All right, pray for this crazy computer. I hope I didn't break it. It fell. And the input, the HDMI input got battered up a bit. So this is kind of acting up. So I'm going to turn it off. I'm not sure what's going on with it. But I hope I don't have to buy another one because these things are expensive. It's crazy computers. All right, we're in the book of Psalms. I was just telling my wife and I were talking about singing scripture, singing songs that teach us scripture and pray for wisdom. There's one song, I think, the books of the Bible. We teach the kids the books of the Bible. You know that little song we sing? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth and First and Second, Samuel. You know, I never sing that melody without the words. But sometimes we come up with a good melody, but it doesn't force us to sing the words. And what I'd like to do, you know, Lord, give me wisdom. Would it be wonderful that we could do a song for every Psalm that teaches us the words? In other words, it'd be unique to the words of those Psalms. That's very difficult to do. It's not that it's difficult to do. It's difficult because we wanna get a good melody. And sometimes the melody gets in the way of the words. So we want the words and the melody to support the words. And that's a lot of work. So Lord, give me wisdom. You pray to Lord, give me wisdom to be able to do that. That's one of my goals. And so we're coming up with different ways. This is kind of an experiment. There are thousands of years now, people have been putting music to the Psalms. They've done it all kinds of different ways. But today, music has become so popular today. It's so relevant, it's everywhere. You go in a grocery store, there's music. You watch TV, there's music. You watch a movie, there's music. And we're so enamored with music that we want the music more than the words. You know, I was talking to a guy years ago, he was singing a song, a rock and roll song. I said, what do those words mean? You know, there's one years ago, he's singing it while he's putting in my carpet, your cousin there. I said, what does that song mean? I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy. And he goes, I don't know, I just like the music. And that's the way people are today. They'll sing things that are terrible. The philosophies are terrible. I think Brother Carty said to me just recently, he said, if I went and said to a woman what that song is saying, the woman would slap me in the face. But if we sing it, it's okay. Yeah, and the women will flock to it and ask the autograph of the guy that's singing it, you know? And it's demonic, really. Music, there's something spiritual about music and bad spirit. Bad spirit. You know, we're not commanded to sing anything but the Psalms, but isn't it interesting that we sing everything but the Psalms in church today? And that is because the words do not accommodate themselves to our style of music. And you almost have to come up with some other thing. And people are kind of set in their ways about what they wanna do musically. I'm trying to figure out where we left off. I think it was Psalm 15. I think we were in Psalm 15. We may have finished Psalm 15. So I'm gonna go quick here. Psalm 15, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? and who shall dwell in thy holy city. He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth. He that backbites not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a vile person is condemned, but he honoreth them that fear the Lord, and he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent, he that doeth these things shall never be moved. Now this is a short psalm and we were able to set this whole psalm to our style of music. We call it metrical music. But because it was so short, we said, I believe when we dealt with this, that this psalm is talking about the qualifications of the citizens of Zion, of Jerusalem. And what kind of people are these? And it describes them. They're not worldly people, they're godly people. Somebody who is godly. It says, who will abide in thy tabernacle? Who will dwell in thy holy city? Verse two, he that walketh uprightly, worketh righteousness and speaketh truth in his heart. These are the kind of people that'll, be qualified to be citizens of that New Jerusalem. Verse three, he that bideth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. These are godly people. And what does it say? Jesus said, the first commandment is love God with all your heart. The second is what? love your neighbor as yourself. And you know what? You really can't love your neighbor unless you love God. All right, verse four, in whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honored them to fear the Lord. He that swears to his own hurt changes not, he that put it not as money to usury, nor take his reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved. All right, so the word contemn, is a Hebrew word which means to despise, to disdain, think to scorn. All right, verse four, in whose eyes a vile person's contempt, but he honored them to fear the Lord. He did swear to his own hurt and changes did not. And the Bible says, let your yea be yea and nay be nay. A godly person is a person that keeps his word. Godly person is a person who loves the truth. In that new Jerusalem, the gates will be open day and night. In other words, there won't be any locks on the gate. What do you need locks for? Need locks to keep the thieves out, right? And in the day that we live in, you know, all the years we've lived here, the Twinsky there, where's garages, pioneers, they never locked anything. I mean, they never locked a gate. Now they have a gate. You know why they have a gate and they lock it? because somebody, his brother there had a tractor and somebody backed in there and stole his tractor. You know, people just stealing everything, you know, even things that are not locked. Because we live in a wicked world, you know, where thieves break in, et cetera. And of course, that's why we have all these passwords and everything else. So who is a godly person? But he that sweareth to his own hurt. In other words, he swears and will do it. He changeth not. He sweareth and he changeth not. Who shall dwell in Zion? Verse five. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent, he that doeth these things shall never be moved. Those who are abusers, money launderers, are not gonna take advantage of people. Of course, when did Jesus turn the tables over in the temple? He turned them over because of the money changers. And what were they doing? They would come to Jerusalem and they wouldn't accept any other money but temple money. And when they exchanged the Gentile money for temple money, They exacted usury. They charged them more than the money was worth. And that was crookery. And that's why Jesus was upset. He was upset. He wasn't upset that they were buying cattle for the offerings, because they were commanded in the Bible to go to Jerusalem to take, if the journey was too long, they were told, to take their offerings, turn it into money, go to Jerusalem and buy what they needed for the sacrifices. So he wasn't upset they were buying things for their sacrifices. He was upset at the Jews because they were being crooks. They were taking advantage of that and they were exacting usury and, you know, they're being thieves, you know? And they were commanded not to do that. They're violating the scripture by doing that because the Bible said they weren't to exact usury of their brothers. But that new Jerusalem, let's look at a few verses about that holy city. Turn to Revelation chapter 21 and verse 27. Revelation 21, 27. Revelation 21, 27. And it says, who will abide in thy tabernacle? Who will abide in that holy city? And then it gives all the qualifications. And I want you to notice, I believe this is a prophecy about this city. Revelation 21, 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh an abomination or make of the lie but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. So who will abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy city? Right there it says, no one that makes a lie, worketh an abomination, but he that is written in the book of life. These are the ones who abide in that holy city. The holy city is that New Jerusalem Now, never in the history of Jerusalem has there been 100% pure citizenship. You read the history of Jerusalem. It has suffered nothing but violence from the beginning. And you remember Jesus said in Matthew 11, verse 12, from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffered violence and the violent take it by force. What's that kingdom he's talking about? He's talking about the kingdom of God, that holy kingdom promise, the kingdom of the covenant. But think about who sat on the throne of the nation all those years. Think about who sat on the throne in the days of Jesus. It was Herod. And was there any more bloody king than Herod? Half of the kings of Judah were wicked. All the kings of Israel were wicked. Think about the history of the kings of Israel, starting with Saul. Was he that good a king? Was he not a bloody king? Absalom, Ahab, Manasseh, on and on we can go. So this is what this is talking about. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy city? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart, he that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoreth them to fear the Lord, He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not, he that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent, he that doeth these things shall never be moved. Never be moved. All right, go to Psalm 16. Psalm 16, maybe we can pick up a few verses before we close here. Run a little bit late because we had these meetings, a rap session. All right. Psalm 16, verse one, mictum of David. Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust, O my soul. Thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord, my goodness extended not to thee, but to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent in whom is all my delight. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another God. They drinketh the offerings of blood. Will I not offer, nor take up their names unto my lips? All right, here, this Psalm starts out with this introduction, a mikdim of David. That word mikdim is the first time it appears here. It appears in six Psalms. The word means to be engraved in gold. And that's all we know to be engraved in gold. Now there are a lot of people that surmise that it was one of David's favorite Psalms. So therefore he called it a golden Psalm. So he said, this one needs, this is my favorite. He said, needs to be engraved in gold. Others say it's an instrument. They call it a golden Psalm. Mictum is used in Psalm 16, Psalm 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60. Total of six Psalms, I believe. So it's an interesting word, but again, a mystery to us as to what exactly it means. Some think it was a special tune And what's interesting is the way I'm doing the psalms. Do you know, I start out, when I try to write one of these psalms, I start out with the first way we did it. I'll always do that. And I outline it. And the first way I did it was like simple, you know, those simple four triads, you know. Remember it was. See. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- And any psalm, any of these psalms, you could do that way. For instance, Psalm, where are we at? Psalm 16, are we on Psalm 16? Psalm, you could start out. ♪ Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. ♪ ♪ O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, thou art mine ♪ You see, you could just do it that way. Now, David, they think he had a mictum. He had a special melody, a golden melody. He said, sing it to this melody. Sing it to this melody. And so that melody was one of his favorite melodies. He called it engraved in gold. Now, I don't know, I'm surmising, we don't know. So it's either an instrument, it was a favorite psalm, or it was a tune. These are things people surmise. The expression, it says, it opens up in Psalm 16, verse one, preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. The expression preserve me appears five times in the Psalms, that expression. And then it says, in thee do I put my trust, appears four times in the Psalms. You know what's interesting? Every time it appears in the Psalms, where you read that word, in thee do I put my trust, it's in the first verse. It's in the first verse. Now, as I go through the Psalms, I'm noticing patterns. Noticing patterns. Do you ever notice when we sing the hymns, there are a lot of phrases that we see from one hymn to the other that often are repeated. Now this is a messianic psalm. Look at verse two. Oh my soul, thou has said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord, my goodness extended not to thee. Now that's a little confusing. except if you read verse three, it explains it. My goodness extended not to thee, but my goodness extends to what? But to the saints that are on the earth and to the excellent in whom all my delight. In other words, it would saying, what could I do here? The good I've done, I don't have to extend it to you. but I extend it to the saints. In other words, what could we do? Even the good work that Jesus did was not extended to God, but extended to man. Did Jesus die on the cross for God? No, he died for the benefit of men that they may be reconciled with God. That goodness was extended to us. Our goodness, or even our good deeds, Do not benefit God. Didn't it say that? Where was it that it said that? Was it in, well, in Job, it says, if you do, does your righteousness do anything for God? You do good, does that do anything for God? Does God need anything that you have? You do a good work. You don't, you know, now God is pleased that we do good to our neighbor. God is pleased that we do that. But when we do good to our neighbor, we don't, that doesn't benefit God. May benefit a man, but it doesn't benefit God. But God is pleased when we do that. Our goodness or good deeds do nothing to benefit God though is pleasing to him. But who does it benefit? Verse three, but who? It benefits the saints that are on earth and to the excellent. And God calls his saints the excellent because we're called kings, priests, and prophets. Remember that? We're called these things. But unto the excellent, our goodness is extended to. All right, now, this is a messianic psalm, which is obvious. Why? Because in Acts chapter two and verse 25, David quotes this psalm. He quotes a lot of the verses in this psalm. We'll see that later. So my goodness extended not to thee, what good do we do, even the good that we do, even the good that Jesus did, is for the benefit of man, not for God, but to the saints there on earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight. This verse verifies the previous verse, our goodness is extended to the saints who dwell on earth and to the excellent and all the saints, all his servants who are made kings and priests unto God. Verse four, their sorrow shall be multiplied that hasten after another God, their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. So here the psalmist is saying, those who offer sacrifice to false gods and idols, their sorrows will be multiplied. He said, and I will not drink offerings of blood, these offerings I will not offer, nor take up their names to my lips. But those who worship false gods, their sorrows will be multiplied. That's what it's saying. Now, those who offer sacrifice to false gods are doomed to sorrows. All right, we're gonna close here. We're gonna pick it up next time we get together. But Psalm 16, verse 11, Five is where we'll leave off and we'll pick it up. And let's see, seven. All right, in closing, we'll just sing this psalm one more time. Verse 16, verse 16. Let's do the shortened version, page 74. We'll do the shortened version and we'll close together. Ready? Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust. my soul thou hast set unto the Lord. Thou art my Lord, my goodness extended not unto thee. that are in the earth, and to the excellent In whom is all my delight. Therefore my heart is glad, And my glory rejoice, Flesh also shall rejoice in home. Preserve me, O my God, For in Thee do I put my troth. My soul thou hast set unto the Lord. Thou, O my glory, goodness extended not to who? Lord, thank you so much for your word. Help us by your grace to learn how to sing the Psalms, preach and learn the meaning of the words and sing them as you command us to. Dismiss us with your blessing and bring us back at the next appointed time. I pray this in Jesus' name, amen. All right, thank you, dismissed.