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These two graces mutually reveal and react upon each other in the penitent heart.
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Exell, the Victorian homiletic scholar, identified two essential truths within this summons.
While absent from the Psalms until this passage, it surfaces repeatedly in later books: 2 Chronicles xxxvi.23, Ezra i.2, v.11–12, vi.9, vii.12–23, Nehemiah i.4, ii.4, Daniel ii.18–19 and 44, and Jonah i.9.
The psalmist's boasting is altogether different in character.
This intervention—born of her troubling dream—stands as a threefold testimony: the testimony of women to Christ, the testimony of dreams to Christ, and the testimony of suffering to Christ.
First, they robbed widows materially—devouring their houses under the facade of lengthy prayers, enriching themselves through religious pretense.
This guilt universally carries a sense of demerit.
This text diagnoses humanity's universal condition: all are liable to sin and under its dominion.
This original uprightness required five distinct faculties working in harmony: an understanding perfectly acquainted with God's law; a memory retaining all its precepts faithfully; a conscience applying it without compromise; a heart loving that law completely; and a will obedient...
The fool observes David's circumstances and draws a devastating conclusion: if serving Yahweh and trusting in His promises yields such poverty and pain, why should anyone follow Him at all?
When you sit before your meal, you behold a creature that once swam freely in waters or soared through heavens—now placed there by your authority.
The work of retribution operates as a fowler's craft—precisely, inexorably.
But Spurgeon discerned a deeper truth: the psalmist refers not merely to natural scarcity of bread, but to spiritual famine—that terrible dearth of inward hope and legal satisfaction that afflicts the soul separated from Elohim.
A son honors his father; a servant fears his master—yet Israel, the son of Yahweh, offers Him what it would not dare present to an earthly ruler.
Those who serve Elohim must continue their gleaning from morning through evening, not merely offering a morning of service before turning to pleasure.
The double plea—goodness as God's nature and goodness as God's action—becomes the believer's anchor when knowledge fails.
The last king of David's line was captured on the very ground where Israel first entered its inheritance—at Jericho, where unarmed men trusting in Elohim watched the walls collapse.
The Spirit of God who *indited* (inspired) this scripture ensured that David's penman understood a glorious truth: the Gentiles should have the use of his Psalms.
Exell (1887) identified four essential means of this prosperity.
The psalmist declares, "Thou didst deliver them"—referring to the faithful fathers who cried unto the Lord and were rescued.
Though biblical records highlight only the most striking features, Joshua's campaign likely spanned six years—not the instantaneous victory Jehovah could have granted.
The prophet presents three essential truths about obedience to Yahweh.
George Herbert, that most luminous of Christian poets, captured this vision magnificently: holiness crowns the head, light and perfections adorn the breast, and harmonious bells below raise the dead to life and rest.
Yet among all God's gifts, salvation stands supreme, both as our greatest need and His greatest gift.