PREACHING THE PSALMS Psalms: from Dead Sea Scrolls Speaking from the Book that Speaks for Us.
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PREACHING THE PSALMS
Psalms: from Dead Sea Scrolls
Speaking from the Book that Speaks for Us
PREACHING THE PSALMS
Israel’s Praise and Prayer Book
Israel’s Praise BookShaped with Purpose
Preaching The Psalms
Book Psalms Doxology Overall Theme and Purpose
The Five Books
Patterned on the
Five Books of the Law
(Pentateuch)
1 1-41 41:13 Collection of Psalms of David:establishing of Israel’s King.
2 42-72 72:18-19 Prayers of David (Korah/Asaph)continuation under threat
3 73-89 89:52 The failure of the Davidic monarchy: questions about God’s covenant love
4 90-106 106:48 The experience of exile: assertion of God’s kingship
5 107-150 146-50 The experience of restoration: praising the Lord of all
Israel’s Praise Book
Preaching The Psalms
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,From everlasting to everlasting, Amen and Amen.
Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvellous deeds.Praise be to his glorious name forever;May the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
Praise be to the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,From everlasting to everlasting.Let all the people say Amen!
Then Psalms 145-150
DOXOLOGICAL ENDINGS
Israel’s Praise BookWritten as Poetry
Preaching The Psalms
1. suits the purposes of prayer (reflection) and praise.2. expresses, articulates thought and feeling, including
the negative as well as positive.3. recognisable patterns, yet flexible, adaptable to
varied circumstance and mood.4. blends mind and heart, theology and experience.5. provides a dynamic existential framework for faith.
Israel’s Praise BookPoems with Patterns
Preaching The Psalms
Israel’s Praise BookThe Dynamic of Faith
Preaching The Psalms
disorientation
orientation
re-orientation
lamentthanks
first move:a relinquishmentJewish sufferingJesus’ crucifixion
second move:a surpriseJewish hopeJesus’ resurrection
Israel’s Praise BookThe Book that Speaks For Us
Preaching The Psalms
Psalms1. help us to voice our deepest thoughts and feelings.2. enable us to speak individually and corporately.3. were on the lips of Jesus, the faithful Israelite.
Israel’s Praise BookThe Book so Full of God
Preaching The Psalms
In the Psalms you find a1. rich concentration of theological insight concerning God.2. well-rounded picture of the majestic sovereign God
who is loving and faithful.3. balanced understanding of the transcendent and
sovereign God who is involved in all of life.4. God, who can seem absent, yet is very near.
all the longing, all the hope of the Psalms
fulfilled in Jesus Christ
The Christian’s Prayer BookThe Book so Full of Christ
Preaching The Psalms
Christians embrace the Psalms, as they are, but also as they are in Christ, because
1. the Book of Psalms was the Praise Book of Jesus.2. he used the Psalms in relation to his life and work.3. as great David’s greater son, he fulfils the Messianic
vision of the Psalms.4. he represents us as the faithful Israelite.
The Christian’s Prayer BookThe Book so Full of Christ
Preaching The Psalms
Christians embrace the Psalms, as they are, but also as they are in Christ, because
1. the Book of Psalms was the Praise Book of Jesus.2. he used the Psalms in relation to his life and work.3. as great David’s greater son, he fulfils the Messianic
vision of the Psalms.4. he represents us as the faithful Israelite.
PREACHING THE PSALMS
Psalms: from Dead Sea Scrolls
Speaking from the Book that Speaks for Us
