DISCOURSE: 516 GOD THE ALL-SUFFICIENT PORTION OF HIS PEOPLE Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 517 BESETTING SINS Psalms 18:23. _I kept myself from mine iniquity._ NOTHING is a richer source of comfort to any man than the testimony of his own conscience that he has acted right: for, if our own heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God. St. Paul enjoyed this in a pr... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 518 EQUITY OF THE DIVINE PROCEDURE Psalms 18:25. _With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; with the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward._ IN the present dispensations of Provid... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 519 THANKSGIVING FOR ANY GREAT DELIVERANCE Psalms 18:50._ Great deliverance giveth he to his King; and sheweth mercy to his Anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore._ THE Psalm before us is also recorded in the Second Book of Samuel [Note: Chap. 22:.]. There it stands, as it was... [ Continue Reading ]