The Bible Project - Acts Ch. 21-28, Live Stream


The Bible Project - Acts Ch. 21-28, Live 


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Psalm 87:1–7


Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.


1 He has founded his city on the holy mountain.
2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion
   more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.


3 Glorious things are said of you,
   city of God:
4 “I will record Rahab and Babylon
   among those who acknowledge me—
  Philistia too, and Tyre , along with Cush—
   and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
   “This one and that one were born in her,
   and the Most High himself will establish her.”
6 The LORD will write in the register of the peoples:
   “This one was born in Zion.”


7 As they make music they will sing,
   “All my fountains are in you.”


Commentary


New song


This is a psalm of praise. It is hard to understand and has been described as one of the most problematic in the whole Psalter. It is written in the language of poetry.


The psalmist concludes by anticipating the future: ‘As they make music they will sing, “All my fountains are in you.”’ (v.7). This picture of overflowing water is an image of abundant life which the Holy Spirit brings.


However, Jesus says that all this was fulfilled not in a place (Zion) but in a person (John 7:37 onwards). Out of his innermost being flowed rivers of living water, the living water comes from the Holy Spirit which you have now received (John 7:39). We can now sing a new song of worship to the Lord, saying of him, ‘All my fountains are in you.’


Prayer


Lord, may your streams of living water of the Holy Spirit, flow into me and out of me today.



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