947 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 3 Book 79 - Part 5 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick Lesson 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 79 PART 5 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES - PART 3 Psalms 68, 69, and 72 Okay, once again it’s good to have you all back from break. For those of you out in television, remember we’re producing four programs in a row, and we always take a coffee break in between. So this is the beginning of program number three for the afternoon. For those of you who have been listening, we again want to thank you for your prayer support, your financial support, and for your mail. Oh, how we enjoy our letters. Rarely, rarely, do we get a letter that we’d just as soon never have seen. It does happen but not very often. We’re going to continue now in our study in the Psalms. We are finishing up with our book number 79. We still have our Question and Answer Book available. And for those of you who have heard about it but have never got one, it’s still available if you just call or write the ministry. We send them out postage paid and everything for just eleven bucks. I’ve said I’m not going to put prices on the air, because then if something happens and these programs come out three or four years from now, I’ll wish I wouldn’t have said anything. But we’ve had them now for several years at $11, and we hope we can continue to do that. Many say it’s most helpful in answering questions you may have about the Bible. We’re a Bible study, and we’re going to go right back at that. We’re going to move into the next Messianic Psalm, and that is 69. The next one after 69 is 72. And remember what I said earlier—a Messianic Psalm is where the writer of the Psalm (usually David) prophecies and so much of it is tied to our New Testament and Christ’s earthly ministry and so forth. Now this particular Psalm 69 is definitely going back to His pre-crucifixion suffering. How He suffered at the hands of His covenant people Israel. So the language, again, is as if—like we had in earlier Psalms—as though the Lord Himself is saying it, but it’s through the pen of David by inspiration. So when it says in the first verse, “Save me, O God;” it’s coming from the lips of the Lord Jesus. It’s in His pre-crucifixion suffering and anxiety. Psalms 69:1-2a “Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2. I sink in deep mire,…” Now you’ve got to constantly remember His agony in the Garden and leading up to His suffering of the cross itself. All these are references to that whole event. Psalms 69:2 “I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.” In other words, all of the ramifications of that work of the cross are just flowing over Him. Psalms 69:3-4a “I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. (Now that’s all evident again from His suffering on the cross itself.) 4. They that hate me without a cause (There’s no reason for them to hate Him so. But they did.) are more than the hairs of mine head: (That is in number.) they that would destroy me,…” Now remember, what did they cry out? Crucify Him. Away with Him. Let’s go back and look at John chapter 15, which is exactly a quote from this very Psalm. John chapter 15 verse 25 and, again, I’m doing this to show the meticulousness and the intricacy of Scripture. Now I’m just reminded. Somebody sent us in the mail the other day a special publication by one of our major news magazines. I won’t name it. I don’t want to get in trouble But it was garbage from cover-to-cover. And it was supposedly showing people how to read their Bible. Why, I wrote back to the lady. I said, “How in the world could you even spend five minutes reading garbage? It’s written by atheists, or at least people who have absolutely no respect for the Word of God.” I mean they just chewed it up and spit it out. The Apostle Paul was worse than an infidel. He was worse than the worst of criminals. And that’s the impression that they put on people who read that stuff. Well, I want to confront that kind of thing with the perfectness of our Bible. It is not something to be chewed up and spit out! It is not something to be ridiculed and scorned and laughed at as though it was written by a bunch of rogues! This is the inspired Word of God, and here it proves it. What David wrote back in the Psalms came from the lips of the Lord Jesus Himself. Now, John’s Gospel chapter 15 verse 25, and it’s in red if you’ve got a red-letter edition. John 15:25 “But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.” Now remember, the Psalms are all part of the Old Testament record, so it is part of the Law. This is the exact wording from the Psalms. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible