The Blessed Man | Sermon 10/31/2021

Psalm 1 is the gateway to all the 150 psalms revealing what ought to be our hearts through not just the rest of the psalms but through all of God’s Word.

The blessed man does not walk, stand, sit or do anything in conflict with God’s precepts and prescribed way of life. He doesn’t refrain from these wicked ways then finds his delight in the law of the Lord but it is because he finds his delight in God and His word that the external follows the internal desire.

For this reason, he is like a tree whose root is in the Lord, receiving streams of water from God’s Word, and in turn bearing fruit of good deeds because of the received nourishment. His prosperity comes from Christ and that keeps the blessed man’s leaf from withering or becoming life the chaff, who is the wicked.

The wicked will not be able to stand in the judgment but collapse under the weight of their own sin and condemnation. The Lord has consecrated the righteous by Christ’s blood to be able to stand firm in that day because their only hope is in Jesus, the perfect “blessed man.”