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Psalm 40.
To the chief musician of Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined us, and he had heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my going.
And here for a new storm in my mouth, even praise unto our God, Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies many. O Lord, my God, are thy wonderful words, which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us were they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee.
If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Sacrifice and offering out it's not desire. Mine ears hast thou open burnt offering and sin offering? Hast thou not required? Then should I law? I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. I delight to do thy will. Oh my God, yeah, thy law is within my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation law. I have not refrained my lips. O Lord, thou knowest.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation.
I have not concealed Thy loving kindness and Thy truth from the great congregation.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me. O Lord, let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine. Iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up.
They are more than the hairs of mine head. Therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, oh Lord, to deliver me, oh Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame. That said to me, Aha, aha.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice, and be glad in thee. Let such as love thy salvation, say continually.
The Lord be magnified, but I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help, and my deliverer make no terrain, Oh my God.
Just consider these words in verse eight. I delight to do thy will. Oh my God.
We think of the one who could utter these words in the past eternity.
And say his delights were with the sons of men.
Oh, we look at this glorious person.
The delight of the Father's heart and the heavens were opened.
And he said, This is my beloved Son, in whom all is my delight.
He can be filled with praise as we think of the things that.
Are presented to us in this song.
Joy it is to think of the one who has brought us up, and we're surely waiting.
To be taken up.
So.
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We think of the last words of verse 16.
The Lord be magnified, the Lord be magnified. May that be our desire.
We were singing the opening of this meeting, but going through the veil of sorrow, and I couldn't help but think that we have great joy in being here. There's a veil of sorrow. We've been praying for many that are going through trials, and yet we have joy. And it's in this one who is to be magnified and the one who lifted us up out of the horrible pit.
And the one who was willing to come down here on our behalf? The.
Take our sins upon him and carry them away. Fear the punishment of them, so we do have joy, don't we even in the veil of sorrow beautiful to be able to look up beyond the sorrows and enjoy the person?
Before we get too quiet.
I understand that all the psalms are set to metric, that is so that they could be some.
And.
There was indeed these that had.
A rule in this line of things, I like to think that the chief musician. There's only one chief musician that can bring melody to our hearts. We know who that is, and a Psalm of David would of course be a personal experience.
We can relate to that in a personal way.
There's also a line in one hymn. Excuse me.
That speaks of the name bringing Swedish music to God's heart, and so that precious name of Jesus.
And to him he is precious, and to us is this precious is made good.
David is really the one that established the courses. That is, he had the singers and the porters.
Connected with the temple.
And the singers.
Are important. We need our hearts touched and moved.
But we don't want to forget the importance of the porters to those that are exercised in a watchful way in the Assembly.
So those two things are brought out before us. I believe it's in.
Chronicles, isn't it?
First Chronicles.
26 time Which one quarters is the 26th?
26, yeah.
I think they're mentioned together somewhere. Is that 26?
Anyway.
They are mentioned as being established of David in the temple worship.
Particularly a thought as to why it was David and not Solomon.
Do you, Neil? Would you repeat then, Neil, I didn't hear. I think it's a nice thing that you pointed out the establishment of the quarters and the singers was the establishment of David, not Saul.
Rejection that these things were established supporters for the temple and the singers.
On earth, the song begins in having more sweet and loud, and it's here we're learning those two things, Faithfulness that's connected with the porters and the singing, which is connected with our joy.
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Connection with David and his authority and his rejection.
I don't know if it's the one John was looking for, but in First Chronicles 23 Five, it says. Moreover, 4000 reporters and 4000 praise the Lord with instruments which I made that David appraised with, there were an equal number of quarters and singers, praisers.
We know that David really had it upon his heart to build the temple.
His motive was right and pure and.
The Lord turned that around and said, now David, I'm going to build up your house. And David was astounded by that and overwhelmed with the grace of God that would single out his house in that way.
And David fully recognized the failure of his house.
But.
David, it seems from that point on, that is from that expressed desire to build the temple. And when he was told that he couldn't build it, he'd been a man of blood. But we see that from that point on, David did everything he could towards the construction of that temple and towards the temple service. He it's as though he was getting everything in preparation for that millennial day.
It's beautiful to see the exercise of heart. I think he amassed something like about $26 billion in gold alone just for the temple, as well as making preparation for so many things. So we see that David through all the hard experiences he had.
He could relate to these things, and we see how many Psalms of David we have, and in this first book of the Psalms he certainly voices the the experiences and the troubles of the godly ones that they will experience in the coming day. But.
The thought of the evenness in the porters and singers.
Is good exercise for our hearts.
And it's nice to to join together in Deuteronomy or in numbers, for I think it is. It speaks there about the the service, the burden of service. But the Levites laid down their burdens. But in First Corinthians, the First Chronicles 631, I think it is. It speaks of David appointing them.
In service of song.
And it's lovely to realize that.
We have work to do here, and it's a service, but it should lead on into the service of song. And if our hearts are fixed upon Christ, out of our hearts will come that service of song now to the Lord.
Isn't it very precious to see that?
All the things written before time, which we're reading here in the in the Psalms were written for our learning and we have something we can learn here as we read this portion. I just, I'm not going to read the I just, I want to don't pass up verses but I just want to drop down to verse four. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord His trust.
David had just been saying, I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and he heard my cry. And he goes on and tells where he was, where he was brought up out of the miry clay. And it isn't that the path of each one of us. And as we have these examples brought before us, God, there's a purpose in all this. We have a divine record here of what has been done, And God sends the message to us in this present day for us to see blessed or happy.
Is the man that maketh the Lord is trust. Am I making the Lord my trust, as David did at this point? That's the point here, isn't it? To see this, to apply it practically in our lives. Because if we read it just as to its historical era, we can be confused at many times on that. But when we see the example that God has given us to point to each one as I read it, he's looking at me and he's saying you are It should be exercised, as David was.
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So I think there's something very precious in all this.
The Lord Jesus is the example as a dependent man trusting in God and.
Taste this scripture. The righteous trusted even in the you know, it's beautiful to see that that was not only characteristic throughout all of his life, even when he was on the cross, you know he turns to God and none but God.
Although he could not receive any answer, when under the punishment of God, God did answer him. Thou hast hurt me from the horns of the unicorns.
It should encourage us that when we go through difficult circumstances that we continue to cleave to him with confidence and trust, and while his life of obedience was.
No doubt a great delight to the heart of God, don't you think? It was a great delight to him when he turns to him, even when under the punishment of God. And I think we can learn from that blessed Lord he perfectly trusted. We see in Job a beautiful picture of it too, in difficult circumstances.
Well, there are things in this Psalm that we would not apply to the Lord Himself personally, would we?
But there are things that we cannot but understand when we apply it to the Lord Jesus.
And Speaking of having been heard from the horns of the Unicorn, I believe it would suggest to our minds that he cried with a loud voice. It is finished.
The horn of the Unicorn would indicate all the wrath and judgment that was due, our sins, having been expended against that blessed man, having endured the cross, having waited patiently until every stroke of judgment had been laid on him. Then he said, it's finished. He cried with a loud voice. He was in the full vigor of the intelligence of his faculty, and then having expressed its.
Finish.
In absolute confidence, he says, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit, waiting upon the Lord to give an answer. And he did.
In the resurrection of that Blessed One.
Just think of God's patience.
For 4000 years waiting till his son would come and to lay down his life in the cross of Calvary. And then we think of his patience and waiting nearly 2000 more years. And we read in the second Thessalonians of the patience of Christ waiting to come and claim his bride. And he's waited in long-suffering, because he's not willing that any should perish. And I'm glad he waited for me.
I'm sure you are too.
He's waiting for some still to come in, but we've been called home by now.
One of the hardest things for us to do is to wait, isn't it?
There are many young people here, and you know what characterizes the young? Impatience.
They want to move quickly and when they do, generally make a mistake.
Or fail. But I just thought of this little opening verse here. I waited patiently for the Lord.
And he inclined unto me.
It indicates to me that there was time given.
He waited patiently for the Lord. He might have waited for quite a while.
But I you you can talk to some of the young and some of them are here that.
We we've got to do it now. We've got to do it right. This is the now generation.
And I believe really what we need is to wait patiently, for the Lord doesn't move.
As quickly as we do, because he has a design in view, He has something in view for us. We move because we want to. But God has a purpose, and his purpose is to bless us even while we're here. And the end is eternal glory. So I think it's lovely to just just meditating a little on this. For I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined unto me. There was time given He. He listened. He waited, and and he said, He inclined unto me. He listened.
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You wanted to hear?
And he heard my cry.
Well, that's a that's a little answer to it, isn't it? If we wait patiently on the Lord, he's going to, he's going to hear it. But we don't he he doesn't want us to jump into these things and do them in a in a quick way or a half haphazard way. So I think that in a practical way as I look at this verse, I think.
Of how beautiful it is to just to wait and be patient. Patience is a virtue that very, very few of us possess. So I think it's a good thing to know that not only the younger ones, we as older ones have that problem. Unfortunately, many times the story goes that this older brother said to his brethren, pray for me, I need patience. And the brethren prayed for him. But you know what they prayed.
Sent his brother Tribulation.
The brother said. I didn't ask for that. They said you forget that tribulation workers patient, you know, and that's the way it works in our lives, beloved brother. We need that because some of us by nature are more impetuous and have more of a problem with it. But the Lord knows what to bring into our lives to teach us that lesson, perhaps over and over again.
He said that Brother Heinz, because I was about to ask Brother Charles if he would allow a brother that's not a young brother to confess that I have a problem with that and I'm thankful you. You mentioned that I'm apparently not the only one. It's a verse in Isaiah number chapter 40. I like to read it.
He giveth power to the faint verse. 29 And to them that have no mighty increases strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary.
And the young men shall utterly fail, but they that wait upon the Lord might renew their strength.
That I said, right?
They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. It's the positive. And this is a wonderful thing, brother, that when we wait on the Lord and we pray, the Lord comes in and he answers our prayers, and we bring the Lord into the circumstances, and then we see the way the Lord works it out. But this, I think, is one of those keys. And so the next verse has got the wonderful result it says. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings as Eagles. How high does an eagle mount up? I had a friend of mine, he was flying a glider up at about 20,000 feet, and the southwest neglected us to make a noise like an airplane. And all of a sudden on the wing comes this big eagle flying right along with him in the thermals, those thermal updrafts that the eagle uses. You know you can't see a thermal updraft, but you can sure feel it when you're in an airplane. These bigger planes that go up high, they bump up every once in a while. You hit a thermal at a high speed and it goes like a bump.
But when you're in a glider, you circle around in the glider, rises on the thermals. They found that out years ago, these glider pilots. Well, what do you think about the Eagle? What do you think? He flies on the same updrafts that menus with gliders. And this friend of mine told me that Eagle came over by my wing, and he looked at me as much as to say hello. What are you doing up here? You know the wonderful thing about it? He says. And that Eagle flew along with me for a while, and finally he said that all of a sudden it went higher.
I had to go down, but he had the intelligence to go a little further higher. He had a longer glide ratio than I did. Who gave the eagle the glide ratio that was longer? You know who gives you and me the glide ratio? If I could bring it into that analogy to go how high? Oh, you know, if I stand up into the heavens out there. That's what that 139th Psalm tells us. So look what it says here. They shall mount up as Eagles with wings. They shall run and not be worried. They shall walk and not be faint.
This is that Pilgrim path that we've been singing about, the path that the Saints are treading, and the secret of them is with the Lord. And that's where we have that heavenly, heavenly fellowship with the man that was here once in this world, rejected now in the glory and our hearts and our desires, the Spirit of God, would you want you and me to be in communion with that blessed man?
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Like to point something out in connection with your comment and Brother Littles comment vocation. And in Ezekiel there where you have the four faces of the beast which show the character of God and how the government wheels of God's government move slowly and patiently, you have four creatures and if you could just look at it because there's a difference there between.
Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation.
See till chapter one.
In verse 10.
And for the likeness of their faces, they forehead the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they 4/4 had the face of an ox on the left side and they four also had the face of an eagle. I understand an eagle from a very high height can see a mouse or and just come right down on a very small object. He doesn't miss anything. What would particularly arrested my comment. My thoughts about this in connection with Brother Little's comment was that here we have an ox, but in Revelation we have a calf.
And so in Revelation, it's the restless energy of a calf. But here now it's to place patient plotting of an ox. We've all seen an ox, and there's patience and slowness, so to speak, in deliberateness if you've ever seen an ox turning the millstone. But today is going to come when we're going to see it as the restless energy of a calf.
I think of this horrible pit.
And I believe we can all look back in our lives and realize.
We were an enemy of God.
We hated God.
Without a cause.
We were without God, but we hated God. We didn't want the knowledge of God.
God in his wondrous grace.
Has brought us up under this horrible pit.
He thought of the Lord Jesus.
And then in his sins and he said, let's kill him.
The Darling.
The heart of God. We hated him that much.
That he will crucify him on that cross. We hated it. We don't realize how deep the pit we were in.
Having to answer to God.
But the Psalmist could say he brought me up. And with God, it's all up, isn't it? He brought us up.
He established our goings. He's keeping us up.
And we're looking to the day when he will take us out.
My path is to take me away from God, in myself.
And go my own way.
But God loves me so much that I have one that's there for me as God is for me and He's.
Taking me along a road that would fill me with praise to God and to Thanksgiving. What a path this is a service of praise to God.
And how he delights in that which he exalts his beloved son.
The Marie Clay.
And the horrible pit showed to you and me the extent to which the Lord Jesus Christ took your place in mind.
He went down underneath. However, deep sin may have plunged me, and there is where he dealt with God as to the entire question of sin and my guilt.
And so when he has come out, we got him in the six feet Psalm.
That he would not be left in that place, the place that he took in love from my soul and yours.
In love to the Father, and going down underneath the load of sins and guilt. And so he is in that 16th song shown the way of life and burnt up out of the horrible pit. And he says at thy right hand, that's the extent to which he is exalted. Given a place, a name that is above every name, that is name every knee should bow, and every tongue confess that he is the Christ to the glory of God the Father. He is the Lord. So here we have the complete cycle of the Lord Jesus going down underneath the weight and load of all of our sins and guilt and being brought up out of that pit.
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God found us in the pit of our sins, unprofitable altogether. There we have it. And so the Lord went into that place and answered to God paid the full price of your redemption in mine. Now he's brought up, and his going has been established. He's at the right hand of God forever more.
It's a good comparison with the.
Ephesians chapter one, where we have the richest.
Revelation of of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit. And when they come to the second chapter, it's like the second verse here it's a backward look and it's a good thing for us, each one of us, to remember where we have come from. So when you read the second of Ephesians, think of the second verse and that tells us, reminds us constantly of where we have been lifted up from.
You should read the verse to his brother.
Read that verse to Ephesians 2.
Well, the whole the whole chapter of Ephesians 2 is.
You happy quickened, Who were what In trespasses and in sin? Yes, That's the thought that Yes. Yes.
Sometimes we go over these precious truths.
Remember, one said to me well.
We know all that.
Do we know it?
Ask yourself the question.
How much do you know of the grace of God?
How much do I know of the Precious Savior?
Am I really acquainted with him? I believe that the more we go over these precious things.
They're simple. They're what they call elementary, aren't they? Because it's that which God has already done for us, just noticing here.
Verses two and three he brought me up.
Out of a miry play, horrible pit in a miracle, he set my feet. I'm going to put the word he in there upon a rock. He established my goings. He has put a new song in my mouth. Even praise to our God. Do we respond when I think of that blessed one And what he endured for me on the cross bowed his holy head in death. It isn't just for this, for one hour on Lord's Day morning, that we should be praising him. We should praise him every moment of the day, every day of our lives.
And that day isn't far off. When every eye is going to praise me, every voice is going to praise him, every eye will see him. But now while we wait. But I just thought how, how precious it is. He is the one who accomplished it all for me. What is my response?
I just asked myself, he has put a new song in my mouth. He.
Praise unto our God, Do we sing that song, we just sing the words or does the song mean something for us?
I really believe that what he's saying here, he has put a new song in my mouth and.
I'd like to think of it in my heart, too.
Someone was recently telling me the man who had lived a very wicked life and he was hearing the gospel and he said, well, I just be satisfied to be forgiven.
And I was thinking of the words of Mrs. Bevins, him trembling. We had hoped for mercy, some lone placed within his door. But the crown, the throne, the mansion, all were ready long before. It might have suited that man just to be forgiven, but it wouldn't be suitable for God. God has higher thoughts for us, and so he has the the establishing of our goings, and a song in our mouth, not just to be forgiven, but a song in our mouth even praised.
For our God.
So he's given us many more things to rejoice in and give him praise for and simply to be forgiven. That's that's important. That's number one. But he piles a lot more on top of that. Although The Blessings of Ephesians one, for example.
You're thinking of the Lord Jesus said that he could.
As the stones, the worst of him.
But that isn't what he wanted. God wanted worshippers.
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And so he has chosen us.
And surely as we think of that, we think of.
What he is to us as our Father and what the Lord Jesus is as our Savior.
We think of the reality of this that.
These hymns that we have and those who have.
These hymns for us.
And the Spirit of God.
It caused us to be worshippers to be able to.
Come into the presence of God to present that sacrifice to God.
The fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name, presenting Christ to God. And I believe it's only when I.
Condone.
Through this glorious person is.
The I am the one from eternity.
The one who is the same yesterday, today and forever.
And I was young, like the Apostle Paul, who said that I might know him.
But an object we have.
Very object that God himself has, He's given to us, His beloved Son.
We should be directed by the Spirit of God into the reality.
Of who this glorious person is, what he has done, and all of this though that our lips might overflow and our hearts might overflow with praise and worship to him. And so we come, and we're here, and we're here as worshippers. We're priests here to praise and to adore him.
Brother John, I like to think of myself as one of those stones cried out. You know, my heart was a stone. And if you didn't get praise from Israel, he'd make the stones cry out. And we were without hope and without God in the world, and he put a song in our heart, and I think of that. But I just like to come back to what Brother Don said at the beginning of this. Maybe we skipped over this because I think it's important in helping us to apply these Psalms to ourselves. And that is to understand rightly the difference between Solomon and David, the character of what Solomon was doing. And This is why I believe David could have a real.
Song in his heart, though denied to do what he originally wanted to do. And together I'm Speaking of things that are well known to many. But David and solemn together form a picture of the reign of Christ. And it's most interesting and that David had not died at the time that Solomon took the throne. And so it really cements in our thoughts the thought that it is one continuous rain, but there are two characters to it now. And now we follow a rejected Savior. And So what is God doing? Is he building?
Outwardly something here now Or is he as you were pointing out? Is he appointing the porters and the singers? And that's really what God is doing. And we get our hearts into a lot of trouble if we don't realize what God is doing in an outward way. In the present time. It was for Solomon, when the Lord reigned in power that the whole assembled thing, so to speak, is going to be put together. And that's a rapture. Every St. is going to be a gathered St. at the rapture. I beseech you by our gathering together unto Him.
Coming of our Lord and our gathering together unto him.
That the Lord, when he comes, it's going to he's going to, so to speak, assemble the whole thing in an outward visible way. But now what God is doing is He's doing these two things. He's appointing the porters to watch. That comes from the French word faulter door. We think of them as somebody who carries the luggage in the hotel. But a Porter is a Porter's a door and it's one that watches the door. And then there was a there was the singers that is to sing praise to our God. And he was happy, though denied as you pointed out, what he wanted to do.
But he had a very fruitful work for God in preparing for what was going to be open in the manifestation of God.
I just point that out because there are those two characters, and if we don't understand what God is doing in our present dispensation, where we're robbed of joy and we're robbed of the privilege of serving the Lord in the way that he's really desired and set out for us.
Try to build something up in the world until we get in this first year that blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust and respect is not the proud nor such as turn aside to lives and you'll notice what the Lord said to the assembly of Philadelphia that He would make those that say they were Jews but are not but do lot. There's a lot of pride that we want a place we want to save or something that we're not in the world and we're nothing the.
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If I may apply this to our own hearts, is that for a testimony to nothing but the ruin and broken state of things. And David really had a heart after God, and so he recognized that he was a man of blood, that there was failure there, and that he was going to occupy the place. And that's really what caused him to sing and really filled his heart with joy.
But we'll get ourselves miserable if we don't see that.
So important that we that we realize some of the truths that we've been looking at.
Where were we before he picked us up? We were in the pit of destruction. We were in a place described as miry clay, where there's no sure footing, no real place to stand.
And then he sets us on a rock, and that rock is Christ. He is now put us in Him. I think of Ephesians to remember that ye were Gentiles in the flesh, the uncircumcision strangers from the Commonwealth of Israel and from the covenants of promise, having no hope without God in the world, but now in Christ Jesus.
We are now in a new place set on the rock. And then it says He established our goings. How important to realize, as he said, that without me you can do nothing. The way of man is knotted himself. It is not in man that Walketh to direct his steps. Do you know that? Do we really realize that? That you can't find your way through this world, this maze of confusion that we're passing through, But he?
Directs our steps. Now how precious that is. He establishes our goings and we can't find our way, but he knows the way and he leads us and guides us. Well, I'm just making application to the Christian life from these verses. We haven't gotten very far into the sound, but it's very precious what we're considering.
Chuck, what you give us?
Explanation.
On these verses here verse six about.
Sacrifices and offering, though it's not desire.
Mine ears hast thou opened or digged? That most certainly refers to the Blessed Lord to these following verses. It doesn't mean, does it, that he did not prescribe these sacrifices. Would you agree that he was looking forward?
To that of which these sacrifices spoke and of the one who would bring the sacrifice and what was especially to the delight of God, was his obedience. And I think that's a good principle for us to recognize. You know, a lot of people want to worship God, but what about their obedience to do the will of God in their life individually? But there is especially explanation needed as to.
My ears hairstyle ***** right?
That's beautiful to see. That's in the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation.
About 180 years before Christ.
In Alexandria, Egypt, a group of scholars translated from Hebrew to Greek.
And they translated that instead of my nearest Hast thou opened or digged a body, hast thou prepared me? And that's exactly what you get in Hebrews 10 That is the author of Hebrews the apostle Paul, I think.
Quotes from the Septuagint translation, Or at least he gives it exactly the same as found there, which shows that that's the thought of the Spirit of God. When the Lord became Incarnate, his ears were open to hear the voice of God his Father and to respond to it.
And when he had a body prepared him, he came into the place of dependence and submission and obedience. And he did it in perfection, did he not? That's what delights the heart of God, not bringing these sacrifices and going through all the ritual and the ordinances of the Old Testament, but what they pointed to, what the substance was, was Christ himself when He came.
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His ears were digged. He had a body prepared him so that he now, for the first time in his uncreated existence as the eternal God, the Eternal Son, He now takes the place of a servant and has his ears digged to respond and in obedience to the voice of God his Father. That's that's really what that's looking on to, isn't it?
The previous comment really explains the fifth verse about not being able to direct our paths because they just point out there in the fifth verse.
Many, O Lord, my God, are thy wonderful works, not my wonderful works.
And there's a lot of talking about my wonderful works, but thy wonderful works. Paul prayed that he might labor according to his working and also not our thoughts towards him, but his thoughts towards us. That was really what we want to be occupied with.
Just like to say a word for the younger ones. And that is the it's good for us as we sit here and listen that all blessing, every blessing, comes down from God.
And if you and I, younger ones here, older ones if we live in what we have heard.
We live in it in our daily life. It's going to go back to God in praise and worship and adoration. The circuitry is completed. It's not how much we know here as we sit here. It's how much I'm living. What I do know, Luke 818. To him that has shall more be given if you and I are living what we know might be small or it might be great.
But if we're living that God is going to give me more. But then the rest of the verse says to him that has not from him shall be taken, even that which he seemed to have. If I'm not living what I am saying, God is going to take away from me what I seem to have.
Very interesting. Not to belabor this thought of a song or singing, but are just going back to this verse again. In our chapter, verse three, he has put a new song in my mouth. Who put the song there?
God did. Then let's go over to Psalm 96.
Verse 10 Sing unto the Lord a new song.
Sing unto the Lord all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name, Show forth his salvation from day-to-day. Now he's put that song there and wants to hear it. So that's Psalm 96. Then go over to Psalm 144.
And we see a nice response here. I've enjoyed this.
Verse nine, I will sing a new song unto thee, O God.
Just putting those three things together, I've enjoyed that. To see that as was has been said, that the truth of God flows into our hearts and it flows in absolutely perfect.
It's in all perfection. Whatever God does for us is in all perfection. But what is the response?
As it comes out, it's checkered in many ways. It doesn't come out the same way.
That it went in. So I think it's good to be reminded of these things over and over again, isn't it?
There's another one in the 5th chapter of Revelation, Charles. And they sung a new song saying thou art worthy.
That's what we're looking forward to in the heavenly choir, but we're in the enjoyment of it now.
Brother Mearns, you gave us a nice thought on the new song in Revelation.
It isn't just one particular song repeated over and over again, is it? What was your thought again?
My thought was that God is infinite in his resources.
We learned that at school that a study was made of snowflakes, and they found that there weren't 2 snowflakes alike and we can apply that to the sand of the sea or the grass in the middle and so on. And so with the Lord Jesus, when we get to glory, I believe that there be a continual unfolding of beauties and graces and loveliness.
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Proceeding from him by the Spirit to you and I, and this, I think, will form the basis of our new song.
We learn a new song down here and we sing it maybe six or seven times. Is not new anymore, but up in glory. There be a provision made through these continual duties being unfolded from the Lord which will so enthrall us that we'll put it into song and it'll continue on for eternity. Thank you.
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness towards us through Christ Jesus. There it is, isn't it?
The fruit of the Spirit.
In the 5th of Ephesians.
Ephesians 5 and.
Speaking to yourselves in Psalms.
Then hymns and spiritual songs, This place we see that.
Truth that to be filled with the Spirit.
Verse 18 But be filled with the Spirit speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
We sing. Jesus Loves Me. We sing many children's hymns.
We enter into those things.
And they warm our hearts, don't they?
Spirit of God.
Before us in this.
Hymn book that we have for this glorious person and as the Spirit of God.
Causes us to.
Enter into that speaking to yourselves. They speak something to us individually, but when we sing them together, we enjoy them individually and collectively.
So this new song and what a.
A day of eternity, eternal day we speak on. I knew some that we will sing together, but individually and we will be individuals up there. I believe we'll enter into it as well.
Collectively, we're singing out in praise to him.
Just thinking of this expression in the 9th and 10th, 1St, both the great congregation that David speaks about and what answers to it, we know that Israel had 12 tribes and there were 12 loaves on the table of showbread that represented each one of the tribes. And now when we meet as gathered to the Lord's name, there's one loaf that speaks of one body. And if you return over later in the book of the Psalms.
We have an expression, I believe that is our continual privilege.
Connection with this in the 116th song.
Verse nine, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
I believe therefore I have spoken. I was greatly afflicted. I said in my haste, that all men are liars. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of salvation. I will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the presence of all his people.
Well, I just point that out that David Dole here in the Psalm, that now there was a fractured state of things, that the 10 tribes have been separated, they've gone off today. They don't know where they are for the most part. There were few that had come back.
Tribe of Asher and so on. But they don't know where they are. And yet here he could say, I said my haste, that all men were liars, and we may have to say that too, as we look around and we see the broken state of things. But he said, I'll pay my choice vows in the presence of all his people and the great congregation. And though we don't see things outwardly now in that state, that in spirit and in practice we can be at the Lord's table where every child of God is represented.
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And being at the Lord's table is the only place where we can bring our praise our songs to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
We've heard that said, you know, brother, I think it was from Smith's Falls, he said. To a Christian, he said, I saw you last Lord's Day at the.
Break your bread. And he said, well, I wasn't there. He said, I saw you there. And we do. We see every believer there. And so it is. Well, outwardly it's things have broken down. We can say I pay my choice vows in the presence of all his people. And I believe that that's what the great congregation answers to it. We don't. Our hearts haven't narrowed us to that. But there is a place where we can do that. There was a place in Israel where they could do that. So the tribes were scattered and there's a place for us where we can do that now.
That's where the quarters come in to come back to. That is the porters come in back to that is that in faithfulness that that place be preserved the Lord will.
Maintain a light in Jerusalem for David his servants sake. But the quarters are necessary to maintain that place and that's where responsibility comes in, in connection with that, that there might be a clean place where we can come and sing and to to speak of these things.
Tender mercies towards us and so on.
In respect to singing, and I'm almost fearful to even refer to it, but there needs to be a real exercise that what we sing.
Is founded upon the word of God, and, as has been suggested, is the outflow of the enjoyment of the truth of God we saw in speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
In Colossians, it tells us that we are to admonish one another and to encourage one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual.
So on As a result of the Word of Christ dwelling in our hearts richly. So it's very important what we sing. We notice, and many of us have enjoyed over the years, the fact that real singing only began after the children of Israel were delivered from Egypt. And so when we come into the knowledge of the forgiveness of sins and realize that the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has introduced us in the presence of God, it certainly incites our hearts to song.
But we dearly be exercised about what we sing, so that it builds up the Saints, so that it lifts the Spirit of the Saints to be occupied with the Lord Jesus Christ their needs dearly to be substance to what we sing.
And in connection with what you just said, your verses like verse 14 and 15, let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me a ha ha, Those are not Christian sentiments. They apply to the Jewish remnant. And it would be proper for them to so speak and sing.
But as you were saying, we ought to sing with intelligence. That wouldn't be something we'd sing because we're Christians, we're not Jews. And it's important that we realize that when we're singing, we're giving expression to the truth of God and to the position that he set us in. And it's a different one entirely, is it not from Judaism. So it's good to make that distinction. Not everything that's in the Psalms can be taken up.
And become the experience of a Christian. It wouldn't be so. There are expressions in the Psalms that are anti Christian. Actually we are to pray for our enemies and to do good that hate us and to them that hate us and so on. But for the Jew who was surrounded by enemies and they were earthly enemies, these sediments are proper. They can't come into their blessing until the enemy is destroyed and punished and judged. But our enemies already been destroyed and judged at the cross.
And we come into our blessings. Now we have them. Now we're just waiting for that crowning day when we'll have it. Even in our bodies. Our bodies will be redeemed. And when it says in Ephesians with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, that doesn't mean literally psalms from the Old Testament.
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I know there are different thoughts as to.
How to explain?
That verse in the New Testament, but I have enjoyed that It speaks of our experiences that we go through the difficulties and we have a lot of hymns that express that line of things and what the Lord is to us in our difficulties. I know others think that it has to do with expressing scriptural truth, right? But still I enjoy both thoughts.
There are those.
Christians who try to literally take that and put the sounds the Old Testament Psalms into melody and sing them. There are a lot of things that we can express even as Christians that are given in the Psalms, but we have to use spiritual discernment as to what is suitable for us as Christians and what is not seeing number 95 together.
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Seen allowed to God our strength, our strength.
He has brought us hitherto.
Thing with wonder of his love, he is.
Sing no loud to God.
Right here.
All of you, and you're speaking well. And I swore out of that time when I will walk I fall in heaven to do.
That you had number 95.
Number 95.
Break forth and sing.
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Every heart and I understand she will pray last day to our managing.
Oh.