Jesus in the House of David: The Psalms Through a New Covenant/New Testament Lens

By Don C. Vinyard

You hold in your hands what we might call THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. In primal, tribal language that mirrors the picture language of Hebrew we have the forgiveness and grace of the New Testament, the New Covenant written with the very blood of the God/Man, Jesus, our Lord, our Savior; the only begotten Son of God our Father.

This document innately trains the heart and soul to take dominion over our own flesh, over powers and principalities and over the subtle influences of the world system to step into the excellence of the Kingdom Of God and of His Christ. It recognizes the anointing of 1John 2:20 and 27 that lives within those who believe and teaches us all things. It honors the Holy Spirit and the Body of Christ, while training the soul in the language of love of God and love of people.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449733933

Don C. Vinyard

Since being born again in 1981, three notable things rose to the surface of Dons’ life:  An insatiable hunger for the Word of Truth; an unquenchable desire to worship and pray and a keen prophetic insight into the heart of God and the Body Of Christ. Through the years, working with a variety of ministries in worship, prayer and teaching, these three things not only remain intact, they emerge, strengthened. Miraculously being able to attend Bible College in 1989 at 34 years of age with his wife and three young children they traveled together from the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the San Bernadino Mountains of California. An intensive 2 year study of the Word Of God at Calvary Chapel Bible College solidified within his heart a love and respect for the Word and for the God who has spoken it forth. Don greatly enjoys the giftings of his wife and children, loves to  play guitar and other stringed instruments, and is currently reconstructing a home in New Hampshire’s’  White Mountains with Diane, his wife of 30 years. Even while surrounded by beautiful lakes, rivers, streams and forests the thing that most profoundly affects his life is a love of The Father and of the Body Of Christ.

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The Psalms Through

A New Covenant/New Testament Lens

DON C. VINYARD

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WestBow Press rev. date: 12/16/2011

Contents

PSALM ONE

PSALM TWO

PSALM THREE

PSALM FOUR

PSALM FIVE

PSALM SIX

PSALM SEVEN

PSALM EIGHT

PSALM NINE

PSALM TEN

PSALM ELEVEN

PSALM TWELVE

PSALM THIRTEEN

PSALM FOURTEEN

PSALM FIFTEEN

PSALM SIXTEEN

PSALM SEVENTEEN

PSALM EIGHTEEN

PSALM NINETEEN

PSALM TWENTY

PSALM TWENTY-ONE

PSALM TWENTY-TWO

PSALM TWENTY-THREE

PSALM TWENTY-FOUR

PSALM TWENTY-FIVE

PSALM TWENTY-SIX

PSALM TWENTY-SEVEN

PSALM TWENTY-EIGHT

PSALM TWENTY-NINE

PSALM THIRTY

PSALM THIRTY-ONE

PSALM THIRTY-TWO

PSALM THIRTY-THREE

PSALM THIRTY-FOUR

PSALM THIRTY-FIVE

PSALM THIRTY-SIX

PSALM THIRTY-SEVEN

PSALM THIRTY-EIGHT

PSALM THIRTY-NINE

PSALM FORTY

PSALM FORTY-ONE

LENS

The Psalms have long been our primary resource for worship, praise, thanksgiving, and prayer.

Our source of praise is always the Holy Spirit visiting our hearts with a revelation of the Father through the lens of the suffering, blood, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The work of the Holy Spirit in His church/body/bride is ongoing and requires a revealing of the finished work of Jesus and the heart and intention of Yahweh, our God and Father.

When interpreting a document of any kind, the very first question is, why interpret? What is it that needs clarification or a tune-up? What are the strengths of the document? What are the weaknesses of the document? When we are talking about the Word of God, nothing can possibly need changing because of weakness in the writing!

The weakness of the Law of God was not a weakness of truth; it was a weakness of power. "For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit" (Rom. 8:3-4 NASB).

The strength of the Psalms originates in King David’s prophetic nature and his heart-cry approach to God. And although David did not write all of the Psalms, he did more to promote worship than anyone else we can think of under the old covenant. Among other things, he provided for full-time worshipers and musicians, and he promoted the building of musical instruments.

The weakness of the Psalms for us today is that they were written under a different covenant agreement with God than what we are currently living under. The Old Testament, or old covenant, was written under an agreement of the law and the sacrificial system of continual and ongoing sacrifices, which was needed to keep God’s wrath in check until our sins could be paid for by the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Because the Psalms are a document of worship and prayer, it is often assumed that worship and prayer alone sanctify the document for New Testament or new covenant use. This assumption is a great downfall!

Under the old covenant, not only was there nothing wrong with the worship contained in the Psalms, but they were actually incredibly revolutionary in their free approach to God under the law. But as enlightened and far ahead of their time as they were, there is, in the Psalms, a constant tug of old covenant agreement.

The one great question for us is: do the Psalms have dominion over the new covenant, or does the new covenant have dominion over the Psalms? It is my assumption that the new covenant we have with Yahweh through the blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus, must have dominion over all old covenant agreement. We must, in fact, live entirely in the new, because mixing old and new actually invalidates the new covenant. What stronger words could be spoken than the ones spoken by Paul to the saints in Galatia, You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace (Gal. 5:4, NASB)?

Because the covenants are the agreement of terms to a relationship, it is essential to understand the covenant you are in before you can translate any former agreement into those terms.

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The new covenant is a strength; the old covenant is a barrier.

When Jesus, the only begotten of the Father, became flesh, something changed dramatically in the interaction between God and humankind, and between humankind and God.

Jesus died to take His Father’s wrath toward sin upon Himself, and thus pay for all sin for all time. He did this so that whosoever will may come to Him and enter a new life through being born into the Spirit. This enables us to walk in the kingdom of God on the earth and further dramatically changes everything.

David was able to break into new covenant relationship with God more than anyone else in the Old Testament. However, the heart cry of one who serves God under the law is vastly different from one who cries out to God from under the covering of the blood of Jesus.

This attempt to interpret covenant heart-cry was, first and foremost, for