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“ Choose your friends wisely! ” Unofficial brief ¶ Psalm 1 lays the theme for the whole book of Psalms and even of Proverbs. It contrasts the child of God to the one who isn't. Happinesses are the lot of the children of God. This isn't superficial happiness. This is contrasted with the miserable end of the wicked. Wicked, scoffers, and sinners are all the same people. ¶ Parallelism is an important part of Jewish poetry, as can be seen in ¶¶Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night. 3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season,whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. ¶ 4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.¶¶ We are to live in the World but not of the world. We are to be shaped by what God says, not what the World wants. A man who has happiness within has not joined the World's pattern of life.
In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...
