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Psalms

Chapter 138
1^^{Title} A Psalm of David.
~~I will be caused to praise
  {yadah - verb of praise; Judah is the related noun}
You with my whole 'right lobe'/heart {leb} . . .
In the presence of the 'Elohiym/Godhead,
I will compose a song to Him
  {referring to the Manifest Member of the Godhead - Jesus Christ}.

{Note: In I Samuel 23:29, David has been delivered by God from certain death and fled to the caves of Engedi. RBT says this is where David is when he thinks these things, which he later records.}

{Note: David is spontaneously praising God for his deliverance from the army of Saul.}

2~~I {David} myself will choose to worship
  {worship is the thinking and expression of Category I love for God -
  the most basic and important function of worship is getting to
  know God - intake and application of divine viewpoint - bible
  doctrine}.
toward the Palace of Your Holiness
  {qodesh heykal - means toward heaven}.
And I will 'praise Your Essence'/'celebrate Your Person'
  {only a SuperGrace believer has the knowledge to truly do this -
  how? Answer follows:}
because of Your grace {checed},
because of Your doctrine {'emeth},
and because You have magnified
Your 'doctrinal teaching'/'doctrine taught categorically'/word {'imrah}
over Your Essense/Reputation/Name.

{Note: David it seeing 'his Greater Son', Jesus, meet the temptations of the Devil in Matt 4:3 by using Bible Doctrine -- and Magnifying His word - Bible Doctrine - above His 'human person'.}

{Note: 'Imrah is a special Hebrew word meaning not only doctrine taught, but it emphasizes 'doctrine taught, concentrated on, transferred to the right lobe, and that which can be applied to experience - divine viewpoint stored categorically in your soul.}

{Note: What does this mean 'You have magnified Your doctrine above Your Name/Essence?' It means that doctrine is magnified because it is through doctrine that creatures can come to understand anything about the Essence of God.}

3^~In the day when I {David} prayed
You answered me
  {see I Samuel 23 - Saul had David trapped when all of a sudden
  the Philistines invaded and Saul had to turn to fight them},
and kept on causing me to be strengthened
in my soul.

4^^All the kings of the earth shall praise You,
O Jehovah/God,
when they 'hear, concentrate on, and obey' {shama'}
the doctrine/words {'emer}
of Your mouth.

5~~Yes, they shall sing
of the Ways of Jehovah/God.
For great is the glory {kabowd}
of Jehovah/God.

6~~Though Jehovah/God is infinitely superior/high
  {means that God is beyond man in every way in superiority},
yet He looks {ra'ah} unto the humble/'SuperGrace Believer' {shaphal}
  {God looks down and sees all of us as the jerks we are,
  but He helps anyone based on Who and What HE is}.
But the proud/reversionist {gaboahh}
He keeps on knowing {yada'} from a distance.

{Note: Shaphal means to be humble. But this is not some outwardly 'religious' piety here. This means someone who understands all that God IS and can make the comparison with himself and see just how much of a nothing he is when compared with God. This knowledge only comes with doctrine in the soul. So, it is used for the mature believer.}

{Note: Gaboahh means to be proud. It is used in contrast to shaphal - the humble. This person does not have divine viewpoint in his life - no doctrine. In his human viewpoint, he is proud of his own great characteristics - maybe a good personality, handsome/beautiful, star athlete, movie star on and on. This person does not understand that all that they are that has intrinsic value was given to them from the source of God. So, knowingly or unknowingly, they reject God and are negative to the intake of His Word.}

{Note: As you take in more and more doctrine from your right pastor teacher (this spiritual gift is still active in the Church Age), you replace human viewpoint with divine viewpoint and therefore 'think' closer to what God thinks. If you have no divine viewpoint in your soul (maybe you emotionally 'think you love the Lord even'), then God still knows you (Omniscience), but you do not know His thinking at all - so you are far away from Him. This verse also has a double meaning. It is also a reference to God knowing Saul even though at this point Saul is far from David and Saul is far from God in his reversionism.}

7~~Though 'I walk in the middle of trouble'/
'my way of life is in the middle of pressures'
  {here Saul is constantly pursuing David trying to kill him},
You will refresh me
  {David in the caves will have a month or so of Rest and
  Relaxation}.
You shall stretch forth Your hand
against the wrath of my enemies
  {Saul hates David and wants to kill him},
and Your right hand {idiom of the hand of great strength}
shall deliver me.

8~~Jehovah/God will keep on completing/
'fulfilling beyond your wildest dreams' {gamar}
that which concerns me.
Your grace, O Jehovah/God, endures forever.
You will not forsake the work of Your own hands.

{Note: David knows that this is not the end for him. God has promised him the rulership of Judea. So, he understands that God will bring it to fruition in His own time.}