Psalm we see the daily struggles here to cope with and how we overcame them.

31. 18:54

    It says David the son of Jesse said the man that was raised upon high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel said the spirit of Yahweh spake by me and his word was in my tongue. And that includes the titles of these psalms. She brought the sisters memory through the gospels. We have a record in the narrative of all what Jesus did, where you went to, and what was done to him, but it doesn’t tell us what went on inside.

32. 19:33

    We don’t get to know the mind of Christ by reading just the gospel record. We only get to know the mind of Christ when we read the Psalms. God actually if you’re student Psalm 23, look what it says he dwells in the Psalms. It says in verse 3 thou art holy that inhabitants or that dwells in the Psalms of Israel. That’s where God dwells.

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    That is his mind. And that is why those beginning of the Psalms are so important. You see, to the chief musician is Le Manat Seyaq. But there is nobody called a chief musician in the Bible. There was no chief musician. There’s nobody who conducted like we do in our Western orchestra. See, the word menatsea is used only as overseers. On the bottom of the screen you can see when they’re building the temple, there is some overseers, but that is not the meaning of the word.

34. 21:03

    Going back to that word netsak, if you go to one Samuel 15 now, though, these passes are on the screen. I really want you to look them up.

35. 21:19

    It was 28 we read that Samuel said unto Saul, Yahweh has rent the Kingdom of Israel from the disdain, has given it to a neighbour of dying. That is better than thou. Also the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent, for He is not a man that he should repent. Who is He talking about?

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    The strength of Israel? The Netzah of Israel is God himself. Not talking about a cheap musician here. And when you go to One Chronicles chapter 15 where you get a list of all those people that were put in their jobs by David and Samuel after he fled from Seoul. In One Chronicles chapter 15 and we have the a list of musicians. It speaks about all these people that David had gathered out of all Israel to Jerusalem.

37. 22:26

    And he’s the ordering the service of the temple. It says in verse 15 the chance the Levites that bear the ark of God upon their shoulders to stave as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh. And then David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brother to be singers with instruments of music, sultries, harps, cymbals, sounding by lifting up the voice with joy. So the Levites appointed all these people. Now if you go to verse 21, it speaks about Matatya and Ellie Filet and Mignea and Howard Edo Manier El and SSI with harps on the shammy need to excel.

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    The word excel is the word is the word for a chief musician. It’s netsa. Well, you don’t play a harp on top of this chief musician, do you? Don’t stand on the head of the of the conductor to start them playing your fiddle. You don’t do things like that. So they played with the harp on anointing for overcoming because that is the real meaning of that word that is behind the phrase to the chief musician. I go to Chronicles chapter 29 where I got this wonderful prayer where David praise God if there’s nine, when the people rejoiced for they offered willingly for the temple because it’s a perfect heart.

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    They offered willingly to Yahweh. And David the king also rejoices great joy. And then David blessed Yahweh is all the congregation. And David said, blessed be thou, Yahweh, Alim of Israel, our Father, forever and ever thine Yahweh is the greatness and the power and the glory and the chief musician, the victory and the majesty, for all that is in heaven and the earth is dying.

40. 24:28

    Dying is the Kingdom Yahweh, and thou art exalted as health above all is the basis for the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is what that word actually means. You go to Isaiah chapter 25. That’s beautiful, a chapter about the resurrection. Now, aren’t we looking forward to the time when it says that Jesus will come back and we will destroy in this mountain, Mount Zion, the face of the covering that is cast over all the people, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in the chief musician in victory. That’s the meaning of that word.

41. 25:27

    Yaara Elvim shall right away all tears from of all faces. And that is the meaning of that word to the chief musician. It actually does not say he was swallowed death in victory. It says Le Netzer, he will overcome death to victory. Christ not only was victorious over his own death, but he destroyed him. That has the power of death, but is the devil, so that we also can be saved.

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    That verse, of course, is quoted in One Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 54. And then the word victory is Nikos. Well we know that word don’t we? What are the best running shoes guys? Nike shoes, aren’t they? And what is the best camera? Sorry brother Glenn, it’s a Nikon isn’t it? Because they are the best cameras it means the victory.

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    So Christ was the first to gain the victory over death as written in Psalm Hebrews 214. That through death he might destroy him as the power of death. That is the devil that were nutsack therefore means to have the victory or to overcome in modern Hebrew, when you play a game of, you know, fruity or basketball, whatever you’re doing, you’ve won the game. You said Nizaki, I’ve won, I’ve got a victory. There’s the meaning behind that word. So the phrase to the chief musician means to him that overcomes.

44. 27:12

    If you turn to Revelation chapter 3 readers, what Jesus promises to the believers and loud to see him. Verse 21 to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and I’m sat down with my father in his throne. Now the New Testament has been translated into Hebrew and it’s amazed to find that this phrase to him that overcome us.

45. 27:58

    They used le Manasseh to the chief musician, the very same phrase as you have in many titles of the Psalms. So it means to him that overcome us and actually it is such an enormous reward to receive to him that overcome us. Let’s go through the five, the seven ecclesias to Ephesus. He says to him that overcome us, the chief musician.

46. 28:33

    Now to him that overcomes all I get to eat of the tree of life, which is the midst of the paradise of God. Smyrna, be faithful unto death, and I’ll give thee a crown of life. He that overcometh shall not be heard of the second death. Bagomos. To him that overcometh will I give to each of the hidden manner, or give him a white stone name, the stone a name written which no man knoweth. Saving he that receiveth it Thyatira, He that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end, I’ll give him power over the nations.

47. 29:08

    He shall rule the misery of the vine as the vessels of the Potter shall they be broken to shivers. Even as I received of my father, I’ll give him the morning star. Sardis. He that overcometh the sayings shall be closed in white raiment. Now not blot out his name out of the book of Life.

48. 29:26

    Thou confess his name before my father and before his angels. Philadelphia. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God. He shall go out no more. Now write upon in the name of my God, the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven, from my God, and my new name.

49. 29:49

    And then this one we looked at before. To him that overcometh that I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am sat down with my Father in his throne. It even continues in the Book of Revelation, because that phrase onikon, the one that has the victory, the one that overcomes is also used in the Revelation chapter 5, where John that much in verse 4 because no one was found worthy to open and to read the book.

50. 30:25

    Now to look thereon and one of the elder says unto me, weep not. Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed, he has overcome, and therefore he is worthy to open the book and to lose the seven seals thereof, and that is followed by a great victory.

51. 30:48

    Look what it says in chapter 6. I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as it were the noise of Thunder, one of the four living ones saying, Come and see. And I saw him yield a White Horse, and he had sat on him, had a bow, and the crown was given unto him, and he and forth conquering, and to conquer. That’s what Jesus says to him that overcometh. But I grant to sit with me in my throne, so that in the Kingdom we can overcome all the ennies.

52. 31:20

    But you first of all have to overcome the world in ourselves. If you go to Psalm #4, it has the very same title, the same beginning as Psalm 22, and this particular title to achievement session on Neginhof the Psalm of David occurs in Psalms 4 and 650-455-6776. But now it says to the chief musician or to him that overcomes upon Naginov.

53. 32:05

    What’s that mean? Naginov means stringed instruments and he was derived from the nagan, which means to play on an instrument of strength, especially the harp.

54. 32:27

    Remember then an evil spirit of God came on soul. You read, you can read on the screen in one Samuel 16 and 23. It says it came to pass. There’s an evil spirit from Ellen was upon soul that David took a harp and he played. That’s that word. Nagan, he played on the harp with his hands. So soul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

55. 32:57

    Soul was probably refreshed more by the spirit words which David composed on the harp rather than the music itself, although that must be pretty good as well. We can be sure that Jesus also used these instruments to refresh his Spirit too. And as he made these words which David wrote down for us, he was reading them, he was praying them, he was meditating on them, and so they became the word of Christ as we read in Colossians chapter 3. The Psalms and the hymns and the spiritual songs which are in the middle of our Bible, those are the Psalms, hymns and the spiritual song.

56. 33:41

    This is our true hymn book as the only Holy Spirit inspired hymn book we have in the Bible. In Luke 6 and verse 12, you remember it says that Jesus continued all night in prayer to God. What’s the point actually of saying that if he don’t know how he prayed and what he prayed for? How can he imitate the Son of God if he are left in the dark? In the matter of prayer, the Greek text is a lot clearer. It doesn’t say he continued all night in prayer to God. It says he continued all night in the prayer of God. He didn’t spend the night composing his own prayers, but he made full use of those that were provided by gods for him through the Spirit word of the Psalms. And perhaps therefore, David had to suffer so much so that his words could be used by Jesus at the right time. David must have wondered sometimes what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them that signify which when it testified before the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow and that’s you find in the Psalms. Let’s go to Psalm 18 and how does this start this Psalm start?

57. 35:23

    What is first one to the chief musician? Now we know it. It means to him that overcomes the Psalm of David. And as we go through our studies, there are many of these phrases which are referred to in that, in that little handout which you’ve been given, it’s just a direct translation of those phrases.

58. 35:46

    On this CD which you’ll get, there will be a file in which you I have translated all the titles of the Psalms so you can read them. Now. This says then to him that overcomers for David, the servant of Yahweh, who’s spoken to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of soul.

59. 36:12

    But David was indeed delivered from the hand of soul, but this says he’s delivered from the hand of all his enemies and from the end of Seoul. Source put at the end of that verse. But he actually was the first enemy of David. It doesn’t make sense, does it?

60. 36:37

    God first delivered him from the end of Seoul and then from all the enemies. And that is how we look at this Psalm as David used it, that word Saul. The name Saul occurs in verse 5. It says the sorrows of soul of Sheol, of the grave, compass me about the snares of death, prevented me. Now Jesus said when he was hanging on the cross. So the name Saul is identical to Sheol. So this Psalm is a Psalm for David. Then God delivered him out the hand of soul, but a sound for Jesus.

61. 37:24

    Then God delivered him out of the hands of the grave, because God raised him up from the dead. It was Jesus who was delivered from the last enemy, not soul, but from Sheol the grave. And that would fit in this one. Corinthians 15 it says the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, and it is Shiong.

62. 37:54

    So I read this title, but I read it. It says that David said the words of this song in the day that Yao delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hands of the grave. And that is how it applies to Jesus. And this Psalms specifically must have been such a great source of strength for Jesus when the saw the sorrows of the grave, compass me about the snares of death prevented me. And what did you do about it when you felt so terrible hanging on that cross?

63. 38:30

    Now the words were prepared for him, because verse 6 is actually written in the future tense in the Hebrew. It says, In my distress I will call upon Yahweh, and I will cry unto my Elohim. He will hear my voice out of His temple, and my cry will come before Him even unto his ears.

64. 38:58

    And his words were prepared by David for Jesus to be used when He hung on the cross. And the answer was made evident. It came immediately because in Luke 23 we read that it was about the 6th hour and there was darkness over all the earth until the 9th hour. And Jesus knew beforehand that that would happen because it what it says in the Psalms.

65. 39:27

    He knew that God would come down to witness the death of His Son and to shield Him from prying eyes by the darkness that came over all the earth. There’s no other scripture but Psalm 18 going to get an insight into how God would have felt when He saw His Son dying on the cross.

66. 40:05

    It says in verse 7 is the answer that God gave Jesus when he cried out to him. Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations all softer hills moved and was shaken because he was rough. The event up was smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth. Devoured coals were kindled by it.

67. 40:32

    He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and darkness was on his feet. He rode upon a carapen there to fly, made it fly upon the wings of the winds. He made darkness his secret place, His pavilion. Round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him the thick clouds passed hail and coals of fire. Yahweh thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice hail and coals of fire.

68. 41:08

    He sent out His arrows and scattered them. He shot out lightnings and discomforted him. Then the channels of the waters were seen. The foundations of the earth were discovered at thy rebuke hour, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. That’s how God as a father felt when he saw his Son dying on the cross. And He just knew all this beforehand. He knew that His Father would come and save him, because the Son continues.

69. 41:46

    And that is now Jesus replying to His Father. He sends from above. He took me, He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me, for they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity. But yeah, was my stay.

70. 42:08

    He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. Yawa rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanest of my hands as he recompends me. For I’ve kept the ways of Yawa, and I’ve not wickedly departed from my alabine. For all His judgements were before me. I did not put away His status from me. I was also upright before Him, and I kept myself for my iniquity, Therefore, as Yahweh recompense me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyesight.

71. 42:48

    And so this sound made it possible for Christ to grow through this terrible, terrible suffering, dying on that cross. But his Father was right there with him, visible in the darkness that came over all the earth, and the earthquake that ran the veil of the temple from top to bottom.

72. 43:11

    The psalmist quoted in Second Samuel chapter 22. And there we have David composing a prayer using several parts of Psalms. It says David’s spoken to Yao the words of this song in the day that Yao has delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of soul. What is missing here to achieve musician to him that overcomes and why is it left out here?

73. 43:54

    There’s a very good reason for this by their sisters because the next chapter says now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse said the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the element of Jacob. The sweet psalmist of Israel said, The spirit of Yahweh spake in me, and his words was in my tongue.

74. 44:20

    Then he spoke the last words. At the end of his life. He must have had the same state of mind as the apostle who said at the end of his life in Timothy. For now I’m ready to be offered. The time of my departure is at hand. I fought a good fight. I’ve finished my course. I’ve kept the faith.

75. 44:42

    Henceforth has laid for me a crown of righteousness with the Lord. The righteous judge shall give me a dead day, and not to me only, but unto all them that love. His appearing time is going a bit faster than I would like it to go.

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    I want to come back to Psalm 22. It says to the two musicians to him that overcome us upon ayalat asaha. The Psalm of David is a prayer which Jesus prayed on the cross, as you know very well, although he changed one word. But more about that later on in our evening programme.

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    What does ayelet hashaka mean? Shakur. What is shakur? It’s black, it’s darkness. And Ayelet comes from AO which is power, and therefore that title, if you translate it, means to him that overcomes over the power of darkness. A Psalm of David and Jesus refer to that if you go to Luke chapter 22 in Luke chapter 22 when Jesus was arrested verse 52, Jesus said unto the chief priests and the captains of the temple and the Elvis which will come, come to him be you come out as against a thief as swords and stays when I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me, but this is your hour and the power of darkness. I yell at Hashaha.

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    So Jesus was now in the power of darkness and he said his Son to overcome that power of darkness, and he did by using this Psalm because it was not the only verse which he cried out. We read in the gospel Ali Ali, Lama Sabachthani, but undoubtedly would have said the whole Psalm to God, to his Father who was able to save him from death.

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    But Jesus has also delivered us from the same power of darkness. You go to Colossians and of course that was that epistle we started with our first reading with. It says there in verse 13 or verse 12 for connection. Giving thanks unto the Father which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light, who has delivered us from the power of darkness from Ayalata Shahar, and has translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son, in whom we have to redemption through His blood.

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    Even the forgiveness of sins was the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation. And then the apostle Paul tells us how we should change our lives because we are delivered from the power of darkness. In verse 14 May be the right reference. But that he might walk worthy of the Lord, and to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God strength of his own might, according to his glorious power.

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    And to our patience and long-suffering with joyfulness. Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of Saints in light, who has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated into the King of his dear Son. And we have to redempt you through his blood. Even the forgiveness of his sin was actually the first. 10 And so Brian says, we are in such a privileged position that Christ has overcome using the sounds, the power of darkness. And Jesus and David overcame those powers of darkness by using the sounds.

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    And the more we become familiar with the Psalms, I believe the more they can help us also overcome. And once these beautiful expressions we have in the Psalms become ours, then we can use them in our prayers also.

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