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We see how the psalmist stirs himself to to praise!
"My soul, bless the Lord, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”
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It’s the Lord that is to be blessed and spoken well of.
Because He’s the fountainhead of all that is good.
Whatever the channels, it is to His holy Name that we are to consecrate our praise to!
"My soul, bless the Lord, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”
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2. It’s the soul that is to be engaged in blessing God, and all that is within us.
We make nothing of our outward performances if we do not make heart-work of them,
if that which is within us?
No, if all (v1) that is within us, be not engaged in them.
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In order for us to give a proper return of praises to God, there must be a grateful remembrance of the mercies we have recieved from Him:
"My soul, bless the Lord, and do not forget all his benefits.”
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If we don’t give thanks for them, we would forget them!
Look also at how we’re furnished with an abundant matter for praise.
Let your souls consider what God has done for us:
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He has pardoned your sins.
"He forgives all your iniquity; he heals all your diseases.”
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Think of how many times we’ll sin against God in our lives!
Yet it’s “all your iniquity” that has been forgiven!
“He heals all your diseases”.
The corruption of your nature is the sickness of the soul.
It’s the disorder and it threatens death!
Our crimes were capital, but God saves our lives by pardoning them!
Our diseases were mortal but God saves our lives by healing them!
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He has pardoned our sins, not only my iniquity (v.
3), but our transgressions, v. 12.
He has pardoned our sins, not only my iniquity (v.
3), but our transgressions, v. 12.
"As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” ()
Observe, (1.)
The transcendent riches of God’s mercy (v.
11):
As the heaven is high above the earth so God’s mercy is above the merits of those that fear him most,
so much above and beyond them that there is no proportion at all between them;
the greatest performances of man’s duty cannot demand the least tokens of God’s favor as a debt,
and therefore all the seed of Jacob will join with him in owning themselves less than the least of all God’s mercies.
"I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant...” ()
We see that God’s mercy is towards those that fear Him not towards those that trifle with Him!
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The fulness of his pardons, an evidence of the riches of his mercy (v.
12): As far as the east is from the west.
Henry, M. (1994).
Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole Bible: complete and unabridged in one volume (p.
891).
Peabody: Hendrickson.
What’s that mean?
Do east and west ever connect?
No.
God’s forgiveness is complete, removing all legal guilt from the sinner (; ; ; , ).
Our sins shall not be laid up against us in the Judgment.
Our sins shall not be mentioned to us, perhaps we’ll seek them but they’ll never be found.
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He has pitied our sorrows, v. 13, 14.
"As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”
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Observe,
(1.) Whom he pities—those that fear him.
(2.) How he pities—as a father pities his children, and does them good whenever he can.
God is a Father to those that fear him and owns them for His children, and He is tender of them as a father.
The father
pities his children that are weak in knowledge and instructs them,
pities them when they are stubborn and bears with them,
pities them when they are sick and comforts them (),
pities them when they have fallen and helps them up again,
pities them when they have offended, and, upon their submission, forgives them,
pities them when they are wronged and gives them help.
Then we see why He pities us: "For he knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.”
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He knows what we’re made of.
He is the One who made us!
He remembers “that we are dust.”
Not only by physical make-up but by sentence.
God said to Adam in the garden after he sinned:
"You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it.
For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”” ()
He considers the
frailty of our bodies and the
folly of our souls,
how little we can do, and
expects accordingly from us, how little we can bear, and
lays accordingly upon us,
in all which appears the tenderness of his compassion.
This attribute of God is what we want to rejoice in this morning!
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