Psalms 131-135, Chuck Smith teaching (C3000, 1985 to 1999)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Psalm 131

Read the opening of his teaching

Let’s turn to psalm one hundred and thirty-one as we begin our study tonight and we will be going through psalm one hundred and thirty-five.

We are still in what are known as the psalms of ascents, those songs that were traditionally sung by the pilgrims as they came to Jerusalem for the holy feast days to worship the Lord. Thus the worship of God, the temple of God, Jerusalem is always more or less the center of the psalms. They are focusing in on the worship of God in Jerusalem at the temple or during the feast days so that becomes the focus of these psalms. David, that king who inspired so many of the songs and wrote so many of these songs, comes into play in the singing of these songs also. Psalm one hundred and thirty-one happens to be one of those psalms of David.