This Psalm’s title is “To the Chief Musician. To the tune of [a]“Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David.” Like chapter 8, some believe this Psalm is a specific tune called “Muth Labben” in Hebrew. Others believe it is referring to a specific instrument that it was played on. The specific part of this title “Death of the Son” is referring to the way the ancient Chaldee version reads: “Concerning the death of the Champion who went out between the camps.” So some believe this is referring to Goliath. Perhaps David wrote this Psalm remembering the victory over Goliath from the advantage of many years since that triumph. Whatever the case, this Psalm is a Psalm of praise and celebrates the goodness of God and His power over all nations.

We will see Jesus continuing His journey going into different regions. We will see Jesus continuing to pour out the power of healing from Himself with compassion towards all that come to Him. We will see how the more He tries to keep people to keep the miracles quiet, they just cannot do it and we will also see the disciples once again doubt Him when it comes to His power regarding feeding the crowd.

We will look at Mark 7:24-30 and this story for some is hard to understand. Here is a woman, a non-Jewish woman who has the same need that many of the people who have come to Jesus had. Jesus has cast many a demon out but so far they have all been in Jewish people not Gentiles. We need to take a step back here and first look at the culture. The Jewish people looked at Gentiles as unclean people and they would have nothing to do with them. They would refer to them as dogs.