Hidden Treasures of the 119th Psalm. Okay, we are lovin', diggin' into the hay section of the 119th Psalm. Specifically today, we get to dig in to verse 34. And this hay section, as we talked about, the letter hay is not unlike universal in any language.
If you say hay, it's somebody trying to express themselves. And that's what the letter means in Hebrew. And so here, King David is asking God to express some things.
So beautifully. And he's so direct in it when you see as these verses unfold in this section, the hay section, which we're going to get to verse 34 now, which says, Give me understanding, and I will keep thy law. Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. And oh my goodness, is this a real nugget in that understanding and heart have so much to do with one another, which has so much to do with almost always, you'll note in the 119th Psalm that the second verse is not unlike the second anointing of the Holy Spirit from Isaiah 11. So the first anointing is wisdom. Second anointing is understanding. And so understanding fits with the heart. Because you'll notice how many verses have to do with either understanding or they have to do with the heart that are the second verse of each section. And the reason for that is part of the beauty of understanding the verse, because God obviously expressing so that we can understand something. But the word Bina in Hebrew is understanding. Okay. And Bina starts with a ba ba bet, like we're talking about, which means house.
We did that section. We came to understand that a bet means house and you're going to build your house on a good foundation. Well, your house is where you live, so to speak. So if your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, essentially, you know, where is the holy of holies?
It's your house. And that would be your heart. And so so often you'll see that the second verse in each section has to do with your heart. Because when you understand something, it lives there, you know, because when we understand something, all of a sudden, then we can start to keep these things, treasure them in our hearts. And so King David here is asking for the understanding of the Torah.
And if once I can get that, then I can observe it with my whole heart. So, you know, it's a beautiful thing is it literally is he he is saying again, every verse is going to start with his hey is expressed to me. Beena, understanding of the Torah. And this is essentially Torah means Jesus. I mean, the word is Jesus.
And so how how wonderful is that? It's almost like saying, put Jesus in my heart. And if Jesus is in my heart, then guess what you get to do?
Keep the law. You're right. If Jesus is in there. Right. You've accepted him as your savior and you get covered in the blood. Well, then good news. You are now able to not only keep the law, you could keep it with your whole heart, because that is the deal.
That is the deal. You get the anointing of the second anointing of Christ, which is understanding. It's absolutely all coming together here in this hay section of this psalm. So verse thirty four, when you look at it in the hay section, you can go, oh, my goodness, if I could understand.
Right. These verses like this verse itself and the light comes on. Then I get to see Jesus in each verse because it actually he's in every single letter. And so in this hay itself, understanding that God spoke. Everything into existence and as he speaks into our lives, then obviously he speaks our life into existence. And, you know, the beautiful thing, you know, about the Bible or the Torah, as the case may be, is here you have sixty six books. And who knows how many chapters and how many words and how many letters are all Jesus?
Every single one of them. And as you understand them, you see, then they are making their enlarging your heart. As we talked about at the end, the verse at the end of the Dalit section that do run, run, run. Where I talked about my life being touched like when my heart is enlarged.
Right. But with smitten by God, then all of a sudden I can fall more and more and more in love with who? God and more and more and more in love with my neighbor. These say a lot of times for me, I get so hung up in the other six hundred and thirteen commandments. That's the forest that I missed the trees, which are clearly just love the Lord, that God with all the heart, with all their might, with all the strength. Mioed is the word in Hebrew wholeheartedly. And then to love your neighbor as a wholeheartedly.
Right. And as I get smitten by God, then I'm able right to to to be smitten for my neighbor because I want them to to enjoy all that that God has for them. I want them to receive the understanding of the Torah. I want them to be able to keep it with their whole heart.
I want their children to be able to do that because I mean, it wouldn't it be just that much more beautiful of a world. And so as we look at this verse, there's so much here that just for me to ponder it, I could just see, obviously, like so many other verses, Jesus is all over this verse in so many different ways. So I can't recommend enough the joy of really studying the anointing of Isaiah 11 and thinking deeply about what those mean and what King David is getting at and trying to anoint us this way through this psalm, which is clearly, you know, they consider this spiritual warfare. It's absolutely a wonderful psalm to pray these things daily, in my opinion. So once again, thank you for digging with me today in the 119th Psalm.
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