Psalms 48 There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruction of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. We may, with considerable probability, regard it as the hymn of triumph over the baffled Assyrian and the mar... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 48:3 I. God. The first germ of religion is the conception of God. God is a Spirit, and only spiritual natures can worship. Even false worship argues a constitutional capacity for the true. The beasts that perish never fall into idolatry. II. God is. This is the first proposition in the insp... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 48:8 I. First, "we have heard" of the honour of the Church as included in that testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy, the very groundwork of the Psalter. We hear our Lord's own predictions about His Church, His accomplishment of His own prophetic psalms those psalms in which age... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 48:11 I. There are times when heart and brain fail and are weary beneath the weight of the years that have been and the thought of those that are yet to be, times when the whole being sinks back overwhelmed by the endless range of life and creation, appalled at the springing up and dying awa... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 48:14 I. We believe, first, in God the Father, who made us and all mankind, who created all things, and for whose pleasure they are and were created. God has not left Himself without witness among us. In volume after volume He has spoken to us. In voice after voice He has made known His will... [ Continue Reading ]