"If indeed you forsake him, he will forsake you. "11 But what poor returns have we made for this infinite love? Oh pour upon us this "Spirit of grace and supplication. " When Mary Jones was 10 years old, she began saving money for something special she wanted to buy. I would sit with much greater assiduity at my Divine Master's feet, and desire to know nothing but 'Jesus Christ and him crucified. ' I cling to Your testimonies): Ps 119:48, 115 De 4:4 10:20 Pr 23:23 Joh 8:31 Ac 11:23. The whole plan of redemption was emphatically "founded forever. "
Blessed indeed would those men be of whom this could be asserted without reserve and without explanation: we shall have reached the region of pure blessedness when we altogether cease from sin. Walk Eze 11:20 Ho 14:9 Lu 1:6 1Th 4:1, 2. And thus the Church remembers the wonderful overthrow of the Egyptians, and the consequent deliverance of ancient Israel, as a ground of assurance and expectation of the same grand display of Divine faithfulness and love under similar trials. Well may we prize beyond all price that which comes from such a source. Truly the distinguishing favor of this gracious gift stirs up the song—"Praise ye the Lord. Have we not formerly, with this same Psalm, been able to vaunt, "I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches"? Since our looks to thee are often so slight, so cold, so distant, that no impression is made upon our hearts; do thou condescend continually to look upon us with mercy and with power. Inquire into their reason. Can "gold, yea, fine gold, " offer to me blessings such as these? If, reader, your heart is perfect with God, you "consent to the law that it is good;" you "delight in it after the inner man;"7 you would not have one jot or tittle altered, mitigated, or repealed, that it might be more conformed to your own will, or allow you more liberty and self-indulgence in the ways of sin.
'13 "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. "7 One promise applied by the Spirit of God is worth ten thousand worlds. Hunted down "as a partridge in the mountains, "5 and often scarcely escaping the "snare, which the wicked laid for him, "6 at one time he could but acknowledge—"there is but a step between me and death;"7 at another time he was tempted to say, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. The Holy Spirit's first work in the soul is to convict of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. "4 Peradventure your notes may rise into praise, and in the excitement of praise, prayer will again mingle itself with its wonted enjoyment. I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel. "Another generation arose that did not know the mighty works of the Lord". God seeks people who will witness for Him. This book gives short explanations and applications of the strategic chapters of each Bible book. Often indeed "hope deferred maketh the heart sick. To "count up" or "take a census" ("numbered the people" = 2 Sa 24:10).
You may be brought under the "snare" of the "fear of man, " and be tempted to compromise your religion, and to sacrifice your everlasting all from a dread of "the reproach of Christ. " There is such a thing as false and feigned praise, and this the Lord abhors; but there is no music like that which comes from a pure soul which standeth in its integrity. Made (KJV): Ps 95:7, 8 Eze 10:6-8 Pr 27:1 Ec 9:10 Ga 1:16. Indeed, conviction without faith would be legal sorrow; as assurance without conviction would be Gospel presumption. When Kerri arrived, she recited her winning entry, Psalm 119:9-16. For mark here the principle and the object of faith—"I have hoped for thy salvation"—and the practical influence of faith—I have "done thy commandments. " 2 Luke 12:16–21; 16:14, 19, &c. 3 Matt. Interpretation: What does the text mean? The Bible is sweet to those who love it.
32:40; 31:33; with 2 Sam. All but five verses mention the Word of God in one way or another. "His saints are in his hand, or sitting down at his feet;5 his enemies are trodden down under his feet" in full conquest, 6 and disgraceful punishment. Ewald M. Plass, What Luther Says - borrow, vol. "Well, " said the lad, "what do you mean? Look at the Word of God. The influence, therefore, of this morbid sensibility is strenuously to be resisted. Look upon my affliction and rescue me, For I do not forget Your law.
Wise men, whose eyes are but for surfaces; Men with eyes opened by the second birth, To whom the seen, husk of the unseen is, Descry the soul of everything on earth. —how awfully destitute the condition! But I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. We want not a clearer rule, or a surer guide, but a more single eye. How (KJV): Ps 39:4, 5 89:47, 48 Ps 90:12 Job 7:6-8. There is the entrance of God's word. The answer is yes; when we come to the end of our thinking we find that behind the vastness of this universe stands a God who cares about what he has made. That is what we are planning to do beginning today. Such, Christian reader, would be the application we should make of this verse to ourselves; and such a penitent confession of our backslidings, united with a believing dependence on the long-tried grace and faithfulness of our God, would form a suitable conclusion to our meditations on this most interesting Psalm.
So if we could learn how to glorify God by enjoying him, we would know how not to sin. None of us does this perfectly. "[The ant] prepares her food in the summer, and gathers her provision in the harvest" (Proverbs 6:8). For instance, what if people continually suggest that hell is not a real place and that people without Jesus are not really lost? NAB Psalm 119:37 Avert my eyes from what is worthless; by your way give me life.
Becoming our very being? Christians have enemies who want to rob us of the blessing of God.