Psalm 102:28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before you. How blessed the assurance contained in this text; and if it might be understood literally, what encouragement would it afford to godly parents. But, alas! it is a lamentable fact that not a few of God's servants have to mourn, as Abraham once did, "Oh! that Ishmael might live before God." Those who are children of God by a second birth, and consequently the posterity of Zion, shall continue for ever, and their seed be established before God. I. THE BIRTHS IN SUCCESSION. There is no real religion in existence but that which commences with the new birth. These births, which are in constant succession, conduct to grace privileges and to a glorious inheritance. II. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WHICH THE TEXT SPEAKS. The first thing which I would press upon your attention here is, that the true Church of God must continue on earth, "despite all the rage." We pass on just to remark of this establishment and perpetuity that the holy seed cannot die. Observe, further, that the experience of these established ones, and their establishment too, is supernatural. "Shall be established before Thee." Now, I wish to bring my own establishment, — for I claim to be an established Christian — to this test. Will it bear being brought before God? (J. Irons.). Parallel Verses KJV: The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.WEB: The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you." By David. |
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