Tabatha

Each Beatitude tells how to be blessed. " Blessed " means more than happiness. It implies the fortunate or enviable state of those who are in God's kingdom. The Beatitudes don't promise laughter, pleasure, or earthly prosperity. To Jesus " blessed means the experience of hope and joy,Independent of outward circumstances. To find hope and joy, the deepest form of happiness follow Jesus no matter what the cost. With Jesus announcement that the kingdom was near( 4-17 ) people were naturally asking "How do I qualify to be in God's kingdom? Jesus said that God's kingdom is organized diferently from worldly kingdoms. In the kingdom of heaven, wealth and power and authority are unimportant. Kingdom people seek different blessings and benefits, and they have different attitudes. Are your attitudes a carbon copy of the world's selfishness, pride and **** for power. Or do they reflect the humility and self-sacrifice of Jesus, YOUR KING! (Isaiah 61: 2-3 ) To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. (3) and provide for those who grieve in Zion--to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes. the oil of gladness. instead of mourning, and a garment of praise. instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness. a planting of the Lord. for the display of His splendor.

There are least four ways to understand the Beatitudes. (1) They are a code of ethics for the disciples and a stardard of conduct for all believers. (2) They contrast kingdom values( what is eternal) with wordly values( what is temporary) (3) they contrast the superificial"faith" of the Pharisees with the real faith Christs wants (4) They show how the Old Testament expectations will be be fulfilled in the new kingdom. These beatitudes are not multiple choice-- pick what you like and leave the rest. They must be taken as a whole. They describe what we should be like as Christ's followers. Jesus began His Sermon with words that seem to contrdict each other. But God's way of living usually contradicts the world's. If you want to live for God you must be ready to say an do what seems strange to the world. You must be willing to give when others take. To love when others hate. To help when others abuse. By giving up your own rights in order to serve others. You will one day receive everything God has in store for you. ( The Fruit of the Spirit. ) ( Galatians 5:22-23 ) Please forgive me John I messed up on this I did not mean to put the quote in there it was an error on my part. I am so sorry. Tabatha

nd leave the rest. They must be taken as a whole. They describe whatwe should be likeas Christ's followers

Hello My name is Christine Gould ( Tabatha ) I live in Grass Valley Ca. It is in the mountains. I enjoy these bible studies so much. I have learned things from the word I had forgotten. I do so appreciate Pastor Ralph. I get more from these studies than I do in the churches. I have been in the ministeries for 25 years and it seems the churches are going to kindergarten. I want so much of an intimate relation ship with the Almighty God. I hunger for His presence. Not a social club. Thank you Pastor Ralph God Bless.

( Psalm 34: 18- 22 ) Delight in prayer is evidence of grace. The righteous cannot be silent. The watchful Lord hears every movement of their humble spirits. He quickly comes to bind up the mourning heart, and deliver from the grasp of sorrow. ( verse 20 ) encouragement to the brokenhearted.) Jesus at once appears. We learn from this particular, to seek Him throughout these Hymns. He never is far distant from the eye of faith. When Jesus was lifted up on the cross, the soldiers drew near to break His legs; but He was marvelously dead, and so they touched Him not. Believers tread, also, the path of countless sorrows, but they lead to everlasting rest. No vital injury ensues. The Lord restrains the malice of the foe. There may be many wounds, but they are not to death. How sad is the reverse of this sweet picture! There is a multitude who throng the paths of evil. The Lord's averted look to them is misery and death. ( verse 21-22 ) To be redeemed. by God means to me to be set free by the blood of the Lamb. I have been saved from the world I used to be in. I no longer belong to Satan. Because of the cross I belong to Jesus. I am redeemed by the blood shed on the cross by Jesus. How do we avoid condemnation? ( verse 22 ) The wicked embrace evil. It is a viper which will suck their blood. They greedily drink the cup, but it is deadly poisen. Seek the Lord. He gives His Son to be complete redemption. He gives the joy of His presence now. There is now no lonely day, and soon there will be countless saved . May we be there!

God's never-failing care demands unfailing praise. Sheltered beneath the refuge of His wings, may we sing gratefully. ( Psalm 34; 1-3 ) This precious record of experience is common to the whole family of faith. They have the common portion of fear and trouble, but in all distress their course is the same. They seek the Lord, They turn their eyes to Him. To Him they raise the suppliant cry. WE all are gladdened by the like result. We are all heard---- relieved, delivered, saved. We never hang our heads depressed in shame. Oh! happy people! One, also is our grateful task. We in our deliverance shout to the Lord in exualtation of gratutude. Our spirits are released from bondage and once more we lift our hearts in joyful adoration of worship. In praising continually I am singing in the language of the Spirit all day. My thoughts are towards the Lord Jesus. There are times when I am in the car I am singing out loud, in the grocery store I am quietly praying for those around me, When I am taking walks I am thanking Him for all His creation.

( Ephesians 2:20 ) Built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. ( verse 21 ) In Him the whole builiding is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. ( 1 Peter 2:7 ) Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, " The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone. " ( verse 4 ) As you come to Him, the living stone---rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him--- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a Holy Priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ( Psalm 118: verses 22-23 ) Christ is again manifest. He has been, and He still is, the despised and rejected of men. But He is The head stone of the corner. He is the foundation on which His Church rests, and the ornament of the beautiful fabric. It was a glorious day when, rising from the dead, He was displayed as the Son of God. It is indeed to each believer a glorious day when He shines in their hearts as all their salvation. ( " See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed. " ) ( Isaiah 28: 16 ) ( verses 25- 27 ) Shall we not bless Him who comes in the name of the Lord? Shall we not bring our hearts and souls as a willing sacrifice to Him? While we live let us bless and serve Him. This will be our glad occupation throughout eternity. Let the song now begin which can never conclude, " His mercy endures forever." You are my God and I WILL praise you forever, I WILL exault You!

This hymn has been, and still is the delight of Christian heart. Its prevading note is a call to adoring joyful ( noise ) praise. Praise is due to our God, because of His sovereignty, and His tender care. May praise ever fill our hearts and dwell on our lips! The feeling should be mighty in our hearts, It should be our chief joy to render service to the Lord. We are called to dwell in realms of Happiness and joy. Our whole existence should give a good report of His gracious dealings. His worship should be our constant pleasure ( Verse 3-5 ) It is good to call others to the knowledge of the Lord. This is a wondrous theme, and well demands our utmost powers. We should commend His glorious supermacy. But who can tell His essence as God! Each call us to proclaim Him in varied terms. We live on earth; Where did we aquire our being? His will called us from nothingness to be living souls. But we are His forever by His covenant-engagements. He has chosen us to be His favored flock. He has selected us to be the sheep of His pasture. It is through His grace that we are brought to revel in the rich pastures and to draw water with joy out of the wells of His salvation. Shall we not then throng His courts with praise, and cause His sanctuary to resound with adorations! Again and again topics of praise abound around us. With joyful lips let us speak of all His goodness. It is unsearchable, un merited, infinite, everlasting. Let us here begin the testamony which can never end. From age to age His truth shall live; from age to age let joyful lips proclaim it! AMEN.

The Psalms thus close. But praise shall never end. Let praise be the constant ecstasy of all our powers and all our time. Eternity will prolong, but never end the strain. ( Psalm 150 : 1 ) " Praise the Lord. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the firmament of His power." Exhortation still stirs up praise. Worthy, indeed, is the Lord to be praised throughout the universe. Let His praise be heard in the public service of His house, where His saints assemble to magnify His name. Let it swell in the highest heavens, where angelic hosts and all the redeemed lift up their joyful voices in adoring strains. When spiritual service takes its enlightening place, let every faculty make our hallelujahs sweet and loud. They exceed all admiration. Redemption causes love to overflow in wonder. It excites our loudest shouts. ( Verse 6 ) " Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord." Fitting is the grand conclusion of this book of hymns and odes and spiritual songs. Let us obey the just command. Every breath is God's free gift. Let every breath fly upward on the wings of adoration. But all our efforts can scarcely reach the outlines of due praise. May the Lord inspire us more and more!! May we thus prepare to praise Him better when we cast our crowns before His throne. Praise the Lord. Amen and Amen. These exercise's have inspired me to go deeper in worship. They have given me a hunger to come into the presence of the Almighty in a more personal way, to know Him more intimately with a longing as I have never felt before. Praise be to His name. Amen. Christine ( Tabatha )

( Verse 51:17 ) " The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." God is a Spirit, and His eye is on a spiritual service. He does not turn with indifference from a spirit broken and crushed, and ground to powder, by the weighty hand of the accusing law. He sees the buddings of real faith, and true apprehension of the appeasing victim. He is ever ready to bind up that which is broken. Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. God wants a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. You can never please God by outward actions----no matter how good--- if your inward heart attitude is not right in broken sorrow of repentence for the sin it is not right. When you genuinely intend to stop and turn away from the sin God is pleased with this kind of humility.

Pardon is still the foremost thought in the contrite Psalmist's mind. He supplicates it under another image. He fears lest God should keep his sins in the light of His countenance. He therefore prays that an averted look should no more have them in view. Conscious of innumerable transgressions, and feeling need of entire pardon, he beseeches that not one single offense should remain unsprinkled by the obliterating blood. Desire of pardon is linked to earnest longing for renewing and sanctifying grace. The cleansing of the heart is the absolute work of God. It is a new creation. It is calling that into existence which no power of man could accomplish. Conscious of utter impotence, the cry struggles for creating and renewing grace. Supplication is added for continuance of God's life-giving presence, and the perpetual indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Remembrance of some special sin will often haunt the heart. A frightful specter will stand before the eyes. It was so now with David. The dreadful thought was present, that his abominable sin had caused a fellow-creature's death. He saw that his hands were stained with blood of another human. He must be a stranger to all peace,until sure of deliverance from his heinous guilt. With his soul, therefore, he prays that such mercy might be given unto him. The result would be sure; he would be loud in praise, proclaiming that God was a covenant-keeping God, and righteous in fulfilling His promises to forgive all sin through the atoning blood. Obliteration of guilt is again implored in terms fragrant with Gospel-sweetness. Faith clearly sees the purpose of sacrificial rites. It knows that the blood streaming from the dying victim foreshowed the blood of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. It knows that this blood is expiation perfect, entire, and forevermore; that its sprinkling removes every stain of evil, and makes the contrite believer pure as purity can be in the sight of God.

The real character of sin is rebellion against God. This constitutes its essence, its magnitude, its malignity. Doudtless fellow-men may be most grievously injured and outraged and afflicted. Many may be wounded; many tears may have been drawn forth, but the main evil assails God. The blow is aimed at God's supremacy. Hence God's truth and justice are exalted to their highest pinnacles. In every threat, in every denunciation, in every execution of vengeance, homage is rendered to these essential attributes. When sin is punished, holiness is vindicated. Sin is here traced to nature's original corruption. The tree is radically corrupt. No good fruit can hang from its branches. The spring is poisoned, the waters which flow from it are polluted. When Adam yielded to the tempter's wiles, the whole line of his descendants perished in him. Sad, indeed, is our case, except redeemimg grace transplant us from the ruined stock, and grafts us into the heavenly vine. When sin is deeply felt and openly confessed, conscience feels that God requires true sincerity throughout the heart. The folly of mocking God with unmeaning tears or unreal prayers is felt; and there is most earnest supplication to God to implant wisdom in the heart and soul, to guide in the way everlasting.

Great is the anguish of the soul, when first the Spirit reveals sin. Day brings no joy, and night supplies no ease. An intolerable burden oppresses the mind. This is the Lord's hand. Thus He shakes from security's delusive pillow. Thus He directs the footsteps to the cross. But until Christ is seen, What misery is undergone! Feverish heat fries up the pores. The frame is parched, as plains beneath the sultry sun. The body weakens; the bones are tottering as in extreme old age; the howls of grief betray the tortured mind. At length relief is found. God is revealed as pardoning all sin in Christ. The glories of the saving cross is shown. The contrite sinner flies in haste. He lies in deep humility. He pours out every secret of his melted heart. He recounts the train of life long iniquity; He confesses, " Thus and thus I have done." The mass is mountain-high. The stain is deeper than scarlet-dye. The language of the cross is heard- all is forgiven! all is blotted out! Sometimes we resist the truth about ourselves because of pride, also the enemy has blinded us to our own selfishness. We never realize we are being deceived until we are there. Denying our sins at times is just plain stubborness, we don't like to admitt we can be wrong in the life we have chosen. If through grace we have received Christ. There is redemption through His blood, repentance brings forgiveness of all our sins. His cross redeems from transgression, inquity, and sin. His righeousness hides all guilt, that God's omniscient eye no more discerns it. His blood wipes out all record of iniquity. For the believer's sin may be searched for, but thet shall not be found. Such blessedness is the fruit of faith. The honest mind, the truthful heart, the honest purpose, are the fruits of repentance.

OH CHRISTIAN. WAKE UP!!!! " Wake up, wake up ! " Put on the armour today! Read the word! Fast and pray! For Satan has desired to sift you like wheat. He'll shake you and cast you to the winds! He'll try and destroy your life, your goals and testamony too! " So hide God's word in your heart! So that you will not sin against God! Wake up! Wake up! Put on the whole armour of God! ( Psalm 27 ) I felt reading this God was speaking about being alert against the on coming war of the enemy. (Spiritual warfare )

The suffering Jesus thus described His miserable state. In graphic terms He tells of His extremity of agony and His extremity of weakness. The pain of the cross was bitterest pain; the weight of the body, suspended by the nailed hands and feet, violently strained the whole frame. It was almost dislocation of each bone; every joint was wrenched. But still no bone may suffer fracture. A clear type announced their soundness, and wondrously was the type fulfilled. The picture shows the whole frame dissolving; it retains no firmness, no consistency; it utterly yields and flows away in weakness, As wax melts, softens, and offers no resistance to subduing heat, so the heart lay prostrate beneath subduing misery. What is so weak and brittle as the clay of the potter baked and dried up by fire? So the fire of God's wrath brought down to nothingness the Sufferer's strength. The parched mouth showed that the vital fluids were dried up, and death usurped uniturbed dominion. In all His anguish Jesus realizes His Heavenly Father's hand. This is your doing. I sink into the dust of death. But Your hand thus lays Me low. Jesus thus dies, because His people were thus sentenced; and He thus mounts the cross to die their death, that He might bear to the uttermost their curse. He mercifully selects a term to show how exactly He bore their penalty. The sentence said, " Unto dust you shall return." Jesus calls God to witness. " You have brought Me into the dust of death." This wonderful passage establishes beyond all controversy that none but Jesus is the subject of this Psalm. To no one else can these terms apply. In Him they receive entire and exact fulfillment. Another prophets writes, " They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced." The history relates the very fact. No ground is left on which unbelief can place its foot. Let us give thanks, knowing that by these wounds we are saved, by these strips we are healed. The very garments of our suffering Lord are here foretold; The seamless texture of His upper vest; the mode in which they are distributed; the Roman soldiers utterly without knowledge of this scripture, devoid of all intention to accomplish, worked them out to the very letter. It is a wonderous word, " These things also the soldiers did."

We take a stand at Calvary. The Cross is erected. Jesus, The God-man, our substitue, our Redeemer, hangs there. We look, and we receive assurance that truly He is bearing our curse, and drinking to the dregs our cup of wrath, and receiving into His inmost soul the sword of justice, and suffering the extremities of anguish as the penalty for our sins. Here we have fullest proof that our Lord's sufferings were real; but they were not for Himself. They were all really substitutional. We have a real curse bearer, and we really suffer in Him But against all feeling, when all things were most adverse, faith still survives and retained hold of God. From desertion's lowest depth faith cried, " My God, My God" Jesus foresaw His deep humiliation. He takes the place of a scorned reptile. He is considered scarcely worthy to be ranked on a level with the Human race. In after days the prophet sounded a similar note of degradation. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from Him. Let us gratefully remember that His low estate is our exaltation. He thus sinks that we may be uplifted.

This psalm is pure gospel; it is only, and wholly, concerning Christ, the Messiah promised to the fathers and expected by them. It is plain that the Jews of old, even the worst of them,so understood it, however the modern Jews have endeavoured to pervert it and to rob us of it; for when the Lord Jesus proposed a question to the Pharisees upon the first words of this psalm, where he takes it for granted that David, in spirit, calls Christ his Lord though he was his Son, they chose rather to say nothing, and to own themselves gravelled, than to make it a question whether David does indeed speak of the messish or no; for they freely yield so plain a truth, though they foresee it will turn to their own disgrace, ( Math 22:41 ) Of Him therefore, no doubt, the prophet here speaks of Him and of no other man. Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the office of a prophet, of a priest, and of a King, with reference both to his humiliation and His exaltation; and each of these we have here an account. I. His prophetical office ( Psalm 110 2 ). 2. His priestly office ( Psalm 110 4 ) 3. His Kingly office ( Psalm110 : 1, Psalm 110:3, Psalm 110 5, psalm 110 6 ). 4. His estates of humiliation and exaltation ( Psalm 110:7 ). In singing this Psalm we must act faith upon Christ, submit ourselves entirely entirely to Him, to His grace and government, and saved, for ever, and as the prophet, priest, and King, of the whole church, who shall reign till He has put down all opposing rule, principality, and power, and delivered up the kingdom to God the Father.

Several psalms are called Messianic because of their prophetic descriptions of Jesus the Messiah ((Christ ) ----His Life, His death, resurrection, and future reign. David, who may have been the author of this psalm , was a shepherd , soldier, and king . We can see that he was also a prophet ((Acts 2: 29, 30 ) because this psalm describes the rebellion of the nations and the coming Christ to establish His eternal reign. This Psalm is often mentioned in the New Testament ( Acts 4: 25,26; 13:33; Hebrews 1:5, 6; 5;5 ; Revelation 2: 26,27; 12:5; 19::15 ) (9 Verse 2 ) " The Kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot against the Lord and against His anointed one. " Why do you think the apostles saw this passage as referring to Jesus the Messiah? Those who occupy earth's highest seats are fierest to oppose Jesus. The Herods and Pilates take determined stand. The council of the priests and elders meet in secret assembly. In the beginning it was so. The same hatered has defiled suceeding thrones and courts. Against whom is rage? Tremble, O earth, turn pale, you heavens. This fury assails the Lord Jehovah and His beloved Son. The Father sends the Son anointed by the Spirit to be the promised Savior, to execute the all-saving offices of Prophet, Priest, and King, to bless the Church with every blessing. And earth's chiefs combine to tread Him beneath insulting feet. Give ear! this is their frantic--" Let us break their chains," they cry, " and free ourselves from this slavery." ( Verse 12 ) " Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him" Mercy still warns. It points to Jesus. It exhorts to give Him Homage, because it is His due-- to worship Him to whom all praise belongs--- to love Him who has so loved us as in our stead to die. It forbids delay. Until our hearts be wholly His, we totter on destruction's brink! One spark of kindled wrath excludes forever from salvation's way. What, then, will be their doom against whom. It is in faith. Faith is saving and the happy grace. It tightly clings to Christ. It trusts Him at all sseasons for all things.

PSALM 51 Oh Lord, I am weak I have stumbled over rocks in the road. I fell down and dirty did get Thy best I did miss and your laws I did break I am sorry dear Lord! FORGIVE ME I PRAY!!! have mercy upon me, O GOD According to Thy Lovingkindness According to Thy multiplied mercies! Blot out my sins, Oh Lord Wash me throughly from my trangressions And my sin is ever before me! Ever! Ever!... It's before my eyes! Oh God... my failure I cannot forgrt Day and night it haunts me, O Lord against THEE....Thee only, have I sinned And done this evil in Thy sight! Wash me,and I shall be whiter than snow Make me to hear once again joy and gladness, Oh Lord!.., That the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide Thy Face from my sins And blot out all mine iniquities! Create in me a clean heart, O God....... And renew a right Spirit within me! Cast me not away from Thy presence And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me! Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation And uphold me with Thy free spirit! Then will i teach transgressors Thy ways, And sinners shall be converted unto Thee For I have found out how human and weak I am, O Lord! Deliver me, O God of my salvation, And Thy Praise I will sing! O Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall shew forth Thy Praise! Sacrifices Thou dost not ask .........But a broken spirit. A broken and a contrite heart, O God Thou wilt not despise. I humbly ask of Thee, FORGIVE ME I PRAY, And Thy Praises I will sing And in Thy Path will I walk the rest of my days!

Why are love and trustworthiness so important as the bedrock of the Old Testament faith? Of course, we've seen these character anchors lauded in other psalms, but as we revisit them in this short psalm don't pass them over lightly. His love and faithfulness are the bedrock of our faith: ( 1 ) God is Love. ( 2) God can be trusted. Praise God. ( 1 ) " O praise the Lord, all you nations; praise Him, all you people." Warm desire should swell in every heart that due praise to God dhould be as the surrounding atmosphere. Throughout the world no creature lives who is not daily laden with blessings from the Creator's hand. Sad it is that the blinded eye sees not the gracious Giver, and the silent lips give no acknowledgement. This thought should quicken the heart of zeal. Warm should be our efforts to send the messengers of truth throughout the length and breadth of the earth. The constant desire should be to tell of God's love in Jesus. and to invite to the cross. Hearty praise will then sound loudly from ransomed souls. ( 2 ) "For His merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord". The merciful kindness of the Lord is a boundless theme. We see it inscribed on all the works of creation. We see it shining in the glories of redemption.What could have been done more for His people that the Lord has not done for us? The great God, even Jesus, is our full salvation. There is pardon in His precious blood for every sin. There is a covering robe in His righteousness for every transgression. There is sanctification and renewal in His Spirit for our cold hearts. The cup of grace, of mercy, and love truly overflows. It could scarcely hold another drop. The promises of the covenant are all yes and Amen in Christ. Could God give more? Let, then our grateful cry ever swell, Praise the Lord.. New testament verse ( Romans 15: 10-11) " Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His peoples." And again " Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and sing praises to Him, all you people."

PSALM 103 ;8 Our Salvation is not dependent upon our goodness.......nor is our staying saved dependent upon our human ability to live the life. We are saved by grace through faith...... not of works, lest any man should boast! ( Eph. 2 :8-10 ) We are not saved and lost over and over. Many live in constant fear that some little mistake will send them to hell........after a lifetime of living for the Lord. They make no provision for their thinking for the "grace of God ," This constand state of frustration leads to spiritual disaster when one believes he has to be repeatedly "re-saved " because of little slips. Often this beliefs leads to an attitude of "whats the use?!I've blown it anyway! I might as well give up and go all the way." This thinking comes from a distorted knowledge of our position in Christ Jesus. The Psalmist wrote, " The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord....... though he may fall , he shall not be utterly cast down, for , for the Lord upholdth him with his Hands." ( Psalm 37;23-24 ) Our sins are under the blood of Jesus! The epistle to the Romans reads, " All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God "....but we are " justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God set forth to be a proitiation through faith in His blood , to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the for bearance of God ".... declaring God's righteourness, that He might be JUST as well as the JUSTIFIER of them which believe in Jesus. " where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works ? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law." ....Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid..... we establish the Law."! ( Romans 3:23-31; 5-9 ) He paid the price for our mistakes and failures!! ( Gal. 2:20; 3:6-14 ) I taught this in Home Bible Study

( Verse 15-18 ) ( Verses 19-20 ) " The eyes of all wait upon You; and You give them their food in due season. You open Your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and Holy in all His works. The Lord is near to all those who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth." All sustenance comes from His bountiful goodness. His open hands pours down plenteousness on earth. Holiness is His glourious attribute. Holiness is stamped on all His works. May the impress on our brow be, Holiness to the Lord! Precious is the thought that the ear nearest to us is the ear of our God, ever waiting to hear His Holy name forever and ever. ( Verses 19-21 ) " He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry, and will save them The Lord preserves all those who love Him; but all the wicked will He destroy. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh bless His Holy Name forever." Precious indeed is the promise that the desire of His servants shall be fulfilled. Salvation shall be their heritage. No Harm shall injure those who love Him .But the wicked shall be utterly consumed. May the concluding resolve be the inhabitant of our hearts! Let the universal blessings be ascribed to our Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus. ( Verses 10-12 ) " All Your works shall praise you, O Lord; and Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the Glory of Your Kingdom, and Talk of you power; to make known to the sons of men His mighty act, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom." The saints delight in extolling the name of their glorious King. Superabundant is the theme presented by His dominion. His throne is universal empire. His scepter is unbounbed sway. I am praiseing Him by telling those who do not know Jesus. By lifting up the name of Jesus to all Men He will lift me up before His Father in Heaven.

( 1 ) Which one or two aspects of God's character mentioned in this Psalm stand out to you? ( verses 1-12 ) God forgives our sins heals our diseases, redeems us from death, crowns us with love and compassion, satisfies our desires, and gives righteousness and justice. We receive all of these without deserving any of them, No matter how difficult your life's journey, you can always count your blessings -- past, present, and future. When you feel as though you have nothing for which to praise God. ( Verse 12 ) East and west can never meet. This is a symbolic portrait of God's forgiveness ----When He forgives our sin, He seperates it from us and doesn't even remember it, We need never wallow in the past , for God forgives and forgets . We tend to dredge up the ugly past , but God has wiped our record clean. If we are to follow God, we must model His forgiveness. When we forgive another we must also forget the sin.Otherwise we have not truly forgiven. ( 2 ) God's law was given first to Moses and the people of Israel. God's law presents a clear picture of God's nature and will.It was God's lawtraining manual to prepare His people to serve Him and to follow His ways. Review the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20 ).and the History of how they were given , asking God to show you His will and His way through them.

( # 1-2 ) How do verses 1-2 establish the Lord's right as King? His rightful Lordship is indisputable. We are His, and He made us. With what lowly reverence should we bow before Him! How meekly should we yield to His supermacy! How constant should our efforts be to Glorify Him with body, soul, and spirit, which are His. ( #3-6 ) What do verses 3-6 tell us about the requirements of the King? It is a grand and everlasting truth, " Without Holiness no man shall see the Lord." His dwelling is essential purity. No speck of sin can enter where He dwells. Therefore no one who ever breathed life's breath or trod this earth, except Jesus, can enter by His own right and in His own name. " He who has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from God of His salvation. ( #'s 7-10 ) What do verses 7- 10 tell us about the Glory of the King? " Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle." The guardians of the portals are represented as responding. They must be certified of the claim of Him who thus draws near. They ask, Proclaim His name, His purpose, and His right. Why is He free to enter? A ready answer cries, " The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle." Jesus has returned; He went forth strong in might to do battle. He comes crowned with all conquest Admit Him. " Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is th King of Glory." Look, He is enthroned on the right hand of the Majesty on high. May our poor hearts lift up their heads! May He there sit and rule, and reign forever! How does this Psalm speak to you in your situation? I know He is my healer, He is my protection, He is the King of Glory, When I am being attacked by the enemy in areas of my life all I have to do is call upon Him and He will answer. When I feel alone and there is an emptyness in my soul .He will fill it.