“FEAR GOD AND BE BLESSED”SUMMER IN THE PSALMS –

PSALM 128August 31, 2014

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I. To Fear God Is a Blessing Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

That word blessed is translated from Hebrew and means “happy well-being.”

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II. The Blessing of Contentment in Fruitful Labor

“You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.” (V2)

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III. The Blessing of a Fruitful Wife and Family 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table .4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.” (V.3-4)

A woman`s contribution was to provide an atmosphere of joy within the heat and hardships of life… a source of refreshment, shelter, shade.

 

IV. The Proclaimed Blessing of Peace and Prosperity

5 “The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!6 May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel! (V. 5-6)

When God's people individually live a life that fears Him, He also blesses them corporately.

22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 25 and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Rev 21:22-