Hidden Treasures of Psalms 119: Verse 13: Having God In Your House

The treasurers of the hundred and 19 so we are going on a treasure hunt and the gold we are seeking in this treasure hunt is actually the phrase of God like join us taking this dive mining with David in the hundred and 90 and it it's a change in concepts and it's really a beautiful thing. The more I studied it.

The verse reads with my lips I have declared all the judgments of thy mouth, and clearly King David here, or the psalmist is honing in on the Hebrew letter, pay or pay as you might hear it said sometimes and ask them to put a link of that letter because it's so intricate into this verse. At the show notes which amuse show you it's one of the videos that I use that I study on the Hebrew letters is absolutely beautiful study. It's about seven or eight minutes to watch and is only worth every second of it. If you love Hebrew, or if you like what you know what we've been doing on this Psalm at that letter, pay is like God's mouth itself and so it's interesting that the psalmist used that letter in every word in this verse, with the exception of the word all you when he said I declared all your judgments so that word is also letter pay fascinatingly when you look at the letter itself inside of the letter is a bet. And as you know we've been building this house here in this particular section right. The second, eight, versus all have to do with the letter bet and they all start with that letter. But interestingly, I just beautifully inside of the letter pay which will see in the video on the show you is this, that and the reason that you know the Jews teach that that is is you may recall that the Torah itself or the Bible itself starts with a bet and the idea is God was looking for a house in place to hang out with his friends and all that kind of stuff when he created the earth, so in the beginning that starts with a bet because he was looking to build a house while he is he did that he spoke everything into existence. And so there's a huge connection between the letter bet it has to do with house and the fact that God speaks and so in the word misfit you know is the word judgments that we've used here is it is a type of commandments you know we we pulls one load of words that we did in the 10 word PDF. But in this word mitzvah that Ms. spot that has that that pay in the middle of it because these are the kind of judgments that would be the easier judgments to follow the ones like, don't kill your neighbor. Don't steal from them, and those kind of things but is in it in a way that's even deeper than that. Because it's any word really that comes from God's mouth. And so, as his mouth clearly you know made the world and it made goodness because in the case of judgments here.

It's almost like the mouth is going to bring goodness and so you think about Jesus's ability to judge something. What is always looking for is the good in something right you get to discard the bad but your hunting for what's good and and that's what judgment kind of extracts to in this particular situation. And so what the psalmist is saying is here in order to build this house, I'm going to need God's mouth and I'm in need. His judgments, and so since he's saying he's uttered those with his own lips. I mean this is a way any time that you speak. Interestingly, it rings you in the present time right and so being here present with God and in fact the letter presence of God starts with that same letter and so in order to speak. You have to be present, be present to speak or to win, as the case may be, so I know this is somewhat difficult to explain the whole concept comes to comes together here in the King David is saying essentially is with you here with me.

God then I'll know how to decide what's good, what's bad. In other words inside this house is on building these structures as I'm deciding on the cornerstone, etc. etc. you know I need you and I need your words and I need your judgment and I need you to show me what's good because that's all part of what what would build a good house and so is he says with my lips. You know, I have declared the judgments of your mouth.

In other words, he sharing with you how precious it is that God spoke all these things in and so now he's going to build his house. We do with our mouth. To some extent, and of course James does a great job explaining how critical it is that the Lord control our mouth because they can build a house, but they can sure in the world tear one down back at him sure if you're married any length of time you're with me on this one.

I mean, you can say something so quickly that will just totally tear apart your house. It's unbelievable. So in order that be in present time with God helping you find the good and the good thing to say. In any given situation is going to build your house and so understanding this letter pay at our pay in understanding its relationship to the vet is what the psalmist is getting at here is that if were going to really build good houses were given need good speech and good speech builds up, it doesn't tear down and so you know how Paul teaches us throughout so many of the epistles.

The same basic idea is that when our mouth is God and find the things good and in doing so build that foundation being here. Psalm 119