Message Notes

(I) BLESSINGS OF GOD

General blessings

a) Creation

b) Sustenance of life

Special blessings

a) Associated with God’s covenant

b) Associated with God’s covenant people

i) Old Covenant

ii) New Covenant

c) Associated with the keeping of God’s precepts

(II) BLESSING AND CURSING

Part and parcel of the Old Covenant between God and Israel

Particularly captured in the Book of Deuteronomy

Blessings and Curses were presented alongside each other (Deuteronomy 27-28)

(III) SIGNIFICANT COMMENTARY

Significant commentary of blessings associated with the keeping of God’s laws

Features of Psalm 119

22 stanzas

Acrostic pattern

First word of each stanza is in correspondence with the Hebrew alphabet

Main theme of Psalm 119: The Word of God

(IV) COMMENCEMENT OF PSALM 119

God’s commandment to keep His law diligently (Psalm 119:4)

Promise of blessing

a) Undefiled

b) Walking in the law of the Lord

c) Keeping His testimonies

d) They do no iniquity

Prayer

a) To be able to keep God’s law

b) To learn about God’s righteous judgments

c) For God’s mercy- (not to forsake him when he fails to diligently keep the law)