Psalms 119:61 - I've Been Robbed

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Psalm.

I am the God of my life. All right, Expedition Verse 61 today in the 119th Psalm. We're having so much fun in this section, which has so much to do with life and marriage, and we've talked about the different anointings. Well, the 61st verse is the fifth anointing, which would be knowledge, because it's wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, and today would be knowledge.

And so I think you'll see that as we are overarching looking at this. But this is one of those verses that I just am blown away by how it connects a similar story throughout the scripture. So the verse reads, the bands of the wicked have robbed me, but I have not forgotten my law. So you can see if we haven't forgotten my law, that has something to do with knowledge.

But the interesting thing is that here, you know, they actually the word robbed is plundered in its own way. And so you may think, well, Robbie, what does this have to do with the marriage? What does this have to do, you know, with this concept of being united with Christ? And it's an interesting thing that if you look in the Song of Solomon, which if you want to look in the book of the Bible has to do with marriage, that's a good place to look. And you'll find in the fifth chapter, there's a very peculiar verse.

I studied it and studied it and studied it years ago because I could not figure out what it was talking about. But you might remember in the fifth chapter of the Song of Solomon is the famous verse, you know, I slept but my heart was awake. And you might remember her beloved had hair that was had drops of dew in it.

And he came to the door and she didn't rise to when he initially knocked on the door, put his hands through the lock. And then she finally does get up and then she goes into the city. And what happens is the watchman there, they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my cloak.

And so here we have this same thing, like the bands of the wicked have robbed me. And interestingly, she's not forgotten thy law as the case was, as you see throughout that fifth chapter, you're going to find out that it's a remarkable love story. But like our story, like every great love story, there is some rescue that's needed.

There's always some battle that's afoot. And I wonder if you just think with me for a minute about one of the most beautiful ones in the Bible that finally gave me some clarity as to why this verse was in the Song of Solomon chapter five, which also helps me with this verse being in the marriage section or the head section of the 119 Psalms. So when they were in the Garden of Gethsemane, right, and you might remember Peter, James, and John were asked to pray with Jesus. And so you can't help but see that, wow, you know, this was a case of I slept but my heart was awake.

You might remember he couldn't get them to stay awake. And you might remember that that was where Jesus, you know, had drops of blood in his hair from, you know, he sweat great drops of blood. And so when you read that fifth chapter of the Song of Solomon, note the way it begins like that and see the similarity to Gethsemane and then see that, wow, the next thing you know, he is, or the beloved, the Shumite woman is out there getting her cloak robbed. Well, in the case of Peter, right, those watchmen on the wall found him and they accused him, right, of being with Jesus. And what happened was they took away Peter's cloak.

They really, really did. It's just a picture of it to me that he had a mask he was wearing that I'm going to be for you, Jesus. I've got this together.

I'm going to be the guy who stays by your side. But it was a mask and Peter himself didn't know it until it was stolen. And then all of a sudden he saw where he really stood. Well, the Jews teach that this particular verse and the 61st verse has to do with when David, King David, was robbed by his own son, Absalom, right? And you may know, and it's beautiful if you look in 2 Samuel in the same similar way as King David leaves from being betrayed by his son. Do you know he goes to the Mount of Olives and you want to read something beautiful? Read the third Psalm because King David wrote the third Psalm from the Mount of Olives because where he wanted to go when he was in this position was he wanted to go see. He wanted to see where the Ark of the Covenant was going to be and where at some point in time the Temple Mound would be. And they say from the Mount of Olives, when you look over there to where the Temple Mound is, there's sort of a way that the mountain has a gap in it there because the temple floor needed to be lower because they needed the water pressure to help clean the blood off the floor, the altar, so to speak.

And so there's a really neat dip in the mountain where the temple actually lays in there. And of course King David knew, just based on the Scriptures, that this was going to be where God would actually be and he would be in a position, as he was writing the third Psalm, to do that. But see, as you see, he too was beaten and he was bruised and they took away his cloak, so to speak. I mean, here again he'd been plundered in so many different ways.

His wives were taken away, his whole palace had been taken away. But look what he says, that he has not forgotten thy law. In other words, no matter what happens to us, the story is much bigger than us, right? Jesus went to the cross, you know, and then think about how Jesus restored Peter after the betrayal, right? Jesus said to him, right, Peter, do you love me? You see what happens, you know, as the restoration happens, as we sometimes get our veil taken, we get robbed.

I have a story in my own life where I lost a dealership and really I was robbed in so many different ways. But by not forgetting the law, realizing that God is really up to something, he's up to something beautiful, and all of this will be for our good, right? All things work together for good, for those who love the Lord and walk according to his purpose. So, you know, how cool is it that here we see a scene that in your own life, if you think about it, if you're totally in love with Christ, I guarantee you somewhere in your, just like in the fifth chapter of the Song of Solomon, somewhere you will get beaten, you will get bruised, and they will take away your cloak, okay? You're going to get robbed. But when you do, just remember, this is something that God's working, and we're going to revisit this same verse.

It's going to come back when we get to the yod section. I can hardly wait to share all that with you. But today, just be thinking, oh, my goodness, oh, my goodness. When I look back at those times when I was beaten and bruised and robbed of my cloak, you know, what a thing God was doing to be able to restore me back, right, to Robbie, do you love me?

Or just insert your name, wherever that may be. Thank you so much. Again, in Song of Solomon, chapter 5, that verse 7 is what I've been talking about. Of course, you know, this was the 61st verse of the Het section, the fifth verse of the Het section, the 61st verse of the Psalm. Just absolutely beautiful. So grateful, really am, for your study and love of God's Word that you would do this with me today. God bless.