The book of Psalms served as Israel’s songbook. The apostle Paul, in his letters to the Ephesians and Colossians, wrote of the importance and use of the psalms in our worship. It is also a part of the rule of faith and practice in the church today. The psalms are God’s inspired hymnbook. Paul’s admonition to the church concerning the psalms is to teach and admonish one another in psalms. The book of Psalms in the Hebrew text is called Book of Praises. The Greek word psalmoi means “songs sung with musical instruments.” The psalms are sacred music at its best. They reveal much about their writers, the times, the people, and above all, the glories of Jehovah and the coming Messiah. It is generally believed that Ezra gathered these 150 psalms together into one book during the fifth century before Christ. The actual dates of their writing cover a period of almost 1000 years. David is often referred to as the psalmist, having written 73 of the psalms. Forty-six are anonymous as to the human writer. Various writers including Moses, Asaph, Solomon, Heman, and the sons of Korah wrote the remaining 31. The book of Psalms has long been a favorite among the Lord’s people. The writers of the New Testament made 283 direct quotes from the Old Testament and 116 of these are from the Psalms. The Psalms are an excellent source book for the saints of God. There seems to be a related song for every situation we may face in everyday life. The Messianic Psalms span the years of time from the birth of the Messiah, His earthly ministry, and His glorious return at the second coming. May the Lord richly bless the reader as they prayerfully study this wonderful portion of God’s Word.

The book of Psalms is a treasure trove of teaching about Jesus Christ. While the church has traditionally recognized only about fifteen psalms as “messianic,” anticipating God’s promised Messiah, the issue is how Christians should understand the other 135 psalms of the Hebrew Psalter. Psalms of Christ applies the New Testament conviction that the whole book of Psalms speaks prophetically about Christ to select “non-messianic” psalms. Following the New Testament as the guide for how to read the Old in light of the gospel, Psalms of Christ proposes fresh readings of so-called non-messianic psalms by illustrating their christological character, and exploring how they testify to the gospel by evoking Jesus’s person, purpose, and passion.

The name Messianic has been given to those psalms that include one or more verses quoted in the New Testament as direct references to Christ. (Both Messiah in Hebrew and Christ in Greek mean "the Anointed One"). One writer has listed the Messianics this way: 2 The glory of the Son 40 The Incarnation 91 The Temptation 41 Betrayal 22 The Crucifixion 69 The guilt offering 16 The Resurrection 68 The Ascension 45 The King-Husband 24 The King of Glory 110 The Priest-King-Judge 8 The Last Adam 72 The Millennial Kingdom 89 The Covenant with David 102 The One Who Doesn't Change 118 The Angle Head The same writer warns: "We must be careful to distinguish between the spiritual experience of the psalm writer and the prophetic reference that he makes to Christ. Psalm 69 is an example. When David exclaims, "God, you know my folly, and my sins are not hidden from you," it is evident that he is referring to himself. But when he says, "They also gave me gall for food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink," it is clear that the words are messianic. The New Testament uses them in Matthew 27:34, 48. So we have to carefully distinguish between the spiritual experience of the psalm writer and the prophetic reference to Christ himself. https: //amzn.to/2Xdtq2m

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By exploring how Martin Luther, Martin Bucer, and John Calvin interpreted a set of eight messianic psalms (Psalms 2, 8, 16, 22, 45, 72, 110, 188), Sujin Pak elucidates key debates about Christological exegesis during the era of the Protestant reformation. More particularly, Pak examines the exegeses of Luther, Bucer, and Calvin in order to (a) reveal their particular theological emphases and reading strategies, (b) identify their debates over the use of Jewish exegesis and the factors leading to charges of 'judaizing' leveled against Calvin, and (c) demonstrate how Psalms reading and the accusation of judaizing serve distinctive purposes of confessional identity formation. In this way, she portrays the beginnings of those distinctive trends that separated Lutheran and Reformed exegetical principles.

Many Christians today have only a very limited knowledge of the Psalms and are oblivious to the relevance and significance this portion of scripture has, both to the New Testament and to their lives in the 21st century. This book will help pastors, seminary students, lay leaders, and Christians in personal study, to understand how the Psalms relate to Christ so they will be better equipped to preach and teach the psalms. --from publisher description.