Psalms 119:77 - Born Again Yud

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Psalm. We get to dig around in verse 77 today in the 119th Psalm and you can't help but note that 77 is a really cool number. And so this is the fifth verse in the yud section with the yud meaning the little, it means a lot, or the hands of God. And of course with it being the first, the fifth verse, excuse me, with it being the fifth verse, it would line up with the anointing of knowledge, which I think you'll see where it does that very nicely. And it again is all connected back to the affliction that he had in, you know, he was talking about in verse 75, in verse 75 that he was afflicted in faithfulness and yesterday we talked about merciful kindness. Today we're going to get to a different kind of mercy, but I hope, you know, as you're looking over all, the number 77 is significant and clearly, you know, the fact that this is the yud, it's going to have to do with the anointing of knowledge when it comes to the hands of God here.

So really, really cool. So this verse reads in English, let thy tender mercies come unto me that I may live for thy law is my delight. And the neat thing, this word tender mercies is significantly different than the merciful kindness, you know, cause you see this word mercy in both verses, you know, the yesterday's verse and today's verse, but this mercy is significantly different than the loving kindness of the merciful kindness, which is hesed. This mercy that we're talking about today, rakam, and it's really, really, really, the tender mercy is a really, really cool word. And I hope you will never forget it like I never forget it because the word itself means womb.

And interestingly, it's a masculine noun. And when, so when you see something in the Bible or somewhere where it says his bowels will move for him, that the idea of mercy is coming from that place, but the word literally is womb. And so that connection, I think you'll see has to do with being born again. And so when thy tender mercies, in other words, when you, when God puts his womb over us, that we may live, right? And then he says, for thy law is my delight.

Again, a picture of when you're quickened, you know, the law is Jesus. And so clearly it is, you know, your delight, and it's all part of the package as you're born again. And so I hope you see the significance of this is like, oh my goodness, the knowledge that the word is God and, you know, and it was with God and all that is, is phenomenally important to the idea of being born again. So here he is in his afflicted and he's talking about now that he wants to be in the womb again, literally, and that he would live and be quickened. Now the cool thing is when you read that verse there, which is again, the knowledge verse of the yud, when you get down to verse 92, which we'll study later on, which is in the Lamed section, which has to do with the heart, it, he makes the connection again to these two concepts, because here's the 92nd verse, which says, unless thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.

So, so you see how he is doing that in, in both situations. So, you know, again, when you do that, you can't help but think, well, where did this happen in your life, Robbie, at some point in time? And I can clearly say, I don't know if you've experienced it where at some point in time, you were being afflicted and you really went to the word of God and it completely quickened you.

In other words, it completely brought you back to that place of being the beloved son of feeling like you're back in God's grace. So, you know, when I have told you before that I had this brain abscess, it happened as probably a result of the lymphoma that I was struggling with. And, and they did a brain biopsy. And when they did that, it got a staph infection and that staph infection went through my brain.

And it's true. I nearly died from that. And, you know, when I talked about a few episodes ago, when I was told that they, you know, at this particular, um, antibiotic didn't work that, you know, you wouldn't see tomorrow. Well, that experience had gone on for some time and this infection that was spreading in my brain, you know, I was deep in the word of God. And so it was really, really cool to me that that Bible that I was using at that time, I had a red marker when I was in the hospital. So the Psalms and the things that I was studying as I was clearly in this position of affliction, you know, I highlighted in red or, you know, we'll have red markings all over them.

Well, if you want to see something from me, it's really, really cool. The 38th Psalm, King David refers to it as a remembrance or as a car, which has to do, you might remember, we did the whole Zion section and you might remember that throughout the Zion section, he kept on saying, you know, remember thy word unto thy servant and, and remember, remember, and, and remember, remember, and not unlike the thief on the cross, remember me when you go into your kingdom. Well, the 38th Psalm is a remembrance, that same idea of the car, the same idea that Jesus was using when he gave us the last supper. He said, remember, you know, do this in remembrance of me.

It's, it's a car. And it's really, really a beautiful thing that I did not know that at the time that I was afflicted. You know, this was years and years ago. It was 19. No, it was 2000.

And it was the year 2000. And so, you know, I didn't know Hebrew at that point, nor did I have a clue other than I knew that this Psalm was very dear because it talked about his wounds festering and him being far from God and all these kinds of things. And so when we look back at this one, you know, during those times when I was under deep affliction, and if you look at the end of that Psalm, you know, David says, be not far from me. And I remember how precious that is to have this remembrance that God is with you in these afflictions. And so many times it will show up where you'll get these God hugs. But in this case, the tender mercies is literally being in his womb, which is surrounded by water, which is the way that word ends.

It ends in a mem, and we're going to do a whole study on the mem later on. But the cool thing is the water is in the womb, right? And when you look at the word mercy that is used in this particular verse, this mercy has everything to do with that raham, which that raham, that mem sound at the end is the water that we all get to enjoy as we get to be born again. So thank you for studying this again. This is someplace where I could just spend a lot of time on the 77th verse. Again, the idea of being is, it's interesting how knowledge in this idea quickens us into an understanding of Zechar, that he's right there with us. Thanks for listening.