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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Psalms. Now this is the largest book in the
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- Bible and yet it actually is one that's not really a book. It's actually five books, did you know that?
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- The book of Psalms has five divisions to it and it is really the, say, the hymnal of the
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- Old Testament. The majority of these were written by David, followed up by someone named
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- Anonymous? Yes, well, we don't know who wrote many of the Psalms, but others did write.
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- We know that David wrote many of them, but some of them were written by Moses, Solomon, others,
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- Asaph, and what you end up seeing is that much of our theology that we get is written in the
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- Psalms. Why? Well, if you think about it, if you're in a culture where people don't read and write, the best way to teach theology is by song because that's something that people are going to remember.
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- They're going to end up repeating it over and over again and in doing so they will end up having their theology known.
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- There's 150 Psalms, they're all separate from one another, they're independent Psalms, and they were sung by themselves.
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- This is something that you end up seeing in the book of Psalms, that they were designed for the purpose of helping people know
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- God through song. Now, there are some churches that only sing Psalms today, you could decide whether that's right or wrong, but we should be looking at the
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- Psalms to learn our theology. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
