Psalms 1: Living a Life that Honors God

"The Psalms are a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended " - Martin Luther

1) Poetry

2) Pattern

3) Preview

"The Psalms, then, are not just a matchless primer of teaching but a medicine chest for the heart and the best possible guide for practical living." - Tim Keller

Psamls 1: A God Honoring Life

1. Delight in God: "Blessed is the one"

2. Filled by God: "A tree by streams of Water"

3. Rely on God: " The way of rightous"

Matthew 7:13

Matthew 5:35

Tim Keller - “Sin isnʼt only doing bad things; it’s more fundamentally making good things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever we build our life on will drive us and enslave us. Sin is primarily idolatry.”

“We will either worship the uncreated God, or we will worship some created thing (an idol). There is no possibility of our worshiping nothing… Beneath any particular sin is this sin of rejecting Christ-salvation and indulging in self-salvation.”

Revelation 22:1-2

Matthew 7:17-20

John 7:37-38

Psalms 23-5

1. Read one Psalm everyday. Slowly

2. Use imagination and senses.

3. Memorize and pray the psalms.

4. Use as a pattern for your prayers.

5. Always look for Jesus.

Roman 7:15,19,21-25

Tim Keller -

“The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me… I can not feel superior to anyone, yet I nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself, I think of myself less.”

In the day when I cried out, You answered me, And made me bold with strength in my soul.

-Pslam 138:3