A blessed man, a blessed God and a broken world. The problems and pains and a resolution for God's glory. We go through each of the 5 books of Psalms (very very briefly) and see how each paints pictures of a world in sin needing a savior in order to 'come home'.

1. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin,
so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Gal 3:22
All the world under sin
as seen in the Psalms
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2. Book 1 of psalms begins and ends with songs of the
blessed man, he is like a tree planted by water ever green,
the nations are his inheritance, (Psalms 1,2)
Bookends of book 1:
the start and finish help
focus on what’s important
At the end in Psalm 41 (Psalms 40, 41) he is a poor man who is
betrayed by a Judas figure - a paradox that this would happen to
the ‘blessed man’ - the Messiah
Theblessedman
Emphasized’
inPsalms1,2
Theblessedman
Emphasized
inPsalm41
Start of book End of book

3. All the world under sin
Psalm 14:1-2 The fool says
in his heart, ‘There is no
God” They are corrupt, they
do abominable deeds,
there is none who does
good.
There is none righteous no not one
Problem

4. All the world under sin
from book 1 of Psalms
psalms 1-41
A picture is painted of the man who to trust in.
Psalms 22,23,24 the cross, the shepherd’s crook and the
crown. The good shepherd who lays down his life, the
king - a paradox.
Resolution of problem
Book1 - At the end in Psalm 41 he is a poor man who
is betrayed by a Judas figure - a paradox.

5. What goes on in book 1
a song of the blessed man, Jesus
Psalms speak of Christ, but applicable to
believers as will. From a point of view of how
Psalms portends Christ, In the opening
Psalms 1-8 The re is a transition from victory
is here and not yet to the problem of sin in the
world and in the center Psalms a picture of
a Savior
Book1 - At the end in Psalm 41 he is a poor man who
is betrayed by a Judas figure - a paradox.

6. Bookends of book 2:
the start and finish help
focus on what’s important
AlongingforGod
Psalm42
Theblessedman
reigninginPsalm72
David longs for God
as a deer might
pant for water when
thirsty
There will be a
Messiah that
satisfied that longing
and rules the world
once broken
somehow made
fruitful in Psalm 72
Start of book
End of bookThe center Psalms
and a central issue
will be dealing
with sin and
judgement

7. All the world under sin
There are 5 psalms on judgement in book 2
Problem
psalm 49
psalm 50
psalm 51
psalm 52
psalm 53
Judgement of the world
Judgement of the world
David’s appeal for mercy
Judgement of the wicked
Judgement of the wicked
The opening of Psalm 53 echoes the opening of Psalm 14
from book 2 of Psalms
psalms 42-72

8. psalm 49
psalm 50
psalm 51
psalm 52
psalm 53
Judgement of the world
Judgement of the world
David’s appeal for mercy
Judgement of the wicked
Judgement of the wicked
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Resolution
David appeals to God’s
character for mercy
Center Psalm, Center verse
create in me
a pure heart
Just as God caused light to shine out of
the darkness in creation
an appeal to ‘create in me a pure heart’
in a new creation
All the world under sin

9. What goes on in book 2
songs of longing for the here and not yet
A song of thirst for God opens, in 42,43 and a reality
of suffering for the sake of God’s name in Ps 44
follows but this life is followed by the marriage supper
of the lamb and a wedding song of a Jewish king Ps 45
follows, The marriage supper of the lamb
Psalm 14 comes back expansively as 5 judgement
Psalms near the middle of Book 2 and David’s pleas to
‘create in me a pure heart’ is enter of the center of
those songs. in 49-53
Jerusalem’s fall is wept over but in the end a greater
than Solomon will rule the world in psalms 72

10. Bookends of book 3:
the start and finish help
focus on what’s important
TrulyGodisgood
toIsrael
Psalm73
Ableakending
portending
Messiah’sdeath
Psalm88,89
The goodness
of God
confessed
The darkest
Lament
in the Bible
is wept through
Start of book End of book
Book 3
is ‘dark; having
mostly laments
with the sweetest
Psalm in the center -
Psalm 81

11. The fall of Jerusalem seen
Problem
God’s goodness at start.
Suffering and feelings of
abandonment at end - an apparent
contradiction
An uncomplimentary history of Israel
in Psalm 78
All the world under sin
from book 3 of Psalms
psalms 73-89

12. All the world under sin
from book 3 of Psalms
Books 2 and 3 are poetically like Exodus and Leviticus
and so it is appropriate that the ultimate sacrifice
is portended at the close - the death of Messiah
The Messiah will die
The bleakest Psalm 88
followed by another lament in 89
Resolution

13. What goes on in book 3
The dark book of the Psalms
“Surely God is good to Israel” is the opening yet this is
sometimes called ‘the dark book of the Psalms.
Jerusalem’s fall is wept over and the close has the
bleakest psalm 88 with no ray of hope in it Psalm 89
the close starts with praise but continues as lament
and 88 89 portend the death of messiah
Just as Samson had his riddle of how something sweet
came out of the dead lion, the sweetest Psalms is 81
at the center of this the center of the 5 books and out
of the death of messiah was the sweetest redemption
and most glory to God.

14. Bookends of book 4:
the start and finish help
focus on what’s importantMoses’Psalm
teachustonumber
ourdays
Psalm90
AnunfaithfulIsrael
Psalm106
Moses Psalm
exhorts
Israel’s
history
falling short
of the ideal
Start of book End of book
Poetically like
Numbers
and wandering of
this life

15. Jews and Gentiless are called to
praise God as their Shepherd King
in Psalms 94 through 100
But the history of the Jews also
uncomplimentary in the historical
Psalms 105 and 106 so how will this
happen?
Problem
All the world under sin
from book 4 of Psalms
psalms 90-106

16. All the world under sin
from book 4 of Psalms
Resolution
This is a cliffhanger. The resolution
will come in book 5, starting with
psalm 107

17. What goes on in book 4
Sojournings and wanderings in a dark world
Moses speaks from the distant past with his Psalm 90 as
the opening. Psalms 23, 23 which were about the
shepherd king come back expansively.
God is our shepherd king in 95
Praises to God rise unexpected from the nations in 96-99
(98 inspired the song joy to the world)
God is the shepherd of the nations and they are the sheep
of his pasture in 100
(A prayer of the afflicted on to God in psalm 102 is taken
as a prayer to Jesus in the book of Hebrews.)
The closing is not victorious and in 105 Israel’s sins are not
mentioned in a song of faithfulness of God but in Psalm
106 they are listed. This leaves a cliffhanger. Both
Gentiless and Jews are in need of help from the shepherd
king.

18. Bookends of book 5:
the start and finish help
focus on what’s important
Rescueforthelost
freedomforthecaptives
Psalm107
God overcomes
obstacles
to coming home
Healingthebrokenhearted,
openingblindeyes
Psalms146147
God overcomes
obstacles
to coming home
Coming home
The Liberty Bell has a reference
to the year of Jubilee on it
The Jubilee points to a greater Jubilee
in the style of Isaiah 61 in the Messiah
Start of book End of book

19. We cannot sing
not in our own strength
in Psalm 137
but someday even all the Gentiles kings
will sing in Psalm 138
By the rivers of Babylon we laid down our harps
All the world under sin
from book 5 of Psalms
psalms 107-150
Perhaps a picture of
how we are not saved in our own strength

20. A poor man is persecuted by a Judas
figure in Psalm 109
but God is his help at the poor man’s
right hand
And a man is raised to God’s right
hand in Psalm 110 and defeats evil
All the world under sin
from book 5 of Psalms
Resolution

21. A way home is bracketed by psalm
107 and 146, 147
Works of God that set the captives
free, heal the broken hearted, and
rescues those who are lost.
All the world under sin
from book 5 of Psalms
Resolution
Resolution
Sin is dealt with
in a greater Passover
Psalms 113-118
Resolution
The greater than Solomon (Jesus) will
build his House (the church)
Psalm 127

22. What goes on in book 5
Coming home !!
Jesus statement that people will come from North and South and East and
West may be inspired by the opening psalm 107 which had God saving in
the spirit of Isaiah 61 and the Year of Jubilee of Leviticus 25.
Psalms will open with the blessed man in 1 2 and close with a blessed
God in 146 to 150, in book 5 there are also 2 twin psalms that reverse this
the blessed God 111 and it’s twin the blessed man 112, the church in
Christ.
We have the passover psalms 113-118, which point to a greater passover
in Messiah
We have the songs of ascent, the road songs on the way to worship at the
temple 120-134 and at the center of those the greater than Solomon
must build his house (the church)
The closing 5 praise psalms also start in the spirit of Isiah 61 and in 146
147 there is freeing captives, opening blind eyes and healing
broakenhearted.

23. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin,
so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Gal 3:22
All the world under sin
as seen in the Psalms