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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 104 January 17, 2010 (1.10.104)
BLESS the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
2: Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
3: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
4: Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
5: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
6: Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7: At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
8: They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9: Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
10: He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
11: They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
12: By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
13: He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
14: He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
15: And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
16: The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
17: Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
18: The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
19: He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
20: Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
21: The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
22: The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
23: Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
24: O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25: So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26: There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
27: These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
28: That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
29: Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
30: Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
31: The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
32: He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
33: I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34: My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
35: Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
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"THE truth of the Lord's coming runs like a golden thread from Genesis to Revelation. It is not a new doctrine, but an old truth . . . May we see how full the Scripture is of it, and how it runs like a golden thread." William G. Carr / June 1894
". . . (Jesus Christ) asserted that the Old Testament Scriptures were as historically true, as they were true from every other stand-point. The history of Moses He endorses –Daniel He endorses as the prophet of God in his own times: and Jeremiah also, and Elijah, Elisha, and Nehemiah; so we might go on and give name after name that the blessed Lord endorses as historically true, and connected with the very events and times in which the Old Testament related them. The very facts of the Old Testament Scriptures which modern skeptics delight to sneer at and laugh at us for believing, He takes up and endorses.
Did the fish swallow Jonah? we are sometimes asked.
The Lord Jesus says it did.
Was Jonah three days and three nights in the fish's belly, and then Was he cast up by the miraculous power of God alive?
Christ declares it was so.
Was Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt as she crossed the burning plain of Sodom?
Christ says she was.
Did the bush burn with fire, and yet was not consumed? Did God speak out of the bush?
Christ says it was so.
Was the brazen serpent lifted up in the wilderness, and when the bitten Israelite looked at it, was he healed?
Christ says that it was so.
Was the manna given in the wilderness day by day from heaven, and not on the seventh day? Yes, Christ says so.
Did the flood come and destroy them all? Was there a universal deluge? Christ says there was.
He stands by the Old Testament Scriptures then in these very points where modern though sneeringly says, "how can these things be? . . . .
(Jesus Christ) declares the Old Testament to be full of Himself: in Moses, in the Psalms, in the prophets. On the blessed resurrection morning He opened the understanding of the disciples that they might see Him in all that had been written (Luke 24:44ff).
Modern teachers tell us that there never was a tabernacle in the wilderness–that all that is said about the tabernacle in the wilderness is a mere myth–there was no such place for worship till the temple was built–it is those connected with the temple who invented the story and added it to the canon (i.e., the original inspired Text of the Scriptures) when the temple and its glory had passed away. Was it so? Our Lord endorsed the fact of the tabernacle. Our Lord endorses the fact of the Mosaic ritual, and the Levitical economy, and ascribes it to Moses: and over and over again He attests the Mosaic worship, and the tabernacle economy. The tabernacle is a history full of Himself from the beginning to end. He said, "Abraham rejoiced to see My day." One has well said, "The sacred writers made it their principal object to announce, to describe, and to honour the Saviour": and so they do too, from Genesis to Revelation. The great aim of the Old Testament Scriptures is to announce, describe, and honour the Lord Jesus, and when the Lord Jesus appeared among men He accepted the whole testimony, endorsed it all, and said, "This day are these Scriptures fulfilled in your ears," and in your sight.
I close by just reminding you that the disciples followed their Lord. In their Epistles they treat the Old Testament Scriptures in precisely the same way; and the Old and the New stand or fall together, so are they interwoven: built and based, as it were, the one upon the other. Ah! where is modern thought wrong? Modern thought seeks to adjust the Bible to itself, which is exactly the wrong way about. The right thing to do, according to divine teaching, is to adjust all human thought to the Bible. What our teachers now-a-days want is to make the Bible fit their theories, and adjust it to their way of looking at things. Oh, how many volumes are written just for this purpose to try and square the Bible-teaching with the thoughts of modern teachers. Men desire to get rid of the supernatural: but what are we without the supernatural? What power have we? What puny creatures we are apart from the eternal power–the supernatural power which the Word of God reveals as the source of all things. Oh, why should we wish to get rid of the supernatural? Rather let us cling to it, rejoice in it as a higher power than man can bring to bear, a governing spirit which carries all before it as it moves along.
Modern thought attempts to make the intellect supreme, forgetting that the intellect is depraved as a part of man's nature: that from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot the fall has done its work in man. Shall reason and intellect vaunt themselves over the revelation of God? Surely not. Modern thought seeks to depreciate the spiritual, not elevate the material: but the spiritual element, the spiritual power is the main and vital force. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh: that which is born of the spirit is spirit." What is wanted is that we should just receive the spiritual; that the spirit which God has given to us should rise above the soul and above the body, and in communion with God's Holy Spirit find its power for service, find its right sphere of life, and of development, and of all that is holy, and blessed, and true." Pastor Fuller Gooch / November 1894 (From a Christian conference in May 1895 in Edinburgh UK)
"Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee" Deuteronomy 16:17
"I have held many things in my hands and have lost them all . . . But whatsoever I have placed in God's hands - that I still possess." Martin Luther
"One of the greatest evidences of the inspiration of Scripture is that it everywhere points to Christ, the living Word. Christ is the very spirit and soul and body of the Scriptures–He is the substance of all shadows and types; and while in the Old Testament He is veiled, He is revealed in the New. He is the "Yea and Amen" of all the promises of the Word of God. He is the one signified in all the offerings and sacraments. He was proclaimed in Eden: prefigured in the Ark: pointed to in Isaac; portrayed in the lamb–pictured in the brazen serpent in the wilderness; prophesied by Moses; personified by Joshua; and He is the very centre and circumference of the Book (the Bible) . . . He is the seed of the woman in Genesis: He is the Passover lamb in Exodus: the High Priest of Leviticus; the smitten rock in Numbers; the Prophet of Deuteronomy: the captain of the Lord's hosts in Joshua; the deliverer in Judges; the mighty man of strength in the Book of Ruth; the patient man in Job; the afflicted and glorified one in the Psalms; the man of wisdom in the Proverbs; the preacher of Ecclesiastes; the beloved in the Song of Songs . . . ." William G. Carr / May 1895 |
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