1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the [a]ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he [b]meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the [c]rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- Blessed means supremely happy or fulfilled. In fact, in Hebrew the word is actually a plural, which denotes either a multiplicity of blessings or an intensification of them.”
- It is not ‘Blessed is the king, blessed is the scholar, blessed is the rich,’ but, ‘Blessed is the man.’ This blessedness is as attainable by the poor, the forgotten and the obscure, as by those whose names figure in history, and are trumpeted by fame.
Walks not…nor stands…nor sits:
- The blessed man does not do certain things. There is a way he will not walk, a path he will not stand in, and a seat he will not sit in.
Walks not in the counsel of the ungodly:
- The ungodly have
counsel, and the righteous man will not walk in it. With all the advice that comes to us, from so many different sources, the righteous man knows how to stay away from the
counsel of the ungodly.
i) First, it means the righteous man knows how to discern the counsel of the ungodly.
ii) The righteous man is also discerning enough to know the counsel of the ungodly can come from one’s own self. Our own conscience, our own mind, our own heart, can give us ungodly counsel.
iii) The righteous man knows where to find completely godly counsel:
Nor stands in the path of sinners:
- Sinners have a
path where they stand, and the righteous man knows he does not belong on that path.
Path speaks of a way, a road, a direction – and the righteous man is not traveling in the same direction as sinners.
i) The righteous man is not afraid to take a less-traveled road, because he knows it leads to blessing, happiness, and eternal life.
ii) The righteous can have the confidence of Psalm 16:11:
His delight is in the law of the LORD:
i) What makes you happy? What gets you excited? This is a good way to see what is important to you. If personal pleasure is the only thing that makes you happy, then you are a selfish, self-centered person. If being with your family or friends delights you, that can be better, but it still falls short. The righteous man finds his delight…in the law of the LORD.
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UNDERSTANDING OF THE SERMON "BLESSED IS THE MAN (PSALM 1:1)"
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