Psalm 15

Psalm 15
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• 15 A PSALM OF DAVID. The situation here deals w/ the time when David brought the ark of the covenant back from Kirjath-jearim.(1 Sam 7) You see, the ark had been captured by the Philistines & placed in their temple to Dagon. Ultimately, the ark made it's way back to Israel & was kept at Kirjath-jearim for a season until David brought it back to his capital city, Jerusalem.
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• 1 O Lord, uwho shall sojourn in your vtent?
• Who shall dwell on your wholy hill? As the ark is being transferred, David asks,"Lord, who can come into Your prsence?"
• 2 He who xwalks blamelessly and ydoes what is right
• and zspeaks truth in his heart;
• 3 who adoes not slander with his tongue
• and does no evil to his neighbor,
• nor btakes up a reproach against his friend; The Hebrew word(5375 נָשָׂא [nasa’, nacah /naw•saw/]) literally means "receive". In other words, a righteous man is one who doesn't listen to gossip. If I give ear to gossip, I'm just as guilty as the one who speaks it.
• 4 c in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
• but who honors those who fear the LORD;
• who dswears to his own hurt and does not change; The righteious man honors those who are in awe of God. He gives his word & is a man of integrity.
• 5 who edoes not put out his money at interest
• and fdoes not take a bribe against the innocent.
• He who does these things shall never be gmoved. In this short psalm, David has boiled the six hundred thirteen OT commandments down to a list of eleven. Later on, Micah will reduce the list to three: to do justly, to love mercy, & and to walk humbly w/ God(6;8). But when Jesus comes on the scene, He'll make it simpler still, for, when asked which is the greatest commandment, He said, 37 And he said to him, g “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And ha second is like it: iYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 jOn these two commandments depend kall the Law and the Prophets.”
• Jesus boils it all down to one: love. Love God w/ all your heart, soul, mind, & strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love God above you in heaven. Love people around you on earth. This forms the shape of a cross upon which hang all the law & the prophets.