Leading Heads of Psalms
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Leading Heads of Psalms: Psalm 40; Psalm 12
SA 40Faithful endurance, in the day of such manifest weakness that the enemy scoffs, as despising the oppressed righteous; but in that day He confesses the Lord as His trust, and triumphs in spirit, in the deep and blessed intelligence of the things to follow after-such the actings of the Spirit of Christ.
SA 12Psa. 12
The poor and the needy, in the midst of abounding and prevailing evil, turns to the Lord for help, and in Him finds relief; His pure words to sustain the heart, in place of words of vanity that grieve, that vex a righteous soul; and in this peaceful repose of faith all is blessed triumph for the afflicted and poor people: such was the patient endurance of Christ in the day of His humiliation, and such the spirit of faith, in the saints now sustained by Him, who suffered, being tempted.
Leading Heads of Psalms: Psalm 7
Leading Heads Of Psalms.
SA 7Psalm 7.—In the sufferings of Christ, in the day of His humiliation, He looked up unto Him that was able to save Him from death. No delivering power was sought in the earth; but He cried unto GOD against its oppressive power; and here is the patience and faith of the saints.
Righteousness and grace had no restraining power, when presented in all their blessedness in the person of Christ; nor have they on evil men, when found by His Spirit, in His saints. They rather provoked evil nature, and drew out its enmity; but the righteous makes his complaint unto GOD, in patient endurance.
While in the earth, righteousness was rejected in Christ; He looked up, and now a new thing is seen. The enemies are cast down; the name of the Lord is honored; and the congregation of the peoples compass Him about; and such intelligence of blessed victory given to the saints in Christ, led. by His Spirit, as the truth is in Him. Such the just living by faith.
And now the end of all is seen; the wicked perishing in his own pit, and the righteous praising the Lord Most High.
Leading Heads of Psalms: Psalm 1-2
Leading Heads Of Psalms.
SA 1-2Psa. 1, 2 -The righteous man flourisheth; and the Lord of the inheritance set up. The order is blessed: first, righteousness established in Him who was separate from sinners; then the men of the earth set against the Just One; but His triumph in resurrection, and the inheritance given to Him and given by Him to those who overcome in and by him. See Rev. 2:26-27. Compare John 17:22.
Leading Heads of Psalms: Psalm 8
Leading Heads Of Psalms.
SA 8Psa. 8-The glory of Christ in the kingdom, unfolded by Him who knows the end from the beginning. In Matt. 21, when a sample of the kingdom was given, in the king riding into Jerusalem, Jesus quoted and applied this Psalm to it. Again, the apostle calls the things of it "the world to comer brought out consequent to the sufferings of Christ, and His present place at the right hand of God, crowned with glory and honor, when all things shall be put under him, which we do not now see.
Then will the name of the Lord be excellent in all the earth; His glory set above the heavens; the enemy and the avenger stilled; the babes praising His name; everything that hath breath praising the Lord.
Leading Heads of Psalms: Psalm 6
Leading Heads Of Psalms.
SA 6Psa. 6-Righteousness expressed in deep sorrow and bitterness under chastisement from the Lord. This bitter indeed, because joy and communion with the Lord is hindered; but in the spirit of righteousness, the appeal is to the mercy of the Lord. In that day the enemies of the righteous prevailed; but when the chastisement was past, then too did their power cease.
Mark the difference between the bitter experience in this Psalm, because it was the Lord, and the uninterrupted joy of Psa. 3, 4, because it was only man; and therefore joy and communion with the Lord was unhindered. This intelligence is very blessed. It is the very contrast with unrighteous men; communion is unknown to them, the want of it is no sorrow; but they have no escape to the sanctuary in the day of trial at the hand of man, and under this they sink.
Leading Heads of Psalms: Psalm 9
Leading Heads Of Psalms.
SA 9Psa. 9-The outbreathings of the Spirit of Christ in this Psalm are most blessed-for in spirit He is in the things of glory, while in circumstance in the trials of rejected righteousness down here-and yet out of them in communion in the things to follow after: this, the blessed power of faith and patience of the saints, sustained and led by the Spirit of God. The enemies are seen defeated, though still in their own triumph. The faithful in Christ Jesus are triumphant in Him, though still, as sheep for the slaughter here. The principle is large and blessed, whether for those to be gathered in Zion, or for those to meet the Lord in the air: intelligent faith triumphs above present weakness in both-all to the praise of our one supreme Lord.
SA 10Psa. 10-The Spirit of Christ, detecting the imaginations and purposes of the evil man, and in abhorrence of them crying out unto the Lord, from the place of humiliation, for righteous judgment.
Ver. 16-18.-Power consequent on humiliation, because of the Lord reigning, and righteousness established. Blessed are they that endure in patience.