{"id":4491,"date":"2024-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/february-7\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:55:53","slug":"february-7","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/february-7\/","title":{"rendered":"February 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insight from Psalm 3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psalm 3 [and 4] records the prayers and praise of one person who is being attacked by many enemies. Based on Psalm 2, the reader of the Psalms should understand that this person with many enemies rising against him is the Anointed King (the Christ). However, this psalm [and Psalm 4] isn\u2019t just about the Christ. The things spoken in this psalm [and Psalm 4] also apply to the Christian, because the Christian is \u201cin Christ.\u201d Tom Kelby, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kitaaba Faarfannaa Yaadannoo Qorannoo Waliin (Faarfannaa 1\u201319): Qajeelcha Lallabaa Kitaaba Faarfannaatiif<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Webster, WI: Hands to the Plow, 2017), 34.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Insight from Psalm 40<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAdditional confirmation of direct prophecy in Ps 40 appears in Heb 10:5\u20139. The author of Hebrews quotes Ps 40:6\u20139 and indicates \u2018Christ\u2019 spoke these words when he \u2018came into the world\u2019: \u2018Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, \u201cSacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.\u201d Then I said, \u201cBehold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book\u201d (Heb 10:5\u20137).\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tom Kelby, \u201cChrist\u2019s Prayers and the Saints\u2019 Songs: The Eschatological King and His People in Book One of the Psalter\u201d (PhD diss., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024), 259.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4491","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}