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Psalm One Hundred Twenty-Eight

1. Psalm 128 is a Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims as they made their way to Jerusalem for the required feasts (Ps. 120-134). This psalm links zoe-life faithfulness with bios-life family blessings.
2. The Christian Way of Life is a life of Divine blessings (Ps. 128:1).
3. The spiritually minded believer is content with what the Lord provides (Ps. 128:2).
4. Although the spiritually minded believer may experience temporal-life adversity, his family will be to him the vine and olive plants he otherwise does not have (Ps. 128:3).
5. The temporal-life blessings of family prosperity are provided for generations to pass along the truth of God’s Word (Ps. 128:5-6).

Psalm One Hundred Twenty-Nine

1. Psalm 129 is a Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims as they made their way to Jerusalem for the required feasts (Ps. 120-134).
2. Believers who are walking with the Lord are persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed (Ps. 129:1-2; 2nd Cor. 4:9).
3. The glory of Zion will be the time when those who hated her will be done away with, in the eschatological theocratic kingdom of the Lord (Ps. 129:5-8).

Psalm One Hundred Thirty

1. Psalm 130 is a Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims as they made their way to Jerusalem for the required feasts (Ps. 120-134).
2. Psalm 130 is a penitential psalm, expressing a believer’s confession & need for forgiveness (Ps. 6,32,38,51,102,130,143).
3. The psalmist acknowledges his sin, and rejoices that the Lord does not (Ps. 130:3-4).
4. Ps. 130:7 is possibly the very verse which enabled Jeremiah to endure his afflictions (Lam. 3:21).

Psalm One Hundred Thirty-Two

1. Psalm 132 is a Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims as they made their way to Jerusalem for the required feasts (Ps. 120-134).
2. Church Age believers need to understand that God is not a liar.  He made promises to David, and He will fulfill those promises to David (Ps. 132:1-12).
3. God’s faithfulness towards David will ultimately be fulfilled by the Son of David, the Lord Jesus Christ (Ps. 132:13-18).

Psalm One Hundred Thirty-Four

1. Psalm 134 is a Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims as they made their way to Jerusalem for the required feasts (Ps. 120-134).
2. Psalm 134 is the Psalm of the Night-shift workers, whose often unappreciated work will be blessed by the Lord.

Psalm One Hundred Thirty-Five

1. Psalm 135 is a Hallelujah psalm (Ps. 104-106; 111-113; 115-117; 135; 146-150).  הַלְלוּ יָהּ.
2. Psalm 135 establishes principles for believers to praise and bless the name of the Lord (Ps. 135:1-4).
   1. A priesthood that is chosen by grace (v.2).
   2. A people that are chosen by grace (v.4).
3. The Lord is as worthy of praise as His Sovereignty is unchallenged (Ps. 135:5-7).
4. The believer who praises the Lord gives the Lord appropriate recognition for what He has done (Ps. 135:8-14).
5. The believer who praises the Lord ascribes appropriate recognition to the emptiness of idolatry (Ps. 135:15-18; cf. 115:4-8).