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Life in the LORD
(Psalm 15)
Text: Psalm 16
Michtam means a poem.
David trusts the LORD because the LORD is life. Paraphrasing Matthew Henry here: David speaks of himself as a member of Christ, meaning he has the spirit of Christ in him. So he speaks the language of Christianity by professing his confidence in the LORD, his consent to him, his affection for the people of God, his adherence to the true worship of the LORD, and his entire satisfaction in the LORD.
David says in this psalm what all the apostles said and the New Testament writers wrote about Jesus Christ. These attributes of life David ascribes to the God of Israel will be applied to Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
Victorious life (vss 1-3)
- David understands the LORD is life
- Life, eternal life, is associated with trusting the LORD
- The way David trusts the LORD is not by adding goodness to the LORD, but by adding goodness to the lives of God’s people.
Hopeful life (vss 4-6)
- God has no corrupting influences in Him and therefore is eternal.
- The LORD is able to exist generation after generation and can promise hope in the future where man cannot promise anything beyond his own life.
Redeemed life (vss 7-11)
- I will bless the LORD for His good counsel
- I have set the LORD before me, my affections are on Him.
- I am established on the rock of my salvation.
- I have rest to my soul because of the LORD (Jesus said this).
- This is one of those places where hell was translated by the King James translators, but it’s not talking about David going into a place of everlasting fire. David is talking about a grave where his body rots, not a place of eternal torment. David is comparing his death and the corruption of his body in contrast with Christ, God’s Holy One.
- Peter explained this in Acts 2:27-31.
- Paul explained the very same understanding in Acts 13:35-38.
