Then cry out: 'Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.' Sermons
I. GOD IS "EVER COMING TO JUDGE" IN THE WITNESS OF MEN'S CONSCIENCES. No man has to wait for his judgment. He has it at once in the inward conviction of the rightness or wrongness of his action. We should never, in our thought, separate conscience from the inward voice of God our Judge. II. GOD IS EVER "COMING TO JUDGE" IN THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SIN AND SUFFERING. Suffering being the proper issue of sin, and necessarily connected with it by God in order to reveal its character. All suffering may be regarded as a beginning and present illustration of God's judgment. III. GOD IS EVER "COMING TO JUDGE" IN THE CONVICTIONS WROUGHT BY THE PRESENCE AMONG US OF HOLY MEN. Illustrate how Enoch and Noah carried God's judgment on their sinful generation, in the conviction produced by their holy lives. And in the fullest sense this was true of the Lord Jesus as the holiest of men. His presence among them was God's abiding judgment on a sinful and adulterous generation. ]n measure the same is true still of both private and public spheres - the presence of holy men and women tests us, and, too often, both judges and condemns. IV. GOD IS EVER "COMING TO JUDGE" IN THE ORDERINGS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE. Calamities, and even disappointments, are signs of the Divine presence recognizing and dealing with wilfulness and sin. And this is quite as true when we are able to trace the natural laws according to whose legitimate workings the calamities or failures may have come. V. GOD IS SURELY ALSO COMING WITH HIS FINAL JUDGEMENT ON THE LIVES AND RECORDS OF NATIONS AND OF MEN. Of that fact we are well assured; of the manner and method of it we have only as yet vague poetical figures, which we are unable to trans- late into earthly fact. Enough is told us to make the thought of coming judgment a present moral power. David connected the Divine "judgment" with "righteousness" and with "truth," as these, he knew, had been so gloriously manifested in the fulfilment of ancient promises. "These being the characteristics of Jehovah's judgment to which the view is directed in this psalm, the essentially joyous tone of it is accounted for." Think aright of God's judgment, and of it we may even learn to sing. - R.T.
O give thanks unto the Lord. I. INSTANCES OF THE LOVING-KINDNESS AND MERCY OF GOD.1. The unfolding of a plan of salvation for sinners through His well-beloved Son. 2. The furnishing so fully of the means necessary to salvation. (1) (2) (3) 3. Temporal blessings. II. THE THANKS-GIVING THAT IS DUE. III. THIS GOODNESS OUGHT TO LEAD US TO REPENTANCE. We ought to improve both the temporal and spiritual privileges we enjoy to the promotion of His glory. (Alex. Davidson.) People Asaph, Benaiah, David, Eliab, Gibeon, Heman, Hosah, Isaac, Jacob, Jahaziel, Jeduthun, Jehiel, Jeiel, Levites, Mattithiah, Obededom, Shemiramoth, Uzziel, Zadok, ZechariahPlaces Canaan, Gibeon, JerusalemTopics Deliver, Gather, Glory, Heathen, Holy, Honour, Nations, O, Praise, Salvation, Save, Savior, Saviour, Thanks, TriumphOutline 1. David's festival sacrifice4. He orders a choir to sing thanksgiving 7. The psalm of thanksgiving 37. He appoints ministers, porters, priests, and musicians, to attend the ark Dictionary of Bible Themes 1 Chronicles 16:358609 prayer, as praise and thanksgiving 8666 praise, manner and methods Library Man's Chief EndQ-I: WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN? A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. Here are two ends of life specified. 1: The glorifying of God. 2: The enjoying of God. I. The glorifying of God, I Pet 4:4: That God in all things may be glorified.' The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all our actions. I Cor 10:01. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.' Everything works to some end in things natural and artificial; … Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Covenanting a Duty. Chronicles Links 1 Chronicles 16:35 NIV1 Chronicles 16:35 NLT 1 Chronicles 16:35 ESV 1 Chronicles 16:35 NASB 1 Chronicles 16:35 KJV 1 Chronicles 16:35 Bible Apps 1 Chronicles 16:35 Parallel 1 Chronicles 16:35 Biblia Paralela 1 Chronicles 16:35 Chinese Bible 1 Chronicles 16:35 French Bible 1 Chronicles 16:35 German Bible 1 Chronicles 16:35 Commentaries Bible Hub |