(Psalm 1)
- In Hebrew poetry, parallel & contrast is often used for emphasis. To contrast v1, you'd expect something like "Blessed is the man who walks in the counsel of the godly, who stand in the way of the godly", etc. But this pattern is deliberately broken to highlight that there is only one thing needed to contrast the wicked - someone who delights in the law.
- This is the one thing that distinguishes a righteous man from an unrighteous man. Thus this is the one thing that hte world needs fundamentally.
- v3 in contrast with v4b - a vibrant and fruitful tree and dry and lifeless chaff.
- We usually feel that we fall in between one of these two extremes, but the Bible tells us that there's no middle ground!
- As Christians, we cannot go on sinning (1John 3:9), but fortunately, when we do "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (1John 1:9) because "we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ (1John 2:1b).
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