Bible study in the morning

In the morning, I listened to a TV program (on NHK - Nippon Housou Kyoukai or public broadcast of Japan) lying in the bed. In the program, they spoke about Bible.

Here's what I learned.

Psalm is not only praises and poetry, but actually a prayer book.
The other part of Old Testament consists of history records, laws, and prophecies.
Old Testament is a record of human beings straggling with having relationship with God, and New Testament is the respond to these straggles, so without New Testament, Old Testament is meaningless, (for if Jesus read Old Testament, he will completely agree with New Testament) and without Old Testament, New Testament
In Psalm, David sometimes mention the pain of illness, but no description of being cured that illness; the center event was not physical cure, but relationship with God.
In Old Testament, there's no description of "love your enemy", but though this presenter sees the struggle that "should love my enemy, but I can't".

This game me a breath of fresh air. Today hopefully I go to Sunday worship service with good condition.

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