I sincerely welcome you for taking this book into your hands. I do not fully know with what heart you have opened it. You may have been living a life of faith for a long time, or you may be standing at the very beginning of your walk of coming to know God. Today may be a day when your heart is full of joy, or you may have opened this book with a heavy burden and a weighed-down heart. Whatever place you may be in, the Psalms have been the very praises that such people sang before God. Therefore, this book is not a book for special people, but a book for everyone who desires to come before God with their heart just as it is.

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The book of Psalms is a book whose very name carries a very deep meaning. Examining what this book has originally been called is a great help in clearly grasping what the essential nature of the Psalms is.

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The Psalms do not begin with human boasting; they begin with the question, “Who is the blessed man?” Everyone lives in search of blessing, yet not many people actually know what true blessing is. Right from this first chapter, Psalm 1 clearly shows us where the truly blessed man stands.

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The Word God has given us today is Psalm 1. This passage clearly divides and shows us who is blessed and who is not. God does not look at a person’s outward appearance. He does not look at how much knowledge someone has, how long he has led a religious life, or how much recognition he receives from people; He looks at whether his heart stands on the side of God’s Word.

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Psalm 1 is like a poem that opens the door to the whole Bible. This passage shows us human life divided into two ways. One is the way of the righteous, and the other is the way of the ungodly. One is the way of the tree planted by the rivers of water, and the other is the way of the chaff which the wind drives away. One is the way that God acknowledges, and the other is the way that perishes in the end.

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From of old, the world has stood against God and His Christ. People hate to be bound by the Word of God, and they refuse to submit to the way of salvation that God has established. In the very midst of such a world rising up in rage, Psalm 2 proclaims that God has already set His King.

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Psalm 2 tells us whom God has set as King in the midst of this world. This passage is not merely about the enthronement of an ancient king of Israel. Ultimately, it tells us that God sent His Son Jesus Christ into this world, that He fulfilled the righteousness of God through His baptism, the cross, and the resurrection, and that God has established Him as the King of kings.

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Psalm 2 is the Word about the Christ whom God has established and about His kingdom. This psalm begins with the rebellion of the world, but it ends with God’s reign and salvation. The nations rage and the people plot a vain thing. The kings of the earth and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed. But God, who is in heaven, is not shaken. For God has already set His King on His holy hill of Zion.

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