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In the sixth Psalm, David deals particularly with the judgments of God and the need of mercy upon the part of the individual saint, for strange as it may seem, paradoxical as it may appear to say it, saints are sinners. What I mean by that is that though every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ has been sanctified in the sense that he is set apart to God in all the value of the finished work and the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore he is perfected forever in His sight, yet the fact remains that …
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We come now to another group of psalms that are all intimately linked together and this time, instead of an octave, we have a septenary series. In the oldest Hebrew text, there would be only six, for originally Psalms 9 and 10 were one. We do not know just when they were divided into two, but we know them as 9 and 10 instead of simply as 9. Then, if we add to them 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, we have the series of seven.
In those first two psalms, 9 and 10, we have the people of God …
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“Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.” —Psalm 118:27
You will readily recognize the reference to the altar of burnt offering which of old stood just inside the gate of the tabernacle. It was made of acacia wood overlaid with brass or copper, and had a grate in the center of it where the victim was burned, typifying the atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ. As these various sacrificial beasts were brought to be offered to Jehovah, they were bound to the horns of the altar, which were upon its four corners.
In this …
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“And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper …
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“Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.” —Psalm 68:1
The world has reached the place where a great many people have the feeling that if God ever did care about the earth, He has ceased to care; many feel that if He ever did have any pity, His pity has gone from Him; that if His eye ever did watch the sparrow in its fall, that eye is closed; that if He ever did count the hairs of men’s heads, the millions of headless in this war [World War I] …
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“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”—Matthew 6:10
This sin-riddled world is not as it should be. There is pain, heartache, and brokenness everywhere. Just turn on the news. That’s why this phrase in the Lord’s Prayer resonates with me so deeply. We long for things to be made right “on earth as it is in heaven.” Don’t you yearn for God to mend all that’s been broken?
Jesus knows what it’s like to live in this broken-down world. And He knows how to pray His way through the heartache as well. In …
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“For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” —Psalm 138:2
Christians who believe in an inerrant and infallible Bible have sometimes been charged with being worshipers of a book, Bible idolators. Someone has said that as a heathen worships an idol, so we worship the Book. Dr. Marion Burton, president of Michigan University, in his book on our intellectual attitude in an age of criticism, makes this charge that “Protestantism has made a fetich of the Bible.”
Now, if God has magnified His Word above all His name, as He has, why should not we honor it and …
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I have taken a text from the 139th Psalm. There are just two verses that I want to read. Psalm 139:23–24: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
If you do not get much out of my sermon you will have your soul fed and you will be wonderfully helped if you will read the 139th Psalm over some time today. It has a personal application.
I am not going to attempt anything like an exposition …
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“But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the …
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The 34th Psalm is quite a catalogue of things that prayer will accomplish. It starts off concerning praise. Now, praise is the highest form of worship. Prayer is something like water; it refreshes, it cleanses, it greatly aids growth; but remember it is steam—powerful steam—when it is heated. So hot prayer, believing prayer, turns to praise (v. 1).
The fighting attitudes of man and beast are interesting and stimulating, but prayer brings the soul to a fighting attitude very different from any flesh feeling. The psalmist speaks of his attitude caused by prayer as “boast in the Lord” (v. 2). …
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