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>Good Morning,
>
>I've had a week of vacation and my computer took two and a half weeks. A
>backup computer is being prepared for the future.
>
>God bless,
>Max A Forsythe
>
>
>Psalm 25
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>12 Who is man who fears the Lord?
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>[The Lord] will instruct him in the way to be chosen.
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>13 His soul shall abide in well-being,
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>his offspring shall inherit the land.
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>14 The [counsel] of the Lord is for those who fear Him,
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>[The Lord] will show them His covenant.
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>15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
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>for He alone will pluck my feet out of the net.
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>His Assurance
>For the Lord?s Day: the 27th of February 2005
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>Introduction: ?Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of
>glory divine!? So runs an old and favorite hymn, which is not far off the
>mark of the poetic medley contained in these four verses. Such a
>wonderful assurance is of course, the hallmark of these central alphabetic
>verses in Psalm twenty-five.
>
>This section begins with a rhetorical question in the first line of verse
>twelve: ?Who is man who fears the Lord? Without pausing a beat, the
>psalmist shares an insight straight from the heart of God: [The Lord] will
>instruct him in the way to be chosen.? Spurgeon delights in making verse
>twelve comprehensible to us as he carefully unfolds the intentions of the
>text: ?Those whose hearts are right shall not err for want of heavenly
>direction. Where God sanctifies the heart he enlightens the head. We all
>wish to choose our way; but what a mercy is it when the Lord directs that
>choice, and makes free-will to be good-will!?
>
>When the boys were young, their financial assets were carefully
>guided. After all, I had learned well from my own father to manage the
>assets of others more carefully than I would my own. Early on I was
>imbued to be a good steward of all the Lord gave into our care, even as
>Dad had shown over the course of a long and carefully detailed life.
>
>Once, one of the boys noted after a profitable undertaking, that he would
>not have chosen to do what I had intended. And then he asked a pregnant
>question: did he really have a choice in the matter, or had I already
>pre-determined what his choice was going to be. He had guessed at the
>truth, of course ? even at a tender age. In time, as they learned the
>principles of Capitalism, the value of hard work and a thankful attitude
>towards the allowances of the Creator, they all learned to be judiciously
>careful with the financial blessings that came their way.
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>May all the fathers here today, listen carefully, mothers too, of course -
>as well. It is your responsibility to make good choices for your children
>possible and profitable. Now, when it comes to green vegetables ? I?m not
>too certain how you arrange that ? but the lettuce in their wallet is
>another matter that should not be neglected. When the boys were really
>little, their weekly allowance was a dollar. ?But, Dad ? it is only
>ninety cents: because you make me put a dime in the collection plate!? I
>responded, ?When you get older, you get to choose ? but for now, the
>principle is your way of life. Of course, if you don?t want to share your
>prosperity, than I suppose I shouldn?t either?? Now, I wasn?t always so
>heavy handed ? but certain principles are important for little ones to
>understand. And by ages eight and nine ? more and more decisions came
>their way.
>
>Now, let us come back to our text ? was it really your choice when you
>came to the Lord and slowly laid out your whole life before Him? Haven?t
>things gone better than ever expected when you began to live daily before
>His face, and doing everything in the light of His principles?
>
>Yes, we all make choices and sometimes the Lord blesses them beyond
>measure and other times we sense that perhaps we were selfish or
>rebellious. Then we are really happy when all of the chickens do not come
>home to roost! Twice, when I was in the Army, I tried to get to Southeast
>Asia where the action was. The Lord had different plans and my last year
>in the military was spent in Europe. God does indeed protect His foolish
>servants, sometimes in spite of their best intentions.
>
>Development: Just as David realizes in this psalm, the Lord God of heaven
>and earth guides and protects all of those for whom He has a plan and a
>purpose. David admits, that even in the midst of trials and troubles the
>Lord has guided him and his ways. The ?man who fears the Lord,? David
>writes: ?His soul shall abide in well-being, his offspring shall inherit
>the land.?
>
>No matter what comes our way, the Lord can turn every event to our
>benefit. Certainly, there were many of my generation who were carried
>away to the next life in the conflicts and troubles of the sixties. Such,
>of course is always the case for every generation. Sometimes, even those
>close to us are suddenly gone and we are left to ponder the well-being in
>which we find ourselves and the prosperity of our own children and grand
>children.
>
>While we all entertain certain fond hopes for our offspring, we must
>patiently learn that at least a third of their lives will be lived without
>our presence and the Lord will have plenty of time to work out His divine
>purpose in their regard. And so even if, our offspring seem too earthly
>minded, still the Lord God of heaven and earth is sovereign and we can
>continue to pray and hope for something beyond a mere earthly inheritance.
>
>In the fourteenth verse, the psalmist celebrates the spiritual secrets of
>the Lord God of heaven and earth. ?The [counsel] of the Lord is for those
>who fear Him, [The Lord] will show them His covenant.? Delitzsch urges
>upon us, the word ?counsel? here for the secret will and purpose of the
>Father. The word can also be translated ?friendship.? Spurgeon observes
>that the word ?signifies familiar intercourse, confidential intimacy, and
>select fellowship. This is a great secret. Carnal minds cannot guess
>what is intended by it, and even believers cannot explain it in words, for
>it must be felt to be known.?
>
>How many Christians even understand the word ?covenant?? Isn?t it a real
>and solid blessing that frames and forms the ?graces? we receive? Calvin
>observes that ?the covenant of God is nothing else than his secret or
>counsel. By the use of the term secret, he means to magnify and extol the
>excellency of the doctrine which is revealed to us in the law of God.?
>
>Every once in a while I run across people who despise the teaching of
>doctrine. I know of one or two churches where this is an unspoken article
>of faith. In both cases, the leaders of the church are always
>micro-managing the lives of the saints by threats, discipline and personal
>vindictive. I learned a long time ago that the more theology the members
>of the church can do on their own, the less counseling and decision making
>there is for me. After all, if we are to trust people to stand up and
>affirm that God has made Himself evident in their lives, we should also
>trust that He will do as He has promised in this Psalm: to guide and teach
>them according to His covenant of grace.
>
>There are in some of the financial magazines and even on the web of
>course, the promise of secrets to prosperity. Those worldly secrets
>always have a price tag! But, not so the secret counsel of God?s perfect
>will, at least not for those who submit to His kindness and love! There
>is a price of course, but God Himself has covered it in the blood of His
>only Son: Jesus Christ.
>
>Application: Living after the time of Christ, of course ? has its
>additional benefits. All the more easily may we understand the
>implications of the last verse before us today. ?My eyes are ever toward
>the Lord, for He alone will pluck my feet out of the net.?
>
>Here is the salvation of the Lord. David likens the sins and turmoil of
>this old world to the hunting methodology for birds. That is the use of
>the net. In this case Satan is the hunter and his netting will catch any
>and all, unless the Sovereign owner of everything spoils the hunt. And in
>our case, even as David experienced it, God alone has disentangled David?s
>ankles from the trapping net laid out for him to stumble into.
>
>The net of course here is a metaphor for sin, and even while the saints
>train their spiritual eyes upon the Lord, their feet are on this earth and
>sin always so easily entangles. Spurgeon here intimates that the word
>??pluck? is a rough word, and the saints who have fallen into sin find
>that the means of their restoration are not always easy to the flesh; the
>Lord plucks at us sharply to let us feel that sin is an exceeding bitter
>thing.?
>
>The words here remind me of a story I often tell about the Tom Cat I once
>found in my barn, all wrapped up in a giant fly strip. He had succeeded
>in bringing down a ten foot long by one foot wide strip of gooey gunk
>which I had hung to reduce the number of flies. As I tried to help him
>out of his predicament, he became feisty, and scratched at me in
>frustration. So, I just hung on to the fly paper and let him pull his own
>fur loose. As he growlingly made progress, I made the last pull easier by
>grabbing him by the tail and yanking him loose! He was free of course,
>but he wasn?t too sociable for a couple of weeks! But at least he was set
>free!
>
>And so are we, if we will just keep our eyes on Jesus, the author and
>finisher of our faith. So never mind the roughness with which we are
>sometimes handled ? we deserve it, even as our own children felt the wrath
>of our hands on their back sides from time to time. So just, as we were
>able to put the raise our children according to the Lord?s guidance and
>instruction, so are we raised as well. May we like David, learn to love
>the kind mercy and guided providence of our Lord as well. After all, that
>experience is the best assurance that He is ours and we are His. Amen.
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>PREACHING RESOURCES
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>Calvin, John: Commentary on Book of Psalms.
>Delitzsch, F: Commentary on the Old Testament ? Psalms.
>Spurgeon, C.H: Treasury of David.
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Date: Thu Mar 17 13:07:34 2005
Subject: [Ccrlist] Fwd: CCR Weekly 13 Mar 05
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>Psalm 25
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>16 Pay attention to me and be gracious to me,
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>for alone and afflicted am I.
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>17 The troubles of my heart are multiplied;
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>relieve me of my anguish.
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>18 Look upon my affliction and my trouble,
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> forgive all my sins.
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>Consider My Troubles
>For the Lord?s Day: the 13th of March 2005
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>Introduction: Today, we consider the fourth petition of this carefully
>constructed psalm. And like the second petition in verses four to seven,
>the theme is forgiveness. A comparison of the two demonstrates that the
>first set of verses is at the same time more general and
>theoretical. Here the psalmist gets a little more specific, going beyond
>a mere practical application of the doctrine of sin, and argues the more
>personal implication that only the good Lord Himself can forgive the
>troubled personal life of sin.
>
>Even in the greater company of many sinners, the psalmist is appalled at
>his lack of companionship with the Almighty. Delitsch writes: ?To whom
>could he, pour forth his affliction, to whom could he unveil his inmost
>thoughts and feelings? To God alone! To Him he can bring all his
>complaints, to Him he can also again and again always make supplication.?
>
>I am reminded of several conversion experiences, when newly aware sinners
>broached the subject with their still sinning peers. What a hoot, the
>worldly crowd could and did have at such trifles of conscience. After
>all, they could barely be sympathetic ? since to do so would be an
>admission that they too were under the mandate of God?s divine rule. And
>so, it is especially in this sense that the psalmist writes of the
>depression filling his heart: ? Pay attention to me and be gracious to me,
>for alone and afflicted am I.?
>
>Again, I remember a student or two from years ago, who were suddenly
>confronted with a realization of sin. One of them came straight to me
>from the guidance office, hoping that I would understand what the
>professional humanist off handedly dismissed. Of course, with the help of
>God?s Spirit, I did comprehend and understand the need for confession and
>the seeking of forgiveness. Evidentially, the student complained to the
>worldly counselor, about her stupidity and I was advised to not encourage
>the one unbalanced, after all ? the ?sins? in question were so widespread
>that everyone should feel guilty. And in our day and age, all such minor
>deviations were now to be accepted as simple variations in behavior.
>
>How little the worldly and atheistic counselors appreciate the work of the
>Holy Spirit here described by David. The very personage hired to ?pay
>attention? to the needs of the worldly pagans simply ignored the
>promptings of a heart being tuned to God above. How much better are God?s
>people attuned to sense the slow and providential growing of grace in the
>heart. Already, David?s prayer is being answered because he is aware that
>a life lived apart from the presence of God is a lonely one indeed.
>
>Calvin notes on this passage that God?s having respect for the sinner, in
>the very fact of giving divine attention ? that this fact of being
>regarded by God is ?at once the cause and source of his
>salvation.? Further, Calvin argues ?as soon as God, of his own good
>pleasure? regards us, so too will ?his hand be ready to help us.?
>
>I once saw a poster of the end of a rope with multiple knots tied and a
>pair of hands barely hanging on. This was in regards of an old proverb
>that advised when one got to the end of his rope, to tie a knot and hang
>on. The worldly poster whined, ?I?m still hanging on for dear life, but
>I?m almost out of rope to tie knots in, now ? what do I do?? That phrase
>was written large, and then down at the bottom was a simple penciled in
>question to be carefully considered: ?Have you considered praying to the
>One who is holding the other end!?
>
>Development: David of course has, and in this blessed psalm will appeal
>to heaven?s God for the kindness and mercy of His divine attention. In
>the rest of verse sixteen we sense David?s understanding of the need for
>gracious consideration, all stemming from the utter lost and loneliness of
>his sinful condition.
>
>Like the knots in my remembered poster, David is aware of the
>multitudinous nature of all his ongoing trials and troubles. Earnestly,
>he prays: ?The troubles of my heart are multiplied; relieve me of my
>anguish.? It is almost as if David has had to put up with the logistical
>delays of the American system of justice. How many years do some cases
>play out, and given the anguish of our system, how much more sympathetic
>must our juries be for the long delays suffered through not only by the
>victims but also the criminals. Well did the founding fathers affirm that
>the administration of justice in the courts should be timely as well as
>fair. And I am almost of the opinion that timeliness is just as important.
>
>Of course, like all sinners ? David has probably delayed his hours in
>prayer, hoping that by doing nothing the problems, troubles and situations
>will get better by themselves. In the world of professional counseling ?
>that fact is almost the case. A study was once done in this regard and it
>was discovered that in a majority of situation ? individuals were actually
>better off without the worldly advice of the psychobabbelists! Not so,
>when it comes to the divine counsel of the Almighty ruler of heaven and earth.
>
>Certainly, He will be swift to judge ? when His opinion is asked, but He
>is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, waiting, ever waiting
>for sinners to repent and turn to Him! Would David have relief from
>anguish, would he rather that sins and troubles be not multiplied ? let
>him turn to the Lord of life and find grace, mercy and
>forgiveness. Suddenly and finally ? there is peace and consolation.
>
>Application: And because the Lord of life has considered, because He has
>looked upon His servant, therefore is the Lord?s servant blessed with
>salvation. ?Look upon my affliction and my trouble, forgive all my sins.?
>
>In the Greek myths there was one monster, named Medusa - whose look could
>turn a man into stone if he were unfortunate in having gazed into her eyes
>at the moment she meant to freeze dry the one who dared to approach her
>devilish throne.
>
>Ordinarily the ancients were scared of the gods and goddesses of
>myth. All manner of offerings were needed to keep in their good
>graces. These ancient religious icons were a burden indeed. And
>ordinarily, the way to health and prosperity was to avoid gaining the
>attention of the gods, or at least their powerful priests who might covet
>any wealth honestly gotten.
>
>By comparison, the Hebrew God?s rules and regulations benefited the
>righteous who were blessed enough to be known by Him. This lesson was not
>lost on many in the ancient world, and when the news of Jesus Christ
>became commonly known, the former pagans, from one end of the empire to
>the other ? tore down the old temples, chopped up the statutes and either
>buried them or threw then into the sea. And why, because now they were
>free because of the grace and knowledge of Christ!
>
>This liberating knowledge known by David and revealed in Christ has taught
>that part of the world willing and able to listen: that God is for
>us. Further, we are to know that all of history and providence is
>arranged with our betterment in mind. So this is why David earnestly
>prays for the loving attention of the Creator God. ?Look upon my
>affliction and my trouble, forgive all my sins.?
>
>If you will allow, let me make one final point this morning. When you
>stop to think about it, aren?t the greater majority of our afflictions and
>troubles directly linked either to our own sins or to those of others who
>would accost us for being God?s people? Certainly, in this respect, the
>divine attention can be nothing but good for us in either regard. We
>learn of our sin and we confess, or we come to the Lord, afflicted by His
>enemies and He not only saves us for all eternity but also from time to
>time intercedes to guide and protect those He has loved since the
>foundation of the world.
>
>Sometimes, when I consider the beauties of these alphabetic compositions,
>I wonder ? how much more could we have learned if the Hebrew alphabet were
>a few letters longer? But, still the revelations of the Lord are always
>sufficient for our needs. So let us give Him the glory, thanks and praise
>worthy of His great and heavenly Name. Amen.
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>Calvin, John: Commentary on Book of Psalms.
>Delitzsch, F: Commentary on the Old Testament ? Psalms.
>Spurgeon, C.H: Treasury of David.
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From ccrlist at tulip.org Tue Mar 22 21:25:28 2005
From: ccrlist at tulip.org (ccrlist@tulip.org)
Date: Tue Mar 22 21:25:34 2005
Subject: [Ccrlist] CCR Weekly
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Good Evening,
Just updated the web site, if any of you are interested in the Gospel of
John series, chapter six has been completed. Next week, we return to the
book of Hebrews, chapter ten for the next five or six
weeks. http://www.tulip.org
God bless,
Max A Forsythe
Psalm 25
19 Consider how my foes multiply,
the violent ferocity with which they hate me.
20 Guard my soul, and rescue me!
let me not be humiliated,
for I take refuge in You.
21 Integrity and uprightness - may they preserve me,
when I hope in You.
22 Redeem Israel, O God,
out of all their troubles.
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For the Lord?s Day: the 20th of March 2005
Introduction: Today, we come to the final section of this alphabetic
psalm. And, yes, while there are twenty-two letters in the Hebrew
?alefbet?, the composition is imperfect in the form that has come down to
us. My Translator?s Handbook notes that a few manuscripts do introduce
?the letter waw (which should come as the last line of verse 5).? However
?the letter qof (which should be verse 18)? is skipped over completely. In
addition, ?the last verse is outside the scheme altogether.?
Given the ordinary difficulties of such an alphabetic arrangement, we
should not be concerned that portions of the text could have been
lost. There is no complete ordering and exact alphabetic ordering of this
Psalm in existence. So let us receive with gladness that which has been
given to us from the heart of David.
Here in this final section of the psalm, we find a fifth petition that
returns to the ?enemies? theme of the first petition of the second half of
verse two and all of verse three. While in the earlier petition, David had
prayed essentially for the divine protection, here he is more emphatic in
continuing the petition of verse eighteen by asking pointedly that the Lord
God look upon his desperate situation. In eighteen, he sought the
protective glance of the Almighty upon the fact of his own sin, but here in
the nineteenth verse the same word is doubly used again, to fix the gaze of
the Almighty upon the sinful attitudes of others who are hostile to the God
of heaven. Delitzsch notes that ?the seeing that is prayed for, is in both
instances a seeing into his condition, with which is cojoined the notion of
interposing on his behalf, though the way and manner thereof is left to God.?
While the art of seeing carefully is contained in the opening word of both
verses, here I have used a broader term: ?Consider how my foes multiply,
the violent ferocity with which they hate me.? The multiplication of
enemies here may seem strange, until one remembers the Oriental attitude in
the Middle East that any enemy of a friend is also an enemy of mine as
well. Once, when I had challenged the behavior of a young man in the
cafeteria ? suddenly I had a half dozen adversaries who took up his cause
to the administration. Once we got beyond the obvious distortions of his
operatic Greek chorus, my actions were justified. But, for an afternoon ?
it seemed that personal enemies were coming out of every possible
corner. Thankfully, they were all known conspirators to the discipline
co-coordinator and the problem was shelved.
I have also had experience with those whose hatred of lawful authority in
the public sector went far beyond reason and cause. Once, my barn was
almost burned down for some trivial reason I never ever figured out. It
was meant to look like an accident of course. The water heater in the
sheep pen had been flipped out into the straw. Such an occurrence might
have been the work of the livestock, but the crushed beer can in the stock
rack indicated otherwise.
Even though I have met people who hated everything Christian, the ?violent
ferocity? which David faced was more than anything I have thankfully and
ordinarily experienced. This ?violent ferocity? includes the whole gambit
of intense political intrigue, the murder of public officials and even
occasional road rage that hits even the headlines of our own
Republic: that is in question here.
All that David requests from the Lord is an ongoing awareness of the
worldly intentions. And just as he understands that this awareness of his
own sins leads to salvation and instruction, so too will the Lord?s
attention with the attitudes and mechanizations of the enemies of the
Church, lead Him to provide a protective hedge round about all of the
saints in every time and place.
Development: Once David has petitioned the Lord?s consideration, knowing
that the consideration alone will be sufficient for his own good, David
then forms another petition in the twentieth verse. And the essence of the
petition here is for his own good, that in the midst of confrontation,
troubles and adversity ? the Lord will guard his own heart, as we might say
today. ?Guard my soul, and rescue me! Let me not be humiliated, for I
take refuge in You.?
I am reminded of all those troubles within the church to which I have been
privy over the years. I remember several situations where the whole
personality and character of once talented and dedicated elders (ruling and
teaching) were grated and ground by circumstances so that they were no
longer useful in the short run. Once, a godly group of men fought for many
years to remove not only their congregation, but also the property of the
church from one denomination. They finally succeeded, and having become so
feisty in the process ? they turned in upon themselves and continued the
struggles. In the same way, when the conservatives left the liberal
Presbyterian Church in the thirties, those who had fought the good fight
against the humanists turned against each other so that what should have
been once church became at least three denominations and maybe even more!
?Guard my soul,? David earnestly prays ? even as the Lord prepares a plan
for his rescue. In the process, David pleads that as leader of the
Covenant people, he should not be humiliated, so that he can continue to
lead as was his office and calling. Again, there have been historic
moments when perfectly credible men were caught up in political events
beyond their control, and even though they had not participated in, or
encouraged the Machiavellian processes ? still they came to power under a
cloud of doubt and concern. Manufactured by the opposition in many cases,
but still they were not able to do all that they could have done ? had an
election been more forthcoming and beyond doubt as to how it was won. The
secret to success in these situations is to be found in the last note of
verse twenty: ?for I take refuge in You.?
In this manner, the Lord God is invited to providentially arrange for His
outcome in a manner whereby His people are strengthened and those who
oppose Him are weakened. In the last few years, as I have listened to the
comments of Rush Limbaugh ? I am hopeful that it is just this very process
that is ongoing wherever the liberal power block is being weakened and even
thwarted. Of course, it this is so, it is obvious that once the process is
accomplished, there will be other political battles to be fought and
debated until the end of time. David?s socio-political and spiritual
problems are always the same as the common experiences of history in every
place and time.
Application: The next verse, the twenty-first is one where if I could, I
would rearrange the ordering completely. My translation would read this
way: ?When I hope in You, may integrity and uprightness preserve
me.? But, I am not translating, arranging or paraphrasing the text in the
model of The New English, Living or Good News editions. And so I am left
with the traditional methodology which reads: ?Integrity and uprightness -
may they preserve me, when I hope in You.?
As Calvin notes, some would propose that David simply prays that he may be
preserved from all mischief, on the ground ?that he had conducted himself
inoffensively towards others and had abstained from all deceit and
violence.? In another sense, David?s prayer is understood that the Lord
would give ?him a sincere and upright purpose of heart.? I am more
inclined to go with the second view, that we ought always to lay before our
God and king every thought, action and deed before they are
accomplished. After all, we dare not act upon our own recognizance, but
always in the Name above all Names. So in that sense, it is always the
Integrity and uprightness of the most High that informs our actions and
thereby we are preserved because we dare to hope in the God of heaven and
earth.
And so, we come to the end of a sometimes rambling discourse of prayer,
petition and hopeful planning before the face of God. The last line,
however, appears somewhat discordant. But, let us accept it in this
regard: whenever I perform a funeral, the funeral director always has the
last word when he usually announces that the spiritual services are
accomplished and over. ?This completes the service,? as many are in the
habit of announcing.
And so, at the end of this incredible composition, David announces in no
fancy words the simple plea that throughout the life of the Church of God,
in both New and Old Covenants ? the Lord God will redeem His people from
every trial and trouble that comes their way. And so may we conclude out
meditations as well: ?Redeem Israel, O God, out of all their troubles.? Amen.
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PREACHING RESOURCES
Calvin, John: Commentary on Book of Psalms.
Delitzsch, F: Commentary on the Old Testament ? Psalms.
Spurgeon, C.H: Treasury of David.
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