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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 107 February 14, 2010 (1.10.107)
O GIVE thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2: Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3: And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
4: They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5: Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6: Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7: And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8: Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9: For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
10: Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
11: Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
12: Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
13: Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
14: He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
15: Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
16: For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
17: Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18: Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
19: Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
20: He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
21: Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
22: And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
23: They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
24: These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
25: For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
26: They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
27: They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
28: Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29: He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
30: Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
31: Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
32: Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
33: He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
34: A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35: He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
36: And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
37: And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
38: He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
39: Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
40: He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
41: Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
42: The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
43: Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of 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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