Psalm 108:13 Sermons: Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will trample down our enemies.

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With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

Sermons

Assurance of the Church's Victory	D. Dickson.	Psalm 108:13
Faith's Impossible Feats		Psalm 108:13
A Threefold Moral State of Mind	Homilist	Psalm 108:1-13
My Heart is Steadfast	S. Conway	Psalm 108:1-13
My Heart is Steadfast, O�God	C. Short	Psalm 108:1-13

Pulpit Commentary Homiletics

God With Us Assures Confidence And Victory

Psalm 108:11

R. Tuck

What "casting off" is here referred to by the psalmist no one seems to have satisfactorily explained. The best suggestion, perhaps, is that the sentiments of a returned exile are here interwoven with the sentiments of David. The idea of God, as one who had cast off his people for awhile, is quite suitable to a returned exile, but quite unsuitable to David. The thought is, however, found in the original of this psalm (Psalm 60:1); and if we must connect it with David, it is necessary to assume that he suffered some temporary repulse in the beginning of his national wars, and that, in a gloomy, poetic way, he regarded this as "God casting off his people." A good writer on Psalm 9. says, "From the first five verses we should gather that the country had been crushed by some great national disaster." One is forcibly reminded of two scenes in the national history.

I. THE ANXIETY OF MOSES ABOUT GOD GOING WITH ISRAEL. Recall the expressions of Divine indignation in the matter of the golden calf. The purpose was, as it were half formed, to cast off a people who were showing themselves so unfaithful to the trust reposed in them. Moses interceded. The evident burden on his heart was the possibility that God might not himself go with them; and he passionately pleaded, "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." Well he knew that "God with us assures confidence and victory."

II. THE ANXIETY OF JOSHUA ABOUT GOD GOING WITH ISRAEL. When the covenant was broken, through the covetousness of Achan, God for a time withdrew his defense and help, cast off his people, with the result that the army was defeated, and the whole expedition placed in jeopardy. Joshua was terribly distressed. It seemed to him (not knowing the real cause of the disaster) that the very Name of God was being dishonored, and he passionately pleaded for that restoration of God's presence and power which alone could give confidence and victory. The history of God's people furnishes abundant illustrations of the same truth; and it was sealed for ever, as the truth of truths for helpless man, when the ascending Jesus gave his assurance, "Lo, I am with you all the days." - R.T.

Biblical Illustrator

Through God we shall do valiantly.

Psalm 108:13

Assurance of the Church's victory

D. Dickson.

1. Whatsoever may be the variety of the exercises of faith, victory and triumph shall close the war, and crown the wrestler.

2. Albeit the means be nothing but vanity without God, yet they must be used, for they are something when they are used by us, and put in God's hand.

3. What the Lord doth by the believer as His servant, or by any other instrument, God must have the glory of it.

4. The faith of the Church's victory over her enemies is grounded upon God's engaging in the war for the Church, and against our enemies.

(D. Dickson.)

Faith's impossible feats

We need the courage of those ancient soldiers who were wont to regard difficulties only as whetstones upon which to sharpen their swords. I like Alexander's balk — when they said there were so many thousands, so many millions, perhaps, of Persians. "Very well," said he, "it is good reaping where the corn is thick. One butcher is not afraid of a thousand sheep." I like even the talk of the old Gascon who said, when they asked him, "Can you and your troops get into that fortress? it is impregnable." "Can the sun enter in?" said he. "Yes." "Well, where the sun can go we will enter." Whatever is possible, or whatever is impossible, Christians can do at God's command, for God is with us.

( C. H. Spurgeon.).

Hold not Thy peace, O God of my praise.

Psalm 109

A song of imprecation

T. W. Chambers, D. D.

I. THE MISDEEDS OF THE WICKED (vers. 1-5).

II. THE IMPRECATION OF WRATH (vers. 6-20).

III. THE CRY FOR MERCY (vers. 21-25). "The thunder and lightning are now followed by deep, sorrowful complaint like a flood of tears."

IV. THE DISPLAY OF THE DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS (vers. 26-31). In this concluding strophe the cry for help is renewed, together with a confident assurance of being answered. The suppliant asks relief in such way as to show that it came from God's own hand. God's blessing is set in sharp contrast with men's cursing. The efforts of the ungodly shall end in disappointment and shame, but the Lord's servant will only rejoice. This deliverance will call forth his thanks, which will not be private, but expressed in the presence of a multitude.

(T. W. Chambers, D. D.)

People

David, Manasseh, Psalmist

Places

Jerusalem

Topics

Adversaries, Chief, Crushed, David, Enemies, Foes, Haters, Mightily, Musicion, Psalm, Trample, Tread, Underfoot, Valiantly, Victory

Outline

1. David encourages himself to praise God
5. He prays for God's assistance according to his promise
11. His confidence in God's help

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Psalm 108:13

5597 victory, act of God
8728 enemies, of Israel and Judah

Library

Jesus is Arrested.
Jesus was standing with his three Apostles on the road between Gethsemani, and the Garden of Olives, when Judas and the band who accompanied him made their appearance. A warm dispute arose between Judas and the soldiers, because he wished to approach first and speak to Jesus quietly as if nothing was the matter, and then for them to come up and seize our Saviour, thus letting him suppose that he had no connection with the affair. But the men answered rudely, 'Not so, friend, thou shalt not escape …
Anna Catherine Emmerich—The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Let us See How He Continues after This: "These Events...
Let us see how he continues after this: "These events," he says, "he predicted as being a God, and the prediction must by all means come to pass. God, therefore, who above all others ought to do good to men, and especially to those of his own household, led on his own disciples and prophets, with whom he was in the habit of eating and drinking, to such a degree of wickedness, that they became impious and unholy men. Now, of a truth, he who shared a man's table would not be guilty of conspiring …
Origen—Origen Against Celsus

The Alarum
That is not, however, the topic upon which I now desire to speak to you. I come at this time, not so much to plead for the early as for the awakening. The hour we may speak of at another time--the fact is our subject now. It is bad to awake late, but what shall be said of those who never awake at all? Better late than never: but with many it is to be feared it will be never. I would take down the trumpet and give a blast, or ring the alarm-bell till all the faculties of the sluggard's manhood are …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871

The Mercy of God
The next attribute is God's goodness or mercy. Mercy is the result and effect of God's goodness. Psa 33:5. So then this is the next attribute, God's goodness or mercy. The most learned of the heathens thought they gave their god Jupiter two golden characters when they styled him good and great. Both these meet in God, goodness and greatness, majesty and mercy. God is essentially good in himself and relatively good to us. They are both put together in Psa 119:98. Thou art good, and doest good.' This …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

Psalms
The piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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