to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword. Sermons I. AN ACT OF DELIVERANCE IS THE BEGINNING OF SALVATION. This is the truth of a fact that is once for all illustrated in the history of Israel. God would saw that people in a large sense of saving. He must begin by a formal act of deliverance, in bringing his people out from bondage in Egypt. That truth once presented in so large a way, is afterwards presented again and again in more limited spheres. In the time of the Judges, when God would save his people, he began the salvation by a formal act of deliverance, as is seen strikingly in the case of Gideon. When God would save his people from captivity in Babylon, he began by the formal act of liberation made by Cyrus. And it was the same with the great spiritual salvation of men. Its beginning is that sublime act of sacrifice which is man's rescue from the thraldom of sin. The formal act of surrender made on the cross was Christ's triumph over man's sin, his "leading captivity captive." And so in personal experience salvation begins in that act of consecration to Christ which we make, and which is met by Christ's act of delivering us from the power of self and sin. II. SUCH AN ACT OF DELIVERANCE IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. The deliverance of Israel from Egypt was only a beginning of God's dealings in their salvation. Gideon's overthrow of the Midianites was only a beginning. Cyrus's decree was only a beginning. Our Lord's sacrifice was only a beginning. Our consciousness of acceptance is only a beginning. The salvation of a nation is a large and comprehensive thing; so is the salvation of a man. But in every case God's beginning is the pledge that he will carry on the work and perfect it. - R.T.
It is He that giveth salvation unto kings. : — God in the government of the world exercises a peculiar and extraordinary providence over the persons and lives of princes.I. UPON WHAT ACCOUNT ANY ACT OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE MAY BE SAID TO BE PECULIAR AND EXTRAORDINARY. 1. When a thing falls out beside the common and usual operation of its proper cause. 2. When a thing falls out beside or contrary to the design of expert, politic, and shrewd persons, contriving or acting in it. 3. When a thing comes to pass visibly and apparently beyond the power of the cause immediately employed in it. II. HOW AND BY WHAT MEANS GOD DOES AFTER SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY MANNER SAVE AND DELIVER PRINCES. 1. By endowing them with a more than ordinary sagacity and quickness of understanding above other men (1 Kings 4:29; Proverbs 20:8; Proverbs 25:5). 2. By giving them a singular courage and presence of mind in cases of difficulty and danger (1 Samuel 10:9; 1 Samuel 11:6). 3. By disposing of events and accidents in a strange concurrence for their advantage and preservation. 4. By wonderfully inclining the hearts and wills of men to a benign affection towards them (2 Samuel 19:14). 5. By rescuing them from unseen and unknown mischiefs prepared against them. 6. By imprinting a certain awe and dread of their persons and authority upon the minds of their subjects (Daniel 5:12). 7. By disposing their hearts to such virtuous and pious courses as He has promised a blessing to; and by restraining them from those ways to which He has denounced a curse. And this is the greatest deliverance of all; as having a prospect upon the felicity of both worlds, and laying a foundation for all other deliverances. III. THE REASONS WHY PROVIDENCE IS SO MUCH CONCERNED IN THE SALVATION AND DELIVERANCE OF KINGS. 1. They are the greatest instruments in the hand of Providence to support government and civil society in the world. 2. They have the most powerful influence upon the concerns of religion, and the preservation of the Church, of all other persons whatsoever. IV. SOME USEFUL DEDUCTIONS. 1. The duty and behaviour of princes towards God. It shows them from whom, in their distress, they are to expect, and to whom, in their glory, they are to ascribe, all their deliverances. 2. Does not God by such a protecting providence over kings point out to us the sacredness of their persons? and command a reverence where tie Himself thinks fit to place an honour? Does not every extraordinary deliverance of a prince carry this inscription upon it in the brightest characters, "Touch not Mine anointed"? (R. South, D. D.) People David, PsalmistPlaces JerusalemTopics David, Deadly, Deliverance, Delivereth, Delivers, Evil, Freeing, Gives, Givest, Giveth, Giving, Hurtful, Kept, Kings, Rescues, Rescuest, Rescueth, Salvation, Servant, Sword, Victory, WoundingOutline 1. David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man5. He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies 9. He promises to praise God 11. He prays for the happy state of the kingdom Dictionary of Bible Themes Psalm 144:10Library Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels. Adoption, a sonship higher than that of nature, [482]255; frequently mentioned in Holy Scripture, [483]255, [484]256; the term of ancient use among the Jews, [485]256; "raising up seed to brother," [486]256; used by St. Paul to express the mystery of our adoption in Christ, [487]256. Adversary, to be agreed with and delivered from, [488]442; not so Satan, [489]442; the Law our, so long as we our own, [490]443; must agree with, by obedience, and so made no longer adversary, [491]443. Affliction, blessing … Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament Period ii. The Church from the Permanent Division of the Empire Until the Collapse of the Western Empire and the First Schism Between the East and the West, or Until About A. D. 500 Thankfulness for Mercies Received, a Necessary Duty The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New. The Knowledge of God Conspicuous in the Creation, and Continual Government of the World. The Godly are in Some Sense Already Blessed Scriptural Christianity Letter Xl to Thomas, Prior of Beverley Psalms Links Psalm 144:10 NIVPsalm 144:10 NLT Psalm 144:10 ESV Psalm 144:10 NASB Psalm 144:10 KJV Psalm 144:10 Bible Apps Psalm 144:10 Parallel Psalm 144:10 Biblia Paralela Psalm 144:10 Chinese Bible Psalm 144:10 French Bible Psalm 144:10 German Bible Psalm 144:10 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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