 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session. We are continuing to study on the book of Psalms. We are continuing from what baby left yesterday. Before we could begin with our class, we will start the class with a word of prayer. Dear God, we thank you, we praise you for this wonderful time that you have blessed us with. Lord, as we said this time aside, Lord, to study your word, to meditate on the book of Psalms. We pray that, Lord, you will open up our hearts, our mind towards your word, towards the revelation of your word of Father. We pray that, Lord, as of you put an impression on the psalmist's heart, Lord, to praise you despite the situation, despite what they were going through our Father, but they had the heart to worship you, to praise you, to give you thanks, Lord. In the middle of the circumstances of Father, Lord, we pray for that. As your Holy Spirit dwells in each one of us, Lord, despite our circumstances, our situation, Lord, help us too. We focused on you, set our eyes on your Father, that we will give you praise, we will honour you throughout our life of Father. As the psalmist sings of Father, it is better for me to be in your coats than to be anywhere else of Father or than to be elsewhere. Lord, we pray that you will give us an attitude, a mindset, a heart condition to be like that. To set time, to praise you, to love you, to honour you, to glory for your name, Lord. Thank you, Father. We surrender this time and each of us in your hand, in Jesus' name, we pray, amen, amen. Thank you so much and welcome again to the class. So what did we learn from this book of Psalms till now? What did we understand? Anyone? What did you understand? What was your learning from the book of Psalms till now? Jeffina said, Zellie, go ahead please. Yes, Sid, you can go ahead. You're there? Hello. One point that you learned from the book of Psalms or from the life of David. Psalms talk about the expression of heart. Sometimes when the psalmist is rejoicing in the Lord, he pours out his heart and then he is upset and down. Then also he pours out his heart. So it shows us an expression of heart. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much, John. Yes. Brother Loubekel. I learned that David Real was a full human being with emotions and he was always willing to show them. In other words, he was an extrovert. An extrovert is a person who would like people to understand his inner being through his way of life, whereby when he was sad, he would express his sadness. When he was wrong, he would express his wrongness. And when he was happy, he would always express his happiness. So I think he was actually the greatest king of the United Israel. Thank you so much. Thank you, Brother Loubekel. Yes, very true. Very true. He just showed himself as human. And yes, even the things that when he sinned, it's been recorded. And how did he react to his sin nature? How he asked God for repentance. Being a king, he never hid it. But then he brought it out. He brought it out in front of God. He repented. He asked for forgiveness. And we also see God didn't react today with the way he reacted with Saul. He never took away the Holy Spirit. But then when he repented all of his heart, when he was confronted by the prophet, Nathan, so beautifully he sings to the Lord, lot created me a clean heart. Psalms 51. You know, very beautifully he starts with, can we turn to Psalms 51, please? As Brother Loubekel started on that. Yeah, Psalms 51 verse 10. He says, created me a clean heart of God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence that which happened to Saul. Let not happen with me. Okay, but do not take away your Holy Spirit from me. But Lord, only you can forgive me and restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your righteous spirit. And uphold me by your generous spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed. That which he did to Uriah, Bathsheba's wife, a husband. Oh God, the God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. And then he goes further to say that, Oh Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall show forth your praise. For you do not desire sacrifice or else I will give it. You do not delight in burnt offerings because those days they had this practice of offerings. You know, giving an offering for every sin. But then, Psalmist clearly understood God. He clearly understood that God is not delighted with the offerings because everything belongs to him. But what does God delights in your heart condition? So your E says that you do not delight in the burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. These are God you will not despise. Do good in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. Then you shall be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness. When he says build the walls of Jerusalem, what happens when you build the wall? What happens when we build the wall of the city? It protects the city. There's protection, protection from the enemy. So what is the Psalmist saying in line of what he is going through? He is saying we need to have certain boundaries around us. Restoration? Yes. We need to set some boundaries, some guidelines where God is given to us. So when we follow those guidelines, we will not fall in for any kind of pleasure, any kind of sin. So he is asking us to set certain guidelines around us that we may not sin against God. We will be protected by God when we follow God's command. Then you shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness. That means the way we lead our life, the way we pray to God, he'll be pleased with our art condition and the way we lead our life with burnt offering and the whole burnt offering. Then they shall offer bulls and he talks about the sacrifice and all that. So what is important here is it's not about we sinning and then offering sacrifice. No, he's asking us keep our heart condition right in front of God. Follow the commandments of God. What pleases God? So that is very important. So here we see that Psalmist understood the heart of God. What is expected from a human and what is not an E? Yes, he repented for a sin and asked for forgiveness and we also see the minute when he asked for forgiveness. God being merciful, God as a covenant keeper, God delights in people's praises and prayers and God delighted with David's praise and his praise and God forgave him. Yes, he had to face the consequence of a sin but then God blessed him. God blessed him. God rewarded him. God's hand was upon him throughout his life and God kept up the promise that he promised David that is descended will be from the line of David and it was fulfilled in Jesus. Well, before I could move on with some, I would like to play a video which portrays like how the poets write it and what kind of meaning, what is the background, how we need to interpret the poetic form. Bear with me as I play that video before we could start with our session. Give me a minute, quickly I'll play it. Please let me know if it is audible. So we've been learning how to read biblical narrative and showing how the Bible is one. Yes, thank you. But 30% of the Bible is made up of ancient poetry. And I don't know about you, but I don't read a lot of stories with one out of three pages. Yet poetry is everywhere in the Bible. Some biblical books are entirely poetic. Most of the Hebrew prophets wrote masterful poems and the majority of God's speech in the Bible is represented as poetry. It's also very common in biblical narrative for the story pause while a character breaks out in poetic song. Like in the Exodus story, there's a narrative. Poetry has a different purpose in the story. Instead of describing the difference, let's just experience it. So one part of the story goes like this. The waters were divided and the Israelites went through on dry land with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That seems pretty clear. Right. Now the poem telling the same event. O Lord, by the blast of your nostrils, the waters piled up. Surging waters stood like a wall, deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea. Whoa. A wall of surging water like jello and divine nostrils? This is intense. Yeah, the poem ignites your imagination through the experience of biblical poetry. Biblical poets did this with a specific set of questions. And that's what we're going to look at, the art of biblical poetry. The basic unit of any poem is the line. And then many lines are designed together to make a poem. Okay, I'm used to this kind of poem. There's a meter, cadence, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And there's rhyme. But poems in the Bible don't work like this. Yeah, biblical poems are what we call free verse. They don't use meter like some traditions of what we do. And they don't use rhyme in the same way either. So biblical poems have no order to them? No, they just have a different kind of order. Finishing one, we thought. Right. So one part of the story goes like this. The poem is written by the blast of your nostrils. The water's piled up. Surging water stood like a wall. Deep waters congealed at the heart of the sea. Whoa, a wall of surging water like jello and divine nostrils? This is intense. Yeah, the poem ignites your imagination through the experience of verbal art. And biblical poets did this with a specific set of tools. And that's what we're going to look at, the art of biblical poetry. The basic unit of any poem is the line. And then many lines are designed together to make a poem. Okay, I'm used to this kind of poem. There's a meter, cadence, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And there's rhyme. But poems in the Bible don't work like this. Yeah, biblical poems are what you could call free verse. They don't use meter like some traditions of what we do. And they don't use rhyme in the same way either. So biblical poems have no order to them? No, they just have a different kind of order. Biblical poems are most basically structured by couplets, two short lines that are carefully worded and placed beside each other. The first line makes the basic statement, and then the second line develops it in some way. It can do this by completing the thought, or deepening it with different words or images, or by contrasting it in some way. So check out the opening of Psalm 51. You can see it in action. In the first couplets, the poet asked God to show grace and love. How? Exactly. In the second line, he requests forgiveness for his failures. Okay, so this couplet is finishing one, if we thought. Right. And then the next couplet opens with washing as a metaphor. And then the second line offers a more vivid image, that of a priest in the temple purifying things so they can be in God's presence. Okay, so taking an image and deepening. Right. And then this third couplet opens with the poet's awareness of his sin, the seed inside. And that's followed by a description of the sin being outside. It's like it's in public, visible to themselves and other people. So this couplet takes an idea and contrasts it. Exactly. So couplets by nature are a bit repetitive. But the repetitive language forces you to slow down and linger over the feeling and meaning of God, looking at each idea from more than one angle. And then groups of couplets can come together around one key idea. It's like a diamond with many facets, each line offering a different glimpse into the same core reality. So this poem is exploring what it's like to be forgiven and offered a second sheet. And that's the kind of experience that can change a person. It's worth savoring the promise. Now, biblical poets also use repetition on a larger scale. In many poems, you'll find a key line that's repeated multiple times. That's called the refrain. Or they'll open and close the poem with a similar couplet. That's called an inclusio. Now, biblical poets love design. Oh, yeah. These are works of verbal artists. These poets use repetition to create all kinds of elaborate patterns that invite the reader to make connections between different parts of the whole poem that open up even deeper layers of people. Cool. So I'm feeling at home with ancient Hebrew poetry. But remember, poetry isn't something you master and then move on. Biblical poems are a bottomless well. They're packed with a surplus of meaning for those who are willing to slow down and talk to them. I am just trying to pull my mind in corrections and discover new ideas. Exactly. And there's even one more tool that biblical poets have to do that very thing. And that's what we'll look at next week. Thank you so much. Let me stop presenting. Okay. I'll just post the link. In the chat where you all can also listen to it later. So yesterday, we just went through it. So now we understand how the poet actually writes it. And there will be an in-depth meaning in all of these sounds. Literary types. Okay. So in every poetic writing, when the poet writes, there's an in-depth meaning to it. Yesterday, we saw in the book of Isaiah. And today, we also see in Psalms, chapter 51. And not only in this chapter, but whereas the complete Psalms has a beautiful in-depth meaning when we read it with the background of the culture, of the writer's background. And we could understand the instances what each one have gone through and how they have portrayed it. We can understand that. So the literary types here, we see that there are seven. And the first one talks about the wisdom Psalms. Wisdom Psalms are the Psalms that provides the practical guidelines for godly living. And it also gives us a direction for a righteous living according to God's will. And we see that in some of the Psalms that have listed there. And next, we see the royal Psalm, where it talks about the coming messianic rule of Christ Jesus as king over heaven and earth. And that has been listed, portrayed in the listed Psalms. The third one is Lament Psalms. Lament Psalms are emotionally charged Psalms, where the writer records his heart's condition, his attitude, the situation that he's going through, the way he laments. He tries out to God for the divine help, help and for him to overcome or be delivered from the trouble or pain that he's going through. And we see that many Psalms have been recorded. And even these Psalms can be related to our situation in our life today. Today, when we go through difficult situations, when we take one of these Lament Psalms and it will so much apply to our own condition, to our own situation or circumstance, and where we can raise the Psalm as an Hallelujah to God, where we can praise God into our situation. Even though situation may be the same, it has not changed, but then we can take this Psalm and praise God through it. And we can see our situation change, our circumstance change. It will never be the same. And even we can see that relief, the change in our heart condition, the change in our mindset when we read and praise God through these Psalms. And the next one we see is Implicatory Psalms, where it is motivated by a zeal from God's glory. And these are proactively and proactively invokes God's wrath and judgment upon the psalmist's adversities, upon the enemies who come against God's children. And we see that in some of these Psalms. When we read it, we get to know like, when the psalmist approached God for his help, for him to come and defend the children of God from the enemies who are against them or are raised against them, or they may be much stronger than them. But then when they see God sought God for their help, how God delivered them powerfully. God never led them to be the prey to their enemies, even if they have not met the standard of God. But then the minute they called on God, God being the Father, being full of compassion and love, he never led his children to become the prey. But then when they seek God with all their heart and mind, when they repented for their sins, we see God showing himself as a magnification, showing himself strong and defending his children from the enemies' hand and saving them. So the God who did that then is the same God with us now. When we see God in our time of trial or trouble, and when we repent for our sins and ask God for forgiveness with all our heart and mind, we see God rescuing us. We see God saving us from those deep waters, nor from that merry clay as how the poet portrays these situations. The next fifth point we see is Thanksgiving psalms. These psalms expresses a profound awareness of the deep gratitude for God's abundant blessing, where an individual or a nation can come together, be thankful to God in a corporate setup and how God's blessing will be in abundance. When we thank God, we also see the blessing that we receive will be in abundance and we see greater miracles happen when we thank and praise God. There are a list of psalms where the psalm is sing. Despite this condition, like one of them that is listed here is psalms 103, where we all know that is a very famous psalm. Let me take that for you. So psalms 103 is a psalm of David, where he says, bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Forget not all his benefits. Verse 3 says, who forgives all our inequities and heals all our diseases. When we come, friend of God, with this kind of heart attitude, if you see the history, if you see the background of this writing, David is not writing this when he was in peace and rest enjoying all the luxury as a king in the palace, but then he is writing this when he was running from cave to cave. He was running for his life, though he was a king, he had all the power, but then he was running from Saul, then later he was running from his own son, and later he was running from the king of the Amalekites and others. But then as he was running, he never forgotten God. One thing he had within him is the hope and trust on God. That never reduced in his life. He knew that God has blessed him, God has a promise, God has a covenant blessing over him, and he knew the power of that blessing that will never go down. He knew God's protection is on him, though he ran for his life, but then he knew within him that God is with him, God's protection is over him, that no enemy can attack him. Nothing will happen to his life. He knew it within him, and thus he raises a psalm from his heart, saying, Lord, I bless you. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all the benefits, all the benefits. Whatever God did, God treated David as a special son. He was so special, though among his brothers God chose David. His brothers was much stronger. They were tall, very vibrant, and valiant. They were much better than David. His own father never thought that the anointing of King will come on David. But then when Samuel came to his house of Jesse to anoint David's father, Jesse, he showed all the other brothers and never even imagined that David would be the person that God has chosen him. Man may look at the outer appearance, but God looks at the heart. Samuel thought, okay, maybe this is the one. This is the one. Each time when he prepared himself to anoint, God spoke with a still, small voice within Samuel, saying, this is not the one. This is not the one. And when Samuel looked up to Jesse and asked, who's the one that I need to anoint? And here he shows, okay, I have a younger one who's a shepherd. The least of the job that he could do is doing it there. And the other children are the army men. They are in the army. They are much strong. They have already prepared. They are fit for the master's use. But then God does not see your outer appearance, not at the building of your body or the beauty or the structure or how well you're skilled or talented. But then God looks at the heart condition and God was pleased with David. He was a shepherd boy in the field and here Samuel asked him to send a word to him. And when he came, God spoke to him. He's the man. He's the king. He's the one after my own heart anoint him. And Samuel anointed him to be the king. And David, after many years, still he says, God, I will not forget all the benefits that you have done for me. I shall not forget the way you saved me, the way you gave Goliath in my hand, the way you won so many battles for me. The people praised Saul 100, but David 1,000. 1,000 to 10,000. How did that praise come? Did actually David fight that battle? No, God fought that battle. Each and every battle God fought for David. So David never forgot all the benefits that God did and he praises him. And also he says, you are the God who forgives our sins. As a man, he knew his weakness. He knew the areas that he was displeasing God, but then he brought everything. He never hid it from God because he knew that God sees everything. He brought front of God all his weakness and he said, God, you're a God of forgiveness. You're the God of forgiveness. And you heal all our sickness and disease who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with the loving, kindness and tender mercies who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. Amen. Praise God. Isn't that beautiful? That's how Psalms sing. Sang unto God. Today, we can also take up such Psalms. Sing unto God. Sing praise. It delights. And though it has been written many years, many centuries ago, but then it has been alive. These words have life and they have inner depth of meaning. Each time when we read, each of us get a different revelation from this word because God speaks to us, you know, according to our situation in the way we can understand. So the sixth is the Pilgrimage Psalm. These festive Psalms also celebrates and praise God for Israel. And it recalls God's goodness over them as they, you know, as they travel from different places to Jerusalem to celebrate the annual feast of Passover. And next we see the enthronement psalm. Enthronement psalm. But even before we could go to the enthronement psalm from the pilgrimage psalm, I would like to turn to Psalms 43. Even that is a very beautiful psalm that we could claim and read for ourselves. Prayer to God in time of trouble. It talks about, vindicate me O God and plead my cause against an ungodly nation and deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For you are the God of my strength. Why do you cast me off? Why do I go moaning because of the oppression of the enemy or send out your light and your truth? Let them lead me, let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacle. Then I will go to the altar of God to God my exceeding joy and on the harp I will praise you O God, my God. Why are you cast down O my soul and why are you disquited within me? Hope in God for I shall yet praise him. The help of my countenance and my God. Despite our situation, let's go to God the tabernacle. Let's go celebrate the joy that God is bringing. It gives an exceeding joy. So, some sings and praises God even when he is preparing to go and you know, it is an anonymous psalm when he is preparing all the people to go to the feast of the annual feast at Jerusalem. So, there are much more psalms when we read. We will understand how people sang as they prepared themselves for the feast and they headed towards Jerusalem. And next we see enthronement psalm. These are the inspirational psalm or the majestic psalm describes the majesty of God's sovereignty who rules over all his creation and also provides. He is the provider. He is the caregiver. He is the comforter. And he also sustains everything. He controls everything and everything is made by him. It gives God enthronement. It gives God's sovereign power and glory. So, when we read that, we will understand. So, yesterday we also looked at the doxology. The book has been divided in five parts and each and every five part ends with the doxology. And similar to that, we also see the last five books. That is from 146 to 150. The book concludes with five poems of praise to God. If we can turn to psalms 146. Psalm 146, 147, 48, 49, 149, 150 you see continuously from 146 to 150. It starts saying praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Actually, the original translation, it starts saying that praise the God of Israel. And it ends again in our version in NKJB. It says praise the Lord. But then in the Hebrew version, it ends with a word called hallelujah. In the Hebrew word, it starts with praise ya. It does not even say ya way. Because those days, they paid a lot of reverence to write the word of God. Even to write G-O-D. They used to leave a space G space D. They will not write G-O-D. And the scribe whoever has to write this word ya way, they will not even write ya way fully. It has been spelled as Y-A-H-W-E-H. They used to write Y space D. There's an iPhone in between, space H. And each time the scribe writes that word, he used to go have bath and come and write that word. But so much of reverence. They need to be physically clean and spiritually as well. They have to keep themselves pure to write that word. That word carried power. That word carried so much of reverence. So in the Hebrew word, in this last five chapters of Psalm, they have not written praise ya way. They have written just praise ya, which actually means praise God. And in the end it says, hallelujah, praising God for everything. For everything. And then, do we know that Psalms has one more chapter? How many of y'all know that Psalms has another chapter? 151 Psalms. The day of his new? No ma'am, we don't know about it. It is something new. Okay, great. Psalms has one more chapter, 151. The tradition of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible only contains 150 Psalms that we all know. Besides these 150 Psalms, there is one more additional one in the Syriac Bible. It is included in the Septuagint, the Greek version. And the Ethiopic or Armenian, Arabic, they have the script. That script has 151 Psalms. Even now some of the version of the Greek Orthodox Church, they have this 151 included in their Psalms. The Hebrew version of Psalms was found in the Dead Scroll much later. Much later, it was found and, you know, all what does this 151 talks about? So before even we could see what this 151 talks about, let's read that version. Okay, it's been included in the Bible Gateway. I thought I will directly project that. Just give me a minute while I present that. I will also send the link so you all can read it directly much later. Can we see it? Yes. Okay, so this is in the Bible Gateway. I'll send this link to you all. So this is 151 Psalm. And this 151 Psalm is divided into two parts. Let's read what this says. It says, Hallelujah of David, Jesse's son. He writes, I was smallest of my brothers. The youngest of my father's son. He made me shepherd of his flock. Ruler over the young. My hands made a flute. My fingers alluring. Let me give glory to the Lord. I thought to myself, the mountain cannot witness to God. The hills cannot proclaim him. But the trees have cherished my words. The floor, my deeds. Who can proclaim? Who can announce? Who can declare the Lord's deeds? God has seen everything. God has heard everything. God has listened. God sent this prophet to anoint me. Samuel to make me great. My brothers went out to meet him. Handsome in form and appearance. They statured all. Their hair was beautiful. But the Lord God did not choose them. Verse 7. He says, Instead he sent and took me from flowing, following the flock. God anointed me with holy oil. God made me leader for his people. Ruler over the children of his covenant. And then he moves on. This is 51 part B. So at the beginning of David's power, after the prophet of God anointed him. This is after the anointing of Samuel. I went out to attack the Philistine, who cursed me by his idols. But after I uncovered his own sword, I cut off his head. So I removed the shame from the Israelites. This is the Hebrew version. We also see the Greek version of the same thing. It's written how we have different versions in KJV, KJV, NIV. Even this has different versions in the Hebrew and Greek. It means the same. But then 151 has two parts. 151 A as seven verses and 151 B. It's actually a continuation. But then it's been part two, which has two verses. It talks about his victory over the Philistines or victory over the Goliath. That's amazing, isn't it? Something new. So this 151 is quite autobiographical. It gives us the details of David's life, like how he made flute for playing or how he made harp. And it also speaks about, let me see, just give me a minute. He speaks about the selection of God as David, as the new king over Israel and how he sent Samuel to anoint him and how God bypassed all his brothers, though they were very beautiful, strong, handsome. But then God did not look at any of the outer nature, but then God looked at the heart and selected David, though he were much smaller than his brothers or he may not have good talent or experience in the army. But then God chose David despite his appearance. And we see David's victory over the Philistine giant in the next part B. He talks about God giving him the victory. God fought the battle and he gave him the victory over this Philistine who came with his God. And then I went with my God, I had trust on the God of Israel and how God gave him the power to be head and God killed Goliath and David just drew the sword of Goliath and he cut his head. Now, why did he cut his head and why did David carry the head of Goliath? Why did David carry the head of Goliath? He could have just killed him at that point. Why do you think that David had to cut his head and carry it and go into the city of Jerusalem? Can anyone add to it? Yes, Sid, please go ahead. Ma'am, maybe because of that oath which Saul took, whosoever will defeat the Goliath, I will made him marry my daughter because of that maybe as a proof that David might have took his head to show that I am the one who did this like that of a proof of a symbol of victory. Okay, okay. Anyone else? Yes, what Sid said is yes. Saul asked him to get the head but then what did they do with that head? They actually got the Goliath. The tradition says that some of the scholars have written it saying that David carried that head and they brought that head and they went outside the city. There was a mountain. They buried this head on that hill and they named that as... I am not getting the name. Golgotha, ma'am. Yes, Golgotha, but there was another name before it could be changed to Golgotha. I am not getting that name exactly. I am very sorry about it. Place of skulls? Yes, place of skull is the meaning. Okay, so what they did is they carried Goliath's head and they buried it there in that mountain and later. The victory that God gave David over the Philistines by chopping his head and trampling his head down and cutting his head and then he carried it as a mark like God gave us the victory over the Philistines, over the enemy. And then he buried the head there and I am not very sure what exactly was the name at that time but then later that mountain was named as Golgotha Place of Skull and that was the same mountain where Jesus was crucified. There was a symbolic connection to it where Jesus was crucified and he trampled over the enemy. He trampled over the enemy and rose from his death. Okay, so that was a significant that was made from this to the time of Jesus, Jesus trampling his enemy over that he buried the enemy's head there on the same mountain of Golgotha which signifies that you know God had a victory over the enemy. And then there are some reasons why the Psalms 151 was not included in most of the Bible. One is that Psalms was not part of the traditional Hebrew text. Okay, it was later added in the Judaism considered as 151 some to be part of the Apocrypa books. And so the Septuagint included that is the Greek translation of the Old Testament included the script from the original Hebrew they translated and included as 151 Psalms in their script but then because the Hebrew has not included that may be one of the reason why the canon the canon has not included that chapter in our Bible. And the second is it could be even though 151 appears in the Septuagint the Greek version the translators you know numbered it as not of the mark not of the number not of the number that means outside the number they did not consider some as some 151 they just numbered it that way. So that's one of the reason why they have not included this in the book of the canon. Yes, I will just send you the link for this Psalms 151 I'll post it. So you get to read the Hebrew version and also the Greek version of this. I will go back so some of the unique features which we just went through yesterday it is the same then some additional features I've added here where we have Psalm was the longest term project it took about 900 to 1000 years in making or compiling this book. And then we see Psalms is the most quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament there are about 360 Old Testament quotations or in the New Testament of which 112 are from the Psalms and we see Psalms contains more Messianic prophecies than any of the other Old Testament book and we will go through it when we're going through the foreshadowing of Christ and then there are duplicate Psalms it's so similar can one of them take up Psalms 14 and the other Psalms 53 if you can compare the verses the scripts are duplicate and then Psalms 40 13 to 7 and the other can take Psalms 70 again Psalms 60 verse 5 to 12 and Psalms 108 6 to 13 you see the same scripture been repeated it's almost has the same words in some cases or it contains the same meaning we'll take anyone if any of anyone I've taken it can we just read can I read Psalms 14 yes please the fool has said in his heart there is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who does good the Lord looks down from heaven on the children of men to see if there are any who understand who seek God they have all turned aside they have together become corrupt there is none who does good no not one have all the work okay we'll stop with that just to make sure that it is the same can if anyone I've taken 53 Psalms 53 can I request all to please read read like first three chapters so sorry first three verses one two and three okay let me read Psalms 53 yes please the fool says in his heart there is no God they are corrupt and their ways are our way there is no one who does good God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand any who seek God everyone has turned away they have together become corrupt there is no one who does good not even one thank you thank you so much so you see it's the same it has been repeated so if we take time to read the other scriptures you will also find the same thing and the next is a number of Psalms are a rostic in Hebrew with the first word of each verse or the stanza begins with a successful letter of the Hebrew alphabets one such example is Psalms 119 it has a complete Hebrew alphabets throughout runs throughout the scripture in that with this we will move on to the foreshadowing of Christ which is the last one yeah we see the foreshadowing of Christ Psalm 2 chapter 1 to 12 it portrays messiah's triumph and kingdom and Psalms 16 8 to 11 it shows it talks about the death and the resurrection of Christ and Psalms 22 shows us the suffering save you on the cross and it also presents the prophecies with regards to the crucification and all of which were fulfilled perfectly and then we see the glories of messiah and his bride are on exhibit in Psalm 45 and then in Psalm 42 and 89 and 110 and 132 it presents the glory and universality of his reign so when we read through it we see it talking about the messiah okay with this we will conclude the book of Psalms and open to class if you would like to share your learning or you would like to add anything to it it would be great for us to hear so what was our learning or you would like to share something that you learned from this class and it was new if we have a recap it's always good so Rosalind what did you learn you can share one point each of you can take up one point Ma'am Psalms 151 was something new I am hearing it for the first time today so yeah this was something new for me okay I am sure it is the same with all of us okay can I request Rosalind to end this class with a word of prayer so that we can be dismissed thank you Lord Jesus wonderful father we thank you Lord we praise you for today's class Lord we want to bless your name we give you glory you've been teaching us Lord through your word Father God we believe that we got every word that we hear we learn we study is an enlightenment to our spirit to our understanding Lord we just want to pray Father God that whatever we learn and we study may be used for your glory but we want to live for your glory Father God through our lives Father God we want to bless your name we want to bring glory to your name God we thank you and we bless you for all the precious students that are in this class we bless each I pray Lord that you bless each and every one of us Father God maybe we used for your glory in your kingdom but I also pray for Pastor Nancy bless her Daddy God bless her family bless her Lord as she's been a blessing in the kingdom of God in the kingdom of God Lord I pray Lord through our lives may you be glorified in the mighty name of Jesus amen amen thank you so much thank you God bless you have a blessed day see you tomorrow thank you thank you God bless thank you